Need to ESC twice outa MAME (DOS)

[rampy]

Hey,

I'm working on a cabinet that is DOS based, with an ISA sound card.  When I ESC to get out of a game in MAME it kidna gets "stuck" on a mostly black screen and some weird noise stutters ... until I hit ESC again to land back into the FE or the command prompt...

The odd thing is that I used to use this mobo and souncard in a previous incarnation of a different mame cabinet and never had this issue.  

Thoughts?

Rampy

[SirPeale]

Have you tried waiting for it to clear up, or was it a 'Hey!  WTF?' thing, and hitting the ESC button 'just to be sure' it exited?

[rampy]

To be fair I don't remember waiting to see if it went away by itself.  If I did, it probably just continued and I got pissed and hit escape 20 times

=P

rampy

[SirPeale]

Try again, this time, wait.  My cab does kinda the same thing, it all freezes, and the sound gets all stuttery.  But a few seconds later, it comes undone.

[u_rebelscum]

Also, some games on some systems take longer to exit than other games, or the same game on a difference computer.  Dos or win mame, or even other apps.  Could be drivers, cards, motherboard, the app, or some combination.  

20 seconds, OTOH, is a little long.  Every game in mame, or only certain ones?

[SirPeale]

20 seconds, OTOH, is a little long.  Every game in mame, or only certain ones?

Where did he mention 20 seconds?

[u_rebelscum]

Where did he mention 20 seconds?

Opps.    I must have mis-read "...and hit escape 20 times" as "... and hit escape after 20 seconds" or something.  

*shrug* Oh well.

[rampy]

unnaceptable, u_rebel... Maybe your reading comprehension will improve when the Emperor arrives....

er...

FWIW It does seem to do it on the sampling of games I tried.  Both old and new school-ish games.

It *will* pass if you give it 5-6 seconds.

Due to an unfortunate hard drive incident, I had to totally rebuild the DOS system from scratch and it *still* did it.  

*Shrug*  I cut the sample rate toi 22500, stereo no, and resample filter off and still does it.

It's a minor annoyance... and I'd still like any suggestions.  Maybe I should try a different mame versoin for kicks... As this didn't happen in this mobo;s/ souncards previous mame incarnation.

thanks for the feedback so far (EEEEEEEEEE!)

Rampy

[SirPeale]

You mention ISA, so I assume the tech is slightly older.

Mine does the same thing, and my system is older (as I'm running mostly classics).  I think it's just the nature of the beast.