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I haven't really spent any time with it yet (too busy with real life shite at the moment), but the first impression I got yesterday was good. A game with graphics like this on real hardware would've blown me away back in the day.

https://technical.city/cpu/Core-i5-10600KF-vs-Core-i5-13600KF

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5059vs3810/Intel-i5-13600KF-vs-Intel-i5-10600KF

That's a big difference even on single core performance

What are you using as a shifter?   If its a joystick, you could probably use a AHK macro to minic the required key presses in MAME. 

Might be able to use joystick gremlin to insert key presses as well.  (in gear = gear # button) (out of gear = neutral button) type of thing

https://whitemagic.github.io/JoystickGremlin/

Scott, you are a trooper! That saint's a slacker.

It doesn't unfortunately. Actually mame will delete the flag from the cfg after running the game.

100% on overclocked 13600k.

So in short, don't mess with "bad" links pointing to newwiki or wiki? That's fair.

Hi people, huge long time no see. I was wondering if anyone who has a (recent) Linux Distro (like Ubuntu , Linux Mint, etc.) has ever fiddled with /etc/X11/xorg.conf that defines what it outputs from your graphics card. In this case I'm pointing at motherboards that have "intel" graphics, mostly the ones addressed "Intel GMA".

I've the feeling that intel integrated gfx can handle at least 20Mhz or 25Mhz of pixel clock. Said that I was thinking if anyone would like to take the "leap of faith" and mess with /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

The Driver for the "Device" Section should be "intel". It should be something like this:

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Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "intel"
    VendorName     "Intel GMA"
    Option         "TearFree" "true"
    Option         "AccelMethod" "sna"
EndSection
In the "Monitor" Section it should have some "super" resolutions that should tell if the intel GMA is capable of 15Khz both progressive and interlaced. Say something like this (Above 25Mhz pixel clock):

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Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    Modeline "1536x224" 25.530 1536 1558 1583 1624 224 236 239 262 -hsync -vsync
    Modeline "1536x480" 27.570 1536 1602 1665 1754 480 506 512 524 -hsync -vsync Interlace
...
EndSection
I hope anyone who has this kind of Mobo's can tell if Intel (GMAs) can at least output 15,Khz with "super resolutions" from the VGA connector (which are nothing more than extended width resolutions for an integer factor to match many games)

If anyone is interested please list your results (on your linux distro) to check if 15Khz for Intel GMA is feasable

Thanks a lot in advance

Any update on this?

Welcome to BYOAC.  PM sent with your new wiki login info.   

I stumbled across the wiki and thence the forum. I would like to contribute to the wiki. There's a ton of good information there but also some simple issues I can easily fix (like "external" links that are actually supposed to link to internal pages but probably got overlooked in a newwiki.arcadecontrols.com → wiki.arcadecontrols.com migration).

Most of the "external" links you're referring to point to a subsection on a page.

For example, the "external" link . . .

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[http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Joysticks#Analog_Joysticks analog joystick/yoke]
. . . points to the "#Analog_Joysticks" subsection on the "Joysticks" page and the link text on the referring page is "analog joystick".  (Looks and works great as long as the domain is right.)

Compare that to the "internal" link . . .

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[[Wiring#IEC_Fused_Power_Inlet_with_a_Lighted_Switch]]
. . . that links to the "IEC_Fused_Power_Inlet_with_a_Lighted_Switch" subsection of the "Wiring" page (Good so far . . .) with the link text "Wiring#IEC_Fused_Power_Inlet_with_a_Lighted_Switch" on the referring page. (. . . and that's where it goes bad.  )

Is there a way to change the link text on the referring page for the second code example?
- Looked several years ago, but didn't find any examples of how to do that.

The not so great news is that we've been waiting six years for Saint to
  1.) fix the wiki configuration so we can upload image files, and
  2.) hopefully restore the wikis to their original domains since doing that will automatically fix the thousands upon thousands of forum posts that linked to pages and images on both the original wiki and the new one.  (see quote below)

So far, there have only been three minor text updates to the wiki since they were restored from the backups six years ago.  Two by Felsir and one by me.
- I have copies of all three so they would be easy to redo if Saint ever does put the wikis back on the original domains.
- Might not be a bad idea to keep a running list of any changes you make in the unlikely case Saint ever does get around to doing #2.

Related quote from a previously public BUG REPORTS thread about the wikis:

The problem is that Saint accidently restored the old and new wikis to the wrong domains.   
- The old wiki should have been restored to the "wiki" domain instead of the "oldwiki" domain.
- The new wiki should have been restored to the "newwiki" domain instead of the "wiki" domain.

Once Saint moves the wikis back to the original domains, all of the "newwiki" links and embedded images will work again.   

For now, it looks like only embedded images from the old wiki might still work since all of those images were transferred to the new wiki.   

The old wiki didn't use ".php", so those page links will only work if you change the "wiki" part of the URL to "index.php".
    Old style page link format (returns a 404 error)
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Restoration
    New style page link format
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/Restoration

Scott