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Title: RFC about Visual Pinball & non-mame games
Post by: pragma on March 10, 2003, 04:18:59 pm

Hi everyone,

I've got my cab more or less working with MAME. Left to do is finishing touches on the menu... (currently using Peter's excellent emulaxian but not in 3d mode, mostly because I like the sophistication of the filtering.)

Now, I'm starting to look at other emulators, just for fun. I'm interested in comments from y'all on the playability/fun-ness of visual pinball, which I hear a lot about. Also, what are people's favourite non-mame emulators and games.

Thanks for your valued input.

Paul

Title: Re:RFC about Visual Pinball & non-mame games
Post by: )p( on March 10, 2003, 05:09:07 pm

Quote from: pragma on March 10, 2003, 04:18:59 pm

Hi everyone,

I've got my cab more or less working with MAME. Left to do is finishing touches on the menu... (currently using Peter's excellent emulaxian but not in 3d mode, mostly because I like the sophistication of the filtering.)

Now, I'm starting to look at other emulators, just for fun. I'm interested in comments from y'all on the playability/fun-ness of visual pinball, which I hear a lot about. Also, what are people's favourite non-mame emulators and games.

Thanks for your valued input.

Paul

you can also use the filters in cyl arcade mode ;-)

to the point vp is very fun in a cab and the only thing i really like on my arcade cab besides arcade games...but you will need on your vertical cab a graphic card that can handle dekstop rotation with full hardware acceleration...if not visual pinball will be slowwwww...

peter

Title: Re:RFC about Visual Pinball & non-mame games
Post by: pragma on March 11, 2003, 09:18:23 am

Hi peter,

Thanks for the tip.

Are you aware of any such video cards? It seems this would be very useful, as your cylarcade/fps arcade are all but useless on this system as it stands for performance reasons.

Regards
Paul

Title: Re:RFC about Visual Pinball & non-mame games
Post by: )p( on March 11, 2003, 09:37:46 am

Quote from: pragma on March 11, 2003, 09:18:23 am

Hi peter,

Thanks for the tip.

Are you aware of any such video cards? It seems this would be very useful, as your cylarcade/fps arcade are all but useless on this system as it stands for performance reasons.

Regards
Paul

for geforces the later revisions of the geforce 3 and all geforce 4 can do hardware rotation. And i did try it with my geforce 4 and it worked great no difference in performance in visual pinball with a rotated desktop
and howard told me some ati can also do it but i really don't know much about ati's
myself i still use
but i only play mame on my cab as i still have a geforce 2mx in it :-)

Title: Re:RFC about Visual Pinball & non-mame games
Post by: pragma on March 11, 2003, 10:34:17 am

Thanks. I think I'll start a new topic on this as I'm having a hard time assembling information about hardware-supported display rotation in windows.

Thanks

Paul

Title: Re:RFC about Visual Pinball & non-mame games
Post by: pragma on March 11, 2003, 10:48:22 am

OK - started a new thread on the main forum about this:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1 (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1)

Paul