No one else was going to change their mind (for some reason no one ever does on the internet) and we were going in circles... It was about 5 against one so I figure I will change my mind....
elvis wrote:
If you are using Windows MAME, or MAME under linux with X-Windows and SDL, you WILL ALWAYS GET IMPERFECT MODES.
I tried both Windows and DOS advancemame. AdvanceCD (linux live CD) had a problem with the card I was using at the time. I haven't tried since then with the Radeon 7500 thats in my current mame setup. Thanks for the clarification, better help then what I got on arcadecontrols a couple years ago when I did this and basically gave up.
Unfortunately the ArcadeControls kids are all Windows/DOS users and 99.9% of them have never played an original PCB in their life.
And worse: you'll be openly flamed for even bothering with Linux. They seem to fear it like some sort of evil.
If you want to try with Linux/AdvanceMAME again, post your attempts in the tech forum and I'll gladly help you along the way. If I ever get around to building a new MAME setup (which I will within the next few months thanks to my new RGB monitor purchase the other week) I'll start a tech forum thread also documenting my progress along the way for anyone who wants to mirror the setup.
I personally have had success with a Hercules GeForce2MX Prophet and a HIS Radeon VE/7000 card.
Many ATi and Nvidia cards still allow pclocks to be set at 5-9MHz, which is what you want for 15KHz/CGA gaming and the "generate" modelines spat out by AdvanceMAME. General opinion by regular AdvanceMAME users is that older budget ATi cards have a higher success rate. Considering the ArcadeVGA cares are all based on ATi technology, that claim seems to fit well.
i'd go PCB if I weren't afraid of bootlegs. I'd really hate to find that I paid $200 for a poor(is there any other kind?) bootleg of a game that I could have played on Mame for free.
Never_Scurred wrote:i'd go PCB if I weren't afraid of bootlegs. I'd really hate to find that I paid $200 for a poor(is there any other kind?) bootleg of a game that I could have played on Mame for free.