Re: AdvMAME Opens in Tiny Window

Hi Eric,

I used to run quite well any game prior to 1990 on AdvanceMame on a
Pentium 2 300Mhz (overclocked to 333) which used an ATI Rage Xpert98.
I was using DOS on it though so it would boot instantaneously and have
the least footprint on the system.

I'd say your setup could run most games up until 1995 if you ran the
DOS version of Advmame.

(Of course I've since upgraded my cabinet to a P4 2.0Ghz and a Matrox
G400 so I could run Linux on it, play more emulators and have Internet
access
but that's another story)


Good luck and have patience, it will pay off.

Simon

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Robinson, Eric <eric.robinson-JiDY2OCN/[email protected]> wrote:
> Newbie here!
>
> I was told that MAME works well on low-power computers. I don't know if this applies to AdvMAME as well. I have Linux (2.6.9.34) installed on an 800MHz Dell with 384MB RAM and an ATI Radeon 7500 card. When I start MAME, it opens in a tiny 2" window. If I try to use AdvMAME's features to make the window bigger, the game's frame rate slows down to a crawl. If I switch to "full screen mode" the game (1943kai) gets bigger and runs at normal speed, but it still leaves about 1.5 inches of black screen at the top and bottom. Is there anything I can do to make to games run full screen at normal speed aside from buying a much faster computer?
>
> --Eric
>
>
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