Re: AdvMAME Opens in Tiny Window

Hi Simon,

How'd you find a 2GHz computer with an AGP slot for your G400? Seems
like most "newer" computers that fast only come with PCI slots. I have
an old HP with an AGP slot, but it only runs at 466Mhz.

--
Eric Robinson


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Tetu [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 8:54 AM
To: Robinson, Eric
Cc: advancemame-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [advancemame-users] 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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