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| − | Update 08/10/2012
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| − | Performance woes with SDLMAME in fullscreen.
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| − | * tried a fresh PC with oodles of CPU/RAM - same result!
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| − | * registered on SDLMAME forum but registration needs approval - still waiting
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| − | * posted findings on MAME subreddit - general advice is "you need a much faster PC/GFX card to run SDLMAME these days"
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| − | * need to obtain and drop back to ancient xmame version
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| − | * find or make a slimmer case for new PC
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| − | Update 12/10/2012
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| − | * xmame (0.106-3.2 from http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/xmame I think) installed from the Debian package
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| − | * scaling problems again and now ALSA sound issues which might be down to the slow video rate
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| − | * a lot of messing around found a good video setup:
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| − | ** xmame -video-mode 1 -fullscreen -fm 640x480x16 defender
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| − | * still need to work on the video modes and the general settings for performance
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| − | * wahcade setup required
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| − | * keyboard setup for all games
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| − | * http://www.anti-particle.com/forum_phpbb3/viewforum.php?f=2
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| − | * http://wahki.mameau.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
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| − | The development pages from some years back: http://www.tecspy.com/arcade
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| − | ** recover games (and most importantly, the high scores) from the dead laptop
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| − | *** HDD totally dead :( Need to obtain ROM sets again
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| − | ** mamed front end http://phulshof.home.xs4all.nl/mame.html - compile and tweak
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| − | ** better linux distro base - have kubuntu 7.10 - want Knoppix 6
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| − | ** rewire controls matrix - should take a couple of hours
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| − | ** Noisy fan on PC - heatpipe? ideas please
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| − | ** Priority! Gauntlet rev 14 http://www.rom-world.com/file.php?id=23575
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| − | Update: 22/07/2011
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| − | I have now replaced the replacement PC!
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| − | Seems to work mostly but some full system freezes have happened :(
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| − | MAMED has now been built and it works! After all these years the SDL libs are still compatible.
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| − | The keyboard controller seems to work!
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| − | * more button wiring to do
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| − | * more tweaking of mamed config
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| − | * more USB PlayStation2 contollers on the way
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| − | TODO: [[User:Msemtd|Michael Erskine]] 09:06, 7 December 2011 (EST)
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| − | * replace LAN cable run from members room
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| − | * minimal Xorg server installation with BlackBox window manager or equivalent
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| − | ** replace GDM with straight startx as low-permissions user
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| − | ** replace XFCE with plain X init straight into mamed front end
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| − | * screen bezel fitting
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| − | ** mark screen geometry when bezel fitted and screen in position
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| − | ** router work on sizing and chamfer
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| − | ** blackout tape and foam padding
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| − | Update: 05/04/2012
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| − | The machine is now in the studio (again!) and we have a working PC with a recent Xubuntu, functional mame install and all three DVDs of ROMs installed. The next stage is to get the mamed front-end starting automatically as an unprivileged user.
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| − | * Where I would previously have just used inittab, Ubuntu now uses upstart: -
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| − | ** https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBootupHowto
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| − | ** http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/
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| − | * so we could have xdm (or equivalent) auto-login as the mame user and have their xinit launch mamed as the only X client
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| − | ** create user and give access to all the files required
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| | [[Category:Projects]] | | [[Category:Projects]] |
| | [[Category:Projects (in progress)]] | | [[Category:Projects (in progress)]] |
