taylormadelv
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Bless your soul! I just ordered! Oh man....
Vector MAME (ZVG) for Linux is available
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bheineck
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Hopefully you ordered and paid, because it said preference to those who ordered AND paid. I didn't realize there was any other way.
Did you get the nice little harness they have to go right from your vector monitor to the ZVG?
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Oh I paid, no problem. I just spazed out and forgot the cables but I called to add them and I'm locked in for a card, cables are no big deal, as Jeff just told me. Thanks for the reminder!
Cool thing is that I just scored a cute AD mini that's perfect for this and sunday is my b-day, so the arcade g*ds are must be watching over me.
Cool thing is that I just scored a cute AD mini that's perfect for this and sunday is my b-day, so the arcade g*ds are must be watching over me.
shilmover
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You can always build the cables too. the instructions are on their site. That's what i did.
bheineck
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How long did it take?
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So I just bougt a ZVG.. cant wait to get it.
What do ya'll suggest as a PC to run the linux version?
Obviously I need a parallel port.
How about memory? CPU?
Is debian the distro of choice right now?
I usually run Fedora (old redhat guy).
Is there a menu system for the linux version yet?
Perhaps Chad could port his?
What do ya'll suggest as a PC to run the linux version?
Obviously I need a parallel port.
How about memory? CPU?
Is debian the distro of choice right now?
I usually run Fedora (old redhat guy).
Is there a menu system for the linux version yet?
Perhaps Chad could port his?
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Hey! It's my buddy from Howell NJ! (grew up there)
1. Should run on Fedora, make sure you have the version 1.2 SDL libs
2. People have been running it on a P4 and and AMD 2800+. I have no idea how "low" you can go on CPU, but I don't think the bottleneck is CPU or RAM based.
3. Menu system -- Chad and I are working together on that one, not sure how long it will take to get it done.... but it will get done.
Find? Just buy one from their web site. Hurry up though before they're gone. Apparently they only made a limited amount. I just ordered mine.
Ha! I checked maybe 3 weeks ago (even got an email from Zonn telling me he was out of the vectrex cables)....
But, I just now ordered mine - awesome!
bheineck
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mrbill2084
Ya'll can thank mrbill2084. He suggested I look into locating one since I said I was considering a VectorVGA converter. When I googled it I found their web site and saw that I could order one, but that it was a final run and there would be no more after that.
Ya'll can thank mrbill2084. He suggested I look into locating one since I said I was considering a VectorVGA converter. When I googled it I found their web site and saw that I could order one, but that it was a final run and there would be no more after that.
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Just a note:
adding the -autoframeskip switch to the command line provides a nice boost for the slower games.
I'm getting 97% in Major Havoc (vs. 85%) using this option.
SteveJ
adding the -autoframeskip switch to the command line provides a nice boost for the slower games.
I'm getting 97% in Major Havoc (vs. 85%) using this option.
SteveJ
Here's some random output from a selection of games. All the games in the high 90's % seem to run fine to me, I couldn't notice the slowdown. The 80% ones have slowdown at various places, only ESB was really unplayable, Black Widow slowed at the level select screen, and MHavoc was only slow at the screen with the mini breakout game. All these games run at 100% on my system (a P4 2.8 Ghz) without a ZVG. I guess the parallel port might be the main factor here? EDIT - sound and mouse support worked right away
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mhavoc Average speed: 84.73% (35 seconds)
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Cheers,
Dan
shilmover
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I am assuming that this switch is not in DOSMAME?
Can you guys do me a favor?
Run Star Trek and let me know how the sounds are? My sounds are good (they come from the samples file), but the voices are very quiet and can almost no be heard.
Can you guys do me a favor?
Run Star Trek and let me know how the sounds are? My sounds are good (they come from the samples file), but the voices are very quiet and can almost no be heard.
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SteveJ
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I am assuming that this switch is not in DOSMAME?
Can you guys do me a favor?
Run Star Trek and let me know how the sounds are? My sounds are good (they come from the samples file), but the voices are very quiet and can almost no be heard.
I ran startrek with the following:
vmame -video zvg startrek
Got 99.98% frame rate and great sound (including speech). I didn't use samples though. speech is emulated.
shilmover
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Damn! Its a DOS thing...
The speech on the games is low. Other sounds for startrek come from samples (if i remove the samples, i get only very quiet speech.
I really did not want to go to Linux as DOS is working so freaking well and boots in about 15 seconds.
bheineck
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Come to the dark side Luke!
Linux is your friend
I'll join the dark side! Is there a tutorial on how to set up a Linux MAME?
shilmover
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Just build a second hard drive, sheesh.
And save the DOS drive as backup in case you can't get the Linux port working... Even if you "shouldn't" be using Linux per work...
shilmover
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Just build a second hard drive, sheesh.
Even if you "shouldn't" be using Linux per work...
That's what I am doing...
The "shouldn't" be doing Linux per work is a bit of a joke. Ironically, I owned some features at work that were Linux/Unix based on OpenSource.
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