Hi

I run DOS mame with arcade at home...

When I install the new version (57) I get no sound and no joystick control even though I can see the options have been selected on the command line?

If I go back to mame 56 it works fine?

If I select my 1024 card in the command line line it just goes back to the arcade@home menu, however, it works fine on 56??

Any idea?

Also, how do u remove that blur effect on winmame?

Thanks in advance!

GG

-- Game Guru (virtualinsanity@blueyonder.co.uk), January 05, 2002

Answers

are you talking about how mamew looks "smooth" around the pixels? i noticed that too, it didn't really bother me much since i figured it was just my new computer monitor and video card, but you have this same problem, it it would be nice to douse it to nice square sharp pixels like i'm used to. I still can't get any dos mame to work with my xp setup, but i haven't yet tried the arcade at home, will try some this weekend hopefully.

-- Chad (churritz@crash.cts.com), January 05, 2002.

WinXP is not really designed to run DOS apps such as MAME, but you could try using VDMSound. It's a SB16 emulator that works with DOS apps under WinNT4/2K/XP.

As for removing the blurring, you can disable the hardware stretching with the -nohws switch. The blurring is done by your video card drivers, so there isn't a lot that can be done about.

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hnpl.net), January 05, 2002.

ahhhh, square pixesl again, actually with my old ati all in wonder mamew streched the pixels pretty square, but the geforce3 seems to strech them with blurriness, eh i can deal with out exact perspectives to see nice square pixels, thanks barry.

supposedly arcade at home will run dos mame under xp, mame56 anyway, i'm going to try it one of these hours, hopefully, and try to figure out how it does it, since i sure can't run on it by itself, must be some special pif setting.

-- Chad (churritz@chemnavigator.com), January 06, 2002.