Re: [advancemame-users] Andrea - about the analog centering & also WinMAME

[Andrea M. <am...@me...>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:27:25PM -0500, Prophet of Retrogames wrote:
> 1) Did you see the message about the analog centering patch? I compiled it
> successfully, but the centering is not working as it did before. Can you
> test it on your system? That bit of code is the only way to get some great
> classic games (Sinistar, Food Fight, Escape...Robot Monsters, Blaster etc.)
> playable on keyboard based control panels! I wish Nicola would integrate it
> into MAME.
The plan is to submit it to the official MAME. Effectively there is no
reason to have it in AdvanceMAME and not in MAME.
But actually I'm busy working on a different branch of the AdvanceMAME
sources.

> 2) Is there any way to make AdvanceMenu work with regular WinMAME? I use
> AdvanceMAME most of the time, but sometimes I also use WinMAME. It would be
> great if AdvanceMenu could work with it as well. Right now, it can launch a
> game, but the menu doesn't reappear properly after quitting.
Are you running in Windows 9x/Me ?
Are you running AdvanceMENU full screen or in a window ?
Does ArcadeOS work ?

Some test to try :

) Disable the svgaline and vbeline drivers. This should force the use of the
BIOS vbe modes.
) Ensure to use the "video_mode_reset yes" option.
) Check with another video board. Can someone other report his results ?
) Try running wmame with a batch file :

mm.cfg:
	emulator "wmame" mame "wmame\wmame2.bat" ""

wmame2.bat:
	mame %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8

) Check if changing the video option of wmame change something.
Try for example to disable the hardware stretching or the direct draw
directx stuffs. This may help to understand the problem.

Instead regarding the know problem on the Windows 2k/XP platform,
it's probably a problem of the DJGPP runtime support.
It doesn't work correctly on Windows 2k/XP. A new version of this
runtime which should solve these problems is in development stage by
the DJGPP people.

A BETA version is already available at :

http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm

Maybe compiling AdvanceMENU with this whould solve the problem.

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Andrea Mazzoleni
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