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gizmomelb · 06 September 2006, 15:45

Hi all,

can I use another DAT checker instead of TIM? ie: clrmame?

I find TIM is a total pain in the arse to use, hogs tonnes of memory and especially when trying to scan/update my Amiga games ADF directory (>20K entries) it dies (even on an AMD 3200+ with 1GB memory).

Or, is there an easy way to just add in a few new ADFs without having to scan the entire directory again?

I ADF'd a heap of my backup disks today and tried running them through TIM and it only recognised about 35 out of the 100+ images I'd made - what are the chances of 2 disks having the same MD5/CRC/whatever TIM uses to differentiate disks? I'm suss as some of those images (notably 5 different expansion disks for Covergirl Strip Poker) appear to have been renamed as other disks.

06 September 2006, 15:45	#1
gizmomelb Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: melbourne Age: 55 Posts: 541	other DAT checker instead of TIM? Hi all, can I use another DAT checker instead of TIM? ie: clrmame? I find TIM is a total pain in the arse to use, hogs tonnes of memory and especially when trying to scan/update my Amiga games ADF directory (>20K entries) it dies (even on an AMD 3200+ with 1GB memory). Or, is there an easy way to just add in a few new ADFs without having to scan the entire directory again? I ADF'd a heap of my backup disks today and tried running them through TIM and it only recognised about 35 out of the 100+ images I'd made - what are the chances of 2 disks having the same MD5/CRC/whatever TIM uses to differentiate disks? I'm suss as some of those images (notably 5 different expansion disks for Covergirl Strip Poker) appear to have been renamed as other disks.