Would it make sense to build a newer version of Mame for Pistorm'ed Amigas?

[Dunny]

How well would this run on a PPC Amiga anyway? Just how fast do those things get?

[Michael]

Well, an 060 is a bit under powered for fast action arcade titles of 85-95.
Basic 603 PPC is typically x3 faster, and should pull out some of them together with RTG.
Faster chips will run some titles at acceptable performance.

[Michael]

Would be nice to see the GUI front end return too

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by Dunny

How well would this run on a PPC Amiga anyway? Just how fast do those things get?

For SonnetAmiga equpped machines:

The Amidog versions of MAME run quite well on a Sonnet 400MHz/1M, frameskip of 2 usually so 30FPS or so, without sound skipping.

Warp Emulation Suite (aka WES) WarpMame and WarpNeo Mame run well since 183 with args -blitppc -sr 22050 tested with D&D ToD, D&D SoM, Xmen Vs Street Fighter, AvP, etc http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator.php?id=warpmame, requires speedhack executable or DisL2Flush=1 and -blitppc for good speed in later games.

I built a very hacky version of Retroarch with MAME2003 for later games but I only ever really tested on Ragnarok, but that ran almost everything I threw at it quite well.

Unless you're talking about CSPPC or BPPC, in which case not well at all.

[Michael]

Thanks to pointing to WES, that is difficult to find these days, but nevertheless it was interesting. Most of the heavy games obviously are difficult, when too much on screen action. But some play actually very well, if they fit 320x256 screen and 256 colours.
Sadly the WarpMAME emulator has some bugs that cause memory dropouts and rerunning it a few times will run you out of memory and require a reboot.

[Aladin]

Originally Posted by jeff b00toNic

One thing I really wanted was the ability to cheat, which wasn't possible with 0.37 and 0.60.

Here's another small update for V0.37b2 where the 'Cheat' menu is permanently enabled, and it works with the appropriate 'cheat.dat' file.

I have a problem with this version of mame in AGA, the image is not centered.

[jeff b00toNic]

Be prepared for further inconsistencies when trying out more games. Specifically, anything that doesn't fit into 320x256 will always be shifted in AGA. With Bad Dudes, even under RTG, it looks like in the picture, and I have no idea why, even if it would fit in terms of resolution.

[Michael]

Out of a hundred tried roms I tell you, there ones that not only offset draw, but also skew, detect wrong resolution or even show garbage, it's just luck or hand picked settings that can remediate the problem, or a newer MAME, but that's out of our scope due to heavy cpu loads on later versions.

[jeff b00toNic]

Originally Posted by Michael

Out of a hundred tried roms I tell you, there ones that not only offset draw, but also skew, detect wrong resolution or even show garbage, it's just luck or hand picked settings that can remediate the problem, or a newer MAME, but that's out of our scope due to heavy cpu loads on later versions.

The thing with MAME is that new versions improve things but also break games that used to work.

What I mean is that a game that ran in MAME version X.X may not run anymore in MAME version X.Y, even though it's a higher version.
Unfortunately, that's been the case for a long time.

For example, Shadow Dancer runs well under 0.37 but has graphical issues with 0.60.

[Hedeon]

Originally Posted by jeff b00toNic

For example, Shadow Dancer runs well under 0.37 but has graphical issues with 0.60.

Is it you, Jeff Butonic? ;-)

[jeff b00toNic]

Originally Posted by Hedeon

Is it you, Jeff Butonic? ;-)

Nope, I am not 'the genious'

[Hedeon]

Originally Posted by jeff b00toNic

Nope, I am not 'the genious'

Ha! Paula meint, Agnus sei zu dick!

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