decisions for MAME machine

[Marshall Pierce]

I have an arcade monitor, so I needed to run advancemame, but I could 
not
get it to work on FBSD. (It needed a very recent version of svgalib 
which
only worked under linux, or something like that.) So, after messing 
about
with various linuxes, it now mostly works under slackware. I'm not 
saying
it's impossible to get advancemame to work under fbsd, but I at least 
could
not do it easily, so rather than fight it, I just went with something 
that
worked out of the box. If your computer is reasonably recent, I doubt 
you'll
have to worry about performance. The mame box that my current project 
will
replace ran pretty well on a 300mhz p2.
-- 
Marshall Pierce
Harvey Mudd College '06
mpierce at hmc.edu

On Jun 3, 2004, at 8:40 AM, Jason Stewart wrote:

> On 03/06/04 11:14 -0400, Steve Tremblett wrote:
>>
>> I'm making a MAME cabinet and I'm starting to evaluate as much
>> MAME-related software as I can find.  Seeing as there is some Linux
>> software out there, I was wondering if anyone has done a project with 
>> a
>> FreeBSD box?  A lot of these projects use DOS SVGA - how does FreeBSD
>> compare in terms of performance/usability?  What about Linux?
>>
>> experiences/advice/warnings welcome!
>>
>> I am already familiar with various "sucks" or "rules" opinions - stick
>> to the topic plz! :)
>>
>> cheers,
>> lazybones
>
> Basically you'll have to use xmame or advancemame/sdl. I haven't used
> advanceamame on FreeBSD (which is what you will need if you want to
> run the games with the best video modes or if you want to run the
> games on an arcade monitor), but I've run xmame successfully.
>
> The performance is about the same as linux and a bit worse than pure
> DOS (dos doesn't have any other background processes running and uses
> very little memory).
>
> I've been in the process of building my own cab for the past year, and
> it's a huge job. I'm planning on writing an ebook about this in the
> near future so people can learn from my mistakes.
>
> Make sure that you read *all* of the docs with the mame software that
> you choose and get a video card that can have it's VGA registers
> reprogrammed by svgalib. The Trident Blade64 is what I use.
>
>
> Good Luck,
> Jason
>
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