Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:00:06 -0700 From: Marshall Pierce <mpierce@hmc.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: decisions for MAME machine Message-ID: <15011B56-B577-11D8-9B84-000393192092@hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040603154054.GD25022@rtl.org> References: <1086275644.325.30.camel@localhost> <20040603154054.GD25022@rtl.org>
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--Apple-Mail-1-597024206 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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@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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --Apple-Mail-1-597024206--
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