Posted by Prophet of Retrogames on 12, 2000 at 11:00 AM:
In Reply to: Here's my comments on it... posted by rosborn on 11, 2000 at 11:33 PM:
I'm using it on a U3100, which is basically a low-res PC monitor for games. I haven't experienced any muddy text or anything like that. That's prolly the result of your particular hardware and not Advance MAME. As long as you configure your modes to adhere to scan rates appropriate to the games (usually around 60hz & 31.5 kkhz) things look and behave great.
Also, remember on TV's the resolution is limited to 255 lines (or 400 if SVHS, and not all SVHS TV's resolve those lines clearly anyway), no matter what you do anything with a higher resolution will become "muddy." Same goes (I imagine) for a typical low/medium res arcade monitor. The U3100 can manage up to 800x600 so the results are very good.
If the authors read this, THANKS!, and keep making Advance MAME please. :)
-Prophet-
www.retrogames.com
: I just set up Advance MAME in my cabinet running on an arcade monitor. It does a good good of scaling games to a resolution that will work with your setup. Before games like Cyberball and Discs of Tron only displayed a portion of the gamefield, now both display fine. The scaling is not perfect and produces effects like muddy text, etc. It make the games playable, though. I'm pretty happy with it, but I'll only use it for the games that the official MAME doesn't run in my setup.
: It's very easy to set up, too. Add a few lines to the MAME.CFG file and run one config program that aids in testing all of the available modes.