Oh yeah, I forgot all about that.......


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Posted by Howard Casto on 19, 2001 at 10:02 PM:

In Reply to: Re: two thumbs up...(more) posted by Howard Casto on 19, 2001 at 9:55 PM:

It's a little known fact that you can get mame32 to launch without a gui..... Maybe I can get around to it before this release... I want to add a checkbox to each path where you can select "mame32." Then it will add the appropriate command line option and it will be just as if your using winmame but with an added speed boost on some machines.... Thanks for reminding me man!

: Thanks, and as for the next previous thing, I've already turned it back to about 25 for this release, but after I get this one out, im going to go back and make some of the smaller things, (including the number of entries to skip) more configurable.

: Oh and the speed thing... I'm glad you noticed, you would be suprised how many days I get nothing done other than making the flyers refresh a 16th of a sec faster. Optimizing code is a bitch, but it pays... I'm sorry to say though that this release will navigate the littlest bit slower than the previous beta... This is beacuse I've switched from using default win displays to actually rendering some of the lists/graphics... After I get a chance to optimize though, it will be even more responsive than it was originally. It uses less memory now though, so you might actually get a speed increase once you get inside mame.
: :)

: Keep up the suggestions, even the small one's because I can't think of everything, but I sure want to try.
: ;)

:
: : I like the Raging Dragon front-end, even though I admit I look forward to creating a different skin (ditto here for the dragon noise).

: : It is the only front-end I tried (Arcade@home, ArcadeOS, PartyOn) that was easy to set up and worked as expected.

: : FPS rates on my machine are equal between mame32.exe and mame32.exe w/ Raging Dragon. Mame.exe for Win consistently slows down more for me than mame32.exe, but that is not related to Raging Dragon. So, all in all, I was surprised to see no adverse effect of using a "third-party" front end.

: : I like the new proposed screen layout also...

: : Here's a small feature request...let me decide how many games I skip forward (set it in a .cfg file) instead of being fixed at 50. For some reason, 25-30 might seem to work better.


: : Keep up the good work!




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