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General / Re: AttractMode 1.5.2 debs

« on: November 20, 2015, 07:26:42 PM »

LOL! Well you could have given us a nice Whompa Star Wars reference!

I wanted to update you a bit. I have a Dell e521 with 4 gig of ram and a 70 gig hd for the arcade cab.

I installed XFCE Linux Mint 17.2 edition 64 bit on it.

I installed your current set of 1.5 something deb files. Turns out while I definitely can open more than one instance of MAME on the office desktop and on the office side workstation I CANNOT seem to do that on the e521! So it seems that there is something computer specific or perhaps distro specific? I do not know. I do know that all three are running a version of Linux 17.2 Mint.

Now all that being said I am still going to update with your new DEB when it comes out! I appreciate all your work. Some software groups just say oh well if you cant compile then get out and that is discouraging to me.

I'm pretty excited. The FE is starting to look like it will work out for me!

As a note on one workstation running Linux mint 17.2 Cinnamon the Attract Mode has no icon for the desktop,panel, or menu. Its just blank. If you click on it it will work fine.

Now to work on the category thing.

Thanks again!

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General / Re: MAME opening multiple times

« on: November 20, 2015, 04:37:04 AM »

AH! Ok so it may just not be me going mental working on this huh!?

--BC

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General / Re: AttractMode 1.5.2 debs

« on: November 20, 2015, 04:35:15 AM »

Thank you AKAfox. I have done the compiling before but I am not well good enough at it to spend weeks getting there anymore. I would rather sit in my woodshop and build things these days.

Thanks again!
--BC
This is our most desperate hour. Help me, AKAFOX. You're my only hope.

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General / Re: AttractMode 1.5.2 debs

« on: November 19, 2015, 09:28:50 AM »

I know this may sound silly but is is both 32 and 64 bit that is having an issue being turned into a deb or just the 64 bit one that is having an issue?

The reason I ask is I usually go for the 32 bit versions for the old machine I have. Even the one machine with 4 gig of ram and a 64 bit OS would run the 32 bit version fine right?

Thanks!
BC

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General / Re: attract mode game list

« on: November 19, 2015, 08:57:37 AM »

Hello:

So AM cannot remove or hide a rom listed in a list? What about the NEOGEO bios file that is needed for all NEOGEO games on mame? Will that be forced to stay in the list because it is needed in the MAME roms folder?

Thank you,
BC

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General / Re: Speed, Stability, and resource useage

« on: November 19, 2015, 08:12:02 AM »

Hi Akafox:

Well generally speaking when someone asks that type of question its not because they have a nice super machine to use it on right? I am re-purposing an older set of machines that I have in the basement laying around. I know that they have no issues with MAME playing pacman and space invaders but well sometimes the FE takes up more than it should and slows things down. Just look at those windows fancy FEs that have all the bells and whistles. Even when you take all that away they still eat up a lot of system resources.

I know that a friend has the emulation station up and running on a Raspberry Pi and its snappy. That is why I was asking about how AM stacks up in a whats your opinion way.

Thanks for all the help and keep it up.
BC

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General / Re: MAME opening multiple times

« on: November 19, 2015, 08:02:35 AM »

Hi:

I am sorry so is the DEB file then behind the times? I read that if it is before the current version there is the bug of being able to open multiple instances of a program.

Thank you,
BC

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Emulators / Re: Daphne emulator setup

« on: November 18, 2015, 03:34:17 PM »

So after much twerking I mean tweeking I got DL to run! Yeah!

Now I need to get it to only show the relevant ROM and show that in a user friendly format not just lair.

Here is the end config for it:

# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.5.2
#
executable           $HOME/ArcadeCabinet/daphne/./daphne
args                 lair  vldp -framefile /home/battlecat/ArcadeCabinet/daphne/framefile/lair.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir /home/battlecat/ArcadeCabinet/daphne.daphne -bank 0 11111001 -bank 1 00100111 -sound_buffer 2048 -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480
rompath              $HOME/ArcadeCabinet/daphne/roms
system               Arcade

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General / Re: MAME opening multiple times

« on: November 18, 2015, 03:25:14 PM »

okay I just looked and AM is in Fullscreen mode. It will definitely open multiple copies of MAME or Dragon's Lair when I press the enter key more than once to start the game.

As it was suggested perhaps the AM version of the DEB is just not up to the correct version?

Thanks,
BC

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General / Re: MAME opening multiple times

« on: November 18, 2015, 11:22:45 AM »

Hi:

At this moment no joystick. Just getting it working on my main machine and then I will copy it all over to the machine inside the cabinet and make the needed changes there.

Thanks,
BC

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General / Speed, Stability, and resource useage

« on: November 18, 2015, 09:00:12 AM »

Hi:

I was wondering in compassion to emulationstataion how is Attract Mode on Speed, Stability, and resource usage.

I plan to re-purpose an older machine for my MAME cab as I tend to like playing pacman or golden axe.

Any thoughts?

Thank you,

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General / Re: MAME opening multiple times

« on: November 18, 2015, 07:45:39 AM »

Hi:

I am not at home in front of the test machine but to be honest I do not know. I suspect that it may be in windowed mode. I need to look up how to get it out of window mode if so. I have never changed its mode manually. It is whatever it comes with by default.

I'll get back to you.

Thanks!
BC

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General / Re: AttractMode 1.5.2 debs

« on: November 15, 2015, 08:35:25 AM »

Any chance that you will be posting an up to date AM DEB to 1.6 version?

Thanks for your work!
--BC

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General / Re: MAME opening multiple times

« on: November 15, 2015, 08:34:10 AM »

I am using:

Starting Attract-Mode 1.5.2 (Linux)

I downloaded is as deb. Maybe those just aren't up to date as of yet.

Thanks for letting me know!
--bc

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General / MAME opening multiple times

« on: November 14, 2015, 09:05:28 AM »

Hello:

I noticed that if I double or triple tap the return button to start a MAME rom Attract Mode will open multiple copies of MAME.

I double tapped the return button and it opened MAME and I was able to play the game fine. When I exited the game MAME opened again.

I tried this with a triple tap and the same results but this time I had to close out of MAME three times.

Is there a switch to prevent this?

Thank you
BC