MAME on an A1200

[jj]

Nothing you throw at your A1200 will make MAME run at acceptable speeds.

I am sure sometime in the distant past I had a ppc port of mame running on my a1200 at a decent enough speed to play shinobi,  but I could be very mistaken

[jj]

And a question about MAME. I believe there's somekind of console that can play it's games directly on tv. Which is it?
 
Edit: Oh, I forgot to add... at a reasonable prize...

 
Soft modded original xbox is perfect for mame and also snes and megadrive etc emulators.
 
 
Can pick up sa xbox for £10 and largehardrive for another £20 and softmodding is free.

[Amiga_Nut]

Running old 80s games of the Donkey Kong era via MAME on ECS/AGA chipset is probably an exercise in futility to be honest. So the AGA not the 060 is the problem at the moment (and when you get some sort of graphics card solution then you can investigate the CPU power shortfall for newer games).

[Gary McCulloch]

I have like 7 DVD's full of ROMS.

[jj]

I have like 7 DVD's full of ROMS.

Damm and I am plumb out of medals :laughing:

[rvo_nl]

I have like 7 DVD's full of ROMS.

Thats odd. I could barely fill one dvd with all mame games that run on an Amiga

[Retrofan]

I'm starting to look for a GP2X Wiz, which seems the best, but I'm not sure if I can connect it to a tv and plug in a joystick, and which type of joystick is it...

[Gary McCulloch]

Damm and I am plumb out of medals :laughing:

Thats odd. I could barely fill one dvd with all mame games that run on an Amiga

That's to bad.  I wanted a medal, and there are a tons of original ROMs out there.  If the game was made, there is a ROM for it.

[Retrofan]

I've bought finally a Dingoo A330 console to play MAME and others. It seems cheaper and better than the Gp2x Wiz, as it has the possibility to connect a wireless controller, that the Wiz doesn't. And the best is that it's around half the prize!

[Gary McCulloch]

Hmmm.. this is an interesting way to play old game roms.

[Xanxi]

I have 60830 version of Mame on my desktop Blizz 1230 IV A1200.
I have only tried 1942 and it is slow as hell and unplayable.

[drHirudo]

Unfortunately MAME on AGA and 680x0 is very slow. Even with manual tweakings in the source code it is still slow. There are some individual arcade emulators that run better, but they are not as good as MAME. Putting exec library patch and BlazeWCP will help a bit, but not much.
Now that AmiMasterGear sourcecode is available, one may take it and use it for the Z80 based MAME games, but it wil be a lot of work to make these games work. Games like Hang On Junior will work perfectly with the AmiMasterGear engine.

[Crom00]

I have spare parts lying around that make a kick ass mame machine... and said parts are almost 10 years old. (pentium 4 2ghz system) No way I would ever try to do that on an A1200.
More and more selling off all my Amigas and doing the emulation thing looks better and better.

[DyLucke]

Unfortunately MAME on AGA and 680x0 is very slow. Even with manual tweakings in the source code it is still slow. There are some individual arcade emulators that run better, but they are not as good as MAME. Putting exec library patch and BlazeWCP will help a bit, but not much.
Now that AmiMasterGear sourcecode is available, one may take it and use it for the Z80 based MAME games, but it wil be a lot of work to make these games work. Games like Hang On Junior will work perfectly with the AmiMasterGear engine.

Certainlly, i hope somebody with enough skills could implement the AmiMasterGear Z80 core emulation on a new MAME bootleg, that would allow us to play some z80 based arcade games even on a modest 030 /50.

However i guess it could be more reasonable to aim for a new release on MorphOS or OS4, or even on the NatAmi whenever the  project is finished.