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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: RMK305 on September 29, 2008, 07:38:03 PM
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Does anyone use MAME on the Amiga? If so, I'm wondering what the performance is like and what sort of setup you are using. Is it still being developed for the Amiga or is the last version quite old now?
Thanks.
Robert
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I'm using Mame060 on an A4000/060 with Cybervision 64/3D. I would describe the performance as perfect :-)
Linky (http://www.triumph.no/mame/)
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Really depends on the game you're going play; don't expect to play Metal Slug on any decent speed.
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I've used mame060 before, it made some games playable with tweaking. Amiga MAME is very old, sourcing ROMs can be difficult.
If you have PPC, MorphOS MAME is closer to perfect.
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The latest version for OS4 is the 0.97 one, which is already 3 years old. I have never tried it, though I'd like to try some newer games from the 90'es on it.
Varthall
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Latest version for MorphOS is 0.120 (which i maintain :)). But anyway, for speed reasons, on a 68k configuration, you'd better stick to very old versions and keep preciously your old rom sets.
Why? From 0.36 to 0.120, MAME emulation got much more accurate and several abstraction layers were added/complexified, which is practice means MAME is now more than twice as slow as 0.36, which is not what one wants on a 68060 config. :)
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What are the differences in the ROM sets? I recall being told that a v.67 ROM set won't work with v.62 or the like... is that true?
EDIT: And the download link is bad :-(
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ROM dumps aren't necessary perfect on the first time, so from times to times, they are dumped again, and older ones are sometimes made incompatible. Fortunately it doesn't happen for each ROM at each version. :)
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I only se a 060 version on that website. Will this work with a 040@40MHz or is that too slow?
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it should be works on 040 :)
if someone could be port on 68k a new versions of mame ;)
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New versions of MAME for 68K are unreasonable because they will be extremely slow even for pre-1984 year games, which worked on the Triumphs version much faster, because as FAB said the emulation gets more accurate, thus slower. Old sources of MAME are available and for weaker hardware they are usually recompiled instead of the new versions. On the N-Gage for example the EEMAME is port of MAME 0.37b7.
New recompiles of old versions of MAME for 68K may be usefull where parts of the code can be optimized with unrolling loops, inline assembler or other tricks (may be even using the Amiga hardware). MAME for 68K played only some games at acceptable speed on AGA Amiga400 68040/25 MHz, but on 68060 with GFX card it will be much better.
On AmigaOS 4 the version is good and more recent games are playable on AmigaOne 750GX/800MHz, if not all the best. Small problem on the AmigaOS 4 port is the lack of AmigaInput support and that some ROMs because it is old version are hard to find, but the best games are supported there. Legend of Makay, Ninja Warrior, Commando, Robocop, Rygar, Outrun, Turbo Outrun, Shinobi, Contra, Escape from Planet of Robot Monsters and all the other great games are playable.
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yeah
but on Amiga 68k has been realesed FPSE, a Playstation 1 emulator :D
i think will be better port new MAME, maybe :p