Re: [Xmame] I-Pac

2002-01-04 Thread Gerd Sussner
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Andrea wrote: > Hi everyone, > I heard about I-Pac, a circuit wich lets you to configure the old arcade > controllers with the PC. > Maybe you've already heard about it... > With the circuit is included a programming utility for configure the controls > with the abbropiate

Re: R: [Xmame] I-Pac

2002-01-04 Thread Gerd Sussner
> I know that the I-Pac has already configured the standard key, but if I want > to use it with anothr emulator. well, if you want to use it with another emulator which does not allow configuring keys one possibility is to use a different keymap under x11. you can extract your current keymap

[Xmame] patch for using several XInput mice with xmame

2002-01-09 Thread Gerd Sussner
hi folks, i run xmame with an I-PAC and an Opti-PAC from Ultimarc.com. there are two trackballs connected to the Opti-PAC and this is connected to the serial ports of my computer. xmame has only 1 mouse supported so far, namely the core pointer of x11. so playing a 'death-match-marble-madness' w

[Xmame] uuencoded patch for XInput extension

2002-01-09 Thread Gerd Sussner
hi again, since the attachment was stripped, i send the patch as uuencoded file. it is not a large file (about 7.7k). i hope, it is not to big for the list. gerd [demime removed a uuencoded section named xmame-0.57.1-XInput.tgz which was 126 lines] __

[Xmame] patch as plain text body

2002-01-09 Thread Gerd Sussner
ok, uuencoded test was also removed from body, so i try now the plain ascii files. gerd ps: dave, i'm using pine and its attachment function, so i guess, it was attached in a regular way. readme.txt: --- start -- This is a patch for xm

[Xmame] xmame with several mice

2002-02-17 Thread Gerd Sussner
hi folks, here's my patch for using xmame with several mice via XInput extension. there's nothing new - just applied the patch for 0.57.1 and made a new one. gerd >-- snip --< diff -Nru xmame-0.58.2.orig/makefile.unix xmame-0.58.2/makefile.unix --- x

[Xmame] problems with visuals (+ solution)

2002-09-23 Thread gerd . sussner
hi folks, i got a new nvidia-driver (1.0.3123) and suddenly all artwork games crashed and some strange color problems with my window manager (fvwm2) where the black color of of a game (e.g. pacman) becomes the background color of my desktop. with the older nvidia-driver (1.0.2960) i got a visual

[Xmame] again keyboard-grab

2002-09-23 Thread gerd . sussner
hi lawrence, as far as i remember i sent the keyboardgrab-patch to the list according to the xv-patch. since it is totally independent of the xv-patch, i have created a patch against the pre6-release. it is considered as a complement to the mousegrab, thus (de)activating per keypress (ALT+PGUP)

Re: [Xmame] xmame-0.61.1-pr7

2002-09-25 Thread gerd . sussner
hi there, i just thought about finding the best visual. 15/16bit are also considered as (pseudo) true color. since we requested a visual of class true color and ask for a visual with 16bit everything is ok. the x server on an irix-machine behaves pretty the same. i started xmame on a linux box a

[Xmame] dramatic frame drop with artwork and xv

2002-09-25 Thread gerd . sussner
hi folks, do anybode know why there is such a huge impact of artwork (especially with bezels)? compiled with USE_Xv=1 options: -xv -fullscreen -gkb 1942 --> ~20fps options: -xv -fullscreen -gkb -noart --> ~58fps options: -xv -gkb 1942 --> ~46fps options: -xv -gkb -noart 194

[Xmame] ed2k-links for harddisk images

2002-11-26 Thread Gerd . Sussner
hi there, here are e2dk-links for the harddisk images: ed2k://|file|mame_0.62_area51.chd|560425712|8f44b07e66929f21029e30582b4dcb72| ed2k://|file|mame_0.62_vcircle.chd|595826468|7920b94ddcdb25f9b5a9a9bded100120| ed2k://|file|mame_0.62_maxforce.chd|1176146559|65b526aa5af5e142cb92ce755a8a68e8| ger

[Xmame] xmame supports only 3000 roms :-(

2002-11-28 Thread Gerd . Sussner
hi folks, i found a little bug in xmame while trying to get full game info with 'xmame.x11 -listinfo'. i wanted a description file for advanceSCAN with xmame-0.62.1-for-rom- verification and it segfaults all the time. after little investigation i found a define MAX_DATAFILE_ENTRIES which was set

Re: [Xmame] XInput Patch

2002-12-06 Thread Gerd . Sussner
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:59:17PM -0700, David Mitchell wrote: > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 10:55 pm, Lawrence Gold wrote: > > > David, > > > > I did see your email, but I forgot to respond to it. After I dig myself > > out of the rotation/blitting mess (shortly, I hope), I'll take a peek at

[Xmame] testmail - please ignore

2002-12-16 Thread Gerd Sussner
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[Xmame] missing ~/.xmame/hi

2002-12-31 Thread Gerd Sussner
hi there, i just had to remove my ~/.xmame directory and realized that no hiscore was remembered when leaving xmame. i guess it was just forgotten to create the ~/.xmame/hi directory while moving it from $XMAMEROOT to the homedir. whatever, there are just five lines to include in file 'xmame-0.62

Re: [Xmame] Sleep idle and input preferences

2003-01-04 Thread Gerd Sussner
> > Actually, my input preferences won't stay put either. I'm also using > > an old like rc2 though. I put em in, and they last until I exit. > > General and global keyprefs, doesn't matter. > > That's not the problem I was writing about. In your case you probably > don't have the correct permissio

Re: [Xmame] bizarro DGA problem

2003-01-07 Thread Gerd Sussner
hi there, > All of this is running as a non-root user. If I login as > root, it works as expected. So this leads me to believe it's > some sort of X MIT magic cookie like problem, since I have > "-nolisten tcp" specified to my X server, which, by the way, is > being run from xdm. But even

Re: [Xmame] rotation

2003-01-14 Thread Gerd Sussner
> Is there some standard test, like a flag to run a demo as quickly as > possible and output a fps for comparison? try F10 (toggle speed throttling) as stated in man-page. gerd ___ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mail

[Xmame] display of fps

2003-01-15 Thread Gerd Sussner
hi folks, while inc/dec of frame skip (f8/f9) the fps is display for some time. so i was curious - and yes mame is prepared to display the fps all the time and not only temporary. i don't know why there hasn't been any option or menu-entry to toggle fps-display, but here is a short hack: add the

Re: [Xmame] display of fps

2003-01-15 Thread Gerd Sussner
> Yep, there is a better solution. Just hit F11. hmmm, it seems that i have not read the man-page carefully either :-( gerd ___ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame

Re: [Xmame] "new" chd games

2003-01-20 Thread Gerd Sussner
ok, i also got that error with 0.63.1-testing. i could track down the bug to the file src/unix/fileio.c line 656. just swap the arguments 'length' and 'sizeof(...)' to match fwrite()-call (man-page), i.e.: change result = fwrite(buffer, length, sizeof(unsigned char), file->fileptr); to result

Re: [Xmame] borderless full-screen window

2003-01-30 Thread Gerd Sussner
> > Is anyone a twm expert? I've never used twm before so it's new to me. > > I want to be able to load a program (advancemenu, gxmame, what-have-you, > and not see anything but the program. I'm thinking that TWM can do that, > with very little overhead. > so you don't need a window manager. jus

Re: [Xmame] borderless full-screen window

2003-02-01 Thread Gerd Sussner
> well, X is happy to start without a mouse, and i'd bet you can set the > cursor bitmap to be a single pixel, as well (i recall at one point in > the distant past setting my X11 cursor to a custom bitmap on a sunos > machine). it's not perfect, but with mame having cursor-hiding options, > a sing

[Xmame] area51 broken?

2003-02-12 Thread Gerd Sussner
hi folks, i have never played area51 until today. now i have realised that it seems to be broken. when i start the game with "xmame.x11 area51" after some time my screen gets dumped with 27272727 27272727 lines. finally it stops dumping and hang, i.e. nothing happens anymore. i tried the windows

[Xmame] testmail - please ignore

2003-03-06 Thread Gerd Sussner
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Re: [Xmame] Area 51 problem

2003-08-25 Thread Gerd Sussner
> info: sysdep_mixer: using oss plugin > > at this point I got the info screen and I press enter to bypass and > hangs on terrible black screen for 30 min (tested. after I give up) > I can do F4 for color test works fine, > i think i have the solution for you since i ran into the same problem a w

Re: [Xmame] Can't get mouse to work anymore.

2004-02-05 Thread Gerd Sussner
> Ok I found out what's wrong - the Xinput option for trackballs seems to > break -m and -gm. I re-compiled without the option, and the mouse works > again. Recompiling with Xinput "breaks" it again. Can anyone reproduce > this, or is it just me? for me it works fine. what game do you use? i quic

Re: [Xmame] Can't get mouse to work anymore.

2004-02-05 Thread Gerd Sussner
sorry, in the previous post used i used xmame-0.72. xmame-0.78 was broken for me as well. it must be broken in some version inbetween :-( gerd ps: i finally found the '-m' option in the vast option list (i never used it explicitely) ___ Xmame mailing l

Re: [Xmame] Can't get mouse to work anymore.

2004-02-10 Thread Gerd Sussner
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, ste wrote: > Ok I found out what's wrong - the Xinput option for trackballs seems to > break -m and -gm. I re-compiled without the option, and the mouse works > again. Recompiling with Xinput "breaks" it again. Can anyone reproduce > this, or is it just me? ok, i found the re

Re: [Xmame] Can't get mouse to work anymore.

2004-02-10 Thread Gerd Sussner
> ok, i found the reason - if XINPUT is defined in the makefile you > must(!!!) define a XInput-device via -XItb*. > > in my opinion, if no XInput-device is configured the regular mouse should > be used as trackball. here is a little patch to fix that behavior. > well, it seems, i rather should h

Re: [Xmame] xmame X application name

2005-04-17 Thread Gerd Sussner
> I had a problem at permamently disabling windowmanager hotkeys > in WindowMaker for all XMAME windows in X11 mode. > > The problem was that WindowMaker can only store the properties > of an app depending on its window and class ID. While the SDL > libs take care of this themselfs, the x11 version

[Xmame] sdlmame version 0.108 and 0.110

2007-09-24 Thread Gerd Sussner
hi everybody, i'am looking for the sources of sdlmame0.108 and sdlmame0.110. they are no longer available on the web site. is anybody out there who has these zip-files? gerd ___ Xmame mailing list Xmame@toybox.twisted.org.uk http://toybox.twisted.org.