mame question

[markadams12000]

[ukvac] mame question
Don't spit, i love the cabs as much as the rest of ya, i just have a
question...
How do you interface a PC with joysticks/buttons when running mame
(dos or win) and is it possible to connect your pc to a screen as
originally fitted in a tabletop (for instance)?

There, wasn't too bad was it......

Mark.

You can respond offlist if no-one else is interested in knowing....

 

[guddler]

RE: [ukvac] mame question
One URL tells all :O)

http://www.ultimarc.com

I have one of the "new" ArcadeVGA cards and can definitely recommend
them, and the Jpac is pretty much the defacto way of interfacing these
days, although everything you ask is perfectly possible with home wiring
and HOURS of swearing, and generally getting sick to death of it, I'd
HIGHLY recommend those two products.

Done about three mame cab setups now and that's the route I'd go without
hesitation.

Guddler.

 

[John Bennett]

RE: [ukvac] mame question
Gotta second that... a PC armed with a JPAC and an ArcadeVGA is
awesome...
Bung on a nice frontend and you're away It is absolutely amazing -
you completely forget you're running on a PC

The hardest part was finding a soundcard that had DOS only drivers (I
went for DOS Mame because the cabinet was being switched on/off at the
wall, and I didn't want boot times or shutdown times... DOS is the
closest thing to instant-on)



DATA Imported from archives: originally posted by David Cowan (david.cowan@vissci.com)