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SubjectOK, one more MAMEboy question new Reply to this message
Posted byGadgetMan
Posted on03/01/01 02:36 PM



Maybe two, sorry. Games that use samples son't have sound. I put samples in the samples dir, still no sound. Also, Donkey kong, VERRRY slow. I suppose I can turn sound off, but its a very old game on that used to play fine on my old 486/66, now I'm on the Casio E-125, at 150mhz, and it's maybe 3/4 speed with sound. Should I use another version?

Oh, yeah, tempest isn't supported?





SubjectRe: OK, one more MAMEboy question new Reply to this message
Posted byMarconelly!
Posted on03/01/01 04:04 PM



> Maybe two, sorry. Games that use samples son't have sound. I put samples in
> the samples dir, still no sound.

Samples are not supported.

>Also, Donkey kong, VERRRY slow. I suppose I
> can turn sound off, but its a very old game on that used to play fine on my old
> 486/66, now I'm on the Casio E-125, at 150mhz, and it's maybe 3/4 speed with
> sound. Should I use another version?

You can get Crazy Kong. It works nice with sound. It is an old game, but MAME seem not to like MIPS processors as far as speed is concerned...


> Oh, yeah, tempest isn't supported?

No.




SubjectAwwww! Reply to this message
Posted byGadgetMan
Posted on03/01/01 04:08 PM



Great program, my train rides just got 100 percent better.


My only disappointment is that Temppest is not there. Would LOVE to see that played on my portable device!

> > Oh, yeah, tempest isn't supported?
>
> No.
>





SubjectRe: OK, one more MAMEboy question new Reply to this message
Posted byAnonymous (24.129.60.237)
Posted on03/03/01 09:27 AM



> ...but its a very old game on that used to play fine on my old
> 486/66, now I'm on the Casio E-125, at 150mhz, and it's maybe 3/4 speed with
> sound.

Comparing a 80486 CPU to a MIPS VR41xx CPU is not apples to apples, so just because your MIPS' clockspeed (150MHz) is over twice that of your old 486 (66MHz) does NOT mean it is 'twice as powerful' or 'twice as fast'. MIPS CPUs (and all CPUs in CE devices, AFAIK) are 'RISC' (Reduced Instruction Set...) type CPUs, whereas most CPUs for computers (80486, Pentiums etc) are 'CISC' (Complicated Instruction Set...) type. Even comparing MHz-for-MHz among different RISC processors isn't quite a fair comparison. And on top of all that: in many cases, factors other than the CPU speed have more effect on the speed of particular applications, i.e. graphics hardware, memory speed etc. etc.

All of the above is why people in the know use benchmarks to measure net performance in a variaty of computing areas to compare devices; not simply MHz.

Darren





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