I have a pccompanion. I haven't got anything to work yet (mainly because I don't have an upload cable, and haven't got the infrared connection working).

Anyway, is it enough of a processor to get mameCE3 working? without frameskipping?

What is the cheapest solution for someone who would like to use it mainly for mame in b&w? how about color?

> I have a pccompanion. I haven't got anything to work yet (mainly because I
> don't have an upload cable, and haven't got the infrared connection working).
>
> Anyway, is it enough of a processor to get mameCE3 working? without
> frameskipping?
>
> What is the cheapest solution for someone who would like to use it mainly for
> mame in b&w? how about color?
>
Currently MameCE3 only runs on a Color PocketPC or Color Casio. Even the iPaq with a 200Mhz CPU still has to run with some frame skipping. But alot of the old games run well.
Unless your device is one of the above devices I suspect it will not run any of the MAME builds.
Sorry.

Cheers,
-Techmaster

I think cheapest device that will run MAME for Pocket PC just fine is Casio EM-500.


> I have a pccompanion. I haven't got anything to work yet (mainly because I
> don't have an upload cable, and haven't got the infrared connection working).
>
> Anyway, is it enough of a processor to get mameCE3 working? without
> frameskipping?
>
> What is the cheapest solution for someone who would like to use it mainly for
> mame in b&w? how about color?
>

> Unless your device is one of the above devices I suspect >it will not run any of
> the MAME builds.
> Sorry.

I'm running into a similar problem, in that I do not have the typical WinCE machine. I have an IBM Workpad Z50, which runs Win CE version 2.11 (on MIPS CPU). While I discovered the hard way that MameCE3 won't work with 2.11, I can actually see that "something" is happening when I run the plain MameCE. (BTW, their site is down, which is why I'm posting about MameCE here.) However, it looks like it's hardcoded for a different screen dimension. Is there any way I can change that? The Z50 has a 640x480 screen.

I can see sprites, vectors, etc., moving, so I can tell that the emulator is actually working! The graphics are all distorted, wrapping around the 640 pixel screen about 5 times, so I think that all is needed (famous last words) is to adjust the dimensions.

I did search this forum and found some earlier messages discussing recompiling MameCE. I have already downloaded Microsoft's free (!!!) Win CE development system, but then read that that will only support Win CE 3.0.

Are there any command-line options that might work? In true hacker spirit, is it possible to hex-edit MameCE and change the resolution? :-)

> Cheers,
> -Techmaster

Meanwhile, the original poster might want to try the regular "MameCE". If the screen dimensions are right, maybe it would work for him. Hey, worth a shot.

G.