What is the newsgroup for getting ROMS?

[Paul D. Sullivan]

I have Arkanoid on floppy from the old days (it is DOH) and it no
longer runs on the new machine I have gotten from Alienware.

Someone told me I could try MAME32 and use it with the program,
but the application disk does not work with MAME32.

Someone else told me I could download the ROM for DOH in a MAME32
compatible format, but I don't know where to look.

Can someone help me out with that?

I tried the Arkanoid disk with Microsoft Arcade/return of arcade
but it did not work either. So, I'm looking for a MAME32
compatible version.

I would appreciate any help.

Thank you.

[Peale]

"Paul D. Sullivan" <dude...@hotmail.com> scribbled furiously in
news:ISdya.23963$Hy3....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

As with any newsgroup, you should read the FAQ first, before asking
_F_requently _A_sked _Q_uestions.

Although, to answer your question, it's alt.binaries.emulators.mame.

Or, conversely, you could go to http://mame.dk and download from there.
Just make sure to register first.

Peale

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[Loonybin]

"Paul D. Sullivan" <dude...@hotmail.com> leapt out of his bath and
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Currently, the best places to find ROMS and CHD images are:

http://www.mame.dk - You need to register first by giving a nickname and an
email address, but it's free.

http://www.gameroom.com/shadowtek/ has a collection of roms, zipped
together for ease of downloading.

The newsgroups alt.binaries.emulators.mame and alt.binaries.emulators.misc
which have regular floods.

For a full set of ROMS on CD-R / DVD for the price of the media and
postage, see http://www.freemameroms.com

Artwork and sample files can be found at:

http://www.mame.net

Official cabinet, in-game snapshots, and icons for MAME32 can be had at:

http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/

(Flyers are being moved and re-packaged and will be available soon at
http://www.arcadeflyers.com/ )

Titles can be had at

http://server4.websytz.com/~petr1fied/titles.html
http://crashtest.retrogames.com/Mame/index.html

Eldio's Marquees and Smitdogg's control panel packs can be found at:

http://www.taucher0815.de/cpannels.htm and
http://www.taucher0815.de/marquees.htm or
http://emam.mameworld.net/

alt.games.mame FAQ
------------------

http://www.dweasel.com/agmfaq

which covers a multitute of common questions and problems and will save you
a great deal of time.

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[Cerian Knight]

"Paul D. Sullivan" <dude...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:ISdya.23963$Hy3....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

> I have Arkanoid on floppy from the old days (it is DOH) and it no
> longer runs on the new machine I have gotten from Alienware.

The 'ARKANOID Revenge of DoH' listed below works fine on my AMD 1800+
running Win98 SE. I'd have to slow it down with software designed to
throttle these older games, as it plays about double (or so) the speed I
remember.

ARKNOID2 COM 9,749 02-13-94 1:19p ARKNOID2.COM
DOH CFG 24 05-19-03 8:40p DOH.CFG
README DOC 279 02-13-94 1:34p README.DOC
REVOFDOH CGA 34,244 06-21-89 4:03p REVOFDOH.CGA
REVOFDOH DAT 74,537 06-21-89 4:40p REVOFDOH.DAT
REVOFDOH EGA 82,038 06-21-89 4:02p REVOFDOH.EGA
REVOFDOH TGA 33,875 06-21-89 4:37p REVOFDOH.TGA
REVOFDOH SCR 78 07-25-92 5:24p Revofdoh.scr

BTW: The games in the the subdirectory where I found this are a walk down
memory lane - 300MB of nothing newer that 1997.

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[Paul D. Sullivan]

Thank you for the information. I do appreciate it.

[Paul D. Sullivan]

Thanks for all the detailed information. I will to try to digest
it and figure things out. I really don't know what all those
mean. :)

I have gotten Mame 32 version .33 beta and that is all I know so
far of where to start. Are ROMS small enough so someone could
just email the Arkanoid ones to me? I need to get started small
I guess.

I have bought some of the old game sets from Microsoft and Atari
and even Williams, but none have Arkanoid, so I wanted to find a
way to play it.

Thank you very much.

[Paul D. Sullivan]

I used to run it on my old AMD machine too, no slowdown needed,
but I got now a Pentium 4 with 2.8ghz and an Intel 850
motherboard and 1 gig of PC1066 and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and
nothing works in DOS at all any more. My sound card not even
supports sound in DOS right.

So, I wanted to try what I was suggested to before giving up.

Thanks.

[Mr T]

"Paul D. Sullivan" <dude...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:yRgya.24225
$Hy3....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

> Thanks for all the detailed information. I will to try to digest
> it and figure things out. I really don't know what all those
> mean. :)
>
> I have gotten Mame 32 version .33 beta and that is all I know so
> far of where to start. Are ROMS small enough so someone could
> just email the Arkanoid ones to me? I need to get started small
> I guess.
>
> I have bought some of the old game sets from Microsoft and Atari
> and even Williams, but none have Arkanoid, so I wanted to find a
> way to play it.
>
> Thank you very much.
>

First of all, grab the latest version of mame32, which is version 0.68,
here:

http://www.mame.dk/download/emu/mame32v68b.zip

Then in addition to the alt.games.mame FAQ (see my signature), and the
documents which come with mame, read this guide to setting up and using
mame:

http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu

Then, follow Loonybin's advice on obtaining ROM sets:

>> Currently, the best places to find ROMS and CHD images are:
>>
>> http://www.mame.dk - You need to register first by giving a
>> nickname and an email address, but it's free.
>>

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[Morfious]

"Loonybin" thought this was relevant and decided to enlighten us in
<news:Xns938192A0...@195.92.193.157> with:

> Currently, the best places to find ROMS and CHD images are:
>

[valuable info snipped]

Looneybin, you got a keyboard shortcut for posting that message in
ctrl+alt+n (for Newbie ;-). Or just use the good ole copy/paste
method?

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[Paul D. Sullivan]

> First of all, grab the latest version of mame32, which is
> version 0.68, here:
>
> http://www.mame.dk/download/emu/mame32v68b.zip

I'm a bit confused. some of the emails I got mentioned Mame and
Mame32 as separate products. Is Mame for command line and Mame32
for the Windows GUI? If so, is Mame32's version .68 the same as
the .68 version of the regular Mame in terms of core
functionality?

Thanks

[Peale]

"Paul D. Sullivan" <dude...@hotmail.com> scribbled furiously in

news:zOoya.26036$Hy3....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

> I'm a bit confused. some of the emails I got mentioned Mame and
> Mame32 as separate products. Is Mame for command line and Mame32
> for the Windows GUI? If so, is Mame32's version .68 the same as
> the .68 version of the regular Mame in terms of core
> functionality?

Yes. One (mame32) has a built in GUI, and the other is strictly command
like, although they're both Windows programs.

There are DOS and Linux command line versions as well.

[Paul D. Sullivan]

So Mame32 .68 is the same core engine as Mame .68 command line,
only with an added GUI? So if I use Mame32, I'm not losing any
functionality over regular MAME?

Thanks

[Paul D. Sullivan]

I got the different Mame32, the .68 one, then went to:

http://www.cybamall.com/shadowtek/

and used that flash get thing, grabbed all of those and copied
them over to ROMS. A dozen or two did not work with .68, though
they did with .33 (I tested just to be sure) but the rest seem to
work.

I did not know there were so many.

After installs and all I got Arkanoid to work. It plays like my
old floppy disk game used to before I got the fast new machine.

Thanks very much for all the help.

[Sune Mika Salminen]

Paul D. Sullivan wrote:
> So Mame32 .68 is the same core engine as Mame .68 command line,
> only with an added GUI? So if I use Mame32, I'm not losing any
> functionality over regular MAME?

No.

-Sune

[Sune Mika Salminen]

Paul D. Sullivan wrote:
> I got the different Mame32, the .68 one, then went to:
>
> http://www.cybamall.com/shadowtek/
>
> and used that flash get thing, grabbed all of those and copied
> them over to ROMS. A dozen or two did not work with .68, though
> they did with .33 (I tested just to be sure) but the rest seem to
> work.

ROMs sort of change with time. It's explained in the FAQ at
http://www.mame.net
You can use the excellent ROM manager ClrMAMEPro to clean up your ROM
collection. There are detailed instructions on how to use it at
http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu - Good luck.

-Sune

[Paul D. Sullivan]

Thank you.

[Paul D. Sullivan]

Is that a No/No or a:

Yes, Mame32 .68 is the same core engine as Mame .68

and

No, you are not losing any functionality using Mame32 over Mame?

Thanks

[Loonybin]

Morfious <newjeep@hotmail{NO_SPAM}.com> leapt out of his bath and screamed
"EUREKA!" before typing in news:Xns93811CFD7...@64.8.50.13:

> Looneybin, you got a keyboard shortcut for posting that message in
> ctrl+alt+n (for Newbie ;-). Or just use the good ole copy/paste
> method?
>
>

I use plain old copy and paste from another .txt file. :)

[Morfious]

"Paul D. Sullivan" thought this was relevant and decided to
enlighten us in <news:5jsya.27140$Hy3....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>
with:

> Is that a No/No or a:
>
> Yes, Mame32 .68 is the same core engine as Mame .68
>

Yes this is accurate.

> and
>
> No, you are not losing any functionality using Mame32 over Mame?
>

this is also accurate, Mame32 just puts a gui on top of mame source
code. (John iv I love what you do btw)

Most people in here running windows run Mame32 on their gaming
computer. To confuse matters you could also use a front end (to
serve as the GUI. . .there are tons) that might add some other
features you may need/want. Emuloader is probably the most popular
front end.

The last straw, so you are absolutely sure:

1. Use mame (command line) without a front end if you are a hacker
and just love typing
2. Use Mame32 if you want an easy and wuick way to start playing the
games.
3. Use mame (command line) and a front end if you hate the way Mame32
looks or you just enjoy tweaking stuff to no end!
4. Use XMame, mame-X, mac-mame, mame+, fillInYourOwnMame after you
get the hang of it and want to put mame on some other device (x-box,
Linux distro, Cell phone (who knows what's in the future.) Play mame
now on your toaster!!!

HTH

[Sune Mika Salminen]

Paul D. Sullivan wrote:
> Is that a No/No or a:
>
> Yes, Mame32 .68 is the same core engine as Mame .68
>
> and
>
> No, you are not losing any functionality using Mame32 over Mame?

Yes :-)

-Sune

[Paul D. Sullivan]

Thanks for the clarification - it is appreciated.

[Paul D. Sullivan]

Thanks

[Chim Bubba]

LOL!!!!
Funny!