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  1. Just a quick comment to say you shouldn't put '-video gdi' in your runme.bat. The gdi option is software rendering and should only be used if your hardware doesn't support any of the better options such as bgfx, opengl, d3d.
  2. Thanks, I managed to build it myself. The older 0.9 version doesn't handle directories.
  3. Yep, my current progress looks much better than my initial screenshot, it shows the directory correctly and can cd into folders. I'm having to do alot of research into how the CH376 works to emulate all the commands that are used, but making progress. The USB folder is setup as a local 'share' folder, so simply reads your local filesystem and interprets it as FAT32.
  4. Here's a little teaser ... Still lots to do on this, but certainly doable!
  5. Is the final release of aqubasic.bin that reports V1.0 available anywhere, can only find 0.9?
  6. You mean the Micro Expander with CH376? This should be doable, the USB would simply point to a local shared folder to read the files. Here's a little MAME usage tip ... in your MAME folder create software/aquarius subfolders and place your .bin files in there instead of the mame root folder. Now whenever you open the File Manager to load your .bin it should default to this new folder. Also, you can edit your ui.ini and change skip_biosmenu to 1 to avoid having to select S2/S1 every time you run the machine.
  7. Why would it break the emulator? If you can push more data on real hardware then MAME should do the same.
  8. Really happy to see you persevered with getting your ROM running in MAME, and even happier to see how it compares with real hardware. Whilst the bank switching went in quite a few months ago the border effects were only implemented in May, so the 0.232 release is the first to include them. You're the first user to showcase this as I was only able to do limited testing myself. I'm aware the video timing is not quite 100% and will gladly update it when more definitive timings are known.
  9. It will only complain of invalid ROM size if it's not a multiple of 4K. Really? So the file size is 8192 bytes?
  10. Rather than just giving up with no explanation it would help if you actually mentioned this when you had problems, and provide some details as to what happens when you try to run it. Chances are that you need to update your aquarius.zip romset, by adding the aquarius_s1 ROM that was posted earlier in this thread.
  11. I relented on waiting for some better video timings, so the border effects and scanline rendering are now in today's MAME 0.232 release.
  12. This couldn't be further from the truth. Before the merge there was lots of work being duplicated to different standards. Arcade games, home computers, consoles, etc. share alot of components which were being emulated separately in each project. Bringing the projects together improves the emulation as there are more test cases for the emulated components. Software for home computers in particular pushed the hardware in ways that arcade machines never did and so improves emulation accuracy. As for contributors, you'll find that there's those that specialise in arcade machines and those that prefer emulating computers, etc. They work on emulating what interests them, and what they have knowledge of. The number of contributors has increased immensely since the merging of projects, and has improved both sides of the project. Personally, I work on emulating 8 bit computers, mainly Acorn Computers but also anything else that interests me. With the help of the community here I recently improved the Aquarius emulation, and added support for the Aquaricart. I have zero interest in working on any arcade machines. To improve Intellivision emulation needs someone to contribute that knows the hardware, and understands what certain software is doing to cause emulation issues, and then submit a fix. I could be tempted to add support for more cartridge types if the community makes ROMs available and can provide documentation explaining how they're mapped. Anyone can add newly dumped software to the software list XML and make a Pull Request to the project, ROMs would need to be submitted too to verify the additions.
  13. Did this happen? Still looking forward to seeing pics of this board.
  14. That's a patched V3.0, was looking for a version that originally came with the interface.
  15. Very nice! Any chance of quality photos of board, both sides, and a dump of the ROM? It's on my todo list for emulating in MAME.
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