First post, by rwirch@yahoo.com
Hi,
I made a MAME box around 2001 (I actually submitted a code change that made MAME 40% faster back in the day). After a while the Hard disk died, I got a new HD and now it died too. I copied the data to a SATA solid state drive and got a SATA->IDE converter. However, I doesn't seem to boot (don't know why). It's an old beast with ISA slots and an ISA Soundblaster card.
I have a newer computer (Athlon 4 core) sitting around which supports SATA and plugged drive in and it boots to DOS (good), but I can't get MAME to understand the Realtek ALC892 audio. The newer computer has PCI slots. Do I need to buy a soundcard for MAME to work? Can I get it to work in DOS with the onboard realtek audio?
Sorry for the many questions, but I have another. The reason that I am interested in DOS, is back in the day DOS worked better than Windows because it plays smooth as butter. Under Windows the games played perfectly fine except occasionally Windows decides to contemplate its navel and the game freezes for maybe 15 milliseconds or so and that makes it hard if you were trying to time a jump in a game right when it stutters. Is this still true? Am I better off with DOS for MAME than Windows?
Thanks,
Rick