tthurman

I've jumped into the chat room a couple times, and was going to again today as there were "2" people in there. Have the permissions changed? I can no longer join chat. "guy on a buffalo"

Not to highjack the thread or anything, but since this topic is already being discussed, if you have an EmuMovies account, does it download these based on favorites, as they are ran, or based on your romset?

I like it a lot, and in your back-lit setup, it will look great! Funny, I was just thinking about this today, and I think it would be cool if Tom, or someone with his blessing, who also happened to be talented with graphics, designed a sort of official cabinet icon "Driven by GameEx", or Powered by, something like that. Just an idea, but I sort of visioned the "Driven by" being rounded over the current "G" in the GameEX logo. I can see this popping up on builds down the road, marquee's like yours for instance, and adding a nice touch! Sort of like a intel inside thing! Eh, just another idea floating around in my head while I try and visualize different ideas for my own build.

My eyes! That's certainly not what I had in mind!

http://teamcoco.com/video/star-wars-ep-vii-titles

Cool stuff in the link, but they need some Slave Leia babes for sure!

As things progress, I'll post some updates, but I can say that I finally (at least for now) settled on a "reasonable" machine to run it on, and it's that part that I pretty much completed a couple weeks ago. It is nice to know that I can start loading things on it with the current version, as I was concerned it would be a big do over if I got to much ahead of the game.

Thanks, I appreciate the input for sure! I think I mentioned in one of my posts here, possibly my first one, that I move pretty slow, and that is the main reason I think my progression will be a bit lagging, for lack of a better description. I got the fever for this hobby seemingly forever ago, and couldn't tell you how many days I spent drooling over controllers. I knew if I tried to buid one myself, it would only delay things. After watching the demise of Slik-Stik, I grew a bit leary of purchasing a pre-built controller, but finally bought one from Jack and jan (Arcades R Fun), over five years ago. I think their work speaks for itself:

Congrats! I'm still a newbie here , regardless of my registration date, but it's obvious to me this is a community of great individuals, all with a common goal of having some good old fashion fun. It must be a tremendously rewarding feeling to be appreciated by your fellow peers, not to mention the man himself!

I'm a registered GameEx'er, so you may get sick of seeing me around, assuming your not already! I've still got a bunch to do before everything else is ready, so I'm not sure if I'll load up the current version or not, but I may play around with it some.

Sorry KRC, but timing is everything, and that was perfect! That is really cool that somebody is helping you out like that!

Not sure about jukebox performance, but along the way of trying out front ends, GameEx was the first, and one I ran, and I ran it on a 800 mhz fsb P4 @3.06 with XP SP3. This was at least three, and probably more like four years ago. It ran silky smooth. The P4's were dogs to the AMD's proc's of those days, so I guess what I'm saying is don't throw in the towel on it without giving it a test spin. If it's going to be offline anyway, then there's no reason you can't still run XP on it.

No, not at all! Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. These were good power supplies, that just happened to be manufactured with poor quality caps that were all released around the same time period. I have seen many Dell motherboards, Samsung monitors/TV's etc., with the same problem. A lot of times I'll just order some new caps from digikey, replace them and carry on, but this is not something I'm so inclinded to do on with PSU's. They rank up there with CRT monitors, as in, I'd rather not go there! I was just surprised that they simply shipped out another supply two some odd years later, that had the same defective cap in it. At the end of the day I got over five years of service, nearly six, between the two of them, bad caps and all, for right around $70 USD. I caught them on a good deal, and didn't pay the overly inflated street price they normaly fetch. To say I'm a deal hunter would be a understatement. It's not uncommon for 80 Plus units like these to have protective features that can help prevent a failure of this type from taking out other equipment, but as always you mileage may vary when it comes to this. In my opinion, it's just an added benefiet to the monthly electric bill savings they represent. I feel like I was extremely fortunate that the rest of my rig survived for sure. During that time though, I discovered the Seasonic built units seemed much more robust, even the rebadged ones. i.e. Corsair HX series, and even some more recent Antec HCG models. I've had some of them running since 2006 without issue, and to me, this is worthy of a recomendation!

I was always under the impression the Atom line was mainly geared toward netbooks, and slowly made some inroads as a low end solution for SFF PC's with intergrated graphics. The fact Tom's did an article comparing an Atom to a P4 is a glaring alert to me that this thing was a pretty under performer thats claim to fame was power efficiency with acceptable computing power. Given that, I'm not surprised it's not a stellar performer with MAME. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/atom-d510-pentium-4-nettop,2649.html

Man I hate to hear that nothing is salavageable, that just flat out sucks! The Zalman I mentioned in my above post was a popular model that utilized a heat pipe system to keep the fan from running so hard. I felt like it was a fluke when it failed, and so I put the replacement Zalman sent me back right in when it arrived. It lasted about the same amount of time, ~ 2 years. Turns out Zalman knew it was a dog, with a main cap that was going to fail, but shipped them anyway. No more Zalman for me! I moved to this because of reliablity issues with Antec's higher end supplies, which also failed on me serveral times early in their service life. When the time comes, I highly recommend the Seasonic M12II series power supplies. I've put them in all but one of the last six builds I've done, and they seem to live up to the high marks they get.

Bummer dude!

Also, remove the ATX 4 pin 12v connector and see if it's burnt. One of the workstations here at the office smoked right there, and melted it pretty good, resulting in a nice puff of smoke. The other components survived this BTW.

I've had two Zalman power supplies die on me like this, might want to give this a try with a new power supply. Remove CMOS battery pull all memory but one stick replace CMOS battery Boot (hopefully) If it boots, reset defaults in BIOS, shut down, put memory back in and set your BIOS up like you had it. I don't know what thing is with one stick of memory, but I happend along this method several years ago while troubleshooting a ASUS P5K Deluxe, and it has on occasion, worked on other motherboards too. Good luck!

Not knowing what the last version you had running, I'll take a guess that the version of MAME you were runninig on that s939 was perhaps when it was still not optimized for dual core processors, that is why I suggested you may want to try a different, older version of MAME. This could explain the slow down you are experieincing, and don't recall. If I'm not mistaken, 0.106 was the last version before a big re-write in how the graphics processing was handled, and almost certainly prior to dual core support. That AMD cpu would have been a more mainstream chip back in the 0.106 days too. If you really need to sell that i3 setup, and have a graphic card handy, why not load it up and see?

Can't offer any insite on the nag screen issue, but I'm sure someone here will help.

I'd think the i3 would be the best way to go, higher core speed is always a good thing. The 2000 generation graphics will probably do fine, especially with the classics, and most likely has enough horsepower to handle some titles newer than that, within reason anyway. The AMD is pretty dated at this point, but still would work, perhaps even better on someting like MAME 0.106. Considering the extra components required to build out the AMD version, and the baggage that comes with them, I'd keep it simple and go i3, and call it a day.

That's cool that a game you like so much is coming to steam. After reading the article it seems they were crazy to not put out a special edition on disk!

After the tequila shots yesterday, I believe you're correct!

Now that's customer service

In the end, it seems like this was sort of swept under the rug. I used the lastpass https://lastpass.com/heartbleed/ site to assist determining if there was a possible breach on sites I use, and nearly everyone had old certificates. Some of them not real old, but old enough never the less. The popular consensuses was to "wait to hear from these institutions", and guess what? I haven't heard from any of them! So did they determine that they didn't have any possible problems, or just kept their mouth shut to limit the possible exposure any type of revelation might bring?