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bigmessowires

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SE/30 video ROM?
Posted: May 16, 2016 6:33 PM

Are there multiple different versions of the SE/30's video ROM? I'm trying to get SE/30 emulation working with MESS, and encountering weird video problems.

MESS is looking for an 8KB file named se30vrom.uk6. I found the file, and MESS boots with it without complaint, but the video is screwed up. It looks like it's putting out a 476 x 342 image instead of 512 x 342. Everything looks squished horizontally, with scaling artifacts visible in the 50% gray desktop background.

There's a different SE/30 video rom on bbraun's web site: http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/roms/ But this one is 32K and makes MESS complain about a bad rom checksum. If I ignore the error and run it anyway, MESS only shows a blank screen.

Arbee

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Registered: 11/29/12

Re: SE/30 video ROM?
Posted: May 24, 2016 9:15 AM

in response to: bigmessowires

If it's not complaining, the ROM is almost certainly correct. It's very hard to forge both the CRC32 and SHA1 at the same time, and we check both.

What version of MESS are you running? SE/30 runs fine for me from Github top-of-tree, so it should be OK in MAME 0.173 as well (MESS was folded into MAME about a year ago).

bigmessowires

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Re: SE/30 video ROM?
Posted: May 31, 2016 6:33 PM

in response to: Arbee

I'm running MESS 0.172, compiled from the source code, and running on Windows 7. If I do:

mess64.exe -skip_gameinfo -window -resolution 512x384 macse30

then I get a weirdly sized and stretched window. I found a work-around by doing:

mess64.exe -skip_gameinfo -window -resolution 512x384 -unevenstretchx macse30

which results in some letter-boxing of the Mac's video content within the window, but the content itself appears sized and scaled correctly.

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Arbee

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Re: SE/30 video ROM?
Posted: Jun 3, 2016 9:27 AM

in response to: bigmessowires

Oh.

1) -resolution is broken in 0.172/0.173/0.174. It's fixed in current Github.
2) -window -nomaximize will give a 512x384 content-area window. We know what resolution the Mac is outputting, you don't need to tell us

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bigmessowires

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Registered: 10/29/13

Re: SE/30 video ROM?
Posted: Jun 3, 2016 7:03 PM

in response to: Arbee

Awesome, thanks. I didn't know about the -nomaximize option.

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