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Re: Asteroid Deluxe, the most demanding non-3d game on mame?
11/19/18 12:45 AM
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> I can confirm that on my little MAME PC ( Intel Atom x5-Z8350 Processor 2GB DDR3 - > hardly a power house) runs Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe at 100% under MAMEUI64 with > no frame skip. Interestingly, Kid Niki runs at 50%. However, games like Dangon > Feveron and Cotton (probably far more demanding than KN) run 100% so maybe this is an > issue with the KN driver.
Kid Niki (as well as the entire m62.cpp machine list) has a section of digitized elements using discrete components. The percussion/drum samples to take up a lot of CPU cycles in the current netlist framework. In the end, while other machines may seem more demanding, this one is for the reasons specified.
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