> > Should be easy enough to find. > > > > http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html > > > > Snag the older versions and see which one it happened in. If you pull out a 136 and > > it runs fast. Then do the same with a newer version and it runs slow it is not your > > computer. If you pull out a 136 and it runs slow something changed on your > > computer... Either way you can find out which version it happened in. > > > > That should break the problem away from 'is it my computer or mame itself'. Which > > should help everyone diagnose what is going on. > > Agreed. And if there's a version that's fast versus one that's slow, we can help > break it into individual U-releases.
OK it's definitely something between 0.136 and 0.137. I downloaded both versions and extracted into new directories and 0.137 consistently tops out at 75% and 0.136 goes around 800%. I can go back and forth between versions with the same results. Any idea how to break this down into u releases?
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E:\m136>mame spectar Average speed: 734.62% (44 seconds)
E:\m136>cd ..\m137
E:\m137>mame spectar Average speed: 75.37% (10 seconds)
E:\m137>cd ..\m136
E:\m136>mame spectar Average speed: 819.94% (46 seconds)