> I've tried a number of different versions of MAME and I've also tried different ROM's > for Tempest and no matter what I try the game always stops after I start playing the > red sets. I might be able able to play four or five screens into it but eventually > the current game I am playing stops and it goes back to the start screen for Tempest. > My OS is Windows 7-64. I've tried a 64 bit version of MAME as well as MAME32 with the > same results. Any ideas for why this is happening?
What version of MAME are you playing? That was an issue many years ago with the game's copy protection but it should be correct in current 0.149u1.