> > Actually, the driver is not that bad.
> >
> > I recently tested a large amount of games in both floppy and cartridge format, and
> I
> > was pleasantly suprised to see that compatibility is better than I expected. It
> > definitely shows promise. It took many MESS drivers quite a while to get up to
> speed,
> > and look at them now - many of them are just as good, if not better, than dedicated
> > standalone emulators.
>
> I only partially agree to this. Yes, the driver is better than it was years ago, but
> it is still miles away from Vice.
> "tested a large amount of games"... i dont know, i did that too and i am not happy
> with my results. While the games did start, most of them where not stable, or in
> other words, you could play them to a point, where the driver simply did hang and you
> only could reset the machine. Sadly these stuff happens randomly, so you cant report
> a bug with reproducible results.
>
> On the other side, i agree to all points that Mamesick mentioned. What is really sad
> is, that all the hardware boosters for the 1541 doesnt seem to work. SpeedDOS,
> Dolphin Dos etc. none of them is working. Personally i dont think it is good, to
> include all this stuff while it is not working.
> The only advantage i see in MAME and the C-64 emulation, are all available shaders.
> It is a nice eye-candy, that any other standalone C-64 emulator is missing.
well, thank you both for confirming what I thought, considering I was flamed to death by Moogly in the shoutbox as a 'MAME hater' who 'knows nothing about the system' over my original post. It seems other experiences do in fact match the ones I had.
I prefer a policy of honesty, this does not make me a 'MAME hater' or 'shitting all over MAME'
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