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[stanmarsh14]

OK, got a temp location to get the new amber installer (Not upgrade / patch, so remember this!).

http://www.butters69...taller10853.zip

[Mavroz]

Fevernova Have you extracted the roms?.

And amber will need a pc with graphics card or decent onboard or on cpu.

 

This is my spec i believe....

 

Memory: 8GB 

Hard drive: 2TB 

Intel® Core™ i5-2320 Processor 

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64 bit 

Optical disk drive DVD-RW, Read speed: 16x DVD, 48x CDR, 24x RW, Write speed: 24x DVD -/+R, 8x DL-/+R, 8x +RW, 6x -RW, 12x -RAM 

USB 8 

RAM 8GB (4GB + 4GB) DDR3, 1333MHz 

Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit 

Hard drive 2TB, 7200RPM, SATA 

Graphics card AMD HD6670 

Processor Intel® Core™ i5-2320 (3.00 GHz, 6MB cache memory) 

Modem/Ethernet 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet 

WiFi Ralink 802.11 bgn USB Dongle 

Audio interface 3.5mm connection 

TV output 1x DVI, 1x VGA and 1x HDMI 

Keyboard & Mouse Wireless Multimedia Keyboard, Wireless Mouse 

Expansion card slot 1x PCIe x16, 1x PCIe x1 

Sound 5.1 channel

[vectra666]

thanks guitar and stanmarsh for the update all works fine offline

[richy1976]

should be well good enough fevernova

[vectra666]

@fevernova

when I download the pac.files/roms  I always put em on desktop first then copy paste layout file (pac.file) to amber  libraries/layout then I extract or unzip roms to desktop and move them to roms within libraries, then put the zipped up file and pac,file in a back up file. not sure if this is how you do it but it works for me

[Mavroz]

Yeah, i just unzip straight to the folder.

 

I have managed to get a couple of them "running" as such, but as i say the likes of coro seem to freeze as soon as anything appears on the alpha....

 

Tried again with the new installer/version...

 

Clicking the game, i get a white screen in amber for about 40 seconds, then the artwork appears.

 

Coronation St 2.1 appears on the alpha , then just seems to hang forever and a day...

 

None of the top tabs do anything when clicking and Amber becomes un-draggable across the screen.

 

Is there a specific folder Amber should be run from and / or are there any accompanying files i need other than what come with the installer?

 

Sorry & thanks, by the way it looks very good..

Edited by fevernova, 21 December 2013 - 11:02 AM.

[duplu]

Attachment deleted as it didn't upload to the server properly.

 

Can you re-post it please guitar.

[Guitar]

 

 

This is my spec i believe....

 

Memory: 8GB 

Hard drive: 2TB 

Intel® Core™ i5-2320 Processor 

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64 bit 

Optical disk drive DVD-RW, Read speed: 16x DVD, 48x CDR, 24x RW, Write speed: 24x DVD -/+R, 8x DL-/+R, 8x +RW, 6x -RW, 12x -RAM 

USB 8 

RAM 8GB (4GB + 4GB) DDR3, 1333MHz 

Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit 

Hard drive 2TB, 7200RPM, SATA 

Graphics card AMD HD6670 

Processor Intel® Core™ i5-2320 (3.00 GHz, 6MB cache memory) 

Modem/Ethernet 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet 

WiFi Ralink 802.11 bgn USB Dongle 

Audio interface 3.5mm connection 

TV output 1x DVI, 1x VGA and 1x HDMI 

Keyboard & Mouse Wireless Multimedia Keyboard, Wireless Mouse 

Expansion card slot 1x PCIe x16, 1x PCIe x1 

Sound 5.1 channel

 

 

Your PC spec is well above the minimum requirement, it should be running amber easily.

 

The white screen is what you normally see during loading if there is no loading screen in the layout.

 

The symptoms you describe tell me the emu is stopping running after loading the game. Why, I don't know.]

 

Did you use the latest installer from Stanmarsh's website? Should be v10853

[Mavroz]

Hey Guitar,

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

Yes, i am using the newest installer 10853, can you tell me if it is uninstallable as i will remove it and re-install as the previous version i ran was about 2 years old...

 

When a layout loads, Coro or Big Breakfast for example, the machine starts to boot on the Alpha, but just grinds to a halt. On clicking, the circling ring appears (mouse pointer) and a box appears asking me if i want to end program or wait etc etc. If i wait, eventually i can click the dropdown tabs on the top of the emu, but again, once i click the emu screen it just hangs and never go's any further....

 

Do i need any extra codecs or downloads do you think?

 

Thx.

[Mavroz]

Looks like i may have had a bit of success....

 

I have deleted every instance of Amber from my machine and re-installed.

 

I have to install, then a box pops up tellling me Amber may not have installed correctly , do i wish to try again with the automatic settings for this version of windows.

 

On doing this, i get a good install in the "C" directory, and the box pops up asking me if i want a shortcut etc etc.

 

Norton did not like Sonar, so quarantined it. I have over-ridden Norton and allowed the installation.

 

Big Breakfast now boots up at a perfectly good speed....

 

Hope this may help anyone else with similar issues.

[Guitar]

There will be another exe update tonight or tomorrow. In the mean time, server is now up and unless anything untoward happens should be up until Sunday night.

[Mavroz]

Thanks Guitar, a massive achievement and improvement since i last ran Amber.

 

Some excellent work there, can only guess at the time and effort that has gone into it.

 

One constructive early criticism for me, i am sure it may have already been mentioned and i am not sure it is a designer issue, but the areas that are not lamped (and some layouts) are very dark and near impossible to see..

 

Any brightness controls in the future?

[Guitar]

Any brightness controls in the future?

 

Already in there. Use + and - keys to increase/decrease brightness.

 

Press F1 in game to see a list of shortcuts.

Is there anything that can be done to speed up the layout scanning and loading process, they're both painfully slow?

 

If I had as many Amber layouts as I do MFME it would take hours for the program to start.

 

Will see what I can do.

[Mavroz]

Smashing , thank you.

[Guitar]

Have sent out some more logins. Anyone else need one, pm me.

 

There will be an exe update later.

 

I have found and fixed a fair few bugs in the AY8910 code. This has improved Cops n Robbers sound, and stopped the extra white noise on Smash n Grab.

A few updated layouts will be released to account for new meter settings. Mostly older MPU4.

Cops n Robbers (sys83) will get a re release to account for new reel settings after a reel driver update.

I will also take a look at loading times and see what I can do, at the same time I will try and improve memory usage a bit.

 

I will get the exe and layouts out asap, but probably not til 9 ish.

 

Server is up and ready, if you can give it a hammering this weekend to flush out all the bugs then I should be able to do a stable release soon.

[niallquinn]

Slurpp. Great stuff.

 

 

NQ.

[Rodneypcat]

Hi Guitar

 

When I try go online, I'm getting attempting to connect and it's just sitting there.

 

Am I doing something wrong?

 

Cheers

 

Rodney

[Guitar]

Project Amber 10854

 

I have changed the text renderer to improve speed with the chat window open.

AY Chip updates

and a few other bits n bobs fixed/updated.

 

Server will be up all weekend although it will go down at some point for an update. I am updating the layouts to allow me to fix layouts from the server end if you get issues.

Attached Files

•  PAInstaller10854.zip   23.87MB   33 downloads

[vectra666]

Thanks again just wish my internet wouldn't keep cutting me off. Is there any way you could put a red cross or something that closes it straight away because if my internet dies I can't close it the way you've did it so have to restart computer to start again needs a abort button or something

Edited by vectra666, 22 December 2013 - 08:24 AM.