AdvanceMAME is a unofficial MAME DOS version with an
advanced video support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors
and now also for PC Monitors.

WARNING! TO PREVENT HARDWARE DAMAGE IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU
CORRECTLY CONFIGURE YOUR MONITOR FREQUENCIES WITH THE CORRECT HCLOCK
AND VCLOCK OPTIONS IN THE FILE MAME.CFG. SEE THE FILE INSTALL.TXT FOR 
OTHER INFORMATIONS.

The main difference compared with the official MAME is that no assumptions
of available video modes is done. Instead the visualization system tries
to get the better possible from the existing video modes.

Others improvements are :

) Possibility for the user to create new video modes with any size, bit
depth and clocks.

) A lot of video boards supported for direct hardware registers programming.
(see the card.txt file)

) Automatic creation of `perfect' video modes with the correct 
size and frame rate.

) Software video image stretching by fractional factors, for example to
play vertical games like PacMan with horizontal Arcade Monitors or TVs.

) Special `blit' effects to improve the image quality in stretching.

) Special `rgb' effects to simulate the aspect of a real Arcade Monitor.

) Special `scale2x' effects to improve the aspect with modern PC Monitors.

) Rotation supported also at blit level to play games that don't rotate
correctly.

) Change of the video mode and other options at runtime.

) Automatic exit after some time of inactivity.

) Various utilities to help the configuration process and the use with
Arcade Cabinets.


FILES
	mame.exe	Emulator
	cfg.exe		Video automatic configuration utility
	mv.exe		Video manual configuration utility
	mm.exe		FrontEnd (distributed in the ammm package)
	mk.exe		Keys shower
	vga.exe		VGA modes remapper (distributed in the amcab package)
	vbe.com		VBE modes remapper (distributed in the amcab package)
	off.com		Shutdown the PC (distributed in the amcab package)
	portio.exe	Drive the parallel port (distributed in the amcab package)
	load.exe	Load PCX image (distributed in the amcab package)
	contrib/	A lot of contributions
	readme.txt	This file
	install.txt	Quick install info
	build.txt	How to compile from sources
	authors.txt	Authors
	history.txt	History
	mame.txt	Documentation of the `mame' program and the
			`[config]' options in `mame.cfg'
	mv.txt		Documentation of the `mv' utility and the
			`[video]' options in `mame.cfg'
	mm.txt		Documentation of the `mm' utility
	mk.txt		Documentation of the `mk' utility
	vga.txt		Documentation of the `vga' utility
	vbe.txt		Documentation of the `vbe' utility
	off.txt		Documentation of the `off' utility
	portio.txt	Documentation of the `portio' utility
	load.txt	Documentation of the `load' utility
	script.txt	Documentation of the `mame' scripts
