[shrek]

I'm using a MacBook, the mouse was glitchy in windowed mode. Now I'm typing blind on a tiny terminal with a keyboard that drops keystrokes. I ought to import .Xdefaults on an ISO with font size, but I don't have a working Irix box to play with. Tried setmon and xfontsel without luck. Benchmarks can wait till I can actually type something.

The keystrokes aren't recognized because the emulation is slow. The only way around this sadly is to buy a faster host machine or type very slowly. What's the resolution on your MacBook? If it's pre-retina like mine then the text issue is probably due to the window being smashed down to fit on the screen. You can expand the window so that text is visible but part of it will be off-screen. I highly recommend taking a trip to the thrift store to see if they have cheap 1280x1024 monitors. I pick them up as needed for $5 a piece where I live and can confirm that MAME works perfectly on them in full screen mode

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I tried the 6.2 image that was uploaded to this forum by another user (and not the 'official' images for/with MAME 0.223), and had the same experience: slow emulation, and 'missed/dropped' keystrokes. If I recall correctly these dropped keystrokes improved when I used a telnet client (I use 'Putty') to telnet in to the emulated guest, instead of typing in the emulated X Window xterm. Of course, you need to setup MAME networking in order to do that. I can point you to resources that describe how to do that for MS-Windows, but I have no idea how to do that (or if you can do it at all) for a Mac.

See the post above for the dropped keystroke thing. But it would be awesome if you sent Raion info on networking setup for the wiki.