Author Topic: Bally Gamemaker Board Upgrade (Read 2487 times)

keystone9 · « **on:** July 24, 2024, 11:56:57 AM »

I have a Gamemaker HD with a 512 mb board that is so slow. It takes forever to load after a clear. What I am wondering is there a way to upgrade this board to make it quicker? Thanks

keystone9 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 25, 2024, 05:48:28 AM »

Can anybody chime in?

shortrackskater · « **Reply #2 on:** July 25, 2024, 09:09:52 AM »

I PM'd the moderator. Hopefully he'll chime in soon. Sadly we don't get too many posts on the GM anymore. I love these machines. Unfortunately my issues were all quite easy so I'm of no help to you here.
But hang on!!!

keystone9 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 25, 2024, 09:11:49 AM »

Will do. Thanks

Chris-socal · « **Reply #4 on:** July 25, 2024, 01:48:33 PM »

Is a Gamemaker HD post V7000?

Tacman · « **Reply #5 on:** July 25, 2024, 06:09:24 PM »

I believe the Gamemaker HD is a later series after the 7000-7200 eprom based MPU. I think they might be in the 9000 or Alpha series machines but I am not 100% sure about where they fit in the Bally releases. Are you using CF cards or flash drives for your clear and game/OS install?

Dan (Tacman)

keystone9 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2024, 05:52:09 AM »

CF cards.

keystone9 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 26, 2024, 09:05:05 AM »

Photo of the game.

qbert · « **Reply #8 on:** July 26, 2024, 10:17:15 AM »

My gamemaker is like yours, it is based on the alpha 9000 series. I'm using a 1ghz and it does take about 15 minutes to boot. If you load less games the boot is slightly faster. I have tried more memory, nothing seems to help the long boot time.

keystone9 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 26, 2024, 11:38:43 AM »

Thanks for your reply qbert. Slowly I'm getting to know this game. I posted an error that pops up all the time when turning on the machine. If I restart a couple of times like the screen says it will eventually start and I can play some games. Doe's anybody think that is a board or OS card problem. Thanks so much. Bill

The text says Machine Fault "Memory integrity check: failure for user process at addr: 556756992, flags: 80010068, digest:0" Pretty hard to read that small print.

Tilt · « **Reply #10 on:** July 27, 2024, 03:18:08 PM »

Do you have a 400MHz or a 1GHz MPU? A 1GHz would be quite a bit faster than 400MHz.

qbert · « **Reply #11 on:** July 27, 2024, 03:27:58 PM »

Hi Tilt,
Mine is a 1ghz and it is still woefully slow on boot.

Tilt · « **Reply #12 on:** July 27, 2024, 03:33:27 PM »

I had a 1Ghz processor with 1GB of memory. I don't recall it being that slow, but maybe it was, it's been 3 - 4 years. Gamemaker software may not even run on a 400Mhz processor? I never tried it.

keystone9 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 23, 2024, 05:52:05 AM »

How can I cure this memory fault?

qbert · « **Reply #14 on:** August 23, 2024, 01:16:37 PM »

Have you tried reseating the memory sticks?

keystone9 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 24, 2024, 05:45:36 AM »

And where are they located? Thanks

qbert · « **Reply #16 on:** August 24, 2024, 06:45:34 AM »

The 512mhz might not have removable memory.
Here is where they are on 1ghz board.

keystone9 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 24, 2024, 06:47:30 AM »

Thanks. I'll take a look.

keystone9 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 06, 2024, 12:40:00 PM »

I finally got this problem solved. I wound up replacing the 412 board with a 1ghz board with more memory and that took care of my problem. I just needed more memory. Runs like a charm now. Thanks

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