Author Topic: Anyone ever done a diskless cab? (Read 4294 times)

paigeoliver · « **on:** November 04, 2003, 07:20:16 am »

I have a ROM boot card with ROMDOS installed left over from my Tournament Solitaire. I imagine with some new ROMS on it that I could do a totally diskless cab.

Has anyone done anything like this?

Minwah · « **Reply #1 on:** November 04, 2003, 09:08:27 am »

Not sure, but I saw a link at Brandorf's Cocktail Cab (link on main page) for a CompactFlash > IDE adaptor, which could also be used for a disk-less cab.

TheGatesofBill · « **Reply #2 on:** November 04, 2003, 09:42:58 am »

Quick link: http://adis.ca/store/cfdisk.php

ErikRuud · « **Reply #3 on:** November 04, 2003, 12:07:25 pm »

It appears that the answer is Yes.

http://www.yvan256.net/projects/mamecade/

Dave_K. · « **Reply #4 on:** November 04, 2003, 12:50:39 pm »

I recently burned a copy of KnoppixMame (self boot linux CD) with some roms on it, for a diskless system. Works great if you have enough RAM. SirP also mentioned another linux self boot system that uses advancemame.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #5 on:** November 04, 2003, 02:00:58 pm »

the "D" in CD stands for "Disk" so it's not diskless.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #6 on:** November 04, 2003, 02:40:22 pm »

Quote from: papaschtroumpf on November 04, 2003, 02:00:58 pm

the "D" in CD stands for "Disk" so it's not diskless.

Actually it stands for Disc

Minwah · « **Reply #7 on:** November 04, 2003, 02:52:22 pm »

Quote

Actually it stands for Disc

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Doesn't that depend where you're from?

SirPoonga · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2003, 03:39:46 pm »

Quote from: Minwah on November 04, 2003, 02:52:22 pm

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Actually it stands for Disc
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Doesn't that depend where you're from?

No, the D in the official CD Audio logo stands for Disc. Disc usually refers to optical storage as disk usually refers to magnetic.

Edit: I found a resource for you. The logo that is on a CD you can tell what type of CD it is.
http://www.gnscd.com/cdlogo.htm

I know I was joking, you probably were too, but this lead into showing this information.

jakejake28 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 04, 2003, 04:44:11 pm »

Quote from: Dave_K. on November 04, 2003, 12:50:39 pm

I recently burned a copy of KnoppixMame (self boot linux CD) with some roms on it, for a diskless system. Works great if you have enough RAM. SirP also mentioned another linux self boot system that uses advancemame.

I believe he means CDiskless, not HDisklessDrive

Ren Hoek · « **Reply #10 on:** November 05, 2003, 05:45:12 am »

Compact Disc : CD

Diskette : Disk

ErikRuud · « **Reply #11 on:** November 05, 2003, 09:11:03 am »

When people say "diskless" (or "Discless"

) they usually mean that there are no actual disc drives at all. No Floppy, Hard, CD, or DVD.

No drives with moving parts.

The example I posted above, is truly diskless.

The advantages are speed, and no moving parts to wear out.

papaschtroumpf · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2003, 04:21:50 pm »

That's what I was pointing out, tongue-in-cheek.
As usual however SirPoonga is right and I should have used "Disc"

Dave_K. · « **Reply #13 on:** November 05, 2003, 06:32:21 pm »

Ok, well sorry, I thought diskless ment no HD. But, the point being you could probably load the Knoppix image on a rom card and boot from it (giving your bios allows it).

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #14 on:** November 05, 2003, 08:34:30 pm »

Is it "Diskless" or "Dickless". You decide!

Quote from: ErikRuud on November 05, 2003, 09:11:03 am

When people say "dickless" (or "Discless" ) they usually mean that there are no actual sex drives at all. No Floppy, Hard, CD, or DVD.

No sex drives with moving parts.

The example I posted above, is truly dickless.

The advantages are speed, and no moving parts to wear out.

haha!

ErikRuud · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2003, 08:39:41 pm »

Magnet_Eye,

I did not say that!

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #16 on:** November 05, 2003, 09:41:02 pm »

LMAO!

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #17 on:** November 05, 2003, 10:40:38 pm »

I only have a 60 gb hard drive in my cab. No floppy or CD-ROM. I update it by connecting it to my main computer, using a 2-way uplink cat 5 cable.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #18 on:** November 06, 2003, 12:35:48 am »

Here, to alleviate all confusion, when I said "diskless" I meant.

No hard drive.
No CDROM drive.
No floppy disk drive.
Nothing that could be remotely considered a disk or disc.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #19 on:** November 06, 2003, 12:41:23 am »

So storage would be a flash drive?

paigeoliver · « **Reply #20 on:** November 06, 2003, 12:44:07 am »

No, storage would be the ROM card. Just like a REAL arcade game.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #21 on:** November 06, 2003, 12:47:24 am »

How much space are we talking about?

paigeoliver · « **Reply #22 on:** November 06, 2003, 12:52:23 am »

Not sure how much the card can hold, it is circa 1994, so I am assuming it can probably hold 16 MB or so.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #23 on:** November 06, 2003, 02:42:30 am »

Well, not sure how you'd use ROMDOS (??) but if I was to go diskless I'd go for a 512meg flash card.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #24 on:** November 06, 2003, 03:03:00 am »

Quote from: SirPoonga on November 06, 2003, 02:42:30 am

Well, not sure how you'd use ROMDOS (??) but if I was to go diskless I'd go for a 512meg flash card.

Rosdos is just a DOS version designed to run off ROM cards. Actually a little more up to date than MSDOS if I remember correctly. Mame should run on it just fine, anything that works on MSDOS is supposed to work on Romdos as well.

Anyway, only reason I am even talking about this is because I have that rom boot card laying around.


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