Ever hear of Arcade machine on a disk?

[Edgedamage]

Looks cool I can't post the link. Due to my employment with namco.

[Harakiri]

Please explain that? Like arcade games in a disc? Sounds familliar!  

[orntar]

you mean this
http://www.classicgaming.com/amoad/
i don't know much about it tho.

[Harakiri]

Ohh!

I think i got it! One disk arcade games! Hum, IMHO i think that's gonna be a minority in the emulation scene because there's already mame that does the job quite well with 1 CD or 1 DVD! I think that mame leaves no "files" in the PC but i'm kinda noob to talk about that in a detailed way! You just have to config the default settings before burning into the disk.

BTW: I have metalslug 5 with a exe file that runs the game with no problems it's a one click only game!  

[SirPeale]

AMOAD is an old, but good project.  IIRC it uses MAME .28 as it's base.  They stripped all the other drivers out to make it as small as possible.  Each emulator supports exactly one game

[menace]

You can fit an entire vantage program as well as arcadeos FE (with roms and snaps and samples) onto one cd easily--just need to come up with batch programs to run them--maybe its not doable but it seems like it should work...

[SirPeale]

One CD, sure, that's easy.  Heck, up until v. 70 or so you could fit 90% of the ROMs (mostly the clones, not some acutal games that could be played) on one CD with exe and other stuff.

[Tiger-Heli]

One CD, sure, that's easy.  Heck, up until v. 70 or so you could fit 90% of the ROMs (mostly the clones, not some acutal games that could be played) on one CD with exe and other stuff.

Like Peale said, AMOAD is about being able to play the game off a single FLOPPY drive.

Of course now that many new computers don't even HAVE floppies . . .

[Edgedamage]

My motherboard supports boot from USB I will try to see if it works with my flash disk.

[Sephroth57]

One CD, sure, that's easy.  Heck, up until v. 70 or so you could fit 90% of the ROMs (mostly the clones, not some acutal games that could be played) on one CD with exe and other stuff.

Like Peale said, AMOAD is about being able to play the game off a single FLOPPY drive.

Of course now that many new computers don't even HAVE floppies . . .

I homebuilt both of my PCs, i included a floppy on neither of them =P  i see them as useless really, only thing you would need it for is if your computer died or something and u needed a boot disc but you can boot from CDroms now so... yeah. I got a portable usb2 flash stick with 256MB of space for small files and CDRWs and burners on both for big files. floppys are going out, just like those old giant floppys did hehe

[Ken Layton]

Sega SUPER MASTERS GOLF was a game that was on a single 3.5" floppy inside the game cabinet. The floppy drive sat underneath the game board. The manual recommended removing the disc from the drive when you move the game from location-to-location. This game used a 19" medium res monitor.