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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: megashock5 on April 21, 2004, 09:15:57 am ---Yikes! Looking at those DOS links makes my head hurt. Do I need to know that stuff to do this with a PC - or can I just get by with my limited windows knowledge? I keep seeing references to MAME32, how is this different from the regular MAME?

I'm sure I'd be more in my element to use Mac, but I think it will be harder to find an old cheap one. I'm probably going to focus on 80's stuff, so I shouldn't need anything super powerful.

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Well, depends on how limited your windows knowledge is.

Unfortunately, I've never used MacMAME, and I was using PC's when DOS was all that existed, Windows hadn't been invented yet, so it doesn't seem that complicated to me.

Best way I can explain it - you can run DOS or commandline windows with

C:\mame\mame.exe -gamename

but . . .

You probably will want to tweak stuff like hardware stretch, etc., so you might end up playing with the command line options.

http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/mamechoice.htm has a snapshot of MAME32, but you can get the same effect and ease of use with command-line MAME and a frontend like www.mameworld.net/emuloader or with MAMEWAH if you want a less Windows flavor.
megashock5:
the MAME32 shot looks far less scary. When I use MacMAME, I just launch the application and then it asks me to choose a rom. Is that pretty much how this works? I've seen people talk about ArcadeOS as a front end - if I understand right, when you boot up the machine it automatically asks you to choose a game. Is that correct, or did I misinterpret the screenshot I saw?

Also, as someone asked previously, I'm not looking for this to do anything beyond game emulation. I don't plan on using it for any computing needs other than that.
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: megashock5 on April 21, 2004, 09:46:40 am ---the MAME32 shot looks far less scary. When I use MacMAME, I just launch the application and then it asks me to choose a rom. Is that pretty much how this works?

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Pretty much.  But Emuloader with commandline MAME does about the same thing.  You could always start with MAME32 and switch to something else later if you wanted to.

--- Quote --- I've seen people talk about ArcadeOS as a front end - if I understand right, when you boot up the machine it automatically asks you to choose a game. Is that correct, or did I misinterpret the screenshot I saw?

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I haven't used AOS, but from what I understand, that's correct
once you get it set up.  I think there's a lot of configuration with it to get it that way, and you're running in DOS, which a lot of PC hardware no longer supports (flames starting . . . ducking for cover).

You can basically do the same thing in Windoze by putting a shortcut to MAME32 or your frontend in your StartUp folder.  Ask if that didn't make sense to you.

--- Quote ---Also, as someone asked previously, I'm not looking for this to do anything beyond game emulation. I don't plan on using it for any computing needs other than that.

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Won't need much of a maching for 80's games then . . .  I had a Pentium 200 that ran most of them.  If you're buying, though, you probably can get something better than that for very little.
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