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Minimize Boot time - what is best OS to use?
nipsmg:
Yeah, unfortuantely I know XP is expensive, but it's insanely fast on boot times, especially if you turn off any unneeded services and system tray programs at boot. Dos is fast, but .. if you run DOS, you're stuck with.. well.. DOS!! which sucks. :-/
You could always run 95osr2 which is still heavily Dos7.0 based and just don't boot into windows.. That way if you need to update your system / update emulators / etc it's easily doable from the cabinet.
--NipsMG
rchadd:
just got my new value motherboard (Syntax SV266A) it has VT8235 southbridge chipset for on-board audio. But it looks like there are no DOS sound drivers from this chipset.
so its beginning to look like i'll have to go to windows direction. playing games without sound sucks!
so maybe i'll have to "obtain" XP ;)
Lilwolf:
XP added a bunch of boot speed optimizations. VERY cool stuff. Caching configuration and other stuff...
But this was a HUGE feature because windows users have been required to get used to rebooting their OS often ;D
I would like to see the ability to remove auto-detect hardware, and a few other features you don't really use on day to day..
but my trouble.. my work machine has XP... my arcade machine has 98se... and am NOT going to spend 100+ bucks to have a faster boot disk. And XP hacking isn't something I want to deal....
So I am hoping to optimize the 98 boot time at some point.. but not my #1 consern right now... but if someone had a good site for optimizations I would LOVE to see it.
Serpent:
Use Windows 2000. It's perfect for MAME. Maybe it doesn't boot faster than XP but its as fast once it's loaded and needs less RAM. It's not true that it's not good for gaming.
Edgedamage:
I use win2kpro on all my machines. It's not the fastest loading but once loaded there is not one game or emu that it can't play.