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dmish82:

I have a P3 933Mhz w/ 256mb ram, a 64mb video card, and a  20gb hard drive. I am very savvy in both dos and windows formats and am about to set up my computer for mame to run in my arcade cab. Do most of you prefer DOS or Windows? It seems like dos could hide the fact that it's a computer better, but what about MAMEWAH? how does that work exactly? i had trouble finding any info on it. What are your thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

brained:

Well, I think it's a thing of taste, but I'll go with windows. You have better FrontEnds and really cools skins!!

8)

LeedsFan:

I wanted to know a bit about this too. I'm not at the stage of getting my cab running yet.... but it's all in my mind.  ;)
I know absolute zero about DOS.  I do like the look of MameWah though and it's something I would like to use.

I hear that booting up is a lot faster in DOS as well. Is there an idiots guide to setting up MameWah? And I mean... for total idiots.... (Like me  ::))   A lot of the stuff I read seems to assume some knowledge of DOS in advance.

Buddabing:


--- Quote from: dmish82 on October 05, 2004, 01:07:05 pm ---I have a P3 933Mhz w/ 256mb ram, a 64mb video card, and a  20gb hard drive. I am very savvy in both dos and windows formats and am about to set up my computer for mame to run in my arcade cab. Do most of you prefer DOS or Windows? It seems like dos could hide the fact that it's a computer better, but what about MAMEWAH? how does that work exactly? i had trouble finding any info on it. What are your thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

--- End quote ---

I prefer DOS, but I have Windows XP installed on my cab.

DOS boots up faster and can run on an older machine. Finding DOS drivers for built-in sound on most motherboards is impossible. Getting sound to work in MAME is a big pain.

Most of the fancier frontends are Windows-only, but Kymaera and GameLauncher have DOS versions.

You can attempt to hide Windows with MAMEWah or other front ends.

A computer with your specs should run Windows XP with no problems. If you run the Pentium Pro-optimized version of MAME (mamepp.exe), you'll be fine.

Regards,
Buddabing

dmish82:

Oh, forgot to mention that I currently have Windows XP Pro installed on the machine.

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