MAMEWAH and MESS are not getting along...

[willy3d2k3]

I have a problem getting MESS to work properly from within MAMEWAH.  I am trying to use MESS for Atari 5200/7800, ColecoVision and Atari Lynx emulation.  I've set up individual ini files for each within MAMEWAH in one of two ways: calling MESS directly with entries in the Default Options sections, and calling a batch file with the commandline in it.  The options are as follows:

start /wait c:\Project\emus\mess\mess.exe -cart %1 -nonewgui -skip_gameinfo -skip_disclaimer

If I call MESS from the ini directly, it will not work at all.  If I call the batch file from within the ini, the emulator starts and I can play, but on exit the system hangs, and I have to CTRL-ALT-DELETE, kill MAMEWAH from Task Manager (It Says "Not Responding"), and restart MAMEWAH.

I am running MAMEWAH/MESS on a Win98 2nd Ed. install, and MAMEWAH is not set to shell yet.  I can run the ColecoVision games in MESS from the command line just fine.  Same goes for 5200/7800/Lynx; I'm just using ColecoVision as an example.  MAMEWAH is version 1.5 w/ update, MESS is version 0.87.

Am I missing something?  I would appreciate any help.

[Minwah]

Make sure you don't have show_dos_box set to 'auto' (set to yes or no).

[willy3d2k3]

Thank you, Minwah.  I set show_dos_box in coleco.ini to "no", and it worked like a charm!  I did add a switch to my bat file, so now it reads:

start /m /wait c:\project\emus\mess\mess.exe coleco -cart %1 -skip_gameinfo -skip_disclaimer -nonewui
exit

Now even the one window that command-line MESS opens stays in the background...perfect!  Thank you again for your help.  I must say, MAMEWAH is great, and I look forward to using it on my next cab project (this one is a console box; next one will be my MAME wundercab!)  Can't wait!!!