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Card reader for dedicated Mame?
Wade:
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CF-BOOTER-N&cat=CAM
I have a Mame cocktail with a minimal setup, about 12 games. It has a small hard drive in it.
I saw this for $30 was was thinking I could put an old 8 or 16M smartmedia card to use, and run the cocktail diskless. For doing updates or adding games, I could just pull the card out and stick it in my desktop machine. The description says the card will be bootable just like a hard drive.
Has anyone used one of these? I think I am going to buy one just to see how it works. If it doesn't work for this purpose, I will use it on my desktop machine, which really needs it's own card reader anyway, instead of the USB reader I keep lugging around.
Opinions?
Wade
Wade:
Just saw that it can only boot on the CF card it appears. Still, smaller CF cards can be picked up for $10 or so.
Wade
dag2000:
WORKING LINK
dabone:
I had my vertical cab running on a cf to ide adapter. It worked fine for about a week then it lost all the info on the card.
It didn't damage the card, but I had to redo everything.
Not sure what caused it, but I'd be leary of installing one for reliablilty reasons.
Later,
dabone
pointdablame:
Not sure what could have caused you to lose all your data, but depending on your setup, you could get everything up and running and simply drop a back up of the CF card onto a CD. If the card ever loses the data, it'll only take a minute or two to get up and running, no?