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bigtimes:
I've got a wonderful little cocktail cabinet that has no monitor, and a ruined Ms. Pac-Man board. I'd like to drop in one of the several PCs I have laying around and a TV, and make it work again though the magic of MAME.

What would be the best setup?

So far I've been experimenting with AdvanceCD to just boot from the CD rom, but it dosn't support television out, so I picked up a VGA to TV converter, then Ms. Pac-Man was out of the range of the converter, and didn't display properly.

Basically, what I need is one of the following:

1. I can't figure how to set the video modes when I boot from the CD. I'd like it to set the video modes and boot directly into Ms. Pac-Man. I've figured out the advancemame.rc file so it boots vertically, and it's in cocktail mode, but I can't get the video modes to work at all.

OR

2. Some other frontend/boodloading solution that will boot directly to Ms. Pac-Man and work with a television.

Thanks!
bigtimes:
Comon, guys. Nobody has any experience in AdvanceCD?
davieboynj:
advanceCD is probably overkill for what you want to do, and (from what i've seen) tends to have some instabilities with many graphics cards.  If you just want to run that one game, I would dig up dos 6.x and an old version of dos mame 36 or 37 (depending on who you ask), and drop it on:

a) a compact flash card and use a compact flash to ide adapter
b) a usb stick and use a motherboard that can boot from it
c) burn the necessary files to a dos boot cd (nero and most other burning programs have a good mode for this)
bigtimes:
Where would I find these things?
SithMaster:
the compact flash can be found at almost any computer store like best buy.
the adaptor is available on ebay.

i think the ide adaptor is the better choice since it takes up less space and uses less power.  it also loads like a hard drive.
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