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Boot CD installs DOS, Vantage, Raine, MAME (1 of 7 versions) and Game Launcher
spystyle:
Hi Mamezilla,
Sorry it didn't work for you. It sounds like that computer simply won't work with my disk.
You could try putting in a different video card if one is available. That would rule out video card incompatibility.
You could try Fraggle's disk and see if it gives you the same error.
You could put an optimized Win98se on that rig, I'd also bump the RAM up to 512 (these days that is a $5 endeavor) , and I would install MAME 36 set on it.
This would give you the option of MAME32 or GameLauncher for a GUI. Not to mention MALA, though I am not sure it would work well on 500mhz... But it's worth a try.
Feel free to PM me if you need the tutorial for Win98se that uses only 15 MB RAM, or any of the said software. Also there is a single file you need if using MALA with an old version of MAME, mention that in the PM if you need it.
Cheers,
Craig
Mamezilla:
Well, looks like it was a video incompatibility with my ATI mach 64 PCI card. The darn thing wouldn't work with or without the SSD driver. I popped in an ATI radeon 7500 AGP card that I wanted to keep for another project and it worked. However, SSD doen't want anything to do with it, it says that no VGA card was found. I'll see how it works when I'm finished copying the other needed files. I must say I'm currently using a 27 inch TV with an S-Video input as a monitor for testing.
I'll keep trying to get the Mach 64 working with it. Tried looking for some DOS drivers but no luck for now.
Also Craig, you will have a PM from me about the Win98 tutorial and something else.
Thanks !
tikbalang:
check this part of glaunch.cfg:
--- Code: ---# 0: Double Buffering
# 1: Page Flipping
animation_method = 0
--- End code ---
in my case, it's the soundcard detection method that crashes glaunch. is there away to disable sound in glaunch at all?
how do you enable tv-out in dos?
Mamezilla:
--- Quote from: tikbalang on April 18, 2008, 11:05:42 am ---check this part of glaunch.cfg:
--- Code: ---# 0: Double Buffering
# 1: Page Flipping
animation_method = 0
--- End code ---
in my case, it's the soundcard detection method that crashes glaunch. is there away to disable sound in glaunch at all?
how do you enable tv-out in dos?
--- End quote ---
I didn't have to do anything to enable TV out in DOS with the ATI radeon 7500, it just worked. Also, everything except one game that makes GameLauncher crash ( i don't remember which one) seems to work fine.
I my case, I also has problem with the detection of the soundblaster 16 ISA PnP card. the diagnose app kept saying that the "set blaster" variable in autoexec.bat was invalid. I was able to correct it by adding the following line in autoexec.bat:
C:\SB16\ctcm.exe
just before the C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S line. In that case, ctcm.exe detects the SB PnP card and sets automatically the blaster variable. After, the diagnose /s checks it and sees what ctcm.exe did, so the sound card works perfectly after that. Maybe you could try this. ctcm.exe is provided in by Spystyle's boot disk, it's in the sb16 directory.
tikbalang:
--- Quote ---I didn't have to do anything to enable TV out in DOS with the ATI radeon 7500, it just worked. Also, everything except one game that makes GameLauncher crash ( i don't remember which one) seems to work fine.
--- End quote ---
wow, you are lucky. you should try advancemame with your tv-out vidcard.
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