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Boot CD installs DOS, Vantage, Raine, MAME (1 of 7 versions) and Game Launcher
spystyle:
Good job! DOS guru in the making :)
If you are worried your autoexec.bat will be overwritten you can back it up first.
To backup your autoexec.bat do this:
C:>copy autoexec.bat autoexec.bak
This will make a backup called autoexec.bak
Later you can edit the two and add/remove lines
C:>edit autoexec.bat
C:>edit autoexec.bak
Cheers,
Craig
stuzza:
thanks for the extra info. I've now got a games list of 533 classic only games which are running a treat on the old P2 333 with a 4GB hard drive! Works so well I've gotton an identical P2 machine up and running aswell - just ghosted the first hard drive over and voila second machine up in under 10min!!
So last but not least, how do I get a mame 0.55 version with the OK and warning screens gone? (preferably without having to compile it myself)
IG-88:
--- Quote from: stuzza on November 06, 2006, 11:02:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: IG-88 on November 06, 2006, 06:04:19 pm ---Care to elaborate on how exactly you did that? (the drivers setup program) I need some help in this area also! ;D
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In the SB16 folder there is a progam called "diagnose.exe". I ran that and it goes through autoscanning your sound card - be careful though, the first time I did it I overwrote the entire autoexec.bat file with another, I think the key was to go through all the setup then F3 exit out before it modifies all the files or something. - I'll check the exact process tomorrow.
Anyway, it turned out that the settings I needed for my Soundblaster ISA card (model CT4170) in the autoexec.bat file are:
SETBLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H1 P330 T6
Which is slightly different to the line which the CD autoloads.
Hope this helps.
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Cool. A couple of questions. Why does it hurt to overwrite the autoexect.bat file if the original settings for the soundcard that come off the CD and put in that file are wrong anyway?
And second, should this diagnose.exe work for any Soundblaster card (I have several ENSONIC PCI cards that I think are Generic SB cards ??) or is this an ISA thing only?
spystyle:
From what I've read - SB16 ISA is the best soundcard to use with Dmame (DOS mame, which I include with my boot CD)
However, I think PCI sound cards are supported in AdvanceMame, check their docs, Fraggal's boot CD installs AdvaceMame and ArcadeOS.
Also consider calling your local computer shop, it's likely they can dig up a SB16 ISA card for you for $5
Or bump up the RAM and install 98 (much better driver support). I show in the "nlite" thread (in this forum) how to get 98 to use 24 MB RAM only, MAME32 .36 needs 10 MB RAM, the rest is for the game rom. 256 should be ample, 128 should be fine.
Cheers,
Craig
IG-88:
Can't go Win98 on these machines. They won't support that much Ram.
Are you saying then that PCI cards won't work with your boot cd?
I did go to on of my local shops and asked about ISA cards. They looked at me like I was from Mars.
What are the model numbers of the cards that you have gotten to work?
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