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Boot CD installs DOS, Vantage, Raine, MAME (1 of 7 versions) and Game Launcher
spystyle:
Howdy,
I'm sorry the disk didn't work for you. I just tested it again myself choosing MAME .36, Pentium II, and Soundblaster ISA - it worked perfectly.
I tested SCAN and UPDATE, they worked perfectly as well
I was using a CD made from "SpyStyle_boot_CD_beta_1d.iso"
But it may not be compatible with your system.
Instead you could use Fraggal's boot CD*, Win98**, or MAME-XP***. The latter 2 with MAME32**** work very well.
Cheers,
Craig
*Fraggal's boot CD
http://tinyurl.com/yxxesl
***Another option (that is much more user friendly) is using an "optimized" (stripped) version of Windows XP like MAME-XP. See the nLite thread in the software forum.
**For Win98
open c:\windows\system.ini , search for line [vcache] and change it to this:
[vcache]
MinFileCache=8096
MaxFileCache=8096
(This makes 98 use 8 MB RAM for disk caching, leaving more resources for MAME32. It also allows 98 to use more than 512MB RAM)
****To get MAME32 to start with Windows, Maximized :
Place a shortcut to mame32.exe in the startup folder
right click the shortcut, select properties, and change
"run : normal window" to "run : maximized"
spystyle:
Windows 2000 may be desireable too because it has "hibernate" - allowing it to start up quickly. I've read that allot of the MP3 "car-puters" are using this.
RXII:
Hi Guys,
I have been emailing Craig with a few problems I have been having installing his awesome boot CD on my old HP 33mhz PC. I have not been able to get it to boot up properly. I have finally found the problem, the PC has a CDRW in it and the old bios musn't be able to see it as a proper reader. I couldn't set the CD as the 1st bootable source. I fitted a $5 CDROM into it then it let me set the 1st boot to be from the CDROM, put in the boot CD and away it went.
Thanks again Craig for all your help with this..you must get bombarded with emails when you put something like this CD together.
Cheers,
Simon.
IG-88:
Were you able to get the games to list in Game Launcher after you intalled them? Thats the problem I keep having. I got it too work on one PC and then never again :(
RXII:
--- Quote from: IG-88 on December 03, 2006, 12:02:49 pm ---Were you able to get the games to list in Game Launcher after you intalled them? Thats the problem I keep having. I got it too work on one PC and then never again :(
--- End quote ---
No I haven't had any luck with that either just yet, I am downloading the .36 set (I actually just picked the games I wanted for now) after reading that I may have to have the correct roms for .36 that I installed. Yeah initially the entire gamelist came up but then after I did the 'scan' there were no games in the list...not even the ones I installed off the boot disk. I went through the directory and saw that the roms I put in were actually in the mame/rom folder which they were. I will keep you updated on the .36 roms I get.
Have you had any luck?
Cheers, Simon.
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