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Boot CD installs DOS, Vantage, Raine, MAME (1 of 7 versions) and Game Launcher
spystyle:
GameLauncher won't list the games?
That's odd
Make sure that mame is setup correctly in the first place:
From C:> prompt
Type
cd mame
mame digdug -soundcard 0
Assuming you have digdug rom in the roms folder this will test mame, if digdug launches then mame is not the culprit and you need to examine GL, if digdug does not launch you need to examine mame
There is a good site about DOS mame here:
http://www.mameworld.net/dosmame/
Also feel free to e-mail me.
Lastly, if you have a P2/500 or better, 98se "optimized" only takes 15 MB RAM and works well, I just added that step by step in my tutorial, also setting up mame32 (which only uses 10 MB RAM, ver36)
Cheers,
Craig
RXII:
--- Quote from: spystyle on December 03, 2006, 11:05:34 pm ---GameLauncher won't list the games?
That's odd
Make sure that mame is setup correctly in the first place:
From C:> prompt
Type
cd mame
mame digdug -soundcard 0
Assuming you have digdug rom in the roms folder this will test mame, if digdug launches then mame is not the culprit and you need to examine GL, if digdug does not launch you need to examine mame
There is a good site about DOS mame here:
http://www.mameworld.net/dosmame/
Also feel free to e-mail me.
Lastly, if you have a P2/500 or better, 98se "optimized" only takes 15 MB RAM and works well, I just added that step by step in my tutorial, also setting up mame32 (which only uses 10 MB RAM, ver36)
Cheers,
Craig
--- End quote ---
Hi Craig,
I have now tried some .36 roms to try with my .36 install of mame and the gamelist still doesn't come up. I tried to run mame as you just said and it came up with this.........
Exiting due to signal SIGILL
Invalid opcode at eip=0020c817
eax=000000038 ebx=009974d4
It reels off a heap more numbers and letters like that and then at the end it says.....
Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x0020c817
And then goes back to the prompt......
C:\MAME>
Weird huh?
This is on a 333mhz AMD-K6 with 96mg RAM, I chose the .36 mame and I also chose "install the soundcard later" option. I have check and all the roms are in the right place
Any Ideas??
Simon.
IG-88:
--- Quote from: RXII on December 03, 2006, 11:35:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: spystyle on December 03, 2006, 11:05:34 pm ---GameLauncher won't list the games?
That's odd
Make sure that mame is setup correctly in the first place:
From C:> prompt
Type
cd mame
mame digdug -soundcard 0
Assuming you have digdug rom in the roms folder this will test mame, if digdug launches then mame is not the culprit and you need to examine GL, if digdug does not launch you need to examine mame
There is a good site about DOS mame here:
http://www.mameworld.net/dosmame/
Also feel free to e-mail me.
Lastly, if you have a P2/500 or better, 98se "optimized" only takes 15 MB RAM and works well, I just added that step by step in my tutorial, also setting up mame32 (which only uses 10 MB RAM, ver36)
Cheers,
Craig
--- End quote ---
Hi Craig,
I have now tried some .36 roms to try with my .36 install of mame and the gamelist still doesn't come up. I tried to run mame as you just said and it came up with this.........
Exiting due to signal SIGILL
Invalid opcode at eip=0020c817
eax=000000038 ebx=009974d4
It reels off a heap more numbers and letters like that and then at the end it says.....
Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x0020c817
And then goes back to the prompt......
C:\MAME>
Weird huh?
This is on a 333mhz AMD-K6 with 96mg RAM, I chose the .36 mame and I also chose "install the soundcard later" option. I have check and all the roms are in the right place
Any Ideas??
Simon.
--- End quote ---
Exactly the same thing mine did. MAME & GL both look identical in the machine that works and the ones that don't. It's got to be some kind of hardware issue.
spystyle:
According to that site
"The error you're getting is an illegal instruction error, check you are running the correct version of MAME for YOUR platform or try running plain un-optimised MAME"
So try installing the disk all over, choosing a different Mame optimization.
ie: if the problem was K6, choose Pentium, and vise versa.
Good luck,
Craig
RXII:
Hi,
I have tried all of the different PC types as well as both .36 and .55 still no good. I did notice that after I have typed 'scan' all of those numbers and letters appear as in my last post before fading out and bringing up the gameless gamelauncher screen. Not sure if this helps. I might just install windows 98 and strip it down, then install gamelauncher and mame .36 manually?? Not sure which way to go. I am so close...it will be something simple that I can't see. :hissy:
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