tikbalang,
Thank you for helping. I will take a look at those.
Right now there is a program in the SB16 folder called diagnose.exe that detects that card's configuration (and probably writes to the autoexec.bat), but perhaps said program will work better.
Hey Spystyle,
I have just been trying out the latest version (L) of your BootCd and I have a couple questions or maybe bugs.
1. When I try to intstall the audio I get this afte picking option 2:
Installing Audio Systems.....Please Wait.....
Does DOSDVR specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = File, D = Directory)? _
I've never ran across this option before. Is it something new?
I will look into that... there may be a line missing in the bat file?
I googled it:
F = file, D = directory)
This means XCOPY cannot determine if you want the specified path designation entry to be sent to a filename on the target disk or to a directory.From here:
http://www.dewassoc.com/support/msdos/xcopy.htmSo, it looks like an error in the bat file for that driver. I will fix it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
2. Did you take out the 3 free Roms? The option isn't there to even choose them anymore. It made it nice to test out the soundcards without installing extra roms.
Yes, those were not compatible with all versions of MAME available on the disk. It could cause confusion. Also, I think those games were poor.
3. I got the disk to work with Vantage, sound and all. It installed without a hitch. Eveything works nicely. But when I reformatted and tried to install mame on the same exact computer GL won't run any games. It just crashes back to the main menu.
I'll need to know exactly what you chose so I can try to replicate the problem. My first guess is try again with a different MAME : start with the most compatible (Dmame), after try the correct optimization (ie: Pentium MAME). Also make sure you chose a MAME version that matches the amount of RAM in the computer.
Some people had trouble installing newer versions of MAME with small RAM.
Just because it's DOS doesn't mean you can run MAME version 100 with 32 MB RAM. So I put "recommend RAM" in the menu next to each MAME version. Try to chose a MAME version within the recommended RAM.
On the topic of Vantage. I think it's amazing that you can build a Vantage arcade machine using a Pentium 100! That emulator is incredibly fast. I wish all programs were so well optimized.
Happy gaming,
Craig