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spystyle:
Howdy Simon, as seen above a few posts, I tested this and it didn't kill my computer.
But back up your irreplaceable family photos first, just in case.
It should bring your boot time down to 17 seconds.
Cheers,
Craig
RXII:
Hi Craig,
I tried the 'Minilogon' and it worked great. It cut down the time from when I hit the power button to when Mala's gamelist is displayed by about 12 seconds. It booted up in 17 seconds! The only problem I came across is when I exit out of Mala it is suppose to exit to explorer, but it flashes up explorer briefly and then boots straight back into Mala??? Not sure what the go is there. I put it back to how it was for now while I am still setting up the arcade PC. But I can definately say that it works!
Cheers,
Simon.
spystyle:
Mala is weird upon exit!
I have Mala running on my brother-in-law's cab, and I have a hacked powerstrip, so to power off everything in the cab simply press the (extended) ATX power button. (The button found on the front of the PC case)
It works with MAME32 but with Mala I have to exit the FE first, then power off with the ATX button.
In other words - Mala prevents soft off via the computer's power button! Weird huh?
So I am not surprised to hear that you have trouble with Mala upon exit.
I wonder if there is a fix for that. It's like Mala has a very aggressive program priority routine (I'm not sure what to call it)
I can't think of any other programs like that. Normally you van shut down windows regardless of what programs are running.
But Mala is the king of all FE's. I like to couple it with FastMAME.
I like MAME32 because it is so very "user friendly" - but for the savvy you may as well use Mala.
http://mala.arcadezentrum.com/
Good luck!
Craig
tikbalang:
there's an even slimmer version of windows called XSOS v2.0 (tim konings repack). it is a stripped down version of windows 2000. on a p3 1ghz/128mb it boots in 20 seconds, longer if network card is attached. memory footprint is 40mb, about 150mb for disk space. google says there's a version 2.02 and a usb version. iirc, only 4 services were started.
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--- Quote from: spystyle on August 23, 2007, 08:07:11 pm ---In other words - Mala prevents soft off via the computer's power button! Weird huh?
So I am not surprised to hear that you have trouble with Mala upon exit.
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It works fine here. I don't have my smart strip yet BUT I do have an extended ATX power button and windows does power off gracefully when I press it.
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