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spystyle:
I tried all the Tiny and Micro OS's. But they were missing some of the important drivers - like legacy video and audio who's drivers are built in to XP, you can not download those drivers, no one hosts them because they are built in to XP. They are called "native drivers".
I wanted to make something that had 100% of the available drivers. It makes it much more compatible with the full spectrum of computers and no hunting for drivers is necessary.
Why did "eXPerience" make a teeny-tiny OS but make it incompatible with most old computers? What better platform for a teeny-tiny OS than an old computer? They are a match made in heaven.
Obviously his goal was to make an XP that was an 80 MB download, and that's it.
As for the splash screens, I bet that is easy to remove. If no one here knows, I'm sure these guys know :
http://www.msfn.org/board/forums.html
They know everything about computers.
Cheers,
Craig
sordid:
:o
i am new to this full-on emu-in-a-cabinet hardcore stuff....
but i know all about XP.
and im totally shocked that the 'cabinet community' isnt cranking out custom windows isos. it is a *perfect* way to minimize the pain of a custom rig.
im just learning about all of the details of the FEs and emus, but it doesnt seem to far out of the question to create a giant iso that installs a barebones XP, all the emus, and an FE, in one shot. and id imagine you could create a bootable dvd install disc, and make it unattended.
bang!
i only know enough about all of the pieces to know its possible, and that it would be absolutely effin amazing!
a dual booting box with one side as tinyxp booting to maximus sounds real nice to me.
and i will say, the eXPerience released isos are amazing. they *really really* know what they are doing. moreso than i think possibly anyone else, even at microsoft. there are a TON of reg hacks and little changes done to most of those releases, and they work flawlessly.
the only one that is tricky is the ultra tiny one. the iso is like 106mb. thats the one with nothing. again, i dont know enough to know what would cause problems with the emus, but i used it for pro audio, and the .NET framework was the *only* thing i had to add to the install to make it run smooth. it was actually amazing.
if someone could hack that one into an install disc with an FE and some roms, thatd be one pop-u-lar iso......
also, "TinyXP_Platinum_2" from eXPerience is an amazing install. check out the docs that come with it... that might be a good one to start with too. not as much left out, but still has the tweaks done...
i just had to post after finding this thread. i was wishfully thinking someone may have whipped up an iso and tossed it on a torrent already and that id find the entire community was using this one rock solid install.... not quite yet, but it seems there some people experimenting. :applaud:
if i end up staying involved with the emu thing and learning more of the details, i will most definitely be experimenting with some hacked down XP installs.
and either way, nice to see you guys' work!
IG-88:
--- Quote from: sordid on July 25, 2008, 11:02:26 pm ---......if someone could hack that one into an install disc with an FE and some roms, thatd be one pop-u-lar iso......
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Careful with spoutin' them words around here. ;) As a matter of fact this has been done a few times before and the legality issues caused some major headaches. Not to mention it really pisses some people off. :timebomb:
People put these discs together and then put roms (the legality of those is a constant issue) on them and then try and profit from them on ebay. Basically stealing others work and taking a chance on getting the attention of people/companies we in this hobby would rather not irritate.
Frankly I'm surprised it hasn't got shut down yet....
spystyle:
--- Quote from: sordid on July 25, 2008, 11:02:26 pm ---...I'm totally shocked that the 'cabinet building community' isn't cranking out custom windows isos. it is a *perfect* way to minimize the pain of a custom rig.
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I show how to do that in my tutorial :)
But distributing the ISO would be so illegal, Microsoft might send Mappy the mouse to arrest me!
--- Quote from: sordid on July 25, 2008, 11:02:26 pm ---I'm just learning about all of the details of the FEs and emus, but it doesn't seem too far out of the question to create a giant iso that installs a barebones XP, all the emus, and an FE, in one shot. and I'd imagine you could create a bootable dvd install disc, and make it unattended.
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I also show how to do that in my tutorial, though not in step by step detail. The key is in the $1 folder on the CD.
$OEM$\$1
Everything placed in that folder is copied to C:
Therefore, if you put your emulator and roms in a folder called "MAME" and placed it in the $1 folder on the disk it would be copied to C:\MAME
To place a shortcut on the desktop and in the "startup" folder you would have to use the exact same folder names in the $1 folder. For example :
$OEM$\$1\documents and settings\default user\desktop
$OEM$\$1\documents and settings\default user\start menu\programs\startup
It would be really easy :)
--- Quote from: sordid on July 25, 2008, 11:02:26 pm ---..."TinyXP_Platinum_2" from eXPerience is an amazing install. check out the docs that come with it... that might be a good one to start with too. not as much left out, but still has the tweaks done...
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In my opinion it is much too big. MAME-XP is a purpose built OS made specifically for the arcade machines. Anything else is a "desktop operating system" made to do many things a MAME computer doesn't need to do, like surf the internet ect.
--- Quote from: sordid on July 25, 2008, 11:02:26 pm ---I just had to post after finding this thread. I was wishfully thinking someone may have whipped up an iso and tossed it on a torrent already and that I'd find the entire community was using this one rock solid install.... not quite yet, but it seems there some people experimenting...
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If you can focus for 3 hours you can make it yourself. Then upload a torrent and be the hero you are looking for :)
--- Quote from: IG-88 on July 25, 2008, 11:36:36 pm ---...Frankly I'm surprised it hasn't got shut down yet....
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Well it would be hard to shut down an entire "hobby"
But everyone is really careful, like the info screens on the MAME programs are a "CYA"
The moderators of this forum being quite strict about linking to ROMsets and Warez is "CYA"
Disclaimers here there and everywhere, we are all very careful :)
As a result I think this hobby will endure :)
Cheers,
Craig
cadmium:
Does anyone know how to *remove* minlogon from an existing xp system? I *accidentally* installed it and while it works, I'd like to go back. Restoring the original winlogon.exe doesn't seem to work???
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