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| RetroBorg:
--- Quote from: IG-88 on December 02, 2006, 03:13:01 pm --- --- Quote from: RetroBorg on December 01, 2006, 10:39:08 pm ---Check out this link: http://surf.to/amoad It's called Arcade Machine on a Disk. Unfortunately there is no Tempest yet but I'm sure it's just a matter of time. Also it's based on booting from your floppy drive but I'm sure you could do the same for a thumb drive. --- End quote --- Do you know if this is still under development? I tried emailing but it bounced back. It's a real cool project! --- End quote --- I'm not sure, I only discovered this site two days ago when some one linked to it on the AussieArcade.com.au site. |
| Brad:
That site is ancient. It's been around for years. Unfortunately it also hasn't been updated in at least 7 years that I know of. I'm surprised it's still a live site? Brad |
| lloydcom:
I think I have what you need. Its a free program and allows you to plug in a usb drive in either XP or Win2K and autostart an application ie mame.exe tempest It's worth noting that the proceeds from donating to the software goes to a needy cause, so if you are indeed interested and use the program, please include a donation. This works exactly as you have requested in your first post, without the need to reboot. Note that you will have to go into options (middle left side of menu) to enable english. Hope this helps you and indeed the Associazione Culturale Oltre l'immagine. http://www.mypendrive.org/faq_eng.htm |
| lloydcom:
Ok maybe the last post was a bit misleading. ::) Perhaps the good cause will enable us to have the functionality in the near future. Otherwise, after trying to tweak the utility to automount Mame in the above solution, I gave up and looked around for an alternative. http://www.archidune.com/?q=node/1 Got it working in 20 minutes. After the singing and dancing of getting it configured, install mame on the flash drive and your chosen rom and bingo off it goes. I like the countdown feature especially when you have a Tiny XP install with shell turned off - you are kinda in the dark. I now can go to a mates house and fire this up without too much messing about. Thanks for the earlier pointer about APO but you just might have missed getting this to work on a temporary profile. This way you don't have any "evidence" that you installed this on the works PC. You just log off and log back on again. As the software allows an installer to be loaded on the USB Disc. The only other scenario would be to have the flash drive boot Knoppix Linux into Ram that way there would be no trace of Mame after reboot. You could also mount Knoppis under windows. Stealth Mame - I like it! Have fun! ;D |
| GMZombie:
ya know i dabbled into this a while back to see if i could single load Galaga. I did it from a cd rom and made mame save the high score to a floppy disk. it worked for me but then i decided to update to a different drive and different games and whatnot. still worked though just had to preconfigure mame for it |
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