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| quarterback:
--- Quote from: crashwg on December 01, 2006, 11:03:18 pm ---I downloaded a program called "APO USB Autorun" which is a program that runs in the task bar and when a thumb drive is inserted it seeks out autorun files and loads them. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: lloydcom on December 03, 2006, 03:37:02 pm ---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. --- End quote --- So, does it take 20 minutes to install this? 20 minutes to get it working correctly? 20 minutes just the first time you put it on your USB drive? --- Quote ---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. --- End quote --- So it does need to run a piece of software in the taskbar like crashwg mentioned? --- Quote ---You just log off and log back on again. As the software allows an installer to be loaded on the USB Disc. --- End quote --- So you have to install the program that runs in the taskbar, log off, log on and then run the game? --- Quote ---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. --- End quote --- Are you saying that there are "traces of Mame after rebooting" if you use the APO 'solution'? |
| lloydcom:
--- Quote from: quarterback on December 03, 2006, 06:52:37 pm --- --- Quote from: crashwg on December 01, 2006, 11:03:18 pm ---I downloaded a program called "APO USB Autorun" which is a program that runs in the task bar and when a thumb drive is inserted it seeks out autorun files and loads them. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: lloydcom on December 03, 2006, 03:37:02 pm ---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. So, does it take 20 minutes to install this? 20 minutes to get it working correctly? 20 minutes just the first time you put it on your USB drive? --- End quote --- Cannot exactly say it was 20 minutes as I did not time myself - but yes 20 minutes sounds right. Time to look at the docs, install new Mame in pendrive and the rom (robby for me), correct some errors etc. --- Quote ---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. So it does need to run a piece of software in the taskbar like crashwg mentioned? --- End quote --- To be honest I haven't really looked at making a temp profile and installing it. there are some residue files which checks for the thumb drive. Guess it had to considering. --- Quote ---You just log off and log back on again. As the software allows an installer to be loaded on the USB Disc. So you have to install the program that runs in the taskbar, log off, log on and then run the game? --- End quote --- Uh no you run the game with the software, configure the APO to install as well on the thumb drive then reboot. it should reinstall look for the thumb drive and off it goes. Temp profiles are just that they get erased when you log out. --- Quote ---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. Are you saying that there are "traces of Mame after rebooting" if you use the APO 'solution'? --- End quote --- No not if the above temp solution was in effect, just other possibilities one can look at. But you know that already quaterback and just pulling my chain for effect. --- End quote --- For me it works fine. Nice idea for a stand alone PC or a jukebox or a picture viewer. Lots of possibilities. At the end of all this two solutions to the original problem are solved: 1) A way for a thumb drive to be inserted to get a single game loaded. 2) To carry out this task without any user interaction. Granted its not a clean cut solution, but is it ever? |
| quarterback:
--- Quote from: lloydcom on December 03, 2006, 07:20:07 pm ---But you know that already quaterback and just pulling my chain for effect. --- End quote --- I really wasn't. was confused by your post because at first it seemed like you had come up with a solution for crashwg but then other things you wrote made it sound like it wasn't really a solution because you had to (a) install some software on the machine (b) restart or log-off/log back in and (c) that there would be remnants of mame (and other software?) left on the machine. Not having any idea how that APO program works, I was being genuine in my questions. --- Quote ---Granted its not a clean cut solution, but is it ever? --- End quote --- Amen brother! :) |
| lloydcom:
Ok I understand now, and yes it was confusing now I have read it again. Apologies all round. I was trying to get out of the cycle of installing and leaving stuff behind. With an arcade machine you can have lots of options to load games, but to load up a Mame game and then leave the machine in the same state you visited is very interesting. Perhaps with further tinkering one can overcome this small nagging problem of residue programs or registry entries. I don't like having my machine cluttered up with all kinds of programs trying to slow the PC down. But there is a problem trying to get XP to recognise the USB drive and make it do what you want it to without it doing something else. There is some kind of loader installed with the APO that needs looking into. Maybe this thread will yield a solution, the moderators can put in the Wiki. Kudos to crashwg for coming up with this idea. |
| Kremmit:
Just in case this one got missed above: --- Quote from: NickG on December 02, 2006, 11:58:40 am ---....The point is, since you don't want to modify the computers, the USB device needs to fake out XP and pretend it is a CD drive. Supposedly, this is one that does just that. --- End quote --- And from one of that site's other pages: (http://www.hscus.com/whatsNew/UD-RW.htm) --- Quote ---The Hagiwara Sys-Com UD-RW acts as a virtual CD-ROM drive, complete with autorun. ....without the mess of drivers! --- End quote --- Sure looks like the answer to me. |
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