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SithMaster:

so do these files have high score saving?

MaximRecoil:


--- Quote from: SithMaster on April 07, 2007, 05:13:46 pm ---so do these files have high score saving?

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The AMOAD disk image includes a "hiscore.dat" file so I assume so. You can enable sound too, but like with any DOS program, you are going to need a DOS compatible sound card and DOS drivers before that will work.

The disk boots to an AMOAD spash screen telling you to press any key to continue, but you can delete all of that out of the autoexec.bat file. All you need in that file is the word "Galaga", or "Galaga -snd" to enable sound. It wants to know which sound card you are using if you use the -snd switch. I'm not sure if there is a switch you can add to the "Galaga" line to make it auto-select a specific sound card or not. In regular MAME the switch is (for Sound Blaster) "-soundcard 1".

It got to Galaga very fast when I tested it in Virtual PC, a matter of a few of seconds from when turned on, but that was with a disk image in place of a real floppy, which would be slower. I'm sure you could burn a floppy-emulating CD though, which would speed things up, or maybe even put it on some sort of solid-state storage device.

SECONDandBOWERY:

Thanks so much for all this! 

I've seen AMOAD before - my only concern is that it'll need to run it vertically (will it support rotating?) and respond to the arcade buttons (will it recognize and IPAC or would I have to hack to a keyboard?).

I think the best way to go might be to write AMOAD Galaga to a floppy disk and then copy the floppy image to a USB Memory Key so it's pretty much silent and I won't have to bother with outdated technology (*sigh* - back in my day, we didn't have that fancy-schmancy USB!  We had to walk uphill, barefoot in the snow to go buy my 1.44 MB floppy disks!).  Then all I'd get is the booting images from the disk, right?

Rock'n'Roll,
--Andy

SithMaster:

Ive already made my disk and will just need to get my cab setup for it.  well it shoudl support vertical screen since you can add commandlines.

id check the thread on using a usb drive.  im going to use a floppy drive since i have a few and while they do get loud when in use if its hidden inside a cab and the sound is on no one should know its there.

i wouldnt waste an ipac on it.  im going to have to find a gamepad or try a hack since i only need 9 inputs and im cheap.

pmc:


--- Quote from: SithMaster on April 08, 2007, 12:17:01 am ---they do get loud when in use if its hidden inside a cab and the sound is on no one should know its there.

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I was thinking about that too. The initial shutter-slide sound and the grunt-grunt-grunt sound the drive makes. You could remove the shutter, and I've always assumed those AMOAD disks pretty load everything into RAM so the drive sound only occurs at boot time. Set BIOS to "boot from floppy" so there's no hunting, and pull the leads off the speaker so there's no PC "beeeeeeeeeeep".


--- Quote ---try a hack since i only need 9 inputs and im cheap.
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That's the beauty of projects like these. I much prefer re-using junk then plopping down real cash. I've already got 90% of the materials anyway.

I've got a P1 laptop that I always planned on turning into a vertical bartop Galaga, but I need a cheap PCMCIA soundcard first. My test builds were Vantage on DOS 6.22 I think and it ran OK if I recall. I was going to buy a keyboard encoder, but a joypad hack sounds more appropriate if I have the right interfaces on that PC.

-pmc

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