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I've Decided on SpyStyle's DOS CD, so What Hardware for Galaga Only Console?
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pmc:

--- Quote from: BobA on April 08, 2007, 05:38:13 pm ---I assume he means disconnect the speaker leads on the internal PC speaker by pulling them off their pins on the MB.

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That's what I meant. Many of 'em have an oldy style PC "beep" at boot time and they use the PC speaker for that irritating noise. It's as bad as the "check for a floppy to boot from" grunting noise they used to make.

I think I'm going to play with that CF card bizness. Sounds cheap, fast, and quiet.

-pmc
SECONDandBOWERY:
AMOAD on a CF card looks like the way to go!  If I do go the AMOAD route, I don't even need a hard drive or any other software or OS, do I?

How hard is it to make sure that the graphics warning gets skipped and the game runs vertically and at the right resolution on the AMOAD.  I assume it's just adding some sort of config file to the disk, right?

Stopping the infernal BEEPing noises would definitely be a good move.

leapinlew: Would you want to discuss your 50% Galaga project with me?  This is going to be my first project so I think discussing it with someone with a similar project could be really helpful.

Thanks so much!

Rock'n'Roll,
--Andy
Kaytrim:
I just installed Spystyle's CD on a 512MB CF card on a PIII 733Mhz with 512MB ram and it is nice a quick. 

IDE to CF adapter, $2.95 plus shipping on eBay
512MB CF Card, $5.99 plus shipping on eBay
old PIII computer and 17" monitor, FREE
Joystick, buttons and KeyWiz, less than $40.00
Bartop Cab still to build... ~$15 for materials

Quick Arcade machine and present for my Dad, PRICELESS.  ;D

Project build to appear in the project forum later.
SECONDandBOWERY:
What's Spystyle's CD and where can I find info about it?

Thanks!

Rock'n'Roll,
--Andy
Kaytrim:

--- Quote from: SECONDandBOWERY on April 10, 2007, 11:19:16 am ---What's Spystyle's CD and where can I find info about it?

Thanks!

Rock'n'Roll,
--Andy

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There is a full build writeup including information on the CD at this link.
http://spystyle.arcadecontrols.com/01/index1.htm
Spystyle is a member here on the forums.  He made a CD that will install DOS 7.0 and your choice of 7 versions of MAME on a computer.  The install took me less then 15 min.
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