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shardian:

--- Quote from: gonzo90017 on February 04, 2009, 12:28:01 pm ---Does the pc have a hard drive installed? I'm working on a package for older pc's 166-300mhz.
It requires a fresh install of Windows 98SE. If you wan't to try it out send me a pm.

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It currently has a fresh 98SE install on it.
shardian:

--- Quote from: RayB on February 04, 2009, 01:13:25 pm ---Direct Draw?! You DON'T want to run MAME via Windows on a machine that slow! Configure it to boot straight to DOS (which you can do using Win98) and use a DOS version of MAME. You'll avoid the need for graphics drivers since everthing will work via direct VGA calls.



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This is exactly what I want to do with the completed machine. I want DOS only, with a batch file set up to cycle 8-10 games in a neverending loop. No pain in the ass front ends or anything.
RayB:
OK then you'll have to set up and configure DMAME instead of the usual Windows MAME.
gonzo90017:
This package might be overkill for you. Since it contains 17 systems. They all run full speed on my 233mhz machine.
If you still wan't to try it out let me know.

Anyways. What is the exact error you were getting? Were you trying to run an optimized version of mame. On my machine when using the Pentium optimized version of Mame 0.36 I had no problems. But IG-88's machine always threw up an error when using the optimized version. Just switching to the regular Mame 0.36 fixed the problem.
+2MAN:

--- Quote from: shardian on February 01, 2009, 05:26:57 am ---Yep, AMOAD. I had never looked into it, but it is a neat idea for a dedicated game.

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For the fun of it, I tried this tonight using the space invadors example on the website. I followed the instructions on the Arcade Machine On A Disk website and it worked a treat. And the floppy boots into space invaders on anything with a floppy drive!

This is really interesting I think, If you wanted, on a cab you could have a slot on the back of your cabinet for a floppy and simply put the floppy in for the game you want and power on. Much Much more like a real arcade cabinet would be, solid state, no hard drives and no windows :D It actually boots pretty fast too, and you can just turn it off at the wall without crashing. I do hasten to add though that I couldn't get the sound to work, though I didn't try very hard I'm guessing it would be a hard slog to get sound on a modern-ish motherboard going.

You need soundblaster or at least soundblaster compatable.

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