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Floppy disk MAME
TOK:
My buddy did something in the spirit of this, but for modern hardware. He setup a USB thumb drive with everything on it so he could play classics at work without installing anything to the work PC.
Franco B:
You could also use [AdvanceCD] to make a bootable CD. You can also use it to create a bootable USB drive which is what TOKs buddy may have been using.
Ummon:
--- Quote from: uprightbass360 on February 01, 2009, 06:09:03 am ---Man, I'd give you a free 40gb hdd not to use a floppy to run mame :dunno LOL
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Hahahah.
--- Quote from: Franco B on February 01, 2009, 09:13:15 am ---You could also use [AdvanceCD] to make a bootable CD. You can also use it to create a bootable USB drive which is what TOKs buddy may have been using.
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I'm doubting it. No need to boot from it when you can just run what you need from it. An FE click away.
wooowman93:
Do what i do at school and bring it on usb play some marvel vs street fighter(awesome game) and usb's are cheap and hold alot
who even uses floppies
:dunno
shardian:
Holy crap this pc has been a headache!!!
It is an IBM Aptiva E3N 300mhz with 160 RAM. I have tried Spystyles disk, tinyXP with mame32 and mame0.54, windows 98 with Spystyles MAME, and MAME.54
Every time there is something wonky with the video drivers or something. I got the MAME errors that are described in Spystyles boot disk thread, no matter what I did. In XP, there were ridiculous video card driver errors. In Windows 98, I had a directdraw error in MAME54. I could turn off ddraw to run the games, but they looked like crap and ran smaller than full screen with wonky colors - typical bad video driver behavior. Only thing was the onboard ATI Rage video was working properly according to windows98.
Anyone want to take a crack at getting me up and running. I was considering trying an AdvanceCD boot disk, but don't know if it is worth the CD with my current problems. I'm about to toss this POS PC off a bridge!!!
Oh, and the worst part? I once had this PC working properly with MAME54 and MAMEWAH before changing out to a bigger hard drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!