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Title: mamewah as shell
Post by: Popcorrin on October 22, 2003, 06:22:14 pm

I know there have been posts on how to run mamewah as shell but I have searched for them and have been unable to find them.
I was wondering if someone would be so kind to posts the instructions for running mamewah as shell in win98 and win2k.   Thanks

Title: Re:mamewah as shell
Post by: creatine28 on October 22, 2003, 07:27:16 pm

Hi,

You just want to modify your system.ini file to look like this:
Just change "Explorer.exe" to "mamewah.exe"  Let me know of you have any questions?

Steve

Oh yeah this is my setup for Win98

[boot]
oemfonts.fon=vgaoem.fon
system.drv=system.drv
drivers=mmsystem.dll power.drv
shell=c:\progra~1\mamewah\mamewah.exe   As default , this shows  as  "Shell=Explorer.exe"
user.exe=user.exe
gdi.exe=gdi.exe
sound.drv=mmsound.drv
dibeng.drv=dibeng.dll
comm.drv=comm.drv
keyboard.drv=keyboard.drv
*DisplayFallback=0
fonts.fon=vgasys.fon
fixedfon.fon=vgafix.fon
386Grabber=vgafull.3gr
display.drv=pnpdrvr.drv
mouse.drv=lmouse.drv

Title: Re:mamewah as shell
Post by: Popcorrin on October 23, 2003, 06:26:03 pm

I got it to work, thanks for your help.  Now I was wondering how you go about switching it back to explorer.exe as shell?

Also, could anyone tell me how to set up mamewah as shell in win2k, thx.

Title: Re:mamewah as shell
Post by: creatine28 on October 23, 2003, 07:09:30 pm

Here's a link to a message I wrote explaing how I have my systems configured, it mentions stuff about changing your shell back and forth between Explorer and Mamewah via a dos start up screen.  You should also be able to download my config file.  Just remember to make a back up of your system.ini file before using my config.  If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Steve


http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=11141 (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=11141)

Title: Re:mamewah as shell
Post by: Popcorrin on October 24, 2003, 07:13:02 pm

Creatine thanks for your help. I think I got it working like I want for the most part.  There is just one more thing.  When running mamewah as shell I want another program to start when the computer starts.  The program is ppjoykey.  I tried to edit the autoexec.bat file to start the program but it says that it can't be started in dos mode when I do that.   Judging by the comprehensive boot files you have created I was hoping you could help me out with this one.

Title: Re:mamewah as shell
Post by: creatine28 on October 24, 2003, 07:18:59 pm

I wonder if you add it to your start up menu within windows if that  might work?  I'll mess around with my system and see if I can figure it out.

Steve

Title: Re:mamewah as shell
Post by: Popcorrin on October 24, 2003, 09:54:22 pm

I tried that but it didn't seem to work?

Title: Re:mamewah as shell
Post by: eightbit on October 28, 2003, 04:14:01 pm

In theory I don't see how that would work. Your running mamewah as the shell so programs inside the startup menu arent' going to start. It seems like there should be a way to start it with the registry but I'm not sure how.