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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: paigeoliver on November 04, 2003, 07:20:16 am
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I have a ROM boot card with ROMDOS installed left over from my Tournament Solitaire. I imagine with some new ROMS on it that I could do a totally diskless cab.
Has anyone done anything like this?
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Not sure, but I saw a link at Brandorf's Cocktail Cab (link on main page) for a CompactFlash > IDE adaptor, which could also be used for a disk-less cab.
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Quick link: http://adis.ca/store/cfdisk.php
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It appears that the answer is Yes.
http://www.yvan256.net/projects/mamecade/
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I recently burned a copy of KnoppixMame (self boot linux CD) with some roms on it, for a diskless system. Works great if you have enough RAM. SirP also mentioned another linux self boot system that uses advancemame.
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the "D" in CD stands for "Disk" so it's not diskless. :)
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the "D" in CD stands for "Disk" so it's not diskless. :)
Actually it stands for Disc :P
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Actually it stands for Disc :P
Doesn't that depend where you're from?
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Actually it stands for Disc :P
Doesn't that depend where you're from?
No, the D in the official CD Audio logo stands for Disc. Disc usually refers to optical storage as disk usually refers to magnetic.
Edit: I found a resource for you. The logo that is on a CD you can tell what type of CD it is.
http://www.gnscd.com/cdlogo.htm
I know I was joking, you probably were too, but this lead into showing this information.
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I recently burned a copy of KnoppixMame (self boot linux CD) with some roms on it, for a diskless system. Works great if you have enough RAM. SirP also mentioned another linux self boot system that uses advancemame.
I believe he means CDiskless, not HDisklessDrive :)
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Compact Disc : CD
Diskette : Disk
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When people say "diskless" (or "Discless" ;)) they usually mean that there are no actual disc drives at all. No Floppy, Hard, CD, or DVD.
No drives with moving parts.
The example I posted above, is truly diskless.
The advantages are speed, and no moving parts to wear out.
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That's what I was pointing out, tongue-in-cheek.
As usual however SirPoonga is right and I should have used "Disc"
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Ok, well sorry, I thought diskless ment no HD. But, the point being you could probably load the Knoppix image on a rom card and boot from it (giving your bios allows it).
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Is it "Diskless" or "Dickless". You decide! :o
When people say "dickless" (or "Discless" ;)) they usually mean that there are no actual sex drives at all. No Floppy, Hard, CD, or DVD.
No sex drives with moving parts.
The example I posted above, is truly dickless.
The advantages are speed, and no moving parts to wear out.
haha!
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Magnet_Eye,
I did not say that!
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LMAO!
;D
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I only have a 60 gb hard drive in my cab. No floppy or CD-ROM. I update it by connecting it to my main computer, using a 2-way uplink cat 5 cable.
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Here, to alleviate all confusion, when I said "diskless" I meant.
No hard drive.
No CDROM drive.
No floppy disk drive.
Nothing that could be remotely considered a disk or disc.
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So storage would be a flash drive?
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No, storage would be the ROM card. Just like a REAL arcade game.
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How much space are we talking about?
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Not sure how much the card can hold, it is circa 1994, so I am assuming it can probably hold 16 MB or so.
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Well, not sure how you'd use ROMDOS (??) but if I was to go diskless I'd go for a 512meg flash card.
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Well, not sure how you'd use ROMDOS (??) but if I was to go diskless I'd go for a 512meg flash card.
Rosdos is just a DOS version designed to run off ROM cards. Actually a little more up to date than MSDOS if I remember correctly. Mame should run on it just fine, anything that works on MSDOS is supposed to work on Romdos as well.
Anyway, only reason I am even talking about this is because I have that rom boot card laying around.