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Title: Stripping Win98
Post by: Nightmare03 on January 11, 2004, 08:04:49 am

I was thinking, obviously when you run windows 98 on a MAME arcade and those of you that want it just for MAME will probably take out mostly everything except what you need...

How about a program to do it all for you? And change the shell so you can select your MAME games off it... it will be nothing like windows and you would get the best performance out of your PC.

Anyone intrested?

-Nightmare

Title: Re:Stripping Win98
Post by: menace on January 11, 2004, 08:40:08 am

Alot of people just skin Dos7 out of win98 and run that--are you talking about that?  or something like win98 lite where alot of the features can be turned off if you wanted?

Title: Re:Stripping Win98
Post by: Nightmare03 on January 11, 2004, 09:26:41 am

Yeah a little like the lite version.

It would change registry options, deleted everything except the absolute required files, and change the shell to the required program.

Like when you run the program to do this, it would ask you what you wanna run on the machine, and then it will give you a certain shell to make it look the best.

Also, for people who just wanna run games ( this is how i came up with the idea ) it would be ideal for them too because you would get the maximum performance out of your pc ( within reason )

-Nightmare

Title: Re:Stripping Win98
Post by: rampy on January 11, 2004, 04:51:42 pm

I think menace was literally point you to [ul=http://www.litepc.com/98lite.html]98lite[/url] utility.... I've used it before with good effect of tweaking the most performance out of an older machine.

But...  if you are trying to squeeze the MOST performance out I highly recommend pure DOS or pared down linux..... and of course if you have fast enough machine  windowsXP also pares down *very* well using black vipers XP tweak guide (http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm) which essentially helps you identify the least amount of services you need running (my cabinet boots to some sick amount initial system RAM allocation like 60-70 megs for XP)

*Shrug* YMMV but I hope that helps!

rampy

Title: Re:Stripping Win98
Post by: Dak-ak on January 12, 2004, 06:08:30 am

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pared down linux

my personal fav.

Title: Re:Stripping Win98
Post by: steve_pss on January 12, 2004, 07:13:15 pm

anyone use freeDOS? stumbled on it during a google search. Seemed pretty cool in concept.