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Title: Go from MameWAH Shell to Windows 98?
Post by: bigfuz on August 27, 2005, 06:12:45 pm

Is there a way to leave MAMEWAH, when I went into it as a Shell, and then on "Run an App on Exit" starting up the Windows 98 desktop? :-\

I looked around the boards for a good solutions, but did not find one yet...this post seems to be digging for XP, but did not find an answer?

Title: Re: Go from MameWAH Shell to Windows 98?
Post by: Minwah on August 30, 2005, 06:02:06 am

I am not sure, but you might have to run Mamewah from your Startup folder (rather than shell) to achieve what you want.

Title: Re: Go from MameWAH Shell to Windows 98?
Post by: bigfuz on August 30, 2005, 10:59:31 pm

Yea, that is one easy way to do it, but I love the "boot into Mamewah" look using the shell.  I can run c:windows\explorer.exe, but this only gets me an explorer window...which lets me do a lot.  From here I can modify the system.ini back, and reboot...but what a pain.

It would be ok if the run app command shot me back to a c: prompt, but not sure how to do that?  Then I could just type "win"...ooops that wont work, since it will hit the system.ini again and throw me back into mamewah, I suppose...???

Damn! >:(

Title: Re: Go from MameWAH Shell to Windows 98?
Post by: Minwah on August 31, 2005, 05:27:30 am

Maybe you could have Mamewah run a batch file which edits/replaces system.ini and reboots the system?

Title: Re: Go from MameWAH Shell to Windows 98?
Post by: jfunk on August 31, 2005, 09:41:45 am

Quote from: Minwah on August 31, 2005, 05:27:30 am

Maybe you could have Mamewah run a batch file which edits/replaces system.ini and reboots the system?

That's exactly what I did on my brother's system.  Had a batch file that replaced system.ini and the mouse cursors (changed from transparent to normal).  Then another batch file to do the opposite when in the Win98 explorer shell.  Worked great.

Title: Re: Go from MameWAH Shell to Windows 98?
Post by: DaemonCollector on August 31, 2005, 04:15:02 pm

I'd still like to know why this only happens on some systems...on my cab I can exit mamewah and run explorer.exe and have everything be happy..

Title: Re: Go from MameWAH Shell to Windows 98?
Post by: Minwah on August 31, 2005, 05:14:40 pm

Quote from: DaemonCollector on August 31, 2005, 04:15:02 pm

I'd still like to know why this only happens on some systems...on my cab I can exit mamewah and run explorer.exe and have everything be happy..

I stopped trying to work out Windows a long time ago... ;)