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Title: i need some help
Post by: dirt on January 23, 2008, 02:33:27 am

i have a tempest upright cab that has been gutted and jammatized(not by me). i also have a 21" vga monitor and a couple computers laying araound.  becuase tempest has no joysticks to help navigate i want the cab to start up and go directly into tempest tubes. what would be the best front end for that and how could i do it. please explain it  to me like a person who doesn't work with computers, im a construction worker. ;D

thanks guys

Title: Re: i need some help
Post by: youki on January 23, 2008, 04:08:08 am

Hi,

I have a Atomic user who uses Atomic in a Tempest Cab.

But  If you want only tempest in your cab.  You don't need a front end.

Just make mame start Tempest game at boot .
That easy.

Do you know what OS you will use?  Windows, Dos, Linux??

Title: Re: i need some help
Post by: dirt on January 23, 2008, 11:48:38 am

i have a computer with windows, older ver of mame(not sure of ver) and mamewah. i had this in a machine about 3 or 4 years ago.

Title: Re: i need some help
Post by: Havok on January 23, 2008, 10:38:28 pm

If you just want a down and dirty option to start mame, create a text file that contains something like this:

C:\Mame\mame.exe tempest

(Assuming you put Mame on the root of your C drive)

Save it as Mame.bat, and put it in your startup folder of Windows. When the computer starts up, it will run that command and start up Tempest. If you are using Dos, then you would put that command in the Autoexec.bat file. If you need some help with it, let us know what operating system you are running, and where mame is located...

Or you could use AtomicFE - there is an option to start a game by default. However, quite honestly, it really would be overkill to just run one game.

Title: Re: i need some help
Post by: dirt on January 24, 2008, 01:44:31 am

thanks i'll get that computer out tomorrow and try it out.

Title: Re: i need some help
Post by: dirt on January 24, 2008, 07:13:49 pm

just to be clear. when you say text file do you mean use notepad or something else? sorry i am not a software guy at all. put a tool in my hand and im at home, but software is just not my thing.

Title: Re: i need some help
Post by: crummy on January 24, 2008, 07:42:11 pm

Quote from: dirt on January 24, 2008, 07:13:49 pm

just to be clear. when you say text file do you mean use notepad or something else? sorry i am not a software guy at all. put a tool in my hand and im at home, but software is just not my thing.

Notepad would likely be best.

Title: Re: i need some help
Post by: Havok on January 24, 2008, 08:31:26 pm

Yep - just like crummy says, Notepad is fine. Just make sure to do a save as, and give the filename a .bat extension.