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Title: Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: Stormdemon on June 16, 2003, 02:57:23 pm: What are the advantages and disadvantages of them as regards display and controls.
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: SpAwN on June 16, 2003, 03:08:47 pm: Not to make your choice harder, but I've been thinking about using a Linux box instead. Have you thought about that?

It seems like the AdvanceMame and AdvanceMenu projects are pretty stable.
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: SirPoonga on June 16, 2003, 03:13:26 pm: DOS pros: small, fast boot
cons: made for alod architecture, can't really handle anything above 256 megs of memory:) Was not designed for today's stuff. no USB.

Windows Pros: Lots of FEs. Get all of the features of mame and other emus.

Linux cons: no good frontends.
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: Apollo on June 16, 2003, 04:38:43 pm: Mac OS? ( not really but it could be a choice ).
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: rampy on June 16, 2003, 04:59:44 pm: Quote from: Stormdemon on June 16, 2003, 02:57:23 pm
What are the advantages and disadvantages of them as regards display and controls.

I replied to your other thread at ultimarc board (http://www.mameworld.net/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showpost.pl?Board=mameworldultimarc&Number=189&page=0&view=expanded&mode=flat&sb=5#Post189) on the same topic

*shrug*

Rampy
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on June 16, 2003, 05:23:10 pm: Quote from: SirPoonga on June 16, 2003, 03:13:26 pm
DOS pros: small, fast boot
cons: made for alod architecture, can't really handle anything above 256 megs of memory:) Was not designed for today's stuff. no USB.

Windows Pros: Lots of FEs. Get all of the features of mame and other emus.

Linux cons: no good frontends.

Agree with what SirPoonga said above. Also, I am not sure if Dos does hardware stretching in MAME or not.

Wasn't there a frontend or version of mame like MAME32 for Linux called Gmame or sth? Look here: http://linuxemu.retrofaction.com/emu/mamefend.html
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: SirPoonga on June 16, 2003, 05:38:48 pm: Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 16, 2003, 05:23:10 pm
Quote from: SirPoonga on June 16, 2003, 03:13:26 pm
DOS pros: small, fast boot
cons: made for alod architecture, can't really handle anything above 256 megs of memory:) Was not designed for today's stuff. no USB.

Windows Pros: Lots of FEs. Get all of the features of mame and other emus.

Linux cons: no good frontends.

Agree with what SirPoonga said above. Also, I am not sure if Dos does hardware stretching in MAME or not.

Wasn't there a frontend or version of mame like MAME32 for Linux called Gmame or sth? Look here: http://linuxemu.retrofaction.com/emu/mamefend.html

gxmame, it's the mame32 of linux. I use it right now on my cabinet.
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: SirPeale on June 16, 2003, 06:23:28 pm: Quote from: SirPoonga on June 16, 2003, 03:13:26 pm
Linux cons: no good frontends.

Actually, there are a couple good ones for X. What I'd like to see are some for svgalib, but there aren't any that I'm aware of. (except AdvanceMenu)
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: spectre on June 16, 2003, 06:30:11 pm: i use windows 98 se with arcade os... seems to work good and the statup isn't insanely long...
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: bigmoe on June 16, 2003, 06:37:32 pm: The Game Launcher site (http://www.dribin.org/dave/game_launcher/) says that there is a unix/linux version. It looks like you may have to compile it yourself, though...I haven't tried to run MAME on linux yet.

bm
Title: Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
Post by: SirPeale on June 16, 2003, 07:50:39 pm: Quote from: Big Moe on June 16, 2003, 06:37:32 pm
The Game Launcher site (http://www.dribin.org/dave/game_launcher/) says that there is a unix/linux version. It looks like you may have to compile it yourself, though...I haven't tried to run MAME on linux yet.

I just took a sneak peek at the source...I can't tell whether or not it uses X or SVGALib. If I were a programmer, it'd be easy, I'm sure.