Hi Guys,
Been using Mala for some time now on a quite old machine. Nothing fancy setup wise, just mame and nes. Everything was simple to set up no problems. I believe it was version 173. Mame version was 141. No fancy setup, just the basics. Machine finally died, so I got new hardware. Now have a AMD A10 processor, 16gb ram. Also took the opportunity to build a new 4 player control panel (using a 2 player with trackball tank stick prior). Anyway, did a fresh install with Windows 7 Pro 64bit. Downloaded the current Mala 1.74, and mame64 (would just like to start completely fresh). Started up Mala for the first time. Specified the Mala64 appication, and when it went to create the ini file, it failed. It reported an error "Attempt to create c:\.......\mame\mame64.ini file failed". After hitting okay, it seemed to create the xml file okay.
Searched the forum here and found a few vague references to this but no real discussions. Is this a mame issue or a mala issue, or both? Not sure what to do from here.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here? Any help would be greatly appreciated!