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BadMouth:
Update for anyone who is interested (or just has time to kill):

The old hard drive I had turned out to already have DOS 6 on it...thought I had it made.
Relearned enough about DOS to get DOSMAME 0.37b7 on there.... Had an issue with a missing file, tracked it down.
Now it launches and asks what type of sound card to use.  
I enter 0 for no sound to play it safe.
The lights on the monitor go off & come back on as if it's lost the signal.
Then I just have a black screen.   :-\
It doesn't respond to any key presses.
My shot in the dark guess is a video driver issue.

Anyone using FreeDos?  (or is that a bigger can of worms for a novice like me?)

Setting the project aside for now.  
(New parts for my driving cab should be in this week.   :D  I'll post pics in the Project Announcements forum next week)

WhereEaglesDare:
Oh yea, didnt think about that, how are we going to drivers for DOS for anything anymore?!  You may need to contact the card manufacturer if they are still in business, unfortunately they probably aren't.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on August 02, 2010, 09:06:06 pm ---Update for anyone who is interested (or just has time to kill):

The old hard drive I had turned out to already have DOS 6 on it...thought I had it made.
Relearned enough about DOS to get DOSMAME 0.37b7 on there.... Had an issue with a missing file, tracked it down.
Now it launches and asks what type of sound card to use.  
I enter 0 for no sound to play it safe.
The lights on the monitor go off & come back on as if it's lost the signal.
Then I just have a black screen.   :-\

--- End quote ---

Check the default output mode of the software.  When the lights go out on the monitor, that's probably telling you that the scan frequency is out of range for the monitor.  It may be trying to feed arcade resolutions, and your monitor is not going to be happy with those if it's VGA.

And a computer from that era should handle VESA compatible graphics modes, so the whole driver thing shouldn't be a problem, unless it's a very obscure chipset.

RandyT

WhereEaglesDare:
Working on it.

Going to install Windows 98 SE

Unofficial Service Pack 2.1a
http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html

DirectX 8.1b for Windows 98
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f70a3d7c-feac-4d9a-a803-278021061fec&displaylang=en

Once I get that set up, I can then benchtest different MAMEs.  Im gonna try 037

Thenasty:
check your MAME.CFG
It might have defaulted to MONITOR=ARCADE  ( along that line)



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