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TopCat:
Can anyone help me ?
I would like to set up a computer using as little software as possible and to play only one game.
The reason is I have a galaxian cabinet with no insides and would like to just switch it on and play galaxian rather than trying to buy a pcb.
so is there a way in which i can just turn the computer on and it goes straight to the galaxian rom ?
Thanks for any help
SirPeale:
Now THAT's easy.
I'd use VAntAGE as the emulator, on either a PC Card flash drive with an IDE adaptor, or a very tiny hard drive. You could do that with a 486.
Have the emulator load that one, tiny little ROM at boot. Use DOS. Viola! There you go.
For added splash, since you're already using only a tiny amount of the flash card (or hard drive) add a couple games with similar controls. IE Space Invaders, Galaga, etc etc. Then you would just use a front end (I recommend ArcadeOS).
Does this cabinet already have a monitor?
Lilwolf:
Unless you really wan't it as original as possible.
there are a ton of games that would run GREAT on that game.
Consider doing a little more playing with games/mame and add the games that run WELL and ORIGINAL on the controls on a vertical screen.
Original is GREAT... but once your maming... you might want to mame a few more...
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on April 27, 2004, 02:03:47 pm ---Unless you really wan't it as original as possible.
there are a ton of games that would run GREAT on that game.
Consider doing a little more playing with games/mame and add the games that run WELL and ORIGINAL on the controls on a vertical screen.
Original is GREAT... but once your maming... you might want to mame a few more...
--- End quote ---
Isn't that pretty much what I just said?
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: TopCat on April 27, 2004, 12:41:28 pm ---Can anyone help me ?
I would like to set up a computer using as little software as possible and to play only one game.
The reason is I have a galaxian cabinet with no insides and would like to just switch it on and play galaxian rather than trying to buy a pcb.
so is there a way in which i can just turn the computer on and it goes straight to the galaxian rom ?
Thanks for any help
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Point 1 - I'm not sure where you are going with this, but - if you just want a galaxian game in the gameroom without restoring the cab, that's fine. If you want a "can't tell it's not original" galaxian cab to charge people to use, that violates at least the spirit of the MAME license.
Point 2 - As said, consider adding other vertical games as well.
Point 3 - Implementing this is way simple - In dos MAME, just create (or edit) a file named autoexec.bat adding the following lines to it:
cd mame
C:\MAME\mame.exe -galaxian
For windows, you can do this manually and add the batch file to your startup folder, or use a program like batchrun to simplify the process and add a shortcut to it to your startup folder.
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