Run Mame using dos from CD-ROM (NO HD Installed)?

[GMZombie]

ok i have just verified what i thought all along. if you have the hiscore.dat with the mame exe but in the config change the place of the hi folder to a:\hi you can have it save to the disk. someone eariler mentioned this and i would like to say that this indeed works. Now im gonna make a boot cd that has advmame on it as well as arcadeos as i cannot get advmenu to work properly dunno why. anyways my arcadeos will give me the different version of galaga so i can still play the game. yay...if anybody is interested or dosent understand i will be glad to help.

[lokki]

I was thinking of something similar...Vantage from a floppy (would be left on most of the time so floppy life not much of an issue. Vantage doesn't log highscores though...or does it...Peale...anybody?

I don't believe it does, no.  lokki?

Nope...... Not sure what it would take to implement... Most games are different (therefore the need for highscore.dat)