Frustrated! Old versions of Mame, etc.

[Dougmeister]

Have an older computer (P200, 128 MB RAM), so I pretty much have to stick to either DOS Mame or v0.36 Final of Mame32.

Would prefer DOS Mame 'cause the "Cheat" system in v0.36 Final of Mame32 is rather out-dated, locks up on me, doesn't always display the cheats, etc.

The only front-end I've tried is MameWAH, and it locks up every time I try to start a game.  Any ideas?

1) How to get MameWAH working w/ DOS Mame (v0.36 or most recent)?

2) Other front-ends that support rotating games?

[Howard_Casto]

If you are running a p 200 then you shouldn't be running windows.  Dos mame rarely operates properly in windows (with an extreme amount of care) so you are pretty much stuck sticking with regular mame.  

Gamelauncher, which will actually run in dos, supports rotation.  

[Minwah]

The only front-end I've tried is MameWAH, and it locks up every time I try to start a game.  Any ideas?

Just set Show DOS Box to 'Yes' (or 1 if you edit the CFG files) - that should do it.  I had DOS MAME v0.36 running on my old 333 for a while...

As HC says tho, you would probably be better off in DOS with GameLauncher or ArcadeOS.

[Dougmeister]

Thanks, that worked.

The only problem is that the DOS box remains on the screen after the game exits.  (You know, "The program has ended", or whatever that prompt says in Win '98?)

Is there a way to address this problem?

[Rocky]

The only problem is that the DOS box remains on the screen after the game exits.  (You know, "The program has ended", or whatever that prompt says in Win '98?)

Is there a way to address this problem?

Click the "close on exit" box in the properties

[Dougmeister]

Thanks.  Where is that?  In the properties of the actual DOS window?  Will it apply to future instances, too?

Edit: Found it.  Thanks.

[Dougmeister]

MameWah is working with v0.82 of the Windows Command Line version, but my old computer is too slow for a few games.  I'd like to use v0.36 Final of the pure DOS version (games run faster), but when I try to start up a game, I get a Mame error something like:

"Game not found, trying fuzzy match... running calipso"

(or some other ROM that wasn't even close... I forget what it was)

Is this a MAME setting or a MameWah setting (like "Pass long filenames", etc.)?

[Minwah]

MameWah is working with v0.82 of the Windows Command Line version, but my old computer is too slow for a few games.  I'd like to use v0.36 Final of the pure DOS version (games run faster), but when I try to start up a game, I get a Mame error something like:

"Game not found, trying fuzzy match... running calipso"

(or some other ROM that wasn't even close... I forget what it was)

Is this a MAME setting or a MameWah setting (like "Pass long filenames", etc.)?

Open up the debug.log file in your MW folder...it will tell you what commandline MW is using, and you should be able to see if anything is obviously wrong...

[Dougmeister]

Good tip on the debug.log.  Needed to turn off options like include extension, use quotes, and some other stuff.  Got it running.  Thanks.