How Do I Get ArcadeOS To Start Up & Shut Down?

[Irrek0]

Hi I am trying to get ArcadeOS to start up automatically by itself when I turn on my computer. I also want my computer to shut down  when I exit ArcadeOS so I will never see Win98 at all. Does anyone know what I have to do exactly to do this?

[SirPeale]

ArcadeOS is a DOS program.  You may want to consider using MameWAH instead.  And for that, you'll change the shell from win.com to mamewah.exe

[Irrek0]

Would I have to Delete ArcadeOS before i install Mamewah?

[SirPeale]

You can if you want to, it's only a concern if drive space is at a premium.

[coldrain]

Hi there, if you run arcadeOS in dos its possible to get your machine to boot stright into arcadeOS, never seeing WIN98. you need to add a couple of lines to your autoexec.bat file and change your MSDOS.SYS file.

1. Go to C: and change your folder to view all files.

2. open MSDOS.SYS in notepad and change the BOOTGUI=1 to BOOTGUI=0

3. In your autoexec.bat file add the lines:

CD C:\ARCADEOS
ARCADEOS
CLS

This should boot your computer stright into arcadeOS in around 5 seconds. I have added a small program to my arcadeOS folder called "ATXOFF"  that I found while searching the net, if you add the line: ATXOFF with this program in the folder the machine shuts down and windows is invisible.

hope this helps.

[Irrek0]

How would I go to C: and change my folder to view all files?