mame32 as windows98 shell.

[Vampyre]

Ive tried a bunch of stuff to get mame32 to run as the shell on my 98 box but no luck.

if i change shell=explorer.exe to shell=c:\mame\mame32.exe

all the directorys are wrong ,. but if i change them the next boot they are still wrong ,. what are my options ?

[nipsmg]

At the very least, I'd suspect you'd have to change the mame32 source a little bit.  I'd think you'd want to add the ability to restart/shutdown from the program.

As a sidenote, you may want to take a look at Litestep (A windows shell replacement).  There's a small learning curve (I was customizing it within an hour), but it is HIGHLY customizable.. You can add only what you want to it, have it boot to MAME32, and still have the ability to shutdown, configure the system, etc, but you can also customize special hotkeys or key/button combinations to access these functions.

(This way also, you can make the interface only contain shortcuts (with custom graphics, bitmaps, whatever) to various windows/dos based emulators.)

--NipsMG

[Vampyre]

yeah i used to use litestep on my machine ,. im not to bothered with shutting the machine down ,. ill give litestep a run on this machine and see how it goes.