A couple of Mamewah probs

[redsquirrel2005]

hey all..

About 1 year or so ago, I had my Mame cab all set up and working fine. Cant remember what version of mame and mamewah i was running though.

Anyway the HD broke, and Ive been setting it all up on a new HD with the newest version of mame and mamewah - but am having a few probs.

Firstly, I just can not get my layouts working right. Ive chosen to use 800x600 images and placed them in my layout "classic 800x600" directory. They do not show in mamewah, although the layouts seem okay. Messed around in layout designer and not much luck.

Secondly, if I try to start a game it comes up with a dos box saying "mame.exe c:\roms" whatever... And does nothing. I dont want the box coming up in either case, and no games are loading.

^^^^^^^^^^^^ think i fixed the dosbox prob.

Has mamewahs built in configs gone now? I pressume they have been moved to ini files..

[Minwah]

Firstly, I just can not get my layouts working right. Ive chosen to use 800x600 images and placed them in my layout "classic 800x600" directory. They do not show in mamewah, although the layouts seem okay. Messed around in layout designer and not much luck.

Make sure the image files are named appropriately, see \mamewah\docs\layouts.txt for full details.

Has mamewahs built in configs gone now? I pressume they have been moved to ini files..

Yes, you need to edit the ini files.  On my links page there is something called MAMEWAH Config (made by Screaming) which is a nice interface with which to edit the ini's - try it out

OT do you have anything to do with the Red Squirrel emulator?

[redsquirrel2005]

Firstly, I just can not get my layouts working right. Ive chosen to use 800x600 images and placed them in my layout "classic 800x600" directory. They do not show in mamewah, although the layouts seem okay. Messed around in layout designer and not much luck.

Make sure the image files are named appropriately, see \mamewah\docs\layouts.txt for full details.

Has mamewahs built in configs gone now? I pressume they have been moved to ini files..

Yes, you need to edit the ini files.

[Minwah]

cheers Ill have a look then. Why did you move away from setting everything up in mamewah, to using ini files? Just wondered! (Probably makes things easier for you I assume).

Basically yes.  But also, you needed a keyboard to enter paths etc. anyway, and you only need to setup an emulator once (in theory), and people could mess up your settings so I figure it is better this way.  It makes it a lot easier for me to update too.

Also fraid not, I have not even heard of the red squirrel emulator before!

It's an Acorn Archimedes emulator...I haven't used it for a while but we had one of those at school and there are a handful of decent games for it (the graphics were pretty impressive at the time, to me anyway)