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Hiding DOS box on MAME startup
« on: May 03, 2005, 06:24:29 pm »
I am using windowsXp.Does any one knows a way to hide dos box? when launch mame through command prompt.Actually i have make an autoexec.bat file and put that file at startup..
for example: i want to run pacman directly after XP boots.
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Re: Hiding DOS box on MAME startup
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2005, 09:11:29 pm »
Why does it need to be in a batch file?  Can't you just make a shortcut and put it in your StartUp group (or even better, HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run)?

It seems to me that that would solve your problem.

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Re: Hiding DOS box on MAME startup
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2005, 08:31:58 am »
Here's my question: why are you using Windows XP to run Pac-Man?  You can run that easily with DOS and much lesser hardware.  Or do you just want to boot to Pac-Man, and run other games after?
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Re: Hiding DOS box on MAME startup
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2005, 06:36:42 am »
Peale, Not using DOS this time,i will not buy any cheap sound card.

For windowsXP what i have done is make that autoexex.bat file as windows SHELL.

Dos box still comes up and annoy me everytimes.

I used NLITE utility to shrink WindowsXP Backup 500+MB to 140MB.
now it boots and run more faster than win98.
 

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Re: Hiding DOS box on MAME startup
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2005, 02:22:24 pm »
on my puter there's an option in the bios to show startup screen or show a boot logo....you could make your own boot logo and have it show on startup.  I think it needs to be 16 colors and 640x480 tho....someone correct me if I'm wrong....
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