Go from MameWAH Shell to Windows 98?

[bigfuz]

Is there a way to leave MAMEWAH, when I went into it as a Shell, and then on "Run an App on Exit" starting up the Windows 98 desktop?

I looked around the boards for a good solutions, but did not find one yet...this post seems to be digging for XP, but did not find an answer?

[Minwah]

I am not sure, but you might have to run Mamewah from your Startup folder (rather than shell) to achieve what you want.

[bigfuz]

Yea, that is one easy way to do it, but I love the "boot into Mamewah" look using the shell.  I can run c:windows\explorer.exe, but this only gets me an explorer window...which lets me do a lot.  From here I can modify the system.ini back, and reboot...but what a pain.

It would be ok if the run app command shot me back to a c: prompt, but not sure how to do that?  Then I could just type "win"...ooops that wont work, since it will hit the system.ini again and throw me back into mamewah, I suppose...

Damn!

[Minwah]

Maybe you could have Mamewah run a batch file which edits/replaces system.ini and reboots the system?

[jfunk]

Maybe you could have Mamewah run a batch file which edits/replaces system.ini and reboots the system?

That's exactly what I did on my brother's system.  Had a batch file that replaced system.ini and the mouse cursors (changed from transparent to normal).  Then another batch file to do the opposite when in the Win98 explorer shell.  Worked great.

[DaemonCollector]

I'd still like to know why this only happens on some systems...on my cab I can exit mamewah and run explorer.exe and have everything be happy..

[Minwah]

I'd still like to know why this only happens on some systems...on my cab I can exit mamewah and run explorer.exe and have everything be happy..

I stopped trying to work out Windows a long time ago...