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DOS Vantage autostart question
« on: October 28, 2005, 06:54:50 pm »
I'm building a little DOS machine with Vantage.  I will try to use a arcade@home frontend (anything better for this purpose?).  After booting the machine how can I get it to go right into the program with no intervention?  I don't know if this is possible but someone here surely does!  thanks ---Erich
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Re: DOS Vantage autostart question
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2005, 08:39:10 pm »
Quote from: unix4hire on October 28, 2005, 06:54:50 pm
I will try to use a arcade@home frontend (anything better for this purpose?). 

ArcadeOS?
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Re: DOS Vantage autostart question
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2005, 10:27:48 pm »
Quote from: Count von Count on October 28, 2005, 08:39:10 pm
Quote from: unix4hire on October 28, 2005, 06:54:50 pm
I will try to use a arcade@home frontend (anything better for this purpose?). 

ArcadeOS?

Yeah, that's what I meant.  oops. ???
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Re: DOS Vantage autostart question
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2005, 11:19:32 am »
Quick answer: open C:\autoexec.bat in a text editor and make sure the last line reads
C:\arcadeos\arcadeos.exe
or points to wherever you put ArcadeOS.


If you're not so familiar with DOS it can all be pretty confusing.
Here's an exe that you can extract to a floppy disk. It boots straight to GameLauncher (in debug mode) and is set up to run Vantage
http://www.wickedretarded.com/misc/vantage-floppy6.exe
Essentially, your hard drive should be set up in the same way as this floppy disk.
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Re: DOS Vantage autostart question
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2005, 10:50:01 am »
Quote from: JoyMonkey on October 29, 2005, 11:19:32 am
Quick answer: open C:\autoexec.bat in a text editor and make sure the last line reads
C:\arcadeos\arcadeos.exe
or points to wherever you put ArcadeOS.


If you're not so familiar with DOS it can all be pretty confusing.
Here's an exe that you can extract to a floppy disk. It boots straight to GameLauncher (in debug mode) and is set up to run Vantage
http://www.wickedretarded.com/misc/vantage-floppy6.exe
Essentially, your hard drive should be set up in the same way as this floppy disk.

Thank you very much!  I'll give it a try today.
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