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Cabinet running a single rom?
Tiger-Heli:
Personal opinion - it's still going to boot fastest to a HD (and will do just what you want). Floppies are noisy, as are CD-ROMs. PenDrives aren't, but you can probably get something like a used 3.2G HD at the mom and pop computer store for practically free.
juan_caliente:
Actually I just checked my garage and I have 3 old 4 gig hds so I am set there. What do you think would be the fastest way to get pacman to boot?
RayB:
Umm all this talk of booting from a floppy. What OS would fit on a floppy?
Ed_McCarron:
DOS?
thebrownshow:
If you're really concerned about the extra 15 seconds it'll buy you, you can bash your head against the wall with DOS and just have your Autoexec.bat file launch mame and run pac-man right from the start. That all depends on whether or not you can get a souncard to work with DOS... but if that older motherboard has an ISA slot you should be good to go.
Otherwise, just run the most stripped-down version of windows you can and have it launch a batch file on startup that runs MAME. No frontend or anything.
Kind of a shame though, if you're going to put all the guts in there for a fully fledged MAME cabinet, you should at least put a few other games in, like Ms. Pac-Man or Frogger.
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