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taskmagee:
I'm trying to set up dos to start running mame when i open it from windows xp. I know it can be done on the older windows versions through the dosstart.bat file. I can't seem to figure it out for xp. Can any one help with this.


Thanks,
Kenny

severdhed:
i'm not sure i follow you. 

are you trying to get mame to run as soon as windows starts?  or something else?

ahofle:
Why not just run a MAME batch file instead of running a DOS prompt and then auto-starting MAME?  ???
You can't 'Shut down to DOS prompt' in XP like in win95/98 if that's what you are talking about.
It might help if you describe what exactly you are trying to accomplish.

taskmagee:
I want to run mame in a dos only system. I want mame to start up as soon as you turn on the computer, but before I put it in a spare computer that I have, I want to make sure I can get it to work.

Howard_Casto:
The only way you can do that is to dual boot your system or make a bootable floppy disc or cdrom with dos (and mame, roms ect..) on it.  You cannot run dos within xp because xp doesn't have a dos mode. 

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