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running mame from dos prompt on winxp

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Buddabing:
Your first post requests something totally different from your second post. Which do you want?


shorthair:
Maybe you want this thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=58809.0

Anubis_au:

--- Quote from: taskmagee on June 21, 2007, 05:48:25 pm ---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.

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Taskmagee, WinXP is fundamentally different from Win95/98. The earlier OSes were a graphical interface built on top of a DOS platform. It can be argued that Win95/98 aren't even OSes but very fancy applications that run in DOS.

WindowsXP is an actual OS and is not DOS based. Microsoft threw in a DOS emulator which you can run to start up command line programs, but because it doesn't run on DOS, there is no way to get a "DOS-only" version of XP, or boot to DOS etc. XP is simply not built that way.

If you want / need to run pure DOS, boot into DOS etc, you need to go back to Win98.

SGT:

--- Quote from: Anubis_au on June 25, 2007, 02:49:59 am ---If you want / need to run pure DOS, boot into DOS etc, you need to go back to Win98.

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If you only want to run pure DOS why not just install DOS instead of win98.

Anubis_au:
If he can find DOS. 98 is easier to get your hands on. But, agreed...

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