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Denverlatino

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how to directly boot into a game?
« on: December 22, 2007, 04:12:23 pm »
i have a very old laptop that i stripped, and plan to build a dedicated pacman only bartop cab, so i was wondering if someone has experience into making mame boot directly into the a game , maybe no os just dos or somenthing like that, can anyoe help me. thanks for reading.
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Re: how to directly boot into a game?
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2007, 04:17:10 pm »
A batch file.... once dos and mame are installed modify your autoexec.bat to launch mame with the game in question.
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Re: how to directly boot into a game?
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2007, 04:33:24 pm »
Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 22, 2007, 04:17:10 pm
A batch file.... once dos and mame are installed modify your autoexec.bat to launch mame with the game in question.
but there is no dos mame anymore, let me search first, cus im not really sure...
 :cheers: thanks for the tip.
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Re: how to directly boot into a game?
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2007, 04:52:20 pm »
Quote from: Denverlatino on December 22, 2007, 04:33:24 pm
Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 22, 2007, 04:17:10 pm
A batch file.... once dos and mame are installed modify your autoexec.bat to launch mame with the game in question.
but there is no dos mame anymore, let me search first, cus im not really sure...
 :cheers: thanks for the tip.

..Or just put a shortcut to it in the startup folder of windows..  Eg see pic
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Re: how to directly boot into a game?
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2007, 05:03:02 pm »
Quote from: loadman on December 22, 2007, 04:52:20 pm
Quote from: Denverlatino on December 22, 2007, 04:33:24 pm
Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 22, 2007, 04:17:10 pm
A batch file.... once dos and mame are installed modify your autoexec.bat to launch mame with the game in question.
but there is no dos mame anymore, let me search first, cus im not really sure...
 :cheers: thanks for the tip.

..Or just put a shortcut to it in the startup folder of windows..  Eg see pic
no os sounds better, in that way the cab will have the felling of an original game... thanks anyway :cheers:
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