ArcadeVGA + O/S + Frontend

[mafiasilk]

I have just finished restoring an OLD Jamma cabinet I purchased from eBay, it has a 20" Samsung arcade monitor, 2 players and 6 buttons per player.

The PC im using is a AMD K6 400Mhz, 392mb, 6gb HDD, AWE64 PnP ISA Card.

I was wondering if someone can help me on recommending the O/S I should use to play mame.

What frontend would you recommend?
I tried the Fraggle Boot CD, and It didn't work with my setup?
I now have a Windows 98 setup, and waiting for a F/E, I want to remove the keyboard and mouse eventually and hide the PC in the back of cabinet.

Help appreciated for a newbie!

I used the Jpac and ArcadeVGA card from Ultimarc to complete this project.

Regards.

Mafiasilk.

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I have just finished restoring an OLD Jamma cabinet I purchased from eBay, it has a 20" Samsung arcade monitor, 2 players and 6 buttons per player.

The PC im using is a AMD K6 400Mhz, 392mb, 6gb HDD, AWE64 PnP ISA Card.

I was wondering if someone can help me on recommending the O/S I should use to play mame.

What frontend would you recommend?
I tried the Fraggle Boot CD, and It didn't work with my setup?
I now have a Windows 98 setup, and waiting for a F/E, I want to remove the keyboard and mouse eventually and hide the PC in the back of cabinet.

Help appreciated for a newbie!

I used the Jpac and ArcadeVGA card from Ultimarc to complete this project.

Regards.

Mafiasilk.

I personally would boot win98 into dos with that machine and use either gamelauncher or advancemenu as the fe

if you boot in to windows then both are still a good choice because they are very fast. Alternatively I would suggest to first try a relative simple windows based fe like mamewah to see how it works on your computer.

peter

[Minwah]

I personally would probably use Windows 98, booting in DOS along with ArcadeOS.  That should work pretty well I would think, with those PC specs.  But you could always boot up Windows and give WinMAME a try to compare performance...you do have quite a bit of RAM...

[Minwah]

You beat me to it )p(  

[mafiasilk]

Do you mean 98 loading and then shutdown to dos? or the msdos.sys trick and GUI=0 etc etc to bypass loading 98?

Thanks for the info so far!
Appreciated.

[Minwah]

Do you mean 98 loading and then shutdown to dos? or the msdos.sys trick and GUI=0 etc etc to bypass loading 98?

Edit msdos.sys, yes.  This is a nice clean way of doing it, plus you can add ArcadeOS (or whatever FE) into your autoexec.bat so it runs straight after you switch on

[mafiasilk]

Excellent info! Thanks, works like a dream and fast too for a 400Mhz chip!

Only thing I need to do now is download SB Awe64 PnP ISA Drivers and im away!

Many thanks....

Also a quick note, Arcadeos needs a special mame.dat file for arcadeos to work with the correct resolution for each game. Just a tip from the Ultimarc site.

[mafiasilk]

Got the AWE64 working in DOS, but now I have a problem with vertical games not rotating in arcadeos?

im playing Zaxxon, and nothing I add to arcadeos.cfg or mame.cfg makes a difference?

im using win98 (hacked msdos.sys to boot with no GUI, and configured 98 DOS with drivers for sound)

can anyone mail me their working cfg's?
thx