MAMEWAH AND PC GAMES

[colonelsnow]

I am having trouble with PC games and Mamewah.
I successfully generate the list, but when I try to chose one of them itflashes for a second like it is going to load but nothing happens. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong or do only some apps work through Mamewah?

[Bill_S]

I'm having the exact same issue so if you figure it out please post follow-up in the thread!

[BuZz880]

Try with LONG FILENAMES enabled.

[Bill_S]

OK, what goes in Emulator Executable?

I try to put in "PC" like Minwah suggested in another thread, but it won't take it.  Everytime I hit enter it just deletes that back out.  I ended up going out to windows and modifying the ini adding "PC" as the emulator executable.

Could this be another Win98 issue?

[Minwah]

I am having trouble with PC games and Mamewah.
I successfully generate the list, but when I try to chose one of them itflashes for a second like it is going to load but nothing happens. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong or do only some apps work through Mamewah?

Try setting the 'Show DOS Box' to 'Yes'...

[Minwah]

OK, what goes in Emulator Executable?

I try to put in "PC" like Minwah suggested in another thread, but it won't take it.  Everytime I hit enter it just deletes that back out.  I ended up going out to windows and modifying the ini adding "PC" as the emulator executable.

Could this be another Win98 issue?

No, I think I broke the PC thing in v0.951b.  It should work if you edit manually like you have done, but you will need to change the 'ROM Extension' to 'LNK' as well.  I'll fix it for next time

[Bill_S]

OK,
Now that I have SHow DOS box enabled I can see it keeps giving me the bad command or filename error.
I wonder if it is trying to send:
"C:\PC\PC Golden Tee Golf.lnk"
at the commant prompt.
when it needs to send:
"C:\PC\Golden Tee Golf.LNK"

Could that be possible?

[Minwah]

OK,
Now that I have SHow DOS box enabled I can see it keeps giving me the bad command or filename error.
I wonder if it is trying to send:
"C:\PC\PC Golden Tee Golf.lnk"
at the commant prompt.
when it needs to send:
"C:\PC\Golden Tee Golf.LNK"

Could that be possible?

I don't think it will be sending the extra 'PC'...but edit DEBUG.LOG in the MAMEWAH folder and you should see what is being sent...

[Bill_S]

OK I figured it out, sort of.
After looking at the debug file, it looked like everything was ok.  So I started my own command prompt and tried the same command.
For whatever reason my PC won't execute .lnk files from the command prompt.  It returns bad command or filename.
To work around this I made a .bat file for each application I wanted to run.  I just threw a couple commands in each batch file to go into the application's directory and run the executable.  Then in MAMEWAH I changed the ROM extention from LNK to BAT.
It's working now!

Can others execute .LNK files from the command prompt?  
If so, why can't I?

[Minwah]

What exactly is the commandline that MAMEWAH is sending?  It *should* convert it to a short filename...command.com / cmd.exe do not like spaces I believe.  I wonder if it is not doing this?

[Bill_S]

Yeah, it was converting it.
It was sending:
command.com /c c:\pc\golden~1.lnk
I tried executing any .lnk file I could find from the command prompt and it just didn't work.

[Minwah]

Yeah, it was converting it.
It was sending:
command.com /c c:\pc\golden~1.lnk
I tried executing any .lnk file I could find from the command prompt and it just didn't work.

Wierd.  I'll give it a go on my old Win98 machine soon...