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Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« on: June 16, 2003, 02:57:23 pm »
What are the advantages and disadvantages of them as regards display and controls.
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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2003, 03:08:47 pm »
Not to make your choice harder, but I've been thinking about using a Linux box instead. Have you thought about that?

It seems like the AdvanceMame and AdvanceMenu projects are pretty stable.

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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2003, 03:13:26 pm »
DOS pros: small, fast boot
cons:  made for alod architecture, can't really handle anything above 256 megs of memory:)  Was not designed for today's stuff.  no USB.

Windows Pros:  Lots of FEs.  Get all of the features of mame and other emus.  

Linux cons: no good frontends.
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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2003, 04:38:43 pm »
Mac OS? ( not really but it could be a choice ).
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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2003, 04:59:44 pm »
Quote from: Stormdemon on June 16, 2003, 02:57:23 pm
What are the advantages and disadvantages of them as regards display and controls.

I replied to your other thread at ultimarc board on the same topic

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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2003, 05:23:10 pm »
Quote from: SirPoonga on June 16, 2003, 03:13:26 pm
DOS pros: small, fast boot
cons:  made for alod architecture, can't really handle anything above 256 megs of memory:)  Was not designed for today's stuff.  no USB.

Windows Pros:  Lots of FEs.  Get all of the features of mame and other emus.  

Linux cons: no good frontends.

Agree with what SirPoonga said above.  Also, I am not sure if Dos does hardware stretching in MAME or not.

Wasn't there a frontend or version of mame like MAME32 for Linux called Gmame or sth?  Look here:  http://linuxemu.retrofaction.com/emu/mamefend.html
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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2003, 05:38:48 pm »
Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 16, 2003, 05:23:10 pm
Quote from: SirPoonga on June 16, 2003, 03:13:26 pm
DOS pros: small, fast boot
cons:  made for alod architecture, can't really handle anything above 256 megs of memory:)  Was not designed for today's stuff.  no USB.

Windows Pros:  Lots of FEs.  Get all of the features of mame and other emus.  

Linux cons: no good frontends.

Agree with what SirPoonga said above.  Also, I am not sure if Dos does hardware stretching in MAME or not.

Wasn't there a frontend or version of mame like MAME32 for Linux called Gmame or sth?  Look here:  http://linuxemu.retrofaction.com/emu/mamefend.html

gxmame, it's the mame32 of linux.  I use it right now on my cabinet.
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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2003, 06:23:28 pm »
Quote from: SirPoonga on June 16, 2003, 03:13:26 pm
Linux cons: no good frontends.

Actually, there are a couple good ones for X.  What I'd like to see are some for svgalib, but there aren't any that I'm aware of.  (except AdvanceMenu)
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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2003, 06:30:11 pm »
i use windows 98 se with arcade os... seems to work good and the statup isn't insanely long...
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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2003, 06:37:32 pm »
The Game Launcher site (http://www.dribin.org/dave/game_launcher/) says that there is a unix/linux version.  It looks like you may have to compile it yourself, though...I haven't tried to run MAME on linux yet.

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Re:Dos or Windows, what's your choice?
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2003, 07:50:39 pm »
Quote from: Big Moe on June 16, 2003, 06:37:32 pm
The Game Launcher site (http://www.dribin.org/dave/game_launcher/) says that there is a unix/linux version.  It looks like you may have to compile it yourself, though...I haven't tried to run MAME on linux yet.

I just took a sneak peek at the source...I can't tell whether or not it uses X or SVGALib.  If I were a programmer, it'd be easy, I'm sure.

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