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Title: LunarLander in Mame/Mamewah
Post by: aeroflott on November 17, 2003, 11:16:53 am
Anyone have problems running Lunar Lander under Mamewah? Works OK in MAME32, but trying to run using MAMEWAH/Mame it locks up the whole PC when trying to load up.

Using the same ROM file etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Title: Re:LunarLander in Mame/Mamewah
Post by: Rocky on November 17, 2003, 11:29:08 am
try setting the "Show Dos Box" to Yes or Auto
Title: Re:LunarLander in Mame/Mamewah
Post by: Minwah on November 17, 2003, 01:59:07 pm
Quote from: Rocky on November 17, 2003, 11:29:08 am
try setting the "Show Dos Box" to Yes or Auto

Agreed, it sounds like it has a bad/missing rom...
Title: Re:LunarLander in Mame/Mamewah
Post by: SirPeale on November 17, 2003, 05:53:55 pm
Why would a bad/missing ROM lock up the box?  Shouldn't it just report an error, state the error, and exit?
Title: Re:LunarLander in Mame/Mamewah
Post by: SirPoonga on November 17, 2003, 06:35:25 pm
Because if you have thhe dos box to no it will hide the dos box.  When there is an error you usually have to press ok.  well, if it is hidden you won't be able to do that.

One, what OS are you running? ctrl-al-delete, click mame and end task will most likely fix your problem.  Try running the game form command line to see what happens.
Title: Re:LunarLander in Mame/Mamewah
Post by: Minwah on November 18, 2003, 01:43:32 pm
Quote from: SirPoonga on November 17, 2003, 06:35:25 pm
Because if you have thhe dos box to no it will hide the dos box.  When there is an error you usually have to press ok.  well, if it is hidden you won't be able to do that.

One, what OS are you running? ctrl-al-delete, click mame and end task will most likely fix your problem.  Try running the game form command line to see what happens.

Exactly.  The problem is that the message is displayed in the DOS box, before MAME goes fullscreen (the error isn't presented as per game warnings etc.).

Another fix which I used to do is compile your own MAME build which skips that part by itself :)