Mamewah - permission denied error

[babaganoosh]

I am new to MAME, please forgive me if these things are obvious....

I am running Mamewah on a win 98 machine.  How are you supposed to shut down the machine gracefully with that as the front end?  Break out and go to windows?  

If my kids shut the machine off with the power switch or if the machine crashes, the next time you go into mamewah and try to run a game, you get an error that 'permission denied'. I reinstall mamewah, run that extra mamewah setup app and then you're good to go.  but there has to be an easier way?

[Minwah]

When you exit using the menu you get the option to 'Exit & Shut Down'.  You can also set this as the 'Default Exit Option' (in Misc Options) so that hitting Escape (remappable) shuts down

[babaganoosh]

THanks for that tip on how to shut iut down properly, but I just had that same problem - the power went out this AM and now I get a permission error  when I try to run a game

[Minwah]

THanks for that tip on how to shut iut down properly, but I just had that same problem - the power went out this AM and now I get a permission error  when I try to run a game

Try this:

Make a batch file which does something like (substitute your mame path etc.):

c:
cd\mame
mame > temp
exit

Then run this batch file before MAMEWAH for the first time after boot-up.

I think that might get around the problem