Posted by Stan on 18, 2000 at 2:11 PM:
In Reply to: Here is the BEST configuration for DOS ONLY Mame! Also how I got CWSDPMI and EMM386.EXE to work together and am now able to load ANY size game/app in my cab. posted by Stan on 15, 2000 at 12:13 PM:
1) Which DOS are you using? I know win98se has 7.10 but your pathing DOS in
the config.. What version of DOS is in here??
I'm using Win98SE (7.10) the DOS directory has 6.22 in it only for the commands that are missing in Win98's COMMAND directory. Like DELTREE, HELP, Ect.
2)
DEVICEHIGH=C:\IOMEGA\ASPIATAPI.SYS SCAN INFO |
DEVICEHIGH=C:\IOMEGA\SCSIDRVR.SYS INFO | Is this your
scanner loading?
No scanner for a MAME cab! These drivers are for my IDE (atapi) Zip Drive. I've been using it to take my code back and forth to work while I develope Mon-ARC 2.0
3)
SET CMDLINE= Are you missing something here?
CMDLINE= is used to make that environment variable blank. That's it...
4)
CTTY NUL
What exactly is this doing? Are you setting up your monitor here for the
cabinet??
CTTY NUL will stop the output of the autoexec commands like C:\command.exe >NUL will do but for everything. That way my screen can stay clean. I re-enable the display with the CTTY CON command. There is NO way to stop the output from commands being executed in the config.sys that I could find.
5) C:\UTILS\TWEAK\TWEAK /LOAD What tweak program are you using? Is this for
your Graphics card?
TweakBIOS is a very cool program for changing the chipset features for your motherboard and add in cards. So it allows me to modify and tweak everything in the system for maximum performance.
http://www.miro.pair.com/tweakbios/
6)
L=128756 this is what I have for emm
L= is the amount of memory in your system. I have 128mb so should use L=131072 (formula is 1024 x {mem size}). I tried to use that amount but for some reason it would come back and report "Not enough memory" so I took away 32mb.