Re: Maybe your looking in the wrong direction... (read on)

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Posted by EmuMannen on 13, 2000 at 9:41 AM:

In Reply to: HELP! Looking for older ArcadeOS posted by Nickster on 12, 2000 at 5:36 PM:

ArcadeOS is great, I once used it my self. I later moved to Game Launcer and that is also a beautiful frontend for pure DOS, if you don't need arcade monitor support. I have now finally installed AdvanceMenu and boy does it rock!!!

What I love about it is the simplicity and the many ways you can view, include, exclude and sort games. Perfect in a cabinet! And you don't have to use AdvanceMAME with it. I use regular MAME and I have a multisync monitor so I didn't even have to fiddle with the MV.exe util at all. Just put MM.EXE and a cool font for it (or use the default) in the MAME directory and you are ready to go (you might have to remap some keys in MM.CFG to make it work with your control panel setup). You will need game screenshots in the MAME snap directory for maximum usability but they can easely be downloaded from the www.arcadeathome.com site.

Try it out, play a lot with it (takes some time to understand it's full potential. I also had to play a bit with the colors to get the right cool look of it in my cabinet) and I think you, like I, will stick to it :)

AdvanceMenu can be downloaded from the AdvanceMAME site:

http://advancemame.arcadeheaven.com/

/ EmuMannen

: I have fallen prey to what may be a bug in ArcadeOS 2.40, 2.41, and 2.42. I upgraded from a 2.3 something version (which worked great) to 2.42. My problem is that the sound no longer works. I have a true sound blaster card, so that shouldn't be it. I tried dropping down to 2.41 - same problem. I even found a 2.40 version laying around, and it won't work either.

: Like an idiot, I deleted my only copy of 2.3x and now can't download it from the ArcadeOS web site because it isn't the current version.

: PLEASE HELP! I have some friends coming for the week and I can't play my arcade! I could jump to MAME32 or something, but I have ArcadeOS figured out pretty good, and like not having to boot into windows.
: If someone could email it to me, that would be great.

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: ArcadeOS is great, I once used it my self. I later moved to Game Launcer and that is also a beautiful frontend for pure DOS, if you don't need arcade monitor support. I have now finally installed AdvanceMenu and boy does it rock!!! : What I love about it is the simplicity and the many ways you can view, include, exclude and sort games. Perfect in a cabinet! And you don't have to use AdvanceMAME with it. I use regular MAME and I have a multisync monitor so I didn't even have to fiddle with the MV.exe util at all. Just put MM.EXE and a cool font for it (or use the default) in the MAME directory and you are ready to go (you might have to remap some keys in MM.CFG to make it work with your control panel setup). You will need game screenshots in the MAME snap directory for maximum usability but they can easely be downloaded from the www.arcadeathome.com site. : Try it out, play a lot with it (takes some time to understand it's full potential. I also had to play a bit with the colors to get the right cool look of it in my cabinet) and I think you, like I, will stick to it :) : AdvanceMenu can be downloaded from the AdvanceMAME site: : http://advancemame.arcadeheaven.com/ : / EmuMannen : : I have fallen prey to what may be a bug in ArcadeOS 2.40, 2.41, and 2.42. I upgraded from a 2.3 something version (which worked great) to 2.42. My problem is that the sound no longer works. I have a true sound blaster card, so that shouldn't be it. I tried dropping down to 2.41 - same problem. I even found a 2.40 version laying around, and it won't work either. : : Like an idiot, I deleted my only copy of 2.3x and now can't download it from the ArcadeOS web site because it isn't the current version. : : PLEASE HELP! I have some friends coming for the week and I can't play my arcade! I could jump to MAME32 or something, but I have ArcadeOS figured out pretty good, and like not having to boot into windows. : : If someone could email it to me, that would be great.

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