Posted by Sirwinston on 22, 2001 at 6:51 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Games People Play posted by Chuck on 22, 2001 at 5:17 PM:
That's one of the reasons I gave up on ArcadeOS and just started using Mame32. But while I was using it, I solved that problem with a backup mame.cfg and a batch file, something like:
cd c:/games/mame/
del mame.cfg
copy mame.bak mame.cfg
cd c:/games/arcadeos/
arcadeos
I never had the problem with individual game settings disappearing, but if you do you could always make a backup of your entire game config directory once you get the settings you like, and have a batch file restore it each time you run ArcadeOS.
It's an idea, at least. Although, I'm not sure how quickly DOS would handle a big operation like that.
I always ran ArcadeOS through Windows, which led to the second problem I had with it: it took up 90% of CPU time when it wasn't doing anything. Weird. Games ran fine, so I guess it was only using so much CPU time on idle, not when the PC really needed them, but still it was disconcerting and drove my CPU temp up.
BTW, am I the only one who ran ArcadeOS in Windows all the time? Or does anyone else here do it? And do you have the same problems I used to?