Posted by Chuck on 22, 2001 at 7:49 PM:
In Reply to: The older versions have the bug too posted by Sirwinston on 22, 2001 at 6:51 PM:
I run in straight DOS (I have no desire to deal with Windows). I really love AOS, I just want to fix the bugs.
I've thought about the batch file solution. The other thing I thought of is to get my setting like I want them, and make mame.cfg a read-only file. I haven't tried it yet, but it could work.
Chuck
: 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?