Posted by Vincent Valdez on 2, 2000 at 1:52 PM:
In Reply to: FINALLY! A way to transfer files to your MAME machine... posted by robert mcelwee on 2, 2000 at 11:39 AM:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
this is a free util that works like pc anywhere, it doesnt have liek the built in file transfer and stuff, but you can just use network neighborhood for that anyways. This program is smaller in size, and also free. Just thought I'd share this in case anyone could use it.
: I have been using dos 6.0 on my mame machine for some time now. When it was time to transfer files (new versions of mame, roms, etc) I always burned a CD-RW and popped a DOS boot floppy in with cd drivers. Last night I finally sat down and installed Win98 on the machine (with full network support, etc). My cabinet has an arcade monitor so I cannot run Win98 but what I have done is created a boot floppy (Win98) with a msdos.sys file (bootgui=0) included. I wasn't really aware that the msdos.sys file could be on the boot floppy but took a guess and it worked fine. Anyway, I put the boot floppy in when I want to play mame. It loads my "bootgui=0" msdos.sys and my "incabinet=1" arcadeos (meaning it boots up to a command line and runs the arcade monitor version of arcadeos). When I want to upload files to it I just pull the boot floppy out, reboot the computer (using the bootgui=1 from the c:\ drive), and hook up a lan cable to my lan hub. I have PCAnywhere on my MAME machine as well as all of my normal computers so I just log onto the MAME machine with it and use the lan to transfer files. Since I have an ISDN line in my house (with an Ascend ISDN hub) I can surf the web and download stuff directly to my MAME cabinet. Hopefully this information can help get some of you pointed in the right direction. I must have been brain dead because I just hadn't thought of hooking my cab up to the net/lan before (well, I had but I was stuck thinking about how to do with with DOS 6.0).
: BTW, for those of you who don't know, PCAnywhere is a program that lets computer 1 (my normal desktop computer) control computer 2 (my MAME machine). This means that I see computer 2's screen on computer 1's monitor. I can use the mouse, keyboard, hard drives, etc just like I was sitting at the other (#2) computer.