A Wells Gardner U3100 Monitor isn't an arcade monitor *NT*


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Posted by robert mcelwee on 2, 2000 at 2:40 PM:

In Reply to: Re: FINALLY! A way to transfer files to your MAME machine... posted by Ron Critchfield on 2, 2000 at 2:36 PM:

: I'm not sure why you say that you can't boot to Win98 with an arcade monitor. I just received my ArcadePC which comes with a Wells Gardner Series U3100 Monitor. It runs Win98 fine, as long as I stay at 640x480 resolution. I wouldn't want to work on it, but it's connected to my home network so transferring files is a breeze.

: -Ron

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: : 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.




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