Re: MAME w/ AOS in pure DOS

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: I thought about a few things on my way home from work today; : first, are you running in pure DOS, or under a windows shell? : Second, the TNT card is pretty picky about a few BIOS settings, you will have no end of problems if these are set wrong: : (1) make sure that VIDEO BIOS SHADOW is DISABLED : (2) make sure that SYSTEM BIOS SHADOW is DISABLED : (3) make sure that ENABLE IRQ FOR VGA is ENABLED : after checking these settings (and tweaking them if need be), try running : dmame -soundcard 0 dkong : (or another rom if you dont have dkong) : if it still locks up on the blank screen, try the following: : (1) REM out ALL device drivers in config.sys (should only have files= and buffers=) : (2) REM out ALL device drivers in autoexec.bat : then try it again. if it *still* locks up, try pulling the sound card and try again. it is *possible* that you have some kind of HW conflict between your sound card and the video card; if this last suggestion helps, try moving the sound card to a different slot. Remember that Windows will re-assign IRQs to avoid conflicts; DOS won't do this for (to? <g>) you. : Again, I have had MUCH better luck with SB16 cards under DOS - you can pick these up for a song on EBay. also check your local goodwill or the like - you might find an old 486 or pentium with a good SB16 ISA card for really cheap (that's how I got my last one) : : sure that would be great(my email is included this time) : : its a Dell Dimension : : 256 MB RAM : : Turtle Beach Montego A3D PCI sound Card : : Pentium II 450 MHZ : : nVIDIA TNT 1.10 graphics card : : : Great, I'll send you a link as soon as it is ready. What is the configuration of the system that you are installing on? (memory, cpu, soundcard, etc) : : : : : currently i am loading nothing in config.sys. : : : : i would be interested in the distribution and would be willing to try it out. : : : : thanks a bunch. : : : : : What are you loading in config.sys? I have had problems with MAME and AOS when loading memory managers (ie, QEMM, HIMEM, or EMM386). Note that these are completely unnecessary when running DPMI apps like MAME. : : : : : I am contemplating releasing a simple distribution to make setting up a DOS based cab easier; just about have a bootable ISO ready for testing. Let me know if you are interested and I'l post it for you to try out. : : : : : : : : : : : Wait a few more seconds after that, it should come up. Also, you only need cwsdpmi.exe, you can delete the other files. : : : : : : : i have been trying to get MAME w/ ArcadeOS frontend to run in pure DOS, when i do i get this error "Load Error - no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip". I got csdpmi5b.zip from http://www.mameworld.net/dosmame/downloads.htm and putting the 4 cws files(cwsparam.exe, cwsdstub.exe,cwsdpr0.exe,and cwsdpmi.exe) that came with it in both the Arcadeos folder and the Mame folder. now everytime i restart in pure DOS mode and try to run Arcadeos it waits a couple seconds and the screen goes blank and nothing happens. what am i doing wrong?

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