Hi All,
I have been using Mame32 with WindowsXP and it works great. However, I wish to heighten my arcade experience by building a proper cabinet. At the moment I have an old PC I plan on using with the following specs:
PIII 1GHz
320MB SDRAM
Creative SB PCI 64/128 Card
NVIDIA MX440 Graphics card
Stereo Speakers / Keyboard / CD Drive / Mouse etc
I wish to get this system to boot into an Arcade Frontend and MAME without having to load or install windows (if possible). I have experimented with ArcadeOS and AdvanceMAME but have had no joy as of yet. If anyone could direct me to a step by step tutorial or inform me on how to do this it would be much appreciated!
Also, I have just acquired an old arcade cabinet. It contains a 20" arcade monitor, coinslots, arcade controls (2 player), 1 and 2 player buttons, power supply and Jamma harness. I would really love to get the old PC working in this but I am also uncertain of the best approach.
I thought it might be best to purchase a J-PAC board and hook everything up that way. Anyone with experience or suggestions on how to build my machine would be great! I have found many sites with arcade projects but none of them seem to go into the specifics of setting up MAME and an appropriate frontend or detail monitor configurations.
Cheers,
Paul
By the way - I have tried using Fraggal's boot CD, but have had little joy in getting things working correctly. My sound never works, ROMS dont show up in ArcadeOS and the games look terrible on my PC Monitor. Any help would be appreciated!
I have been using Mame32 with WindowsXP and it works great. However, I wish to heighten my arcade experience by building a proper cabinet. At the moment I have an old PC I plan on using with the following specs:
PIII 1GHz
320MB SDRAM
Creative SB PCI 64/128 Card
NVIDIA MX440 Graphics card
Stereo Speakers / Keyboard / CD Drive / Mouse etc
I wish to get this system to boot into an Arcade Frontend and MAME without having to load or install windows (if possible). I have experimented with ArcadeOS and AdvanceMAME but have had no joy as of yet. If anyone could direct me to a step by step tutorial or inform me on how to do this it would be much appreciated!
Also, I have just acquired an old arcade cabinet. It contains a 20" arcade monitor, coinslots, arcade controls (2 player), 1 and 2 player buttons, power supply and Jamma harness. I would really love to get the old PC working in this but I am also uncertain of the best approach.
I thought it might be best to purchase a J-PAC board and hook everything up that way. Anyone with experience or suggestions on how to build my machine would be great! I have found many sites with arcade projects but none of them seem to go into the specifics of setting up MAME and an appropriate frontend or detail monitor configurations.
Cheers,
Paul
By the way - I have tried using Fraggal's boot CD, but have had little joy in getting things working correctly. My sound never works, ROMS dont show up in ArcadeOS and the games look terrible on my PC Monitor. Any help would be appreciated!