Change of Plans
Monday, 16th February 2004 at 3:02PM (1740 days ago)
so after much messing around and mind changing, i've decided to settle on using freedos. dos you say?? well after looking at the different versions of mame and the different os'es i could use, freedos seems to be the best for a number of reasons:
1) it's free
2) it's very fast! boots in about 2 seconds
3) it's small, only 5MB installed
so i've got freedos installed on the table and have started to slowly copy some test games across via cdrom. networking in dos isn't fun, so instead i'll mount the drive on one of the other machines (as i've only got serial ata on my g5) and copy the files across. yay for osx supporting multiple filesystems.
there are some nice gui frontends for dos that have nice anti-aliasing, etc and they're super lean and quick!