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Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
#237521 - 10/28/10 12:17 AM
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Hi. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to run very old and ancient versions of MAME in Windows 7 64bit? I am trying to run MAME 0.36b11, and it's, not to my surprise, giving me a windows compatibility error. I even enabled "run in Windows 98" and "XP" compatibility modes, and still nothing. It's the command line version and I'm using the latest Emu Loader. Is there a work around for this?
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
[Re: Outrun2006]
#237527 - 10/28/10 12:51 AM
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> Hi. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to run very old and ancient versions of MAME
> in Windows 7 64bit? I am trying to run MAME 0.36b11, and it's, not to my surprise,
> giving me a windows compatibility error. I even enabled "run in Windows 98" and "XP"
> compatibility modes, and still nothing. It's the command line version and I'm using
> the latest Emu Loader. Is there a work around for this?
If you got it from MAMEDEV, it's apparent that you didn't read the column headers as it clearly states that MAME 0.36b11 is in fact a "Binary (DOS)". In fact, the first official Windows release was MAME 0.37b15 - you might have better luck with that.
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
[Re: Tafoid]
#237528 - 10/28/10 01:20 AM
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> > Hi. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to run very old and ancient versions of
> MAME
> > in Windows 7 64bit? I am trying to run MAME 0.36b11, and it's, not to my surprise,
> > giving me a windows compatibility error. I even enabled "run in Windows 98" and
> "XP"
> > compatibility modes, and still nothing. It's the command line version and I'm using
> > the latest Emu Loader. Is there a work around for this?
>
> If you got it from MAMEDEV, it's apparent that you didn't read the column headers as
> it clearly states that MAME 0.36b11 is in fact a "Binary (DOS)". In fact, the first
> official Windows release was MAME 0.37b15 - you might have better luck with that.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
So I'll have no choice but to use 0.37b15 binaries and up in order to run in Windows? I see. Thanks for the heads dude 
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
[Re: Outrun2006]
#237531 - 10/28/10 02:10 AM
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You could try running 0.36b11 in Dosbox
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
[Re: jonwil]
#237533 - 10/28/10 02:34 AM
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> You could try running 0.36b11 in Dosbox
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I heard that if you run it in dosbox it will actually break the MAME.exe file, requiring you to re-download and install it. Is this true?
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
[Re: Outrun2006]
#237536 - 10/28/10 03:16 AM
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> I heard that if you run it in dosbox it will actually break the MAME.exe file,
> requiring you to re-download and install it. Is this true?
LOL. i heard, there is life on Mars.
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
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#237540 - 10/28/10 03:52 AM
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
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#237542 - 10/28/10 04:22 AM
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Could use Virtual PC and install DOS.
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
[Re: CiroConsentino]
#237547 - 10/28/10 05:29 AM
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> just use the "DOS box" program. with it you can play old DOS games on Win7
> http://www.dosbox.com/
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Interesting. Does DosBox have a front end? If so, can I then use a mame front end within dosbox's front end, so I don't have to deal with any commandline prompts?
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
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#237563 - 10/28/10 02:18 PM
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
[Re: Outrun2006]
#237567 - 10/28/10 05:04 PM
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> Interesting. Does DosBox have a front end? If so, can I then use a mame front end
> within dosbox's front end, so I don't have to deal with any commandline prompts?
There are frontends for DOSBox itself.
There are no frontends for DOS MAME. You wanted old MAME, that's how it was used
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Re: Guys, how do you run extremely old and prehistroic versions in Windows 7?
[Re: R. Belmont]
#237624 - 10/29/10 08:42 AM
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I see. Thanks. I'll give it a gander some day.
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