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Posted by Howard Casto on 24, 2001 at 12:20 AM:

In Reply to: Re: Mostly right... posted by Tony C on 23, 2001 at 11:01 PM:

There is sometimes limited dos support on some devices in true dos mode, it depends on your motherboard and your usb ports.
It's still very unlikely though.

To answer your question about win vs dos....

The advantage of dos is you don't have to worry about windows and it bloated sys requirements.

The advantage of windows is you don't have to worry about dos's crappy hardware/software support.

It's personal preference really.

I like windows because you can run any dos emus/apps and still have the functionality of windows.

It used to be that all the front-ends were dos, but the latest trend is that developers are going towards windows emus. (Myself included) AOS is a good example of what dos FE's have to offer. My FE, Emulaxian, and Boris's A Player are good examples of what win FE's have to offer.

As you can tell, in general ours (win fe's) are prettier.
;P

: Thanks for the clarification. A follow-up question... Are there advantages to running the DOS version? Besides quicker boot times.. Is the DOS version by any chance faster than the Win32 port? Beyond USB, does the Windows port give you anything else? I know about frontends like ArcadeOS for DOS, but aren't there comparable frontends for Windows?

: Thanks, this info is helping me out tremendously.

: : : :Will it be supported in DOS versions of MAME?

: : : No.

: : Sorry for the repost, but actually USB mice do work with DOS MAME when run under Windows. Okay, so I'm just nitpicking now, but I want the original poster to realize that USB support doesn't vary depending on which version of MAME you run, but which environment.




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