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Frontend for DOS mame

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First post, by theelf

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HI! i made a simple mame frontend for DOS, inspired in old bootleg famicom/nes multicarts, my idea was something small and fast, using only text mode

Finally i decide to use 40x25 text mode, and made the sound similar to old multicarts using pcspeaker

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The frontend can read a ini, when is possible to disable or enable sound, change colors, etc or whithout the ini just load default values, the executable is 5kb, and only need a list.txt file with list of games with full+short name separed with a # simbol, for example

2020 SUPER BASEBALL#2020BB

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Ok here is the frontend, hope someone enjoy, im happy to have a frontend for mame, since in my opinions the one already exist for dos or are too bloated or dont work well

Reply 1 of 4, by zyzzle

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Thank you so much. That is really fabulous! Eliminates all the crap, bloat, images, art, etc and just provide a list of the games and opportunity to read in an ini file and start. Perfect.

Suggestion for next version: allow optional 80x25 mode for longer titles. Otherwise, it's perfect and needs nothing else to remain lean and 100% functional.

Will be very useful.

Reply 2 of 4, by theelf

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zyzzle wrote on 2025-02-12, 02:41:

Thank you so much. That is really fabulous! Eliminates all the crap, bloat, images, art, etc and just provide a list of the games and opportunity to read in an ini file and start. Perfect.

Suggestion for next version: allow optional 80x25 mode for longer titles. Otherwise, it's perfect and needs nothing else to remain lean and 100% functional.

Will be very useful.

Hi, thanks, I hate most of frontends, are heavy, full of graphics, sound, and even if you turn off most of stuff, still are bloated and slow

I m not a fan of small letters for frontends, but here you have

If you test, please tellme any error, i add the 80x25 textmode in 10minutes without check much

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Reply 3 of 4, by zyzzle

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Thanks. 80x25 mode works well for me. No errors yet found. If I find any in future, I'll let you know, but this is outstanding work.

Finally DOS MAME is turnkey - easy to just select a game and play.

Reply 4 of 4, by theelf

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zyzzle wrote on 2025-02-20, 13:51:

Thanks. 80x25 mode works well for me. No errors yet found. If I find any in future, I'll let you know, but this is outstanding work.

Finally DOS MAME is turnkey - easy to just select a game and play.

thanks a lot, enjoy

I will update as soon i can with some stuff i need, specially maybe use F1-F12 to store different systems, like neogeo, cps2, taito, etc etc

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