So with Windows 95 the TCP/IP protocol is not installed by default, to get it going: - Right click on "Network neighbourhood" select properties - Click Add - select protocol and click add - Choose Microsoft -> TCP/IP click OK - It will ask for an install disk, browse to the install CDROM d...

Thanks mhoes that link did the trick. So on Windows to get MAME networking working I did: - Use the standard mame64.exe binary (Don't need to do a special build, it took 10 hours building on my box) - Install TAP network adapter from here https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ (You only need to se...

Well I built on windows with msys2 using:

make REGENIE=1 USE_NETWORK=1

Didn't seem to help.

0.219 Windows Dear Forum I installed Windows 95 on ct486 all works pretty well, start like so: mame64.exe ct486 -window -ramsize 64M -isa2 sblaster_16 -isa3 3c503 -board3:ide:ide:1 cdrom -hard1 HardDrive486.chd I installed the TCP/IP stack and configured it in the machine (Win95). I can ping my self...

Dear Forum I’d really appreciate it if anyone here can give me some feedback on the following: https://mame.spludlow.co.uk/MameHashStore.aspx It’s a ROM store and management strategy / software that takes a different approach. Intended for serious MAME users, and developers, that want to stay comple...

MAME 0.218 I've noticed a few software rom filenames that have been giving me a little grief, doing various things. Non ASCII - there are only 22, 7 of them are just European accents, the other 15 look like incorrect encoding. Long - I'm classing long as > 180, only 5 of them with one being 228. For...

BTW Using: -state_directory %APPDATA%\MAME\sta Does work, but this is because cmd is expanding the environment variable, you can tell by looking at task manager. Suppose I can workaround the problem by having a bat to launch MAME with all 7 output directories passed as parameters but its a bit messy...

Thanks for having a look. Sorry should have mentioned I'm not using a front end. That's just the path to a default MAME. Anyway forget about that I still have the problem with a simplified test (all from local drive) : - Extract fresh MAME binaries C:\mame0217b_64bit\ - Start MAME Configure Options ...

Mame 0.217 Windows I’ve been experimenting with running the MAME application from a read only network share, its working pretty well but… It doesn’t seem to look in the right place when loading state. I configured the INI like so: state_directory %APPDATA%\MAME\sta When I save everything is sound. W...

Thanks for the detailed answer.

Indeed a perfect world would be nice, but I recon I can live with this.

Cheers