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WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) Bolex I was becoming bored with my WSP (Since it makes a crappy web-surfer on my TV. The only thing that I like about it is the fact that it plays MP3's) I then had the brillian idea of making the thing into an arcade machine. I installed DOS on the DOC. Installed the drivers to my Printer-Port CD-ROM. Installed the SB16 sound drivers. I then installed Nesticle, an MSDOS based NES emulator. Nesticle has it's own front end, it looks great on the TV. I then copied over about 55 NES roms to the DOC. The WSP boots off the DOC, plays NES games - No hard disk needed. I figure I can put about 2000 rom images onto a CD-ROM. It will be the ultimate Nintendo Emulator. The next step is to get an MSDOS based MP3 player. I can burn the MP3's onto a CD-ROM, and then I'm all set. I know that most people don't have a printer-port CD-ROM drive, but there are plenty of crappy printer-port zip drives out there. You can usually pick then up real cheap used. It should work just as good. I can make an image of my DOC if anyone is interested. Bolex 05-16-2000 19:01:22

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) MeatHook Hey man, I would like a copy of you DoC if you wouldnt mind making one. If you could post it some place, that would be cool too, but if not, i will figure somethign out!! Thanks Meat 05-16-2000 21:27:35

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) done waitin Why stop there????? These emulators are so small I put 20 of them on my DOC and have been playing for about 2 weeks. I have an IDE card that also has a joystick port so I run my cdrom and play the games off of there. You must have a joystick as playing console games sucks with a keyboard. I have an nes, snes, atari 2600,7800 sega, genesis MAME<-multiple arcade machine emulator, Rane, neorage, and many more playing off of the machine. Lets see how far we can take this. I think this thing could be an ultimate console for 8 and 16 bit video games I am currently building a front end that starts up from the autoexec when the WS is turned on. It is a menu that has joystick support. it lets you choose what emulator you want to play. I am even making it configurable so users can add or delete menu items. anyone interested??? 05-16-2000 23:32:11

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) Bolex Well..this is what I have so far. I found a DOS based web-browser. It has built in dial-up and email support. It also has a multi-media browser that will play MP3's as well as VCD's. It's pretty impresive. http://home.arachne.cz/ The only emulator that I have so far is the nesticle, but I plan to install more. I have abut 10 meg free on the hard drive still (after installing all the drivers and the web browser). I still plan on putting all the ROM's on CD. All this running off just the DOC. Bolex 05-16-2000 23:47:56

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) Datoyminaytah Don't forget about MAME. http://www.mame.dk 05-17-2000 06:33:13

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) El Barto This is a project I'm interested in...my WSP is being shipped today and a multi-console system is one plan I had for it. You can fit WELL over 2000 NES ROMs on a single CD. I made a CD with a TON of Atari 2600 ROMs, 999 GameBoy, and 1,018 NES ROMs, plus emulators, and all that took about 450MB. The NES ROMs, if I remember correctly, took up 250MB or so. I plan on putting in a 1GB hard drive and installing Linux, though...for now...till I get a 10GB hard drive. I'd like to see where this project is going. Here's an idea: Find a way to modify an SNES, Genesis, NES, etc. etc. game pad to be able to be connected to the WSP. Could it work through the serial port? 05-17-2000 08:27:24

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) JayDaSinnFeinPimp Heres the pinouts for connecting a SNES pad through a Printer port http://members.tripod.de/SK/ 05-17-2000 09:24:52

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) LastLink Have you posted the image of your DOC anywhere Bolex? 05-22-2000 12:47:59

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) Bolex No I haven't. I need to reinstall everything before I create the image. I need to clean the disk up a bit. I'll try to get the image posted this weekend. I've been looking for another front end, and I want to try this software called NewDeal Office 98. http://www.newdealinc.com It's a DOS interface that has a word processor, email, and browser built in. If any of you remember a GUI called GEOS for the commodore 64 and DOS back in the early 90's, this is the next version. (I had GEOS version 1.2 running on an old 8088 laptop about 5 years ago) The sytem requirements are a 286 with 640k of ram and 10 meg of disk space. They use this OS in some word processors. I think this will work better than what I'm using now. It looks better, and it has a file manager that should be able to launch any DOS game emulator. There is a demo version you can download, but I want to try to see if I can get the real McCoy on ebay or something. I think the $80.00 price tag is a little high for my WSP budget. Bolex 05-25-2000 16:34:34

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) Enrico_Suave Bolex... What SB16 drivers did you use? (care to share a link?) Thanks, Enrico 05-28-2000 17:10:56

RE:WSP as excellent game emulator - No Hard drive needed. (modified 0 times) Bolex The DOS sound drivers that I used are here: http://www.clok.creaf.com/creative/drivers/sb16awe/sbbasic.exe These are the basic SB16 drivers. I rem'd this line from the config.sys...it didn't seem to be doing anything: DEVICE=C:\SB16\CSP.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 Make sure that the IRQ, and DMA settings in the BIOS for you sound, match the settings in the Autoexec.bat and config.sys. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. 05-28-2000 22:42:05

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