before you start;

• install you dos sound card drivers
  
• verify your soundcard environment settings e.g. in c:\autoexec set blaster=a220 i5 t4
  
• verify your sound card is working

mame;

• decide which version of dos mame is suitable for your hardware i.e. Intel, AMD etc
  
• download the desired version of dos mame
  
• unzip the contents of the dos mame archive to a folder of your choice, typically c:\mame
  
• configure mame.ini to match your settings
  
• place your zipped roms in the roms folder i.e. pacman.zip in c:\mame\roms
  
• place any required zipped sound samples in the samples folder i.e. c:\mame\samples
  
• from c:\mame; run dmame pacman