-= Welcome to Advance DOS MAME Support =-


UNZIP [88K]	Required to unzip de-compress ZIP archives in DOS
WIN ME DOS PATCH [41Kb]	A utility to make your 'Anti-DOS' Windows ME PC have a boot into DOS option.
SYSTEM ANALYSER [183Kb]	An excellent utility which probes your PC and displays your hardware settings
PCI SNIFFER [157Kb]	A great utility which shows you the technical details of your PC's PCI bus.
MS-DOS NETWORK CLIENT DISK 1 of 2 [927Kb]		Want you MAME cabinet to connect to your network resources ? Heres the MS-DOS Network Client v3.0. INSTRUCTIONS HERE
MS-DOS NETWORK CLIENT DISK 2 of 2 [980Kb]
DOS CLIENT SERVER UPDATE [296Kb]		Want you network enabled DOS PC to share its drives out ? Add this patch to your MS-DOS network client setup. INSTRUCTIONS HERE
ATXOFF.com [40b]		ATXOFF, powers off your DOS PC if you have an ATX PSU WARNING: THIS UTIL DOES NOT FLUSH YOUR DISK CACHE BEFORE TUNING OFF YOUR PC. USE SMARTDRV /C TO CLEAR YOUR DISK CACHE BEFORE RUNNING ATXOFF
CSDPMI5B [53Kb]		If you plan on running mame in PURE DOS or if you get a "Load error: no dpmi" error message you'll need CWSDPMI version 5 in order for MAME to run, download it here
HELP [247Kb]		This is the MS-DOS 6.22 help file. A very useful commandline reference guide.
sblive.zip [2,533,317 bytes]		DOS sound card drivers for Ensoniq Audio PCI Sound Blaster Live! Sound Blaster Audigy PCI
sbpci.zip [2,541,371 bytes]		DOS sound card drivers for SB Audio PCI 128 Creative AudioPCI Sound Blaster 16 PCI Sound Blaster PCI128 Sound Blaster AudioPCI Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI Creative Vibra 128
Wells Gardner K7000 technical documents		Troubleshooting flow chart Curcuit diagram Service manual Capacitor layout
tv-drv i use this one!		PAL TV modes Supports standard VGA modes in DOS Includes source code Documents in Russian
vgascart		PAL TV modes Supports standard VGA modes in DOS Support 640x480, 256 color mode with Cirrus, Oak and Trident chipsets Freeware driver Documentation in Italian
vga-pal v6		PAL and NTSC TV modes Supports standard VGA modes in DOS Support 640x480, 256 color mode in Cirrus 5426 chipset Experimental beta version of the driver (problems with S3 chipset) Driver is very small
vgatv		PAL and NTSC TV modes Supports standard VGA modes Supports many SVGA modes on OAK chipset Some support for S3, Cirrus Tseng and Trident chipsets Full features supported only in OAK chipsets Includes circuit diagram for composite video adapter

Term	Meaning
DOS	Disk Operating System - A single-user operating system from Microsoft for the PC
MAME	Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator - A program capable of running thousands of arcade ROMS
NT	Windows New Technology - An advanced 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 and Alpha CPUs
PCI	Peripheral Component Interconnect - A peripheral bus commonly used in PCs,
AGP	Accelerated Graphics Port - A high-speed graphics port from Intel that provides a direct connection between the display adapter and memory
IRQ	Interrupt ReQuest - A hardware interrupt on a PC. There are 16 IRQ lines used to signal the CPU that a peripheral event has started or terminated. Except for PCI devices, two devices cannot use the same line
DMA	Direct Memory Access - Specialized circuitry or a dedicated microprocessor that transfers data from memory to memory without using the CPU
ROM	Read Only Memory - A memory chip that permanently stores instructions and data. Its contents are created at the time of manufacture and cannot be altered
ISA	Industry Standard Architecture - an expansion bus commonly used in PCs. It accepts plug-in boards that control the sound, video display and other peripherals.
config.sys	A DOS configuration file. It resides in the root directory and is used to load drivers and change settings at startup.
autoexec.bat	AUTOmatic EXECute BATch - A DOS batch file that is executed when the computer is started.
msdos.sys	One of two hidden system files that make up Microsoft's MS-DOS. In Windows 95/98, MSDOS.SYS is a text configuration file rather than an executable program. It determines among other things whether the computer boots into DOS or into Windows 95/98
GUI	Graphical User Interface - A graphics-based user interface that incorporates icons, pull-down menus and a mouse
ENVIRONMENT	A particular configuration of hardware or software
FRONTEND	The head, starting point or input side in a system (or a game menu)
PC	Personal Computer - PC refers to computers that conform to the PC standard originally developed by IBM
JAMMA	Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers Association - It refers to a standard pinout for arcade games, meaning any JAMMA game (i.e. the actual logic board of the game) can be run in any JAMMA cabinet
CPU	Central Processing Unit - The computing part of the computer. Also called the "processor," it is made up of the control unit and ALU. Today, the CPUs of almost all computers are contained on a single chip
USB	Universal Serial Bus - a new external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 12 Mbps (12 million bits per second)