the main software for emulating
the old roms is mame (multiple
arcade machine emulator).
the frontend we use is called 'advmenu'. it's a menu where you can browse
through the roms and start them
without the need of a keyboard. it all runs on a homegrown version of
dos, based on a win95 rescue-disk.
we wrote a boot-menu for the option
of booting the pc as a network-client accessible via tcp/ip.
so, there are no more cd or disk drives necessary, updaing the system
configuration or installing roms
can be done over the network.
this table has about 600 working roms installed.
