I'm running Windows 2000 with MAME
v 78 and using EmuWizard
as a front end.EmuWizard is perfect for my needs. It is simple to use, easy to
configure and can easily be customized. Because of the nostalgic nature
of the arcade and all the time I had lost playing these games as a kid, I
named my arcade "Time Warp". I'm using a cool graphic of a sun
being sucked into a black hole on my marquee. I used the same graphic as
the background in EmuWizard. EmuWizard also allows you to play
sound files. Time Warp is setup to play the beginning of "Time Warp"
form the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The only problem is that
with 4000+ games it becomes kinda cumbersome to navigate. You move
the joystick up and down to move from one game to the next, move it left
and right you move through the list a page at a time. To the right
of the list shows an image of the game and the marquee above it.

This is the list
view, it will also show a thumbnail of all the screen shots or marquees
instead of the just the list of names. It would normally have the
marquee also shown above the screen shot, but when I did a screen print
I didn't have any marquees loaded.
I would like to experiment with Dos
and ArcadeOS. There seems to be so many MAMEr's using it, I'd like to
try if for my self. What I'm using now seems to work pretty good
so why mess with it. Maybe I'll go the Dos route or even Linux
with the mini pac-man project.