Host your own cabinet
DOC Host turns your Windows PC into a Derby Owners Club cabinet that players join from this lobby. One installer and one window: it runs the game seats, the card saves and the video for you.
Can your PC run it?
Be honest with yourself here. A cabinet that stutters is worse for players than no cabinet, and you can always start small.
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. No Mac or Linux version.
- Enough CPU and graphics for the seats you pick. Every seat is its own Flycast game window, plus the main board: 8 seats means 10 game windows running at once. Fewer seats means fewer windows, but run at least 4: the race needs the other seats to fill the CPU horses. If you are unsure, start with 4. A real graphics card helps; the CPU (single-core speed) is usually the limit.
- Memory: 16 GB is comfortable for 8 seats.
- Disk: about 2 GB free.
- A decent, steady upload. Every player at your cabinet watches a video stream sent from your PC, so upload speed matters more than download speed. A wired connection beats Wi-Fi.
After installing, the Doctor button checks the PC and says what is wrong if something is.
Before you run it
- This version is not signed with a code-signing certificate yet, so Windows shows a blue box that says "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, check the file name, then Run anyway.
- Setup does not ask for an administrator password.
- Hosting today with a Host Pack folder? Press Stop Hosting in that folder first, then pick it during setup. DOC Host copies your pairing over and leaves the old folder alone, so it stays your way back.
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