Tom Speirs

hmm very strange, i am aware of the desktop issue (which will be fixed Today), but nothing has changed that would affect the other items. Assuming your installing in the same path and your config has not changed, I suspect when you downgrade to 5.19 your'll still have those issues. Of course you can just copy the theme that will work. I think the issues you mention are with your config not witht he upgrade.

DesktopMAME DesktopMAME is a windows wallpaper changer It allows you to change your windows wallpaper automatically every amount of minutes you specify and display a collage of MAME related artwork. Simply download and follow the simple install, then run the configuration utility to set your Snap, Flyer and Marquee paths, set how often you wish the application to change the desktop wallpaper then run it. Simply download and follow the simple install, then run the configuration utility to set your Snap, Flyer and Marquee paths, set how often you wish the application to change the desktop wallpaper then run it. http://tomspeirs.com/desktopmame

OK, fixed now. I just uploaded 0.32. Cheers.

I'd rather fix your problems as its likely others will have a similar problem. Could you please try 5.23, and report any remaining issues? 5.21 was a little buggy. What type of file is your into movie?

I really can't take credit for it, it was by HeadKaze, who seems to be a very talented chap in all areas of IT.

Please stop this behaviour, your sending PM's to me and posting at the same time, and also double posting, your trying my patience. Are you over 16 (as specified in the forum rules)? I can only put your rudeness down to you being very young.

If you set Wait Before keys to something like 8000 it should hide the startup of it, No worries, it's normal.

Your acting a little different to most forum members - To help us get a better grip on where your coming from, could you tell us your age and primary spoken language.

Its fixed in 5.23

26th November 2005 - GameEx 5.23 OK, the new working of show desktop was not working for everyone so I've reverted back an tried a new approach. There's a new display setting to hide the desktop. With this setting on when in full screen mode GameEx will hide the desktop ICONS, and set the Wallpaper to tiled black. This is a much better approach, and assuming you have no other apps open, the transition to apps and emulators that need the show desktop setting should be normally seamless. I also modified the wait before keys setting to be used even if no keys are specified, as HideOS.exe is not closed until this timer has passed. Therefore to load Visual Pinball seamlessly set this setting to about 8000 (8 seconds) Fixed: text and layout now resizes correctly when going from windowed to full screen. Fixed: Snap and background videos now show and reload when changing Windowed/Full screen. Just to clear up things about .net framework 2.0. GameEx does not use version 2.0 (yet). You should install 1.1. Microsoft seem to be creating a bit of a dll hell situation with the different versions. If you have version 1.0 installed, Windows Update will give you the option to download 2.0 only. Where GameEx runs on 1.1 with support for 1.0 .net 2.0 if installed broke GameEx previously even though GameEx will only use 1.0 or 1.1. The update was to fix this issue and make GameEx work if you happen to download it from Windows Update or use it for other apps. Installing .net framework 2.0 will not improve or affect anything in GameEx in any way (at the moment) Everyone finds this very confusing, and MS does not seem to attempt to make this better understood. They often don't tell you at face value even if your using a beta version, or provide good versioning information for Beta versions, but still encourage you to download them. I do plan on starting to use Visual Studio 2005, and I will be upgrading GameEx to use Visual Studio 2005 and .net framework 2.0 in the future once I have some reserve cash to buy the development suite, and I see some benefit in upgrading.

It does stop sending OK after 5-20 seconds, maybe I need to lower how long.

Hey Night, its not really a bug just surplus files that should not be in the install. Ill remove them when I get achance. Cheers.

25th November 2005 - GameEx 5.21 Should really fix exception on exit now. This was caused by some unmanaged threads still running when GameEx closed. Background Ambience now resumes after launching a game. It also now restarts when its reached the end. The showdesktop setting no longer shows the desktop it just tells the HideOS app that runs in the background not to be above all windows. So for all your emulators and apps that need showdesktop you should just see a black screen when transitioning to and from GameEx as when not using show desktop. If this makea some of your apps/emus just have a black screen please report on the forum, I've tested with Visual Pinball and Mad Dog Mcree. Although it may need some timing tweaking. Awesome news for Visual Pinball

I have missing ICONS, I guess a lot of people do with all the MAME updates. I dont really know what was going on, I cant prove your theory, as I know I have missing ICONS. Its working for you now with a good set of ICONS, so lets let it be

We don't have thanksgiving here in the UK. Our Indians are mostly helping the sick, in court, or running convenience stores. LOL.

25th November 2005 - GameEx 5.20 - Bug Fixes. Should fix occasional exception when exiting. Now works if .net framework 2.0 installed (note you still need .net framework 1.1 installed) No more cannot load playvideodll.dll errors at startup. Now works on Windows Server 2003 (Vista? Anyone wanna try?) Fixed download of Arcade Ambiance on fresh installs.

Sounds like the MAME game list got corrupted. Delete C:\program files\gameex\gamelist.txt and update the MAME game list. Tom

Make sure Alpha page is enabled in Input settings. Make sure your actually in a game list with a game selected. Hold down control with left or right arrow keys. See the docs page for other controls

You can Alpha page, you need to press Button1/Ctrl then left or right.

It sounds like your using the Purple 'theme' Juist change the theme under display options in the config

No offence, but I think you must have made have mitake or it been a bug with the forum, I've certainly not been deleting your posts.

Sorry, there actually in the Media folder not data. I don't know about the Adult games.

Hey, no thank you for theme, my work on it was minor. I dont know whats going on with your ICONS. It could be the cache has got messed up or some of your icons are corruped. Try deleting the SurfaceIcons.. files in the data directory. It could also be that your running out of video or ram memory. It should support up to 7000 ICONS. Does MAME have more games than that now? There are actually two places you need to enable Adult games, make sure there both on. Have you updated catver.ini yourself at all? Cheers.

Hi, Yes I am aware of it although theres nothing I can do, the path to C:.. is hard coded because the setup program I am using (which is great though) does the download before the program files directory is created. Nothing I can do for now, but thanks for reporting anyway. Cheers.

The built in control panel viewer is just for mame, and its not configurable.