Tom Speirs

I also really like the idea of having an image in the corner. How about a version with a gradiented background (not necessarily blue, perhaps dark grey/alu for a TV/Arcade Monitor), but one for the guys. I was thinking it would look cool with a nice picture of a cabinet in the corner. What do you think?

Thanks again by the way, and yes deffinitly one for the ladies. I dont know if we have any out there, but there certainly most welcome here.

This is great. Looking forward to checking them out. Did you get my email with your account details. Any problems let me know. Cheers.

How about this one? Even I notice a decent speed improvement with this. Any improvements at all? Thanks, Tom GameExConfig.zip

Contact me by email and I'll create a 'personal' FTP account for you. Thanks, Tom

It determines the app to be killed by the exe in the cmd line. If your using a bat it obviously does not know what exe to first try to close, and then kill. You should hopefully be able to get it working with an AutoIt Script used as an Also Launch. Something like: check when the emu looses focus and the kill it. And yes Minestorm is a great game!

Thanks for making me aware of this. Its not implemented at the moment, but it deffinitly will be soon

Hey, welcome back To be honest I really have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps you or someone can enlighten me with more detail and perhaps some links also about what this is all about. Tom

Before running a game, GameEx creates a batch file called runitgame.bat and it puts this in the data directory. I think somehow this file is getting locked or does not exit properly. Can you think of any reason why this would happen? After you get the problem, and then you cant lunch any games. Can you see if this file is locked by trying to rename it? I think that's where gameex is failing, but dont know why. Have you got something in the launch before or launch after settings perhaps?

How's this one fair? GameExConfig.zip

The problem is it works fine for me on all PC's (at least 5) I have tried. New installs and existing installs. It seems I have speeded it up slightly though. Ill work on this more.

I would like to personally thank everyone who has donated the last month. I normally like to send an email of gratitude for your support, but I never seemed to have got the emails from PayPal. I just checked my account as I just donated to Crashtest and see Ive had some decent support. Thank you to the following: Blake Ringholz Eric Baldauf Robert Raper (Bigger Thanks) Juan Roman David Renne All the best, Tom Speirs

http://crashtest.retrogames.com/20041229%20Mame%20Videos.zip News post here: http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showt...o=&fpart=1&vc=1 Crashtest's site: http://crashtest.retrogames.com/ He's requesting donations to keep it up, so if your a working adult go ahead and donate if you can. I mean yourll probably spend 5-10 bucks on your lunch Today!! Please if you use bittorrent and you have it running often, please keep this file seeding. I cant tell you how awesome these videos are with GameEx if you have a 1.8 GHZ and up. They look exactly like the real game, and almost every game and clone is covered. The AVI Videos are piss poor in comparison.

How about this one? GameExConfig.zip

Could you test the new version I uploaded last night in the forum please?

Probably because your using an unnoficial or old version of mame32.

Can anyone having problems saving with the configuration application try this version and see if it fixes the issue. Thanks. GameExConfig.zip

Does the save button do nothing or hang? If you wait a while, and I mean a while, does it save? This seems to be a problem a few people are having, it does save but just takes an age. How much mem do you have? Thanks.

I think XP is a great product, but I know what you mean. I would just like one button in XP, that says 'I am not an idiot, change all interface, network, file, and folder options and gui to that affect'. Server 2003 does that by default.

Just FYI: There is a setting in GameEx to set the background to black, and this should work with all themes.

OK Let me answer the original post now I understand what was being asked. Why dont themes support alpha blended PNGS, but Videos and Text does. First of all. Fonts are not alphablended. It might look like they are at higher resolutions, but believe me that took some tweaking with the colours. Videos are alphablended yes, but this is done without using your video hardware but in software. This is very slow. Anything below a Radeon 9200 and 2Ghz and your pc will grind to a crawl if not already. GameEx uses DirectDraw which does not support Alpha Blending or Rotation using Hardware acceleration (on 99% of video cards). Alpha Blending is possible in GameEx, but needs to be done in software and not using DirectX which is again extremely slow, so thats why its not done. Thanks.

And remember, please share your work and talk about it however you want right here at http://gameex.info

LOL. Your money is no good here. The purpose, is to allow simple plugins for GameEx. Windows Media Center allows plug-ins this way too (as web pages), although obviously a bit better! Then allow these plugins to be used with a Gamepad, remote, or Arcade Controls. Which is pretty much what you cant do normally with a web browser. OK, this is what could be done with HTML applications. Just examples for you to toy with. But first Forget about an RSS Feed as I am already working on it. For non developers. How about linking to an internet web cam that show someone using a toilet (my humor sorry!) How about having a flash file or shockwave file. This could be a game, movie etc. Pictures of any sort. A help page for GameEx Porn slideshow. It could be an internet radio station that is so protected you cant add as a station in gameex. Stock price. News feed. The current time and timezone in Timbuktoo You could simply put in a link to MAWS or KLOV. You could link to a Java, Shockwave or Flash game. Movie listings for your local cinema perhaps. For people with a few skills such asp, perl, php etc. You could show statistics. How long has my server been up, the time, the date. XMLTV info. or Tv Guide. You could show your webcam, or other home automation info. You could use content scraping/ripping techniques, to create something like Weather, show current MAME version etc Use other activex controls to display multimedia. And heres how you do all that, if you want to do more than just have a link to a web site. But first, just to clarify. This feature (HTML apps) also allows you to navigate a web site purely with a joypad, remote, or Arcade Controls. That is what the Mouse Emu setting is for. You could think of it as a web browser for arcade cabinets. 1. You create a web page or pages that resize based on the size of the displayed window. In other word a TABLE with 100% width and 100% Height should do it. The reason for this is you dont want to have to scroll the page if using arcade controls, as this is a pain, it also looks crappy. 2 Advanced. If you can code javascript then you write DHTML code in the page to navigate between image links using the arrow keys and enter for selecting a link. These link to another page that does not scroll as above and fits on the page without needing scrolling as before. 2 Easy. If you cant use javascript, then either you can just create a simple web page, as long as it resizes with the display again. should get you started. If you want to use a mouse, its just like any other web page click on the links.2 Easy Part 2 If you are using a gamepad or arcade controls, then turn on the Mouse Emu. This will allow you to move the mouse to links on the page with up, down, left, right, and then click with the select button for your device. 3. Save the page on your harddisk. 4. Add it is an html app. [For files on you hard disk prefix with file:// e.g file://c:/webpages/mylinks.htm Hope that helps. Cheers!

Such a question it seems is beyond this group, as its not related to GameEx but rather the emulators themselves. May sound silly, but have you simply considered just swapping your displays over?e.g Primary becomes Secondary. Secondary becomes Primary? If this is really so important to you, why not just look into buying or building a dedicated MCE PC? Its pretty much what everyone does who has the luxury. I can guarantee* you that will work * not actual guarantee

Ill probably ask this question from time to time on the forum. I am very interested to hear what your involvment is in the following, even if a noob or purely retro gaming fan. 1. Are you active or have been involved with the MAME scene. How long, tell us how it all started? 2. Have you been or are you a contributor (of any sort) to another MAME (or MAME itself), Front-End or HTPC, or Emulation project/s? If so which ones, what did or do you do? 3. Are you a developer who would love to get your hands on the GameEx Source code for the purpose of making it better for all? What do you think you could contribute? Thanks, Tom.