Tailslide

I have an older registration key but when I applied it to a newly installed PC the nag screen did not go away. I tried responding through email yesterday to the original email address I got the key from (tom@gameex.net)

The history.dat file fixed things perfectly thanks so much

After a recent gameex update, most of the games on my list disappeared. I ran the game list update and it seems like they all came back but I notice I can't find Tempest. When I run mame on it's own, I CAN run tempest (well I only tried rev3 but that seemed to run fine). I tried adding the word 'tempest' to the do not filter list but it still doesn't show up. Not sure how to track this one down? Greg

Fantastic! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Fortunately I don't think I have any permanent burn in yet and this should keep it that way. Greg

I have a mame cabinet I built with an LCD screen running the registered version of Gameex.. my kids love to play the oldies on mame but they keep pausing the game and forget to come back. I think this might be starting to cause some screen burn in. How do I make it so the screensaver comes up when mame is paused? Greg

^^ this is the way to go. Same speed as an internal drive. They even have docks you can get for like $40 so you can take a naked SATA drive and just stick it in connector side down, hot swappable.

I like it.. reminds me of some motorcycle paint jobs I've seen.

Here's my cabinet just done. I am new to woodworking but went slow and tried to be picky.. this is based on Knievel's 'arcade mania'. Decided to go with a 32" LCD as the tube screens seem to have a high failure rate and will only get more expensive and harder to find. My 4 year old loves playing anything with superheroes on it now.

From my experience.. don't install vista on hardware that doesn't say it specifically supports vista. Also, don't do an upgrade install do a fresh new install. After 6 months of pain followed by a new PC with an Intel motherboard, everything is running very nicely on vista. I'm a software developer and have to run it for testing otherwise I probably would have just stayed with my old PC and XP. Retail and OEM versions of XP will no longer be available after June 30th

I am having the exact same problem. I haven't been able to track down what is causing it or when exactly it happens. Urk.. hate having to dig out the keyboard and fix it, it just seems 'wrong'. Not really happy about the idea of blowing away any config changes with an old backup every reboot either.

I tried giving the standard user administrative access, reinstalling gamex and setting them back to standard user but it still crashes. I'll probably go with deep freeze once I get everything done on my cabinet. The standard edition is $45 now though: "Deep Freeze Standard for Windows with 1 year Maintenance - $45.00"

In case anyone else needs this. Note the 4 second pause is because gamex crashes while entering sleep mode and we want it to restart after sleep mode is over. I couldn't find any way in autohotkey to detect exiting sleep mode. You will want to clear all your desktop icons and set a plain wallpaper as you will be looking at your desktop a couple seconds before it restarts. However I found when I set the toolbar to autohide in vista, starting gamex from the start menu seems to start it up minimized. Another script for another day I guess. The 10 second pause after is so if you get a repeating error on startup you don't get the gamex error box wildly popping up over and over. loop { IfWinExist GameEx Error { WinActivate } else { WinWait GameEx Error WinActivate } WinClose SoundBeep sleep, 4000 runwait "C:\Program Files\GameEx\GameEx.exe" sleep, 10000 }

Headkaze, THANK YOU! Your LED plugin is AMAZING. It works so great I think I might buy a second pacdrive. Will it support two?

BKenobi, thanks I didn't know about AHK! Shouldn't be a problem my full time gig is software development. I will post the script if I have any success.

Thanks I will try reinstalling as the other user. I didn't know about Deep Freeze it sounds very slick. I see it's $45 now. I might go for it if I can't lock down the PC as much as I'd like.