Hide desktop and Taito Type X

[Gildahl]

I'm having a small issue and wondering if anyone has seen this or might have a solution.

I run MAME and most other emulators with hide desktop turned on. This has always worked fine. I recently setup some Type X games using the loader exes created by ArcadePC Loader. These run in a separate emulator in GameEx which has hide desktop turned off (necessary for the Type X games). All works perfectly except for one thing. If I run a Type X game, then exit back to GameEx, then run a MAME game (or any other emulator), the desktop now shows while the game is loading (instead of the normal black screen). All else seems to function normally. GameEx remains in this state until I exit and restart it.

This does not happen with other emulators (like Visual Pinball) that have hide desktop turned off. So it appears have something to do with what the Type X game loader is doing.

Any thoughts?

Dave

[Adultery]

I'm sure it's due to the seedy way TTX games need to be run. That emulator is super temperamental and a bear to get up and running (specifically the os hooks that flip the screen). I'm sure the problem is there since you're basically emulating xp in a virtual machine setting.

[Gildahl]

I too suspect that the way the TTX hacks work is probably behind the problem. But I'm still wondering whether anyone else is experiencing this (to eliminate the possibility that the problem is unique to my machine). Do you happen to know how the HideOS stuff works? If TTX is killing it, perhaps there's some way to restart it when the game exits.

[Tempest]

If you want to restart HideOS, you can put it in the 'Launch After' section in your emu config.

[Gildahl]

I think there's more involved than that (running HideOS.exe on game exit was the first thing I tried). I suspect Tom would probably would need to do some internal tinkering. I'm going to move this topic over to the Features & Enhancements thread as it would be nice to have full support for the TTX "emulator".