GameEx + WinVice + Zip

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Hello,

I have set up GameEx to use Winvice for my C64 stuffs...But there is a problem, when I try to launch a game (in full screen), everything seems to work (I have sound) but my monitor stay black.

After some investigations, I found that the screen stayed black because WinVice was not "on top" of the other windows. When I use "ALT+TAB" one time I get the WinVice window back in full screen running the rom.

This happens because my roms are zipped and WinVice use an external software to unzipped the rom I want to load. So this call to the external soft makes WinVice to lost the focus. I've checked the "stay on top" option in WinVice but it does not help here.

Do you have any solution to avoid this? (I would like to keep the roms zipped...)

I was thinking about using the "execute before" option in GameEx to unzip the roms in a folder and to pass its name to launch WinVice...I can have the name of the zip file with the given variable...But I can not retrieve the name of the rom itself (inside the zip). So I can not pass it to GameEx using this method...I think...

Bruno.

[mightypeniz]

Not the .zip solution you're after, but if you set the "Show Desktop" value to "yes" for that emulator, you'll at least avoid the black screen thing. (HideOS.exe)

Cheers,

Brett

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Not the .zip solution you're after, but if you set the "Show Desktop" value to "yes" for that emulator, you'll at least avoid the black screen thing. (HideOS.exe)

Cheers,

Brett

Omg Mightypeniz, it works!

Thank you for your help!!!

Best regards,

Bruno.

[mightypeniz]

No probs mate, glad I could help!