Hi
Here is the link:
I strongly recommended you
Install MaLa betas IN A SEPARATE DIRECTORY to your current working MaLa. That way there is no risk of breaking your current setup.
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I expect bugs, so please report how to reproduce the problem so I can squash the bugs.
Thanks.
Here is a vid showing how you might want to use the 2nd video window/ Layout video.
It shows one video window of the selected game, and the other associated with the current layout (on constant loop at the moment). But you could choose to play an animated gif instead.
Some other changes since the last official release.
August 22, 2010
• MaLa 1.664 - MaLa - Dialog will now pop up if MaLa is not allowed to write to Windows registry rather than crash. This is for 'MaLa Start with windows' option.
MaLa . Possibly fixed bug where MaLa would crash if switching game lists faster that the configured display delay interval(s).
August 15, 2010
• MaLa 1.663 - MaLa - Fixed bug blocking MaLa messages feature from external apps and plugins since 1.658
MaLa = Fixed Other Emu zero size game list bugs
August 9, 2010
• MaLa 1.662 - MaLa . Fixed bug when loading/refreshing mame game lists using nplayers.ini with roms without matching master entries.
August 8, 2010
• MaLa 1.661 - MaLa . Fixed 'white line' bug when rotated 270 deg.
August 1, 2010
• MaLa 1.660 - MaLa . Altered/ improved the way audio volume is handled.
MaLa . Fixed scrolling bug after rotation
July 11, 2010
• MaLa 1.659 - MaLa . Made even more changes to help 'rotate mame with mala'.
July 10, 2010
• MaLa 1.658 - MaLa . Made changes to help 'rotate mame with mala' with 'other' flavours of Mame.
July 9, 2010
• MaLa 1.657 - MaLa . Fixed wrong gamelist loaded bug on startup
• MaLa - Second part of work on minor 'resume from Standby' display refresh Bug
July 8, 2010
• MaLa 1.656 - MaLa . Added 'Show Game Metadata' screen via right click.
• MaLa - First part of work on minor 'resume from Stby display refresh Bug
June 18, 2010
• MaLa 1.655 - MaLa . Fixed - other Joystick setting was not saving to ini file.
• MaLa - Fixed polling / display delay bug.
• MaLa - Fixed tab key select order on config screen
June 13, 2010
• MaLa 1.654 - MaLa . Enhanced MaLa to auto up convert old 'Other emu' file formats. (eg *.mle)
June 12, 2010
• MaLa 1.653 - MaLa fixed bug in Audio menu if Audio was disabled
• MaLa 1.652 - MaLa fixed bug where selected game in list may jump up or down one item if mouse was moved during game play (if mouse enabled)
• MaLa 1.651 - MaLa fixed bug/crash when option to launch Application on exit was enabled and Sound was enabled.
May 30, 2010
• MaLa - Added auto key repeat for 1-up/down to support older iPacs
• MaLa - Added optional delay for Game starting picture
May 23, 2010
• MaLa - Added Shift Keys for Joystick control
April 28, 2010
• MaLa - MaLa Muzac/ Jukebox finally finished transition to new Engine. No More bass.dll required.
April 25, 2010
• MaLa - Joystick Control- Fixed bugs preventing button use over 16 and in some menus over 12
April 7, 2010
• MaLa . Fixed Menu control via Joystick
April 5, 2010
• MaLa . Fixed time display for Layouts and LCD
March 21, 2010
• MaLa . Improved native USB hardware (LED & LCD) handling and setup. Still more work to do here as there is a minor bug where if you have two of the same types of hardware connected the item with the highest id get discovered and assigned first even if in MaLa you have it configured to be Hardware #2.
March 20, 2010
• MaLa . Added memory usage logging on Game List loading and Game Start / Quit/ (to find potential memory leak?)
• MaLa . Added 'Windows Focus' command after every video loop. I will invoke this code in other areas too after user testing.
Febuary 13, 2010
• MaLa . Added option to launch game with left mouse button
December 28, 2009
• MaLa . Added Plug-in Events. ConfigureStart/Stop Events.
December 26, 2009
• MaLaTree . Fixed Minor bug with tree display
December 20, 2009
• MaLa . Added option not to loop video (play once)
• MaLa . Enabled Layout Video options to include animated gif's (not just avi's)
• MaLa Layout Editor- Added code to support above MaLa change
December 13, 2009
• MaLa . Added 5th definable for Mame and 'other Emu',
December 12, 2009
• MaLa Layout Editor: Added 5th definable... I need to add this to MaLa later otherwise I just wasted my time adding it to the editor ;-)
November 27, 2009
• MaLa - Improved the logic with the 'skip to next letter' when dealing with games starting with numbers, also if partial way through a group of letters skip back to the first of it's type rather than the next letter.
November 23, 2009
• MaLa - Fixed bug/crash with zero lengths game list
• MaLa - Improved messages and logging when creating game lists and reminders in various places about the requirement to use mame >0.84 to produce XML files.
November 21, 2009
• MaLa - Video2/layout video option implementation finished (I Hope)
November 20, 2009
• MaLa Layout. More 'polish' work to handle Video2/Layout videos
November 8, 2009
• MaLa.. Windows 7. Got startup routine to recognize if being run on this new OS
May 3, 2009
• MaLa.. Bugfix. Stopped MaLa crashing when disabling Audio
April 29, 2009
• MaLa.. Layout Editor. Second Video window option added
April 27, 2009
• MaLa.. Number of buttons on a joystick supported increased to 32 (previously 12)
April 24, 2009
• MaLa.. Hardware: Expanded to support the IOWarrior24 Chip to drive a LCD display
**** BETA 1.62 released for testing
April 20, 2009
• MaLa.. Video Engine replaced to improve overall MaLa stability and increase playback compatibility with a wider range of video types. This has taken several weeks of development/testing with a lot of help from a great group of beta testers.
March 8, 2009
• MaLa.. Added MaLa Messages ability to switch to various orientations
• MaLa- Fixed some bugs with Definable images on EMU's
February 14, 2009
- Applied new Icon to the MaLa suite from HERE
January 25, 2009
• MaLa.. Added Definable images option of EMU's (other than mame) FINALLY!
• MaLa.. Added Extra logging (in verbose mode) to show event info passed to the plugins
• MaLa.. BugFix. Fixed orientation that was incorrectly reported for non mame. EMU's
• MaLa.. BugFix. Only one press of start button now required after rotate
• MaLa.. Added hotkeys to switch to various orientations
January 4, 2009
• MaLa. BugFix. MaLa now re-enables mouse (if required) after resuming from standby
January 3, 2009
• MaLa. BugFix. Stop mala crash if gamelist empty and MaLa Hardware leds were enabled
• MaLa. JukeBox Disabled 'brackets removed on the fly' in Jukebox mode
• MaLa. BugFix. JukeBox. Fixed bug where songs that were read only were getting shown twice in the list
• MaLa. Logging - Now can be set at Normal or Verbose Levels
October 16, 2008
• MaLa. Jukebox. Better labelling on config window to make operation more intuitive.
October 11, 2008
• MaLa. Config defaults changed to something I feel is a better starting point ;-)
October 9, 2008
• Dreamcast (Nulldc) preset added
October 7, 2008
• MaLa: When mame.exe is specified in options the user is asked if they wish to create a new mame.xml even if one exists.
• MaLa: Some collection options now shown in display box when refreshing game list for Mame.
• MaLa: Bugfix. Stopped mala crashing with delayed layout items if game lists are empty (in some circumstances including rom directory change).
• MaLa: Bugfix. LED Hardware override files also are used when game is launched
October 1, 2008
• MaLa: Bugfix. Stopped delayed layout video playing in background behind a running game in some scenarios. This did sometimes result in performance and Windows focus issues.
• MaLa: Bugfix. Stopped delayed layout video playing when options window opened.
• MaLa: Bugfix. Fixed incorrect cocktail command line mapping allocations on 90deg and 270deg
September 27, 2008
• MaLa: Bugfix. Fixed flash of default text before Layout loads (in some cases).
• MaLa: Bugfix. Background music will not start until Startup Video is finished.
September 22, 2008
• MaLa: Bugfix. Switching to and from Jukebox from any list now works correctly.
September 20, 2008
• MaLa: Config. Added more verbose descriptions and logging for custom Layout options, and Other EMU MaLaHook loading.
• MaLa: Bugfix. Fixed bug switching between custom game list with custom layout. Elements switching is now synchronized.