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DrewKaree:
Ya know, in perusing the HUNDREDS of sites for tips, hints, ideas, & general knowledge, seeing your site and the info you've put up on it, the reviews, all the stuff you've offered without asking for a dime....it all leads me to believe you're someone we should help as thanks for what you've done.

I wish I could help you out, but I've not even gotten into how to set up more sophisticated software than Mame32 yet.  Good luck, best wishes, and know that you're not alone in wanting to tell that guy to stuff his "help".

Edgedamage:
I think mame likes to have the sound card to it's self. I recall one time I had mame running in a window and then started winamp and got a error message something about "unable to start direct sound".

Zakk:
Thanks drew.  Maybe I'm reading his post wrong, maybe he was being funny, I dunno...wasn't much help either way :)  I figure maybe I'll go straight to minwah and ask him if there's a way to override the way mamewah handles dual emulators.... oh and you really should try different frontends.  Mame32 is nice and easy as a loader, but there are SO many frontends that do so much more.  It's amazing what some of these people come up with! Oh, and glad you enjoy my site!  It is there to help out, but again and again I come here when -I- get stuck.  

Eric: Heh yeah the irony wasn't lost on me, however, if anyone would have his ass covered, it's this guy :)

Zakk:

--- Quote from: Edgedamage on February 19, 2004, 10:54:18 pm ---I think mame likes to have the sound card to it's self. I recall one time I had mame running in a window and then started winamp and got a error message something about "unable to start direct sound".

--- End quote ---

I think that might be the soundcard itself, it has to be able to handle two channels (older ones wouldn't, new ones do).  For example, I just started up winamp, then fired up mamewah.  It's perfect, it brings the music down a notch when the game starts, I just need an easy way for a non cab-savvy person to run it.  In fact a bunch of drunken crazies on vacation is more like it.  Automatic or simple button click is what I'm hoping for.  I'm hoping minwah will have an idea...

SpamMe:
Hi, I've been using mamewah successfully as a winamp frontend (winamp running invisibly) for some time now, and have had no problems (other than the initial setup).
 
I'm not on my home PC atm, so I'll post all the specifics here (required winamp, a plugin, and a batch, and a seperate app) in a little bit (few hours, I think).  To be sure, it was a pain in the arse to setup, but worthwile for me at least, and it works seamlessly with mamewah now/doesn't show any windows/winamp components etc.

Usage:  Songs are selected with the joystick the same way they are with any other list, 1 player start starts a song or queues it up. Pause button pauses/unpauses if hit while viewing the list, escape button stops playback/clears the song queue while viewing that list. CD Covers, if available, show up as you scroll through the list.

Advantages, for me, over a seperate dedicated app: can queue up songs from mamewah, allowing for consistantly interface (both visually and functionally) from list to list (see pic, jukebox is lower left), ability to have songs running in the background while playing games, switching lists and emulators etc. (didn't think this was important at first, but it definately makes it feel more like a real arcade when playing), and the price (free).

Disadvantages:
There's no list showing which songs are coming up, nor any box saying what the currently playing song is. Required setting mamewah's (uh... start modifier keys... what do you call those?) to pause and escape, but as I don't use them otherwise, this wasn't important to me. There's no skip to next song function, (but you could sacrifice either the pause or the stop/clear button for that), no repeating, no random, no coin op etc. i.e. nothing that a dedicated music player has.

If that still sounds like something you (or anybody else) would be interested in, LMK, and I'll make sure it's here for you :)

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