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mr.Curmudgeon:

--- Quote from: Buddabing on April 04, 2006, 02:20:34 pm ---That won't work.

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Is there a thread where I can read up on the problem?  (I've searched, but haven't found anything yet)


mrC
Santoro:
Sort of like embedding a MAME instance as an object in the FE.  Budda, I have seen web pages that run actual MAME roms surrounded by ads etc...  why couldn't this work?  Does MAME dislike multitasking?
Santoro:
Technicalities aside, MrC, that would give you views of the machine's attract mode, not actual game play.  It would probabably be good for some games and lame for others.
Buddabing:

--- Quote from: Santoro on April 04, 2006, 03:01:41 pm ---Sort of like embedding a MAME instance as an object in the FE.  Budda, I have seen web pages that run actual MAME roms surrounded by ads etc...  why couldn't this work?  Does MAME dislike multitasking?

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It may have been running something in the web page but IMO it wasn't MAME.

I suppose a front end author (or someone writing a PHP web page) could rewrite the MAME display code to run on the front end's display, then use all the rest of the MAME code as-is. But why do that?

Of course I could be wrong and you can run an instance of an application and output it's window to another application's window. Again, why do that? Why do the full work of running the emulator which may or may not run full speed when you can just display a movie? One great thing about these movies is that they will run full speed, even on games that run at 5 FPS in MAME.

mr.Curmudgeon:

--- Quote from: Santoro on April 04, 2006, 03:05:54 pm ---Technicalities aside, MrC, that would give you views of the machine's attract mode, not actual game play.  It would probabably be good for some games and lame for others.

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Hmmmm..... yeah. I wonder how many didn't have some sort of attract mode though?

That's also why I mentioned the idea of an exterior frame listing, so the community at large could find the relevant "action" frames and configure the listing to just play those frames in the window. Jumping past all the promo crud, to just show gameplay.


--- Quote ---Again, why do that? Why do the full work of running the emulator which may or may not run full speed when you can just display a movie? One great thing about these movies is that they will run full speed, even on games that run at 5 FPS in MAME.
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Buddabing,

I think you're right...this just might be the better way. As long as crazy people like Circo exist!   :D


mrC
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