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PowerMAME - feature or foolishness?

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AllisterFiend:
While we are on the subject of MAME calling other programs...

Howard Castro and a few other people were working (thinking) on a way to have MAME or maybe it was the frontend launch programs on a second display.

I was thinking about adding a second screen (if anyone ever came out with a program that could do it) on top of my cabinet (LCD maybe) like they used to do on the more popular games so others could see someone playing the game from a distance.

Instead you could have it show the controls layout or even what Kremmit was talking about.  You could have it show what you want on the second display (Johnny 5, History.dat, High Scores, a .jpg of the controls layout, etc...)

Just something else for others to think about.


Allister Fiend

mccoy178:
The dual monitor support would be excellent.  I would love to have the ability for mame to call the johnny5 file for that game.  I guess some of this would be a powermame thing, but it would instead be more of an outside application to work with other emulators.

Howard_Casto:
Actually it's not a power mame thing or a mame thing for that matter.

Dualie will be a resident program, able to automatically detect the running game and bring up the correct information for any emulator that "broadcasts" the game name in some way (can be as simple as the window caption). 

Development halted as I couldn't get the psone vga hack to work well on my spare rage 128.  I have a matrox in the mail though so hopefully I can get the secondary display mounted soon and I can get to coding.  :)

mccoy178:
 ;D

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