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Dos based jukebox with vertical monitor support
BobA:
All the best in your new home. Hope you got a nice new computer room in it. ;D
I use VMJ in my newer cabs but am very interested in a vertical screen jukebox for a cab that I have already built. PS could you look at both right and left rotation so that a vertical screen would work no matter which way it was rotated to vertical. (problem I have with game launcher)
Thanks for the work.
BobA
Chris:
--- Quote from: BobA on July 21, 2003, 09:42:50 am ---All the best in your new home. Hope you got a nice new computer room in it. ;D
I use VMJ in my newer cabs but am very interested in a vertical screen jukebox for a cab that I have already built. PS could you look at both right and left rotation so that a vertical screen would work no matter which way it was rotated to vertical. (problem I have with game launcher)
Thanks for the work.
BobA
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I would definately make the rotation selectable, including allowing you to select a rotation or flip on the fly (this one specifically for cockail cabinets).
--Chris
Mameham:
Hey Chris... yeah, I'm still patiently waiting out here for your project too... one request, one idea...
Keep system requirements as low as possible. Should be easy enough, that's what makes it good being in DOS... My target machine is a 120Mhz laptop...
And an idea... to make the "cd like function" of VJB that you were planning a ways back, how about borrowing his "interactive mode"... then you can keep the flavor of your jukebox with the CD function of a bigger one...
Basically, have the program list Artists on the center bar of your "labels" with Album names ( instead of songs ) on the top and bottom portion of the labels. Then when you select an album all the labels on the screen would change to the album contents ( with album names in the middle and song names on the top and bottom of the labels ).
As I visualize this set up in my head I think it would be cool as hell. A full cd jukebox that looks like an old jukebox. If course you run into a problem in that each "CD" could only have 20 songs per ( if you do change to 5 labels per side like you were considering ) but then how many CDs have more than 20 songs anyway?
Yeah... that's really cool. I hope you can/do impliment something like that... I think that would definately make DosCab my #1 jukebox... :)
- Eric
Chris:
--- Quote from: Mameham on July 22, 2003, 09:53:04 am --- Keep system requirements as low as possible. Should be easy enough, that's what makes it good being in DOS... My target machine is a 120Mhz laptop...
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Well, the lower resolution versions should definately require less of a machine, although MP3 decoding is tricky on slow machines...
--- Quote --- And an idea... to make the "cd like function" of VJB that you were planning a ways back, how about borrowing his "interactive mode"... then you can keep the flavor of your jukebox with the CD function of a bigger one...
Basically, have the program list Artists on the center bar of your "labels" with Album names ( instead of songs ) on the top and bottom portion of the labels. Then when you select an album all the labels on the screen would change to the album contents ( with album names in the middle and song names on the top and bottom of the labels ).
As I visualize this set up in my head I think it would be cool as hell. A full cd jukebox that looks like an old jukebox. If course you run into a problem in that each "CD" could only have 20 songs per ( if you do change to 5 labels per side like you were considering ) but then how many CDs have more than 20 songs anyway?
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Well, I've deliberately avoided downloading VMJ because I don't want to subconsciously steal anything from it... ordinarily, I wouldn't worry, but since he's trying to make money off his, I don't want to get in the way. My jukebox was originally made for me, and making it available is my way of giving back to the community that has given me so much, but I don't want to step on any toes....
That said, I was just going to do the CD labels as rectangles rather than individual labels, with either two CD's per page or one CD and one CD cover. They should take the same amount of space as the two columns of labels now, though, so the overall look will still be the same... and you'll be able to redefine that look in the next version anyway.
If, of course, I get off my tail and write it....
--Chris
Yeah... that's really cool. I hope you can/do impliment something like that... I think that would definately make DosCab my #1 jukebox... :)
- Eric
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Mameham:
Awe phoo... I like my approach. :) I like the old style look of DosCab with the fuctionality of full CDs... maybe I should get off my butt and learn a non-web programming language and write it myself. :) hehe.
- Eric
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