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nLited XP installs for a cab
DP Louie:
Craig,
I am in the process of building a vertical cab running your Mame XP and using Mala as a FE. Everything is great except that I can't get the game video previews(emumovies) to show in Mala. Do you know if there's some windows component that was removed that might need to be installed in order for the videos to show? I can't seem to figure this out - Loadman(Mala master) has a standalone video player for testing, and they play fine in that, just not within Mala. And yes, I've checked and triple checked all the settings in Mala...
TeutonicDarkness:
--- Quote from: spystyle on July 23, 2008, 10:26:28 pm ---It sounds like you should uninstall minlogon (use regular winlogon) and see if bootskin works.
As for the APM tab I have and no one else has - I am beginning to think it is a feature found only in "corporate" version of XP...
Cheers,
Craig
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For the record here is why none except you has this option:
From XP Help and support
"The APM tab is unavailable on ACPI-compliant computers. ACPI automatically enables Advanced Power Management, which disables the APM tab."
I knew their was something to this as I have pure versions
of XP both retail and corporate none have that option.
spystyle:
TeutonicDarkness, that solves that mystery, good Googling :)
DP Louie, I don't know what to tell you, though Mala has a forum and I bet it's creators could tell you what services need to be enabled for that to work.
http://malafe.net/
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,43.0.html
Movies on a cab huh?
A cab that strays so far from minimal perhaps shouldn't have a minimalist OS...
Was that in the styling of a Chinese proverb?
Cheers,
Craig
TeutonicDarkness:
Craig,
I hate to bring this up again..
but was really hoping someone might know!
Is Their a way I an alter the XP install so that after
first full launch it does not load explorer but a front - end
instead?
This would save a lot of time for all of us if we could figure
out a way to have Windows install pre-shell things for us...
as compared to doing it later.
a .Bat file launched on run ounce, registry setting tucked away somewhere....?
Any ideas?
*** Teutonic Darkness ***
spystyle:
I think you could install a replacement shell for explorer, one that has the option to automatically launch an executable upon startup. I am not IT enough to comment further...
Oh IT guy, where are you?
This thread needs an official IT guy!
Cheers,
Craig