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What does your MAME desktop look like?
tetsu96:
I'm a fan of hiding the boot screen as well - if it's a hybrid PC station then no need, but for a MAME cab I like things to look as far away from PC as possible.
As to my desktop, it's the same as my boot screen minus the "system now loading" screens.
ahofle:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 12, 2007, 08:26:25 pm ---I've never understood why it is that people frett about seeing Windows at bootup.......
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I agree completely. I think it's rather neat that everything runs via a normal PC.
--- Quote ---Several of the arcade machines that we have in the arcade I work for, run on Windows 98 and Windows XP.... and you most certainly do see windows during bootup every morning.
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Uh oh LOL. I would be pissed if I got a blue screen in the middle of playing a game.
"OK just one more zombie to shoot!!! --"
BAM! <Blue screen of death>
"HOTD3.exe has performed an illegal instruction. Please reboot and if the problem persists, contact the manufacturer."
:laugh2:
sphetr2:
I don't have a desktop, as my frontend is set as the shell with T. Speirs' (sp?) excellent shell/boot logo changer.
Glaine:
--- Quote from: ahofle on February 13, 2007, 06:03:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 12, 2007, 08:26:25 pm ---I've never understood why it is that people frett about seeing Windows at bootup.......
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I agree completely. I think it's rather neat that everything runs via a normal PC.
--- Quote ---Several of the arcade machines that we have in the arcade I work for, run on Windows 98 and Windows XP.... and you most certainly do see windows during bootup every morning.
--- End quote ---
Uh oh LOL. I would be pissed if I got a blue screen in the middle of playing a game.
"OK just one more zombie to shoot!!! --"
BAM! <Blue screen of death>
"HOTD3.exe has performed an illegal instruction. Please reboot and if the problem persists, contact the manufacturer."
:laugh2:
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Actually, it is quite common for me to shoot my machine if it blue screens on me. But really when was the last time you saw a blue screen on XP? It's been a long time for me.
Similar to that though,
I was playing an NBA Jam machine at a movie theatre as a kid once and at the "enter cheats" screen just before the game starts I just mashed around on all the buttons like I always do. Then the game restarts. Apparently I entered a code to reset the machine or something. What a waste of money.
So heres the next question: how many of you decased your mame cab PC? I did when I was all excited about having a mame cab (and I stripped the wires to the power button to the toggle switch on the back of the machine so you have to use it to turn it on like a real machine). I regret it a little just because the parts are all over, strapped to a piece of wood in there, and I dread the day I have to move it all - especially because I decased a TV and it just kind of sits there, it isn't really secured. Moving that mess sounds horrible and I dread it regularly.
pmc:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 12, 2007, 08:48:44 pm ---Many people are amazed by my arcade, once they find out about the computer and keyboard encoder... well, it's like learning a magic trick.
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I got pretty depressed when my nephews (children) said "oh, it's just a PC?". Damn kids.
-pmc