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What does your MAME desktop look like?
notaburger:
i have the ms. pacman bezel for my background, with a few icons in the middle
but mamewah direct boots upon loading of windows, so you only see it for a split second
i also have a custom mame loading screen for my boot screen
http://www.mamedownunder.com.au/utilities.htm
(it says mame instead of a windows xp)
it also looks cooler
:cheers:
MPTech:
yep, got the boot replacement (shows MAME instead on XP).
I agree, cool.......... 8)
I've debated booting directly to MAMEWAH. I like it alot, but I'm not convinced yet.
I had a Mario Kart desktop, but it was kinda busy with the Graphic and icons, so I went to the plain blue screen.
I want to reorganize it to remove 90% of my icons from my desktop and only have 1 or 2 instead.
Chris:
My desktop has a grey-on-black grid with the Robotron "Initial tests" message superimposed over it.
Aurich:
--- Quote from: Bobbler on February 11, 2007, 07:23:12 am ---Black, plain black, no icons nothing.
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480x640 nothingness. You should never see that you're in Windows AFAIK.
um3k:
In Order of Boot:
* Full screen logo instead of bios screen
* BootSkin running MAME theme
* Auto login to Non-Admin "Arcade" account via TweakUI (never see the login screen)
* Desktop is pure black with no icons (TweakUI again) and toolbar to auto-hide.
* MameWAH or GameEX in "Arcade" users' Startup folder to boot directly to it, but allow me to easily drop to a real explorer shell if need be.
* Both FEs allow shutdown directly from the FE, so users never see/interact with the explorer shell, but I can quit the FE and get a quick explorer shell to fix any easy problems.
* Wireless keyboard attached to pass-through and stored in the cabinet. I can whip this out and logoff of the "Arcade" user and on to "Admin" to fix any hard problems. The "Admin" user has a regular desktop and full set of icons.The effect is that other than the bios logo, you see nothing other than the MAME Boot Skin and the FE... and certainly nothing that looks remotely like Windows!!!