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Is this even possible? (Programmers look in here)
ChadTower:
If you had the source code, sure, it's possible. Just about anything is possible.
ahofle:
Pretty neat idea. I'm guessing you would definitely have to modify MAME's source for it though (as opposed to making it a frontend feature).
bluevolume:
You could modify the video driver to split the display into 2 functional monitors. This would be easiest, and would allow you to use existing MAME software.
Actually, you could probably just write a memory-resident layer instead of modifying the video driver itself. This would be more universal.
2600:
For MAME this is possible already.
What you want to do is use the Artwork system. Shouldn't be too difficult once you understand the syntax. Technically, I believe some of the one's on Mr. Do's site already do this to a certain extent. Check out ChaseHQ and maybe the NeoGeo ones for examples and play with them to get them how you want them.
BobA:
How about a mod to mame32? It can put the game in a window already and also displays marquees etc when in the front end portion.