xp mamewah wincab loading probs

[david656]

right! i have set it up a treat ! the pc powers up to mamewah as the shell in 10 seconds !! but on exit i want it to load wincab... if i press '2' 'exit mamewah' it loads wincab but i want to be able to press esc and get wincab up.

also how to i get back to mamewah after wincab as there is no windows no nothing once wincab is shut as mamewah was the shell, i don't want to have to do this the windows way !

[Minwah]

right! i have set it up a treat ! the pc powers up to mamewah as the shell in 10 seconds !! but on exit i want it to load wincab... if i press '2' 'exit mamewah' it loads wincab but i want to be able to press esc and get wincab up.

Edit your Mamewah ctrlr file (probably \mamewah\mamewah.cfg or \mamewah\config\mamewah.cfg) and set:

EXIT_TO_WINDOWS "DIK_ESCAPE"

also how to i get back to mamewah after wincab as there is no windows no nothing once wincab is shut as mamewah was the shell, i don't want to have to do this the windows way !

Perhaps launch WinCab as an external app from Mamewah (ie not quitting Mamewah) and then quitting WinCab will return to Mamewah?

[david656]

thats great thanks and i'd love to do it that way but errmmm how !

[Minwah]

thats great thanks and i'd love to do it that way but errmmm how !

Good question.... ;-)

1) In your (Mamewah) mame.ini file, set 'general_app_commandlines c:\wincab\wincab.exe' (or whatever)
2) Back in your Mamewah ctrlr file, set LAUNCH_APP_1 "DIK_ESCAPE"

Note if you use Escape above, you will need to remap EXIT_TO_WINDOWS to something else.

Also note this will only work when your Mame list is selected, UNLESS you repeat step 1 for each of your emulator.ini files.

Hope that helps!