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Title: Cocktail-style split screen for Non-Mame games?
Post by: gwjrabbit on January 13, 2014, 11:45:35 am
Hey folks,

Been searching, but having found anything yet.  Does anyone have a way to make windows or an app act like Mame games in cocktail mode?  There are a bunch of multiplayer PC games I'd love to put on my cocktail MAME cabinet, but this is the main issue. 
Title: Re: Cocktail-style split screen for Non-Mame games?
Post by: JDFan on January 13, 2014, 12:55:12 pm
Not sure but there are programs like Splitview ( http://www.splitview.com/ (http://www.splitview.com/) ) that allow splitting a single monitor into split displays that could probably be used to do this - not sure if any specific one allows rotating of the image so that you could set it up like cocktail mode or cloning the single display to 2 windows but they do have a 30 day trial so you might download and give it a try !

Also if using an Nvidia GPU there is Nvidia Grids which is part of the display drivers that might work - again I'm using ATI so not sure what options for rotating and setting up the grid system are included but might be workable.
Title: Re: Cocktail-style split screen for Non-Mame games?
Post by: gwjrabbit on January 13, 2014, 01:40:00 pm
Grid seems to be dependent on specialty hardware.  Splitview may work, thanks, checking it out now.  THanks for the link!!!
Title: Re: Cocktail-style split screen for Non-Mame games?
Post by: gwjrabbit on January 13, 2014, 02:43:24 pm
Alas, doesn't seem to support rotation.
Title: Re: Cocktail-style split screen for Non-Mame games?
Post by: JDFan on January 13, 2014, 05:22:16 pm
Alas, doesn't seem to support rotation.

Bummer ! Was afraid that might be the case since it seems designed to display 2 things side by side on the monitor. Hopefully someone will come along with some suggestion.