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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: gottlieb61 on May 14, 2015, 12:56:22 pm

Title: MALA on dual monitors
Post by: gottlieb61 on May 14, 2015, 12:56:22 pm

I built a mame cocktail several years ago and found Mala to be the best FE. I'd like to build a new upright arcade mame machine using a dual monitors - one horizontal - one vertical. I'd like all the vertical games to go to the vertical monitor and all the horizontal games to the horizontal monitor. So there's really no game rotation involved. It would just need to automatically switch to the correct monitor depending on the games orientation.  Is this possible? Thanks

Title: Re: MALA on dual monitors
Post by: BadMouth on May 14, 2015, 04:49:21 pm

This would be done in MAME.

I haven't kept up with the most recent builds, but once upon a time you could have vertical.ini and horizontal.ini
They can contain the same options as mame.ini, just specific to horizontal or vertical games.

So you could set a different monitor in vertical.ini

Sorry I can't walk you through it.

Title: Re: MALA on dual monitors
Post by: bulbousbeard on May 22, 2015, 12:52:15 am

BadMouth is correct.

Assuming you're on Windows (Mala is Windows only, right?), let's say that your vertical monitor is your primary monitor, and your horizontal monitor is your secondary monitor.

In vertical.ini, you'd add:

screen                 \\.\DISPLAY1

In horizontal.ini, you'd add:

screen                 \\.\DISPLAY2