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Title: Shell...
Post by: Nightmare03 on January 21, 2004, 02:49:05 pm: Can somebody make a program, which is black and launches C:\Program Files\MAMEWAH\MAMEWAH.exe ? Also, this needs to be able to be the shell...

I tried using visual c++ but i cant even change the background color!!! could i get anymore useless? ???
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Post by: Jakobud on January 21, 2004, 03:54:40 pm: Huh?
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Post by: Nightmare03 on January 21, 2004, 05:45:53 pm: nevermind dude ill make it myself in visual c++
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Post by: TalkingOctopus on January 21, 2004, 06:30:20 pm: Just trying placing a MAMEWAH shortcut in the windows startup menu.
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Post by: Random24 on January 21, 2004, 07:21:59 pm: Have you seen this (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=14998) thread?

I have posted how to run a front end as a shell a few times now. I use Dragon King in my cab as a shell and I have Virtual Music Jukebox as the shell in my Jukebox. It's pretty easy to setup just about anything as a shell in all versions of windows going back at least to 95 and maby even further. ( I don't know because before 95 I wouldn't touch windows. DOS all the way)

If you are using 98 you can just replace the shell=explorer.exe in the system.ini with shell=(put the path and exe name to your front end here)
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Post by: Nightmare03 on January 21, 2004, 07:38:27 pm: Dude, windows 98 cant use visual basic programs as a shell... like mamewah
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Post by: Minwah on January 21, 2004, 07:43:27 pm: Quote from: Nightmare03 on January 21, 2004, 07:38:27 pm
Dude, windows 98 cant use visual basic programs as a shell... like mamewah

Yes it can :) I know MW used to work fine as a shell, not sure about the last handful of revisions because I don't actually test that (don't have a '98 PC for one thing)...
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Post by: Nightmare03 on January 21, 2004, 08:05:04 pm: well dude, the mamewah i have doesnt work as a shell
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Post by: Minwah on January 22, 2004, 08:28:43 am: Quote from: Nightmare03 on January 21, 2004, 08:05:04 pm
well dude, the mamewah i have doesnt work as a shell

What doesn't work about it exactly?
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Post by: Nightmare03 on January 22, 2004, 03:59:41 pm: I change "Shell = explorer.exe" to mamewah then when you restart it says somethin about you have to reinstall windows.

so i just went into command prompt and changed it back.
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Post by: Random24 on January 22, 2004, 04:30:37 pm: did you just put

shell = mamewah.exe

or did you (as I said is needed) put

shell = "c:\directory where program is installed\mamewah.exe"

If you tried it the first way, that could be your problem. It will work that way but the directory where mamewah is installed would need to be in the PATH statement.
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Post by: Nightmare03 on January 22, 2004, 04:47:42 pm: I did it the second way.

-Nightmare
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Post by: Random24 on January 22, 2004, 05:30:37 pm: does your directory path have spaces? If so you may have to put quotes arround it.

Like "c:\program files\mamewah\mamewah.exe" (notice the space in program files)

I hate the way windows lets you use spaces in directory and file names and then doesn't handle them correctly unless you put quotes arround them. I have seen this cause problems countless times.