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Title: Front end with LARGE fonts?
Post by: DemonBrew on October 23, 2005, 03:54:27 pm

I'm looking for a MAME front end that I can display larger fonts for the games list. My TV is somewhat blurry. It's very hard to read the game list. Suggestions?

Background info:
Project info here.  (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=43011.0)
Blurry TV forum post here. (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=44796.0)
Mamewah slow to load some games topic here. (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=35690.40)

Title: Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
Post by: markrvp on October 23, 2005, 04:39:20 pm

It's been awhile since I worked with MameWah, but I thought font and size were two things you could specify in the Mamewah .ini file.

Title: Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
Post by: youki on October 23, 2005, 05:02:43 pm

I think you can define large font with almost all Front Ends.

You can do that with my Front-End AtomicFe , but i think with others too.

Title: Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
Post by: mccoy178 on October 23, 2005, 05:11:49 pm

You may want to check out MALA as it is very user friendly, but I believe Mamewah has the most support out there(I'm not knocking you other guys ;)), www.mameworld.net has a whole forum dedicated to it and there is a new version of it out and about.

Title: Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
Post by: RayB on October 23, 2005, 09:45:45 pm

If you are into DOS fe's, Gamelauncher will let you specify ANY size font you want.

Title: Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
Post by: DemonBrew on October 24, 2005, 09:55:11 am

Quote from: youki on October 23, 2005, 05:02:43 pm

You can do that with my Front-End AtomicFe , but i think with others too.

Is that something within the Layout setup? or in the AtomicFE setup program? or just in a text file somewhere?

Title: Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
Post by: Spartan on October 24, 2005, 01:35:10 pm

Here's another vote for MaLa.  I just switched over from Cocktail frontend (after 2 years on that and 2 years on ArcadeOS) and couldn't be happier.  This is by far the best front-end I have used thus far (especially as configuration goes).

For font size, you may have to tinker with the layout tool a bit, but it's not hard to do.

Title: Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
Post by: youki on October 24, 2005, 03:02:44 pm

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Is that something within the Layout setup? or in the AtomicFE setup program? or just in a text file somewhere?

You can change font size by modifying the layout using AtomicLayoutManager. 

And/Or you change font aspect using AtomicManager on the "Advanced" tab modifying font X and font X ration parameter.

If you use AtomicLayoutManager and it complains about a .BMP file , just open the file Layout.png with paintshop pro or another graphic program and save as  layour.bmp in the same folder.