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Title: Front end / shell issues
Post by: mosesmalone on January 15, 2007, 01:33:38 am

Hi all,

I'm running Mamawah 1.62b10 as a shell on my machine (winXP). It's working pretty well except when I turn the machine on and it loads into Mamewah the first emulator I run always loses focus and minimizes to the bottom left. A quick Alt-tab fixes it, but it's mighty annoying.

I've played around with Mamewah's dosbox and safelaunch options, but it doesn't make a difference. What's interesting is it's only the first time I run an emulator. When I escape out back to Mamewah and load another game (even from another platform), it works as it should (maintains focus and the full screen).

Any ideas?

Title: Re: Front end / shell issues
Post by: Minwah on January 15, 2007, 07:58:28 am

I'd normally advise you use {dosbox}{safelaunch} for this...sounds like you've already done that.

I can't say I know whether this is a common problem or not, having never ran Mamewah as a WinXP shell, but if all else fails you could run Mamewah from Startup instead of shell and see if that works ok.