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Title: Starting Emulators in Windows XP
Post by: Superdude on April 14, 2003, 11:03:31 am

I am currently trying to run a few emulators on my machine.  I am having a hard time trying to get them all to work together. My machine consists of:

AMD XP 1800+
Jamma Cab
Arcade Monitor
Arcade Card from Andy
JPAC
WIn XP

Questions:
1) I have an amulator for SMS games and GameGear Game called: DEGA.  The game can be run full screen by presing alt-enter.  I launch the emulator with the rom in a batch file.  The game only comes up in window form.  Is there a generic commandline option for windows XP to force the game to run in full screen or at least full screen window?

2) What exactly is a wrapper.  I seen alot of talk about this but I really dont understand it.  Can someone give me an example?

3) I am using a front end called Emutron.  I really like it alot and did alot of work on it.  I wanted to take pics of it with a screen capture util. None of the utils I tried was able to.  Any suggestions for a screen capture tool?  If people like my work I was going to give it out.

Thanks again guys.

Title: Re:Starting Emulators in Windows XP
Post by: jginiso on April 14, 2003, 11:17:34 am

Try Snagit for the screencap:

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2192-10004813.html

Title: Re:Starting Emulators in Windows XP
Post by: Superdude on April 14, 2003, 04:56:22 pm

Thanks jginiso!

I found my answer for my first question too.  If you right click on an application you can set the properties to run full screen! Sweet!

Now I just need to know what a wrapper is.  I think it might be a white guy trying to rap.

Title: Re:Starting Emulators in Windows XP
Post by: )p( on April 14, 2003, 05:25:06 pm

Quote from: Superdude on April 14, 2003, 04:56:22 pm

Now I just need to know what a wrapper is.  I think it might be a white guy trying to rap.

;D

wrappers are small standalone launchers Howard made that can be used by frontends to launch emulators that can't be normally run from the commandline.

For example visual pinball can't be closed with a keypress. it will ask if you want to go back to the editor or quit...looks ugly...the wrapper can come to rescue by waiting for a certain key to pressed and then close vp. You could add this to an fe, and i did so before the wrapper ;-), but the beauty of the wrapper is that it will do this with the most flexibility and smalles footprint possible and can be launched with any fe so it only has to be setup once. So basically a wrapper can send simulated keypresses to other apps to get them working and wait for certain keypresses to close them.

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