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Title: xp mamewah wincab loading probs
Post by: david656 on January 06, 2008, 10:49:45 am
right! i have set it up a treat ! the pc powers up to mamewah as the shell in 10 seconds !! but on exit i want it to load wincab... if i press '2' 'exit mamewah' it loads wincab but i want to be able to press esc and get wincab up.

also how to i get back to mamewah after wincab as there is no windows no nothing once wincab is shut as mamewah was the shell, i don't want to have to do this the windows way !
Title: Re: xp mamewah wincab loading probs
Post by: Minwah on January 08, 2008, 05:52:17 am
right! i have set it up a treat ! the pc powers up to mamewah as the shell in 10 seconds !! but on exit i want it to load wincab... if i press '2' 'exit mamewah' it loads wincab but i want to be able to press esc and get wincab up.

Edit your Mamewah ctrlr file (probably \mamewah\mamewah.cfg or \mamewah\config\mamewah.cfg) and set:

EXIT_TO_WINDOWS "DIK_ESCAPE"

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also how to i get back to mamewah after wincab as there is no windows no nothing once wincab is shut as mamewah was the shell, i don't want to have to do this the windows way !

Perhaps launch WinCab as an external app from Mamewah (ie not quitting Mamewah) and then quitting WinCab will return to Mamewah?
Title: Re: xp mamewah wincab loading probs
Post by: david656 on January 08, 2008, 12:05:06 pm
thats great thanks :D and i'd love to do it that way but errmmm how !
Title: Re: xp mamewah wincab loading probs
Post by: Minwah on January 09, 2008, 07:33:03 am
thats great thanks :D and i'd love to do it that way but errmmm how !

Good question.... ;-)

1) In your (Mamewah) mame.ini file, set 'general_app_commandlines c:\wincab\wincab.exe' (or whatever)
2) Back in your Mamewah ctrlr file, set LAUNCH_APP_1 "DIK_ESCAPE"

Note if you use Escape above, you will need to remap EXIT_TO_WINDOWS to something else.

Also note this will only work when your Mame list is selected, UNLESS you repeat step 1 for each of your emulator.ini files.

Hope that helps!