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just an idea... 2 LCD screen mirror cab with change-able backdrop????
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on April 24, 2011, 02:26:18 am ---Heh, Gota love it. Its like you want to win your argument so bad, that you will spout anything, even if its unrelated or unrealistic.
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I had a feeling you wouldn't understand a word I said. One more try;
Go use some of that experience and tell me the difference in the distance between the viewer's eye and both the real and the virtual images in your Asteroids Deluxe, then show your work. It's important to know this for the purposes of this thread. Your random strawman arguments aren't useful at all, but here's your chance to add something of value, since you have a machine the rest of us can use for a reference. Thanks.
scofthe7seas:
I don't want to get yelled at ( :D You guys seem pretty heated) but I still think, regardless of 3d, or other game use, things like asteroids, or maybe warlords (kind of a grassy medieval background?) might look pretty cool, even if some picture quality is lost.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: scofthe7seas on April 25, 2011, 01:36:10 pm ---I don't want to get yelled at ( :D You guys seem pretty heated) but I still think, regardless of 3d, or other game use, things like asteroids, or maybe warlords (kind of a grassy medieval background?) might look pretty cool, even if some picture quality is lost.
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No-one is yelling :) But we do enjoy spirited discussion from time to time, and that's just the passion talking. I agree that it could be cool to be able to assign your own colorful backdrops to some of the old monochrome games which didn't use the underlays. I'm pretty sure that MAME allows for backdrops on those which used them. If it isn't already, it would be interesting to see if the dev team could be coaxed into making the backdrop function more universal by allowing any of the games to use them, and letting the user select the "transparent color".
nitz:
Randy, you can do it using Autohotkey! When you said "transparent color", I immediately thought of ahk's transcolor option. Put the following in a ahk script:
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Winset, transcolor, black, MAME
return
F2::
Winset, transcolor, off, MAME
return
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F1 will make black invisible to show what is underneath it, and F2 will shut it off. Of course you can substitute other keys to suit your preference, or work with your frontend to have a script that launches and does this automatically when certain games are run. And if you want something other than black to be the transparent color, you can use the PixelGetColor command to find the RGB value of the color, and then sub that in. Basically you could just have your backdrop as your desktop. Or to integrate this with a frontend or use different backdrops for different games, you could probably use ahk's SplashImage command. (This isn't something I'm especially interested in, so I'm going to leave it to others to work out all the little details. ;))
The caveat is that you will need to set mame's video mode to gdi for this to work - DirectDraw and Direct3d seem to be a no go. I tried this with Ms. Pacman. Worked beautifully other than giving me quite a performance hit on my machine. I fixed it by setting frame skipping to 6/10 but that makes it a little choppy. I'm thinking using older mame with a decent PC for those games you want backdrops on could work.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: nitz on April 25, 2011, 05:28:13 pm ---Randy, you can do it using Autohotkey! When you said "transparent color", I immediately thought of ahk's transcolor option. Put the following in a ahk script:
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:applaud:
Awesomeness.... That's a great solution to use until the MAME devs can be convinced, or a way is found to do it within MAME's confines. Sounds like the AHK solution might work for other apps as well, which is a bonus!
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