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Widescreen monitor in vertical orientation ... how do you like it?

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PL1:
Look into modifying the art and layout (.lay) files.

You can find some basic info and links here and at the end of the FAQ on Mr. Do's site.


Scott

Terr1:
I'm very interested in doing the same on my 2 player upright.. I currently have a 19" 4:3 monitor, and I rather want a 22"-23" 16:9 installed vertical, to have the pinball option..
Can you have per game settings in MAME (resolution wise)? something that changes the screen resolution to match on vertical games?

welash:
I had looked at creating layout files, and I think you can create different layout files for vertical and horizontal games, but there were some things that I wasn't sure I could accomplish with layout files.  It is possible that I just wasn't getting how to make a generic template that would allow adding some of the things I wanted.

I use Linux (I've never been able to understand how people get windows to do anything at all), so I was thinking about doing some window manager tricks to display MAME at a specific location on the screen and display the other graphics at other locations. Ideally SDLMAME should take more than a width and height for it's geometry, it should also take a position, (Usually in X11 you can specify a geometry as wxh+x+y to tell the application to run at size wxh at location x,y).  With some window managers, you can coerce the application to run at a specific position if it doesn't support it.

lettuce:
how about using the top part of the LCD for the marquee ???

Crazy Cooter:
The issue is getting high resolution marquee images.  I've been trying to get them since 2010 for this exact reason:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,107206.msg1136203.html#msg1136203

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