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DemonBrew

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Front end with LARGE fonts?
« on: October 23, 2005, 03:54:27 pm »
I'm looking for a MAME front end that I can display larger fonts for the games list. My TV is somewhat blurry. It's very hard to read the game list. Suggestions?

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Project info here.
Blurry TV forum post here.
Mamewah slow to load some games topic here.
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Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2005, 04:39:20 pm »
It's been awhile since I worked with MameWah, but I thought font and size were two things you could specify in the Mamewah .ini file.

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Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2005, 05:02:43 pm »
I think you can define large font with almost all Front Ends.

You can do that with my Front-End AtomicFe , but i think with others too.




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Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2005, 05:11:49 pm »
You may want to check out MALA as it is very user friendly, but I believe Mamewah has the most support out there(I'm not knocking you other guys ;)), www.mameworld.net has a whole forum dedicated to it and there is a new version of it out and about.

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Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2005, 09:45:45 pm »
If you are into DOS fe's, Gamelauncher will let you specify ANY size font you want.
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Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2005, 09:55:11 am »
You can do that with my Front-End AtomicFe , but i think with others too.

Is that something within the Layout setup? or in the AtomicFE setup program? or just in a text file somewhere?
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Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2005, 01:35:10 pm »
Here's another vote for MaLa.  I just switched over from Cocktail frontend (after 2 years on that and 2 years on ArcadeOS) and couldn't be happier.  This is by far the best front-end I have used thus far (especially as configuration goes).

For font size, you may have to tinker with the layout tool a bit, but it's not hard to do.

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Re: Front end with LARGE fonts?
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2005, 03:02:44 pm »
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Is that something within the Layout setup? or in the AtomicFE setup program? or just in a text file somewhere?


You can change font size by modifying the layout using AtomicLayoutManager. 

And/Or you change font aspect using AtomicManager on the "Advanced" tab modifying font X and font X ration parameter.

If you use AtomicLayoutManager and it complains about a .BMP file , just open the file Layout.png with paintshop pro or another graphic program and save as  layour.bmp in the same folder.