ATOMIC FE 0.17 ON LINE !! (Light gun and Touch Screen support and more)

[youki]

Hi all,

The new version is online :

-Rewrite of snap video rendering using DirectShow instead of video for windows.(no more problem with XVID)
-Video Snap can be played with sound
-Vertical layout rendering optimized
-Differences between font in the layoutEditor and Atomic corrected
-Light gun and Touch Screen support  (need specific layout using new ClickZone objects)
-Image list (marqueelist etc) rendering corrected on Layout 0.16 format
-Can set font and color for each item in a list using the layoutEditor
-Can set Alphablending (degree of transparency) for each item of a image list using the layoutEditor
-Automatic generation of GameList at first run of configs that doesn't use predefined gamelists.
-PageDown and PageUp can now scroll by letter
-bugs correction and enhancement in layout Editor
-Possibility to display image on Jukebox screensaver
-Enhancement AtomicManager

Download on : http://www.atomicfe.com

[Buddabing]

Movies work! However, clones don't show up. Shouldn't the clones show the same movie as the parent? Otherwise, I'd have to have many different pacman videos when I only need one.

One small thing. I was having a tough time with the configuration, until I realized that Atomic has changed to expect a config file named "Atomic017.cfg" instead of just "Atomic.cfg". You might change the default "Save As" to save as "Atomic017.cfg".

Also, the game list appears to not be in alphabetical order. Is there a switch for this?

[Spaz Monkey]

I swear that i was just there 5 mins ago and the website was still "under construction"...

WTF 

[youki]

Movies work! However, clones don't show up. Shouldn't the clones show the same movie as the parent? Otherwise, I'd have to have many different pacman videos when I only need one.

I still not manage clone.  If you have a clone you need to have a video for the clone too. I will do something for that in future version.   I didn't have time to do that in that one.

One small thing. I was having a tough time with the configuration, until I realized that Atomic has changed to expect a config file named "Atomic017.cfg" instead of just "Atomic.cfg". You might change the default "Save As" to save as "Atomic017.cfg".

Yes, you're right, it would be better.  In fact , i decided to rename all Atomicxx.cfg at each version, just to avoid a user delete his configuration by accident if he tries to update atomic by installing the new version in the same folder.  Doing that, the user has just to change the default start up config to his previous one.

Also, the game list appears to not be in alphabetical order. Is there a switch for this?

If you use predefined gamelist, you have to sort your gamelist yourself.
If you didn't used predefined gamelist and just point to a folder (now Atomic will generate a gamelist for you) , you can make sort the game by name by clicking on :
Game list sorted by Name   (will sort by roms name)
or
Game list sorted by game name  (will sort by game title)

on the "general" tab of AtomicManager for the config you want.

(Before doing that, click on "Purge self generated game list" , otherwise he will re-use the gamelist it generated previously (not sorted)) . 

I swear that i was just there 5 mins ago and the website was still "under construction"...

I think you went on a bad site , because the site is no more  "under construction" since months.

[Havok]

The layout editor is working much better now! If only I can stop playing games long enough to create a few layouts...

 

[youki]

The layout editor is working much better now! If only I can stop playing games long enough to create a few layouts...

Yes, i have corrected lot of youthfulness default on this version...   Therefore I have still lot of improvement to do, but i think this version of the new layout editor is quite good.

[gonzobrian]

-Possibility to display image on Jukebox screensaver

Your like an elephant, you never forget.  I ask for that like 6 months ago.  And you remembered.  OK that puts it over the top AtomicFE is the Best FE on the planet.
 
Thanks
Youki

[Havok]

Hey Youki,

I don't see an update to the fulllist.txt Metadata - it's dated 2/6/06. Do you do that by hand, since you are putting the title and the rom name?

(Got the jump to next letter working - love it! Now, we just need that search option...)

Thanks for all the hard work!

[Spaz Monkey]

  

I went to a different website....

Sorry...

[Havok]

 

I went to a different website....

Sorry...

AtomicFU.com ?

 

[youki]

I don't see an update to the fulllist.txt Metadata - it's dated 2/6/06. Do you do that by hand, since you are putting the title and the rom name?

That's true, i forget to update it.  You can regenerate it from mame with this command line :

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mame -listfull > fulllist.txt 

Then copy the file in the metadata folder.

Now, we just need that search option...)

That will come... 

Your like an elephant, you never forget.  I ask for that like 6 months ago.  And you remembered.

I never forget user request. I always try to do my best to implement that they ask. Just a question of time.