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Ginsu Victim:
this would've been nice to know when mamewah was always crashing me on, but I found the bug and squashed it.

Still, it's a good temporary fix.

Better than nothing.

Here's my question: Say I load a game in MAME that doesn't work and freezes when I load it (there are a few). Is there a way to set a program to automatically close if it's not responding? (Using FastMAME .84)

Bill Mote:
Why you ask?  :)  I have lots of kids using my cab.  They *always* hit the EXIT button too many times and end up at a blank black screen because MAMEWah is my OS shell.  Then I either have to open the coin door and pull out the keyboard or I have to VNC into the cab.  Both ruin the magic for those standing around ;)

MAMEWah has never crashed on my cab that I'm aware of.  It's just kids aged 3-14 that are causing the exits!  LOL

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TheShanMan:
Surely you can disable exiting via the keyboard in mamewah? You can in mala, so for me that is a non-issue.

Stub:
GameEx works nicely. I can configure what it allows. I can set up no exit, and power down only with a confirmation.

Ginsu Victim:
You can easily remap MAMEWAH to exit with a different method. I use a shifted button, which takes me to the options menu. I exit to windows from there.
The only other exit method I have is a hidden button on top of the cabinet that shuts down everything.

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