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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Distortion on February 12, 2003, 09:13:01 am

Title: windows frontend that works like an OS?
Post by: Distortion on February 12, 2003, 09:13:01 am

Is there a windows frontend that has emulation and possibly jukebox support that works like an OS?  I want people to be able to pick their games without using the keyboard or mouse.  I want to allow selection of games without having to "break the character" of my cabinet by taking out a keyboard or mouse.  I'm a little new, and I've looked at a couple frontends, so please, if you plan on roasting me, please refrain from doing so.

Title: Re:windows frontend that works like an OS?
Post by: Minwah on February 12, 2003, 09:35:42 am

Head over to the software section, and give all the FE's there a go - they are all designed to be controlled without using keyboard/mouse.  Also, they disguise Windows since we like to 'not know' that we're playing on a PC, rather an arcade machine ;)

Title: Re:windows frontend that works like an OS?
Post by: Random24 on February 12, 2003, 11:58:21 am

Here is something I posted in a previous discussion:

Getting a Front-end to run as a shell in XP and start with no user intervention
You cannot do this if your computer is part of a domain. It must only be part of a workgroup.

• Create a user that will be the auto-login user. (User should have admin rights at this time)
• Configure XP to automate the logon process if your computer is not part of a domain.
• Click Start, click Run, and type control userpasswords2.
• Clear the "Users must enter a username and password to use this computer" check box.
• Click Apply.
• Enter the user name and pwd you wish to automatically log on with, and then click OK.
• Click OK again and you're all done.
• Setup your FE the way you want it.
• Open regedit and browse to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon"

Look for a string entry called 'Shell'. If it is not there, create a string entry and name it 'Shell'. Set the value of this entry to the name and location of your Front-end. For Lazarus, the shell entry may be "C:\Lazarus\Lazarus.exe" or wherever your Lazarus executable is located. For explorer, the entry is simply "explorer.exe".

• Log out as the auto-login user and log back in as another user with administrative rights.
• Change the auto-login user to a standard user. (This way people don't have more access than you want them to have.)

Title: Re:windows frontend that works like an OS?
Post by: eightbit on February 12, 2003, 03:16:06 pm

http://www.cybertechdesign.net/mameroom/ (http://www.cybertechdesign.net/mameroom/) Has a program called ultimate arcade thats sort of a front end for your front ends. Actually its more of a menu but saying frontend for your frontend sounding cooler.

I played with the demo a while back and it was pretty cool. When I get around to running other emulators its what I was planning to use.