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Title: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: 8way on June 04, 2006, 02:22:38 am

     OK my problem is when I go to launch a game from Mamewah the screen minimizes. I can here the sound playing, but all I get is a black screen. If I ALT/TAB I can get back in the game and all is fine. This problem does not seem game specific its actually random but quite often. Im using MAME 105b & Mamewah 161 on Windows XP. Running MAME from command line does not cause this issue. I also tried several other FE

Title: Re: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: unclet on June 06, 2006, 07:24:07 am

Try changing the {nodosbox} and {nosafelaunch} settings to {dosbox} and {safelaunch} ..... try all combinations of both until you find one which works ...

Title: Re: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: 8way on June 06, 2006, 10:52:33 pm

You are a life saver  :notworthy:  :notworthy:, Thank you very much. I been  :banghead: for 3 days trying to figure this out. But yeah changing

Title: Re: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: unclet on June 06, 2006, 11:26:02 pm

I would recommend trying the MALA frontend.  Pure GUI interface and has all options MameWah has and a bunch more .... very easy to set up and use.   You can even use MameWah layouts in MALA as well .... so everything looks exactly the same when selecting games, etc....

Title: Re: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: leapinlew on June 06, 2006, 11:35:34 pm

Quote from: unclet on June 06, 2006, 11:26:02 pm

I would recommend trying the MALA frontend.  Pure GUI interface and has all options MameWah has and a bunch more .... very easy to set up and use.   You can even use MameWah layouts in MALA as well .... so everything looks exactly the same when selecting games, etc....

I agree with UncleT - MALA is totally rocking...

Title: Re: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: 8way on June 07, 2006, 02:27:47 am

Funny that you mention MALA, I been testing it as an alternative. I had no problems getting up and running. One feature I like in Mamewah that I can

Title: Re: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: Dustin Mustangs on June 07, 2006, 08:48:34 am

Quote from: unclet on June 06, 2006, 11:26:02 pm

.... has all options MameWah has and a bunch more ....

That is not exactly the case.  No disrespect to Mala though, I am in the middle of a personal debate over Mamewah vs. Mala right now. 

Oh woe is me!!   :hissy:

Title: Re: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: swindus on June 07, 2006, 08:58:45 am

Quote from: 8way on June 07, 2006, 02:27:47 am

Funny that you mention MALA, I been testing it as an alternative. I had no problems getting up and running. One feature I like in Mamewah that I can

Title: Re: Mamewah minimizing problem
Post by: wallywalt on June 08, 2006, 04:24:43 pm

I was having the same problem with mamewah minimizing when loading a game. I was about to ditch mamewah and start trying mala until i read this thread, thanks guys.