Posted by Howard Casto on 1, 2001 at 9:02 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Ok guys, now what? posted by Todd Munro on 1, 2001 at 8:32 PM:
: After playing around a bit more lauching some games I have made a couple observations.
Read the readme file. It's not designed to use the keyboard and the mouse at the same time.
I know that it definately won't operate correctly if you try to do so, that's why I put it in the documentation. There's these nifty little buttons that will appear if you roll over the cabinet. Thought it would be nice for all you mouse users out there.
The scrolling limitations is soley an ipac thing. To make it more joystick-like the ipac dosen't sue a keyrepeater quite like a keyboard does, so in some apps if you hold down a key it isn't held down in the traditional sense.
Now the game thing is an interesting one. I truely am working on it but it involves some tricky api stuff to lock down the menu while something else is running. I removed the dos box when mame is loading for asthetic purposes.
If there's an incorrect rom set mame is actually setting in the bg ever so slowly trying to find a rom that isn't there. When you try to load a game, that mame still has focus, so it won't let you. I'm trying to fix this as well.
As for the naysayers.... I remember when mame was a new thing and it wasn't quite up to being a good app yet. People used to say how "crappy" it was. What if that would have discouraged the programmers? We wouldn't even have a mame today. Now I don't mean by any stretch of the imagination that my FE is ever going to be as good or useful as mame, but it's something to think about. I could be like some emu programers out there and delay a release every time I recieve nasty remarks. So keep pushing guys, I'll post your names specifically if you make me quit.(Ain't gonna quit most likely) Then everyone else can "thank" you.
: After seleting a game the cursor (mouse and keyboard) can still be move around, and a 2nd game can even be launched. This really screws things up. Also it seems to get confused if there is an incorrect rom set, making the lauching of something else impossible.
: Lastly, and more bizzare is that it will let me hold down the arrow keys to rapidly scroll, but not my control cabinet interfaced thru an IPAC. It will move only one space regardless of whether I hold the direction or not. There maybe a non-software related problem about this, I dunno.
: Any ways, keep up the good work, and ignore all the jerks who don't appreciate free, 100% working, use full software.
: Thanks!
: : Any new features you would like added? How about more emu support? I'm taking suggestions again.