Posted by Howard Casto on January 27, 2002 at 18:24:12:
In Reply to: ahh Howard, that would be sweet! posted by enemyace on January 27, 2002 at 17:42:57:
: So you're talking VPinball backglass images showing up on a second monitor, right?
No actually I was talking about positioning the pinmame display in the marquee screen when you launch vp. That way you can look up and see your score insted of having a dinky little box to see it beside your vp table . That's what I was referring to for the mame team as well.... they could take all playchoice games and give the option to display the pc selection menu in a seperate window.... it could also be done for punchout, arm wrestling and a few others.
The backglass could be done when your selecting within rd though, just as it would be done for the marquees.
That would be so tight. My matrox g400 would be perfect for that. Marquees or flyers for other games, whatever... Mame doesn't have to do the code, RD could. Maybe you could even make a custom images folder that people could use if they wanted an image of the game controls or directions to come up. I could forsee my cab having a small monitor up in the marquee area just for this purpose. I'll test it myself if you are interested.
: : If you can get the laptop to act as a secondary display, making a prog to display the marquee would be cake. All you need is windows or a os that supports dual desktops.(Sometimes special software is needed for this, but it's farily widely available) You'll need a cheap secondary vid card to output to the lcd. Now you need a fe specially designed to display the marquee in a seperate window. You drag this window to the desktop on the lcd and maxamize it. Low and behold you have a marquee that is displayed on the lcd. I was planning to Add support for this in Rd for visual pinball, but if anyone is willing to get the hardware for their machine setup before me, I'll be glad to make a custom version of rd for them. It would take all of about 6 seconds to make, but I would need user input since I have no way of testing it.
: : It would also be nice if those wondeful chaps over at the mame dev team could do this to games that had two displays (playchoice, punchout, ect.) It dosen't seem like it would be that hard.... you can already run mame in a window, they would just have to mod the code so that when dual display games are activated, you can split them into two windows.
: : : Hey everyone,
: : : I was thinking about trying to make an "active" marquee using an old laptop (or just the LCD out of it), a fresnel lens, and a piece of the "glass" from a junked rear projection TV. Could this work?
: : : I guess my biggest question is how to get the laptop (or 2nd vid card in PC) to display the marquee .png? I'm using an ATI w/S-vid out to a TV. How can I set up software to display the game on the TV but the corresponding marquee on the LCD?
: : : If you know of any URL's that can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it!
: : : Thanks!