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Amigoid

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Dec 23, 2009, 1:02:50 PM12/23/09
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I have a Mame cabinet, with XP pro, and high end Nvidia dual display
card, Mame32, Maximus Arcade frontend.
I have a large CRT primary display, and a small 15" LCD parked atop
the cabinet. I want to use the LCD secondary display in Future
pinball as the backbox display with the pinball playfield displayed on
the bigger monitor. (both displays default to 1024x768). When I play
MAME and other games with only one display, want to use the LCD up on
top as a mirrored display so onlookers can watch the gameplay
unobstructed. I can't leave the monitors in Mirrored display mode, so
I need a command line method of switching display modes for the pair
of monitors (mirrored/cloned and shared workspace).

Anyone have a solution? Within Maximus Arcade, there are command line
inputs that can be run before and after a game is selected.

SINNER

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Dec 31, 2009, 9:40:54 AM12/31/09
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* Amigoid wrote in alt.games.mame:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

Help any?

--
David

lob

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Jan 1, 2010, 1:41:25 AM1/1/10
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Amigoid <lbrown-...@comcast.net> wrote in news:e4860237-18bf-4886-885a-
c102d0...@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com:

Not sure, but I use Ultramon for sending stuff from my PC (Hulu, movies on
HD etc) to my (very old) TV. You can setup shortcuts. I just hit Ctrl+Alt+M
to send current open window to the TV and return it to the PC.

lob


Amigoid

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Jan 2, 2010, 12:38:17 PM1/2/10
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no, sorry, it only adjusts resolution. What I wanted to do was switch
between dual mode and mirror mode. I need dual displays when running
future pinball, and mirror mode in regular MAME mode. Thanks though.

lob

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Jan 2, 2010, 5:39:01 PM1/2/10
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Amigoid <lbrown-...@comcast.net> wrote in news:6911c4b4-061a-4893-
b640-f8f...@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com:

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/scripts/

Maybe?

lob

Amigoid

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Jan 3, 2010, 12:03:06 AM1/3/10
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On Jan 2, 3:39 pm, lob <lob30REM...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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yeah, its a pay program, but I will try it out.

lob

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Jan 3, 2010, 12:41:42 AM1/3/10
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Amigoid <lbrown-...@comcast.net> wrote in
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Yeah, agreed, all it does is mirror or switch between monitors and/or TV,
and the author charges $39.95 US.

lob

Amigoid

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Jan 4, 2010, 11:49:33 AM1/4/10
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On Jan 2, 10:41 pm, lob <lob30REM...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm not sure. I may be able to create some profiles that can be
switched to and from in the command line with it. If so, I can
trigger those scripts to run before and after playing a Future Pinball
game. We'll see.

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