John 2005-07-03 02:23
I am running Mame and I would like the program to always run on the second monitor (arcade monitor). It seems that this is no problem for Ultramon because you could program the shortcut.
However, the front end, actually calls on a dos program to execute the games, how could you ensure that the program called from the front end would also start in the second montior?
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Christian Studer 2005-07-03 03:51
UltraMon doesn't support this, you would need to launch the actual executable via UltraMon.
Please note that moving games to a secondary monitor will most likely not work.
To test if this would work with MAME, create a Move Window hotkey under UltraMon Options > Hotkeys, then try to move the game to the secondary monitor with the hotkey and test if the game still works correctly.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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John 2005-07-03 05:43
Thanks for the information. I need to think about how I can solve this problem. Maybe UltraMon is worth a shot. Would VBA scripting be a solution? It's not something I know much about, but have dabbled a bit.
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Guest 2005-07-03 08:52
MAME have a bug if the second monitor is positioned to the left of the primary display. The MAME window will crawl pixel by pixel until it's on the primary display.
This is probably due to the fact that the screencoordinates ar enegative numbers on the left screen and MAME doesn't handle this propperly!
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Andrew 2005-07-06 06:43
Mame has a command line option to specify the display to run the program on in full screen, so to run on Display 2 type
mame -screen \\.\DISPLAY2
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