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Themes / Blue Ring AM Theme --> From MALA/Mamewah to Attract-Mode.

« on: September 29, 2018, 05:51:47 AM »

"Blue Ring AM" Theme

Updated 10/01/2018 Change font layout.

I have seen that Nevincho recommended us the MALA Blue Ring  theme --Copyright (c) 2015 Andrew Mickelson-- for use in Attract-Mode.

And seeing the video i told myself if this theme does not have any mystery ...

So i've encoded it from scratch in Squirrel and i've added something to it.

Now, you can choose to use wheel or marquee at the top of the window (with animations or whitout them), you can use the keyboard search of liquid8d, you can use scanlines in the videos or not and you have the option to put more information on the games, or not.

With the keys up and down you change the game and with the left and right you change the genre (if this does not work like this, you would have to define left and right as a previous filter and a next filter in the Attract-Mode controls configuration).

Here is the thread of Nevincho: http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2474.0

Here you can download the theme: https://mega.nz/#!apNx2aQB!hYC34VoLKIxRQ3czDWBj1F7CMA1eDX3BT4T9mBLDD2I

And this is a video of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HITBxdFn0fo

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Themes / Re: am builder help

« on: September 20, 2018, 10:54:50 AM »

when i make a layout it works nice. butt.... only 1/4 of the screen is used no matter what i set res to.

what am i doing wrong??

You're probably using a 640x480 layout on a 1920x1080 screen... 

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Themes / Re: Theme to demonstrate CRT shaders

« on: September 20, 2018, 01:20:11 AM »

Change "movie" to "snap", or nothing will be seen...

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Scripting / Re: KeyboardSearch module

« on: September 11, 2018, 06:54:57 AM »

I'm going to request that you add the CAPS key to the keyboard-search.

I explain my need:

I have several consoles:

Sega Genesis
NES
SNES

If I use keyboard-search entering nes, it only returns Sega Genesis, when it should also return NES and SNES.

It does not, because the search is "Title contains [Nn]es", and I need "Title contains [Nn]es or NES". (Is only one example, sorry.)

So I would appreciate it if you enabled the CAPS key, or you could give me some solution to my problem.

Thanks you for your work.

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General / Re: Attract mode newbie question !

« on: September 10, 2018, 01:57:09 AM »

Look this...

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=481.0

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Themes / Re: Theme Gallery, place a thumb image of your theme here. Max size < 300x300

« on: September 05, 2018, 11:40:44 AM »

iorampage. Theme for Attract-Mode 4:3.

Original Thread: http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2430.0

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK-XnG-VFOs

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Themes / iorampage. Theme for Attract-Mode 4:3.

« on: September 05, 2018, 11:38:51 AM »

iorampage. Theme for Attract-Mode 4:3.

Yesterday I was bored and I started to make this layout with an aesthetic based on the game Rampage.

It is a simple theme for any system. (The only remarkable thing about the theme is to see George going up and down the list pointing to the games.)

It works in any screen resolution, but is designed to work --and it does better-- in a resolution of 4:3 (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 ...).

You only have the option to put the logo or the text of the system (or none), a couple of options for the search (you do not need a keyboard, it is the keyboard search by lidquid8d), another to choose if the game information is shown or not and the last one to put, or not, the exploration lines simulating a CRT on the screen of the videos of the games.

Here you can see it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK-XnG-VFOs

Since I do not have any 4:3 monitor, I had to put in AM a resolution of 1024x768, so it plays in the upper left corner of my HD monitor, and then cut with ffmpeg to remove the black areas left over. Therefore, when activating or deactivating the layout options, they do not appear correctly in the video.

You can download it here:

https://mega.nz/#!z99VlbQB!RoUu0_HwB-lITxPbhGfX0ftn4lXVvSFH54x_AtVY31s

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General / Re: help switching to linux

« on: September 05, 2018, 07:23:45 AM »

It works perfectly for me on lubuntu 16.04 on a samsung laptop with intel atom n270 and 2gb ram.

I use Attract-Mode + Retroarch.

I do not usually like that kind of distros (puppy, etc.) because they are not persistent.

Wikipedia definition: "Persistence – in computer science refers to the characteristic of data that outlives the execution of the program that created it. Without this capability, data only exists in RAM, and will be lost when the memory loses power, such as on computer shutdown."

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Scripting / Re: Animate flyer from position x,y to position x+400,y+400

« on: September 04, 2018, 03:30:06 AM »

To do it diagonally, you would need more parameters, x, y of origin e x, of destination, and that is not contemplated. I do not know if it can be done, but I do not think so, since you can not draw a diagonal line either. 

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General / Re: Daily Windows Build available.

« on: September 04, 2018, 03:14:13 AM »

it was time!!!

Congratulations! 

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Themes / Re: iojukebox Theme, a JukeBox for Attract-Mode.

« on: September 01, 2018, 03:06:55 AM »

Update 09/01/2018:

The number of background videos is increased to 16.
The graphic files of the backgrounds are removed. They are changed by color schemes, increasing to 16 options.

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Scripting / Re: A curiosity of a code seen here

« on: August 31, 2018, 06:40:18 AM »

so :: it indicates a global variable ... interesting, thanks.

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Scripting / A curiosity of a code seen here

« on: August 30, 2018, 11:57:01 AM »

What is the difference between this code:

Code: [Select]

::fe.add_transition_callback(this, "on_transition");
and this one:

Code: [Select]

fe.add_transition_callback(this, "on_transition");

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Themes / Re: iojukebox Theme, a JukeBox for Attract-Mode.

« on: August 29, 2018, 12:58:54 PM »

You do not need any special player, it only plays with the squirrel's own code and of course you can play videos, you just have to modify the batch to find them. But it is a subject that I have not considered yet.

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Scripting / Re: Is there a function that returns the language that is selected in attract.cfg?

« on: August 29, 2018, 09:09:39 AM »

In batch, I would know how to look inside attract.cfg, but in squirrel I have never tried it. But if you have something to base yourself on, I could try.