New Issue with DOS window

[epicrean]

When I start attract mode a black dos windows opens and shows the behind the scene magic, this window was minimizing on its own, now it sits there and I need to click on attract mode.  thoughts?

[kaptainsteve]

Try changing the setting from fill or full screen to windowed mode with no borders.
Worked for me.

[djrobx]

I had this problem too.  Full screen mode helps mostly but sometimes the console window will pop back up over the UI.   It also breaks the trackball/mouse support (the mouse cursor will appear wherever the console window is and AM won't get the movement events properly).

There's a utility you can google for called Hidden Start (hstart.exe).   If you launch attract.exe through it (hstart.exe /NOCONSOLE attract.exe) the console window goes away fully and it works properly.
 

[8bitsdeep]

If you don't care about the console window at all (handy for debugging sometimes), do this:

In attract.cfg, in the general section: change hide_console from no to yes.

[djrobx]

Thanks!

I thought I saw that option somewhere but couldn't find it again when I later determined that the console window was causing me issues.