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General / AM Freezes Constantly on Freshly Reset PC

« on: June 12, 2020, 04:14:39 PM »

I set up an older Windows 10 PC to make an arcade machine, so I did a factory reset and brought my current Attract Mode setup with MAME onto it. The games menu (default attrac-man) freezes and spikes the CPU up to 100% simply from scrolling through it.

Most of the threads about this problem I found involved the video snaps, but I tried even deleting all my video snap files and having only images and the same still happens. It's especially sensitive after loading and exiting from a game. The default MAME wont even open.

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Scripting / Randomly select ambient music from a pool?

« on: March 27, 2020, 02:20:22 PM »

I have background music (Ambient Soundtrack) playing on my display with a nice Namco Museum track makes way for a quiet screensaver when it ends (don't want my machine constantly making music while it's not being uses), and the music restarts when you load back into the menu from a game. Though, I thought it would be a cool idea and add some variety if i could have it instead randomly select a different menu music track to play every time it loads, from, say, a folder of music.

Is there any scripting magic that can make this happen? I suspect it might not be too complicated to code.