Ever wonder how the skins in the Skin Gallery get created?  Unfortunately, there is no “skin designer” tool, as I have put all my programming time into the jukebox itself, but that doesn’t mean creating a skin is difficult!  I’ve posted a complete Skin Creation Tutorial in the Support Forum that describes the process from start to [...]

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The touchscreen support in the Windows XP mouse driver, unfortunately, prevents the mouse from working in other operating systems.  To solve this problem, rename alleg42.dll to alleg42-xp.dll and rename alleg42-98.dll to alleg42.dll to activate the mouse driver without touchscreen support.

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One of the last useful uses of DOS is as an operating system for embedded applications such as a MAME cabinet or a dedicated jukebox. DOS loads quickly, is stable, and is supported by MAME.  It does not multitask, which is a benefit in an emulation environment where every machine cycle counts. It also will [...]

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