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r2575 Thursday 8th May, 2008 at 01:36:25 UTC by Hobie Troxell
[MESS Help] Additional picture fixes
[docs/windows]choice.htm guiuse.htm install.htm runsw.htm

docs/windows/choice.htm
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1111<h2><font size="6">Choosing which MESS</font></h2>
1212<p class="normal">MESS for Windows comes in two flavors; a command line MESS and a MESS GUI.</p>
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1415<h2>Original Command Line MESS</h2>
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1517<p class="normal">Firstly for all you newbies, a command line program requires you to type in a command using the keyboard to make a program start.
1618There is no mouse, little help and no lovely buttons to show you what you're doing. So beware this is not for the PC illiterate.</p>
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1720<p class="normal">There are two versions of the command line MESS, one for Windows and one for DOS. The windows version is by far the easiest of the
1821command line versions as most of the configuration is done by Windows itself. The DOS version requires you to set sound details, screen resolutions
1922and have various drivers set up for mice etc...</p>
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2024<p class="normal">Here is an example of how to run a command line MESS...</p>
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2126<p align="center"><img src="images/command.gif" width="461" height="163" border="1" /></p>
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2228<p class="normal">This will run the Atari 2600 cartridge of Frogger using a 3D card like this...</p>
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2330<p align="center" class="Tutorial"><img src="images/frog.gif" width="293" height="282" /></p>
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2432<p class="normal">&nbsp;</p>
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2534<hr />
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2636<h2>MESS GUI</h2>
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2738<p class="normal">The easiest version of MESS is MESS GUI (Graphical User Interface) which has a user friendly point and click interface . This
2839version is more suited for the beginner as you can see everything that you are doing.</p>
29<p align="center"><img src="images/gui.gif" width="550" height="481" /></p>
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41<p align="center"><img src="images/gui.gif" width="593" height="432" /></p>
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3043<p>&nbsp;</p>
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3145<p class="normal">It has all of the features of MESS and runs just as fast. The best part is that you have a nice list of all the systems and games
3246you have, you can have preview pictures of your games and to run then you simply need to double click them.</p>
3347</body>
docs/windows/guiuse.htm
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1111<h1>GUI Usage</h1>
1212<p class="normal">This page will help you get around the MESS GUI.<br /></p>
1313<hr width="95%" />
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1415<h2>Usage</h2>
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1517<p class="normal">Here's the MESS GUI screen...</p>
16<p align="center" class="Tutorial"><img src="images/gui.gif" width="550" height="481" /></p>
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19<p align="center" class="Tutorial"><img src="images/gui.gif" width="593" height="432" /></p>
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1721<p class="normal">As you can see it's very straightforward. At the top you have the menus that are described on the <a href="guiconf.htm"
1822target="_blank">MESS GUI Config</a> page. Under that there are a few buttons which are used to control how the system and software lists are shown.
1923the first two will decide whether the folder list and screenshot page are shown. The rest will change the icons size and description in the
2024lists.</p>
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2126<p class="normal">The first thing to do is select the system you want to use in the first list. If you have any software installed it will
2227automatically show up in the second list.</p>
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2329<p class="normal">To run a system you need to double click it and MESS will load it for you. There are some systems that will only run if software is
2430present. This applies especially to console based systems. To load these systems you need to click the piece of software you want to run from the
2531software list. MESS will then load it for you.</p>
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2633<p class="normal">MESS like MAME allows you to add screenshots and system picture to the GUI. These are normally kept in large Zip files in the
2734<span class="filename">C:\MESS\snap</span> folder.</p>
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2836</body>
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2938</html>
docs/windows/install.htm
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2121<h2>MESS folders and files</h2>
2222<p class="normal">When you have uncompressed the ZIP file you should see some folders and a few other files. Here is an example of what MESS version
23230.105 (mess0105b.zip) looks like once it is uncompressed. The latest version should be similar.</p>
24<p class="normal" align="center"><img src="images/tree.png" alt="tree" border="2" name="Folder" id="Folder" /></p>
24<p class="normal" align="center"><img src="images/tree.gif" alt="tree" border="2" name="Folder" id="Folder" /></p>
2525<p class="normal">Below is a brief explanation each folder.</p>
2626<table width="58%" border="1">
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docs/windows/runsw.htm
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3737<h2>Quick Start (MESS GUI)<br />
3838<br /></h2>
3939<p class="normal">Open the MESS GUI and you'll see something like this...</p>
40<p align="center" class="Tutorial"><img src="images/gui.gif" width="550" height="481" /></p>
40<p align="center" class="Tutorial"><img src="images/gui.gif" width="593" height="432" /></p>
4141<p class="normal">All you need to do to run systems is to double click an icon in the first list. However MESS may say that software needs to be
4242present to load the system. Therefore once you've installed some software just double click it from the second list and it will load. That's It!</p>
4343</body>

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