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j_bizzle   11-13-2006 at 03:00:44 PM

Hi all,
Well ive just built a gameing pc and i wanted it to seam more like just that than just a pc with games on at the moment i run so many virtual drives haveing the iso i riped from my game dvd/cd rom loaded into them so i can just double click the game icon and there we go...
So heres my question is there any software that i can use so when i boot up my pc i am given a screen were i select witch game i want from something like graphical menu (just not the desktop)? 8O like the sort of thing you find in internet gameing cafes etc hope you guys can help seen as i carnt help my self :cry: :lol:

Thanks

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fattony   11-15-2006 at 05:40:05 AM
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oh come on man...just make some shortcuts on your desktop
you can hope to see if we have any experienced .net visual basic coders here, only way of doing it since i don't recommend java

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j_bizzle   11-15-2006 at 02:43:28 PM
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Desktop shortcuts would be ok but.... i just like to be different 8) lol should have something along the lines of what i discribed soon so if anyone wants it just shout out :D

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Glorfindel   05-24-2007 at 07:42:51 PM
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There are many ways that you could accomplish this. You'd want to find or create a program to display your menu, and then set it to run at system start. Failing to find the program already created from a google search... there are several ways to create your own.

1. Good ol' webpages. Create a web page (HTML document) by whatever means, and I think that you can probably set it to full screen... There are many programs that can build HTML without you needing to learn HTML scripting.

2. Visual Basic is one of the easier programming languages to learn, and it should be fairly simple to create a program to do what you're looking for.

3. About any other programming language could also do it, but I think that VB would be the easier. I would suggest using c++ if you are interested in programming and wanna do other things with it in the future.

I'm sure there are other methods as well.

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