Vectrex on Mac

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Hi,

Running the Vectrex mod on an Apple Powerbook is kind of fun. I haven't tried running two at a
time but it seems that the screens will fit easily side by side!

It would be fun if the Vectrex emulation could be forced to front and be transparent all the
time. So the Vectrex emulation would run while you are using other applications.

Trans Lucy (the DVD player application) uses this approach. They turn your DVD movie into a
screensaver that runs while you are working. The DVD application always displays in front of
your application but (a) is transparent and (b) does not become active and does not receive
mouse/keyboard events. So other applications appear with the video slightly superimposed over
them. Very nice.

It would be great if all the game emulators on the Macintosh did this actually. This feature
only works in OS 10.3 on as I recall.

Thomas