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I have 3 boxes running CRTs via Calamity's handiwork, and I can say from experience that you want to begin with a fresh windows install anyway.
It works, you just need to follow his directions word by word (and it still may take more than one shot.)
MY easiest times of getting it working was using a graphics card with dual outs so you can have a screen running through the whole process, no matter where you happen to wind up in resolution never-neverland.
His documentation is awesome.
Man is the pc-> arcade monitor thing a rabbit-hole.
Who's Calamity's?
I put mine together back in the old days right after sjaak finished that version (I actually like it better than the Disney version). It's running on an Asus M2N-VM DVI board with an Athlon 64 proc mounted directly to the side of the cabinet. Soft15k works with the onboard Nvidia GeForce 7050. Windows XP is installed on a 16 GB SATA SSD and has been weeded and stripped of nearly anything useful. Explorer.exe is swapped out for the Fix-It Felix Jr. exe so it boots directly to the game in about 20 seconds. I used a combination of GhostEvent (to combine res switch and exe launch) and InstantSheller to accomplish this. BIOS is set to power-on after power loss. Controls and WG K4900 monitor are connected to a JAMMA harness and interface with the computer via a J-PAC.
The only wonky thing is that sync is whacked during boot before Windows starts the game. I could get around this with an ArcadeVGA card but it's only during boot so I don't care.
The cabinet also does double duty with a BitKit installed. Swapping the power and JAMMA connectors via the coin door will change games.
Well maybe just a few screenshots of a working attrack mode game emulator settings so that way I can see what I'm missing in my settings....
I just made you a short video but I'm sorry, no matter what I try I can't get the text legible to my camera recorded. It's fine in person but the camera just won't properly capture it.
The gist of it is this though - you tell AttractMode what type of emulator you're setting up (in this case, you're doing PC Games) and then where the roms are (in this case, the .exe files for the games).
I typically create a shortcut to each .exe file I'll be using and put them all in one folder. That way attract mode only needs to have one path for all PC games, simplifying things. You tell it to generate a list, set that list as your default display, and you're set.
There are lots of other videos on YouTube that will do a better job than I just did. They also have decent documentation here: https://github.com/mickelson/attract/blob/v2.6.1/Readme.md
It looks complicated but for Windows it's probably safe to skip down to Step 2 and go from there. Take it slow and I'm sure you can figure it out! I've seen you do way more impressive stuff than set up a frontend.