[uae] Re: New UAE frontend
- From: Jakob Fromm Pedersen <fromm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:39:48 -0800
Giorgio Moscardi skrev:
Hi everyone,
a few days ago I discovered Lemonade, that nice WinUAE frontend. I was very
annoyed by the fact that it is - as usual - closed source and Windows-only,
so I sat down and started developing a similar program to address these
issues.
You can see the first results here:
http://www.sukkology.net/misc/screenshot56.png
Of course, the name "Orangeade" is a pun :). Better suggestions are welcome.
Basically, my program tries to mix the data of the TOSEC and Lemonade
databases, providing as many info as possible about every game.
Many things are not implemented yet. Actually, at the moment you can only
browse the database like you see in the picture.
I'm just writing this mail to get some feedback. If anybody feels the program
might be useful, please say so. I will continue development only if enough
people will be interested in the program. Some help, would be appreciated,
too ;).
Looks nice. What i'm missing currently with the EUAE is the ability to
use the GUI when using my TVout, for disk changes and stuff like that.
Once there was a discussion about making an fullscreen disk loader, and
configuration, to you could use a special key to access these functions.
Atm it is only possible for me to use 4 disks, and some of the nice
games uses way more (Fate of Atlantis anyone :) ). Also a way of
changing inputs (like switching from mouse to joystick and vice versa on
either gameport. I don't know if Rich plans to implement any of these
features in the EUAE from basic, but guess it is easier to implement
using a frontend. One of the main reasons for me to use a non standard
UI is the choice of different configurations attached to indivdual
games, and the ability to use it fullscreen.
The way i was thinking of implementing it in my mediacenter was:
MythTV starts a frontend, where i can choose my game of choice. The
frontend sets up EUAE and loads the first 4 disks. If i want to load
another disk or change the inputs, i press a key combo, and bring up the
frontend again, do the appropiate changes, and keycombo back to the game.
Cya!
Hope you could use this input for something.
/Regards Fromm
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