Posted by enemace on 13, 2001 at 11:25 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Windows shell replacements as a frontend? posted by Bluepoint on 13, 2001 at 11:04 PM:
: I've got a cabinet running desktopX... It looks great and has multiple quicklaunch sections for various types of games (neo-geo or Classics or whatever...) and then each quicklaunch page has a bunch of animated icons(read: RIPS) running and if you select one it launces that particular game or emulator, ect... No windows taskbar. No way to screw anything up, the desktop is completely locked...
: And I'd be totally thrilled with it except for one thing... the desktop takes up so much processor time, that it actually slows down the emulation of some games... Noticably...
: Granted I could cut waaaaaaaaay back on all the animation -- some quicklaunch screens have as many as 20 fully animated (at least 15 frames of animation) icons running at once... And these are not small icons... they're huge...
: I don't know what I'm going to end up doing... probably toning the whole thing down, which would be too bad... 'cuz it looks great as it is.
: anyway e-mail me if you'd like screenshots... or I'll try to get some up here when I can find some webspace to host them...
: Bluepoint
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: : Has anyone ever used a windows shell replacement such as LiteStep, Desktop X, or Hoverdesk as a frontend? The machine would boot straight into the shell program and never look like it running windows. I'm thinking it could be used in a similar way to Skeleton's MAGMA software setup, where the first frontend launches other frontends, emulators, games, movieplayers, mp3 players, or whatever. You could also set it up to launch batch files like Skeleton's system does.
: : These windows shell programs give you total freedom graphically, and some of the skin people have made are quite beautiful. Anyone have any ideas or experiences with this?
: : -EA