Re: Looking for a frontend.

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Posted by Howard Casto on January 22, 2002 at 19:51:57:

In Reply to: Re: Looking for a frontend. posted by Lilwolf on January 22, 2002 at 16:31:10:

As always anyone who asks for it is welcome to any code I come up with. Not the entire source of course, I still have to keep some things a secret.
;)
Send me an email and I'll set you up.

Btw, you know I never have been able to get your fe to work. I've seen it running and it looks great but my machine dosen't seem to like it. Could you send me the url? I'd like to give it a try again.

: Not going to mention that its been brought up a lot recently...

: but I want to add one thing.

: What are you using a front end for? A Cabinet? Running Horizontal or Vertical? Anything weird?

: One advantage to getting a frontend written by people on or around this board is they were all designed for cabinets. So somethings will be easier, somethings will be harder. They will work well without a real keyboard (joystick and a few buttons only) and will be designed to be started at bootup and might not even have an easy way to exit. They should also have special access to the configuration (so the little kids from next door can't access the adult games).

: I've spend more time tyring to get the configuration of each game down to a minimum by playing games with configuration of mame. But I can also play any game out there. I can configure the keyboard encoder based on the game and the video settings based on the game.

: But other frontends around here specialize in different things. Raging Dragon I hear only handles mame (just kidding)... It handles many emulators and has special functions to quit out of them even if you don't have the exit key configured on your control panel (where I went with configuring my encoder to change one button to the exit). Howard, are you going to give out your code for that btw? I would love to hear how your doing it in a little detail.

: Next, ArcadeFX is what started a bunch of copy/clones of his frontend. Mine is 100% a copy of his design work. I couldn't wait, then I wanted more features. It's great and very very stable considering how long its been out. But nothing but mame for now.

: Then there are a bunch of FE's that weren't really designed for a Cabinet, but does a great job.

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: As always anyone who asks for it is welcome to any code I come up with. Not the entire source of course, I still have to keep some things a secret. : ;) : Send me an email and I'll set you up. : Btw, you know I never have been able to get your fe to work. I've seen it running and it looks great but my machine dosen't seem to like it. Could you send me the url? I'd like to give it a try again. : : Not going to mention that its been brought up a lot recently... : : but I want to add one thing. : : What are you using a front end for? A Cabinet? Running Horizontal or Vertical? Anything weird? : : One advantage to getting a frontend written by people on or around this board is they were all designed for cabinets. So somethings will be easier, somethings will be harder. They will work well without a real keyboard (joystick and a few buttons only) and will be designed to be started at bootup and might not even have an easy way to exit. They should also have special access to the configuration (so the little kids from next door can't access the adult games). : : I've spend more time tyring to get the configuration of each game down to a minimum by playing games with configuration of mame. But I can also play any game out there. I can configure the keyboard encoder based on the game and the video settings based on the game. : : But other frontends around here specialize in different things. Raging Dragon I hear only handles mame (just kidding)... It handles many emulators and has special functions to quit out of them even if you don't have the exit key configured on your control panel (where I went with configuring my encoder to change one button to the exit). Howard, are you going to give out your code for that btw? I would love to hear how your doing it in a little detail. : : Next, ArcadeFX is what started a bunch of copy/clones of his frontend. Mine is 100% a copy of his design work. I couldn't wait, then I wanted more features. It's great and very very stable considering how long its been out. But nothing but mame for now. : : Then there are a bunch of FE's that weren't really designed for a Cabinet, but does a great job.

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