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OpenJamma board - interest?
sandheaver:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on April 11, 2013, 02:18:12 pm ---I think it all depends on how much customization you want to do. I'd like to be able to put my own games and fiddle with the front end, but other than that, I just want to make sure it plays games. If it's open, people can develop cool plug-ins and add-ons, and that's fine.
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Agreed. I'm just saying that whomever is developing the OS for this board need not worry about a front-end; I believe the community will create one, quickly.
A core open source mantra is "release early and often." If you read the paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" you'll understand why, pretty clearly. I'm not at all an open source advocate but there are a lot of truths in this document, and it is worth a read. The short of it is that if you release early, you'll gain help in finishing tasks, and if you release often, you're able to quickly show progress on the software, which will garner attention and bring on new folks, as they see the growing potential. It is for this reason that I think a general purpose board with modular IO will gain far more attention from bored developers than a specialized board solely for arcades.
It may not be plain to see here, but our hobby is a niche hobby, and it's a very small niche. I fear that too few people outside of this community will find interest in this open JAMMA board, and low adoption makes it painless for any talent that is interested to walk away.
I realize I'm too late the party to expect that my advice be taken to heart, and I do hope that this board moves beyond vapor, very much actually, but I think time would have been better spent creating a JAMMA IO daughterboard for an existing embedded platform, such as this one: http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135235611947
cliff clavin:
I am very interested in this board....I have just spent many many hours fiddling with mame getting it setup with my arcade cab, that a plug in play simple solution would be ideal....I think people are looking for an easy straightforward solution, hence the popularity of the 138 in 1, 256 in 1, phoenix arcade pcb etc.....Many don't have time nor the expertise to get a complicated emulation working properly.....I have some family that I would love to setup with a cab....mame is simply to fussy and problematic but mame on a jamma board would be perfect ...I do not have the linux skills nor the desire to be tweaking the board incessantly .plug and play is the ticket......those that want to tinker can buy the rasperry pi board....
sandheaver:
Cliff Clavin... so many humorous memories behind that name. I'm a bit sad that my children will never have the patience to watch that show and experience that character.
--- Quote from: cliff clavin on April 12, 2013, 11:59:27 am ---I am very interested in this board....I have just spent many many hours fiddling with mame getting it setup with my arcade cab, that a plug in play simple solution would be ideal....I think people are looking for an easy straightforward solution, hence the popularity of the 138 in 1, 256 in 1, phoenix arcade pcb etc.....Many don't have time nor the expertise to get a complicated emulation working properly.....I have some family that I would love to setup with a cab....mame is simply to fussy and problematic but mame on a jamma board would be perfect ...I do not have the linux skills nor the desire to be tweaking the board incessantly .plug and play is the ticket......those that want to tinker can buy the rasperry pi board....
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You can have both sides of that coin with a board like this. You can have the quick & easy out of the box workability, AND the customized improved interface without doing the work yourself. One would just download the modifications that were closest to their own desires.
yotsuya:
While I apprciate the tinkerers out there who will undoubtedly do some great things with the hardware, I just want to play some games. Preferrably Galaga.
And while I appreciate what the "community" can do, I don't want to have to rely on them to make the board work. I would think most of us here would feel the same. I would actively encourage them to see what they could do with the board, but I don't think it should be all on them. I have faith that Shanghaiguide has listened to our comments about the existing xx-in-1s and their crummy FEs and will take that into account.
sandheaver:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on April 12, 2013, 01:29:30 pm ---While I apprciate the tinkerers out there who will undoubtedly do some great things with the hardware, I just want to play some games. Preferrably Galaga.
And while I appreciate what the "community" can do, I don't want to have to rely on them to make the board work. I would think most of us here would feel the same. I would actively encourage them to see what they could do with the board, but I don't think it should be all on them. I have faith that Shanghaiguide has listened to our comments about the existing xx-in-1s and their crummy FEs and will take that into account.
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I agree. I'm just not going to rely on any of that if these come to fruition and I buy one. I completely understand the desire for a plug-n-play style board, but I won't be using any of those convenience features, and I hope the board makes it easy enough for one to have it their own way.