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Fursphere:
--- Quote from: lordnacho on August 08, 2013, 12:27:58 pm ---Sorry but I'm on the negative side of this. You'll need to run some sort of programming language outside of the browser. How can jquery/javascript launch an executable(mame or other emulators)? ActiveX controls?
Or how about parsing game lists?
If doing this just for jquery animations, then I don't see it being worth all the trouble. Hyperspin is a flash app, but relies on autohotkey scripts. Note: you can turn a lot of the settings down to run on older pc's
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Ever played Battlefield 3 on the PC? The "Launcher" is an online web page, that installs a plugin to launch the game locally. (its complete crap too)
arximidis:
I don't know about this launcher
In my case I am building a browser, but it has very limited functions compared with the well known browsers.
It doesn't have all of their features and it only loads html files that are saved to your computer locally, for security reasons (meaning you can't surf the net with it)
It's a stand alone application and no other software needs to be installed (no AvtiveX, no nothing)
It's portable and you can even run it from a flash drive (if you provide to the html code, the directories where your emulators, roms etc are)
P.S. I am now working on converting the application to use qt libraries (with Lazarus/free pascal) and thus making the application/browser compatible with other platforms (Linux/Mac). But this will be on version 2. I will release the first version as it is (meaning only for windows)
404:
very nice. I was thinking of the same thing months ago when i saw sandheaver's *sp html UI implementation.
There are quite a few browser forks that do not contain interfaces including prizm/moz chromeless.
arximidis:
--- Quote from: 404 on August 09, 2013, 01:00:53 pm ---very nice. I was thinking of the same thing months ago when i saw sandheaver's *sp html UI implementation.
There are quite a few browser forks that do not contain interfaces including prizm/moz chromeless.
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Thanks!!
And I have great news. I have just tested my FrontEnd to my game machine and it works!!!
So I am ready now to upload the first version. For now it is not fully supporting mame, but you can load the roms and play. In the future I will support more emulators (except if someone writes a more complete html code).
I will upload my html theme in order to see how it works or modify it.
For now I will not include a very good tutorial (and I hope to understand how it works by reading the code). Soon I will write a more complete tutorial
Tomorrow or the day after I will upload the code. I will inform you when this happens
See you :)
UFO:
Sounds interesting... Looking forward to some beta testing with my new cab when its ready!
:))