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Mala source code?
fkane:
Not to mention, taking an existing project and making it open source is in itself a large project. If the maintainer doesn't have time to squash bugs, he certainly doesn't have time to go through all the effort of making it something the public could work on.
I'm going to go contribute $20 to Loadman on malafe.net. A good software engineer's time is valuable, and I don't blame him if he doesn't want to work on a project that doesn't provide any sort of return. Perhaps if more of us donate he'll squash a few bugs for us. If not, heck, I'd easily pay $20 for Mala anyhow.
drventure:
I really haven't seen all that many bugs in the latest release. I know there's a few peculiarities, particularly in the layout editor, but nothing that can't be worked around.
I know the shutdown issue can be a pain, but I believe Empardopo's AllInOne can be used to fix that, at least in the interim.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,113882.msg1209264.html#msg1209264
What other issues are you guys running into?
fkane:
I've run into a few quirks when managing game lists. Sometimes my changes don't get saved or loaded properly, and when using multiple emulators I keep getting an index out of bounds error when attempting to edit their game lists.
The Windows 7 shutdown issue is annoying. Yes there are workarounds, but forcibly terminating Mala every time someone hits my power button makes me nervous about corruption.
All in all though Mala does a lot, and does 95% of it quite well. For free software, that's pretty darn good. But I'd love to see that last 5% polished up one way or another.
drventure:
--- Quote from: fkane on August 26, 2013, 05:22:31 pm ---I've run into a few quirks when managing game lists. Sometimes my changes don't get saved or loaded properly, and when using multiple emulators I keep getting an index out of bounds error when attempting to edit their game lists.
The Windows 7 shutdown issue is annoying. Yes there are workarounds, but forcibly terminating Mala every time someone hits my power button makes me nervous about corruption.
All in all though Mala does a lot, and does 95% of it quite well. For free software, that's pretty darn good. But I'd love to see that last 5% polished up one way or another.
--- End quote ---
Hmm, Never had issues with game lists, but then, I used RomLister to generate the base lists and I only have 2 lists (for my daughter's favs and for mine) that I ever change via mala and then, only rarely.
The Terminate thing is true, but, given the kind of data that Mala deals with, it's pretty unlikely you'll ever corrupt anything.
I agree though, that last 5% sure would be nice to resolve.
bosco:
I wished the intro movie would have been fixed. In the middle of the intro video I begin to hear my background music in my first layout. Every once in a while the background audio mutes and I need to raise the levels to hear it again. Maybe it just affects me because I'm using a tree :dunno
It is still my favorite. I just wish it wasn't at a complete stand still.
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