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Jeff:
Sound great Howard... Keep us posted on the website and such.
I too am an FE writer. Currently writing one for myself in VB and DX7. Fully customizable, but suited for my cabinet using a TV...Nothing fancy like RD, AFX and Emulaxion though (but you all give me great ideas).
I would love to know how you are writing your wrappers and if you need ports to VB, let me know. I like to use the Windows versions of emulators and I sometimes have problems with them because they don't fully support command lines like their DOS sisters.
Thanks for everyones hard work and for keeping me full of ideas.
Jeff
Lilwolf:
Howard, the only reason I could think of to go with one program that would have the -listinfo stuff in it would be then it would work with FE's that only support mame now.
If you come up with a common way to get the info for multiple emulators, even if it uses the -listinfo (or mameinfo.dat) it will have to be modified to call multiple launchers.
If you had one application that looked like mame, but could forward to multiple mames, and multiple other emulators based on a single game name... then it would work for all FE's (since it would only look like one mame).
Not the best solution, but would allow old FE's to use the new features.
btw, whatever you decide to build, it would probably be and easy addon to create something similar later that used your common api/database info later. So if people ask for it, it could happen. (why invent it if nobody will use it)
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote ---If you come up with a common way to get the info for multiple emulators, even if it uses the -listinfo (or mameinfo.dat) it will have to be modified to call multiple launchers.
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Yeah this is the main issue.... Most of the good fe's will let you pass command line arguments though, so rather than having the launcher search for a entry for a databse and slow itself down, we could pass a switch like -emu=impact. I'm not sure though.... I've thought of a way to make a wrapper completely generic via a .ini file, but if we had it handle multiple emu's then we'd have to makea seperate config file just to setup all the paths. I think paths is all it would need though. There's another small issue right now. I'm keeping track of emu's statuses via handles and I'm getting handles via the captions of the fe's in windows. go tkae a look and any of the long, and cumbersome titles of these emus and you'll immdeiately see the prob. Authors like to put the revision numer in the freakin caption. >:( (Actually I do that to.) I have a function that'll search for a similar macth buy putting in a search string, but I haven't tested it to see how well it'll work yet.
All great ideas everyone, I'll keep ya posted.
Oh and somone said aj's site is down, it's not, but now it requires an id to download anything. (it'll give instructions in red at the top of the downloads page.) I tried it last night and it's back to it's wonderful self again. :)
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote ---Sound great Howard... Keep us posted on the website and such.
I too am an FE writer.
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DZuroff:
I think this is a great idea! I am not by any means a programmer, but I would like to help any way that I can. If it's information that needs gathering then I shall gather information. :) Just let me know!