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Louis Tully:
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IAmDotorg:
At the risk of being pedantic, push buttons and scripts ARE still a front-end  ;D

Cool idea, though.
Le Chuck:
LT - like I've never thread jacked anything myself ;)

It's all cool, that's why the thread is here. I think your first step is to get comfortable launching games from simple batch files. I'll eventually be doing the switch feature but I've got to get Space Base out into the wild first. That said if you're willing to wait I can hand hold through it with ya.

Everything mala does to start a game you can do in like two lines in notepad so it's doable to get the setup you're after for sure.


--- Quote from: IAmDotorg on October 23, 2014, 09:43:19 am ---At the risk of being pedantic, push buttons and scripts ARE still a front-end  ;D

Cool idea, though.

--- End quote ---

When I think FE I see it tied to GUI in my mind. This is like the anti-GUI but I get what you're sayin

@jd, yes. The gangs are a necessary evil for this distribution process.
yotsuya:
I'm still thinking of a Pong/Rebound/Gotcha machine using a switch to change games.
dkersten:
Interesting concept.. I think it would be awesome if you could find the right set of old switches and keep the theme retro to the era of the switches you find.  But I am not seeing the coolness factor with just regular arcade buttons.. The scripts should be the easiest part..

If you went with a bank of toggles, you could even go so far as to set up where different combinations opened different games, and depending on the math scheme you used, you could technically have hundreds of choices of games that way.. instead of just pressing 1 for game 1, you toggle 1 for game one and hit "go" to exit your current game and launch the new choice.. If you toggle 1, 2, and 5, you get game 25 (or whatever crazy scheme you come up with).  Heck, you could make it binary and half the fun would be trying to figure out the binary sequence for the game you are thinking of playing.. 4 toggles could do 16 different games.. OR, do a NASA theme, make them all safety toggles, and have a "LAUNCH" button that sets off a countdown with lighting and sound effects, then launches into the game you chose with your combination of toggles..
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