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| Buddabing:
You're absolutely right that points should not be taken off for not working on an obsolete video card such as a V3. However, it's a credit to Youki and AtomicFe that it works on so wide a selection of hardware. |
| RayB:
agreed.... The Voodoo cards used their own set of drivers. A game had to be written to specifically support the card, or go through OpenGL. I don't think it's realistic to expect an FE in 2005 to be written to support cards/drivers from 1997. |
| SirPoonga:
I think it is realistic that a FE should support older hardware, that's what most people put in their cabinets. But it should just be something worth mentioning about the FE since that is usually an easy problem to fix, buy a new card :) Anyway, I have a Game Launcher review almost done. I just have to figure some stuff out with it. GL will be what I am going to use in my cabinet for now since the computer in it is made of flakey old parts. I tried Mala, AtomicFE, and some other newer FEs and had issues with them. Once I get GL setup the way I want I will go back to those and figure out what's up with them and write a review. For Mala I know one bug, it searches for mame.ini for any mame exe. So if you have mamepp.exe it won't search for mamepp.ini. |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on September 12, 2005, 02:08:45 pm ---I think it is realistic that a FE should support older hardware, that's what most people put in their cabinets. --- End quote --- Not sure I agree with this anymore. I would go as far as to say the majority of cab builders now use pretty high spec machines, and 'old pc' guys are in the minority. This is just an observation, and I could be entirely wrong. |
| youki:
From my side , i don't think guys use High tech machine for their dedicated cabinet. Lot of people don't want spend money for an high tech machin which will be used only in a cab. They prefer recycle their old PC and keep the new generation one for standard usage (including game of course). But of course , i think the majority of user don't use their PC in a Cabinet. And use frontend because it is nice and once configured , it is very simple to run a game for emulators. Concerning support of old hardware. The strenght of windows was to hide hardware. So as soons as you stay "standard" in your coding you don't too much problem with hardware. The problem is that for instance DirectX provide a variety of function which work only if the Video card support this feature and are not emulated by the sofware layer. (For instance, the alpha blending in DirectX7) . So if a function require a specific hardware (even if i have it) , i don't use it , i code my own routine which should work everywhere. Concerning Atomic , i choosed DirectX because it was a good compromise between old PC and new PC requirement. And it is the version provided in standard with Win2k and win XP. And there is no problem to install it on Win98 and even it should work on win95. |
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