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GP-Wiz49 Software finally ready (link & screenshot)
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 20, 2005, 08:06:47 pm ---I just want to make sure something is understood here (it seems to be by most, but it appears there may be a few stragglers)
The GP-Wiz49, as it was originally released, was bug-free and fully tested. It did exactly what it was designed to do, even if some had different opinions of what it should do.
Don't confuse a manufacturer upgrading a product and writing a new application resulting in increased functionality with no additional increase in price with "unstable or inadequately tested " firmware. The two are worlds apart.
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Understood by me, and I fully agree.
--- Quote ---In fact, unless you are running Windows . . .
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And USB doesn't work under DOS, so the above is probably at least 85% of your target market.
--- Quote ---BTW, I'm finding that unless a frontend is going to do it for you, the button combos are much easier/quicker to execute for the changeover, at least if you only need to do it for one stick.
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Randy, do you see any funky way to wire the second board up so it is "slaved" to the first board, so executing the button combos for board one will change both sticks? (I'm guessing not by the language of your post.
--- Quote ---Just something to keep in mind if the constant jumping between the app and your front end starts to make you weary while you wait for the FE's to catch up. :)
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I have some hints on how to make it work with the current FE's at the end of the the 15-page thread, starting with this message
dabone:
--- Quote ---And USB doesn't work under DOS, so the above is probably at least 85% of your target market.
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So you are saying that 85% of people here use a non windows/linux system.
Thats why mamewah and the like are so unpopular because they only support windows.
The only reason to run dos now is for smaller stripped down cabs, I've got one for vertical games only running advmame .92 with advmenu.
But my other 2 mame cabs run xp.
USB devices are here to stay, and dos is dying at a good pace, i.e. no more offical dos mame anymore.
Later,
dabone
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: dabone on April 21, 2005, 07:37:50 am ---
--- Quote ---And USB doesn't work under DOS, so the above is probably at least 85% of your target market.
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So you are saying that 85% of people here use a non windows/linux system.
Thats why mamewah and the like are so unpopular because they only support windows.
The only reason to run dos now is for smaller stripped down cabs, I've got one for vertical games only running advmame .92 with advmenu.
But my other 2 mame cabs run xp.
USB devices are here to stay, and dos is dying at a good pace, i.e. no more offical dos mame anymore.
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Read my post again. The GP-Wiz49 won't work with DOS (USB device) so it's target market doesn't include DOS users. I was saying that Windows-users were 85 percent of the target market. If I had to guess, I would say that about 12% of the remaining use Linux and about 3% Mac.
dabone:
Whoops, misread that..
Sorry.
later,
dabone
JoeB:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 20, 2005, 01:09:08 pm ---Unless you use the product, you can't possibly know what is needed or even beneficial. So far, I haven't received one complaint from users, in fact all of them are about as tickled as can be with the performance of the unit.
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You're right Randy.. Currently I'm not a user, but I'm seriously considering becoming one (once I find cheap 49-way joysticks).
But just because I'm not a user, doesn't mean that I'm not looking out for the rest of the people.
For example, just 2 days ago, I emailed Kevin Steele asking him to do a review of your product. I'm sure your product is that great, and a positive review from Kevin can only do good things for your business.
Future customers are as important as past ones.