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screaming:

--- Quote from: Minwah on September 14, 2006, 10:05:24 am ---1) You get what you pay for in life (fact).

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  110% agree with you there.   I don't think you'll find anyone who will disagree with you. With that said, Firefox is a damn fine piece of software. So is Linux.  So is OpenOffice. So is Apache. So is....


--- Quote from: Minwah on September 14, 2006, 10:05:24 am ---2) While I understand why people say 'your fe should be open source' etc...I don't see anything wrong with the fact that atm, personally, I want to work on my fe alone.  I like working on it alone, I know exactly how everything works, I do not need to keep track of other people's changes and at the end of the day, I can say 'I made that' :)  Not knocking open source at all, but my program I can develop and manage how I want...as I said in an earlier reply, time is not an issue for me - if it takes me the rest of my life to 'finish' then so be it :)

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  Just to be clear, I'm not arguing that you all should make your FEs open source, just that you should share your development. There's a big difference there and they shouldn't be lumped into the same category.
SirPoonga:

--- Quote from: headkaze on September 14, 2006, 04:48:57 am ---...

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I want to add XNA uses those a a backbone but is MUCH easier to work with than C# and DirectX on their own.  Put it this way, shortly after the release of XNA someone made a game in 24 hours.  He said if he had to do it with just C# and DirectX it would have taken weeks :)
swindus:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 14, 2006, 10:09:21 am ---Funny you should bring up mala.  I tired it a while back and it didn't work for me.  Added the stuff just as you show in your pic and loaded it up and the lists didn't show up as expected.  I really didn't know where to look to fix it because it configures everything via that little gui.  Granted I didn't spend the time a user would trying to figure it out, because well I was just playing around with it, but my point is it apparenlty isn't as turn key as it was in your experience.

Also mala doesn't give you enough power over the configuration.  My mame install, for example has 15 folders of roms (I keep them sorted for archival purposes) the little wizard only allows for one path. 

I'm not picking on it in partucular, my point is what you consider easier I consider more difficult.  Myself give me a text file to edit like mame does and I'm good to go.

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You are right.
I've got the same problems with DK some time ago.  ;D
This just shows how different people think what is called easy .....

PS. MaLa can also work with subfolders for the roms
Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: screaming on September 14, 2006, 10:14:53 am ---
--- Quote from: Minwah on September 14, 2006, 10:05:24 am ---  Just to be clear, I'm not arguing that you all should make your FEs open source, just that you should share your development. There's a big difference there and they shouldn't be lumped into the same category.

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Huh?

We all code in different languages and all have different features.  How in the world could we share our development other than saying "Hey look what I did too bad it doesn't help you.... sucks to be you man."  

I think about the only thing that has been successful cross-fe is the wrappers.  People use em on everything and a lot of fe-devs are wising up that supporting the launch of every crazy assed emu out there internally will kill ya.  ;)

If you mean multiple people working on a single fe that is essentially the same as opening up the source.  You have the exact same problems and "lack of freedom" minwah is talking about.
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Minwah:

--- Quote from: swindus on September 14, 2006, 10:19:31 am ---This just shows how different people think what is called easy .....

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I think, people want a FE that you install, and it automaically does the rest for you.  I suppose this is possible but to me would create more problems than it's worth.

And I know I'm probably old fashioned, but I also like just editing ini files for configuration.  Mame uses this system which lets be honest is why most people have a cabinet...so if you can configure Mame you can configure Mamewah (or other ini-based fe).  In addition to this, editing ini files on a low-res non-trackball equipped cabinet is MUCH easier than using a Windows GUI or whatever you might call it.
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