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Khameleon tech demo available (successor to Kymaera front end)
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Cakemeister:
Hello,

Khameleon is a front end application which I developed starting from the Kymaera source code.

Some features include:
- six different alpha blending modes supported
- supports png, jpg, tga, bmp, and gif image formats
- background mp3 music play supported
- open source and free
- supports arbitrary rotation of text and images (not just horizontal/vertical)
- uses SDL for window management and sound and OpenGL for graphics
- will eventually be ported to Linux and Macintosh
- six skins included

I've assembled a self-contained demo (no configuration or other files necessary), which contains 62 selected games. I set up Mplayer as an emulator so when a game is launched it plays a movie.

Since the demo is self-contained, it is huge, weighing in at 100 megabytes. All you have to do is extract the demo and run khdemo.exe. If you extract the demo to c:\khdemo, you can right click the desktop and select "New->Shortcut" and create a shortcut to the demo. Or you can run the demo from a command prompt, or from the Run prompt.

Link to the zip file for the full demo

If you have any feature requests or bug reports, you can post to this thread, PM me, or email me at cakemeister AT comcast DOT net.

Enjoy!
gonzo90017:
400mhz Celeron 256mb memory

Shouldn't it  be Select skins instead of frontends?
Anyways here's me results:

AtomicFE crashes


khameleon crashes


Mamewah crashes


The rest run fine but extremely slow.
Cakemeister:
If you would like to send in a bug report, please turn on logging by editing the config\khameleon.kfg file. Set the entry "Log" to 1.

Thanks!
gonzo90017:
E-mail sent.
Cakemeister:
Some fonts were missing out of the package:

     3184 : FT_New_Face failed (there is probably a problem with your font file)
     3184 : The filename was <Impact>, also tried <c:\windows\fonts\Impact.ttf>

Thanks for the report!
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