Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: CM on November 04, 2002, 03:32:34 pm
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HC .. love Lazarus and looking forward to the 3D addon stuff. OK... now that I have the brown-nosing out of the way ;)
I have several consoles running in addition to MAME in Laz so setup is not a problem. What gets me is that it's setup is not intuitive .. each time I leave Lazarus setup for more than a week I forget how to add anything and find myself breaking out the docs to figure it all out again. A somewhat painful process (obviously seen by a few others on this forum)
I think I remember your site saying someone was working on a utility to help in this area (more than just the dat gen) ... any clue on if this is still planned?
My wish would be for a utility that would ask:
-New emulator section title?
-Image file location for logo?
-What directory are your ROMs in?
-What extension do these ROMs use?
-What is the path/executable for the emulator?
-What is the snapshot directory?
-What is the video directory?
-What is the cabinet directory?
-Other???
==== Then goes off and scans/creates/edits the dat/list/ini files and puts them in the appropriate directories automagically. (If it could also wash my car and take my dog for a walk I'd really apprecaite it too!)
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[b.s.]Thank you for your interest in Lazarus... it's users like you that make this worth while.[/b.s.]
Not that that's out of the way....
Simply put... ain't gonna happen.
#1 Nobody is THAT lost when it comes to setting up Lazarus.
#2 If if such a utility was made it wouldn't do any good as each and every emu requires special attention. All it would do is lure you into a false sense of security and then people would complain that the utility didn't 'work'.
#3 I don't have that kind of time on my hands and even if I did I wouldn't waste it on making a utility that isn't needed. I'm not trying to be mean here it's just this project is for fun and I'm not going to concentrate on areas that don't interest me. I can set it up just fine as well as several other of my users, so I know it can be done. Therefore a utility isn't needed, it would just be nice.
Long story short Howie won't be making anything that user friendly, ever. However if anyone else wants to give it a go more power to them, I'll even give them any information they might need.
:)
P.S. SirP's utility helps out a lot on the search strings, but I haven't posted it yet as I keep changing the format on him. ;)
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:o So is that a yes?? ;)
I might volunteer my services for some nifty tools once your new version kicks in. (Unsupported of course)