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Title: another question Front end ?
Post by: janey6152 on November 23, 2007, 05:56:10 pm

been reading and asking question , i have mame32  0.103

 hOW DO I USE THE FRONT END what is the front end ? Is that the emulator itself ?

i read AtomicFe  is good , but i'm not sure how this all works ??

Title: Re: another question Front end ?
Post by: crummy on November 23, 2007, 05:59:17 pm

The front end is a pretty interface for the emulator.

Back in the day MAME was just command line. So if you wanted to run it, you'd type
"mame mslug -joystick -foo 800 -bar 600 blah blah"

Ugly! So frontends were invented, nice graphical interfaces which would type it all in for you. They just make running the emulator (and sometimes configuring it) easy.

Title: Re: another question Front end ?
Post by: polaris on November 23, 2007, 06:51:25 pm

hope somebody will correct this if im wrong ,
mame32 is a front end for mame , you dont need another front end for it.
you would use just mame with a front end , not mame32

Title: Re: another question Front end ?
Post by: loadman on November 23, 2007, 06:56:55 pm

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Front-Ends (http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Front-Ends)

Title: Re: another question Front end ?
Post by: crummy on November 23, 2007, 08:39:41 pm

Quote from: polaris on November 23, 2007, 06:51:25 pm

hope somebody will correct this if im wrong ,
mame32 is a front end for mame , you dont need another front end for it.
you would use just mame with a front end , not mame32

Yeah... MAME32/MameUI is kind of a frontend and emulator in one.

Title: Re: another question Front end ?
Post by: Havok on November 24, 2007, 01:19:41 am

Quote from: janey6152 on November 23, 2007, 05:56:10 pm

i read AtomicFe  is good , but i'm not sure how this all works ??

Click my signature for AtomicFE documentation...

Title: Re: another question Front end ?
Post by: unit416 on November 25, 2007, 04:05:02 pm

I've been using MAME32 with MaLa and I am running into problems as the MAME32 keys seems to control just MAME32 and not MaLa. I downloaded the latest version of MAME (not MAME32) and I can't find an exe. file. Any suggestions?

Title: Re: another question Front end ?
Post by: u_rebelscum on November 25, 2007, 07:17:31 pm

Quote from: unit416 on November 25, 2007, 04:05:02 pm

I've been using MAME32 with MaLa and I am running into problems as the MAME32 keys seems to control just MAME32 and not MaLa. I downloaded the latest version of MAME (not MAME32) and I can't find an exe. file. Any suggestions?

Sounds like you downloaded the source, instead of the binary.  You can either compile your own, or download the binary (mame0121b.exe). ;)