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Good "Cabinet Quality" Front End to use with Daphne - Linux

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jukingeo:
Hello all,

This is primarily aimed at those that want to build a dedicated Daphne or Mame/Daphne cabinet.   As most of you Daphne users have experienced, the program has a horrible front end.  Yeah it is fine for if you want to play a quick round of Dragon's Lair or Space Ace, but lets face it, the interface is horrible.   I was looking for a front end that would allow you to boot up each game in Daphne in a professional looking manner.

Now I do know of several front ends out there and as of now my favorites are Mala for when I set up a Windows based cabinet, or Wah!Cade for when I set up a Linux cabinet.

Lately I have been favoring Linux for setting up dedicated machines because the setup time is WAY faster.   However, I am not 100% sure if WahCade could be set up to boot Daphne games directly.

I have heard of HyperSpin and I know it does boot up Daphne games directly, but the trouble is that it is for Windows and there is no Linux variant :(.

I was thinking about running Hyperspin in Wine, but being that Hyperspin is graphic intensive, I doubt that it would work right on an older machine.

Anyway, I just was wondering if anyone else wanted to go down the Linux-Daphne-Frontend route and what their thoughts would be on accomplishing this.

Thank You,
Geo

neil324:
I use AtomicFE which has a Daphne front end for it, you can boot into and out off which ever emulator you want using AtomicFE. I set my cabinet up in 2005 so there might be other options maybe others can input.

Just read you want linux support, not sure if Atomic is.

jukingeo:

--- Quote from: neil324 on January 16, 2011, 12:36:55 pm ---I use AtomicFE which has a Daphne front end for it, you can boot into and out off which ever emulator you want using AtomicFE. I set my cabinet up in 2005 so there might be other options maybe others can input.

Just read you want linux support, not sure if Atomic is.

--- End quote ---

AtomicFE looks to be also a Windows oriented application.   I decided to give Wah!Cade a shot since I had been using that in Linux before.  As it turns out, it does support other emulators including Daphne.   I tried to set up Daphne with Wah!Cade today, and all of a sudden Daphne was demanding an internet connection for an update.   I had my connection tied up on another machine I was working and for some strange reason, Daphne wouldn't work until I reconnected the internet connection and it updated itself.   I was like, huh?   I never seen THAT before.

Furthermore now I have noticed that Esh's Aurunmilla is coming up with an error message saying that the "drivers are immature but the game will run anyway".

I don't know what the developers are up to at Daphne, but I don't like the fact that now you HAVE to have an internet connection?   As you see, the updates seem to have broke something and I am not particularly happy about that.

I made a separate post of these new findings here.  I am wondering if others have the same issues.  If this is going to be the case with Daphne, then I am going to stop using it and perhaps look into another way to play laser disc games.

This is a real shame too because Daphne set up so fast and easy. 

Another option is that I could reload my old version 1.0 of Daphne, but I would need to know how to properly disable the need for it to connect to the internet.

Getting back on track to using a front end with Daphne, I had noticed that the scores and lives display do not show up when I go into Daphne via Wah!Cade.   But if I use the Daphneloader, it works fine.

Anyway, that is the scoop so far.

I am hoping that there are some solutions to these new problems that cropped up with Daphne.

Thanx,

Geo

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