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sandheaver:

--- Quote from: shanghaiguide on April 11, 2013, 08:17:15 am ---Still mulling over whether I use Mamewah! or similar, or not.  Thoughts, comments?

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If you're going to rely on a modified distribution and repository to support this board, I would say that you should not really bother with a front-end at the moment; the community will create one as soon as the itch strikes, and may have already. 

I would avoid as much custom development as possible and rest on the existing Linux OS and existing apps & front-ends wherever possible.  You don't know the needs of the userbase, yet, so you can't know what the requirements will actually be for a front-end.  Without requirements you can only guess, and that invariably leads to development time being wasted on features no one wants, and features people do want being wholly skipped because they weren't anticipated.  Just skip all that and let the community create one; that's part of why it's open, is it not?  I, for one, don't want a visible front-end at all.  MAME command line is sufficient for me; I can control MAME from other computers, easily.

yotsuya:
I prefer you make it as plug and play as you can. Here's one vote for a customizable front end.

1500points:
I'm personally looking for a no hassle plug'n'play board where we can modify the mame version and rom choices in a simple efficient menu (no 60-1 menu music, please).

If it requires hacking and linux development and hours of fiddling, no thank you.  I am fine with fiddling in mame with a PC just as easily.

I read the hacking thread on klov of people trying to putz with the 138-1 board for mods, and that looks inefficient. not interested.


Keep It Simple and Easy and you've got a winner.  :)

yotsuya:

--- Quote from: 1500points on April 11, 2013, 12:00:01 pm ---I'm personally looking for a no hassle plug'n'play board where we can modify the mame version and rom choices in a simple efficient menu (no 60-1 menu music, please).

If it requires hacking and linux development and hours of fiddling, no thank you.  I am fine with fiddling in mame with a PC just as easily.

I read the hacking thread on klov of people trying to putz with the 138-1 board for mods, and that looks inefficient. not interested.


Keep It Simple and Easy and you've got a winner.  :)

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Exactly. Just make the FE dipswitchable, and you can accomodate those who don't want a front end. But for those of us who just want to stick games on it and play, simple is best. We're paying YOU to do the software/FE development for us.  :cheers:

sandheaver:

--- Quote from: 1500points on April 11, 2013, 12:00:01 pm ---Keep It Simple and Easy and you've got a winner.  :)

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--- Quote from: yotsuya on April 11, 2013, 12:09:30 pm ---Exactly. Just make the FE dipswitchable, and you can accomodate those who don't want a front end. But for those of us who just want to stick games on it and play, simple is best. We're paying YOU to do the software/FE development for us.  :cheers:

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The ideas "keep it simple" and "make our front-end for us" don't really align with each other.

If you must, make it a front-end that is customizable, removable, and replaceable.  An option at install-time as to whether or not a UI is installed would be nice, or, if you distribute full images, package management to remove any existing front-end would be appreciated.

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