Author Topic: My first frontend attempt! (Read 12589 times)

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #40 on:** July 11, 2003, 09:54:38 pm »

Quote from: king88mob on July 11, 2003, 03:26:41 pm

I don't know how you feel about this, but you could always make it OpenSource. That would be an easy way to get collaboration from those of us that can program, and it would make life easier w.r.t. releases and what not.

In case you don't know about it, check out sourceforge.net they offer free hosting, CVS, mailing lists etc... basically everything you need to run a project.

Of course, if you are planning on charging for it eventually, then that won't work, but otherwise, it'd be an interesting option

This doesn't work for front ends..... Many fes int he past have been opensource particularly gmaelauncher but quite frankly no one is ever willing to contribute. It probably has to do with the fact that everyone wants something slightly different in a fe so when someone qualified to code wants a fe, they usually start from scratch.

Also he can't charge for it as it's a almost total rip-off of ultracade. They'd sue his arse off!

jakejake28 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 11, 2003, 10:00:37 pm »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 11, 2003, 09:54:38 pm

Quote from: king88mob on July 11, 2003, 03:26:41 pm

Of course, if you are planning on charging for it eventually, then that won't work, but otherwise, it'd be an interesting option

Also he can't charge for it as it's a almost total rip-off of ultracade. They'd sue his arse off!

as nice as that is, i wanna know how user friendly it will be?

ps: i am gonna download that as soon as it comes out

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #42 on:** July 11, 2003, 11:38:48 pm »

calm down jake, I talked to john the other night and it's in the super early stages. Besides, he wouldn't even give me a sneak peek yet so sit tight.

I think we are making him a tad uncomfortable with all the hype. We will all have to wait patiently I guess.

AlanS17 · « **Reply #43 on:** July 11, 2003, 11:44:21 pm »

Yeah we have to keep in mind that he's learning as he goes along (which is saying more than what most of us can do).

I don't have the time or patience to do it. Plus he's gotten alot more feedback than he was expecting. Just look how many posts this thread had gotten the past couple days.

Maybe the best thing we can do is just sit back (even though I hate the idea, too). We don't want to rush him into doing a half job.

I'm not a very good programmer, but I'd still do what I could to help. I've taken like 5 different languages in college and I still feel new at it... So I can sympathize with him.

When it comes to arcades, though, I feel more comfortable with hardware than software. Just hand me a saw and tell me where to start. Who knows... maybe I'll even design a cabinet one of these days if I feel inclined to do so. Got AutoCAD and nothing but time on my hands at work, anyways...

Todd H · « **Reply #44 on:** July 12, 2003, 12:41:56 pm »

Nice FE. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this one.

king88mob · « **Reply #45 on:** July 13, 2003, 06:45:04 pm »

I've coded in C++ for a couple of years now, and i'm willing to help out (hence the OS idea) If you need anything, gimme a shout.

Lilwolf · « **Reply #46 on:** July 14, 2003, 11:40:02 am »

btw, I can't get any of the images to load...

Are they still up? I would LOVE to take a look.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #47 on:** July 14, 2003, 03:11:00 pm »

Quote from: Lilwolf on July 14, 2003, 11:40:02 am

btw, I can't get any of the images to load...

Are they still up? I would LOVE to take a look.

Go look at ultracade it looks and behaves very similarly. And that's a good thing!

SirPoonga · « **Reply #48 on:** July 15, 2003, 12:23:15 pm »

hey, if oyu keep it as much opengl as possible and not put in too much windows specific code this would be a great linux FE.

SpamMe · « **Reply #49 on:** October 15, 2003, 02:28:50 pm »

Back from the dead bump. Anything ever happen with any of the projects mentioned?

SirPoonga · « **Reply #50 on:** January 22, 2004, 01:28:32 am »

Quote from: johnws on July 10, 2003, 01:22:09 am

Will do, AlanS, but as soon as I clean up my code a bit. Because I'm just learning it's a bit of a mess, but shouldn't take too long to clean up. I had a few minutes free today so I cleaned up the marquees. Here's some updated screenshots/clips:

Cleaned up still shot

I'll work on cleaning up the code in a bit

What am I looking for? I get a login flash screen. AND TONS OF POPUPS!

nipsmg · « **Reply #51 on:** January 22, 2004, 02:45:07 pm »

Dammit, of course I go an miss this post, then none of the sites with the info work anymore.. Is there another mirror?!

SpamMe · « **Reply #52 on:** January 22, 2004, 07:09:07 pm »

You can get the preview movie here, temporarily, though I don't think anything became of the project

http:/www.upup.us/mamewik_preview.wmv

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 23, 2004, 08:56:12 am »

DL not working for me

so what happened this guy just dropped off the face of the earth? i cant even see a pic and you guys are all raving about this FE i wanna see it!

Aceldamor · « **Reply #54 on:** January 23, 2004, 09:58:04 am »

He was showing his FE, wich looked fantastic.....then he just miracled himself outa here and never came back. He might've got a little freaked out because he got slammed with user requests for the FE do all kinds of functions.

gprime · « **Reply #55 on:** January 23, 2004, 05:28:27 pm »

Maybe his hard drive crashed, was too lazy to remake it, so lost interest in it. So then he forgets about his cabinet for 6 and a half months, but then decides to give it another shot. Makes a new name, and rejoins the byoac community with a different name so nobody pests about him about what happened to it

Aceldamor · « **Reply #56 on:** January 23, 2004, 05:45:32 pm »

thats a bummer the hard drive crashed.....would've loved to see this one make it's debut. If I knew anything about programming, I would lend a hand.....

EndTwist · « **Reply #57 on:** January 23, 2004, 06:41:19 pm »

Hahaha!

GPrime = JohnWS...

Ah..well...its life. Funny noone noticed that before..

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #58 on:** January 24, 2004, 09:57:53 am »

Not so much of a bummer... 3darcade supports the wheel and kymera and dk will also soon support it.

From what John told me the last time we talked, his fe wasn't really going to support anything other than mame, and in a very "fixed in one way for personal use" type of way. As the above mentioned fes support multiple emus with more varied options, everything should be fine.

I'm still disappointed that john didn't get his out though.

Unfortunately, I've been around here a long time and this sort of thing is far more common than you might think. (I can think of about 10 or so since i've been here) It's just this is the first "vaporware" fe that was so good it will actually be missed.

gprime · « **Reply #59 on:** January 24, 2004, 11:44:04 am »

ah well now i don't feel so bad

i actually made a new frontend, but it's strictly for personal use. no teasers this time!

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #60 on:** January 24, 2004, 01:19:15 pm »

It seems to me your teaser spurred a rash of development, leading to the happy wheel choices and eyecandy we have now (I know some of this was already in development--disclaimer to prevent blasting). I don't believe in coincedence...your "vaporware" raised the bar (if only a little and only in eyecandy) and we have all benefited from that. The choices we had were great...now they're even better. So, without detracting from our under appreciated resident Devs (who continue to astound); thanks for shaking things up.


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