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Buddabing:
"approximately when last updated"

This might be better than just "under active development".

We ran out of space in the columns.

tspeirs:

--- Quote from: Buddabing on March 24, 2006, 12:50:52 pm ---"approximately when last updated"

This might be better than just "under active development".

We ran out of space in the columns.


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Great job though, something like this has been needed for a while.

Perhaps maybe month and year would fit. eg. 03/06. Or even year on it's own would identify the front ends that have been abandoned. Maybe some of the keys in the last column could be made into 1 characters instead of 2 and this would free up a bit of real estate?

I did notice one mistake however, in that some of the FE's ie Mamewah, Atomic FE and Gamelauncher are specified as having AM (Arcade Monitor Support). I am assuming this means direct Arcade Monitor support without special hardware (e.g without ArcadeVGA). I believe the only front ends that do this are AdvanceMenu, ArcadeOS, and Kymera(dos).

Thanks.

Buddabing:
I interpreted arcade monitor support as supporting low resolutions that arcade monitors use. e.g.  MAMEWah's "Classic 368x240" mode.

I don't think the average user is going to attempt to use Windows with an arcade monitor without an ArcadeVGA card. I should probably either add this to the explanation for AM, or else get rid of AM altogether and use something like LR for low resolution support.

I originally had the keys in the last column as single letters, but I agree with the change to a short acronym or mnemonic.



daywane:

--- Quote from: youki on March 23, 2006, 04:24:44 am ---
--- Quote ---Love the creator. (one of my favorite people here)
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thanks!  :)

#Edit: oops.. re-reading your post, i just figured out that you was speaking about MinWah not me!  Sorry!.
MinWah is one of my favorites people here too!

you are also



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tspeirs:

--- Quote from: Buddabing on March 24, 2006, 03:30:43 pm ---I interpreted arcade monitor support as supporting low resolutions that arcade monitors use. e.g.  MAMEWah's "Classic 368x240" mode.

I don't think the average user is going to attempt to use Windows with an arcade monitor without an ArcadeVGA card. I should probably either add this to the explanation for AM, or else get rid of AM altogether and use something like LR for low resolution support.

I originally had the keys in the last column as single letters, but I agree with the change to a short acronym or mnemonic.





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Yes, LR sounds better. I was just thinking that it undervalues the efforts in Kymera, ArcadeOS, and AdvanceMenu that do support Arcade Monitors without special hardware.

I think two letters are better than one, unless you need to add real estate for last updated. Again I think this is very important information. Software that's in active development and supported should be a critical decision in choosing a front end, and should at the least be more prevelant. Just my opinion though. Maybe a slightly smaller font size for some of the columns would help.

But again kudos to you for doing this.

I think ultimatly, if you could filter the list based on criteria a user enters, so they can choose there perfect front end, that would be the ultimate request for this. Maybe it should be a seperate little php app or something, that links back to the wiki. With this you could add column sorting also. I could code it for you, but I am only skilled in .net and asp for web stuff, so you need some sort of windows hosting available. Let me know if your interested.

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