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youki:
--- Quote ---Well, why are there 50 front end projects out there for me to choose from then?
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Because at a first look it seems easy to do! Which is true , but if you want make THE FRONTEND , it is not true.
It would be interresting to know How many guys started to code a Front End with the same idea as you. (Just works) ... and how many still try.
I know at least 3 guys having the same idee of you .. and started.. When you see their post they were ready to do the magic front end... and then... after few weeks we never heard about them anymore.
Your BYOFE is a very good idea . But most of FE developpers code for their pleasure and made their one Baby. If it is to work in team and be directed , following spec ..Etc..Etc... it is like at work... so personnaly coding my FE is to change and maintain my skill , instead of doing sometime some boring code fro my Work.
And the competition is Funny. Having only one FE will kill the creativity or inovation in a certain way i think. ARe you happy to have the choice in almost only One OS for your PC? Are you happy to the choice to work only with "PC" ? (ok i know, there is linux, macintosh ,etc.. but they are minority).
Personally not. Standarisation can be good in certain way , but not sure in all case (surely not in the context of leasure)
I'm nostalgic of the good old times where we had one new computers each month! :) Not all good, but at least different , showning different concept, philosophy... fun...
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 14, 2006, 09:55:29 am ---Oh and minwah... it's pretty dang hard if you don't want to run mamewah. ;)
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Sorry I didn't read properly :-X
Couple of random points that I would just like to say:
1) You get what you pay for in life (fact).
2) While I understand why people say 'your fe should be open source' etc...I don't see anything wrong with the fact that atm, personally, I want to work on my fe alone. I like working on it alone, I know exactly how everything works, I do not need to keep track of other people's changes and at the end of the day, I can say 'I made that' :) Not knocking open source at all, but my program I can develop and manage how I want...as I said in an earlier reply, time is not an issue for me - if it takes me the rest of my life to 'finish' then so be it :)
swindus:
--- Quote from: Minwah on September 14, 2006, 10:05:24 am ---1) You get what you pay for in life (fact).
2) While I understand why people say 'your fe should be open source' etc...I don't see anything wrong with the fact that atm, personally, I want to work on my fe alone. I like working on it alone, I know exactly how everything works, I do not need to keep track of other people's changes and at the end of the day, I can say 'I made that' :) Not knocking open source at all, but my program I can develop and manage how I want...as I said in an earlier reply, time is not an issue for me - if it takes me the rest of my life to 'finish' then so be it :)
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Word!
Howard_Casto:
Funny you should bring up mala. I tired it a while back and it didn't work for me. Added the stuff just as you show in your pic and loaded it up and the lists didn't show up as expected. I really didn't know where to look to fix it because it configures everything via that little gui. Granted I didn't spend the time a user would trying to figure it out, because well I was just playing around with it, but my point is it apparenlty isn't as turn key as it was in your experience.
Also mala doesn't give you enough power over the configuration. My mame install, for example has 15 folders of roms (I keep them sorted for archival purposes) the little wizard only allows for one path.
I'm not picking on it in partucular, my point is what you consider easier I consider more difficult. Myself give me a text file to edit like mame does and I'm good to go.
screaming:
If there's a choice between coding some marginally useful software or coding a very useful piece of a very useful piece of software, I'll take the latter. Jack of all trades, master of none?
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