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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: CenturionFive on November 18, 2004, 02:02:56 am

Title: Looking for FE recommendation for...
Post by: CenturionFive on November 18, 2004, 02:02:56 am: I would like to run the following:

MAME
NES emulator (probobly NESticle)
SNES emulator (probobly zSNES)
dos/winCAB Jukebox

and maybe a couple stand alone DOS games like Commander Keen, Cosmo and Raptor.

I will stay with DOS or Win98se w/o gui

Will be controlled from a hacked keyboard or Keywiz Eco 2.

Which Front End would be best suited for this? Looking for ease of use and ease of setup.

Thanks,

Cen5
Title: Re:Looking for FE recommendation for...
Post by: CenturionFive on November 18, 2004, 03:44:52 am: I almost forgot I need it to handle Visual PinMAME / Visual Pinball also.

Thanks,

Paul LaBrier
Title: Re:Looking for FE recommendation for...
Post by: Minwah on November 18, 2004, 06:53:22 am: Why not try Kymaera? It is the newest DOS-compatible FE, and has plenty of nice features...
Title: Re:Looking for FE recommendation for...
Post by: TalkingOctopus on November 18, 2004, 09:21:42 am: I know this is not an FE recommendation, but nesticle is old. Use Fce ultra or virtua nes instead - they are better emulators.
Title: Re:Looking for FE recommendation for...
Post by: Minwah on November 18, 2004, 09:59:04 am: Quote from: CenturionFive on November 18, 2004, 03:44:52 am
I almost forgot I need it to handle Visual PinMAME / Visual Pinball also.

Didn't read this before but surely you'll need Windows to run those? Or is there a DOS version now?
Title: Re:Looking for FE recommendation for...
Post by: Lilwolf on November 18, 2004, 11:11:20 am: Visual Pinball requires windows.

Make sure that each emulator your interested in will work well on your system on a command line before worrying about the frontend.
Title: Re:Looking for FE recommendation for...
Post by: Howard_Casto on November 20, 2004, 10:59:46 pm: Also... saying "I want to run mame" is a litle vague. If you want to say, run pacman then dos is fine, but if you want to run killer instinct or mortal kombat then the hardware requirements are so great that you might as well run windows. Also I wouldn't reccomend 98, mostly because none of the developers run 98 as their test machine anymore and utilities, front-ends, and emulators are no longer guaranteed to run (or run well) with lesser versions of windows. As a matter of fact, newer emulators (chankast) won't run in anything other than xp. Xp is really the way to go if you intend on adding on int he future. As for those dos games, well that is what dosbox (the pc dos emulator) is for. :) There is no need to cripple your whole setup over those games.
Title: Re:Looking for FE recommendation for...
Post by: CenturionFive on November 21, 2004, 02:44:40 am: I am mainly wanting to run older (prior to 1990) games. Not at all interested in later games.

Cen5