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skruw

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Registered: 2003-12-06

Posts: 23

retro gamers?

Today i start on a new project called:

"retroarch" (as for now atleast)

this project prob. will take a lot of time since i havent really got the time, after all i work all day.
but this project will grow. and when the main base is ready new feature implantation will be easy and should go quite fast.

retro arch:
. is a frontend to mame and uae (more emulators will be added)

. will make .desktop files for games added so that there will be a easy and nice menu in (at the moment) gnome (and later kde,fluxbox,and so on)

. will make bash scripts for games added so they can be run from terminal like any other game

. will store .config files for everygame seperate so that individual games can be configured (in progess, still trying to findout the best way to do this without a lot of garbage files, like for instance if you gave 200 games, you should not need 200 configs, i have a few ideas on how to implant this feature.)

. will not have any configuration boxes or stuff like that, that will launch when you start a game, all "floppys" will be mounted and configs loaded then the game will launch and all this will happen so that you wont see anything you will just ./amiga-game then it will start.

. will have even more features, just give me the ideas and i will somehow try to implant them if they are good.

. full bash coding, no c++, no perl, nothing like that (IF POSSIBLE) so that _anyone_ can configure and tweak the software as they want.

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i hope this sounds like a good idea, i would love feedback, ideas etc.
and the most important thing, this is for arch, archlinux has given me so much over the years, and i think you guys deserve something in return.

shlo

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Registered: 2004-09-25

Posts: 42

Re: retro gamers?

Rock out. I will test the crap out of it.

IceRAM

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2004-03-04

Posts: 772

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Re: retro gamers?

Sugestion: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ might help.

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aCoder

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From: Medina, OH

Registered: 2004-03-07

Posts: 359

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Re: retro gamers?

. full bash coding, no c++, no perl, nothing like that (IF POSSIBLE) so that _anyone_ can configure and tweak the software as they want.

What about Python?  Everyone loves Python!    

BTW, it sounds like a great idea to me! (with or without Python...)

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punkrockguy318

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From: New Jersey

Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 711

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Re: retro gamers?

. full bash coding, no c++, no perl, nothing like that (IF POSSIBLE) so that _anyone_ can configure and tweak the software as they want.

What about Python?  Everyone loves Python!    

BTW, it sounds like a great idea to me! (with or without Python...)

Is this a live CD?

And python would probobly be a better choice for a REAL project.. bash is nice for shell scripts... but python for real stuff

you probobly could just hack away on the amlug cd for starters - talk to rassat if your interested

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Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,487

Re: retro gamers?

gimme gimme gimme
pretty nice

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cactus

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Registered: 2004-05-25

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Re: retro gamers?

or...use.....
ruby!

oh..just use bash like you want to. 

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oscar

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From: Kiruna, Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-13

Posts: 457

Re: retro gamers?

java!
java!
java!

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skruw

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Registered: 2003-12-06

Posts: 23

Re: retro gamers?

hello everybody
-'hi dr nick'

cos of my lack of time, and your enthusiasm,
as of 10:30 last night, this project was overtaken by 'jacktherabbit'
as his computor for the moment is offline, he can only code alone in the darkness.
i told him to (as soon as he has removed debian and installed arch) report to this forum for your joy.

i hope this project will be carryed out nicely and that you will get what you want, if not then i will start on it fresh again.

shadowhand

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From: MN, USA

Registered: 2004-02-19

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Re: retro gamers?

If you are planning this as a LiveCD, you might want to check out z4ziggy's live cd creation scripts.

http://user-contributions.org/projects/archie/source/

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nadman10

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From: Erie, PA

Registered: 2005-10-15

Posts: 200

Re: retro gamers?

any update on this? i've been looking for something similar