Valpskott
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A some emulators I've encountered in Linux have separate front ends or otherwise the possibility to replace the frontend.
What would be both sweet and useful is if we had a elegant Pandora Emulator Front end(from here on called PEF) that had support for all(most) emulators ported to the Pandora. Thus, installing a new emulator, it gets incorporated into the PEF automatically if possible, or by manual configuration.
As long as it is possible to start an emulator+rom using a command in the terminal, this front end should be a cakewalk to write for a moderately skilled developer.
The utility of this would be that one could just start up PEF, search for a game rom in the configured rom-directories and hit launch, play for a bit, quit to the front end, search for another game(using a different emulator). One wouldn't need short cuts to all the installed emulators laying around on the desktop.
Please share thoughts on this, am I oversimplifying things?
Is there already something like this? (I don't have my Pandora yet)
I made a little Mock-up screen while I was dreaming away!
What would be both sweet and useful is if we had a elegant Pandora Emulator Front end(from here on called PEF) that had support for all(most) emulators ported to the Pandora. Thus, installing a new emulator, it gets incorporated into the PEF automatically if possible, or by manual configuration.
As long as it is possible to start an emulator+rom using a command in the terminal, this front end should be a cakewalk to write for a moderately skilled developer.
The utility of this would be that one could just start up PEF, search for a game rom in the configured rom-directories and hit launch, play for a bit, quit to the front end, search for another game(using a different emulator). One wouldn't need short cuts to all the installed emulators laying around on the desktop.
Please share thoughts on this, am I oversimplifying things?
Is there already something like this? (I don't have my Pandora yet)
I made a little Mock-up screen while I was dreaming away!