Klaue
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Hey there
I occasionally get ideas on programs that would be great to have on the pandora. Not allready existing programs that should be ported, mind you, but new stuff.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
So I thought, why not make a thread to collect such ideas just in case a dev gets bored?
I begin with mine:
- Cheat Engine
See thread
Basically, it would be a cheat program for the Pandora (and Linux in general, since it lacks it) with the basic features of Cheat Engine (the advanced features like disassembling would be a bit too much). Scanmem's code could be used as a help.
I allready made a start with a basic C++-Qt-GUI with the ability to chose a program by a list of those running (not much, I know), but I have no idea when I'd have the time and desire to work on this again, so if anyone would want to give it a try, you can ask me for the sources. Screenshot
(note that I first wanted to make a direct translation of scanmem to object-oriented, which diddn't work that good and produced weird, ugly code, so it would probably be better to delete everything but the GUI and start anew - at least, I would do that if I worked on it again
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- PND Updater
See thread
Just a way to update and maybe install the PNDs similar to using apt (but without packages and dependencies).
There's allready SUPA, which could be extended for it.
Basically, the way I envision it, it would be a three-parter command line tool. "apndt update" would download the version list from the server, "apndt upgrade" for downloading/installing the upgrades and "apndt install" for downloading and installing new apps. One could also put in a remove option, but since you can just delete the file..
Building a graphical front-end on top of that (like synap(nd)tic) would be not much of a problem, too.
- Game loader
Inspired by this thread:
A mame-like frontend that would load a list of your games of all emulators and would automatically launch the right emulator-PND, possibly with a way to download one if not present (should be easy with the updater above).
It would be awesome if you could choose between the normal mame-lookalike and a full-screen-frontend like Hyperspin, but just changing hyperspin in a way to work with PNDs would also be possible (assuming it is open-source (they want you to have a forum account to even see the download page) and that you could get it to run on linux/pandoras hardware)
A simpler full-screen-frontend would probably work even better, because video-preview of games could maybe lag a bit on the pandora
Soo.. what were your program ideas?
PS: If there's allready such a thread, please just delete this one. I couldn't find one, though
I occasionally get ideas on programs that would be great to have on the pandora. Not allready existing programs that should be ported, mind you, but new stuff.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
So I thought, why not make a thread to collect such ideas just in case a dev gets bored?
I begin with mine:
- Cheat Engine
See thread
Basically, it would be a cheat program for the Pandora (and Linux in general, since it lacks it) with the basic features of Cheat Engine (the advanced features like disassembling would be a bit too much). Scanmem's code could be used as a help.
I allready made a start with a basic C++-Qt-GUI with the ability to chose a program by a list of those running (not much, I know), but I have no idea when I'd have the time and desire to work on this again, so if anyone would want to give it a try, you can ask me for the sources. Screenshot
(note that I first wanted to make a direct translation of scanmem to object-oriented, which diddn't work that good and produced weird, ugly code, so it would probably be better to delete everything but the GUI and start anew - at least, I would do that if I worked on it again
)- PND Updater
See thread
Just a way to update and maybe install the PNDs similar to using apt (but without packages and dependencies).
There's allready SUPA, which could be extended for it.
Basically, the way I envision it, it would be a three-parter command line tool. "apndt update" would download the version list from the server, "apndt upgrade" for downloading/installing the upgrades and "apndt install" for downloading and installing new apps. One could also put in a remove option, but since you can just delete the file..
Building a graphical front-end on top of that (like synap(nd)tic) would be not much of a problem, too.
- Game loader
Inspired by this thread:
A mame-like frontend that would load a list of your games of all emulators and would automatically launch the right emulator-PND, possibly with a way to download one if not present (should be easy with the updater above).
It would be awesome if you could choose between the normal mame-lookalike and a full-screen-frontend like Hyperspin, but just changing hyperspin in a way to work with PNDs would also be possible (assuming it is open-source (they want you to have a forum account to even see the download page) and that you could get it to run on linux/pandoras hardware)
A simpler full-screen-frontend would probably work even better, because video-preview of games could maybe lag a bit on the pandora
Soo.. what were your program ideas?
PS: If there's allready such a thread, please just delete this one. I couldn't find one, though
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