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Re: generic emulator front-end



On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:51:57PM -0800, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> I'm looking for a nice front-end for an enclosed emulator system 
> (sort of like an arcade cabinet). The requirements are super-simple. 
> It needs to be able to display a number of large graphics from the 
> box-art of the games. When the user selects a particular game, it 
> runs it using the given emulator ("fceu $1" or equivalent). It's 
> basically your favourite file browser, but instead of 64x64 icons, 
> it's more like 256x256, and all the pretty trim and fancy gui widgets 
> are tossed out. I've been digging through freshmeat and google, but 
> to no avail. Anybody have any thoughts on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaun

Generally I see these as converted arcade cabinets, frequently with the
origional screens (which are suprisingly low resolution) replaced by a more
modern monitor.

The rest should be easy enough to code...
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