27 May 2009, 17:55 | #1 |
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Request: Software Box Art Window
I do wanna see a window displaying box art for amiga games & software - front and back similar to iTunes album art. It would displayed as a PNG,
stored into Winuae folder in accordance to the ADF file stored on your machine. It would also list developer, publisher, year, etc. while playing a game full screen you have the option of displaying the box art as well next to LED lights. While windowed mode - it will be displayed as a separate popup similar to Amiga Forever 2008. It would be connected to the internet and would download from Exotica, Lemon Amiga, and various Amiga sites. Toni Just a wishlist or possibly a joint project with Cloanto in the far far future maybe WinUAE 9.0?. |
27 May 2009, 17:57 | #2 |
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Use Gamebase Amiga or something similar.
What you are after is a frontend. I sincerely hope WinUAE never becomes part of a "joint project" with Cloanto. |
27 May 2009, 18:01 | #3 |
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I shall simply quote an article I just found online:
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28 May 2009, 08:02 | #5 | |
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KG - thanks for linking to that article, it was a really interesting read. It seems a little unfair to Cloanto though (unless my memory is wrong). I was an active Amiga user until late 1998, when there was still some (albeit rapidly fading) hope of a viable commercial future for the Amiga. Cloanto brought out the first Amiga Forever pack in 1997; at that time the controversy was not that they had licenced the ROMs and were protecting the copyright - I don't remember anyone contesting that - rather, they were opposed by some in the community for even daring to support the idea of running an emulated Amiga on a x86 Windows box. So it seems a little unfair for the author of that article to imply that they jumped on an already thriving emulation scene and tried to throttle it for selfish purposes - rather it seems to me that they were a major part in kicking that emulation scene off? |
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28 May 2009, 13:07 | #6 |
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Yeah it's an interesting take on the whole thing.
It's a 15 year old machine, let people emulate it as they wish. Don't charge them for it. But anyway, drifting dangerously off-topic. I don't think Toni is interested in doing anything like a frontend at all. There are a good few frontend solutions out there now, Gamebase, JAmiga, Lemonade, plus some other snazzy ones I also can't remember the name of. I don't think incorporating them into WinUAE would be a good idea. Last edited by killergorilla; 28 May 2009 at 13:14. |
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