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| What makes an emulator user-friendly?
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4992 |  Posted: March 27 2003, 15:54 |
I'm working on some updates on the emulator comparison once again, and although I'm planning to leave most of the testing as it is, I'm wondering what you think of the current emulators...
What do you like about the emulators, and what don't you like? In what way is the interface of -say- RuMSX more intuitive than fMSX's UI? What would an ideal emulator look like? Or do you prefer seperate launchers (like VisualMSX?)
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BiFi
msx guru
Posts: 3142 | Posted: March 27 2003, 16:26 |
It's pretty much how you look at this. I think the perfect combination of an emulator would be the core of openMSX or NLMSX with the user-interface of RuMSX. That is the most complete interface I've ever seen. And when it comes to a REAL user-friendly interface, MSXPLAYer really scores quite high.
Launchers can be quite useful when they can be used with more emulators, but then you would ask about user-friendlyness of launchers as well.
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wolf_
msx legend
Posts: 4780 | Posted: March 27 2003, 19:19 |
'inserting' a rom or a diskimage should be done in only 1 action. (so not like nlmsx where you insert roms down in the config screen)
however nlmsx is still my choice..  |
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BiFi
msx guru
Posts: 3142 | Posted: March 27 2003, 20:42 |
Frits is still working on a better user interface, so NLMSX may turn out very user friendly in the end. Everybody involved with NLMSX development (only Frits still needs to make it then  ) is thinking about how the interface can improve. |
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warau
msx lover
Posts: 117 | Posted: March 27 2003, 21:01 |
An emulator is interesting to me only if I can make debugging operations in real time.
Because of this, the only MSX emulator user-friendly to me is BrMSX.
It's a pitty it doesn't work on Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
NLMSX could be a good choice if it had implemented a good debugger.
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4992 | Posted: April 08 2003, 00:38 |
ok, but a debugger is mostly/only interesting for the developers of software and the developers of the emulators . I admit, it's an essential, but it doesn't make the software more or less useable |
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warau
msx lover
Posts: 117 | Posted: April 08 2003, 11:07 |
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| ok, but a debugger is mostly/only interesting for the developers of software and the developers of the emulators . I admit, it's an essential, but it doesn't make the software more or less useable
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Yap. That's true. It has nothing to do with useability. Maybe I should move this subject to another forum.
Anyways, most of emulators of other platforms such as MAME, NES, SNES, etc. have a debugger as well though it's only interesting to developers.
If MSX emulators had a debugger, many people could decide to start assembler programming easier. |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: April 08 2003, 16:30 |
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| If MSX emulators had a debugger, many people could decide to start assembler programming easier.
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NO$MSX  |
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warau
msx lover
Posts: 117 | Posted: April 08 2003, 17:31 |
Does NO$MSX run on NT/XP systems?
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4992 | Posted: April 08 2003, 17:36 |
It doesn't on mine  |
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mvt
msx friend
Posts: 13 | Posted: July 03 2003, 12:07 |
Well i am currently making a program to run msx games just by selecting the game (you see 2 screenshots of it) and by pressing the run key. The program then starts the game automaticly (and it fills in what rom type etc.)
At the moment i am using 2 versions of fmsx, a old one for fast game play and fmsx-sdl for better sound and because you can save with this version.
At the moment i have about 130 games (with 260 screenshots ) inserted in the program.
I will put the program and the games +emulators online soon. (zipped it will be about 15 mb i think) |
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Niles
msx professional
Posts: 519 | Posted: July 03 2003, 13:23 |
My favorite emu is paraMSX, but the GUI is not important for me, I use it for the compatibility with the .ROM and .DSK (other emu like RuMSX and NLMSX crash several times...  )
In my opinion, the best user-friendly emulator is MAME (a complete list, icons for ROMS working or non-working, a big options pannel...) I think MAME is the best way to follow to make a user-friendly environment |
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Guillian
msx professional
Posts: 647 | Posted: July 03 2003, 13:55 |
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NO$MSX works on XP, at least on mine. As I said you in other thread, run it in "W98 compatible mode" |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: July 03 2003, 17:33 |
MAME is a console application. Unless you are talking about MAME32 or any of the available frontends or variants.
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Dinomight
msx user
Posts: 46 | Posted: July 03 2003, 18:31 |
It would be REALLY user-friendly if it could make coffee |
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