Welcome to EmuFront!

About

EmuFront is an universal (multi-system) computer and video game console emulator front-end implemented in QT, C++ and SQLite targeted on Linux operating systems. Although this project is currently hosted at Maemo Garage, this is pure QT project and doesn't have any Maemo specific dependencies. You can use EmuFront on any QT Linux platform. I'm planning to release two GUI options Desktop PC and Mobile (MeeGo, Maemo, ...)

Note: The EmuFront source code repository is hosted at Gitorious from 26th of December 2010.

EmuFront is Open Source Software licenced under GPL version 2.

Project

Features

Configure platforms (Commodore 64, Sega Master System, ...)
Configure media types (Cartridge, floppy disk, ...)
Configure setups (platform, media type and supported file types)
Configure and scan filepaths containing disk/rom/tape-images
Configure emulators (executable, command line options, supported setup)
Launch emulators with disk/rom/tape-images
Multiple configurations for single emulator
Multiple media images can be selected to a single emulator launch command
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Prequisites

QT 4.x (tested on 4.6 and 4.7)
SQLite 3.x.
UnZip 6.x from Info-ZIP

Installing from git repository

	git clone git://gitorious.org/emufront/emufront.git
	cd emufront/src
	qmake -project
	qmake emufront.pro
	make
	./emufront

Instructions

Set the directory path for temporary files
Add platform(s) (e.g. Colecovision)
Add media type(s) (e.g. Cartridge)
Add setup(s): Assign a media type to platform and set supported file extensions (e.g. 'dsk')
- Currently only zipped files are supported.
- All the files inside a zip archive with extensions configured by user will be scanned to database
- A Zip archive can contain 1...n files
- If no extensions are configured for setup, the zip archive will be used AS IS with emulator configuration (this is useful with M.A.M.E. and similar emulators)
Assign a file path with media images (roms, disk images) to setup
Select an assidned file path and push scan to scan the files to database
Configure emulator(s)
- Set an unique name for each emulator configuration, one emulator can have many configurations with different names
- Set the emulator executable or path to executable if the exutable is not on the system path
- Set the command line options
- - $1 is a placeholder for filename in the command parameters, this is obligatory
  - Multiple files are also supported using placeholders $1 ... $n, e.g. '-diska $1 -diskb $2'
In the main window select a platform and a media type, press update, select file(s), emulator and press launch
Multiple files can be selected and they all will be extracted to /tmp/
More detailed instructions will be added later...