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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 PC and Mobile (MeeGo,
+ planning to release two GUI options Desktop PC and Mobile (MeeGo,
Maemo, ...)</p>
+ <p><b>Note: The EmuFront source code repository is hosted at Gitorious from 26th of December 2010.</b></p>
+
<p>EmuFront is Open Source Software licenced under GPL version 2.</p>
<h2>Project</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/emufront/">Project page</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/ggit/browse.php/?p=emufront">Browse Git Repository</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://gitorious.org/emufront">Browse Git Repository at Gitorious</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Features</h2>
<li>Configure emulators (executable, command line
options, supported setup)</li>
<li>Launch emulators with disk/rom/tape-images</li>
+ <li>Multiple configurations for single emulator</li>
+ <li>Multiple media images can be selected to a single
+ emulator launch command</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>
- <h2>Screenshots</h3>
-
- <h3>v0.06a</h3>
+ <h2>Prequisites</h2>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="http://qt.nokia.com/">QT</a> 4.x (tested on 4.6 and 4.7)</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.sqlite.org/">SQLite</a> 3.x.</li>
+ <li>UnZip 6.x from <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/">Info-ZIP</a></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>Installing from git repository</h2>
+
+ <pre>
+ git clone https://vcs.maemo.org/git/emufront
+ cd emufront/src
+ qmake -project
+ qmake emufront.pro
+ make
+ ./emufront
+ </pre>
+
+ <h2>Instructions</h2>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Set the directory path for temporary files</li>
+ <li>Add platform(s) (e.g. Colecovision)</li>
+ <li>Add media type(s) (e.g. Cartridge) </li>
+ <li>Add setup(s): Assign a media type to platform and
+ set supported file extensions (e.g. 'dsk')</li>
+ <li> <ul>
+ <li>Currently only zipped files are
+ supported.</li>
+ <li>All the files inside a zip archive with extensions configured by user
+ will be scanned to database</li>
+ <li>A Zip archive can contain 1...<i>n</i> files</li>
+ <li>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)</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Assign a file path with media images (roms, disk images) to setup</li>
+ <li>Select an assidned file path and push scan to scan the files to database</li>
+ <li>Configure emulator(s)</li>
+ <li><ul>
+ <li>Set an unique name for each emulator
+ configuration, one emulator can have many
+ configurations with different names</li>
+ <li>Set the emulator executable or path to
+ executable if the exutable is not on the
+ system path</li>
+ <li>Set the command line options</li>
+ <li><ul>
+ <li>$1 is a placeholder for filename in the command parameters, this is <b>obligatory</b></li>
+ <li>Multiple files are also supported using placeholders $1 ... $<i>n</i>, e.g. '-diska $1 -diskb $2'</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>In the main window select a platform and a media
+ type, press update, select file(s), emulator and press
+ launch</li>
+ <li>Multiple files can be selected and they all will
+ be extracted to /tmp/</li>
+ <li>More detailed instructions will be added later...</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>Screenshots</h2>
+
+ <h3>v0.0.1.4</h4>
+ <h4>PC UI/Configuring emulator with multiple disk drives</h4>
+ <p>
+ <img src="img/emufront-0.1.4-pc-1.png" alt="v0.0.4a PC UI Configuring emulator with 2 disk drives" />
+ <img src="img/emufront-0.1.4-pc-2.png" alt="v0.0.4a PC UI Configuring emulator with 2 disk drives" />
+ <img src="img/emufront-0.1.4-pc-3.png" alt="v0.0.4a PC UI Configuring emulator with 2 disk drives" />
+ <img src="img/emufront-0.1.4-pc-4.png" alt="v0.0.4a PC UI Configuring emulator with 2 disk drives" />
+ </p>
+ <h4>PC UI/Zip archive container multiple disk images and
+ emulator configuration supporting multiple drives</h4>
+ <p>
+ <img src="img/emufront-0.1.4-pc-5.png" alt="v0.0.4a PC UI Zip archive with multiple disk images" />
+ </p>
+ <h3>v0.01a</h3>
+ <h4>Maemo on N900</h4>
+ <p><img src="img/emufront001-maemo-01.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-02.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-03.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-04.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-05.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-06.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-07.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-08.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-09.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-10.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-11.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-12.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-13.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" />
+ <img src="img/emufront001-maemo-14.png" alt="v0.01a Maemo N900" /></p>
+ <h3>v0.00a</h3>
<h4>PC UI/Scanning media images</h4>
- <img src="img/emufrontv06-1.png" alt="v0.1 PC UI" />
+ <p><img src="img/emufrontv06-1.png" alt="v0.1 PC UI" /></p>
<h3>v0.01a</h3>
<h4>PC UI/Main window</h4>
- <img src="img/emufrontv01-1.png" alt="v0.1 PC UI" />
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+ <p><img src="img/emufrontv01-1.png" alt="v0.1 PC UI" /></p>
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<p>EmuFront © 2010 Mikko Keinänen</p>
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