@kkebreau @ericxdu23 Yesterday I've found some time to work on this project. So far my little tool supports SEGA consoles (master system, genesis, game gear) via mednafen and Atari 2600 via stella. Today I will try to add support for Arcade-Games via mame. If this is done I will release version 0.1 for everyone to try it out. BTW As long nobody comes up with a better name I think I will call my tool #PlayArchive .
@ericxdu23 If I think about this some longer I start to belive that I should write a commandline-tool instead of a frontend. The tool will be called with a archive-URL and run the game with a suitable emulator that can be defined in a config-file. Writing a frontend for this would be a trivial task. This way the tool can also be integrated in existing projects like RetroArch easyly.
@ericxdu23 If this is true I should consider to use GTK for the frontend. But there also other platforms on the archive that would need other emulators.
@maiyannah I think space opera is a sub-genre of scifi that had it's golden age already decades ago.
themightyglider (themightyglider@gnusocial.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2017 20:22:21 EDT
themightygliderCool news! After I had the idea of playing retro-games from archive.org with a local installed emulator, I've build a very simple prototype that allowed me to play games from their SEGA MASTERSYSTEM-collection with mednafen and wrote a email to the archive, explaining my idea. Now I got an answer by the archive-team. They say that they are fine with my idea and I can work on this project. The next step will be to create a frontend for mednafen that allows to browse trough the games on archive.org and play them. My mainly targeted platform will be single board computers like the raspberry pi. I dream of a cheap DIY console people can connect to their TV and discover classic gaming without pirating roms from any shady websites. #retrogaming
@maiyannah Ok I'll tell them. But it seems to be a common problem with a lot of git installations that they don't accept LE. Thanks for your fast response!
!freegaming !gamedev Today I managed to take a closer look on the #TIC-80 #FantasyComputer . It seems to be very well made so far. I think projects like this can be a great tool to get (young) people into programming. It comes with everything you need to make a game but its limitations force you to keep the project small enough that you can get it done.
@maiyannah One user seem to have trouble with cloning the repo of #RBA . It seems to be about the SSL certificate again. Could you please have a look at this?