quadomatic said:
Just to gauge the consequences of what we're all asking for, how much will emulators suffer if attention is to shift towards GUI?
Well it shifts who gets the next batch of dev units.
Do we sent them to game/app/emu authors or to people who want to work on the firmware/gui?
Alright, I have yet to vote, because I need an answer to something first.
Will all the devs who already have dev units shift their focus towards GUI as well? (i.e. Squidge, Zod, Firefox, etc.)
If So, then I would vote emulators. But if not, then I would vote GUI. This is the reason:
If Squidge has SNES set and Zod has PSX set (and hopefully N64), all you need to do is send a dev unit or two to either Notaz or Reesy to get either DrMD or PicoDrive ported, you'll have some popular base systems covered and you can send the rest to GUI devs to work on the GUI.
I think you need some of the popular systems emulated first, but I don't think you need everything before a nice GUI.
EDIT: Note: I would vote Emus if this would take Zod and/or Squidge away from their current emu work.
-God Ginrai
I agree entirely with God Ginrai. From the videos shown already it appers many of the most popular systems will be fullspeed already - even if the code is horribly dirty. I'd like a good GUI when I first get the Pandora preferably with some useful media functions (video, music, etc) - i assume you're generalising "GUI" to include these?
One thing to consider is that the first people to get Pandoras are the hardcore crowd who (this is all speculitive of course) won't be too bothered about the aesthetics of the GUI - just as long as it covers the basic foundations. Of course the main thing is to find a balance of functional UI and a few programs to run on your Pandora.