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Nuka1195
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don't want to speak for spiff, but,
it will add new features currently not available. there will be a need for plugins to gather the relevant info and fill lists. which is what i'm playing with.
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Nuka1195
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yes it will, but i think the arcade branch will run emulators at least mame inside xbmc.
but i should let spiff answer.
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2008-07-08, 23:20
Hi, probably a no brainer and I suspect it may have been requested a thousand times before, but I am missing my 'programs' menu item from within XBMC in Windows and Linux.
Clearly I can't run Xbox games from within XBMC any more - which all in all is not entirely a bad thing - as I have quite a decent PC which can run PC games at many times the framerate and resolution of any old school Xbox 1 game.
But what I would like to be able to do is to add icons for my installed PC games for XBMC.
Heck, why stop with games? XBMC could act at a fully alternative window manager. Why shouldn't I be able to add my favourite email program, or bittorrent program, or anything I choose to the programs list? (Although separating games from programs would clearly be desirable, just as is the case on the XBox version of XBMC).
The thing that has always limited XBMC is that you could never really run anything much outside of the default native .xbe format - but of course with the move to PC, the gloves (and the restrictions) are now entirely off - and in theory at least developers could write any number of executables and plug-ins (since they are no longer restricted to using python either) designed to work seamlessly with XBMC.
Again I'm sure this is something that has already been thought of - and I know PC XBMC is still in very early Alpha stages - but I just thought I would put it out there anyway.
Ideally I would like an XBMC environment that I could do all kinds of cool stuff with and that I would never have to close down.
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yuvalt
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2008-07-12, 23:50
What are we planning to do with "Programs" for 8.10? I know that some work was put into MAME support but I'm not sure its done..
I vote for removing "Programs" from our skin completely until we have a proper solution for it.
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This is what I thought XBMC was supposed to do. I would really like this aswell.
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I have a slightly different request. Under the programs link, it would be nice if you could link to a win/mac/linux program, with an icon in xbmc. When you click on it, if it could open that program up fullscreen over xbmc, so when youre finished doing whatever it is you want to do with that program, and close it, xbmc is still fullscreen behind it. So it would be like running your pc programs in xbmc, but not really. I hope this makes sense to someone else besides me.