Announcing Pegasus Frontend

lilbud

@CodeDrawer To quote Robin Williams

Could be tomorrow, could be 10,000 years from now

CodeDrawer

@lilbud I like that quote.

A Former User

So do I.

CodeDrawer

@itsnitro so is this a theme, or a whole new front end?

lilbud

@CodeDrawer Completely new frontend that will finally nail the coffin on EmulationStation

CodeDrawer

Nice! @lilbud that probably will win!

A Former User

Emulation Station is dead.

CodeDrawer

@itsnitro Really? Why?

A Former User

well, not dead, but RetroPie is going to because 1. We've got Pegasus. 2. PEGASUS

CodeDrawer

So how do I put pony on my retropie?

A Former User

You're gonna have to ask @fluffypillow for that cause I know nothing about that.

CodeDrawer

OK.

meleu

@itsnitro said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

Emulation Station is dead.

I've never see EmulationStation more active then it has being lately.

Why are you saying that?

lilbud

@meleu Probably because Pegasus will crush ES in terms of performance, support, features, etc.

meleu

@lilbud "probably", "will"... I'm very excited about pegasus too, but it's very early to say that ES is dead.

CodeDrawer

I want flying space pony! :-D

fluffypillow

Okay, here it is, release alpha2! I'd like to stress that this is an alpha version, it's INCOMPLETE, some features are missing, while others may not work at all. It's here only for those "early adopter" kind of people who want to experiment with integrating it into their setup. This is not for general use yet.

Rasperry Pi

Downloads: Pi 1/0, Pi 2/3

Just extract the ZIP somewhere and run the file (recommended install location: /opt/pegasus-frontend/). The data files and most used libraries are build into the binary.

Requirements:

tested on Debian Jessie
SDL2 (libsdl2-2.0-0) (preinstalled on RetroPie, but probably not on regular Debian)
libinput (libinput10)
for video playback, you'll also need gstreamer1.0-alsa, probably gstreamer1.0-omx, and depending on the media format of your videos, one or more of the plugin packages: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly (for me, bad worked well for my H264 encoded videos, but I've installed all of them just in case)
Pegasus requires at least 128 MB VRAM, but 256 MB is recommended

Known issues:

Sometimes video playback may freeze the program
PS3 controllers may not work without xboxdrv (running sudo xboxdrv --detach-kernel-driver --mimic-xpad -s before should fix it; this is a Qt issue)
Launching games does not work correctly, because Pegasus has some problems with runcommand. I'll start debugging this the next week.

Desktop Linux (X11)

Download: 64-bit Linux/X11

Extract and run, just like on the Pi.

Requirements:

a Linux distro from the past 3 years (in practice, Ubuntu 14.04 or later)
SDL2 (libsdl2-2.0-0)
GStreamer is usually preinstalled on many distros, but in case it isn't, follow the Pi guide above (except gstreamer1.0-omx)

Windows

There are two Windows releases, one was built using Visual Studio (MSVC), and the other using the open source GCC toolchain (MinGW). In theory, there should be no performance difference, but I haven't tested them throughly.

Download: MinGW, MSVC

Extract the ZIP somewhere, and run pegasus-fe.exe. If you're using the MSVC version on an older Windows, and get missing MSVCxxx DLLs, install the included vcredist.exe.

Requirements:

tested on Windows 7, but it may work even on XP, and someone confirmed running it on 10
it should "just work"

fluffypillow

Also in before the thread turns into a flame war, as someone who also worked on ES2 (for a very short time), I do respect the work of you guys. There haven't been much progress on it for years before, so it's nice to see it getting some activity and even new features.

fluffypillow

Ps. the issue/feature tracker is here: https://github.com/mmatyas/pegasus-frontend/issues, feel free to report issues here or there.

jdrassa

@fluffypillow as someone who has been contributing to ES2 lately, personally I am very excited for Pegasus. I plan to try it out soon and whenever you are ready for some contributions, I will be happy to help.