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    • meleuM
      meleu @InsecureSpike
      last edited by

      @InsecureSpike

      @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

      Pegasus uses QML/QtQuick2 for the UI

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      • fluffypillowF
        fluffypillow
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        @EctoOne this sound more like something you would set in a gamelist file; I could add support for something like a <systemGroup> tag, where you'd put <system>s you want to handle together. Or a special system attribute, if we want to maintain strict ES2 compatibility.

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        • InsecureSpikeI
          InsecureSpike @meleu
          last edited by

          @meleu said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

          QML/QtQuick2

          thank you, whats it like to learn?
          sorry it's a little off topic,
          i have very limited coding knoledge, can pick things up pretty easily tho, can anyone recommend any reading material?
          thanks

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          RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
          both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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          • BuZzB
            BuZz administrators @fluffypillow
            last edited by

            @fluffypillow nice one :-) Look forward to trying it.

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            • N
              nitrogen_widget @ABrugsch
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              @ABrugsch Thanks.
              I got attractmode compiled on my chip but it was dog slow and i couldn't get sfml with accelleration to compile.

              emulationstation was a little laggy on chip.
              was considering advmenu but if this works....

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              • fluffypillowF
                fluffypillow
                last edited by

                @InsecureSpike well QML itself can be used for a lot of things, so it can look very complex at first. It can even be used for writing mobile games or web browsers, but fortunately for theming you won't have get familiar with all the components. In my opinion, the somewhat harder part is setting up the scrollable/moving elements (like a grid or a cover list) the way you want. After that, styling the elements is easy.

                I'm going to write some tutorials when it gets released, in the meantime you might find this guide useful.

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                • InsecureSpikeI
                  InsecureSpike @fluffypillow
                  last edited by

                  @fluffypillow awesome, thank you

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                  RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
                  both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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                  • ?
                    A Former User
                    last edited by

                    I'm really impressed. I've tried Attract Mode on my Pi, and it's kinda hard to use, at least for me, so I'm ready to see a new frontend.
                    I'm also excited to make some themes for this as well. :D
                    One thing though: Will it be an easy setup for the Pi? I don't want to go through the hassle of changing so much code and stuff.

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                    • fluffypillowF
                      fluffypillow
                      last edited by

                      @itsnitro in practice, a Pi release should "just work". The only problem is that Debian/Raspbian currently uses an outdated, 3 years old version of Qt, from which a bunch of features and optimizations are missing. As such, I'll include the required Qt libs with the releases, and also host the build tools and libraries too if you want to build on the board or cross compile.

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                      • fluffypillowF
                        fluffypillow
                        last edited by

                        This week's main features:

                        • added bezel, marquee and flyer image asset support
                        • added support for all ES2 game metadata tags
                        • gamelist reading and asset finding speed optimizations: currently loading ~1000 games, all with videos, box front, screenshot and logo takes less than 2 seconds on a Pi 3, and less than 10 seconds on a first gen Pi 1; these numbers may improve later
                        • improved asset loading speed, added loading screen and loading indicators
                        • implemented basic custom theme loading support
                        • confirmed video support working on Pi 3 and 1
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                        • lilbudL
                          lilbud @fluffypillow
                          last edited by

                          @fluffypillow said

                          less than 2 seconds on a pi 3

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                          Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

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                          • ?
                            A Former User @fluffypillow
                            last edited by

                            @fluffypillow said

                            these numbers may improve later

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                            • meleuM
                              meleu @fluffypillow
                              last edited by

                              @fluffypillow how can we test it?

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                              • lilbudL
                                lilbud @A Former User
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                                @itsnitro I just spent the last few minutes laughing my ass off. Take an upvote

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                                • lilbudL
                                  lilbud @A Former User
                                  last edited by lilbud

                                  @fluffypillow said

                                  currently loading ~1000 games

                                  0_1492989341715_upload-c4f15882-31bd-41cb-9617-503cabbade0a

                                  Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

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                                  • ?
                                    A Former User
                                    last edited by

                                    Not this again.

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                                    • fluffypillowF
                                      fluffypillow
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                                      @meleu as soon as it's generally in a usable state, I'll open source it. There are some basic features I'd still like to work on before, like gamepad navigation, but I can make an alpha release this week or the next probably.

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                                      • fluffypillowF
                                        fluffypillow
                                        last edited by fluffypillow

                                        I've made a new video:

                                        (I did cheat a bit, I've turned off displaying the videos, but that doesn't affect the loading speed anyway. Also it's "just" 750 games this time.)

                                        For some reason starting right after boot, like ES2, takes 1 second longer... interesting. Anyway, according to the logs, game data loading took 1991ms even with this delay.

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                                        • cafarellidigitalC
                                          cafarellidigital @fluffypillow
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                                          @fluffypillow goddamn that's some smooth scrolling and loading.

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                                          • ?
                                            A Former User @fluffypillow
                                            last edited by

                                            @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                                            "just" 750 games this time

                                            JUST?
                                            ARE YOU CRAZY?
                                            THIS WILL (and I mean will) EXCEED THE PERFORMANCE OF RETROPIE

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