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« on: April 03, 2006, 05:10:32 PM »

I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried to make something kinda like my "Universal Game System" for computers.  That is, are there any front-ends to launch a bunch of old emulated computer systems on one machine?  Perhaps it could be a frontend to launch emulated computers to play the computer's games, or even to run functional applications.

Has anyone out there tried to do something like this?
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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2006, 08:15:53 PM »

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I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried to make something kinda like my "Universal Game System" for computers.  That is, are there any front-ends to launch a bunch of old emulated computer systems on one machine?  Perhaps it could be a frontend to launch emulated computers to play the computer's games, or even to run functional applications.

Has anyone out there tried to do something like this?


I made my laptop emulate several different systems... would that be possible just to take a semi-speedy box and install alot of emulators?
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2006, 10:25:10 PM »

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I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried to make something kinda like my "Universal Game System" for computers.  That is, are there any front-ends to launch a bunch of old emulated computer systems on one machine?  Perhaps it could be a frontend to launch emulated computers to play the computer's games, or even to run functional applications.

Has anyone out there tried to do something like this?


I made my laptop emulate several different systems... would that be possible just to take a semi-speedy box and install alot of emulators?


Yeah, it would.  But I wonder if there's anybody who actually uses them all. Smiley

Also, if there is a frontend for computer emulators like there is for game system emulators.
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2006, 02:32:11 PM »

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I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried to make something kinda like my "Universal Game System" for computers.  That is, are there any front-ends to launch a bunch of old emulated computer systems on one machine?  Perhaps it could be a frontend to launch emulated computers to play the computer's games, or even to run functional applications.

Has anyone out there tried to do something like this?


I made my laptop emulate several different systems... would that be possible just to take a semi-speedy box and install alot of emulators?


Yeah, it would.  But I wonder if there's anybody who actually uses them all. Smiley

Also, if there is a frontend for computer emulators like there is for game system emulators.

Wow, forgot about this topic Sad

Anyways,  you could try to find a front end, but I think you'd be better witha custom comp and emulators.
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