arcan-fe

Arcan is a portable and fully scriptable frontend for launching games, emulators and other full-screen applications in a visual appealing way, as seamlessly as possible. The API is sufficiently complete for other projects as well, e.g. rapid game prototyping
(both 2D and 3D).

Note that we have left sourceforge (thanks for all the spam). The source is hosted on github ( http://www.github.com/letoram/arcan ) and the downloads on bintray https://bintray.com/letoram/arcan-main/

Features

Fully Scriptable (LUA)
Video playback, Video recording (webm, lossless)
2D features (animations, transformations, picking, particle systems)
Native emulation (libretro cores for snes,nes,sms,genesis,psx,2600)
Basic 3D features (models, transformations, shaders)
Portable (Linux, BSD, Windows, OSX)
Specialized displaymodes (simulating NTSC signals, CRT phosphor, Vector displays)

Project Samples

Gridle theme, Cabinet (3d Model) view of mame output.

Demonstration of display modes in hijacked launch

Project Activity

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, MinGW/MSYS2, Windows

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers

User Interface

OpenGL, SDL

Programming Language

C, Lua, Ruby

Database Environment

SQLite

Related Categories

C Emulators, C Home Theater PC Software, C Game Development Frameworks, Ruby Emulators, Ruby Home Theater PC Software, Ruby Game Development Frameworks, Lua Emulators, Lua Home Theater PC Software, Lua Game Development Frameworks

Registered

2011-12-10

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