Talk:Emulator List
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Colours
What do you think about using the gentler colours from the Will X run on the Pandora? arricle? The red colour in particular is hard on the eyes when you try to read the text written under it. Esn 01:24, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- I agree, probably not worth changing the green and yellow though. Will update it. --Cheese 02:37, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
Multi line items
I'd like to suggest that we try to keep the number of lines an entry on the list takes up to be no more than 2. With todays widescreen monitors theres really no sense in forcing someone to see something over two lines when it could easily fit on one. And for people stuck with smaller monitors, spreading out over multiple lines can happen automatically. Let me know if you (Esn) mind before one of us changes it. --Cheese 02:54, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- How would you fix this? I can see only a few that take up more than 2 lines right now (at a resolution of 800px wide). One is Winbox, because the "Notes" is longer than others (but necessary, I think), and the others are Mupen64 and SNES9x, because a few different coders are listed. Oh, and 2 more: one of the "Vice" versions because it emulates so many things ("Commodore CBM2/C128/PET/Plus4/VIC") and PicoDrive (same reason). Please tell me what fix you have in mind. I think, though, that the wiki must be kept compatible with the Pandora screen resolution. If you just mean not putting every port author on a separate line (using commas instead) if there are more than 2 of them, then sure. Esn 07:50, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- All I had in mind was to just not add new line breaks to the items. The browser can sort out the line breaks. While were on the subject of conserving width, is there a way to have the notes be "collapsible" or hidden? I know this can be done through html/css/javascript/etc, but what about through the limited wiki markup? Right now it's not really an issue, but I think it would make the list much more readable if the notes could be hidden. Do you think that's a good idea? --Cheese 10:18, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- Yeah, that's fine. Collapsibility for long notes seems like a nice idea. I haven't studied the "hide" feature too much, but there's an article on Wikipedia describing how it works over here. Esn 10:30, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- Also, do you have any thoughts about the discussion here? Have you had a chance to use Dosbox on your Pandora? Esn 10:36, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- Dosbox doesn't really interest me that much. I was pretty young when DOS was still in it's prime, I learned to read by playing Word Rescue, lol. As for the wiki compatibility list... people seem afraid to edit wikis for some reason, if using Google docs means were not the only people maintaining it then I'm all for it. I'm finding it hard enough to keep up with the new games and emulator releases at the moment, and I'm trying to put more energy into the other sections of the wiki as well.
- I'll look into collapsing tomorrow, I'm already up way later than I should be (2 am here). --Cheese 10:50, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- Heh... DOS was my childhood, basically. I never owned any consoles that hooked up to TVs. Apparently most other people did, so the games I loved back then never really entered popular culture (Commander Keen 4-6, Jazz Jackrabbit... most things by Apogee, actually. And Star Control 2 & 3). So as this is "relevant to my interests", I'll try and create a compatibility list and hope that more people get to updating it (how many people edit the Google Docs documents, anyway? It's probably never more than a few people doing the upkeep, no matter what you use...) Esn 15:05, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- To clarify the line break issue a bit, my issue was more specifically with the author names and download links. If you think adding a line break will make it look better, go for it (like what I just did with the SUPA entry on Software projects).
- I don't know about the number of people maintaining the Google docs list, but I do know they're not the same people maintaining the wiki. If there's a DOS game you're curious about I can load it up and tell you how it's running, as long as it doesn't require me using the nubs that is, I'm now completly nubless :(. --Cheese 05:45, 17 July 2010 (MEST)
- Heh... DOS was my childhood, basically. I never owned any consoles that hooked up to TVs. Apparently most other people did, so the games I loved back then never really entered popular culture (Commander Keen 4-6, Jazz Jackrabbit... most things by Apogee, actually. And Star Control 2 & 3). So as this is "relevant to my interests", I'll try and create a compatibility list and hope that more people get to updating it (how many people edit the Google Docs documents, anyway? It's probably never more than a few people doing the upkeep, no matter what you use...) Esn 15:05, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
- All I had in mind was to just not add new line breaks to the items. The browser can sort out the line breaks. While were on the subject of conserving width, is there a way to have the notes be "collapsible" or hidden? I know this can be done through html/css/javascript/etc, but what about through the limited wiki markup? Right now it's not really an issue, but I think it would make the list much more readable if the notes could be hidden. Do you think that's a good idea? --Cheese 10:18, 16 July 2010 (MEST)
Hide/show
When I click on "show", a "#" gets added to the URL: http://pandorawiki.org/Emulator_list# and I'm redirected to the very top of the page, so that I have to scroll down again to see what it says. Esn 23:30, 20 July 2010 (MEST)
