/owl-arcade

Retro Arcade / Emulator Front-End made in Python

Primary LanguageScalaGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Owl Arcade 🦉

Yet Another Retro Arcade/Emulator Front-End 💾 💻 🕹️

Animated GIF of the Front-End main screen

Features list WIP

  • Nice 3D UI showing a virtual museum of old machines
    • each machine screen/monitor shall display a video of a landmark game/demo
  • Launch each emulator from the main menu
    • Windows emulators are installed locally
  • Parse automatically the rom/disk folders
  • Bootstrap from an arbitrary list of public domain games demos from pouet.net
  • Installs the emulators automatically

Specifications

  • Runs on Python3
  • Built on top of HARFANG 3D
  • Rendering pipeline powered by BGFX
  • Supported operating systems
    • MS Windows 10 x64
    • Ubuntu x64 WIP

Getting involved

This project is supposed to contain as much open source as possible.
License is GPLv3.