Front End Reviews

Reviews and overviews of gaming front-end software, launchers, and interfaces that make organizing and playing retro and modern games easier and more enjoyable.

HyperSpin Review

HyperSpin, making retro gaming pretty again. Don’t forget to check out the interview we had with BadBoyBill here. So what is HyperSpin? HyperSpin is a front end for video games! What the hell is a front end? A front end is a nice graphical interface for an emulator. What is a emulator? Its the program that plays video games for specific consoles. Edit: and obviously Arcade machines! Thats always a …

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Puppy Arcade 8 Review

Puppy Arcade 8. Bringing Emulation to a distribution near you. Feel free to read the Interview with Creator Scott Jarvis here. Emulator front ends and Live distribution CD’S have come a long way since the days of Knoppix and TuxNES. Knoppix being the first Live CD I ever used, TuxNES the first NES emulator. We have come a long way indeed. We now have Live distributions that are emulation orientated …

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