amaZiNc - A small ZiNc frontend - by Pete Bernert ================================================= Version 1.0.

1 - 07 November 2004 - Added a ZiNc output window (to show eventual ZiNc start up error messages), and changed the icons. Version 1.0.0 - 31 October 2004 - Created on a sunday evening, as a "proof of concept" (to show how multiple ZiNc plugins and emu/plugin settings can be handled).

Features: --------The amaZiNc frontend supports ZiNc 1.0 (and most likely all upcoming versions, since no games or config options are hardcoded in this frontend). It supports all current (and future) renderer and sound plugins, including the ZiNc-enabled psx gpu/spu plugins (currently the P.E.Op.S soft gpu + spu plugin, and my OGL2 one). With the native ZiNc plugins you can enter the plugin settings as text (like in the .cfg files), with the psx plugins the plugin config window will get started. Configs are stored for each game, so you can use different configs with different games without problems (that's the major point of this frontend). Also available: an output window showing the ZiNc error messages (useful to see why ZiNc fails to run... bad rom, bad config switches, etc). amaZiNc will work on Win9X, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP. Installation: ------------Copy the amaZinC.exe file into your ZiNc main emu directory. The sound plugin has to be named "sound.znc" (even if you want to use the P.E.Op.S. spu plugin). The renderer plugins can have whatever names you want, they just have to get placed into the ZiNc main directory. That's it. Well, nearly. You MUST NOT use space characters in your ZiNc path name. Something like "C:\Program Files\ZiNC" is a big NONO! Usage:

-----You have to configure each game you want to use once (otherwise you cannot start it). amaZiNc will store all settings for one game in the ZiNc\cfg directory, and activate them each time you start the game (by a simple double click). Right-clicking a game entry will start the config window, for changing main emu/plugin options and to select the renderer you want to use. If a game doesn't start on double-click, you have done something wrong. Wrong option, wrong plugin, wrong rom set, whatever. You can activate the ZinC output window in this case, to check out the cause of the problem. Copyrights: ----------ZiNc - (c) by The_Author and DynaChicken, 1.0 enhancements by R. Belmont and smf, www.emuhype.com amaZiNc - (c) by Pete Bernert, www.pbernert.com Disclaimer/Licence: ------------------This program is freeware and cannot be sold. Also this program cannot be distributed without written permission. This program cannot be used for any commercial purposes. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the enclosed software. Authors are not responsible for any damages that this program may cause, and are also not responsible for anything this frontend will be used for.