@rustymg said in A few questions before diving...:
C64 has been removed from 4.1 beta and Amiga has been in limbo now for, hmmm, a year easily, along with bezels, so no offence meant to anyone, but I personally think you may need to look to "the dark side" depending on how urgent your need is, as I can't see either coming anytime soon, certainly not before 4.2 in my opinion.
The cd32 emulator installation detailed elsewhere however allows you to play hundreds of Amiga games in the meantime. I have about 80 standalone games plus about 5 compilation iso's that have hundreds of games on each, and there is no messing with disk swapping etc.
I can confirm it works on 4.01 and 4.1 beta.
I guess I may also express my feeling towards such words ?
C64: removed, as the one who contributed for the emulator made barely half the job. Once we started testing it, it just didn't work. That was an external contribution that was lacking quite much. But still, that guy made an effort to do what he could on his side, submitted his work.
Bezels : have you noticed the overlays folder in the share ? I've answered many times on the forum how to make this work. You may as well use the search function, and eventually write the wiki part as a proof of your personnal investment on the project 
Amiga: there is really very much to say about it. 1st of all: the available emulators are a mess, no other word. They are barely configurable from outside, hardly documented, this makes the task tremendous to add it to recalbox and make it fit recalbox standards. That was until midwan decided to go on his own with amiberry. Since, the sun is rising again, we're carefully watching. Meanwhile, (and i've had quite a few argues with people from here, including voljega), we don't add emulators that are not integrated in the recalbox way. I don't want to disclose anything yet nor give false hope, but looks like someone decided to go the recalbox way to add amiga. And we're always here to help people work on recalbox, really wink wink
So, you've heard my opinion : Recalbox is a particular beast, that is much more complicated than Retropie on the dev side. Let me remind you we handle everything in the OS, from the kernel configuration to the final upgrade you download. I really mean everything including finding host servers, deploying and upgrading the forum, making sure the 4.1 release won't be the same chaos as 4.0.1 ... So much work that is not just pure emulator feature. And it does take us quite a lot of time. I hope you won't mind if, sometimes, we spend our free time on something else.
Retropie is 4 years old, has many more contributors than Recalbox that is 2.5 years old, and very few people participating in it. What a gap ...
And we hate when people compare recalbox to retropie/lakka/whichever ... All of them have different goals, you can't just compare on a "available emulators" base. I do respect anyone's work, we do speak bad on other projects, we even go on very well with the devs of some, when some other projects spit on us. But we won't get as low as them.
