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GheTo V

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Why Use Evox At All?
« on: April 10, 2003, 07:18:00 PM »
i try evox, didnt like it, took way too long to load up my game. so i switch back to the default dashboard.
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kobe

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Why Use Evox At All?
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2003, 07:52:00 PM »
QUOTE (apoc519 @ Apr 11 2003, 03:09 AM)
I dont understand why everyone thinks evox is so great. Ive since changed everything over to xbmp. Now i can do absolutely everything from one program. IGR you might say but bioses do a much better job of that anyway.

Just curious, defend your dashboard

i dont think u can update your bios from xbmp!
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Raised

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Why Use Evox At All?
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2003, 07:58:00 PM »
No "auto add" feature
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kobe

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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2003, 08:18:00 PM »
QUOTE (apoc519 @ Apr 11 2003, 04:13 AM)
1. who updates their bios on a daily basis? or monthly even. I can burn a cdrw for that

2. no autoadd? im afraid it does. You have to put an entry like this in the applications section of the config.ini file

bookmark "My Games": Autoadd items ( f:games )

or make a shortcut file. Takes 10 seconds

u cant view ur cpu temp from xbmp
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apoc519

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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2003, 08:32:00 PM »
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u cant view ur cpu temp from xbmp

Try a more recent CVS build, you might be surprised
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Ace25

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« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2003, 08:35:00 PM »
To be honest, haven't had the time to test all of what XBMP can do, I am still jived about Shoutcast.. so never thought of making it my dash.. may do that one day when I have some free time.. and with the way my work, and economy in general is, may be sooner than later.
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powerhousekilla

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« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2003, 09:01:00 PM »
evox works well no need 2 switch lol


so bottom line IM LAZY and im real proud!!!
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jasonmvt

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Why Use Evox At All?
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2003, 09:05:00 PM »
hmmm let's see... Evox NEVER freezes on me.
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« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2003, 09:08:00 PM »
QUOTE (jasonmvt @ Apr 11 2003, 12:05 AM)
hmmm let's see... Evox NEVER freezes on me.

What a good point  biggrin.gif
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Rollo

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« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2003, 09:28:00 PM »
evox has lots a porn on it!.................oh wait, no, that's what i use xbmp for.
evox=dashboard
xmbp=porn server
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Mage

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« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2003, 10:06:00 PM »
You assume it's for a nice interface.
It isn't,  Evox is there to get the job done.
Its ftp server works fine, it launches games fine, its auto-add works fine.
Why switch, when you don't need to?
This is like trying to argue about Window Managers, they all get the job done.
You might like KDE, I'll stick with twm and CDE.
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Hammy

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« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2003, 10:08:00 PM »
Hey apoc519,do you even know how to use the evox dashboard.man you need to read the tuts mad.gif
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Xeero

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« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2003, 10:10:00 PM »
Pretty: XBMP Dash and xISO
Utilitarian: EvoX and SimpleX

I'm just sayin...
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Mage

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« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2003, 10:14:00 PM »
beerchug.gif
Now all we need is a mini-xbe format that is compatible between a dashes, and designed to run in their own threads...cheap way to have "multi-tasking" without having to compile them in.
I guess we won't see it happen anytime soon.  unsure.gif
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jasonmvt

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« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2003, 10:16:00 PM »
QUOTE (apoc519 @ Apr 11 2003, 12:32 AM)
hard to freeze when you only use it for 3 seconds while your trying to find a better application.

Face it, evox is downright ugly for a program whos main function is to provide a nice interface for launching other applications. Yay, i can change the background image and the menu colors! Why havn't they incorporated better skinning capabilities in it yet?

I'm still waiting for a good argument as to why evox is so great

ya, i wouldn't know where to begin coding something like it but it's a far cry from what xbmp is

actually, I can have evox on for a week straight, it doesn't matter.  FTP up, down, run games and apps, return, switch menus as fast as I can push the buttons, unplug/plug in network cable all damn day and it'll never freeze.  Try saying that about XBMP.

Don't get me wrong, I use it alot, and it is a great program.  My intent is not to bash XBMP, just say that it is better suited for its real purpose, playing media.

Blah, Blah, skins and pictures.  Yes of course it would be cool to have all that in Evox, but I'll take stability and functionality over bugs on a console any day.  

MXM is, to me, capable of looking even better than XBMP if you take a little time with it, but I'm still not gonna run out and dump evox until it has the same sort of functionality.
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