mame

would this be a excellent add on inclusion in sl... mame client built in.
obviously not the likes of the high end games but yes... my feature would definately be mame.

Care to explain what this "mame" you speak of is?

MAME is an arcade emulator.

http://www.mame.net/

I doubt we'll see anything like that built into SL, nor am I sure of its need.

Check out my arcade on Cameo Island. The games are playable. Some use MAME, some use FLASH or JAVA. The games pop up in a web browser, since we don't have HTML on a prim yet.

Hell yeah, and why don't we get OpenOffice built in as well?

No! What the hell are you thinking? You want MAME, launch MAME yourself! It's got nothing to do with SL!

Yeahz~! And shockwave~! Gods know we need to play shocked files on prims~!
</sarcasm>

We can already view FLASH and SHOCKWAVE files on prims, using Quick Time. Unfortunately, we can't interact with the movies yet, just watch em.

Way to argue for less functionality, btw.

You have any idea how complicated Director (Shockwave) plugins are? It was meant for CD ROM movies, not the web (only about 30% of internet uses have any version of the Shockwave plugin, vs. 80% with Flash). My professor described it as, "If Flash is a race car, then Director is an 18 wheel semi-truck."
SL is already a mushroom patch of a program with no streamlining visable--it's a bandwith hog, a resource hog, unstable, and laggy. We might want Shocked media someday but as it is, SL can pretty much accomplish whatever you might want to do with Director. And in 3D.

Instead of adding "HTML on a prim" or "mame on a prim"...

How about "Display external program on a prim" and let you specify what those programs are. That way you can use small and lightweight programs if they'll do what you need.

[X] program 1: [iTunes-Monitor           ]
     Replace this texture:
     +----------+
     |          |
     |          |
     |          |
     +----------+
...

....and what on which machine renders that program on that prim?

lol. all locally dealed? XD Maybe someone will soon want a 3DSMax or Maya on a prim!

Oh well

I was thinking more like, "I'll put Quake 3 on a prim!"
Ok, who renders it?

lol Won't it be fun playing game console on a prim box in SL? And use a HUD-pad as a joystick

Maybe LL should contact with MS and Nintendo for integration of GameCube, PS3, and Wii into SL as well! See, SL's prim can already support 3d joystick!

the SL client on your local machine renders the output of the program on the prim.

It's just the same as with media textures, which are basically projections of a local quicktime instance onto a prim.

The application would be run on your local computer, and instead of running in a window its output would be intercepted by SL and displayed to you on a prim surface, as if SL was your window manager.

This is trivial in Linux, and easy in Mac OS X. It's certainly possible in Windows, VNC and Citrix clients do it (and some Citrix clients in the past have even done it on a window-by-window basis).