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We are working on the Operating System support for the platforms Windows, Linux and Mac. The most of the emuControlCenter core components like PHP, GTK+, Sqlite are platform independent, so emuControlCenter should run on all systems. Because the different techniques to start an rom on the operating systems, there are some differences to program into emuControlCenter.

 Windows
 

WinNT (Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista)
emuControlCenter was build and developed on WinNT systems, so it will work without any problems on these windows versions!

Required core: ecc-core-winnt

Win32 (Windows 95/98/ME)
emuControlCenter supports WIN32 systems by using an older PHP/GTK version, because newer versions of PHP/GTK have advanced API calls that are not supported by these windows OS’es anymore.

 Required core: ecc-core-win32

Linux

On Kubuntu linux (a debian based distribution) you can already start the emuControlCenter. You can already add new roms to the database, change meta-informations, add images and many more! Starting roms with emulators isn´t supported by now but will be implemented later. If you want help, use the contact form!

If you want try it, you have to install php and php-gtk2. The PHP installation needs some extensions to run.

Installation:
php5: sqlite, zip, gd
php-gtk2: libglade

You can start ecc under linux using this syntax in the emuControlCenter folder:
php -c /path/to/your/modified/php-gtk2/php.ini ecc.php
You can also copy this to and bash script….

Resources:
php-gtk2 unix installer (try on own risk!)

Mac

We cant test emuControlCenter running under Mac OS because we dont have Mac OS If you want to try it, feel free!