The pigaco.net website has been launched to provide a space for news about the project, even though it is not completely ready yet.
The pigaco arcade system is meant to recreate the feel of old arcade machines with the modern looks and features of the 21st century. It's purpose is to bring people together and to empower small arcade projects to run on a real arcade machines with advanced features.
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User Management
Up to 16 simultanous users can be active on a single piga console. Their details are accessible by the played games.
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Game Selection and Overlay
Games are started from the pigahub. When playing, games can request an onscreen keyboard and/or other visual notifications from the pigaoverlay, which is directly rendered on-top of the game by the pigawm.
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IPC and Analog Inputs
Buttons, joysticks and network inputs are captured by the pigadaemon, which processes them and passes all events over the IPC-mechanism of libpiga to the current game.