[Suggestion] Chip categories in the "add system"/"change system" menu

[aquamarine-axo]

I think that since there are so many chips planned and already implemented for 0.6, the menu for adding chips might get a little bit cluttered. For this reason, I propose that there should be "folders" for the different chips that you can add/change to help reduce UI clutter and to help people be able to find more chips more easily.

Maybe you could have them sorted according to their manufacturer (so Yamaha chips can have their own category, Nintendo chips could have another, Commodore having another, and the manufacturers that only have 1 chip in Furnace could just be put into the "Other" folder), or perhaps the chips might be sorted according to their use cases (systems), so the AY-3-8910 wouldn't be under "Other", but be under Atari (because it was most famously used in the Atari ST).

[tildearrow]

Indeed, this is something I thought of a month ago.

[tildearrow]

Oops!

[Ultraprogramer]

i think that instead of having the manufacturer names (yamaha nintendo etc) we could have chip type categories like fm square wavetable etc

[ZeroByteOrg]

I agree with Ultraprogramer - sorting by sound type makes the most sense and would be the easiest to look up chips by. Hybrids like the YM2203 should just appear in both Square Wave PSG chips AND in FM chips.

[tildearrow]

New chip picker added!