Mame4All
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antheus123
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Wasn't xmame ported months ago?
may88
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Few people have. Owning one is unlikely to cure ignorance. The truth is out there.TylerAW said:
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gruso
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As far as I can tell, XMAME development halted several years ago (which is probably why it was a good candidate for Cpasjuste to port it). There's no problem with developers or anything. If someone wanted to continue work on XMAME I'm sure they could, but with MAME4all so well supported there would be little point.TylerAW said:
As for game compatibility (didn't we do all this recently?
), the info is out there. Heaps of MAME threads in the GP2X and Wiz sections. Yod4z's post is probably the quick answer you need though.
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ldesnogu
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Yes, XMAME is officially dead and replaced by SDLMAME.
BTW if people want to resurrect XMAME, I will strongly oppose
BTW if people want to resurrect XMAME, I will strongly oppose
Ze_ro
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From what I understand, XMAME died due to some change in the way MAME itself handles video updates. They used to be handled in such a way that XMAME could just pass whole frames through various backends to display in X11, svgalib, OpenGL, etc. At some point (0.106? I forget) there was a major change in the MAME core that meant that XMAME would have to do a ton of extra video processing in order to work the way it had, or it would have to be mostly rewritten. Thus, the project died. From what I understand, this is also the reason MacMAME died out too.
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ldesnogu
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Yes, that's more or less the story. And at about the same time some MAME dev's decided to create SDLMAME, so there really was little point in putting any effort in XMAME.
