xmame status?

[Matthias Saou]

Alex Jackson wrote :

> >Xmame (and xmess) haven't been updated since 0.106, but now there is a new 
> >port of Mame, sdlmame, at version 0.109.  Is xmame deprecated?  And what 
> >about xmess?
> 
> The short answer is "yes".  xmame/xmess are probably permanently dead as of 
> 0.106; the active multiplatform MAME/MESS port for the forseeable future 
> will be the SDL port.

Yeah, unfortunately it seems to be like that. The long answer is that
some major core changes in 0.107 would require a lot of work to be done
to xmame... too much it seems. sdlmame is a much simpler port of the
main xmame, since it doesn't try to focus on many UNIX specific
features and simply uses SDL to do everything. The big loss here is
that currently sdlmame can only display with either OpenGL or software
rendering AFAIK, whereas xmame had an Xv overlay mode that was really
fast even with no accelerated OpenGL available (think recent ATI and
NVIDIA cards with the free drivers).

As you can see, I've kept xmame 0.106 for FC6, but also started
packaging sdlmame in parallel. If sdlmame works with Xv some day, and
with at least one frontend (updating gxmame for it would be nice), then
I might drop the xmame package, but that won't happen overnight.

Matthias

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