WolfMAME - not plus

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:53 am

Barry, why you use official MAME version for wolf? In plus version is more features.

Post by **mahlemiut** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:14 am

For the ease of keeping it updated. Between Aaron's core rewrites, and various other changes, it was getting to be a right pain in the ass to do updates. Now I've just split everything up into source modules, and each one can be worked on seperately.

There is no reason why someone couldn't just apply the patch to MAME Plus (when it's released) but this also eliminates possible problems that could be caused by MAME Plus.

I do intend to create modules for the input viewer and INP captions eventually.

destructor · Post by **destructor** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:38 pm

mahlemiut wrote:I do intend to create modules for the input viewer and INP captions eventually.

It's necessary.

sawys · Post by **sawys** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:46 pm

Hi...

I'm not sure i understand well but finally, why do you make a wolfmame version if everything is the same than a mame version ?

And further in command line

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I always recorded with the gui version to see my own snapshots and now all is gone

Post by **mahlemiut** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:14 pm

It still records speed as it has always done. It still disables pausing as it has always done. These are the core important things. If you want a GUI, use a frontend, or build your own based on MAME32 or MAME Plus.

sawys · Post by **sawys** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:28 pm

mahlemiut wrote:It still records speed as it has always done. It still disables pausing as it has always done. These are the core important things. If you want a GUI, use a frontend, or build your own based on MAME32 or MAME Plus.

Thank you for the precisions, i will ask french friend to help me to install a frontend.

I don't have the knowledge to build my own version of mameplus.

Cheers.

Post by **mahlemiut** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:04 pm

Even better idea... learn to use the commandline. I even included record and playback batch files with the binary.

Even nicer would be a GUI compiling app. Something along the lines of the XFCE (X-Windows window manager) installer which simply tells what you require to build, and if you have everything needed, compile and install it at a mouse click.

TRB_MetroidTeam · Post by **TRB_MetroidTeam** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:46 pm

mahlemiut wrote:Even better idea... learn to use the commandline.

To me, it is just a "step backward" at this moment.
Well... let's see until when I will succeed to use 0.101 version

The_Pro · Post by **The_Pro** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:10 am

Ugh, command line. What can I say, I'm from the clicking generation.

Post by **mahlemiut** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:16 am

If anyone is willing to produce their own binary versions based on MAME32, MAME Plus or whatever, then I'm happy providing links to them. I'd rather conserve my restricted bandwidth instead of uploading a version I wouldn't be personally using.

MJS · Post by **MJS** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:24 am

I haven't tried it yet, but I'm sure this is a step forward... making a derivative version of a derivative version is not a good idea.

The only downside I can think of is that maybe it will not be as popular as wolfmame-plus because it doesn't have multi-language support, but who knows, maybe a future version brings that.

The TJT · Post by **The TJT** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:59 am

The_Pro wrote:Ugh, command line. What can I say, I'm from the clicking generation.

CLI, or whatever, is like sooooooou yesterday.

Post by **mahlemiut** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:46 am

The TJT wrote:CLI, or whatever, is like sooooooou yesterday.

Then why does practically every OS out there have a command prompt?

kranser · Post by **kranser** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:59 am

By the way, you haven't disabled the [INSERT] speedup key in WolfMAME when recording. Is it necessary to disable this key?

Kranser.

Post by **mahlemiut** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:17 am

Oh yeah, the "fast forward" key. Forgot about that one...