[Nottingham] x-mame and gxmame.

Simon flibble at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 09:27:00 BST 2005


On 10/17/05, Simon <flibble at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/05, Michael Erskine <msemtd at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > Are you running the latest GXMame 0.35b? I'm using that with Xmame
> > > 0.100-1 which I had to search hard for :(
> > >
> > > Mame in Ubuntu is badly out of date.
> >
> > I'm using the badly out of date Ubuntu version with no issues: -
> >
> >     xmame (x11) version 0.86 (Oct  7 2004)
> >
> > ...works fine for me and mine :)
>
> MAME is constantly being updated and with each revision the ROM data
> is changed. A lot of the ROM images I've 'aquired' won't work with
> 0.86, requiring 0.98 at least :(
>
> Still, 0.100 works fine with Ubuntu using Debian packages.
>
> Simon

xmame (sdl) version 0.100 (Sep 24 2005)
GXmame 0.35beta2

Updates cleanly from the Ubuntu version too. I can upload the packages
somewhere if required (got the standard X11 xmame too). I've forgotton
where I got these from :(

Simon



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