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NEWS:

Date Release Description
1/16/2000 0.36b14.1 After some months, here's an updated binary. Sorry for the long delay, I have been busy with the MAMELang project. O:)
Of course, these new binaries have multilingual support via MAMELang. :)

Old news.

FILES:

Last beta release :
SVGAlib: pxmame.svgalib_0.36b14.1.tar.gz
X-Window: pxmame.x11_0.36b14.1.tar.gz
Last final release :
SVGAlib: pxmame.svgalib_0.35.3.tar.gz
X-Window: pxmame.x11_0.35.3.tar.gz

You can download X-MAME source code from the Official X-MAME homepage.

If you want to use the joystick, you'll need the "Linux Joystick Driver" wich you can find in it's home page. Anyway, joystick support is included in the 2.2.x kernel series.

To have sound, you'll need to have support for your sound card compiled into the kernel. You can download the last kernel version from Kernel.ORG or one of it's mirrors, or from Linux HQ. Sound also works with the ALSA sound drivers.

WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT?

The two main characteristics of MAME, the fact that it's written in C and it emulates many CPUs, make it quite easy to port to many different platforms and support a lot of arcade machines (more than 1900! romsets supported by the last release), but also make it SLOW.

Lots of people have tried to make it faster, by doing things like change the CPU cores (Z80, 68K, 8086...) written in C by others written in assembler and/or use a C compiler wich optimizes the code for an specific processor, like Rodimus Prime's PentiuMAME. And you REALLY GET a considerable speed-up.

And well, what I have done is to copy Rodimus' idea but with the UNIX port of MAME, X-MAME, and try by using optimization to get the faster binary posible for LiNUX. For doing so I have used pgcc and nasm (the 6808 and 68000 CPU cores are written in assembler instead of C).
 

CONTACT:

For any doubt, comment, hint, idea... related to PXMame (or some errata in this translation ;-D), e-mail me at: vaguilar@linuxfreak.com. 
 
DO NOT MAIL ME ASKING ABOUT ROMS, IF THIS OR THAT GAME WILL BE SUPPORTED ON THE NEXT RELEASE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
  
You can also find me on ICQ, my UIN is 1541665. 
 
 

LAST BETA RELEASE:

0.36b14.1

SVGAlib
X-Window

LAST FINAL RELEASE:

0.35.3

SVGAlib
X-Window

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