AdvanceMAME v0.82.0

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on May 15th, 2004

Additionally, this MAME variant with advanced video support was also updated recently. Here is the list of changes:
  • Added a new "Startup End" key (minus on numeric pad) to store in the configuration file the startuptime required for the current game. Simply press it when the game start.
  • The `sync_startuptime' now has an `auto' value which use an internal table to select the correct startup time.
  • The sound normalization is now computed using the normalized power of the audio and not the maximum value.
  • Added a new option `misc_freeplay' to enable the freeplay mode changing the game dipswitches.
  • Added a new option `misc_mutedemo' to mute the sound on game demo.
  • Improved the audio/video syncronization. It should fixes the problems on system which are not able to return the correct number of samples in the audio board buffer.
  • The `sync_resample' default value is now set to use internal resampling.
  • Fixed the loading of .rc files from the /etc directory.
  • Improved the loading speed of the history/mameinfo databases in Linux using the unlocked file API.
  • The history/mameinfo text is now wrapped to fit the whole screen.
  • Added a new `device_alsa_mixer' option to control the sound mixing.
  • The default is to use an internal mixer to change the volume.
  • Documented in the `advdev.txt' file how use the ALSA `dmix' plug for a software mixing from multiple programs.
You can download this from our MAME for Windows/DOS and *nix sections.