[Xmame] 720 degrees spinner does not work in xmame .89

2004-12-19 Thread Jason Amato
Hey everybody. I just upgraded from version .79 to .89 and have noticed quite a few changes. The biggest one is the missing "Dial" option in a game like "720 degrees". I am not sure why this was removed. Essentially the arcade machine used a spinner like joystick. I am not complaining, mind you. I

Re: [Xmame] Problem installing xMAME CVS

2004-12-19 Thread Lawrence Gold
Nicos Panayides wrote: Why is the group for installed files the "bin" group instead of "root"? I am just curious :) I don't remember, but I bet there was a good reason for it. There's probably some patch buried in the mailing list archives that set it to bin. :-) _

Re: [Xmame] Problem installing xMAME CVS

2004-12-19 Thread Nicos Panayides
Lawrence Gold wrote: Francisco TLF wrote: Hi. When installing xMAME CVS I get this error: installing manual pages under /usr/man/man6 ... /usr/bin/install -d-o root -g bin -m 755 /usr/man/man6 /usr/bin/install -c-o root -g bin -m 444 doc/xmame.6 /usr/man/man6/xmame.6 /usr/bin/install: c

Re: [Xmame] Re: Implementing scaling algorithms on the GPU

2004-12-19 Thread Jim Higson
On Friday 17 Dec 2004 16:16, Matthew Earl wrote: > > Is this for nvidea cards only or should this also work on ATI cards? > > I used the ARB extensions so it should work on all cards supporting > fragment programs. > > > About the effects in opengl mode, could you make it work like the Xv > > drive

Re: [Xmame] Problem installing xMAME CVS

2004-12-19 Thread Lawrence Gold
Francisco TLF wrote: Hi. When installing xMAME CVS I get this error: installing manual pages under /usr/man/man6 ... /usr/bin/install -d-o root -g bin -m 755 /usr/man/man6 /usr/bin/install -c-o root -g bin -m 444 doc/xmame.6 /usr/man/man6/xmame.6 /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `doc/xmame.6

Re: [Xmame] 0.89u6 compile error

2004-12-19 Thread Lawrence Gold
Christopher Stone wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:50:35 -0700, Lawrence Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's because some platforms just have old-fashioned compilers. Until it becomes really burdensome, I don't mind supporting C89. But at some point I imagine C99 will become standard. According to

[Xmame] Problem installing xMAME CVS

2004-12-19 Thread Francisco TLF
Hi. When installing xMAME CVS I get this error: installing manual pages under /usr/man/man6 ... /usr/bin/install -d-o root -g bin -m 755 /usr/man/man6 /usr/bin/install -c-o root -g bin -m 444 doc/xmame.6 /usr/man/man6/xmame.6 /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `doc/xmame.6': No such file

Re: [Xmame] 0.89u6 compile error

2004-12-19 Thread Christopher Stone
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:50:35 -0700, Lawrence Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's because some platforms just have old-fashioned compilers. Until it > becomes really burdensome, I don't mind supporting C89. But at some > point I imagine C99 will become standard. According to the gcc man page,

Re: [Xmame] 0.89u6 compile error

2004-12-19 Thread Lawrence Gold
Christopher Stone wrote: Maybe we should add -std=c99 to the makefile? Can someone remind me what are the reasons for converting // comments to /* */ style, and for ensuring no C99 code is in xmame? It's because some platforms just have old-fashioned compilers. Until it becomes really burdensome

Re: [Xmame] 0.89u6 compile error

2004-12-19 Thread Christopher Stone
Maybe we should add -std=c99 to the makefile? Can someone remind me what are the reasons for converting // comments to /* */ style, and for ensuring no C99 code is in xmame? On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:42:09 -0700, Lawrence Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julian Sikorski wrote: > > As usual: > > sr

Re: [Xmame] 0.89u6 compile error

2004-12-19 Thread Lawrence Gold
Julian Sikorski wrote: As usual: src/drivers/galpani3.c: In function `galpani3_mcu_run': src/drivers/galpani3.c:257: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode make: *** [xmame.obj/drivers/galpani3.o] Error 1 Fixed in CVS and a patch has been sent upstream. ___

[Xmame] Questions about video modes

2004-12-19 Thread Enik
Hi, I tested recently xmame 0.89 and its video modes with my good old Voodoo3 3000 video card, before I was using the Windows version of MAME. So, first I compiled xmame.x11 with some video modes: X11_MITSHM, X11_XV, X11_OPENGL and X11_GLIDE, with GLIDE2 unset. Well, AFAIK Glide3x currentl

Re: [Xmame] bash based xmame-screensaver

2004-12-19 Thread Garron Bailey
Also, it might be a nice feature to have a random-noadult game mode. As there isn't really a flag for this already for each ROM, it might be enough to just have an exclusion list for all of the known "adult" games, just to keep things friendly in mixed company. I noticed some of the adul

Re: [Xmame] Re: Implementing scaling algorithms on the GPU

2004-12-19 Thread F.J. McCloud
> The problem with 1) is it requires rendering to a P-buffer, > which > according to F.J McCloud has performance issues. The problem > Maybe 1) could be implemented as an option to xmame, that way > people > will understand why they might get performance issues. I'm not sure P-buffers are the onl