Re: [Xmame] Does xmess support zipped rom images?

2001-10-20 Thread Scott Patterson
On Friday 19 October 2001 08:41, you wrote: > Lawrence Gold wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:04:42PM -0400, Scott L. Patterson wrote: > >>Can someone confim that zipped ROMS do NOT work with xmess? I looked for > >>some option in the makefile for zip support, but nothing... > > > >Zipped roms

Re: [Xmame] xmess: newbie setup questions

2001-10-25 Thread Scott Patterson
On Monday 22 October 2001 14:04, you wrote: > Hello list, > > I would like to run "Mule" on the Atari 400/800/XL part of xmess. > It works on the xatari800 emulator, but I hope that xmess will be able to > handle the new 2.4 Joystick driver so I'll be able to play it with > gamepads. > > xmame-0.

Re: [Xmame] from fullscreen restarts X server

2001-11-01 Thread Scott Patterson
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 11:09, you wrote: > I have Xmame 0.55 installed on two computers running recent versions of > Linux/X11/KDE. It works fine, except that in fullscreen mode, when you esc > out, the X server is restarted (i.e., I am returned to the kdm login > screen). > > This happens o

Re: [Xmame] Patch aplication

2001-11-22 Thread Scott Patterson
On Thursday 22 November 2001 17:28, you wrote: > This may look like a stupid question, (maybe not very specific to the xmame > mailing list) but, How can I apply a path my 55.2 folder. > > I am sure lots of person don't know how to and download the complete source > for each release ;-) > > Thanks

[Xmame] Xmame website author: Please read

2001-11-22 Thread Scott Patterson
I couldn't find the xmame website developers email address, so, I'm assuming he/she reads this mailing list. I'm the author of Kemulator (one of the frontends in your "links" section). If you could please specify Kemulator is a KDE app and for MESS, I'd appreciate it. I like to emphasize the "

Re: Re: [Xmame] How to use BIOSes with MESS

2001-10-08 Thread Scott Patterson
On Monday 08 October 2001 03:26, you wrote: > Yes, keep them zipped! > Put the zipfiles from http://members.tripod.com/messroms in > the roms folder! (xmess -sc to see where the rompath is) Ahhh...that worked. I thought I tried this though (scratches head). Anyway, me very happy:) Thanks, Per a

Re: [Xmame] 7800 xmess troublesB

2002-03-18 Thread Scott Patterson
Nick Bauer wrote: > I don't think xmess follows the windows mess directory structure. And > looking at the xmessrc, I don't think it can even be forced to follow > that. Anyways, I keep my bios files zipped up in the directory I keep > the roms. and I can call xmess(0.56) like so: > > /usr/loc

Re: [Xmame] MESS zip?

2002-05-17 Thread Scott Patterson
Ste wrote: >>>Yep, it does support zip. I've at least kept a few NES roms zipped >>>up, and they work fine. >>> >>> >>Hmm..I don't get it then... >> >>with xmess.x11 nes final_fantasy_z_\(ff1_hack\).zip I get: >>Unable to initialize machine emulation >> >>unzip final_fantasy_z_\(ff1_hack\)

[Xmame] Using bzip2 to compress ROMs

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Patterson
I'm just wondering if anyone ever thought of implementing bzip2 compression support for xmame. I can't imagine it being to hard to unzip all the ROMs and recompressing them using bzip2. Also, the verificaton routines would have to be updated to the new files. Since a complete romset is >4GB, e

Re: [Xmame] OT: NES emulators

2002-10-22 Thread Scott Patterson
Sté wrote: Sorry for this way off topic post... I've been looking for an NES emulator for Linux. I haven't been able to find anything that can do a resonable job scaling the screen in fullscreen mode without slowing to a turtles crawl (and it needs to work in X.. I haven't been able to get SVGAli

Re: [Xmame] optimized memcpy?

2002-11-12 Thread Scott Patterson
Lawrence Gold wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:54:45PM -0500, Simon Roby wrote: >Hmpf. The GNU General Public Licence is such a pain. It's supposed to make >software free (as in free speech), yet it forces so many restrictions >regarding its use in conjunction with other licences that one wond

Re: [Xmame] since it seems that its release week...

2002-11-15 Thread Scott Patterson
Matthias Saou wrote: Once upon a time, Shadow wrote : >I decided to make a pre release of GXMame. Cool! Lot's of good stuff! :-) I'll be testing it this week-end, and will report back any bugs encountered. I can already start with one... more or less a bug : At home, I use gxmame displayed o

Re: [Xmame] GXMame 0.30 is out

2002-11-25 Thread Scott Patterson
Lawrence Gold wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:38:24PM +0100, David Heremans wrote: >Shouldn't it be a good idea to keep the same names between the windows >and *nix version? This way more 'how to use'-webpages that are written >for windows can also be used for the xmame variant of it. And if >

[Xmame] Packaging of MAME screenshots?

2002-11-30 Thread Scott Patterson
I've been considering the standard packaging of screenshots for MAME to be used by frontends. Personally, I'm a Debian user and would be interested in debian packages, but, since the snapshots would be platform/distribution independent, there is no reason they couldn't be packaged as RPMs and/o

Re: [Xmame] Packaging of MAME screenshots?

2002-11-30 Thread Scott Patterson
R. Reucher wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 20:46, Joan Sarah Touzet wrote: Thus spake Scott Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What I'm hoping someone can point me to is where to find screenshots that are GPLed or some similar open source license. Any other advice or tips? A simple s

Re: [Xmame] GXMAME display suggestion

2002-12-04 Thread Scott Patterson
Shadow Walker wrote: By the way, does anyone know a library allowing to read MS icons files (containing large and small icons)? A quick search on Google gave me this interesting link: http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2001-04/msg00249.html I would imagine ImageMagik would work, however, I

Re: [Xmame] xmame/xmess-0.62.2

2003-01-13 Thread Scott Patterson
XulChris wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 07:02 pm, Lawrence Gold wrote: Thanks to a nice link error my extensive testing failed to find, there's a new 0.62.2 release. Enjoy: Lawrence, can we change the makefile optmization options to gcc3.x values I am currently using CFLAGS= -O3 -mar

Re: [Xmame] full screen xmame

2003-02-07 Thread Scott Patterson
Roland Rabien wrote: I am a newbie to both xmame and linux. My linux box is a Athlon 1700 with a AGP TNT video card. I am running Debian Woody with XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1. I would like to run xmame full screen wih no black border. What is the easiest way to do this? Should I get a better videoca

Re: [Xmame] glx

2003-02-12 Thread Scott Patterson
XulChris wrote: I'm still looking for a lossless version of that Journey song. If anyone here has some Journey CDs please let me know :) Journey is my favorite band! I've got just about all their CDs. Scott ___ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Xmame] Debian packages for xmame

2003-02-26 Thread Scott Patterson
Diogo Sperb Schneider wrote: Here is xmame-0.65.1 in Debian package format (.deb), if you're interested... They're available at: https://dschneider78.dyndns.org/debian/xmame/ I have just rebuilt the official xmame package available for the unstable distribution with the latest xmame source code, u

Re: [Xmame] Debian packages for xmame

2003-02-26 Thread Scott Patterson
Mark Nipper wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:29:31PM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote: Anyone know why the official Debian packages for xmame and xmess are so outdated? That's a great question. I know I've seen packages which are submitted by non-maintainers. You might want t

Re: [Xmame] Checking for DGA? Now the kernel...

2003-02-28 Thread Scott Patterson
Lawrence Gold wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:23:15AM -0800, Diogo Sperb Schneider wrote: I don't have such line, so I guess there's nothing in my configuration file that says that DGA should be omitted. I'll run xdpyinfo later to be sure. Thanks! PS: But I'm almost sure there's a kernel part of

Re: [Xmame] xmame 0.66.1 compile errors on Solaris 8/9

2003-03-19 Thread Scott Patterson
G. Low wrote: Hi! I'm using gcc v.2.95.3 belldandy% gcc -v Reading specs from /opt/sfw/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.3/specs gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) belldandy% uname -a SunOS belldandy 5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 On a Sol8 UltraSparc machine, and while I

Re: [Xmame] xmame front end

2003-03-28 Thread Scott Patterson
Simon Roby wrote: Ben Saylor wrote: AdvanceMenu should work with nearly any version of xmame, since it doesn't try to set any options (just uses your xmamerc). This brings up an interesting issue: why the hell do most frontends *force* you to use their own configuration UI? This is a very ann

Re: [Xmame] xmame front end

2003-03-28 Thread Scott Patterson
barryc wrote: From a copy of the XMame documentation I located on the web via a Google search: URL I'm referencing is http://jausoft.com/Files/GLMame/xmame-doc-3.html Xmame configuration Xmame looks for the following configuration files and parses each one found. Files parsed later can overwrite

Re: [Xmame] glx

2003-03-31 Thread Scott Patterson
XulChris wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:24 am, Scott Patterson wrote: XulChris wrote: I'm still looking for a lossless version of that Journey song. If anyone here has some Journey CDs please let me know :) Journey is my favorite band! I've got just about all their CDs.

Re: [Fwd: [Xmame] Irix build xmame-0.65.1 aborts : input_ui_postin xinput.c]

2003-05-30 Thread Scott Patterson
Simon Roby wrote: Lawrence Gold wrote: > [Snip] I'd like to just use the MESS CVS as our main repository. One problem I see with this is handling the C++-style comments: People who want to build from the repository but use non-GNU compilers may have to run the fix-comments script. If many peopl

Re: [Xmame] xmame front end

2003-03-28 Thread Scott Patterson
What naming convention do the individual configuration files use? barryc wrote: That argument really doesn't hold up, either. In addition to the "global" xmamerc file(s), you can have separate rc files for each individual game, too. The whole point of a frontend is to make using xmame cleaner an

Re: [Xmame] Quietly awaiting 0.68

2003-05-21 Thread Scott Patterson
Matthias Saou wrote: Lawrence Gold wrote : On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 05:21:27PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: Hi, I've noticed yesterday that "Mighty Pang" was now supported in mame 0.68... so now I just can't wait to see xmame get updated in order to try it out! Laurence, have you had time to hack

Re: [Xmame] How to run xmess?

2003-07-07 Thread Scott Patterson
Nguyen The Toan wrote: On Monday July 7 2003 10:40 am, Lawrence Gold wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:44:57PM -0500, Nguyen The Toan wrote: try ./xmess.x11 nes -cart zelda.zip I get the same error: Unable to initialize machine emulation How about ./xmess.x11 nes -cart ./zelda.zip I would als

Re: [Xmame] How to run xmess?

2003-07-08 Thread Scott Patterson
João Paulo Vasconcellos wrote: I was looking at the output of xmess.x11 -lgl and it is stated there that snes emulation is not working by now. Is that true ? I used the snes driver of MESS from around .62 and beyond and it works very well. I'm sure there are some games that don't work perfect, bu

Re: [Xmame] Recording xmame output

2003-07-10 Thread Scott Patterson
Mike Crawford wrote: Lawrence Gold said: I believe there's a way to capture a screenshot as a PNG, so it'd probably be possible to hack the code to dump a series of PNGs which you could stitch together into an MNG. (I'm assuming such software is available.) I think the series of screenshots wi

Re: [Xmame] Game names for xmess

2003-07-11 Thread Scott Patterson
Sté wrote: It would take you years to read it if you could! Each system that mess emulates can use any rom image that was published for it. So if you wanted to, say, play NES games, you would need NES roms. There are over 800(too lazy to look up the exact #) released in the US. What you need t

Re: [Xmame] Game names for xmess

2003-07-11 Thread Scott Patterson
XulChris wrote: On Friday 11 July 2003 10:37 am, João Paulo Vasconcellos wrote: All right, that may be a very silly question, but I cannot find out the rom names for xmess. Unlike xmame.x11 -listfull, xmess -listfull returns only the emulated systems, and if I issue a xmess snes -listfull, it ret

Re: [Xmame] xmess

2003-07-21 Thread Scott Patterson
Chris Jones wrote: This is the error I get no matter which rom I use: xmess.x11 nes ./GALAGA.NES info: trying to parse: /usr/local/share/xmess/xmessrc info: trying to parse: /home/exspecto/.xmess/xmessrc info: trying to parse: /usr/local/share/xmess/xmess-x11rc info: trying to parse: /home/exspec

[Xmame] OT: Emulator for cabinet

2003-09-11 Thread Scott Patterson
Very soon, I'll be converting a video game cabinet to play MAME. I plan to use Linux as the OS to run MAME on. However, nearly all the research I've done on the internet for a MAME cabinet has returned some type of Windows as the OS. Can anyone point me to some specific Linux/MAME cabinet pages

Re: [Xmame] OT: Emulator for cabinet

2003-09-11 Thread Scott Patterson
David Heremans wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:43:38PM -0400, Scott Patterson wrote: Can anyone point me to some specific Linux/MAME cabinet pages? Or, success stories you've had using Linux/MAME in an arcade cabinet. Look at http://sparhawk.sbc.edu/MAME/ This is the link mentioned i

Re: [Xmame] OT: Emulator for cabinet

2003-09-11 Thread Scott Patterson
playing MAME on an LCD vs CRT? On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Scott Patterson wrote: Very soon, I'll be converting a video game cabinet to play MAME. I plan to use Linux as the OS to run MAME on. However, nearly all the research I've done on the internet for a MAME cabinet