Looks like massive changes to the MAME video core and its OSD interface are
in progress:
http://aarongiles.com/?p=160
As Arbee suggests in the comment thread, it might be a good idea for
Lawrence or Hans to give Aaron a friendly hand and make sure that the new
video system doesn't "accidentally" end up including more Windows-centric
assumptions than necessary. Aaron's a great programmer and I don't mean to
ascribe any sinister motives to him given that he works for MS, but he
hasn't programmed for anything but Win32 in many years, and if I'm not
mistaken he has no UNIX experience whatsoever (he used to be a Mac dev but
that was long before OS X). And the last time he implemented a change of
this magnitude was when he introduced the new debugger, which /still/
doesn't work on any non-Win32 version of MAME/MESS.
--AWJ--
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