On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:17:00PM +0200, Laurent Desnogues wrote: > Well, honestly I am all for dropping XMAME in favour of SDLMAME. > Now I have said officially what I used to say privately.
There is a large gap between the aims of xmame and sdlmame. XMame tries to be the best port of the emulator for X systems, while sdlmame doesn't care about that. SDLMame is designed to be a port for linux/x86 (and macosx as long as RB wants to) which stays as close to the windows osd as possible to ensure that keeping up with the versions is reasonably easy. That's probably why RB refused the effects patches for instance. Can a port be good for X systems while staying close to the windows one? I kinda doubt it. But you guys are welcome to try. Maybe Hans' way of keeping a delta over the close-tracking sdlmame version is workable in the long term. That's pretty much what the FX guys seem to do after all. But managing the delta so that it stays at a reasonable size will probably prove interesting ;-) OG. _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [email protected] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
