Hey the thing this stop lately, you're up to? have something new to say?
Thank.
I've been exploring/working on creating a mame build that has switchres built into it, also haven't felt great today too so that's been a slow down :/. I've got a Linux version of mame, patches, that no longer need switchres and it's built in. Also today have been pushing the Windows side of things into mame so it can alter the modelines from mame itself. Also exploring Powerstrip to use that when it's not a Radeon, that's a bit further away. Hopefully in a few days I might have patches which make mame fully do the switchres stuff, in Windows and Linux, without an external program.
These are the Linux patches, the build there doesn't do anything and is a Windows test so ignore that unless just wanting to see modeline generation work in Windows without it changing anything.
The Windows part of this has been quite crazy, I've been converting the registry editing code to actually compile in mingw for mame, no more cygwin kludges. I'm close I think, although having some issues getting the modes and details out of the registry, a lot of big TCHAR conversion needed from the char* stuff I was using in cygwin.
This new version of mame has new options, in Linux these patches should make it work just the same as switchres, few things different and not as complex in the advanced options but it's all there mostly...
New Options:
# CORE SwitchRes OPTIONS
#
-modeline Generate modelines for arcade monitors
-monitor Monitor type (cga|generic|h9110|vga|d9200|d9800|ntsc|pal)
-monitor_connector Video card output (VGA-0|VGA-1|DVI-0|DVI-1)
-monitor_orientation Monitor orientation (horizontal|vertical|rotate)
-monitor_aspect Monitor aspect (4:3|3:3|3:4|16:9)
-monitor_debug Monitor debugging
http://mario.groovy.org/GroovyMame/ (Warning: patches aren't even alpha quality on Windows yet, probably will crash when reading the registry values, Linux should work fine :-) report bugs )
That's mostly what I've been up to, and excited about getting the wii remote working eventually, but right now focusing on the mame switchres patching and waiting for the next version of Mame most likely before another ISO with the couple fixes from the last week I've done.