MAME 0.98 out

[Random24]

Kind of interesting.

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0.98
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Source Changes
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Nothing significant to report.

[pointdablame]

lol... um.... so why the update at all then??

[Lilwolf]

I think they wanted the last release to be a main one.  Since there where so many changes.

It also mean that they are about to makes some major changes to the core... and they thought this might be the last 'stable' version for a bit

[Tiger-Heli]

Yup - http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=40074&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

[ddockery]

In general, when bumping from a "u" release to a main release, they don't change much if anything.  The big releases are supposed to be more stable, so the u release is out for a while and if there are no big bugs they promote it to a main release.  Lots of people skip the u releases because of this.

[Tiger-Heli]

In general, when bumping from a "u" release to a main release, they don't change much if anything.  The big releases are supposed to be more stable, so the u release is out for a while and if there are no big bugs they promote it to a main release.  Lots of people skip the u releases because of this.

Nope - It's supposed to work like that, but actually it usually goes the other way -

They do a big realease, people report bugs in it, they fix them in a u release, then they start on u releases that actually introduce new changes.

Actually, I find it ironic that they used to do a Beta version, then a realeased candidate, then a major release, but the major release always had some bugs, so they said "Heck with this, MAME is always "beta" and quit doing main releases, but now the U releases are basically the same as the old Beta releases.

BTW, people used to skip the U releases b/c they used to release them officially only in source code and you had to compile your own.

[u_rebelscum]

In general, when bumping from a "u" release to a main release, they don't change much if anything.  The big releases are supposed to be more stable, so the u release is out for a while and if there are no big bugs they promote it to a main release.  Lots of people skip the u releases because of this.

Nope - It's supposed to work like that, but actually it usually goes the other way -

They do a big realease, people report bugs in it, they fix them in a u release, then they start on u releases that actually introduce new changes.

"They", "they", who is this "they" that does the u releases?  It's one person; used to be Haze, now it's Aaron (Nicola did not do u releases).  One person determines what and when and how versions are released. 

Haze did it like you describe, Aaron basically has used the last u release without changes as the next official release.

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BTW, people used to skip the U releases b/c they used to release them officially only in source code and you had to compile your own.

It's still officially released that way.  However now the other, non-official mame sites release u binaries.  There still is no "official" mame binary u release.  nit-pick [shrug]

[mahuti]

You forgot to close your shrug tag.... now we're all shrugging.

Oh, what the heck, I'll fix it for you [/shrug]

[nickbuol]

So what new ROMs are supported in 0.98 since 0.97?

[nickbuol]

Nevermind...  Found it... 

http://mamedev.com/releases/whatsnew_098.txt

[SirPoonga]

So what new ROMs are supported in 0.98 since 0.97?

You can always take two versions of mame and run them through mamediff to find differences.