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Title: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: wIrEs on October 17, 2007, 01:01:07 am
anyone using MAMED front end ?
Title: Re: mamed front end
Post by: Green Giant on October 17, 2007, 10:35:24 am
anyone using MAMED front end ?

You are gonna need to be a little more specific.  First of all, you are not talking about a front end but a mame port, a modified version of mame designed to fit the users need such as running on an xbox or a dreamcast.

As far as I can tell, you are refering to the dreamcast version of mame.  There are going to be very few people on here that use this as most everyone uses a computer to run mame in a cabinet.  Most people hacking up dreamcast use it to run actual dreamcast games such as some good fighters, but they might use mamed as well.
Title: Re: mamed front end
Post by: youki on October 17, 2007, 10:44:10 am
I have used MameD on my Dreamcast (wonderfull console!) few time ago.d

But i don't think i can really help , i received a bunch of cd ready to run and i just played.

Title: Re: mamed front end
Post by: wIrEs on October 17, 2007, 12:26:47 pm
sorry, MAMED is a mame front end for cabs
http://www.xs4all.nl/~phulshof/mame.html

screenshot:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~phulshof/pictures/mamed.jpg

i am currently running it on this computer and it works, i just wonder if it's still supported by the creator.
Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: Cakemeister on October 17, 2007, 02:14:48 pm
The application hasn't been updated in three years.

The source is included, however, maybe I can get it to compile on Windows, as an exercise. I'd like to see if the author's way of rendering text is signficantly faster than mine.

Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: wIrEs on October 17, 2007, 02:35:10 pm
i found a similar front end called Wah!Cade i guess you guys already know about it but it's new to me, i've installed it but when i try to setup filters and stays there for a very long time.. should i leave it for an hour ?

when i try to run wahcade -w i get this error anyway:

Quote
Please Wait. Creating initial filter...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wahcade.py", line 67, in <module>
    app = WinMain(options)
  File "/usr/local/share/wahcade/win_main.py", line 267, in __init__
    self.load_emulator()
  File "/usr/local/share/wahcade/win_main.py", line 796, in load_emulator
    self.load_list()
  File "/usr/local/share/wahcade/win_main.py", line 845, in load_list
    self.pop_games_list()
  File "/usr/local/share/wahcade/win_main.py", line 1045, in pop_games_list
    self.emu_ini)
  File "/usr/local/share/wahcade/filters.py", line 332, in create_initial_filter
    gd = mi.next()
  File "/usr/local/share/wahcade/filters.py", line 179, in get_xml_game_item
    for event, mame_element in ET.iterparse(xml_filename, events=("start", "end")):
  File "<string>", line 64, in __iter__
SyntaxError: syntax error: line 1, column 0
Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: Green Giant on October 17, 2007, 05:38:29 pm
Is there something wrong with Mala or AtomicFE.

Are you really old and afraid of change cause those two are constantly updated and have more features than anything else.
Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: wIrEs on October 17, 2007, 08:44:39 pm
i am looking for a Linux Front End for XMAME.

Those you specified look good but are for windows.
Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: headkaze on October 18, 2007, 02:53:41 am
i am looking for a Linux Front End for XMAME.

Those you specified look good but are for windows.

I thought your avatar of tux wielding a machine gun gave that away  :laugh:
Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: TOK on October 18, 2007, 07:28:27 am
i am looking for a Linux Front End for XMAME.

Those you specified look good but are for windows.

There is a Linux forum here.
Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: Cakemeister on October 18, 2007, 09:37:50 am
Using the font rendering code from this front end, I was able to speed up font rendering in my Khameleon front end.

Thanks, Pieter!

War open source!


Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: phulshof on March 08, 2013, 02:56:10 pm
Speaking of resurrection: I finally got plans for a new arcade, so I updated the code to work with the latest version of SDLMAME and g++. You can find the code at http://phulshof.home.xs4all.nl/mame.html (http://phulshof.home.xs4all.nl/mame.html), and feel free to email me with any questions you may have. I intend to do a partial rewrite soon to allow for more skin-ability.
Title: Re: MAMED front end for cabs
Post by: Gray_Area on March 12, 2013, 07:58:50 pm
Speaking of resurrection: I finally got plans for a new arcade, so I updated the code to work with the latest version of SDLMAME and g++. You can find the code at http://phulshof.home.xs4all.nl/mame.html, (http://phulshof.home.xs4all.nl/mame.html,) and feel free to email me with any questions you may have. I intend to do a partial rewrite soon to allow for more skin-ability.

The comma got included in the link.