Is anyone backporting driver changes to MAME 106?

[krick]

I'm currently running MAME 106 on my MAME cabinet and I'm fairly pleased with my current setup.

I'm impressed with the recent updates to MAME as far as new playable games go, but I'm not thrilled about all the architectural changes under the hood and the resulting performance problems people are experiencing.

I'm also not interested in the whole new artwork system since most of it is useless on an arcade cabinet with a standard res arcade monitor.

Is there anyone out there that is actively backporting the latest MAME driver updates to the 106 core?

[SGT]

You'd better don your asbestos britches. 

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64882.0

[krick]

Nah, I think I'm ok.

My hardware is plenty fast enough to run the latest MAME.
My MAME cab is a Pentium M overclocked to 2.7GHz with 1GB of memory.

I did a bunch of benchmarking and my setup beats a 2.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 in almost every game.

My problem with the latest versions of MAME is that there are far too many core changes happening and it's just not stable yet.  Combine that with all the changes for the hi-res artwork support, and the recent video and sound changes, and the change that broke triple buffering, and you see where I'm going with this.

I have no doubt that eventually it will all settle down, but I want the new games on my cab now and I don't have any major complaints about MAME 106 so I was hoping someone out there had used that as a base and backported the updated drivers and CPU cores from newer MAME versions.