We're certainly interested in non-English computers, we've added Chinese-language Apple II clones recently.

If you get the ROMs, you can either tell us here or use the MAME contact form at https://www.mamedev.org/contact.html

I don't know if anyone actively maintains the Z80 TRS-80 drivers right now, I know Robbert does some maintenance on them.

Thanks! I got it to compile and see OpenGL issue was fixed, runs full screen now on my Retina display.

Running bgfx with OpenGL backend still crashes.
zsh: illegal hardware instruction ./mame64 dkong -bgfx_backend opengl

Multiple screen games like Darius are still messed up with bgfx unless using chains.
So I'm glad I can default back to OpenGL now.

holy crap those are beautiful

Never mind I fix the issue. Loaded fine now. I'm using command line instead of ngp.ini.

mame64 ngp -cart "software\ngpc\darkarms.7z"

The thanks go to Jer (the OP) for correctly diagnosing his own problem

Nice!

Is the NAS mounted via NFS or SMB? In my experience, NFS on macOS got flakey somewhere around 10.9 or 10.10 and hasn't improved since. I switched my MacBook to use SMB mounts instead of NFS and it's been totally stable (and gotten faster transfers).

Christ, I'm getting old... The moment I saw the replies I realized I was putting in the wrong source file in the SOURCES env variable. Once again, sorry for spamming the forum with an obvious user error...

MAME top-of-tree has an updated BGFX where the HLSL shader works fine on the Metal backend. This will be in 0.216, of course.

Incidentally, bgfx_backend opengl is failing with any game I try.

illegal hardware instruction ./mame64 dkong -bgfx_backend opengl

Please, upload anyhere the last compiled executable for win10 x64, thank you

Thanks! Given the general quiet on these threads, it wasn't clear to me if anybody out there is using BletchMAME :-)

Did you specify the "Hash" directory in the Paths dialog? I would expect that once you specify that, software lists would show up.

Ideally, BletchMAME would have some quality of life features to prompt the user when one of these views is blank because of paths not being set up, it would prompt the user to set up the Paths (e.g. - "You have not specified any [roms|samples|hash|profiles] paths; click here to do so")

OK, a workaround would be to use the driver in full screen mode (but the aspect ratio of the screens have to match).

There's also many Spectrum +3 disk images that I was sent while making the softlist and which you won't find anywhere else. It should be the most complete set right now and for some time.

If you or anybody else happens to notice any games missing from the softlists and want to have a complete set in just one place, it's actually quite easy to add them.

They can be edited working from here: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/hash
And there's some guidelines, here: https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Submitting_Source_Code

I compiled mame 0.215 from scratch on my old MacBook Pro running High Sierra with SDL 2.0.10. It took hours and with bgfx enabled most games crash (segmentation fault) after the game info screen.

OpenGL works fine probably because it is not a Retina display and software works too as expected.

Thanks for the pointers!

You are right, I previously declared the artwork directory to the giant "EXTRAs" archive only so the local directory was ignored, however as solution I have choosen to copy the few artwork files in mame source distribution to the main directory where all the complete artwork set lives. In this way a single artwork path does the job once for all.
It could also be not a bad idea to include this default artwork set also in the main EXTRAs distribution as zipped archive naming it as "default.zip" for example so a single distribution include everything is needed.

After the correction above the result is perfect, many thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Chess 2001 with all pieces at their place

Thanks to quart de pomme I now have a Silentype 3 manual!!! Yes! I've been looking for this for so long and it answers a lot of questions about it such as how to vary the intensity of the thermal print as well as the meaning and subtleties of the ESC codes.

Gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7RggMs_Ro

Fair enough, in fullscreen mode (1920x1200) vulkan is already almost twice as fast. So it would make sense the difference becomes more dramatic at 4K. Thanks for clarifying!

Great release! Thanks

Nevermind... I figured it out

I will say that I started using Clang on Visual Studio for MAME and have not looked back.

Its not just that you're not dealing with the VC specific compilation bugs, but that unoptimized (i.e. - debugging) code is several times faster. Not sure what is happening, but it makes for a much more satisfactory debugging experience.

And now we should be feature complete:

https://www.bannister.org/ao-21b7.zip

Release next weekend if no calamities are discovered.

There's a driver disk for the Muppet Keys for at least the atari that will allow you to use it as a regular keyboard which was a neat concept.

(pictures from atariage)




and a post I found that was interesting: