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Has anyone compiled 7zip capabilities into sdlmame yet? If not, I might take a crack at it....

We don't need your damn 7zip and its MFC crud. If you want 7zip, I suggest you make your own emulator, with blackjack and hookers.

The kick in the left nut for OS X SDLMAME users is that you can't compile a 64-bit binary because there is no 64-bit SDL library. The kick in the right nut is that multithreading isn't working and so you can't offload the final blit to the video card like you can on Windows. Well actually it works, it just keeps spitting out 'just leaking' errors in the logs.

Try both of these and see which one is fastest. Should be just a couple FPS though, if any.

make -j3 TARGETOS=macosx ARCHOPTS=-march=nocona
make -j3 TARGETOS=macosx ARCHOPTS="-march=pentium-m -msse3"

I saw a discussion somewhere about using the nocona switch on Core-architecture CPUs, some guy was arguing for it but that's all I remember.

It's a bad idea to use nocona for core series. It enables some features, but completely screws up the pipeline scheduling. OSX enables SSE2 by default, anyway.

This is only for 10.6, though. On 10.5 things are still ok.

Btw, I simply added a -m32 to the LDFLAGS and that did the trick for me on 10.6.

Vas: the ANSI C implementation in the LZMA SDK works without MFC emulation, but it also can't open all .7z files *facepalm*. Regardless, the code is generally a bit awful and disk space is extremely cheap so we see no need for 7zip support.

Thanks for the explanation Richard

I'm slowly getting my MAME test environment set back up. Did the format for artwork change at some point? My custom overlays don't seem to work anymore either....

What with MAME changes, redumps, format changes, SDL changes and OS changes, this isn't really the same MAME we had in 2004....

Yes, artwork is composited by the graphics card now, generally from scans of 3000 DPI or better (so e.g. Space Invaders full-screen on a modern flat panel looks *really* nice). That of course required a new format.

ETA: I should point out that the new artwork comes officially from Mr. Do's page. You can also get replacement fonts there for MAME's on-screen display to customize it however you'd like.

Hi, is a 64-bit build of SDLMAME for OS X still a no go?

It works to some extent, but it's unsupported, so if it breaks, you get to fix it yourself.