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Able to leap tall firewalls in a single bound!

Look!... Up in the sky! shocked


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Faster than this, which is however fast enough!

SDLMAME 0.122u8 is ready for download.

Needless to say: packaging does not magically solve any issues, so if you find your favourite game doesn't work any more, switch back to 0.122u7. As I can't keep it online, be sure to keep your copy safe. wink

Enjoy!
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SDLMAME 0.123 packaged and available at usual place.

Enjoy!
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I'm very glad to announce that SDLMAME has been accepted in Ubuntu. grin

Packages will be available in the multiverse repository component, since MAME licence expressly disallows commercial use whereas universe component policy requires GPL-compliant distribution terms.

First release to be included is 0.123, starting from forthcoming Ubuntu 8.04 (codename Hardy Heron), due for release next April.

Let me finally remind you that universe and multiverse components are official repositories, but they are community-fed and don't get distributed on CD, i.e. you'll have to download SDLMAME from the net.




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Awesome! This is a big step in the right direction - there are still Linux distros that pack in old versions of xmame, so hopefully more people will step up to the plate to get SDLMAME put in in its place.

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sdlmess and sdlmame have been in the freebsd ports for a while already wink

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This is indeed a very good news. I'm not familiar with the way packages are managed in multiverse repository. Can we expect sdlmame package to be updated regularly (at least for each new stable version), or will it be updated only for each new version of ubuntu (that is for 8.04 then 8.10...) ?
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Yippie! Now, we can simply install it with our various and sundry package managers.

I am surprised at how long some titles/projects take to be carried in a linux distro. This one does morph (read improve)pretty regularly though.

Whereas look at a title like Armagetron and Armagetron Advanced. It has so-so popularity, is a really good game (opinion), but I feel that SDLMame would be far more popular, and more in demand. Yet Armagetron is in a lot of ditros! Armagetron did run better from an earlier point in its development, so maybe that is why it ended up in everything sooner than a lot of titles I have seen.

I am glad it (SDLMame)is becoming mainstream linux included. The ROMs should be released by their authors/owners for non-profit use. That is how I feel. Then we could all feel a little better... nahhhh!

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Originally Posted by plusplus
Can we expect sdlmame package to be updated regularly (at least for each new stable version), or will it be updated only for each new version of ubuntu (that is for 8.04 then 8.10...) ?

I still have to figure this out. shocked

As I'm only a contributor I have to upload new releases through what's called "sponsoring" i.e. I submit the patches and a developer picks them and then uploads the new version to the repository.

However, expect updated "unofficial" packages to be released through my site... wink



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Originally Posted by Garoro
I am surprised at how long some titles/projects take to be carried in a linux distro.

It depends on many factors, including popularity but also complexity of packaging.

SDLMAME is easy to build, but it took a lot to "debianize" it, adding manpages, conf files, installation scripts and so on. And I had to learn so maaaany other things to have it done "the right way" cool



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