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MAMEUI64 0.272.0 has been released. Available at https://messui.1emulation.com The only major change is the ability to get proper crash dumps in case something goes wrong. Most people can ignore this, but if you think you can help with tracking down problems you must start MAMEUI with a redirection parameter. For example: >mameui > crash.txt Various internal things will be written to crash.txt which can be ignored, but should a crash occur, the dump will go into crash.txt as well. The dump uses the new file mameui.sym which has been included in the download package. When a crash occurs, MAMEUI will appear to freeze for about 60 seconds, before exiting. No need to panic. If the freeze goes on for too long then you can terminate the process.

D : I remember now, it's just that the key sequence you type is the sequence which is searched, so if you type twice D, it means you are looking for DD, which can be dangerous in case you have a game whose label contains DD, like top hunter, the neogeo game... ! If you are not sure, it's better to enable the "return mandatory" option. I didn't do that to be standard, just to find a way to be as fast as possible with the keyboard, it works well. And for the mame update : it's a never ending headache, I stopped following their nonsense years ago, all this should have been done differently normally (preserving the old rom sets and just adding the new ones with an increasing number when they are found), it would preserve compatibility with all versions, and usually the most recent version hasn't got very important changes. So well I accept patches to update the romset if you feel like it, if not, you'll have to be patient because I really hate doing this stuff !

1 - I was tempted to say it's not really a bug, it's super minor and you are the only one using this at least from what's reported on the forum, but the fix is trivial, just reset exit_options when opening the game options, so I did it. 2 - gui options / return mandatory C - yeah if it can't find the key you just pressed in the following games in the list, then is starts to look for it anywhere in the game title, that's for when you don't remember the whole title ! This thing is made to be used very fast, and I can confirm it does its job well ! D - not sure, well just press return in this case, I won't bother to look why it didn't select it as it should have done in this particular case.

HBMAME and HBMAMEUI 0.245.21 32bit avaliable (Xp compatible). Download from: RETRODANUART MAME XP

No problem, it's very easy to reproduce. It comes from the very special nature of the console, contrary to other dialogs in the interface, it always exists, but since the interface has a parent system to be able to draw the background, it can create problems when the parent of the console disappears. Here because of the error, it takes one of the temporary messageboxes as parent and so the 1st time you try to display it, it just crashes because the parent has disappeared ! Yeah it's normal, this part of the gui is a hack, because I wanted the console to always exist, which is not the normal way of working for this gui. So there is a workaround, not too complex, maintain a list of active dialogs to be able to check if the parent is still active when drawing a dialog. If it's not, just remove the parent that's all. So patch very short and efficient. Pushed to git.

xp last update was in 2010 or 2011, so it doesn't make much sense to loose too much time on it. I would have kept compatibility but virtualbox removed direct3d support for xp in 6.1 because of a big security hole in their driver, I would have preferred that they would simply add a big red button to click to allow users to install this despite the security hole, but they just removed direct3d support, so it's impossible for me to run any version of raine in xp in virtualbox now, so too many people want xp to disappear. On my end I quite liked some custom xp editions like tinyxp : small, fast and efficient, but oh well, I guess it's too outdated now. And it's not hardware obsolescence, you still do what you want with your hardware, you can install something else on it, it's software obsolescence only here. And the next victim will be win7, but maybe I won't have to deal with that... !

Well you can always test the last sdl1 version to check, sdl2 started in 0.92, so the last sdl1 must be in 0.91.15. Also if you saw the post in the other thread, we became xp incompatible with 0.97.2, so it's probably because of the new function to detect the soundcard. It doesn't really matter anyway, xp is ancient now, and you are bound to hit an incompatibility like that if you keep adding new functions. Also something you probably didn't think about, but if you set Autodetect as default, then you will never see which card is selected, it probably doesn't matter much anyway as long as it can be heard, but if you want to have the detect and store result as before, the only way is not to have this autodetect as default. (or modify the interface to show which card was detected when Autodetect is selected, but I prefer to keep things as simple as possible). And for the unexpected return of the black border : I had actually tested this in windows, but apparently this function doesn't return the same thing when you call it in windowed mode and fullscreen ! So it got me, because I didn't think about saving the config and run again. And it doesn't make much sense, it's supposed to be state-less normally... ! Anyway !

1) autodetect as default : we used the other way for years and you are the 1st to have a problem with that, I think we can keep the old default for now, I prefer to see precisely my soundcard name when I go to options. 2) your haunting black border : well not for me in linux. Maybe it's windows only... I am terribly tempted to simply stop to support windows, what a marvelous idea it would be ! I might try that in windows later, but for now in linux : 1) removed my config file, started raine, went to fullscreen loaded dino, took a screenshot of the title screen, then quit 2) run raine again in the same config, loaded dino, took the same screenshot, got exactly the same picture, end of the test for now. ... and same result in windows, same picture in both case (compared the files they are identical). got it, I hadn't the latest binary in windows, it's still the same old problem because I changed the way to get the screen coordinates, in windows we get the height of an invisible windows title bar added, not in linux. 1 line fix, a function name instead of another, but it's really annoying. At least the site is fixed, back with some disk space, you can get the ultimate test binary there : https://raine.1emulation.com/archive/tux/raine.7z

It's a miracle we can still post to the forum with a full disk, maybe the database uses another disk ? Anyway here is a mega.nz link for now : https://mega.nz/file/OYVAXI4b#uMADM9P6tyzFjRN3kUj90s1spQKI-B188WSJmvIBYDE

Oh, ok I surrender, I added an Autodetect choice for the soundcard in the gui, and I fixed the detection of the sample rate which was linked to the sound driver instead of the soundcard... ! You won't have a test binary for now because after the forum, it seems the ftp is broken for now, I can't send raine.7z ! (deleted the file to avoid any mistake). It's still a rare case in my opinion, but it's quite interesting to see how it can be done without having something too big. Since I had to fix the sample rate detection too it's a little longer than what I anticipated but it's still ok, and maybe someone else would use that ! Notice that the behavior is the same as before : if you don't choose "Autodetect" explicitely and you have no config file, then it will detect the soundcard only once, there's no reason to detect it all the time except on a crazy laptop changing its output device all the time ! Difference from before : now if you change the soundcard in sound options and the sound card driver has a preferred sample rate, you'll see this sample rate selected in the options in real time. Not all drivers have a preferred sample rate, if there is none the frequency is not changed. By the way the error on the server is because of a full disk !

Centering the window : of course raine keeps as many coordinates as it can, it's since we added all these windows statuses which created so many problems ! So it knows where to position precisely a window when exiting from fullscreen to return to its previous state, but if the physical screen changed and now the resolution is not the same anymore, then it will mess things up. There's not much which can be done about it, it's obliged to reduce the size to stay in the screen, but then should the position be changed too and how ? For now it isn't touched, it's the safest way, it would really become crazy to try to adjust position when the size has changed too. The black screen in windowed mode : yeah my fault, I didn't get the right values for the desktop resolution, now I ask the desktop resolution for display 0, hoping we will never handle more than 1 physical display because I don't plan to use more than 1 here. autodetect sound all the time : yeah but it would force to have a special value which says "detect the soundcard but don't store the result, just stay in autodetect", so it's a little tricky, and not necessary in most setups, your setup when plugging a new dispaly changes the soundcard priority is quite original. And always detecting the soundcard is not a good idea neither in the case where you run without a desktop, which I do on the mini computer, it has a bare environment, no desktop, and in this case it can get some rather crazy value for the detected soundcard. Now I admit that if I was to use regularly raine on that machine, I would put a window manager, at least for fullscreen, here it's bothersome... ! Anyway since it takes you only a few seconds to adjust manually, it's the easiest solution for now.

Nope, sound_card becomes a string value in the config file for sdl versions from now on, the old config file is converted on the fly so you don't have to edit it manually. Actually sdl2 accepts only a soundcard name when opening a soundcard, not an id, so it's easier this way. While testing I stumbled upon the case where you get a strange soundcard name with trailing spaces, in this case the trailing spaces are removed when reading from the config file which added another case to fix... ! Anyway it should work in all cases now, hopefully ! Test your thing... same link.

For the smaller screen : yeah it can be done, I thought about it after posting this binary, easily done. For replacing 1 soundcard by another one : not convenient for now, it obliges to change a number by a string as a setting, and for now I prefer to avoid it, so I think it's going to be my limit, you'll have to live with it ! edit : actually it might be possible to do something for the soundcard too, it's not convenient because it breaks compatibility with the dos version, but it shouldn't be too complex to do, I might have a closer look later.