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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.

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.

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