The gears of war are turning indeed. GameDaily BIZ has just been notified by Epic Games' Vice President Mark Rein, that independent developer Silicon Knights is suing the company over unspecified allegations.

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20-JUL-2007 - QMC2 0.1.b10 released

This is release 0.1.b10 of QMC2, which we proudly present to the public!

 

Included in this release there are many new features such as image- and sample-checkers, individual ROM checks, more sort criteria (year + manufacturer) and game icon support. Also, there have been some major improvements to the build system to allow for distribution-dependent configuration and to make it easier to use Qt libraries supplied by distributions.

 

QMC2 0.1.b10 now also supports Qt 4.3! However, please note that with Qt 4.3 it takes a few seconds for QMC2 to exit. Be patient, it WILL exit gracefully, and therefor we don't see it as a real bug. Nevertheless we will try to "fix" it as soon as we find a clue to what could cause this ...

 

CHANGES - v0.1.b10, 20-JUL-2007

fix: general bug fixes

imp: improved functionality

new: newly added functionality

doc: documentation changes

inf: informational only

 

v0.1.b10, 20-JUL-2007:

 

fix: raise visible widgets when starting up

fix: reselect current item after applying ROM state filter

fix: fixed a serious bug in MAME options handling which showed up for Qt 4.3.0

fix: corrected online flyer directory/file switching (didn't open/close ZIP if changed)

fix: earlier restoration of gamelist view to avoid flicker when starting up

fix: use showNormal() if options widget is requested but currently minimized

fix: build: corrected snapshot creation (same timestamp for tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives)

fix: avoid processing of subsequent QCloseEvent's for main widget

fix: auto-adjust size of welcome widget

fix: requests for a context menu on an empty part of the gamelist or parent/clone view resulted in a segmentation fault

imp: color enhancement for "mostly correct"-indicator (sphere image)

imp: build: make option SDLMAME=(0|1) replaced with MAME=(SDLMAME|XMAME)

imp: code cleanup in many places

imp: better GUI responsiveness when determining the total number of supported games (early phase of gamelist reload)

imp: some GUI icons replaced, actions in toolbar reorderd, tool-tips corrected

imp: build: new OS detection mechanism for distribution-specific configuration, see new make options DISTCFG, OSCFG and arch/os-detect.sh

imp: build: added new make targets os-detect, help and config

imp: build: changed name of make option TIMECMD to TIME

imp: SDLMAME options-template updated to 0.117 (several new settings, some removed)

imp: header texts of gamelist and parent/clone view now left-aligned

imp: build: cleaner make output

imp: application-wide shortcuts

imp: better calculation of icon sizes

imp: major layout improvements for options-widget

new: Qt 4.3 support

new: support for PNG game icons (stored in a ZIP archive or a single directory)

new: added menu items for flyer and icon check

new: sort by year or manufacturer, additional columns for gamelist and parent/clone view

new: options: IconDirectory, IconFile, UseIconFile, GamelistColumnWidths, HierarchyColumnWidths, Toolbar and new settings for check dialogs

new: restore column widths of gamelist and parent/clone view

new: image check dialog (includes preview-, flyer- and icon-checks)

new: sample check dialog

new: individual ROM state check added

doc: added section about action shortcuts to readme.html

doc: added several FAQs

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Rom Manager

3.102c

 

* added: support for upcoming new biosset detection

* misc: workaround for MAME .117u1 biosset issue

>> Get it HERE.

Commodore 64 emulator

Changes:

0.9.3 (based on rev. 16)

 

- fixed problem that wrong colors were displayed if the VIC was in ECM or standard bitmap mode

- be more lenient towards .t64 images where a file end address is incorrect.

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