sdlmame (was: Re: xmame status?)

Andre Robatino wrote :

>   I installed and tried to run sdlmame.  It almost immediately exited 
> due to it expecting to find roms and other files in a different, 
> version-specific location (/usr/share/doc/sdlmame-0.109/dirs, 
> apparently).  My mouse froze, though I was able to use the keyboard to 
> log out and back in, at which point it worked again.  It would be better 
> to use a version-independent directory.  Also, is there going to be an 
> sdlmess to replace xmess?

The "/usr/share/doc/sdlmame-0.109/dirs/" directory is included as a
skeleton only. I don't see how the sdlmame binary could know anything
about that absolute path... are you sure it was looking for roms in
there!? By default I think it looks for $PWD/roms/.

And yes, sdlmame is a bit more rough around the edges than xmame was. It
definitely need a frontend to become anything close to user friendly,
but unfortunately there aren't any (yet, AFAIK). A quick frontend in
pygtk to set the basic paths and options should be trivial...
anyone? :-)

Quick start :
cp -a /usr/share/doc/sdlmame-0.109/dirs/ ~/sdlmame/
cd ~/sdlmame/
sdlmame -createconfig
vi sdlmame.ini
(and edit paths)

Maybe the sdlmame.ini is looked for by default in ~/.mame/ but I didn't
try it.

Matthias

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