Posted by Ohso on 25, 2001 at 9:41 PM:
In Reply to: bye bye DOS Mame ? posted by Elvis_P on 25, 2001 at 11:53 AM:
While DOS MAME will be around awhile longer, this is good news for me. Since I run Win2k, I can now look forward to faster releases and better performance than MAME32 has. I always wished someone would do a pure windows console CLI for MAME, and now it's been done. I also knew that on a half decent machine, a true windows console version of MAME would leave the DOS version in the dust...which according to A. Giles, it does. Cool. =D
: I'm sure by now everybody will have read this on retrogames but i thought i'd mention it anyway.
: Quote from retrogames:
: DOS MAME Going Away? - I have just learned that Nicola will now be using the new Win32 port (as mentioned on MAME WIP) for official MAME development. According to Nicola, this will become his development environment starting with the next Mame beta (e.g. the DOS port will be included but only given minor testing). Also, not mentioned on the WIP page, but Bernd Wiebelt ported the command line interface code from x-mame to the new MAME32, and it sounds like some of this code will move into the core. This will allow a more common CLI among the various MAME ports. As a front-end author this is a greatly welcomed improvement, many thanks to Bernd for doing this! - chris