Binary packages of QMC2 0.2.b14 for openSUSE 11.2 and Win32 are now available from the download section.

Today we proudly announce the release of QMC2 0.2.b14!

This version includes quite a number of interesting improvements, some new features and a set of important bug fixes. Users of older versions will most likely notice the drastically improved startup performance (about 50% of what it took before).

The most important changes since 0.2.b13 include:

• Nice performance improvements for ROM state filtering and loading of all cached data
• The ROMAlyzer now has built-in support for chdman which can be used to deeply verify, automatically fix and/or update CHDs
• New context menus for the main-widget’s horizontal and vertical splitters to allow for orientation flipping and swapping of their sub-widgets/sub-layouts — this enables the user to freely layout all major widgets!
• X11-only: the embedder now includes a toggle switch to maximize the emulator window
• MAME targets only: added a demo mode to run random games from the overall list

This version is in sync with SDLMAME/MAME/MAMEUIFX 0.137 and SDLMESS/MESS 0.136 (as always, template updates for (SDL)MESS 0.137 will be posted here later when required).

See the change-log for more information.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

Note that there’s a new (fairly slim) style sheet called qmc2-machinery:

Marcelo Bossoni was so kind to set up a launchpad PPA for QMC2. This means that we can now provide Ubuntu packages for the QMC2 project!

PPA page URL: https://launchpad.net/~mmbossoni-gmail/+archive/emu

The download section contains instructions on how to install from that repository (see Ubuntu 9.10).

Official 0.2.b13 RPMs for openSUSE 11.2 and binary packages for Win32 are now available in the download section.

Happy new year everybody!

Today we proudly announce the release of QMC2 0.2.b13. This version incorporates a number of interesting new features as well as a major overhaul of great parts of the code to get rid of some long-standing bugs and restrictions.

The most important changes since 0.2.b12 include:

• Emulator configuration widgets now use check-boxes (instead of the former combo-boxes) for all boolean settings — thanks to Bill Blake for the suggestion
• During a session, the item expansion state and scroll bar values of game- or machine-specific emulator configurators are preserved
• Except for icons in menus, all static icons are now adjusted to the size of the current application font (even icons on the tool bar)
• You can now specify a separate font for all log browsers (mono-spaced fonts are recommended)
• X11 & SDLMAME/SDLMESS only: optional / on-demand embedding of emulator windows through XEmbed (includes related features such as an easy snapshot tool — additional features are planned or under consideration)
• Support for additional (foreign) emulators which can be used on a per-game/per-machine basis (among others, this includes support for XMAME/XMESS for those who may still care )
• New Portuguese translation — thanks to Marcelo Bossoni
• Quite a number of important bug-fixes, work-arounds and further improvements

This version is in sync with SDLMAME/MAME/MAMEUIFX 0.136 and SDLMESS/MESS 0.135 (as always, template updates for (SDL)MESS 0.136 will be posted here later when required).

See the change-log for more information.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

Regarding QMC2… we’re already prepared for the release of the next version. As soon as SDLMAME 0.136 is available, QMC2 0.2.b13 will be released! Stay tuned… and merry X-mas!

Official 0.2.b12 RPMs for openSUSE 11.2 are now available in the download section.

Just checked to see that there are no template updates required this time to fully support the great new version 0.135 of (SDL)MESS! QMC2 0.2.b12 supports it out-of-the-box. So if the template version that comes with 0.2.b12 doesn’t bother you, there’s really no need to update the template(s) from SVN .