The first official installer package for Mac OS X is now available in the download section.

Binary packages of QMC2 0.2.b16 for openSUSE 11.2, openSUSE 11.3 and Win32 are now available from the download section.

QMC2 0.2.b16 has been released today!

The most important changes this time include:

• Enhanced emulator configuration template format to allow for OS-specific handling of certain options and attributes
• The ini-importer now cleanly handles white space in string values
• The built-in MP3 player received another set of improvements and fixes
• Generally, QMC2 now better supports Qt 4.6 environments
• Major efforts have been made to cleanly support Mac OS X (however, there’s a Qt/Phonon bug on that platform which causes a crash on exit)

The emulator configuration templates are in sync with MAME 0.139 and MESS 0.138 (if required, template updates for MESS 0.139 will follow when it’s released).

See the change-log for more information.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

FYI… recent SVN revisions now contain much cleaner support for Mac OS X!

I recently got the opportunity to setup a Snow Leopard system for development which enabled me to fix all major / obvious pitfalls, mostly related to the build system. There’s at least one annoying Phonon-related issue left which causes a crash on exit (only for builds using PHONON=1, of course), but it can safely be ignored. Also, as it appears to be a Phonon bug, it may only be fixable by the (former) Trolls… to be honest, I’m not exactly sure about this…anyway, other than that, it just works (TM) .

Quick build instructions are here.

Marcelo updated his QMC2 package to 0.2.b15!

See download section for instructions on how to install/update from that repository (see Ubuntu).

Binary packages of QMC2 0.2.b15 for openSUSE 11.2 and Win32 are now available from the download section.

QMC2 0.2.b15 has been released today!

Besides a few bug-fixes, this version includes the following new features:

• Added optional support for catver.ini from http://www.progettoemma.net/?catlist to all MAME targets — this includes two new optional/on-demand columns and views (category, version)
• Added a new ROM types column to all game/machine lists
• The exit/stop button now blinks when there’s background activity to indicate the activity itself as well as the button’s seconds function
• A new option (PlayOnSublistActivation) has been added to allow for direct launching of a game/machine when it’s activated in the search-, favorites- or played-lists
• The MP3 player now also handles MP3 streams (just add a valid stream URL instead of a local file name)

The emulator configuration templates are in sync with MAME 0.138 and MESS 0.137 (we don’t expect template updates for MESS 0.138 to be required when it’s released).

See the change-log for more information.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

Armin Schmidhuber has released ZXMameCD 0.80!

The changes and updates this time include:

• based on Slackware 13/Salix
• new Qt 4.5.x ZXMameCD menu
• root password needed for installer
• new autostart menu
• Qt 4.5.3 update
• new NVidia driver
• new HD-installer
• USB-installer bugfix
• QMC2 0.2.b14 and new style sheets included
• two new emulators for Playstation (pcsxr) and Amiga (e-uae)
• emulator updates for MAME, MESS, RAINE and DOSBox
• installer for many multimedia codecs
• Audacious and MPlayer for multimedia
• Samba (networks) + Cups (printer)
• printing system settings
• GParted – partition editor
• Catfish – file finder
• Transmission 1.76 – BitTorrent client
• ePDF-viewer

There are also MPG videos of the ZX boot process and the ZX menu in action.