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.

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

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

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.

Updated templates for (SDL)MESS 0.137 have been committed to SVN. Here are the quick links to the updated templates (use save link as in your browser):

• SDLMESS: data/opt/SDLMESS/template.xml
• MESS: data/opt/MESS/template.xml

Replace these files in the QMC2 0.2.b14 source tree and reinstall it, or put them in the paths where they have been installed. The default installation places them below /usr/local/share/qmc2/opt/… on UNIX and Mac OS X. If you installed QMC2 from a binary package instead, the templates will most likely be stored in /usr/share/qmc2/opt/…!

On Windows, just replace these files within the sub-directory structure of QMC2’s installation path (or where it has been extracted). The templates are then stored in the relative path data\opt\…!

See download section for instructions on how to install/update from that repository (see Ubuntu 9.10).

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