Armin Schmidhuber has released ZXMameCD 0.74 today!

The changes and updates this time include:

• DBoxfe – Frontend for DOSBox 0.7x
• Bugfix ZXMenu
• MAME/MESS 0.134 (Update)
• QMC 0.2.b12 SVN (Update)
• QMC2 Stylesheets (Update)
• ZXMenu Update (NVidia driver rotate functions + autostart)
• ZXMenu for displays >=600×400/400×600
• SDL Libs 1.2.13 compiled with support for vertical screens
• NVidia settings workaround for TV-out overlay settings (autoload)
• tested with VGA2Scart cable (xorg.conf on zxmamecd.eu)
• tested with NVidia TV-out

Experimental 0.2.b11 RPMs for openSUSE 11.1 are now available in the download section.

Time for another update… QMC2 0.2.b11 has been released today!

The most important new feature this time is the addition of an option to hide the primary game/machine list while it’s (re)loaded, which speeds up processing tremendously (so it’s enabled per default). A few more or less important bug-fixes went in as well. Overall, it’s mostly a maintenance release.

This version is in-sync with SDLMAME/MAME/MAMEUIFX 0.134 and SDLMESS/MESS 0.133 (template updates for 0.134 will be posted here later when required).

See change-log for more information.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

Armin Schmidhuber released ZXMameCD 0.73 yesterday, shortly after 0.72 . The most important changes include DOSBox 0.73, Vice (new), SDLMAME/SDLMESS 0.133, QMC2 0.2.b11 SVN (plus QMC2 style sheets, mameinfo.dat/history.dat and Qt 4.5.2), a new USB installer and a RAINE auto start option.

(SDL)MESS 0.133 has been released last night. Here are the quick links to the updated templates:

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

Either replace these files in the QMC2 0.2.b10 source tree and reinstall it, or put them in the paths where they have been installed (the default installation places them in /usr/local/share/qmc2/opt/… on UNIX and Mac OS X; on Windows, just replace the files in the directory where QMC2 has been installed/extracted).

Experimental 0.2.b10 RPMs for openSUSE 11.1 are now available in the download section.

Today we proudly announce the release of QMC2 0.2.b10. Besides a few bug fixes, the most important changes in this release include the following:

• Built-in support for dynamic loading of Qt style sheets
• Support for PCB images as an additional game/machine detail
• New MAWS quick download feature (supports manual and automatic downloads of images that are usable by QMC2)
• Greatly improved download retry logic & timing
• Enhanced ghost image with rounded corners and a semi-transparent shadow

Emulator-wise, QMC2 0.2.b10’s configuration templates are in sync with SDLMAME/MAME/MAMEUIFX32 0.133 and SDLMESS/MESS 0.132. Template updates for SDLMESS/MESS 0.133 will be posted here as soon as it’s available.

Windows users should note this: case-insensitive obsoleteness checks (image- and sample-checks) are currently/still not working correctly. For now, make sure to use only lower case letters for all PNG files (i. e. galaga.png instead of Galaga.PNG) or ignore the obsoleteness check results on Windows!

See change-log for more information.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

If you’ve not yet recognized the new support for Qt style sheets in 0.2.b10 SVN, take a look at our first style sheet experiments published on the style sheet page. Note that you really need the latest version from SVN if you dare to try them out (also note that there are some QtWebKit related issues with style sheets).

On a second note, Armin has released ZXMameCD 0.71 to fix problems with the Nvidia auto-configuration in 0.70 and to improve the USB installer a bit.

Armin Schmidhuber released ZXMameCD 0.70 today!

ZXMameCD is a multi-emulator Linux live (CD/USB) system using QMC2 as its front end for SDLMAME and SDLMESS. It’s using the latest SVN snapshot of QMC2 to be able to utilize the new style sheets .