> > > > I know about this but I am not sure if it is in .dmg or like a command prompt > nor > > > > terminal: > > > > > > > > http://sdlmame.lngn.net/ > > > > > > > > However, I am looking for the latest version that is available in .dmg or gui > > like > > > > MameUI, is there ? > > > > > > Use SDLMAME from http://sdlmame.lngn.net/ and combine it with a frontend like > QMC2: > > > http://qmc2.arcadehits.net/wordpress/ > > > > > > - Stiletto > > > > That's it! I thank you for it. This is the only one ? I want to compare to another > > one unless it is the only one. I am curious. > > There's several Mac frontends, but you must always use something like SDLMAME with > it. > > One nearly _exactly_ like MAMEUI is one called M+GUI, formerly called MAME Plus GUI. > Despite the name it is a standalone frontend, not like MAMEUI with MAME built in, so > you still need to use something like SDLMAME (which is just standard MAME compiled > for Mac, so you could compile it youself from mamedev.org if you wanted?) or maybe > there is also MAMEPlus for Mac? > > Anyways it is hard to recommend a download place for M+GUI for Mac, because the > official download site (sf.net/projects/mameplus) only offers Windows. Either compile > M+GUI yourself from > http://mameplus.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mameplus/trunk/mamepgui/?view=tar, or you > could try this dmg: http://emulationrealm.net/downloads/file/1350-m-gui-mac > > Also in comparison to QMC2, I think it is not as updated and new MAME features on the > commandline may not have been added to the UI in M+GUI. It also might be a little > unstable. But it is almost exactly like MAMEUI but with MAME not built-in. > > For a built-in frontend you would have to go back to a several-years-old version of > MAME, such as MAME OSX based on MAME 0.136 or MacMAME for PPC, and you'd be missing > out on all the updates over the last many years - so don't do that. Or OpenEmu as you > say, but I don't recommend it unless you really like it. > > Other Mac MAME frontends (that are very different looking from QMC2 and M+GUI): > AttractMode: http://attractmode.org/ > MAME Library: http://www.randomsequence.com/software/mame-library/ > MAME Launcher: http://nekocan.sitemix.jp/?page_id=17 > AdvanceMenu: http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/menu-readme.html > MAME_Tunes: http://macapps.sakura.ne.jp/mame_tunes/index_en.html > and probably others if you use Google. > > My advice: use one that is frequently updated, within the last year or two. That way > you can be sure all MAME command-line/terminal options can be accessed and changed by > the frontend. > > Of the ones I listed, recently updated are QMC2, M+GUI, AttractMode, MAME Launcher. > AdvanceMenu is one year outdated, MAME_Tunes and MAME Library are several years > outdated. I do not know how old OpenEmu is either, sorry... > > Sometimes you can get away with outdated frontends because over MAME's 18-year > history, commandline interface does not change too much. But lately there have been > many new commandline features so it is important to be up-to-date in 2014-2015. I > think the frontend that supports the most commandline features (on Windows/Linux/Mac) > is QMC2, and EmuLoader for Windows maybe a close second. AdvanceMenu is guaranteed > not to support all the commandline features, and I have my doubts over most of the > others mentioned in this post. > > QMC2 also has the advantage of supporting MESS as well, which is MAME's computer and > console emulator spinoff. There are VERY few OS X MESS frontends! M+GUI claims to, > but i have not tested it. > > Also remember: if you don't like any of these frontend choices, you can try running > MAME and a Windows frontend through Parallels or something like that to see what the > performance is like, but you will get better performance with SDLMAME and a Mac > native frontend. > > [EDIT] A few others I know nothing about: > GameEx for Mac (really big for some reason, 270MB? I think it uses Wine somehow > maybe. Released 05/29/2013): http://www.gameex.com/download-gameex/ > EmuLaunch (from 2006): http://www.emulaunch.com/ > MacMAMEInfoX (uploaded January 5th 2011): > http://download.vastheman.com/macmameinfox.php > > - Stiletto Very well informed. I thank you. I will take your word for it anyway. Thanks!
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