MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: MAME in 2019

>Thoughts/wishes in the coming year. A few of my own...

>Laserdisc -

I agree with RB's post. Another year or two away before actual results of discs being captured in a format that everyone can agree on does happen. Still in a race to preserve the discs while still possible.

>Discrete / netlist work.

I'll take any progress including roms of non-cpu games being dumped and documented in MAME such as Sega's Fonz was earlier this year. Fonz proms being dumped and supported in MAME was important since pcbs of Sega non-cpu games outside of Monaco GP are a rareity imo.

>Artwork improvements - Some sort way of incorporating artwork for mechanical games.

There have been a few work-a-rounds that were done with current artwork rendering for some of the games that were added in past couple years.

For 2018, the unexpected contributions primarily from Spain/Espana (El Fin.., Magic Purple, etc.) was a big win for this year. Andy W. getting Sega's Fonz proms being documented was also important. Haze documenting and improving Xavix products near to where some being almost emulated to a working state is another thing. The ongoing Apple II floppy disk (woz) preservation was also important. The emulation improvements of SGI systems, some mini computers along with some mainframe emulation as well. ShouTime finding and adding a couple hard-to-find games. And lastly my specific favorite was Casio drum machine emulation from earlier this year. That alone wants to make me update to a newer version of MAME by itself even though my 2003 Sony Vaio WinXp 32-bit system can barely run current versions of MAME.

For next year's predictions:

Haze still working on Xavix stuff.
Sean, hap, and crew getting more lcd based handheld items emulated.
ShouTime, and contributors from Spain, and DU still finding and adding more stuff.
capsoff and Team Europe still doing their respective chips work.
more mainframe related improvements
Pernod getting more BBC stuff emulated
ongoing Apple II floppies being preserved (envious of their achievements from a DOS IBM'r here)

Next year's wishlist:

*approves the current various netlist updates*
roms and proms being dumped from more non-cpu games (Exidy Death Race and PSE Knights in Armor or at least PSE Maneater). Has to be someone out there with a Maneater pcb that knows what to dump from a Maneater pcb.

Any PEPlus titles being preserved.
More IBM software of boot up only games being preserved
ShouTime finding anything

And maybe Vertexer roms turning up along with a preliminary skeleton driver.

Edited by gregf (01/07/19 11:28 AM)