> I seem to try Visual Pinmame and VP every 5+ years or so, laugh. Some nice stuff > happening with VPX; good looking lighting effects and other 3d anti-aliasing etc. > compared to the old days. > > Looks like they're still using a way old baseline Mame .76 core though on PinMAME. > Wonder what the reason for that was vs. going to tip of trunk.
To my knowledge, initially, I suspect it was more a matter of mainline MAME changing and they didn't want to relearn new macros and ways to interact with the core, so they handpicked stuff from mainline and back-ported to the older core. It is nice to see efforts are being made to make it in sync with current MAME, finally.
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