MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: How can I get older versions of (sdl)mame ?

> I've a an arcade cab with an Athlon XP 1700+ (waiting for the 3000+ to arrive) and a
> GeForce 5500FX in it.
> As you can see its rather old so I have problems running the newer versions of mame
> smootly. Until now I've used .103b in windows for years but I would like to switch to
> Ubuntu (actually Lubuntu). I've tried xmame .106 which was fairly good but have had
> problems with opengl which I need for good scaling.
> So my main question is how/where can I get older versions of (sdl)mame ?

SDLMAME only existed starting at 0.107, and it requires hardware OpenGL to run well with scaling. That said, a 5500FX with the Nvidia binary blob drivers should work well for MAME, especially at the relatively low resolutions an arcade monitor enforces.

There is no formal archive of older versions; your best bet is to take this URL:

http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/sdlmame0111.zip

and change the version numbers accordingly to get other versions. 0.111 is the earliest version I have, and then it skips to 0111u5, but it should be largely complete after that. Note that versions that old may have various weird problems that don't exist in current MAME - the SDL support took several major releases to get good and shaken down.