> Sup guys, > > So....with Haswell on the horizon, will we finally see hardware accelerator support > in mame? Haswell is supposed to be the first Intel chip containing a KILLER on board > graphics processor, rivaling even the nvidia 680! With this being the case, will the > mame devs be able to give us graphics acceleration and allow us turn on various > effects such as Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering? I know Rave Racer could sure > use some nice effects
Someone already tried that with the PSX-based games by grafting on the PSEmu/ePSXe/ZiNc plugin interface (and violating the MAME license in the process since the plugin code was closed source). The speed increase was negligible and really only made the games "HD-ready" just like the kiddie emulators mentioned above. Besides, Haswell will be Hasbeen two years after release anyway, probably only seeing use in tablets, crappy low-budget PCs from Dell and the like and laptops/SFF machines (on a side note, can anyone seriously imagine MAME running System 22 at a decent speed on a tablet or iOS device?).
Better off just playing the PlayStation versions in ePSXe if you want that HD look, even if it's Revolution and Rage Racer instead of RR2 and Rave Racer.
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