> Old and crappy code, plus Micro$oft abandoned ddraw from Windows8 and 10. So the devs > see no need to support it too. > > these facts can be count into "in the way of MAME's progress", but removing it will > not make MAME better or faster. keeping it, wouldnt harm any other videomode, just > saying. > > IMHO, it was done, because of BGFX. The goal is to have only BGFX as videomode and > BGFX doesnt support ddraw. I have big hopes in BGFX, but didnt see things like that > coming. > > seems there is no love left for crt it is considered "dead" hardware. > > if at any time the developing of GroovyMAME comes to a halt, the CRT users will be > screwed .
Nothing's stopping anyone from maintaining a fork with the DirectDraw renderer.
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