MAMEWorld Forums - Hardware - Re: MAME and Outputs

> > > Thanks Vas, will do.
> > >
> > > EDIT: Yes so the windows option works.. somewhat. MAME Hooker detects the output
> > now
> > > however it's clear it's not so happy with windows 10 anymore. If it's going to be
> > > deprecated then is there going to be a os-independant option that would allow an
> > > external program to do the same as name hooker?
> >
> > The "network" option is the current preferred output module, and it works on
> Windows,
> > Linux and macOS. However, MAME Hooker has never been updated to support it.
> >
> > The current "network" output option isn’t very scalable – it can’t deal with things
> > like fruit machines that have huge numbers of LEDs/lamps, or machines that update
> > blinkenlights very fast. Eventually we’ll have to rework it again to perform better
> > in more extreme use cases.
>
> I'm just going to assume its a network packet with the light data on it. Where would
> i find resources to look at the technical side of it? I did look at the source code
> but it wasn't easy for me to figure out

Right now, “the source is the documentation”, but the protocol is really simple. It’s basically human-readable text. You can connect to localhost:8000 and watch it.