Re: use of tar.gz to compress the roms

[Lawrence Gold]

I'm definitely in favor of supporting .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 formats for
roms.  I've toyed with the idea of implementing it myself, but hadn't
gotten around to doing it yet.

Speaking of xmame, I've put an unofficial build of 0.37b9 in my ftp
directory:

        ftp://ftp.aros.net/pub/users/gold/xmame-0.37b9.1-UNOFFICIAL.tar.bz2

This doesn't include the latest MESS, and frontends will most likely not
work with this version.  I only converted part of fronthlp.c, and I don't
even know if I did it correctly.  But Ms. Pac-Man seems to run!

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 09:31:50PM -0200, Raul Fernandes wrote:
> Hi, people,
> 
> The xmame is really a great work. Many games that I think I never play again, I can 
>do it with xmame. So, I have a idea to make the xmame better.
> I think that the xmame will be better if the roms can compressed with tar.gz too. 
>The xmame supports gzip, but only with compress every file alone.
> With you want to compress the roms in a single file, you have to use the zip, but 
>the algoritm of gzip is much better.
> It really great if the roms can be compressed with tar.bz2 too. The bzip2 is better 
>than gzip.
> It can take some work, but it will save much space of hd.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Raul Fernandes
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Brasília-Brazil
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