Well, honestly I am all for dropping XMAME in favour of SDLMAME. Now I have said officially what I used to say privately.
Personnaly I think going SDL is the way to go (if possible) SDL is widely used on the emulation softwares. It's fast and well documented. The two main advantages I see are 1) Less work maintaining more than one driver for gfx output at code level 2) More developpers with SDL knowledge could participate. My primary concern for all emulators is vsync. Hans told me that it was not a problem with SDL (using opengl) so I think DGA and xv are not relevant anymore. Now for the other part, I don't think a fork of sdlmame is a good thing. Maybe the teams should merge if possible. A merge is time consuming for all the decisions, make files, project structure, versionning, etc ... but if a commitment can be made I think it will be better for mame under unix. Well front-ends guys won't be happy of _one_more_ change but this a bad for a good. (not sure if this expression is ok in english ;-) If you look at what happened with UAE, WinUae, E-UAE , you have to admit that it's sad to see all that knowledge, know-how and skilled developpers being splitted. Don't you think ? _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list Xmame@toybox.twisted.org.uk http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
