> 1) The profiler's www mode is broken.

works fine in Windows ;) I may have a look at it using Knoppix or something. But generally...there's no support for running it under Wine (besides it can still be a Wine issue). There is no difference in downloading from any www side. The clrmame pro side doesn't differ of e.g. Logiqx' one. So maybe it's a temporary network issue. Once you're downloaded dats, they should appear as new dats and can't be redownloaded (since they do exist in your collection).

> 2) I have noticed that some of my sets have had zip errors, and was wondering if
> these could be caused by Linux. So far the errors have been duplicate file
> entries and invalid headers. Will running a "Full zip structure scan" always
> detect and report these zip errors?

The full zip structure scan does detect a lot of structural bugs and lists them in the warningswindow. Double names is interesting though...could be a Linux based issue, since it's a filename case-sensitive OS. The zipfile standard normally allows double localfileheaders but normally they don't make sense and usually if you add new files wich different case but same name, the files get replaced. Looks like it doesn't do that correctly under Linux. I will recheck that.

> 3) Everything is WAY slower in linux, doing a full MAME scan takes over 24 hours
> now, as opposed to the one hour it took in Windows. I'm guessing this is because
> it is essentially running emulated, but I thought I'd ask if there was anyway to
> speed this up?

Running under Wine? No, you can't speed it up. Stick with Windows, a full scan takes less than a minute.
There are of course some options which slows it down (e.g. sha1 checks)

> 4) Lastly, with the release of Mono, are you any more inclined to do a Linux
> build, seeing as Mono will compile existing .NET code and create a Linux
> executable? If that were to happen I'd have no more use for Wine :)

Well...first of all...cmpro isn't written using dotNET. Currently I don't have the time to port anything of that code to multi-platform, the next core will though.
I am interested in a full new core and parts do exist in portable code but I simply don't have enough free time at the moment to complete it.


so for now....I will check the zipfile doublename issues and the www profiler issue under WINE.....don't expect anything useful though 8)



Roman Scherzer