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SubjectMAME 78u5 released new Reply to this message
Posted byRoman
Posted on01/18/04 06:48 PM



Little reminder:

YOU NEED AT LEAST CLRMAMEPRO 3.22 FOR THIS VERSION! PLEASE UPDATE IF YOU NEED ANYTHING < 3.22.

Current version is 3.22a.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro


SubjectRe: MAME 78u5 released Reply to this message
Posted bySalmonKing
Posted on01/18/04 07:16 PM



> Little reminder:
>
> YOU NEED AT LEAST CLRMAMEPRO 3.22 FOR THIS VERSION! PLEASE UPDATE IF YOU NEED
> ANYTHING ClrMamePro
>
Because all CHD's have no extension in the drivers? ;-)




SubjectRe: MAME 78u5 released new Reply to this message
Posted byRoman
Posted on01/18/04 07:19 PM



> Because all CHD's have no extension in the drivers? ;-)


exactly

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro


SubjectRe: MAME 78u5 released new Reply to this message
Posted bytmorrow
Posted on01/20/04 03:32 AM



> > Because all CHD's have no extension in the drivers? ;-)
>
>
> exactly

I still think this change is a poor design choice by the MAME Dev's. I see no reason why the disk tag doesn't work in the same way as the rom tag where rom names can be anything and front ends don't have to assume what it is. Now we have to assume that the token following name of every disk line needs a .chd appended. What if when cd images are implemented they wanted to name cd images .? It seems limiting and requires front end using the listinfo interface assume too much. So much for consistency.

Cheers,
Tim


SubjectRe: MAME 78u5 released new Reply to this message
Posted byRoman
Posted on01/20/04 03:36 AM



> > > Because all CHD's have no extension in the drivers? ;-)
> >
> >
> > exactly
>
> I still think this change is a poor design choice by the MAME Dev's. I see no
> reason why the disk tag doesn't work in the same way as the rom tag where rom
> names can be anything and front ends don't have to assume what it is. Now we
> have to assume that the token following name of every disk line needs a .chd
> appended. What if when cd images are implemented they wanted to name cd images
> .? It seems limiting and requires front end using the listinfo interface assume
> too much. So much for consistency.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>

Well...I think it's alright to remove all .chd extension from the driver (and so from -listinfo). The files themselves of course KEEP .chd. Well...You can see .chd as a filetype and so it can be removed from the driver information (though it should be done with samples, too). CD Images will be chd since, chd = compressed hunks of data and not compressed harddisk.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro


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