dave's not here man!
It looks like earlier on in the new year there will be an exhibition in Sydney of some old school gaming machines and parapharnalia. Details are as follows:
Weapons of Mass Distraction
50+ machines from the 1970s/80s and assorted gaming parapharnalia
opens January 8th – February 4th, 2004
location Spacejunk Industries, 30 Pittwater Rd, Manly. NSW. Australia
marktronics@hotmail.com for more info
Currently the excellent MAME information and ROM repository MAME.dk is offline. It would appear that their web hosting company went bust.
Update 08/Dec/2003: For those of you who desperately want MAME.dk back, and can’t figure out how to find ROMs by any other means, you can either hit up Usenet (alt.binaries.emulators.mame) or hookup with a ROM burner in your area. Also other suggested reading is alt.games.mame on Usenet. Also this site looks like it could be good for getting individual ROMs.
It looks like MAME 0.77 is about to drop.
XMAME 0.76.1 finally was released on Sunday. FreshRPMS has updated RPMS for RedHat users, and also the packages for the great GTK+ based frontend gxmame has been updated to handle the changes to some of the switches which were introduced in MAME 0.74.
Also worth mentioning is a new(ish) site; MameDB. Since the demise of Mame.dk, there hasn’t been a site which has all the information on the games provided in the accessable format which Mame.dk provided. MameDB is there to fill that gap.
New games for MAME 0.76 are as follows Continue reading “XMAME 0.76.1 Released”
Usually if you want to get arcade ROM files for your arcade emulator you have to go to sites which have questionably legality. Now you can purchase ROMs legally for personal use from Star ROMs. They currently have around 60 games (all them seem to be Atari games at the moment) such as 720 Degrees, Asteroids, Gauntlet, Marble Madness and Missile Command.
A new version of XMAME has finally been released. You can grab a patch against 0.72.1 or the full tarball. I guess it should only be a matter of time when the FreshRPMs packages are done.
Changes since 0.72.1:
*sigh* My MAME collection is still sitting back at 0.71, and I haven’t had a chance to get all the updates of 0.72 and 0.73. One day. Looks like 0.74 is more of a minor update/bugfix from 0.73. According to MAME.dk the following has been added:
The Windows version of MAME can downloaded over here. Unfortunately MacMAME and XMAME haven’t been updated since 0.71 and 0.72 respectively. 🙁
Having a browse through my local friendly apt repository I found this nice program called DOSBox. It appears to be essentially a 286 and 386 emulator. Its great for all those old games that just won’t run from the command line of more modern operating systems. So far I’ve play Warlords 1 & 2, the Leisure Suit Larry Series, the Elite Series, Civilization, Thexder, Solar Winds 1 & 2 and Rampage. It doesn’t support protected mode games, so games from around the mid nineties don’t (stuff like Doom and that which used the DOS4GW type environments).
It emulates the Sound Blaster card, which is nice and it works under Windows, BeOS, Linux and Mac OS X, so you’ve got NO excuse not to give this a crack 😉 And over here is the list of supported games.
A nice little movie featuring some classic games such as Mario, Out Run and California Games. Nice one.