1. Introduction and Links

1.1 Keep everything up-to-date!

The most recent copy of this guide, the xmame-sources and many more can be found on the xmame project homepage at http://x.mame.net/

1.2 Some Links

• The official M.A.M.E home is at http://www.mame.net
• The very best ROM site on this planet is at http://www.mame.dk/
• grustibus, the very good frontend (if you gnome) http://grustibus.sourceforge.net/
• gnomame, another great gnome-based frontend http://gnomame.sourceforge.net/
• tkmame, the Tcl/TK frontend that works in Linux/Unix and MS Windows http://tkmame.retrogames.com/
• MAME Action Replay Page for those who want to have a look at other monitors at http://marp.retrogames.com/
• and of course don't forget our project homepage at http://x.mame.net/

1.3 Pending Jobs - or TODO

If you think you can help with the todo list or you can make a contribution that you feel is interesting, please send mail to the xmame/xmess coordinator. See Mail for contact information.

• Optimise mouse warping.
• Remove osd_input_init_post, add display ready flag.
• Updating of fps is off (dirty marking problem) with vector games.
• Update porting.txt.
• Convert all remaining sound drivers to plugins.
• Rewrite display/input code to be more modular, oo-ish, and usable as a separate library.
• Split -[no]scanline option into emulated and real scanline options.
• Add an option to specify which resolution to use, add clipping and panning if it doesn't fit and use it anyway.
• Use Pentium TSC for uclock where available.
• Network:
  • Fix since the dos team broke it, find out if the dosnet team is still alive.
  • Add mouse/joystick support to network play
  • Try converting network support to tcp, currently we have no error correction.
  • Make network code more robust, version check, input settings check, etc.
• Check x11-joystick. Rumor has it it's broken, but then again there's only one bug-report, so it seems no one is using it.
• fm soundhack for linux-i386.
• Make which messages are emitted and when configurable (log-type's and log-level), make fileio emit messages about which files it tries to open, to help debug rom-loading problems, and walk through all messages xmame emits giving them all a standard format like:

  OSD:        Info:    bla
  X11-window: Warning: bla
  Svgalib:    Error:   bla
   
  

• Add scancode 128-255 for non-PC keys like F13 -- F24, more keypad keys, etc., update all display targets to use this.
• Also see the text todo file, kept around to quickly enter stuff while hacking: todo.