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clrmame Discussion / Re: Happy 2024
« on: 09 January 2024, 23:14 »
Thank you Roman, happy 2024 everyone!

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Some new scanner wip
« on: 24 November 2023, 22:52 »
Hi Roman
thank you, great news!!! Can't wait to try it in practice   :D

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Alive and kicking
« on: 16 September 2023, 23:19 »
Thank you for the update Roman, and yes I'm really looking forward to the new scanner!
take care

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.06 released
« on: 05 May 2023, 08:57 »
No caching taking place, rest assured, multiple runs take consistently around 500-510s with reboots in between
It should be noted that it's a powerful machine (12 core/24 thread, 64GB RAM, different SSD's for rebuilder source and target), but still the same I was using with rebuilder v0.05
The easy consideration would be that the new rebuilder scales linearly to the number of threads, but I suspect the relative performances of the source and target SSDs may play a role as well
Regardless, it's a huge improvement - at least for me :D

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.06 released
« on: 04 May 2023, 21:22 »
Hmmmmm "a nice speed boost" you say? Man I've just got a 234% speed increase!!!
I've reprocessed my latest full update job, and it took far less than half the time it took with rebuilder v0.05 (510s vs. 1194s. 42% of the time)
Whatever magic you've applied to Rebuilder v0.06, that's the way to go!!!  8)

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.06 released
« on: 04 May 2023, 19:55 »
Thank you Roman, will test its performance ASAP

Unrelated: should the rebuilder deserve its own thread now? I do understand it's the "next cmp" so to speak, but still... :D

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clrmame Discussion / Re: rebuilder 0.05 released
« on: 20 April 2023, 20:44 »
I'm late this time but a huge THANK YOU for moving forward this! Will give it a spin ASAP

Rebuilder 0.05 released

https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/binaries/rebuilder_v005.zip
https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/binaries/readme.html

0.05 has a major unicode update, so now all your utf8 chars (no matter if in the datfile, in archives, in folders, in log output etc) should be handled correctly.

As a small extra...(I had a little time and wanted to see how easy it is to reuse the core) I've added rebuilderUI ;-)
It's a tiny UI for the rebuilder....the options should be easy to understand since they match the commandline parameters. The log list has a context menu and the window is resizable (things you don't see on the screenshot below).

RebuilderUI (rebuilderUI.exe) saves its settings in settings_ui.xml while the commandline rebuilder (rebuilder.exe) uses settings.xml. Both need the 7z.dll.

Hope you enjoy it...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.04 released
« on: 03 April 2023, 19:43 »
No rush, the most important component is the rebuilder and it's working already.
The CMP scanner still does its job, so no rush at all  8)


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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.04 released
« on: 03 April 2023, 07:42 »
Personally I'd privilege portability (Linux) over a GUI any day, but of course a GUI may help the less technically inclined.
I'm really looking forward to some kind of a scanner (sorry for being pushy), either as a separate tool or as a function of the existing rebuilder.
After that I can finally retire CMP for good, after "just" a few decades of honorable service :(
Thanks

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.04 released
« on: 02 April 2023, 20:27 »
Had a first round of testing with v0.4, nothing wrong to report: it's *really* fast, and convenient to use.
Any thought about a scanner to complement the rebuilder, Roman? It's the only thing I'd feel the need for, to check the rebuilt set for missing bits n pieces..
Thanks for your work!

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.04 released
« on: 19 March 2023, 16:24 »
Thank you Roman, can't wait to try it

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.03 released
« on: 02 November 2022, 12:39 »
Forgot to mention: as I plan to make regular use of the new Rebuilder, feel free to involve me as a guinea pig tester for it and any related tools that you might eventually come up with
I'm not a programmer but I have enough compute and storage available to do some serious testing if needed

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.03 released
« on: 02 November 2022, 12:27 »
I see
Now (almost) fully kidding: Rust, anyone? ;)

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.03 released
« on: 02 November 2022, 12:17 »
Yes I've seen Bit7z mentioned in the rebuilder readme, I was wondering why not using the 7zip library directly - but I guess it doesn't make a difference in the end.
Anyway great stuff in progress, I'm definitely looking forward to the new Rebuilder (toolset :D) as the future of clrmamepro!
Last but not least, on Linux too!!!
Thanks


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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rebuilder 0.03 released
« on: 02 November 2022, 11:48 »
I've just tested Rebuilder (v0.03) for the first time, and... WOW it flies!
The only need I'd feel for a scanner option would be knowing if I'm missing something after rebuilding.. Not sure if enabling higher logging levels may do just that, to be honest.
Couple questions, if you don't mind
- Any romset generated by the rebuild options (split, full, standalone) can be used by MAME? I'm especially curious about the standalone option.
- Why not using the 7zip library for de/compression, moving forward?
Thanks for yet another excellent tool, Roman!

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clrmame Discussion / Re: ZIP compression level
« on: 07 March 2020, 19:46 »
Indeed, that"s what I've found after my initial mistake: nothing downloaded, nothing at all..

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clrmame Discussion / Re: ZIP compression level
« on: 07 March 2020, 18:30 »
Hmm no, you're right (obviously :) ): CMP isn't actually downloading anything, my bad.
Any subsequent runs didn't show that behavior again: empty folder as input, empty folder after the full scan pass.
That happened only once, and I mistakenly took it as normal behavior... I guess it was either fishing those bits out of some existing paths, or from something cached during previous full runs.
Sorry about the confusion. Thanks for your time

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clrmame Discussion / Re: ZIP compression level
« on: 07 March 2020, 13:40 »
Yeah sorry that didn't come out well.. I meant:
When following the upgrade method you've suggested  I need to load a dat/profile and then run a full scan; by the end of that scan CMP has downloaded some missing bits and pieces. What are those bits, sort of an update to the datfile it has just processed? Until then CMP didn't have any interactions with my collection, so it can't have anything to do with that.. (I've ran that full scan against a totally empty folder).
I'm just curious to understand what is the purpose of the sets (or partial sets} CMP downloaded. Enquiring minds and all that :D

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clrmame Discussion / Re: ZIP compression level
« on: 06 March 2020, 21:48 »
it worked, as you said. Updated everything within minutes, all good  :o
I'm still scratching my head about against what the initial - empty, so to speak - scan runs.
That is: yes I'm left with the difference, but the difference between the datfile at hand and.. what?
There are some other unknowns from my point of view, like where the missing stuff is being pulled from, but I can live with that  EDIT: I've found your Hints and Tricks thread... got it.
All I know is that to use CMP this way I'll have to (learn how to, and) properly set all the sys variables/paths - which so far I could safely ignore, to a point.
I've been using CMP my (self-thaught) way for years, and now I understand I've been using only a fraction of its features. Never too late to learn, huh?
Thanks

PS: pls feel free to move this discussion to a new, more on-topic discussion - where it may benefit some other poor souls :)

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clrmame Discussion / Re: ZIP compression level
« on: 06 March 2020, 20:06 »
Ouch. Live an learn, they say...
Never saw this flow described anywhere, I should probably get out from under that rock :D
Will try it ASAP
Many many thanks

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