While playing around with the Linux MAME export I totally forgot to say what else is new in the nightly build:
https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/binaries/clrmame_006_013_20241027.zipUI:
- misc: scanner, contextmenu option to sort by name instead of description
- misc: Linux/Wine, users can get data from a (linux) mame binary. For this, a wrapper script is included. You need to do a chmod +x ./wrapper.sh once though
- misc: Linux/Wine, minor changes regaring line breaks or layout
Core:
- fixed: scanner, unneeded sample files are detected but not reported or fixed
- fixed: scanner, rare "can't read" error message when accidently testing a folder for being a chd
- misc: in case of a -listsoftware data basis (either exe export or dat), additional sl hashes are added from either the
used exe's hash folder (prio 1) or HashFolder specified in the settings xml file (prio 2).
A big "thank you" goes out to Shoegazer for the linux testing and finally pointing me in the right direction to fix the (hopefully) last outstanding problem.
So what's next?
Well...the upcoming week will most likely bring a new MAME version. As usual, I will check the scanner/rebuilder core with it to see if something weird pops up. So expect a new 'official' release after the MAME release.
After that I hope I finally find time to start with the profiler....that's the short view...on the long view I was also thinking about a batcher (currently I wonder if there is something which a profiler can already do, i.e. loading and scanning multiple dats, but I also have some ideas for a batcher which would act like a scheduler where you add your scan/rebuild jobs in a queue like thing....time will tell...profiler comes first).
And yes....I'm still sure to release the source :-)