MAMEWAH v1.52
posted in Frontend News by spacetiger on Oct 22nd, 2004MAMEWAH is a Windows-based frontend for MAME. This latest update contains most bug fixes, though the list is long:
- Bugs Fixed:
- LCD Display feature did not work
- Mouse & joystick navigation sensisitivity slightly different for each direction on axis
- OP_MENU_BACK input occasionally stopped working
- Emulator-specific music would start after switching emulator even if enable_music 0
- Preview movie for selected game would not play after list generation
- Runtime Error 445 would occur if movie clip had no audio
- Problem would occur when using DAT files with quotes around certain values
- Longest_played lists wouldn't work
- Selected game changed after refreshing games list
- MAMEWAH would appear to hang when launching MAME for the first time on some systems
- Using WinIPAC feature may have resulted in strange results
- Screen-saver form specific shortcut inputs would not work
- Music track related shortcut inputs would not work on options / screen-saver form
- In slideshow screen-saver, the first image to be displayed wasn't displayed long enough
- Screen-saver sometimes kicked in too soon after generating list
- File access problem causes crash (Windows 98)
- Improvements:
- Improved emulator launching so that powering PC down will cleanly quit emulator and MAMEWAH
- PC emulator_executable no longer case sensitive
- Added 'PROGRAM ERROR!' notification when an error occurs
- All input devices are now released prior to launching emulators/apps/scr screensavers, and re-acquired on return to avoid potential input problems
- Removed controls.dat viewer specific support
- Added ability to launch up to 3 external applications, either by shortcut (input) or automatically prior to emulator launch