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MAME videos

The new MAME title videos are complete. They are located on the FTP here: /-GameEx-/- Emulator Artwork & Videos -/MAME/video_title 95% of them are a decent attract mode capture. The upscaled videos on the FTP are howeve…

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60 fps MAME attract mode title videos

10 years ago I created a 60 fps MAME attract mode title video set. I decided to revisit this project last week with the latest MAME sets, MAME version and ffmpeg. I also fixed up and updated the code to run at 64 bit an…

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GameEx Online performance and AI

I have been heavily working on GameEx cross platform and have setup and configuration working via the GameEx Online web app. Its tricky building this into GameEx itself across all versions due to GUI elements, paricular…

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GameEx cross platform 19.79

Some nice progress with GameEx cross platform. Mame launching and list updates are working on both Linux and Mac, supporting both system wide and local MAME folder installs. Setup and configuration is now working. Final…

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GameEx 19.77

I was using some software by Preemptive solutions on a scheme for small software houses as part of the build process for GameEx and PinballX. They have been significantly raising the price every year and this year they…

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GameEx 19.76

Adds Commodor 64 SID music support. This was previously only available in the 32 bit version. Note that they take a while to load as a high quality conversion is done by sidplayfp. Personally I have not heard them sound…

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GameEx 19.74

MAME 3D cabinet models can be downloaded and automatically setup by the iinstaller. Removed some Microsoft dependancies.

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GameEx 19.71

New GPU accelarated video renderer. Nvidia removed VMR 9 support and this release adds a new video renderer fallback using media Foundation and shared textures with DirectX 11 which is GPU accelerated. Upgraded to .net…

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Coding with AI

if anyone is interested, I did pursue with coding with help from AI. It does allow you to find out and do absolutely anything with code. What I found is when it is wrong and it often is you just have to tell it is wrong…

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GameEx 19.67

I assume I fixed it and not Nvidia or Microsoft but full screen exclusive mode is fixed and the default again.

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GameEx 19.66

I spent about 20 hours trying to implement another video playback solution without lots of work because NVidia recently broke VMR 9 support. I thought I found another solution via ChatGPT which was the first time I trie…

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Happy new year.

I wrote this on Facebooks tonight and their AI removed it citing cyber security concerns. I thought it seemed good so wanted to share. More an example of how clever AI is getting. May seem funny now, but trust me, from…

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