holy crap guys it's the smse2k thread by unknownfile at 1:12 PM EST on December 18, 2008
Hi, I have here a new thread to whore my recent project out in.
The MAME core is not being used anymore, so I am instead focusing on the essential bits of the emulator instead (ie, sound / cpu) whereas timing and other crap will be handled by original code. The reason for this is because the MAME developers have this habit of releasing major changes every so often that make the source incompatible over and over again. That, and certain compilers don't take too kindly to the source code (MSVC in particular).
Here are some notes on the SDK. This is all you'll be getting of the project if your name is not anewuser and you do not have a presence on IRC.
Actually MAME builds fine with MSVC - it's currently the only way to build for Win64, among other things. And the latest round of changes will end with all the cores having a well-defined interface and a C++-style "this" pointer, so it'll be dead easy to use 'em in non-MAME circumstances.
no builds yet by unknownfile at 1:15 PM EST on December 21, 2008
Still working on the core between sessions of school work, paid work and various gaming sessions on Steam.
Just a heads up for anyone looking into adding stuff that accessing video hardware on any drivers will likely result in:
WARNING: Exception in driver gb Cause: EXCEPTION_VIDEO_ACCESS Video register access. Other GBS players might not be able to handle this rip. CPU debugging information is not available. MMU last accessed 0x8000 (wrote byte 00). Debug session detected: user has been given control.