QMC2 0.2.b19

A Qt 4 based UNIX MAME frontend supporting both XMAME and SDLMAME.<br /><br />QMC2 project is a Qt 4 based UNIX MAME frontend supporting both XMAME and SDLMAME.<br /><br />M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II - also referred to as QMC2 - is the successor of one of the first XMAME GUI frontends available on this planet called QMamecat (derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only).<br /><br />QMamecat was based upon Qt 2; its development was frozen in 2003. QMC2 has been rebuilt from scratch as a Qt 4 project. Parts of the design and code were inspired by its predecessor, but it's not just a remake. We tried to make the new design as flexible as possible to minimize dependencies from frontend- and CLI-related MAME changes, which was a major deficiency of QMamecat. QMC2 now uses a template based MAME configuration scheme, which can easily be enhanced with additional command line options (defined in an XML template file).<br /><br />As a result of this flexible design, we are able to support multiple MAME targets - currently XMAME and SDLMAME!<br /><br />Here are some key features of "QMC2":<br /><br />?*A* Extremely fast preview- & flyer- image support, optionally smoothly scaled (PNG images, buffered in a resizable LRU-cache)<br />?*A* Support for game icons (also PNG images), fast (pre-)caching mechanism<br />?*A* Icons, preview- & flyer-images can either be stored as individual files in respective directories or they can be combined and compressed in ZIP archives<br />?*A* Easily extensible template-based MAME configuration scheme (defined through an external XML file)<br />?*A* Cool editor for configuration of global and game-specific MAME command line options, with search function<br />?*A* Support for all emulation-related extra information available through MAME (displayed in a tree)<br />?*A* Fast search function with wild-card pattern matching<br />?*A* Selectable sort criteria and order for gamelist (game description, ROM state, year and manufacturer)<br />?*A* Straightforward process management to control emulator processes<br />?*A* Clear and full logging (separate frontend- and MAME-logs)<br />?*A* Cached ROM state verification, indicated as colored spheres in front of each game description<br />?*A* Verification of sample sets<br />?*A* Game image checks (icons, previews & flyers)<br />?*A* Online display of current gamelist, ROM status and search result statistics<br />?*A* Two gamelist views: full game detail and parent/clone hierarchy<br />?*A* GUI will always remain interactive, so you may configure or play MAME (etc.) even if heavy background-processing is active<br />?*A* Time-consuming background tasks can be stopped on demand at (nearly) any time<br />?*A* Optional auto-save/restore of window layout and game selection<br />?*A* Multi-platform support<br />?*A* Fully multi-language capable - translations exist for english (native) and german<br />?*A* Game favorites management and play-history<br />?*A* Online HTML-documentation and browser<br />?*A* Support for XMAME and SDLMAME (default)<br />?*A* Built-in support for GUI styles (KDE 4 / Qt 4 style plugins are supported)<br />?*A* Automatic caching of analysed game data to speed up gamelist processing<br />?*A* MAME configuration import/export from/to mame.ini/gamename.ini (SDLMAME) or xmamerc/gamenamerc (XMAME)

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Platforms:	Mac, Mac OSX
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