#

# SDLMAME 0.122
# by Olivier Galibert and R. Belmont
# Additional code by Sven Gothel, couriersud, and Vas Crabb.
#
# For Linux/Unix, Mac OS X (both PPC and Intel), FreeBSD, Win32, and OS/2 systems.
# Portable to anything remotely POSIX-y with SDL 1.2.11 or higher available.
#
# Note: the Win32 target is not intended to compete with baseline MAME - it's
# simply a demonstration that SDLMAME works well with that OS.
#

Changes from 0.122

==================
1) Up to date with baseline 0.122 (RB)

WARNING: build instructions are now different from prior to 0.121u3!

For PowerPC Macs and the PS3, you now must set "BIGENDIAN=1" instead of picking a
specific CPU.

NOTE: The makefile should be fully SMP safe, so use make -j3 for dual-core
and -j5 for quad-core to build MAME at speeds never before achieved.

Known problems:

* Fedora 8 ships with a defective setup for SDL audio. This causes no sound in
SDLMAME
and a lockup on exit. To work around this, set the SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment
variable to esd, like this:

bash (default): export SDL_AUDIODRIVER esd

csh/tcsh: setenv SDL_AUDIODRIVER esd

* SDL 1.2.12 on Mac OS X appears to have a crash problem associated with keyboard
input.
If you are not using a joypad on that OS you should probably stick with 1.2.11.
This has been fixed for 1.2.13 but it is unknown when that release will happen.

* Do not use -mt (multithreading) on Mac OS X at this time. This affects only
offloading the final blit - you will still get the full benefit of multiple
processors automatically on the heavier/3D games.

* MAME's core has some big-endian problems still - this causes some games to
not work or work improperly on systems with a PowerPC CPU, including older
Macs and the Playstation 3. In the case of Neo-Geo games, when the real
parent set doesn't work often some clone/bootleg sets will. For instance
kof2003 is broken right now, but the 4 bootleg/clone sets all run fine.
Ironically MAME's PowerPC core is not big-endian safe so PPC-based arcade
games won't emulate properly on systems with a PPC CPU.

* Neither scale2x nor -prescale are supported for games with video overlays
(currently Dragon's Lair and the American Laser Games games, none of which
are actually playable yet). Use -video soft to see the alg.c games run as
they do on baseline. (This will of course be fixed if/when video is actually
added).

Recommended benchmark switches: -nosound -video none -nothrottle -str 90 -window

But feel free to customize.

Requirements
============
GCC: 3.4.x, 4.0.x, or 4.1.x (3.4.5 and 4.1.2 are recomended). Older or newer
versions may expose you to compile problems.
SDL: 1.2.10 or later on Unix and Mac, 1.2.11 or later on Win32.

Build instructions
==================

Linux: make sure you have SDL and it's development packages installed via
apt-get, yum, emerge, or whatever your distro of choice uses. On Fedora 4 or
later, 'yum install SDL SDL-devel' will get you going assuming you already
have GCC. If you already can compile XMAME/XMESS with the SDL target you're
good to go. Just edit the makefile, change the options as necessary, and
type 'make'.

For native 64-bit x86-64, you should build with PTR64=1 (or uncomment it
in the makefile).

For Linux/PPC (including the PlayStation 3) you should build with

BIGENDIAN=1 (or uncomment it in the makefile).

NOTE: you will now need OpenGL headers and libraries as well. If you're
running either ATI or NVIDIA's binary-only drivers you've definitely got them.
Otherwise you may need to install the "MesaGL" and "MesaGL-devel" packages.

NOTE: if you do not have hardware accelerated OpenGL you should not try to
enable it, it'll just go horribly slow.

--

Mac OS X: you'll need Xcode 2.3 or later (a free download from

developer.apple.com) and SDL 1.2.12. Get SDL from www.libsdl.org, click the
"SDL 1.2" download link in the sidebar, then scroll down to "Mac OS X" under
"Runtime Libraries". Download the "SDL-1.2.11.dmg" disk image and open it.
Click 'Macintosh HD' or whatever your Mac's hard disk is named in the left
pane of a Finder window, then open the Library folder and drag the
SDL.framework folder from the SDL disk image into the 'Frameworks' folder.

Next unzip the SDLMAME source in your home directory.

For Intel Macs, type make TARGETOS=macosx

For PowerPC Macs, type make TARGETOS=macosx BIGENDIAN=1

NOTE: if you experience issues with OpenGL mode make sure your OS X is up to
date first, especially on Intel Macs.

--

Win32: First, download SDL 1.2.12. Go to www.libsdl.org and click "SDL 1.2"
under "Downloads". Scroll down to "Development libraries" and open
"SDL-devel-1.2.11-mingw32.tar.gz". Assuming you have WinZip ora compatible
archiver installed it should open automatically. Decompress it into C:\, where
it will create the "SDL-1.2.11" folder. Open that folder. Drag the "bin" and
"lib" folders into your MinGW installation (note: it must be a mame.net style
install, raw MinGW will not work). Finally, create a new folder "SDL" inside
"include" in your MinGW install (e.g. MinGW\include\SDL) and copy the contents
of SDL-1.2.11\include into that folder.

Now type mingw32-make TARGETOS=win32

Unlike normal MAME, you'll need the SDL.dll from the SDL package in order to
run it, so don't try moving it to another machine without that file
accompanying it.

NOTE: MinGW appears to already come with sufficient OpenGL headers and
libraries to build. If problems occur, make sure your video card drivers are
up to date.

--

Other: SDLMAME should work with very little effort on other SDL targets,
especially Unix and Unix-like ones. Start with the Linux target and
modify as necessary. For non-Intel systems, turn off the X86_*_DRCs.
For big-endian systems, use BIGENDIAN=1. If you get SDLMAME
running on other platforms, let us know.

-------------------------------------

Run-time options:

Most of these are the same as for the Win32 version of MAME and so familiarity with
that program will
pay off here. The video options behave somewhat differently, however, so they get
special coverage.

Please see docs/windows.txt for the baseline windows options - just ignore the
stuff about DirectX :-)
If you're not sure about what Windows options SDLMAME supports, run it with the -
showusage switch.

-keymap: set to 1 to use a keymap file. These are used to work around non-US
keyboards due to limitations
in SDL. Use in conjunction with -keymap_file.

-keymap_file: specify a keymap file to use. Must have -keymap 1 for this to work.
Supplied keymaps in the
keymaps/ directory are:

km-ch.txt - Swiss keyboard on Linux

km-de.txt - German keyboard on Linux
km-fr.txt - French keyboard on Linux
km-fr-OSX.txt - French keyboard on Mac OS X

If you have a non-US keyboard which is not one of those types, please refer to this
thread for information on
how to make your own:

http://www.bannister.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?
ubb=showflat&Number=32956&page=1&fpart=2

Pay close attention to the posts by "couriersud". We hope to translate this into
normal text documentation
at some point as well.

-oslog: Turns on logging and shows it in the console/terminal window you started
SDLMAME from. For technical
users / developers only.

-mt / -multithreading: Enables limited support for multiple CPUs. This is not a
magic speedup and may cause
instability. Do not use at all on Mac OS X or you *will* crash!

-sdlvideofps: Shows performance data on SDLMAME's video code.

-video: "soft" uses software rendering, which is slower but more compatible.
"opengl" uses OpenGL and your
graphics accelerator to speed up many aspects of drawing MAME including
compositing artwork, overlays, and
bezels, as well as stretching the image to fit your screen. "opengl16" also uses
OpenGL, but with a different
texture format that some graphics cards/chips may prefer. "none" does no drawing
and is intended for
CPU benchmarking.

If your video card doesn't support OpenGL you can still get hardware scaling with -
yuvmode:

-yuvmode: "none" (default) no yuv overlay, current "SOFT" rendering, "yuy2": yuy2
overlay, "yuy2x2": yuy2
overlay using x2 prescaling, "yv12": yv12 overlay, "yv12x2": yv12 overlay using x2
prescaling.

When this is enabled, you'll see a status printout "YUV Acceleration:" - if it's
"Hardware" you're getting
hardware scaling and can resize the window with no worries about slowdown.

Within SDLMAME you can switch between the modes using

CTRL-F8: previous yuv mode

CTRL-F9: next yuv mode

-window: Enable window mode rather than fullscreen. This is a fully-featured

window mode where the
window resizes as necessary to track what the game does, and you can also resize
it in the usual way.

-keepaspect / -ka: Forces the correct aspect ratio. This means when you're
resizing the window in windowed
mode the actual game image will resize in discrete steps to maintain the proper
shape of the game graphics.
If you turn this off you can resize the window to anything you like and get funny
squishing and stretching.
The same applies for full-screen.

-numscreens: For future (SDL 1.3) use. Keep set to "1" unless you like crashing.

-extra_layout / -layout: Specify a layout file to use instead of any built-in ones
for this game.

-switchres: Affects full screen mode only. Chooses if SDLMAME can try to change
the screen resolution
 (color depth is normally left alone) when in full-screen mode. If it's off, you
always get your desktop
resolution in full-screen mode (which can be useful for LCDs).

-fullstretch / -fs: Allows stretching in non-integer steps. Video purists should

stay far, far away from this
option, while everyone else will be happy to know that it lets you fill the screen
properly in full-screen
mode.

-screen0 / -screen: For future (SDL 1.3) use. Keep on "auto" for now.

-aspect0 / -screen_aspect: Select the aspect ratio of your monitor, in colon form
(e.g. "4:3" or "16:9").
This affects full-screen mode only, so if you have a widescreen monitor you should
set it's proper ratio here.
Autodetect will only work if you use the monitor's native resolution, which can
get extremely slow in
"soft" mode. It's normally not a problem when using OpenGL.

-resolution0 / -resolution / -r: Select the resolution to use in full-screen mode.

"-switchres" must be
enabled for this to work.

-view0 / -view: Select the named view to use.

OpenGL switches (no effect for -video soft):

-gl_notexturerect (set to 0 if you experience corruption in OpenGL mode. Will

reduce performance)

-gl_forcepow2texture (set to 1 if you experience corruption in OpenGL mode. Will

reduce performance)

-gl_vbo (set to 1 if you have a newer video card for a performance increase, turn
off if corruption occurs)

-gl_pbo (set to 1 if you have a newer video card for a performance increase, turn
off if corruption occurs)

-gl_glsl (set to 1 to offload some more work to your video card via pixel shaders -
requires OpenGL 2.0)

-gl_glsl_filter (set to 0 for no filter, 1 for bilinear, and 2 for Gaussian blur -
requires gl_glsl set to 1)

-gl_glsl_vid_attr (set to 1 to have the video card handle brightness/contrast/gamma

- can be a good
performance boost on some games)