[Arcade] Mame Classic 9.7.0 11/03/2022

New In This Version 9.7.0 11/03/2023 - For MAME 0.244 - 0.252

• Added : Control for Joystick Threshold and Controller Map.
• Changed : Modified the message on the Splash screen when a different version of MAME is detected.
• Changed : When a new version of MAME or Catver is found at launch, the Options form will displayed to verify your selections.
• Removed : Global Inputs control.

New In This Version 9.6.0 11/11/2022 - For MAME 0.244 - 0.249

• Added: A "Wait" dialog on screens that will take a while to load
• Added: A New theme - Windows 11 Dark
• Changed: Added spacing to the .ini and .cfg files for easier readability
• Changed: If not running in portable mode... output, settings & temp files will be stored in APPDATA instead of LOCALAPPDATA
• Changed: Mechanical systems can now be listed again
• Changed: Removed the TitleBar from some dialogs for a more modern look
• Changed: Since BIOS options are specific to certain machines, the BIOS drop-down will only list them in Custom Settings for machines that support them
• Changed: The included mess.ini is now called mess.dat
• Fixed: Changes to UI LUT Texture, Plugins To Enable and Plugins To Disable were not saved
• Fixed: The game list's background color would change from the selected color when using the Classic theme
• Fixed: MAME Classic would crash at startup if filters were set that hid all the games
• Fixed: Restoring default settings for a game would not always delete the custom settings file

New In This Version (For MAME - 0.244)

• Added : Accel and Soft to the Video Rendering drop-down.
• Added : Option to List Slots available for MESS machines.
• Added : UI LUT and UI LUT Texture controls.
• Changed : MAME Classic is no longer available as an installer. The dependency files are now in a sub-folder under the MAME Classic folder. To have MAME Classic save its output and settings files in your Windows AppData folder, rename or delete portable.dat. Otherwise, these files will be stored in the MAME Classic folder.
• Changed : MAME Classic now supports the history.xml format instead of history.dat.
• Changed : XP Styles no longer supported.
• Fixed : If theme was set to Black, some text such as Audit or Info results would not be visible for subsequent MAME Classic runs.
• Fixed : MESS Settings button or link would sometimes become invisible.

Mame Classic GUI 9.3.0

New In This Version (For MAME - 0.224)

• Added : Control for Beam Dot Size.
• Changed : Beam Width Minimum and Beam Width Maximum values now match the slider values in the built-in GUI.
• Changed : The MESS Machine listview column headers are now visible

Mame Classic GUI 9.3.0

New In This Version (For MAME - 0.216)

• Added : Control for Low Latency.
• Added : You can now open MAME Classic's App folder and Data folder from the Tools menu.
• Changed : MAME Classic no longer converts paths to their short path name.
• Changed : MAME Classic now uses your LOCALAPPDATA folder to write output, reports and temp files. Any files in the old location (MAME Classic folder) will be moved to the new location the first time you run this version. Once they are moved, you can delete the output, settings and temp folders in the MAME Classic folder. This will allow MAME Classic to be run without admin rights "if" your MAME folders are in unprotected locations.
• Changed : The ROM Directories function is now called Orphan ROM Finder.
• Changed : The Settings screen will now default to the image type of the current select machine.
• Fixed : The Audit function would report "Samples are not needed with this driver." if the sample set was missing regardless if samples were needed or not.
• Fixed : The ROM Directories function would exit prematurely if an orphan ROM was found and you chose to move it.
• Removed : Depreciated Artwork options.

New In Version 9.2.0 - 09/02/2018 (For MAME 0..203)

• Added : Controls for BGFX LUT and BGFX AVI Name in the BGFX Post-Processing section
• Added : Controls for new Chroma options in the Direct3D Post-Processing section
• Added : Controls for new LUT and LUT Texture in the Bloom Post-Processing section
• Fixed : MESS Machine list font size would not change after selecting a different size
  
  

New In Version 9.1.0 - 04/02/2018

• Added: Controls for new Fallback Artwork, Override Artwork and NVRAM Save options
• Added: Cambria and Segoe UI GUI fonts
• Changed: The cursor no longer changes to a hand pointer on the main form
• Changed: The option "Use Link Style GUI" is now "Use Buttonless GUI"
• Changed: The reports folder has been renamed to output
• Fixed: Changing to the Classic theme from any other theme would leave the background color of the previous theme in one of the textboxes
• Fixed: Scroll Bar issue on the Maintenance screen when MAME Classic was restored from maximized
• Fixed: Vector controls would be disabled in MESS Settings
• Removed: References to obsolete help files in the Help pull-down menu
• Removed: MS Sans Serif and MS Serif GUI fonts

New In  Version 9.0.0 - 11/04/2017

• Added    : MAME Classic can now launch machines formally found in MESS which don't have software lists
• Added    : MAME Classic will automatically look for a "devices" folder and a "bios" folder in your MAME directory and in the parent directory of your ROMs folder for machines formally found in MESS
• Changed    : Screenless and mechanical systems are no longer displayed
• Changed    : The Color column is now Palette
• Changed    : The Hand Pointer cursor since it was showing as solid black on the Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition
• Fixed    : Some instances where MAME Classic was unable to determine the device type when trying to launch a machine formally found in MESS
• Fixed    : Color (Palette), Sound, and Graphics column not displaying proper data after a recent change to the listxml
• Removed    : The Devices directory path selection box

New In  Version 8.9.0 - 01/29/2017

• Added    : New PortAudio options
• Fixed    : The Beam Intensity Weight drop-down had incorrect negative values
• Fixed    : The ROM Compare function would not close a file if the Cancel button was pushed during the compare

New In This Version (For MAME 0.181)

• Added: Screen shots for machines formally found in MESS can now be displayed if created with F12 or Alt+F12
• Added: The BIOS drop-down now lists BIOS for machines formally found in MESS when configuring their options
• Added: You can now audit all ROMs of the machines formally found in MESS
• Changed: The Category filter can now filter machines formally found in MESS
• Changed: The Maintenance screen is now available when viewing machines formally found in MESS
• Fixed: A parent's screen shot would be displayed even if you didn't chose to use parent screen shots for clones
• Fixed: Ampersand (&) symbols would not be visible in the game lists
• Fixed: Changes to the BIOS Filter or Category Filter would not cause the lists to refresh with those changes if the changes were de-selecting everything
• Fixed: MAME would run on the main display even if another display was set in the screen option

New In This Version (For MAME 0.178)

• Added: New OSD Video option monitorprovider
• Added: Additional selections in the Help pull-down menu
• Fixed: The Help pull-down menu now works with the recent changes in the MAME/docs directory
• Fixed: Replaced GLSL shader value "None" with "none" in the mame.ini to prevent MAME from reporting that it cannot find "None.vsh"