[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Playing with MAME

[From: Jussi Pakkanen]

Hi

I tried compiling Xmame (http://www.mame.net/) on
Maemo. It was quite simple, merely fiddling with the
makefile was enough. The program runs quite well on
the sdk. I can also compile it with the ARM rootstrap,
but obviously I can't test it. I'm not sure the 770
has enough horsepower to run it, I get very laggy
performance when playing on my PII 300 MHz toy laptop.

I also made a small launcher for the program using
Hildon. Below are some screen shots:

http://users.tkk.fi/~jpakkane/mamelauncher.png
http://users.tkk.fi/~jpakkane/maemo-mame.png

Among the fun things I discovered was that if you
minimize XMame, there is no way to bring it back to
the foreground (it doesn't show up in any of the GUI
process listings). Also the helloworld packaging demo
does not link against Hildon. Making it link requires
unpleasant incantations with Autoconf and Automake.


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