![]() Added menus for controlling toggle inputs, and showing recognised input devices and control state. Moved input menu options off main menu to a submenu, as there are a lot of them now. Moved menu heading drawing into base class, added headings to more menus, and made headings more consistent with the menu items used to reach them. Also made terminology more consistent. Changed the default names for buttons and hat switches/D-pads to use 1-based numbering. DirectInput still returns 0-based button numbers for some devices. Removed local copy of MinGW xaudio2.h as it’s now included in the MSYS2 package. Also fixed building the DirectSound sound output module with the SDL OSD on Windows - the Windows headers are sensitive to include order. Started adding documentation for menus, to hopefully help people find menus they remember seeing but can't recall how to access. For translators, this makes terminology more consistent. In particular: * "Settings" is preferred over "configuration" in a number of places, as the latter can be construed as referring specifically to settings stored in .cfg files in the cfg_directory folder. Also, references to saving machine configuration could be interpreted as relating to the settings on the "Machine Configuration" menu. * The controls on host input devices (e.g. keys, buttons, joystick axes) are referred to as "controls", while emulated inputs are referred to as "inputs". * The menus for assigning host controls to emulated inputs are called "input assignments" menus to distinguish them from other input settings menus. * Combinations of controls that can be assigned to emulated inputs are referred to as "combinations" rather than "sequences". * The potentially confusing term "ROM set" has been removed altogether. Use "short name" to refer to a device or system's identifier. * "System" is used in almost places to refer to a complete, runnable system rather than "Machine". * "Driver" is now only used to refer to source files where systems or devices are defined - it is no longer used to refer to individual systems. * A few more menus have message context for the messages. This makes it a bit easier to guess where the messages are used. It also means you can use different translations in different places if necessary (e.g. if the same English text should be translated differently as an item in one menu and as a heading in another). |
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MAME
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Static analysis status for entire build (except for third-party parts of project):
What is MAME?
MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework.
MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.
How to compile?
If you're on a UNIX-like system (including Linux and macOS), it could be as easy as typing
make
for a MAME build,
make SUBTARGET=arcade
for an arcade-only build, or
make SUBTARGET=mess
for a MESS build.
See the Compiling MAME page on our documentation site for more information, including prerequisites for macOS and popular Linux distributions.
For recent versions of macOS you need to install Xcode including command-line tools and SDL 2.0.
For Windows users, we provide a ready-made build environment based on MinGW-w64.
Visual Studio builds are also possible, but you still need build environment based on MinGW-w64. In order to generate solution and project files just run:
make vs2019
or use this command to build it directly using msbuild
make vs2019 MSBUILD=1
Where can I find out more?
- Official MAME Development Team Site (includes binary downloads, wiki, forums, and more)
- Official MESS Wiki
- MAME Testers (official bug tracker for MAME and MESS)
Contributing
Coding standard
MAME source code should be viewed and edited with your editor set to use four spaces per tab. Tabs are used for initial indentation of lines, with one tab used per indentation level. Spaces are used for other alignment within a line.
Some parts of the code follow Allman style; some parts of the code follow K&R style -- mostly depending on who wrote the original version. Above all else, be consistent with what you modify, and keep whitespace changes to a minimum when modifying existing source. For new code, the majority tends to prefer Allman style, so if you don't care much, use that.
All contributors need to either add a standard header for license info (on new files) or inform us of their wishes regarding which of the following licenses they would like their code to be made available under: the BSD-3-Clause license, the LGPL-2.1, or the GPL-2.0.
License
The MAME project as a whole is made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL-2.0+), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses. A great majority of the source files (over 90% including core files) are made available under the terms of the 3-clause BSD License, and we would encourage new contributors to make their contributions available under the terms of this license.
Please note that MAME is a registered trademark of Gregory Ember, and permission is required to use the "MAME" name, logo, or wordmark.

Copyright (C) 1997-2021 MAMEDev and contributors
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as provided in
docs/legal/GPL-2.0.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.
Please see COPYING for more details.