AdvanceMAME v1.5

AdvanceMAME v1.5 is released. AdvanceMAME is an unofficial MAME version with advanced video support for use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies Monitors, and also for PC Monitors.

Features:
* Automatic creation of perfect video modes with the correct size and clock.
* A lot of video boards supported. See the GNU/Linux, DOS and Windows card list.
* Support for 8, 15, 16 and 32 bits video modes.
* Real hardware scanlines.
* Software video image stretching by fractional factors, for example to play vertical games like "Pac-Man" with horizontal Arcade Monitors or TVs.
* Special scale, lq and hq effects to improve the aspect with modern PC Monitors. See Scale2x and hq3x pages for examples.
* Special blit effects to improve the image quality in stretching. See Blit Effetcs for examples.
* Special rgb effects to simulate the aspect of a real Arcade Monitor See Rgb Effetcs for examples.
* Change of the video mode and other video options at runtime. See the Snapshots.
* Support of Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) with a multiple threads architecture in Linux.
* Sound and Video recording in WAV, PNG and .MNG files.
* Multiple mice support in Linux, DOS, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
* Automatic exit after some time of inactivity.
* Scripts capabilities to drive external hardware devices like LCDs and lights.
* Textual configuration files.
* Help screen describing the user input keys.

AdvanceMAME v1.5 Changelog:
* Imported the Toaplan driver from ThunderMAME32Plus-v0.106X.
This adds sound support with samples at the games:
'batsugun', 'dogyuun', 'ghox', 'samesame', 'tekipaki',
'vfive' and 'vimana'.
* Imported the CPS3 driver from ThunderMAME32Plus-v0.106X.
This adds the games: 'sfiii', 'jojo' and 'warzard'.
* Fixed a crashing issue in 68000 games, like Altered Beast.
* Added knocker support to Q*bert. You should see a keyboard
led on when the knocker is active [hainet].
* Set the SCHED_FIFO scheduling policy with sched_setscheduler().
This is reported to improve performance on Raspberry
Pi 2 boards.
Note that this ha effect only with root permission.
You can see in the log for "os: scheduling".
* Windows binaries built with MingW 4.9.3 using the MXE cross compiler at
commit 62bcdbee56e87c81f1faa105b8777a5879d4e2e with targets
i686-w64-mingw32 and x86_64-w64-mingw32 and optimization -O2.
* DOS binaries built with DJGPP 4.8.5 from
https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp

Download: AdvanceMAME v1.5
Source: Here