I have not updated the page in a year and haven’t updated the source either, so what’s up?

Well, I’ve had a stroke last year. Still recovering – that’s life!

I have no idea how long it will take, but believe me, there’s nothing which took equally long. No joke, it’s frustrating but you have to keep it going. With regard to QMC2 this means a longer downtime, and I heard that the last version does not run all so well with latest MAME. I’m sorry about that, but you / we have to wait. In any case, the next version will be one that will no longer support Qt 4, Qt 5 will be required (probably the latest version).

See ya!

The official binary QMC2 packages for openSUSE Linux and Windows have been updated to v0.195!

Package links are in the download section:

• openSUSE (Leap 42.3, Factory and Tumbleweed)
• Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10)

QMC2 0.195 has been released!

There has been a change in MAME’s -listfull command in 0.195 which forces us to release a new version of QMC2 although we’re not really ready for it. However, a few bug-fixes and improvements went in since the last version, so it’s probably worth a new release anyway.

For details see the change-log below!

The source code is now available in the download section. As always, expect updated binary packages within the next few hours and days.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

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The official binary package of QMC2 for Mac OS X has been updated to v0.192 as well!

See package link in the download section:

• Mac OS X (Intel only)

The official binary QMC2 packages for openSUSE Linux and Windows have been updated to v0.192!

Package links are in the download section:

• openSUSE (13.1, 13.2, Leap 42.1, Leap 42.2, Leap 42.3, Factory and Tumbleweed)
• Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10)

QMC2 0.192 has been released!

Our first release after five months… sorry that it took so long, but real life made it impossible to keep up with the pace of the MAME team. Anyway, it’s still a rather big update this time, including many bug-fixes (thanks to MusicLovr for his tests and reports regarding quite a few of them!), some nice performance and stability improvements, as well as a bit of new stuff.

There’s also work going on that will eventually allow users to create his / her own views (of the machine list) which can be filtered in any thinkable way. This new feature isn’t 100% ready for prime-time yet (no filtering, no tree mode), so it will not be included in any official build at the moment. However, UI integration, view-management and the (flat) view itself are already performing very nicely. If you would like to try it, you would currently have to build it yourself and add WIP=1 on the make command line. Otherwise, expect this feature addition to be ready for the next release (whenever that will be).

Also, we’re aware that changing slots / slot-options isn’t working at the moment. That’s due to earlier changes in MAME related to -listxml, and QMC2 currently has no support for what has to be done now (the front-end itself needs to traverse the MAME device tree according to XML). We have to redo the related module from scratch. If all goes well it should be ready until the next release, too. No promise implied, though.

For even more details consult the change-log below!

The source code is now available in the download section. As always, expect updated binary packages within the next few hours and days.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

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The official binary QMC2 packages for openSUSE Linux and Windows have been updated to v0.187!

Package links are in the download section:

• openSUSE (13.1, 13.2, Leap 42.1, Leap 42.2, Leap 42.3, Factory and Tumbleweed)
• Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10)

QMC2 0.187 has been released!

This version comes with a number of more or less important bug-fixes and improvements for system- and software-notes, software-lists and QMC2 Arcade (which also supports the icon cache database now). For more details see the change-log below!

The source code is now available in the download section. As always, expect updated binary packages within the next few hours and days.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

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The official binary QMC2 packages for openSUSE Linux, Windows and Mac OS X have been updated to v0.186!

Package links are in the download section:

• openSUSE (13.1, 13.2, Leap 42.1, Leap 42.2, Leap 42.3, Factory and Tumbleweed)
• Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10)
• Mac OS X (Intel only)

After a longer-than-expected delay, QMC2 0.186 has finally been released!

There has been some real-life stuff preventing an earlier release, nothing to worry about though, just things that make fun (my son and I are building a practice room for our upcoming band… I’m the drummer, and the one that owns the house and pays the bills. It’s about 70% done. 😉 ).

Despite this (free-)time-consuming work, still a number of important bug-fixes and improvements went into QMC2 again. Most importantly, MAME 0.186 can now be used without any (known) issues. For details see the change-log below!

The source code is now available in the download section. As always, expect updated binary packages within the next few hours and days.

Have fun,

The QMC2 dev-team

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