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Ample 0.233

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4 years ago

Ample Changes

  • Added Sparkle update
  • Added Notarization
  • Updated UI to work better on small screens
  • MacOS 11 and 10.11 UI fixes
  • ROM Manager window now has filter for missing ROMS
  • Added bookmark functionality (editing existing bookmarks delayed until later)
  • Added UI for -shared_directory (BOOTI)
  • using null_modem as a serial device now adds a bitbanger field
  • Right-click menu options to reset everything, machine, slots, and media.
  • Window title now include the name of the current machine.
  • Disk drive sounds samples are now disabled by default.
  • 1x Window mode is now the default

Mame Changes

  • Added video menu to capture video as AVI or MNG. See below for more information.
  • VMNet ethnernet now works with IP65's DHCP client code.

Video

If you create a video, it's saved to ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/Ample/snap/MACHINE_NAME.
Two things to note:

  1. Videos get very big very fast.
  2. Videos are half-height (ie, 320 x 100 for IIgs). If you have ffmpeg installed, you can fix the screen size
    with this command: ffmpeg -i 0000.avi -vf scale=iw:ih*2,setsar=1:1 -pix_fmt yuv420p 0000.mp4. This also converts
    to mp4 (which is 90% smaller) and can be opened/edited with QuickTime.

MNG hasn't been popular in 20 years (Just kidding, it was never popular!) but MAME supports it. It was intended to replace animated gifs.

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