I've never tried uploading for Diablo. It's just never really occurred to me that it might work. You seem happy with Xmame but i'll try it with my other ports next time, ok?

It's a tribute to the extreme economy of programming back then (assembler and lots of hackish tricks). I'm just fine with gcc and bloated libraries thankyouverymuch.

xmame stopped being maintained a while back at around that version. Originally, the plan was to restructure it. In the end, it was abandoned and sdlmame became the official replacement MAME port for non-windows systems.

Interesting. That's quite a collection you got there. I get better performance with SDLMAME using just -O3, but -O3 with those fancy arch-specific flags gives a pretty consistent 1.5% increase in performance with my test ROM. Heh.

Being a complete noob, i am still discovering standard options to SDLMAME that improve performance much more drastically than optimizing routines or messing with compiler flags. I had completely overlooked the YUV overlay option that uses hardware acceleration to do scaling...d'oh. That wasn't a trivial improvement: it's about a 2.5x acceleration with the undemanding old test ROM. It took gng from ~35% to ~90% performance, so with frame dropping it's pretty well emulated now.

I also fixed the autosave in the new version--i think. It's still a dev release and will probably brick everyone's phone. You shouldn't install it. Don't come crying to me, or more importantly, to T.M.O. when you do anyway, and it does. :P