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That's a really old version: more than 10 years ago.
It requires libraries whose versions have to be that old, which means a lot of time and energy to spend in order to have something usable.
Sorry but I don't have this time.

Ok thanks,

we will struggle to get any major improvements with new versions of mame because the N900 is classed as low powered in the eyes of mame and these later builds are created for a more high powered machine.unless a new version comes out with massive changes and from my experience (i update mame on my pc regularly) mame improvements are quite small for my usage.

I am not sure what everyone else thinks but if we could have an older version which supports roms pre year 2000 with good performance on low powered machines like our N900 and that would still be 3000+ roms - running along side the latest builds so the overclocking folk out there can still get there fix of the latest roms. that would make mame emulation on the N900 stand right out.

There are some simple roms on mame which do not run as they should and without overclocking your N900 it would be good to have this option.

@Bazza: if you could link here the sources of mame 37b5 and its required libraries as they are used by pandora, that would certainly eases things in order to assess the difficulty of having this particular version available for the N900

Would the gp2x wiz version do?

Sure, if you are able to provide the sources for all the required libraries.
The idea is to avoid to start from scratch, so if gp2x wiz devs already have a ready to compile version of those libraries and this specific mame version, it should not take too long to know if a N900 port can easily be done

The GP2X WIZ and CAANOO are pretty much the same machine.

Will this do ??

or

this

I had a look at the 2.6 version, but it seems highly modified to suit caanoo, wiz and gp2x; including assembly code.
I'm afraid I'm not the right guy for this task.

A few months ago Flandry mame n900 creator said me that he will do a new mame version for january-february but now is june and nothing.

We can
Ask to flandry by a new version with more roms compatible and more speed.

Did you take a look at the 2nd link i posted??

@Bazza: it's just an earlier version of the same software

@samipower: as I said above, I made a deb for 0.143. It's ready to upload if someone accepts to host it, or I can send the patches to Flandry if he's willing to make a new release