MAME WORKS !!!! well .... sort of...
 

I am pleased to announce that I got mame to run on my Nokia 770 !
I am very displeased to announce that it runs like a slug.

This is what I did.... any help much appreciated.

I got scratchbox running on my suse box...
downloaded and compiled advancemame with a few warnings
ran it once or twice on scratchbox
transferred the directory structure to my nokia 770.
(I was testing, otherwise I would have just downloaded the executable)
ran advmame which is in obj/mame/linux/blend/advmame

which generated config files/directories
/home/user/.advance/*

Then I edited advmame.rc and changed a couple of keybindings.

loaded some roms into /home/user/.advance/rom

then ran advmame again
advmame dkong (donkey kong)


It isn't really playable.... It has serious speed issues.
But, everything seems to work.


Anyone have any ideas/pointers to what could be done to speed it up?


- geekdoc (not an actual programmer, but I play one on tv)

PS. I think I might be able to get it to display on the side that way double size should fit!

P.P.S. please excuse fingerprint smudges on pics.

WOW..great work!...looks promising. I'm not a programmer so I don't know much about porting stuff. But have you look into the GP2X version of MAME? Maybe it will have better results since GP2X is already linux.

Awesome!

-Jason

GP2X ... I don't know.... I don't think it will work, but I will try.
The thing is that I compiled the main release without doing ANY tweaks at all.

I think that with some proper flags and tweaks to optimize the display...
it should fly... hopefully !!!

I haven't even looked at what libraries are used for the display.

The thing is I haven't done any serious programming in over 5 years....
and I don't really have the time now, but I will play with it.


-geekdoc

Once this is mature, I've got one of my co-workers sold on a 770. "Not 'til MAME" he says.

What version of MAME are you running? Have you tried an older version, such as 0.36, which I think is what most light computers like Palm use?

Gcc Options and versions.and SDL...
 

I was using the latest advance mame, from sourceforge.
But, I decided to try regular old x.mame. I will look at the different
versions.

My main concern is....
What gcc flags do I need to use to optimize this?
I understand that it is an Omap 1710 processor which translates to a
arm926 processor and armv5 for the architecture.
can I use the option for -mycpu=arm926ej-s
and -march=armv5 in scratchbox?
What are the other flags necessary for proper operation/optimization?

And lastly, I am using the latest version of sandbox, and the latest
version of the bootstrap.
I saw somewhere on maemo that you are supposed to replace a
library name in libSDL.la ... but the replacement library libstdc++.la (I think that was the name) doesn't exist.


Anyway.... If anyone can point me in the proper direction ...
Much Appreciated.


=-geekdoc