QMC2 0.66 released

http://qmc2.batcom-it.net/index.php/2016/07/27/qmc2-0-66-released/

QMC2 0.66 has been released. It’s synced with MAME 0.176 which was released earlier today!

Besides some more or less important bug-fixes and nice improvements related to building with system-provided zlib and/or minizip libraries (instead of using the built-in ones), work has been started on a long-awaited new feature called filtered custom views. While the views actually already run mostly fine (and are super-fast) it’s still incomplete. Most importantly the actual filtering doesn’t work yet, and it’s missing a tree mode (flat mode only right now). Because of this, the relevant code is WIP-ified at the moment, which means that you will not be able to try this feature in official builds (if you would like to test it, you’d have to build QMC2 from source and specify WIP=1 on the make command line).

You’ll also find a new database in QMC2’s configuration folder which is used to feed these views (/mame-machine-list.db). This so called machine list database will automatically be (re)created each time the machine list cache is refreshed (also in official builds). Long-term it will likely replace the machine list cache (file) completely.

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

Full change-log for 0.66:

fix: device configurator: don’t implicitly save device configurations on item activation as it may kill the currently chosen configuration’s mappings
fix: fixed a rare start-up crash caused by not waiting for the options to be fully applied
fix: corrected the man-page generation script (scripts/txt2man.sh) to not output an unsupported macro
fix: Qt 5 build fixes (BT #130)
imp: emulator configuration templates updated to MAME 0.176 (changed default value for ‘bgfx_avi_name’)
imp: updated category.ini to MAME 0.176
imp: build: system-wide zlib and/or minizip libraries can now be used by specifying SYSTEM_ZLIB=1 and/or SYSTEM_MINIZIP=1 — thanks to Julian Sikorski
imp: build: revised the Makefile to cleanlier support building & installing of qchdman and qmc2-arcade
imp: updated PDF.js to a newer git revision (as of 10-JUL-2016)
new: added a machine list database that’s used by additional filtered custom views (WIP-info: the view is already *mostly* working)

[Posted by: abelenki]