Kelvin Sherlock, creator of the Ample GraphicalUser Interface for the MAME emulator, has released a new version of the interface. Release 56 of Ample brings the interface in line with the 0.264 release of MAME and includes a host of fixes and changes including the following:
Ample Changes
- Added some ORIC and TRS COCO machines.
- ORIC used 3″ floppies but we pretend they’re 3.5″ in the UI
- added 4x window option since ORIC needs it.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing 3.5″ disks from working on Macintosh
- double-clicking on a rom in the rom window will start the download
MAME 0.264 Changes of note
- Apple IIgs joystick fixed
- Apple IIe reset fixed
- SNES-Max card support
Ample-MAME changes of note
The Apple IIgs driver now supports the host.fst wdm protocol. (A disk image of the driver and fst are located in the Ample.app/SharedSupport/ directory). The share directory (look in the Paths tab of Ample) is treated as a networked MFS server. There are some configuration settings available in UI Mode (delete/fn-delete), press tab, and select “Machine Configuration”. CR/LF Translation will automatically convert CR/LF in text (TXT or SRC) files. Merlin Translation will automatically handle CR/LF and high-ASCII conversion for text (TXT) files that end in “.S”.
Download
You can download the latest version of Ample from the Github page at:
