Ample 237

• Includes MAME 0.237 (custom build)
• Added Laser 128 (original hardware)

Ample 236-1

• Includes MAME 0.236 (custom build)

release 20 included MAME 0.235 due to a build SNAFU. It has been replaced with release 21 (below) which truly includes MAME 0.236

Ample 0.236

• Include MAME 0.236 (custom build)

release 20 included MAME 0.235 due to a build SNAFU. It has been replaced with release 21 (below) which truly includes MAME 0.236

Ample 0.235

Ample Changes

• When using a MIDI card, there is a pop-up menu to select the MIDI device.

MAME changes:

• Touch Bar support! Current functions include pause/resume, fast forward (active while button held down), toggle mouse capture, toggle full screen, and mute MAME.

Ample 0.234

• Includes MAME 0.234

Ample 0.234 (WIP)

Special KFest update

Ample Changes

• UI for debug rewinding (-rewind)
• Computer eyes (game io) will enable picture selection in the media section
• Fixed a problem where custom MAME settings were ignored.
• Double-clicking a disk image from the Recent Image window will try to put it in an appropriate place.
• Fixed a problem where "Downloading..." text didn't update after downloading finished.

MAME changes:

• Updated version somewhere between 0.233 and 0.234
• Apple II/II+, etc. now use a normal keyboard layout.
• Apple IIe/IIc, etc. keyboard mapping for right-control key
• Apple IIgs - keyboard mapping for right control/option/command keys

Ample 0.233

Ample Changes

• Added Sparkle update
• Added Notarization
• Updated UI to work better on small screens
• MacOS 11 and 10.11 UI fixes
• ROM Manager window now has filter for missing ROMS
• Added bookmark functionality (editing existing bookmarks delayed until later)
• Added UI for -shared_directory (BOOTI)
• using null_modem as a serial device now adds a bitbanger field
• Right-click menu options to reset everything, machine, slots, and media.
• Window title now include the name of the current machine.
• Disk drive sounds samples are now disabled by default.
• 1x Window mode is now the default

Mame Changes

• Added video menu to capture video as AVI or MNG. See below for more information.
• VMNet ethnernet now works with IP65's DHCP client code.

Video

If you create a video, it's saved to ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/Ample/snap/MACHINE_NAME.
Two things to note:

1. Videos get very big very fast.
2. Videos are half-height (ie, 320 x 100 for IIgs). If you have ffmpeg installed, you can fix the screen size
   with this command: ffmpeg -i 0000.avi -vf scale=iw:ih*2,setsar=1:1 -pix_fmt yuv420p 0000.mp4. This also converts
   to mp4 (which is 90% smaller) and can be opened/edited with QuickTime.

MNG hasn't been popular in 20 years (Just kidding, it was never popular!) but MAME supports it. It was intended to replace animated gifs.

0.233 (WIP)

• Test Release
• Added Sparkle update
• Added Notarization
• Updated UI to work better on small screens
• MacOS 11 and 10.11 UI fixes
• ROM Manager window now has filter for missing ROMS
• Added bookmark functionality (editing existing bookmarks delayed until later)
• Added UI for -shared_directory (BOOTI)
• using null_modem as a serial device now adds a bitbanger field
• Right-click menu options to reset everything, machine, slots, and media.
• Disk drive sounds samples are now disabled by default.
• Window title now include the name of the current machine.

Ample 0.232

• Now a universal binary! with arm64 and x64 support. (Which also means it's twice as big)
• Includes Mame 0.232
• New! Software list support.
• Log window now has a trash button to clear the contents
• (Mac machine) builtin SCSI devices are now configurable (Hard disk, CD Rom, or None)

Software List Support

MAME supports a shorthand method of specifying disk image sets. There is now an auto-complete text box to select one. This is most useful for self booting games.

See https://github.com/ksherlock/ample/wiki/Software-List-Search-algorithm for more information on how these disk images are found.

The auto-completion menu has a couple rough edges on Big Sur. Sorry!

Ample 0.231

• Updated naming convention to match the embedded MAME version
• Includes MAME 0.231
• Not much else going on