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GroovyMAME, also known as GroovyUME, is a fork of MAME/UME with
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greater emphasis on CRT monitor support, in order to provide smoother
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gameplay with less input lag than using regular MAME on an LCD screen.
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GroovyMAME has a discussion forum:
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http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?board=52.0
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GroovyMAME used to be provided as a patch against the standard MAME
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sources, until its author made it a proper fork on github. This
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SlackBuild supports patching the MAME sources with the GroovyMAME
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changes from github.
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To build with GroovyMAME, export GROOVY=yes in the environment. The
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resulting mame package will mention GroovyMAME in its slack-desc
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(which you will see when you install it).
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If you get an error that says there is no GroovyMAME patch for this
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version of MAME, that means that I updated mame.SlackBuild before the
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GroovyMAME author made a release based on that version of MAME (or,
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it means you're trying to build a newer MAME by setting VERSION in the
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environment). You can check for a release at:
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https://github.com/antonioginer/GroovyMAME/releases
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If there's no release matching your MAME version, you're out of luck.
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Wait until there is one.
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If there *is* a new release, you have two choices:
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1. Wait until I update the GroovyMAME patch. I can't guarantee that
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I'll always do this in a timely manner. Please don't email and
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bug me about this: I maintain over 700 SlackBuilds, and I try to
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have a life outside of that, too.
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2. Run mame.SlackBuild with GROOVY=update in the environment. This
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will attempt to create a GroovyMAME patch for the MAME version
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you're building, if the GroovyMAME author has done a release. If
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you get a "can't find GroovyMAME release" error, that means there
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isn't one yet, so you'll have to wait a few days. If you know for
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a fact that there *is* a release, it means there's probably a bug
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in my mkgroovy.sh script (in which case, please do contact me by
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email, so I can fix it).
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Note that GROOVY=update requires the SlackBuild to access the Internet
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(which SlackBuilds normally don't do). Specifically, it runs "curl"
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as the root user, and downloads a JSON file and the actual diff (if
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found) from https://api.github.com. If you don't trust this, you can
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instead run the mkgroovy.sh script (found in the same directory as the
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SlackBuild) as a non-root user, and copy the resulting .diff to the
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SlackBuild directory.
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If you have multiple gm*.diff files that match the MAME version, the
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script will try to use the one with the highest GroovyMAME version
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number. If it picks the wrong one, remove the ones you don't want
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to use.
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NOTE: I don't currently own any CRT monitors that work on a PC, so I
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can't actually test the GroovyMAME enhancements.
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