* Xfire is free, small, and easy to install

* Keep track of when and where your friends are playing PC games, and join them with one click

* IM your friends from within games while you play

* Fast file download system with special game channels

* Powerful server browser

* Profile-based stats tracking.

* Voice chat

 

Release notes for 1.66 - November 30th, 2006

 

* Added some basic protection against receiving too many messages (IM spam).

* Added Xfire In-Game support to all of the 18 Wheels of Steel games we support and Sim City 4.

* Fixed a priority issue causing voice chat to be corrupted in CPU-intensive games.

* Fixed a problem causing wasted CPU time after logging off/on without exiting Xfire.

* Fixed a problem on Windows 98 that caused skin drawing corruption.

* Improved the display of game statistics for Quake 3 and Jedi Academy on profile pages.

* Changed instant messages to go directly between the two Xfire applications (instead of through the servers) when possible.

* Fixed the voice chat button on certain older skins (including Combat, Dodge Caliber, Grandma's Boy, and Stream Engine).

* Fixed problem with blocked users not always being blocked from all communication with you.

* Worked around bad applications that install old versions of PSAPI.DLL in incorrect directories; the bad applications would cause Xfire to crash if you have IE 7 installed.

* Improved application behavior when there is no available disk space.

* Added support for EA Downloader versions of many games.

* New games supported: Neverwinter Nights 2, Need for Speed Carbon, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Need for Speed Carbon Demo, Pro Evolution Soccer 6, Football Manager 2007, Championship Manager 2007, Splinter Cell Double Agent Single Player, Splinter Cell Double Agent Multiplayer, SkillGround.com, 1701 A.D, Medieval II Total War, Panzer Command, Warhammer Mark of Chaos, Heroes of Might and Magic V - Hammers of Fate, Falcon 4.0 Allied Force, The Settlers II - 10th Anniversary, and Reservoir Dogs.

Source / Download

Kaillera-enabled MAME.

0.110u3.1 (2006.12.01)

 

* [ripurei] playback function of wolfmame type (test edition) sound processing correction at time of AVI video recording (sound gap reduction?)

 

* Modification of search position of high score DB (the same place as binary) ROM idea contest name of list view in original name

>> Get it HERE.

Emerson Arcadia emulators

Changes since 2.14a:

 

* "Log illegal reads" option.

* "Log illegal writes" option.

* Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

>> Get it HERE (about halfway down the page).

Front End

29-NOV-2006: QMC2 0.1.b6 - supports SDLMAME!

 

Hello everybody!

 

Today we release QMC2 0.1.b6, which now includes support for SDLMAME (requires Qt 4.2.0+!). Other than that, some bugs have been fixed, several new features were added - i.e. gamelist sorting - and the ROM check has been improved.

 

Changes since v0.1.b5:

 

* fix: widgets disabled during gamelist reload not re-enabled if parser prematurely stopped

* fix: ROMs with attribute runnable="no" removed from gamelist (caused incorrect counters)

* fix: total game count determination didn't cleanly return in case of an error

* fix: build: check qmake version for ALL targets

* fix: ROM check: don't rely on full lines from sub-process, buffered output might be truncated

* imp: some code-cleanups

* imp: removed log entry for loading of preview images

* new: selectable criteria and order for gamelist sort (case insensitive) - note that Qt 4.2.0+ performs much better due to the new "stable sort" for QTreeWidget (and other item views)

* new: when emulators are still running when QMC2 is about to exit, the user can decide to kill them or keep them alive

* new: options Frontend/Gamelist/SortCriteria, .../SortOrder, Frontend/GUI/KillEmulatorsOnExit and MAME/FilesAndDirectories/ROMPath added

* new: SDLMAME-support, including new options template (use "make SDLMAME=1" to enable support for SDLMAME, default is XMAME!)

* new: setup-wizard: checks valid configuration and asks for MAME executable if neccessary

* new: added ROM state M(ostly correct) for verification result "best available" (indicated by a yellow-green sphere)

 

This release has been built and tested with Qt 4.2.0!

>> Get the source code HERE.