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> ...,since you still didn't give exact short-names,... I don't need to give exact short-names, because I already said twice that NONE of the chess emulations work, NOT any single machine! I've now tried it with the previous MameUI 0.289, and this version works without problems - only the new version 0.289.5 just doesn't work although compiled with exactly the same method (and external files like GCC etc.). mameui32.exe starts correctly, but no matter which emulation I choose, mameui disappears but the emulation just does NOT start! So there must have anything changed from 0.289 to 0.289.5 that prevents loading (or starting) any machine (at least in the Win32 version) - either it's a problem in the new sources or maybe any newer external file (GCC, MinGW, Python, LUA etc.) is needed for a 32bit 0.289.5 version. > Did you try the build in post #2 of this thread? Yes I've tried it and it works, but for this build he has changed some things in the sources to make it work in WinXP. And I want to make my own version only for chess emulations - I don't need a 400MB program with more than 43000 emulations!

Well, I've tried all kinds of chess machines (Mephisto, Fidelity, Novag etc.) and none of them worked.

Hi Robert, I've used MESSUI/MAMEUI since years to make a special version with only chess emulations, the last time it worked was with MAMEUI 0.288 and the options "make REGENIE=1 PTR64=0 SYMBOLS=0 STRIP_SYMBOLS=1 -j3 OSD=messui SOURCES=...". (using GCC 13.2.0 and creating a 32bit Windows version) Now I've tried it with MAMEUI 0.289.5 and it doesn't work anymore: It's compiling without any errors and the mameui32.exe starts as usual, but whenever I select any chess engine the UI disappears but nothing else happens, the chess engine just doesn't start. In the Taskmanager I see that messui32 is still active (but no chess engine), and I've to kill this messui32 process also in the Taskmanager. Do you have any idea what could be the reason? Has there any important thing changed from 0.288 to 0.289.5?

Thanks, but it's still not working correctly. 1) in history.cpp the following 2 lines after if (BIT(cache, 7)) buffer.append("Save state supported.\n"); else should be removed, else it shows "Save state not supported." in the history tab even if MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE is defined in the driver. EDIT: ignore point 1) - after a new 'Audit' all flags in mame_g.ini have changed and the message in the history tab is correct again. But I don't understand why it was necessary to change the value of this MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE flag!? 2) in newui.cpp commenting out the line "if (window->machine().system().flags & MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE)" and the complete "else" part now enables the "Save/Load State" menu options also if MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE is NOT defined in the driver. This condition "if (window->machine().system().flags & MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE)" has worked now many years in the past, so I wonder what has changed so it now fails!?

Oops, something went wrong - saving and loading states isn't possible anymore (all options greyed out)!

If you comment out the lines 4223+4224 in emu\rendlay.cpp, then this additional yellow mouse pointer is gone: // if (curitem.has_input()) // haveinput = true;

Yep, I remember now that I've made these 2 changes from your file 'makee.bat' that you've mentioned in the thread for version 0.229 here, so you're right: you've already given the right hint to build the 32 bit version MessUI32!

The 2 files I've mentioned are not from old versions at all, I just saw that they are even included in your original 'messui-master'. So it seems, that for MessUI32 these 2 files need to be used instead of the 'official' files in your source!

Well, for v0.230 these files are in the 'Source' download (file 'messui230s.7z') on this website: https://www.progettosnaps.net/messui/ (Of course for 0.234 it should be 'messui234s.7z', but it's not availbale yet) For MessUI32 v0.230 I first used Robert's main file (messui-master), then copied this small source update (messui230s.7z) from ProgrettoSnaps over it, and finally I made these 2 changes mentioned above (at least since MessUI32 v0.230 that doesn't run anymore without these changes). Edit: I just saw, that these 2 files even exist in the original 'messui-master' in the folders 'src\mame\' resp. in 'src\osd\winui\'.

Hi, the last time I've compiled MessUI32 was with version 0.230, and it worked with the following changes: In src\mame\: copy messui.txt mess.flt In src\osd\winui\: copy ui.rc mameui.rc I guess this will still work for newer MessUI32 versions, too - maybe give it a try ...