MAME Legacy

Building legacy MAME on new systems.

Install prerequisite development packages on Ubuntu

   zlib1g-dev \
   libx11-dev \
   libxext-dev \
   libxv-dev \
   libasound2-dev \

These may need to be installed as well:

   libz-dev \
   libxi-dev \
   libexpat1-dev \
   libncurses-dev \
   libusb-dev \
   libxxf86dga-dev \
   libxxf86vm-dev

Build the executable

  tar xvjf dist/xmame-0.79.1.tar.bz2
  ln -s xmame-0.79.1/ xmame
  cd xmame
  cat xmame-0.79.1/patch.txt | patch -p1
  make -f makefile.unix  SHELL='sh -x' MY_CPU=amd64 DISPLAY_METHOD=x11 SOUND_ALSA=1 LDFLAGS=''