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@ilsaul ilsaul released this 22 Oct 17:35
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Emu Loader 10.0.0 – first native 64-bit (Win64) release, built with Delphi 13.

Downloads

  • el1000-win64.zip: full package (new installations). Extract it to a new folder.
  • el1000upd-bin-win64.zip: update for an existing installation: EmuLoader.exe, the 64-bit 7z.dll and updated docs. Back up your folder first.

The 64-bit Emu Loader needs the 64-bit (x64) 7z.dll, included in both packages. A 32-bit 7z.dll from older installations will not work.

First release built with Delphi 13 as a native 64-bit (Win64) application.
Full technical notes of the port are in docs/delphi13-port-notes.md.

Fixed

  • MAME History is shown again with current history.xml files (also affected v9.0.1).
  • Games list readable in day mode when ini_files\sysgamecustomfont.ini does not exist (also affected v9.0.1).
  • Splash screen progress bar drawn black when the "Custom Colors" scheme has no colors set or the screen is narrower than 1280 pixels (also affected v9.0.1).
  • MAME settings:
    • Support for the decimal audio_latency values of MAME 0.278 and newer (0-50 frames, 0.0 default).
    • No crash with an empty language option or empty controller paths (ctrlrpath); controller definitions are collected from every configured folder.
  • Game documents: HTML entities are decoded safely and history parsing no longer reads past the end of the file.
  • Taskbar: a single Emu Loader button with the Emu Loader icon.
  • Thumbnail view no longer crashes on very small images (e.g. 1x1 pixel snapshots).
  • Incremental search no longer crashes after the search timeout.
  • Main toolbar: correct fallback icon for empty arcade filters, readable labels on every button state, and transparent grayscale icons for disabled buttons.
  • Checkbox and radio-button captions no longer overlap their glyphs, also in 4K layouts.
  • Driver Status Filter: glyphs, icons and captions no longer overlap.
  • Dialogs, errors and warnings shown during startup (for example the first-run "Scan Games Mode" screen or missing icon files) appear in front of the always-on-top splash screen instead of being hidden behind it, which made startup look stuck (also affected v9.0.1).
  • The full package contains every file of the 8.9.4 distribution again (some icons were missing, so a clean install showed an error at startup).
  • Help > Visit Homepage links updated:

Changed

  • Ported to Delphi 13, 64-bit (Win64). The Delphi 7 project remains in the repository.
  • Much faster exit with large games lists: closing Emu Loader with about 185,000 games went from about 40 seconds to about 4 seconds.
  • Strings are Unicode (the native string type of Delphi 13).
  • MAMu_ game icons (loose .ico and icons.zip) load faster through a name index of the ZIP archive.
  • ZIP archives are read with the Delphi System.Zip library (replaces ZipForge).
  • PNG and GIF images are decoded with the standard VCL imaging units (replaces GraphicEx).
  • Uses the Delphi built-in memory manager and standard exception handling (FastMM4 and madExcept remain only in the Delphi 7 build).
  • The splash screen and About dialog show "(Pre-release)" beside the version only for pre-release builds.

Removed

  • MAMEWorld entry in Help > Visit Homepage (site no longer exists).

Added

  • MAMu_ icons from icons.7z (the format MAMu_ ships): the archive is extracted once with 7z.dll to cache\mamu_icons\ and extracted again only when it changes. The 64-bit build needs the 64-bit 7z.dll (7-Zip 26.04 x64, now included next to the executable, with its license in docs\7-Zip-License.txt); otherwise the one installed in Program Files\7-Zip\ is used.
  • Optional diagnostic log (diagnostic.log), enabled in Preferences > General or with the --debug-log command-line option. It records startup, list loading, filters, game launches, dialogs, errors and shutdown timings, with one rotated backup (5 MiB each). Review it before sharing: it can contain local paths and game names.
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