well... I played mame 0.37 so much times and I dont found so much problem as you say honeslty(plz write some examples)...
Download(via torrent) all the mame4all rom set was quite easy and fast...I do it in half a day...
The acuracy of mame 0.37 was really enough for me...what do you need exactly?
And, also, plz tell me some roms that newest amme support that was playable on our obsolete hw (maybe only x1000 was sometimes enough for that new roms/mame)
ANd remember...there was really MUCH Sam440 users than x1000(at least 1/20 I think)
TO MODERATORS: sorry I've misswrite my poll so pls changfe the title as the first line of the poll, I forgot to add the title ad so the first line was the title now...
The X1000 is quite fast enough to run MAME and with OpenGL support it could be quite a capable machine for it, because of its RAM speed.
MAME doesn't benefit from OpenGL at all. except maybe on systems on which "drawing pixels to screen" is significantly slower.
If the system can handle it properly, I'd say it's always faster to draw directly to graphics ram, and let overlay (or same feature with another name) handle the scaling.
Also, all 3D in all games are done by emulating the hardware in question, you cannot simply "drop in" OpenGL.