Interestingly, I can run dmame.exe in both Windows and Mac versions of DOSBox when core=normal or simple. Simple mode seems to show more fps than normal mode. This seems to suggest that dynamic compilation is broken on the Mac version of DOSBox, since as soon as you set core=auto or dynamic you get …

Thanks WD, Neville and Addict. Good advice, which I will definately be following up. I was using DOS mame from the http://www.arcadeathome.com/ site as I wanted to get mame resources all from one site and many sites didn't seem to have mame binaries for all platforms. It seems development has sadly …

The cunning plan was thus: I would make a DOS environment with a front end (Game Launcher) to run Mame, with a view to making a cabinet eventually. I don't want to run Windows. While setting up the DOS environment I was going to use mame through DOSBox on Windows, Mac and Linux since I have several …