KXMAME 1.x
	kxmame 1.x is a KDE port of gxmame with some improvements:

	- Customizable game icon size and toolbar.
	- Auto-rescale screenshots. Added video previews.
	- Improved gamelist search, categorization.
	- Fast, responsive compared to gxmame.
	
KXMAME 2.x
	- Support xmess using the same simple kxmame-1.x interface. It's as
		simple as selecting your game console, double-clicking your
		rom file to launch a game. Individually zipped roms are
		supported.

	- Overhaul of kxmame navigation using joystick. Without touching
		keyboard or mouse, you can use your joystick to browse the
		game list, the filter list, launch a game, switching between
		xmame/xmess executables, launch alternative emulators.
		The joystick buttons used for these tasks can be customized
		in the menu. (The default button settings are for my PS2 pad,
		so it mightnot work with other joystick).

	- Crudely support alternative emulators for xmess. See the file
 		"alternative.dat" included in kxmame source for details (kxmame
 		offers no controls over the video, audio or input settings of
		alternative emulators). Using this file, you can even trick
		kxmame into running emulators for systems that are not
		supported by xmess yet!

	- Many other smaller improvements: more meaningful error messages, 
		slightly more efficient memory usage, better context menu,
		allow disabling video preview in "configure kxmame".


INSTALLING KXMAME:

To compile kxmame source, please make sure you have 
glib and pkg-config installed beside QT and KDE library.

If you downloaded kxmame from CVS, please run this first
make -f Makefile.cvs

To compile and install, run

./configure 
make
make install

RUNNING KXMAME:

To improve kxmame experience, you should download the file 
'catver.ini' (or 'catver') from http://catver.com or 
http://www.mameworld.net/catlist/
(kxmame accepts both files "catver.ini" and "catver").
This helps kxmame to categorize roms and helps with various kxmame
tweaks in game listings. If you prefer the Italian version, 
go to http://www.progettoemma.net/

The search toolbar can be shown or hide by pressing Ctrl+F.

You can specify xmame options in Menu "Settings"->"Configure Kxmame".

Kxmame doesn't provide game screenshots, flyers, cabinets photos, 
preview videos, ... You need to copy these files from somewhere else
to your local harddisk and specify their locations in 
Menu "Settings"->"Directories". Kxmame searches for screenshot in the
following order:
    1. gamename.png (for example: pacman.png)
    2. gamename.* inside a zip file (it can have any extension and is
	not case sensitive). The name of this zip file is snap.zip, 
	flyers.zip, cabinets.zip, marquees.zip, titles.zip depending
	on the corresponding screenshot type.
	
To setup an alternative emulators to xmess for a particular system
	please the examples in alternative.dat that comes with kxmame
	source.