The UK coder Warmtoe has added his recently completed lightgun code to a new build of Maim (Warmtoe’s DC variation on Mame).

Heres an excerpt taken from Warmtoes post in our forums:

You may all remember I did some work on getting a lightgun driver into KOS. You may also remember that I’d done a mod of MAME on the DC (called MAIM). You may know that the latest source level of MAME (0.61) included lightgun support for arcade games that use it…

You take these 3 things together, and what do you get? Well….

A version of MAME that plays the EXIDY440 series of arcade gun games with a lightgun on a DC (badly).

It’s limited – Sound is broken, you have to have a gun in port A and a std controller in port B for the RTRIG (coin up). Escape (back to menu) is START+TRIGGER on the gun – and then a subsequent game run won’t accept input on the ‘OK’ screen BUT it does work!

Games that use the Exidy driver and are LightGun derivative include:

-Combat
-Chiller
-Crossbow
-Cheyenne
-Crackshot
-Clay Pigeon
-Hit ‘n Miss
-Who Dunit

Please post any findings/questions you have in the Forum Topic where the downloads are now available.

Bigs thanks to Warmtoe for this release!