MESS 0.144 released

[Robert]

Get it here --> http://mess.redump.net/downloads

 

0.144

 

New System Drivers Supported:

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- Sanyo MBC-200 [Matt Dawson,Angelo Salese,Miodrag Milanovic]

 

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:

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- Juicebox [Tim Schuerewegen]

- Avigo [sandro Ronco]

 

Skeleton drivers:

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- BK-8T Terminal [DATAsoft]

 

System Driver Changes:

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- ti99: Fixed GROM address counter handling and GRAMKracker's wrong RAM pointer [Michael Zapf]

- ti99: Fixed GRAMKracker's write protection [Michael Zapf]

- pc1512: Added a dump of the WD1015 MCU. [John Elliott]

- mac: Further improvements to Quadra 700; System 7.5.0 (and probably 7.1) will boot, but system remains NOT_WORKING due to many known flaws. Fixed slot interrupts on IIci so 4-head operation is possible. [R. Belmont]

- iq151: Added slot interface and moved video32/video64/disc2 emulation into slots. [sandro Ronco]

- iq151: Added emulation of Grafik module. [sandro Ronco]

- amiga: a number of games seem to get confused when there's two drives (they wait for a index pulse on the second) [O. Galibert]

- mac: Fixed name of Asante MC3NB card, added Apple NuBus Ethernet Card which the Asante is a perfect clone of, fixed 24-bit mirroring so ethernet cards work in all slots [R. Belmont]

- amstrad: Added support for ROMbox, SSA-1 speech synth and DK'Tronics speech

synth to be used in a daisy-chain of expansion devices. [barry Rodewald]

- samcoupe: Hook up the new wd1772, format support incomplete though [O. Galibert]

- abc1600: Added portrait/landscape layouts. [Curt Coder]

- abc800: Refactored the ABC bus to single-slot (as it really is). [Curt Coder]

- aes: cleanup of code, and made aes use neogeo softlist from MAME [David Haywood]

- mac: fix SCC so AppleTalk check fails gracefully instead of locking up; removed ROM patch on II/IIx/IIcx since it's no longer necessary [R. Belmont]

 

Software Lists:

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- snes.xml: new dump added, NHL '97 Revision A [badinsults]

- snes.xml: redumped and profiled arround 100 cartridges [MESSfan]

- lynx.xml: stripped headers of dumps, removed bad dumps, added auto-rotate code [Huygens]

- astrocde.xml: fix errors and add several new or previously missing dumps [ranger_lennier]

 

Source Changes:

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- amigafdc: Upgrade and fixes [O. Galibert]

- wd1772: Adapt the pll to a 8MHz frequency [O. Galibert]

- ipf: Describe the remaining fields [O. Galibert, SPS]

- floppy,wd1772: First stab at write support, in-memory only for now [O. Galibert]

- ipf: weak bits are usually badly-written/not written zones [O. Galibert]

- floppy: Slot-ize the floppies so that you can choose how many are connected [O. Galibert, R. Belmont]

- ami_dsk: ADF write support [O. Galibert]

- refactored the Commodore IEC bus to use slots. You can now connect up to 4 IEC floppy drives of your choice (1540/1541/1571/1581) to a VIC-20, C64, C128, C16, Plus-4, or C65. [Curt Coder]

- refactored the IEEE-488 bus to use slots. You can now connect up to 4 IEEE-488 floppy drives of your choice (C2040/C3040/C4040/C8050/C8250/SFD1001) to a Commodore PET or CBMB. [Curt Coder]