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1.5.4

- Added: Option to play a avi on startup (default is start.avi) see URL to video on site.

- Fixed: Information not working after verifying a game (if info. pane wasn't visible).

- Removed: OK and Cancel buttons from Folders dialogue.

- Added: Add Root button to Folders dialogue.

- Changed: Folders dialogue now supports multiple paths for all the search paths.

- Changed: Options dialogue is always modal (on top).

- Replaced: Effects dropdown with a textbox and common dialogue (MRUD is saved).

- Replaced: Input Layout dropdown with a textbox and common dialogue (MRUD is saved).

- Fixed: History not updating when removing a game from favourites.

- Removed: Unavailable list. You can still see what sets aren't available by the icon type.

- Removed: Option to use history if one is found. Now if one is found, it will be used.

- Changed: Cleaned up much code.

- Added: "Fonts" to Folders dialogue.

- Added: Full mame.ini path to Folders titlebar.

- Fixed: Icons need aligning after Verify ROMs, selecting an exe and changing a ROM folder(s).

- Fixed: Stores game ini files in MAME root folder if inipath is set to "." alone.

 

Some notes:

"." = root path, i.e. where the mame executable resides.

If a mame ini is in the root and has more than 1 path for the inipath line including ".",

then the first path found starting from left that isn't "." will be used for game ini files.

 

If you want MAME to read a mame.ini in a folder that isn't in the root path, you need to

delete "." from the Folders dialogue. This is because MAME will check the root first if "."

is the first path for inipath.

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Amstrad CPC emulator

- 28.12.2006 (v1.71) :

* The FDC handles 6 KB sectors, so disc protections used in "Double Dragon (Mastertronic)", "The Addams Family" and other games work correctly now.

* A pair of tiny bugfixes (overscan wrapping in DOS and hardware ports ghosting) allows Hermol's "XMAS2006" intro to show despite a bug (the command at $8C3F should be LD BC,$BC00

instead of LD BC,$00BC).

* DOUBLE_SPEED is now TURBO_SPEED and speeds the Z80 up to 8, 12, 16 or 24 MHz, as defined by TURBO_VALUE or /t; former /t (command line option for ROM_TYPE) is now /m.

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Zalbard has released an alternative PSX ISO converter to PopStation. This app does not require a Hot Shots Golf 2 EBOOT, nor KEYS.bin, nor popstation.exe, nor cygwin.dll. The conversion speed is about the same as with PopStation, but can be faster in some cases. The author noted that the save problems still exist, so you'll still have to do some editing yourself.

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MAME32FX

MAME32qa

MAMEinfo.dat

info.dat and MAME32Hp4