Pinball emulator

Version 1.53 (June 1, 2006) - "GO FASTER!"

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It's been 10 months since our last release.  Every time we thought about making this available, a new issue cropped up that we couldn't resist.  Just one more challenge around the corner to overcome.  I'd like to think this version has had the most testing ever, but if you do find a bug, please let us know.

 

1.53 changes:

 

*** SOUND ***

Improved Inder Sound (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Juegos Populares Sound (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Improved Zaccaria Sound (Gerrit Volenborn/Oliver Kaegi)

Gameplan Sound (Oliver Kaegi)

Added correct sound support for Pennant Fever (Gerrit Volkenborn)

America 1492 sound now works (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Fixed Williams Thunderball Sound (Gerrit Volkenborn)

 

*** CORE/CPU ***

Added keyboard inputs for Rotation 8 - setup/configuration now possible (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Gottlieb Preliminary Display fading (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Mr Game improvements (Steve Ellenoff/Tom Behrens/Gerrit Volkenborn)

Corrected score displays for Peyper/Inder/Sonic (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Added support for LTD - should be working (no sound) - Gerrit Volkenborn

Added improved preliminary support for Playmatic (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Corrected displays for Safecracker, and other WPC games (Tom Behrens/Brian Smith)

Added Stern new region DMD dips (Gerrit Volkenborn)

 

*** COM DLL ***

VPM Display handling changes (Tom Haukaup)

Added dual monitor support (Excentric/Tom Haukap)

Added display rotation for vpm (Tom Haukap)

Corrected direct draw problem for PINMame (Tom Haukap)

 

*** ROM SUPPORT ***

Updated Alien Poker multiball roms (Oliver Kaegi)

Updated Firepower Custom roms (Oliver Kaegi)

Added Attack From Mars 1.13B (Brian Smith/Wod)

Added Austin Powers display roms for foregin languages (Brian Smith)

Added Bell Ringer roms (Cliffy)

Added Big Guns Prototype (Brian Smith)

Added Data East Batman 1.06 (Brian Smith)

Added Dinosaur Eggs sound rom (Brian Smith/Gerrit Volkenborn)

Added Gamatron roms (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Added High Roller Casino and Sharkey's Shootout display roms for added languages (Brian Smith)

Added Hot Shot Basketball (Brian Smith/Gerrit Volkenborn)

Added Hyperball (L=6) (Brian Smith/Jess Askey)

Added Junkyard Prototype (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Added Medieval Madness 1.09B (Brian Smith/Wod)

Added Monopoly French, German, Italian, and Spanish Display Roms (Brian Smith)

Added Monster Bash 1.06B (Brian Smith/Wod)

Added Odin Deluxe (Brian Smith/Gerrit Volkenborn)

Added Omni Sound (Brian Smith)

Added Sonic Star Wars (Steve Ellenoff/Joxer)

Added Sopranos 3.00

Added Stargazer Custom rom (Oliver Kaegi)

Added STTNG Special set (Brian Smith)

Added Ted Estes bootleg roms for early Williams games (Brian Smith)

Added Twilight Zone 9.4ch (Brian Smith)

Added Volcano 1a - alternate sound only (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Added Whitewater Home Roms (Gerrit Volkenborn)

Corrected Zaccaria Zankor (Oliver Kaegi)

>> Get PinMAME and PinMAME32 HERE.

Current Status (v0.25)

 

DotNES emulates the NES's 6502 CPU, PPU, Sound, and Joypad 1. But you'd pretty much expect that from any emulator. Current features include:

 

* Mappers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 34, 68, 71 and 232. (MMC5 is technically implemented, but barely works.)

* Saving SRAM to disk and saving/restoring state (still a bit buggy on some mappers).

* Sound emulation, supports all 5 channels (2 Square Wave, 1 Triangle, 1 Noise and 1 DMC (Sample) channel). The DMC channel is still unfinished but works for most games.

* An interactive debugger, with an "old-school" command prompt. Disassemble instructions, dump memory, set breakpoints. Somewhat useful (for me, at least.)

* Gamepad support (very very rough, settings not saved yet)

* Fullscreen support (even more rough, if possible, than the Gamepad support.)

* The ability to throttle speed to various percentages of original speed. Yeah, just in case you want to play Tetris at 25% speed...

Makes good coffee!

 

v0.25 has a significant (~50%) speed increase over the prior versions, though it's still nothing to write home about. As I do more cleanup and optimization I expect this to improve significantly, but I'm not expecting this to ever set any records...

>> Get it HERE.

Atari 7800 emulator for Windows

0.71:

 

* Added: Web browser control on new Help tab, enabling easy reference to this README and online game manuals where defined in ROMProperties.csv

* Fixed: 7800 Emulation: 320B mode corrected to correspond to the real hardware—courtesy of Matthias Luedtke (matthias@atari8bit.de)

* Updated: Moved to .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005

* Updated: SDL.dll to version 1.2.10

* Added: Emulator sleeps after each frame is rendered to reduce superfluous CPU consumption (can be tuned via the Console tab)

* Updated: Better pause behavior—modal functions are still available during pause

>> Get it HERE.

NESCafe is a NES Emulator written entirely in Java and will run on any platform.

NESCafe 0.617 (May 2006)

 

- URGENT : Major Fix from bugs introduced in version 6.616

- Added Time Trial Mode for Applet Mode

- Added many new options to the NESCafe Settings file

>> Get it HERE.

Credits: AEP Emulation for the heads-up.