February 23rd, 2006

Tuesday saw the failure of my sturdy old Powerbook. The little Kanga had struggled along for about 8 years before ever it saw my grubby mitts, and then I got a hold of it, and strangled the last vestige of life from it. The hard drive lasted nigh-on two years, before it collapsed under the strain of serving this place and oopsilon.

 

Concurrent with the failure of the webserver drive, I've decided to throw in the towel regarding development of DSemu-ng. Before the crash, I hadn't touched the codebase for over a month, since just after the new year in fact, so the project has become somewhat stale.

 

To that end, I'm releasing the code as the final iteration of DSemu-ng, hoping that someone can find a use for it. At some point, I intend to use the code to generate a tutorial series on how (or how not, dependent on your view) to write an emulator, focussing on the plugin architecture; at least this iteration of DSemu has a plugin system.

>> Get the source codes HERE.

>> More info http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17299

Fixed:

- Toolbars settings saved.

- Fix Handle leak (This should address some crash issues).

- Updated Logiqx Datutil.

- Language pack is included, so the GUI are translated into your system language. If you don't want it, delete or rename the 'romcenter/locale' folder.

>> Get it HERE.

EasyMame 5.3 release info:

 

- New : Now displays which rom is currently scanned during rom initialising.

- New : Added new Mameoption '-mngwrite'. (Mame 104u3 and upwards)

- New : Updated Mameoption '-priority'. You can now select priority values 1 to -15.  (Mame 104u3 and upwards)

- Changed : Updated some warning popups.

- Improved : Compiled with the latest ZLib library. Resulting in increased extraction speed for icons, screenshots, etc...

- Improved : Improved and faster stretch filters for screenshots, etc...

- Improved : Optimised the rom scanning.

- Fixed : Bug in the stretch filter settings.

- Fixed : Query bug in the new database engine.

- Fixed : Small bug in the CHD image checking.

- Fixed : After quiting a game the EasyMame window is now always the active window.

- Fixed : 'Access Violation' when viewing gamedriver info and no mameinfo.dat was available.

>> Get it HERE.

February 24, 2006 - We shall be vewwy vewwy quiet.

I've uploaded 0.5.1 to fix a NULL pointer dereferencing bug on big-endian platforms(or on little endian platforms with the "vdriver" setting set to 1) when hq2x, hq3x, or hq4x scaling filters are used.

>> Get it HERE.