Emu#dreams reports that Reip and Mike Coates have been working on adding new hardware support to MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. This time they're tackling Thunder Hoop, a 1992 Gaelco game. Below is what Reip posted on his official MAME WIP homepage.

15 / 01 / 2006

 

Update #2

 

It's actually working, it crashed because sound rom banking was broken and I didn' test it when I fixed it

 

Update #1

 

This is not really my wip, but it's a wip from Mike Coates, who extracted the decryption table,

but he asked me to fix the graphics issues.

It's not yet playable because it crashes when you're going to start a game.

 

Thunder Hoop - 1992 Gaelco

Click here to visit Reip's MAME WIP homepage for screenshots and more.

Emu#dreams reports that VICE, the multiplatform open source Commodore 64 (as well as the C128, VIC20, most PET models, PLUS4, and the CBM-II) emulator, has been updated to version 1.19. Below are the changes in this version.

General

- Fixed "RESTORE key works only once" bug.

- Fixed compilation with GCC4.

 

C64 changes

- Fixed an opcode execute problem with the +60k expansion.

- New c64 256k expansion support.

 

VIC-II

- Fixed switch from idle state to display state.

- Added missing DEN bit scrolling feature.

 

Unix changes

- The experimental netplay feature has been extended to the Unix platforms for testing.

- Added IPV6 support to netplay.

- Fixed crash if settings are saved.

- Fixed some Gnome1 annoyances (popup menus in status bar)

- Rework of gnome save media (screenshot) dialog

- Xaw Statusbar fixes and improvements (new buttons for recording).

- An experimental patch for Gnome2/Gtk2 support is available (See website). Vice-1.19 will be the last Gnome1/Gtk1 version officially supported. The Gnome2/Gtk2 version is known to work on state-of-the-art Linux distributions (e.g. Fedora Core 4). See also src/arch/unix/x11/gnome/TODO

 

MS-Windows changes

- Added "always on top" option.

 

MS-DOS changes

- The experimental netplay feature has been extended to MS-DOS for testing.

 

Miscellaneous changes

- Added various new screenshot formats.

- Improved the image content lister to display at least the first part of a circular directory listing.

- Made the tape routines able to cope with non-standard header sizes.

You can visit the official homepage here, or simply download it here (Windows port).

retroguru.com reports that GNGNeo2x, the GP2x port of GnGeo (the open source SNK Neo-Geo emulator for Linux), has been updated to version 0.6.7a. There are no release notes or changes listed anywhere at this time.

You can download version 0.6.7a here.

retroguru.com reports that version 3.3L31a of XM7, the Japanese multiplatform Fujitsu Micro 7 emulator, is now available for MacOS X. Below are the release notes taken from the official homepage (translated).

January of 2006 15th XM7 For MaccOsx V2.8l31a/V3.3l31a formal late release

 

Don't you think? the Intel Mac came out finally. As for the あ ち and others livelily, as for this way quiet release.

 

On year end failing in backup, about half being to lose the cord/code, time being required for restoration, You put away. Formal edition in 2006 became release.

 

The software keyboard was mounted. Color being, the apparatus would like to see liking, it increases.

You can visit the official homepage here, or simply download it here.