iq_132 has reported that Haze has done some work on fixing hardware support added to MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, by Luca (posted earlier). Below is what Haze posted on his WIP page (truncated).

Twin Action vs. Mustang

 

So.. it seems Afega’s games aren’t so original either… Luca recently added support for Twin Action, but it wasn’t working; it reset when you hit the fire button and the player sprite was invisible. That behavior reminded me a lot of a previous game I’d look at, US AAF Mustang, actually the whole game did right down to the parallax scrolling sprites for the ground. Sure enough comparing the Afega and NMK16 drivers revealed that Afega had copied most of the NMK hardware and that Twin Action was nothing but a bootleg of US AAF Mustang. By using the same protection patches as used for Mustang (with some slight adjustmenets to compensate for code being moved about), Twin Action started working.

You can visit Haze's MAME WIP page here to see screenshots and more.

Emu#dreams reports that Luca Elia has been working on adding support for more hardware in MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Below is Luca's post about the work, originally riddled with screenshots (so, there are gaps).

I've added a 1994 arm wrestling game to the cischeat.c driver. It's Jaleco's Arm Champs II, a dedicated machine with a real mechanical arm to battle against:

 

This kind of games are Jaleco's specialty (see the hilarious Scud Hammer) and not quite the same in MAME.

 

A prequel also exists, but it's a most wanted rom.

 

Then there's this game from korean Afega, that I've added as non working to the afega.c driver. Only the attract mode works, while playing you are invisible and off screen (last screenshot):

 

(Haze correctly points out this must be a bootleg of US AAF Mustang, which is also protected and not working).

 

Finally, a couple of Dynax mahjong games added to ddenlovr.c for good measure. They are Mahjong The Dai Chuuka Ken..

 

.. and Mahjong The Mysterious World:

You can see this post for yourself as well as the screen shots that were taken out of the post here.

AEP Emulation Page reports that QEMu, the emulator for various CPUs (on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X), has been updated. Only the Windows version has received an updated to version 0.8.0, and below are the release notes for this update.

A binary and a patch for VLAN socket support is added. (2006/01/08)

How to use network is updated.

You can visit the official homepage of QEMU on Windows here for releases, patches, and more information.

AEP Emulation Page reports that AppleWin, the open source Apple //e emulator for Microsoft Windows, has been updated to version 1.12.7.1. Below are the changes in this version.

- Fixed cmd-line switches -d1/-d1 to work with filenames with spaces

- Reset: Init Phasor back to Mockingboard mode

- Benchmark button acts immediately

- Fixes to speaker emulation introduced in 1.12.7.0

- Adjusted speaker freq to work better with MJ Mahon's RT.SYNTH.dsk

- Fixed Bxx; ABS,X; ABS,Y; (IND),Y opcodes: take variable cycles depending on branch taken & page crossed

 

Restrictions

- Ultima V: Select Phasor (slot4) and not Mockingboard

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