http://romulus.net63.net/

25 / 08 / 2012

 

WARNING. This new version has important database changes and in first run your current database will be updated and can take several time. In my case more than 3000 profiles takes 1 hour. Be patient, the wait will be worth it.

 

What's new of 0.016 version ???

 

- ADDED indeterminated progress bar on taskbar when a process is running. An intelligent way to know if Romulus is running a loop process without seeing the main window.

- ADDED scanner detail set list search in Google by CRC, MD5 and SHA-1.

- ADDED detection of number of CPU cores and disable multicpu options if not multicore CPU exists in system.

- ADDED Multithread compression for RAR files forcing if available to compress and get extra compression speed.

- ADDED Jump to profile directory option at profiles list popup menu, this can be a good option to locate the current directory of the selected profile when showing all profiles at same time.

- ADDED Flashing taskbar when progress window ends and Romulus is not on top.

- ADDED Flashing taskbar for windows - New dat found and Dat update.

- UPDATED Database engine to last version 7.04, as result database seems more strong and best performance.

- UPDATED XP manifest resource file to a more complete version according to the last Windows OS.

- UPDATED CHDman to last version 0.146u5.

- UPDATED Unrar.dll to last version 4.20.100.526

- UPDATED RAR version to 4.20

- CHANGED Romulus database is updated with biggest params to support thousand of profiles without losing speed or having memory problems. When Romulus starts will check for new params, if are not present database will be updated, this can take time, please wait.

- CHANGED Webbrowser useragent changed to Mozilla/5.0 and download socket too, will increase compatibility with some urls.

- CHANGED Database flushing buffers when database hard operations ends, this will improve security.

- CHANGED Not accepted inverted crc and wrong size for same rom as valid when scans or rebuilds.

- CHANGED Headers won't modify ROMs now, only will be checked.

- CHANGED profiles with headers enabled can be rebuilt but won't be modified and only will checked using header rules.

- IMPROVED Hacks to increase speed of loading profiles, now profiles can be displayed 10%-400% more fast.

- IMPROVED destroying windows mode, this will increase the stability and prevent memory leaks.

- IMPROVED Generator reading files speed about 10%.

- IMPROVED Generator exportation speed about 20%.

- REMOVED the last UAC check when Romulus start, because some users reported problems with it.

- FIXED displaying Offlinelist wrong additional in list information like flags, langs, etc.

- FIXED Problems reading to display big profiles lists and finally showed as empty list.

- FIXED Generator reading files error when files to read are thousand and thousand.

- FIXED Deletion of files inside RAR archives when rebuild.

- FIXED manual extraction of compressed files by sets of incorrect folder.

- FIXED crazy flashing taskbar for Messages window.

- FIXED Edit popupmenu functions like cut, copy and paste at not main window.

- FIXED integrated webbrowser to read local files like html report exportations.

- FIXED rare bug destroying Querys, this will increase the stability of Romulus.

- FIXED detail scanner list displaying Edit information when different items are selected.

- FIXED content of scanner list when more than 1 profile is loaded and 1 of them is a importation update and is not the current selected at scanner tabs.

- FIXED some icon transparency problems.

- FIXED problem with color of some panels in some OS systems.

- FIXED minor general bugs.

WinArcadia 18.6 (Windows): 25 August 2012

AmiArcadia 18.6 (AmigaOS 3): 25 August 2012

AmiArcadia 18.6 (MorphOS): 25 August 2012

AmiArcadia 18.5 (AmigaOS 4): 20 August 2012

Super Bug Advance 1.3 (GBA): 11 September 2009

AmiArcadia and WinArcadia are multi-emulators of these machines:

* Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand,

Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy,

Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (1982);

* Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Fountain, Interton,

Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddington, etc.) (c. 1978);

* Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);

* PIPBUG-based machines (Electronics Australia 77up2 and 78up5, Signetics

Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (c. 1977-1978);

* Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);

* Central Data 2650 computer (1977);

* Astro Wars, Cat and Mouse, Galaxia, and Laser Battle coin-ops by

Zaccaria (1979-1982);

* Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1980);

* Chaos 2 computer (1983);

* Dolphin trainer (1977);

* PHUNSY computer (c. 1980); and

* AY-3-8550-based Pong systems (c. 1976).

Features include: ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and full-

screen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics

scaling, automatic load/save of configuration/game, keyboard/joystick/

gamepad/paddle/mouse/trackball support, autofire, turbo mode, gameplay

recording/playback, PAL/NTSC modes, sprite demultiplexing, help windows,

source code, debugger, frame skipping, redefinable keys, save screenshots

(4 supported formats), ARexx port, network play, real-time monitor, locale

support, game selection sidebar, text-to-speech, printer output,

undithering, support for ZIPped games, clipboard support, palette editor,

tone retuning, high score management, force feedback, sprite editor, 3D.

The supported languages are currently English, Dutch, French, German,

Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Changes since V18.5:

* "Settings|Machine|BINBUG BIOS" option.

* "Settings|Machine|Identify emulator?" option.

* Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.yatho.com/

http://mameload.mameworld.info/

Tested and Supported Emulators: | HazeMD | M1 | MAME | MAMEComplete/Ultimate MAME | MESS | MisfitMame | MJOLNIR | PinMAME | SuperModel and more!

 

ML TNG Release Notes

--------------------

August 20th, 2012

Beta u52 release

 

- Added functionality to allow 'hiding' of a either Fruit Machines, Pinball Machines or Bioses from your "AVAILABLE" game list. After using this version of ML, new entries will be added to you FAVORITE.ML file which you can toggle on and off. Further details are provided in the MLREADME.txt file.

 

- Small patch in an attempt to fix a bug involving loading of all software lists at once.

 

- RESOURCE.ML updated to accommodate new functions as well as MAME/MESS data up through 0.146u5.

http://mess.redump.net/downloads

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:

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- SBC6510 [Robbbert]

 

Skeleton drivers:

-----------------

- VAX 785 (LSI-11 board only) [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Elektronika MS-0515 [KokaF77, Miodrag Milanovic]

 

System Driver Changes:

----------------------

 

-llc1: fixed monitor keyboard LLC2: added speaker and annoying keyclick

[Robbbert]

 

-vidbrain: Added expansion port interface. [Curt Coder]

 

-vidbrain: Added expansion port pinout. (nw)

 

-llc: modernised ; LLC2 added support for reverse video & added missing

pio. [Robbbert]

 

-vk100: Some improvement to the HLE vector generator, now properly

emulates the down counter so the "blue screen" part of the POST looks

correct, as does the cursor width. [Lord Nightmare]

 

-vk100: broke the vram access logic/math out of the vector generator

callback and into its own functions; fixed? the systat_a register to

read the vram nybble the x and y regs are currently pointing to.

[Lord Nightmare]

 

-abc800c: Added character display, promoted driver to working.

[Curt Coder]

 

-pcm: connected the k7659 keyboard, fixed screen size [Robbbert]

 

-abc800c: Added high resolution graphics. [Curt Coder]

 

-abc80: Added serial interface. [Curt Coder]

 

-a6809: Added ASCII keyboard. [Curt Coder]

 

-abc806: Used correct HRUII PROM. [Curt Coder]

 

-socrates: document that an MCU dump is missing of the 4-bit TMP42C40P

that decodes the IR signal from the keyboard and buffers the 'second

stage' of the keyboard input. Changed code slightly to reflect this.

[Lord Nightmare, Balrog]

 

-z9001 : added 2xpio, ctc, daisy-chain, beeper-sound, cassout

[Robbbert]

 

-v6809 : various video improvements. [Robbbert]

 

-abc80: Refactored legacy code, moved DOS ROMs to ABC bus DOS card,

added BASIC V1 dump, added ABC 890 bus expander device. [Curt Coder]

 

-abc80x: Refactored legacy code, cleaned up keyboard interface, added

ABC894 bus expander device, added ABC 55 keyboard for ABC 802.

[Curt Coder]

 

-vt100: add the GPO (aka VT125 mono board) roms and proms as a mix of

NO_DUMP and copies of the vk100 ones where identical [Lord Nightmare]

 

-vk100: further comment updates, got rid of LASTVRAM in favor of doing

a single read at the current nybble pointed to by the X and Y

registers. [Lord Nightmare]

 

-vk100: Implemented baud generator LUT for i8251, not hooked up yet;

added RTS callback which doesn't seem to work yet. [Lord Nightmare]

 

-vk100: Doing further vector rom tracing with a meter on the board

using the vt125 schematics as a guide, figured out what all the vector

rom pins do (except perhaps D LOAD). [Lord Nightmare]

 

-vip: Added VP-620 ASCII keyboard cable, VP-570 RAM expansion board,

and VP-575 bus expander board. [Curt Coder]

 

-plus4: Rewrite of the C16/Plus+4 driver with improved memory mapping

and cartridge support. Refactored the Commodore 1551 floppy drive to

connect to the expansion port. [Curt Coder]

 

-vk100: Documented all the inputs and enables of the RAS/ERASE prom

through tracing. Documented that the MSB bit of the SYNC prom is ...

SYNC. The VT125 Schematics were invaluable for this.

[Lord Nightmare, Al Kossow]

 

-sbc6510: Connected up the keyboard and added ay-3-8910 chip [Robbbert]

 

-vii: Fixing some warnings. Not 100% sure of the intended

functionality, but IRQ & IRQ_MASK & line seems probable and seems to

work. [MooglyGuy]

 

-c64: Fixed C1541 and FSD-2, added Dolphin DOS 2.0 and

Professional-DOS V1 hardware. [Curt Coder]

 

-plus4: Added SID card emulation. [Curt Coder]

 

-c64: Emulated the digital read circuitry of the Commodore 1541 disk

drive according to the long board schematics. This will allow

independent setting of the bitrate of incoming data and the sample

rate. Passing more advanced copy protections require a cycle exact

rewrite of the 6502 and VIA, but this is the first step toward proper

emulation. [Curt Coder]

 

-vip: Added VP-700 Tiny BASIC board. [ekeefe, Curt Coder]

 

-c64: Added support for per-byte speed zones in G64 images.

[Curt Coder]

 

-sacstate: Added comments. Fixed input ports. [Robbbert]

 

-hr16: Hooked up LCD controller and added keypad inputs. [sandro Ronco]

 

-rainbow:

* Get closer to LK201 emulation [R. Belmont, Lord Nightmare, Balrog]

* Add documentation for system error codes and diagnostic LEDs

[rfka01]

 

-vboy: various driver improvements [Angelo Salese]

 

-vboy: preliminary audio hookup [Richard Bannister, Gil Pedersen, R. Belmont]

 

-x1: added support for old TAP format to the driver, so that all newly

added tapes work (high sample rate tapes are still not supported, though)

[Fabio Priuli]

 

 

Software Lists:

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-pico.xml: added new Jpn dumps [TeamEurope]

 

-pico.xml: started documenting PCBs and ROM labels [TeamEurope]

 

-x1_flop: first round of new dumps [starscreamer the 2nd]

 

-x1_cass: some more new dumps [starscreamer the 2nd]

 

Source Changes:

----------------

-new device k7659 keyboard; modified LLC2 to work with it [Robbbert]

 

-k7659kb - added more keys, added port_char, added return value when no

key pressed [Robbbert]

 

-terminal: Replaced internal keyboard with the Ascii keyboard, since

they were identical. [Robbbert]

 

-nscsi: documentation [O. Galibert]

 

-rp5c15: Initialize at power-on (makes the x68k boot reliable) [O. Galibert]

 

-roc10935/7: correct an error in the lookup table for the '7' character [Lord Nightmare]