Front End (Unix only)

07-JUL-2008 - QMC2 0.2.b3 released

The third release of the 0.2 series of QMC2 is out now. It's lined up with SDLMAME 0.126 which has also been released recently.

 

We have a lot of changes this time, many bug-fixes and improvements, and quite a few new and important features. Here's a summary of the major changes:

 

- Direct GUI control via digital and analog joysticks through SDL

- Optional use of OpenGL to draw images (previews & flyers) - actually, this was mainly an experiment and is not necessarily faster than the default drawing mechanism

- Support for MAME's history.dat & mameinfo.dat information databases (this will be changed to a more generic approach in the future to support additional information sources)

- Fullscreen toggle for the main widget

- Style handling improved to allow for on-the-fly switching to the system's default GUI style

- Improved window flags to better handle individual windows

- Architecture-independant OS detection for distribution specific build rules

- Several widget restoration bugs were discovered and fixed, together with a number of other/older bugs...

>> Detailed changelog HERE

>> Download QMC HERE.

Multi-system emulator

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Apogee BK-01 [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Chuang Zao Zhe 50 / Dina / Personal Arcade [Curt Coder]

- Galaksija Plus [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Grundy NewBrain A/AD/MD (not working) [Curt Coder]

- Mikrosha [Miodrag Milanovic]

- OSCOM Nano [Curt Coder, HobbyLabs]

- Partner-01.01 [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Radio-86RK [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Sega SC-3000H [Curt Coder]

 

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [ABC80] Fixed graphics mode and lower case natural input. [Curt Coder]

 

- [ABC80X] Fixed lower case natural input. [Curt Coder]

 

- [AMIGA] Fixed Keyboard. (bug #1590) [Roberto Zandona']

 

- [AMIGACD / AMIGAFDC] Fixed a couple of regressions introduced in 0.125. Still CDTV regression is not fixed. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [AQUARIUS] Added support for cartridges and .wav tape images (bug #158). Fixed tilemap and added AY-3-8910 sound. [Curt Coder]

 

- [b2M] Added SHA-1's. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [bK] Added SHA-1's. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [bW2] System is now working. [Curt Coder]

 

- [C128] fix for c128 keyboard (bug #1240) [Roberto Zandona']

 

- [C64] Joystick fix. (bug #1150) [Roberto Zandona']

 

- [COCO] Changed MUX delay from 16us to 8us to fix a joystick input bug under [Nitr]OS-9. Since this delay was introduced to fix Photon (as per bug #655) and we've been unable to test Photon, it is unclear whether this reintroduces bug #655. (bug #1608) [Nate Woods]

 

- [COMMODORE] Large clean-up of input ports across Commodore machines (Amiga excluded) [Fabio Priuli]:

* created machine/cbmipt.c to reduce duplicate code across drivers and hidden dependencies;

* converted to tagged inputs;

* added partial natural keyboard support (keys are almost all there, but there are still a few issues);

* replaced a lot of constants with direct reads to tagged inputs, cleaning up most of the Commodore files in includes/ ;

* simplified interrupt handling for c64 and c16;

* fixed pet.c machines which were starting Caps Lock'ed;

* propagated ':/;' fixes (from rev. 2542) to all the drivers with the same error;

* removed some dead code for cart handling (never fully implemented and obsolete after rev. 2421);

* removed hacked SID from c16;

* fixed key mappings to follow the real keyboard (also added plus4 input ports for this same reason);

* documented keyboard layouts.

 

- [COMX35] System is now working. [Curt Coder, Marcel van Tongeren]

 

- [DRAGON] Fixed timing regression introduced in 0.122u7. (bug #1631)

 

- [GALAXY] Added real video emulation [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [GALAXY] GTP file support [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [GAMEBOY] Added .bin extension. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [GENESIS / MD] Fixed cheat issue [shimaPong, Fabio Priuli]

 

- [i8275] Implementation of Intel 8275 CRT [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [MSX2] Fixed bug in floppy emulation. [Yano Hirokuni]

 

- [ORION] Added SHA-1's. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [ORION] ROMDISK's are carts now [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [ORION] Added support for "Lucksian Key" format disks [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [PCE] Added .bin extension. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [PCE] Remap inputs to match the usual MESS layout in e.g. NES and label buttons I and II. [Justin Kerk]

 

- [PENTAGON] Added SHA-1's. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [POKEMINI] Added .bin extension. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [PRAV8DD] Merged prav8dda. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [QL] Fixed lower case natural input. [Curt Coder]

 

- [TI99] Fixed disk controller. [Michael Zapf]

 

- [sATURN] Fixed mem_mask regressions. [R. Belmont]

 

- [sATURN] Added ROM cartridge support. [R. Belmont]

 

- [sC3000] Added tape support. [Curt Coder]

 

- [sCORPION] Added SHA-1's. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [sG1000] Added .bin extension. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [sG1000] Added pause/reset buttons. [Curt Coder]

 

- [sF7000] Fixed lower case natural input. [Curt Coder]

 

- [sMS] Added .bin extension. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [sPECIAL] Added SHA-1's. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [uT88] Added SHA-1's. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [TI99] Implemented loading and saving of the battery-backed RAM of the MiniMemory cartridge. [Michael Zapf]

 

- [TMC600] Added tape support. [Curt Coder]

 

- [X68000] Added basic SASI hard disk support [barry Rodewald]:

Currently supported SASI commands:

* Rezero Unit

* Specify

* Request Sense

* Read

* Write

* Seek

 

- [ZX81] Consolidated variants to use alternative BIOSes. [Fabio Priuli]

 

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- File manager rewrite. (bug #1277) [Nate Woods]

 

- Tape Control cleanups. [Nate Woods]

 

- Fixed default key naming of keyboard inputs for non-ASCII characters. [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows GUI] Fixed crash in Device View panel when browsing to images on certain devices. (bug #1632) [Nate Woods]

 

 

 

Imgtool Changes:

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- Now supporting encoding of tokenized BASIC files. (bug #1609) [Nate Woods]

 

- [COCO BASIC] Fixed tokenization for DSKO$ command and above. (bug #1609) [Nate Woods]

 

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.126. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

 

- Fixed performance problems with -triplebuffer. (bug #1539) [Justin Kerk]

 

- Code cleanups. [Atari Ace]

 

- Cut down on the amount of time memory_region() is invoked in a loop. [Atari Ace]

 

- Changed the 8530 SCC chip implementation to use MAME's device system. [Nate Woods]

>> Get it HERE.

Rom Manager

3.116a

 

misc: bios sets with given romof tag aren't handled as biossets (aka MAME .126 sfz3ugd issue)

>> Get it HERE.

Sinclair emulator

** 07/07/2008

1- Direct saving using the "SAVE" Basic function:

SAVE"MY-WORK.TXT:V" added to save the Vars segment.

 

2- The "disassembler" window: Debugger.

- Debugger debugged! (DJNZ seem ok..."Stop" display too.)

- Add a Jump function right click when it has freezed

>> Get it HERE.