Release notes for 1.95 July 21st, 2008

* Added the option in Tools | Options | Video to enable flashback, which maintains a buffer in memory of a few seconds of video as you play a game. When you press Scroll Lock + V to record a video, the video starts recording a few seconds in the past.

* Added a new encoded videos section to the Videos tab.

* Added a thumbtack to allow the chat room voice chat overlay in Xfire In-Game to be hidden.

* Added a self-mute button on chat windows for voice chats.

* Added a right-click menu item to mute other people in a group chat room

* Fixed many minor voice chat problems.

* Added ability to flag videos as only appropriate for adults.

* New games supported:

Crazy Machines 2 	Out of the Park Baseball 9 	The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff 	World of Kung Fu
Making History: The Calm and The Storm 	Freelanc3r 	Genleo: The Land of Eratica 	Seeds of Time Online
Oil Imperium 	Combat Arms 	Cardmaster Conflict 	Freedom Force
Ultimate Pimpin' 	Safari Photo Africa: Wild Earth 	Supreme Ruler 2020 	The Political Machine 2008
CS-Manager 	Devil May Cry 4 	Immune Attack 	Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now!
Panzer Elite

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ecc, the developer of the titular multi-emulator frontend was kind enough to bring this release to our attention.

The changelog is as follows:

changelog for emuControlCenter 0.9.8

 

- Platforms added

- Enterprise Systems - Enterprise 64/128

- Commodore Amiga CD32

- Commodore CDTV

- Commodore PET

- COMX WOL Comx-35

- CVT Mega Duck/Cougar Boy

- Hartung Game Master

- Sega Dreamcast VMU

- Sega Naomi

- Sinclair QL

 

- Small updates/fixes

- Fixed all emulator presets for MESS emulator platforms by adding the %ROM% parameter.

- Merged 'Sharp MZ-700' (mz700) and 'Sharp MZ-1500' (mz1500) into 'Sharp MZ-700/1500' (eccident=mz1500)

- Merged 'Commodore 16' (c16) and 'Commodore Plus/4' (cplus4) into 'Commodore 16/plus4' (eccident=c16plus4)

- Removed .WAV extension for 'Sinclair ZX Spectrum'

- User path corrections for platforms (ECCid):

- gba, gbc, gg, sms, ws, wsc, x68000

- Fixed extensions for 'Texas instruments TI-99'.

- Added extensions

- All CD image platforms all have: ISO, CSO, IMG, BIN, NRG, MDF, MDS, CCD

- Commodore Amiga: ADZ, HDZ

- Micobee Systems - Microbee: COM, SUB, MWB, BAS, BIN, DAT, BEE, Z80, MAC, MCL, ML, Z

- Microkey Primo: BIN

- Added best emulator settings

- Micobee Systems - Microbee

- Updated, the ScummVM default config parameter.

- Updated, the Microbee default config parameter.

- Update DATFILES

- MAME v0.123 to v0.124b

 

- Whole new scriptsystem (ecc-script folder)

- Added scripts for:

- Atari Jaguar (PT, Project Tempest)

- Cellphone Java (JADmaker)

- Commodore Amiga (winuae)

- Commodore VIC-20 (xvic)

- Laser Disc (daphne)

- Gamepark GP32 (geepee32)

- Nintendo Gamecube (Dolphin)

- Nintendo Pokemon Mini (Minimon)

- Panasonic 3DO (FreeDo)

- Philips CD-I (wcdiemu)

- Sega Dreamcast (NullDC)

- Sega Dreamcast VMU (DirectVMS)

- Sega Saturn (SSF)

- Sony Zinc (ZiNc)

- Including CD-Image mounting with Daemon tools LITE

- Including ZIP support (autounpack option in ecc)

Full changelog that includes past WIP builds, can be seen HERE.

Dreamcast emulator

Well, this isn't the surprise I was talking about but it's still better than nothing

Makaron Test 10/1 is out. You know the drill.

 

T9/4 and T10 were rather unstable but this time around I'm more happy with both GD and DMA code. It's not just bugfixes though, there are several new features in this version:

- support for VMU sounds

- improved Z-buffering

- fully functional DSP

- experimental anisotropic filtering

 

DSP is enabled by default. It might slow down things a bit, though (as usual) if you have a fast C2D you won't notice it. I'm really considering running whole AICA on separate thread now by the way, so it should improve in future for multi-core systems.

Please note that there's a slight slowdown noticable (in audio) when sequenced music is being played, in all Makaron versions released so far. This is sort of design flaw (and due to rather demanding hardware setup) and will be someday corrected.

 

Anisotropic filtering is too enabled by default, to 8x - it will be scaled down if your card can't support such mode. This will only be a problem for those cheap cards that support AFx8 but are very slow at it, in this case you might get quite a performance drop.

>> Get it HERE.

(V7.3 has now been superseded, please see above for the V7.4 press release.)