Multi-system emulator

0.121

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Acorn System 1 [Dirk Best] (not working)

- Atari STBook [Curt Coder] (not working)

- BBC Bridge Companion [Phil Bennet, incog] (not working)

- HKT-0120 Sega Dreamcast Development Box [incog] (not working)

- Osborne-1 [Wilbert Pol, Cowering]

- Spectravideo SVI-318 (NTSC) [Tomas Karlsson]

- Spectravideo SVI-328 (NTSC) [Tomas Karlsson]

- Synertec Systems Corp. SYM-1 [Dirk Best] (not working)

- VG-8020 [incog]

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [ADAM] Input ports cleanup, natural keyboard support. [stefano Priore]

 

- [ATARIST] Implemented iKBD68000 communications, so the keyboard is working now. [Curt Coder]

 

- [bEBOX] Fixed VGA regression introduced in 0.119. [Tomas Karlsson]

 

- [COCO] Updated to use MAME's 6242 RTC implementation. [tim lindner]

 

- [COCO] Modified the CoCo's keyboard handler to pass along the tri-state buffer from port B to port A. [tim lindner]

 

- [GAMEGEAR] Fixed graphics issues in Ax Battler. (bug #1332) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [GAMEGEAR/SMS] Allow the VDP status bits to be read before an interrupt is triggered and handled. Fixes hang in first level of Zool. (bug #1419) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [GAMEGEAR/SMS] The internal video data buffer should hold the data written to the data port. (bug #1378 and bug #1418) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [MEPHISTO] Implemented artwork/code for real chess board usage. [Ralf Schfer, Cowering]

 

- [ORIC] Fixed floppy interface detection. [Dirk Best]

 

- [PET] Updated to use MAME's CRTC6548 implementation. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [PET] Fixed keyboard regression introduced in 0.116. (bug #1405) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [QL] The system is now usable, except that microdrives don't work yet. [Curt Coder]

 

- [sVI318] Fixed borders. Added selectable bioses for all models. Added serial port support. Added support for NTSC models. [Tomas Karlsson]

 

- [sVI318] Fixed a bug in banking for SVI-328 with 64KB RAM. Added SVI806 80 column card support. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [sVI328] Fixed numeric pad input ports. [Tomas Karlsson]

 

- [sYM1] Rewrote, still many issues and doesn't fully work. [Dirk Best]

 

- [TI99] Fixed TI99 border regression. [Michael Zapf]

 

- [X68000] Raster effects, DMA and vblank improvements. [barry Rodewald]

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.121. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

>> Get it HERE.

Front End

EasyMame 5.6.6 release info:

 

 

- Added button 'Play' in Game Details window.

- Fixed small text and button allignments.

- Compiled with the latest CodeGear C++builder 2007. Many improvements in several areas and better Vista compatibility. Although I could not test this compiled version under Windows XP or lower everything should work.

 

Note : EasyMame 5.6.6 only works with Mame 0.118 binaries and upwards !!

>> Get it HERE

NES emulator (Java)

NESCafe 1.000 (December 2007)

 

Headlines:

 

- Authorisation check at start-up removed (originally required to report game usage and issues with beta)

- Sound, game graphics and UI graphics have all been improved

 

Fixes:

 

- Fixed issues with sound, and discontinued the mute versions of the emulator

- Fixed issues where loaded state files weren't starting the sound correctly

- Fixed bug where text would not be presented in the correct codepage on some machines

- Fixed bug where when a NES ROM did not load correctly an error message was not being displayed

- Fixed bug where when running using the Applet Viewer some of the tags weren't being interpreted correctly

- Fixed bug where settings files and ROMs were being cached, and the latest version may not be being read

- Fixed bug where lowercase keys in the settings file for the controls where not being interpreted correctly

- Fixed bug where the / key could not be assigned to a key control in the settings file or the User Interface

- Fixed bug where LOADSTATE tag was not being interpreted correctly unless the URL was specified in full

- Fixed bug where screen would flicker when ROM files were loading

- Fixed issues with error messages, they are now more meaningful and better explain the underlying issues

 

Functionality Removed:

 

- Removed Override Engine (this was not heavily used)

- Removed Activity Monitor (because Authorisation Check is removed, this would not work)

- Removed Debugger from Applet version (replaced by Code Profiler in Standard version)

- Removed Image Smoothing and replaced with improved image scaling routines

- Removed Sprite Tile view from Applet (this was not heavily used)

 

Functionality Added/Changed:

 

- Added F9 option to standard version to dump executable code (profiles the code as it runs)

- Changed settings filename to nescafe-settings.txt (to prevent issues with MIME types on web-servers)

- Changed how the CPU interprets undocumented operation codes, they now cause the CPU to halt

- NESCafe Applet screen now dynamically resizes if the Applet canvas changes size

- Cleaned up the Time Trial mode, pressing T causes the current screen and run-time data to be captured.

>> Get it HERE.

Front End

November 24th, 2007

Beta u27 Released

 

- When using M1, the gamelist speed has greatly improved (gathers from M1.xml DATA directly rather than the M1.exe program output).

 

- M1 Sets should be detected more accurately now. Before, there were problems with some sets which had all it's roms in the parent (swtrilgy, swtmpeg, scud, scudscsp, etc).

 

- Support for M1's command lines triggers. Please note: The one letter codes can be a bit cryptic, so be sure to check your documentation for M1 before using.

 

- RESOURCE.ML fixes: A Duplicate mame command entry removed as well as updates with new information to support the M1 additions.

 

- Fixed some elements of display, hopefully eliminating overlap of info because of font sizes. This needed to be redone due to M1 and PinMAME needing more than 8 character sourcefile names.

 

- Added a new sort method (selectable with F1) - Parent/Clone. It should mirror MAME32UI's results. Thanks to John IV for suggesting it.

>> Get it HERE.