Commodore 64 emulator

18 July 2007 v1.0.4.24

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1) IRQ timing adjusted. VIA timers adjusted. SID and CPU register fade adjusted.

The following titles will now work:- "Locomotion", "Aurora 90%", "The Addams Family" and "Star Expedition".

Changelog / Download

BT client

v0.91 2007.07.19

 

GUI Improved: double click un-downloaded torrent file in my shared torrent list to start download it

GUI Improved: restore option: add .bc! file extension to unfinished file

GUI Improved: new function in context menu of BT task file list: search ED2K link for selected file

GUI Improved: add real-time sort to task list. enable it from View menu

GUI Improved: new operation in context menu of peer shared torrent list: "add to my share list"

GUI Improved: new status icon for BT task downloading torrent file in task list

GUI Improved: add torrent publish date info to torrent share list

GUI Improved: right click torrent share list header to choose displayed column

GUI Improved: a notifier window will display after add a BC link task

GUI Improved: add file category combo list to torrent share list toolbar

GUI Improved: support multi key words in peer shared torrent list filter, separated by sapce

GUI Improved: torrent file name in torrent share list will be displayed in infotip when mouse hover on it if too long

GUI Improved: specify ED2K link from context menu in file list of BT task, to help ED plugin search ED download resource

GUI Improved: when double click .bc! file, prompt to open the unfinished file using the program associated with the original file without .bc! suffix

GUI Improved: right click toolbar of main window to choose displayed buttons, or using View/Toolbar/Buttons menu

GUI Improved: enable auto adjust column width from View/Tasklist menu

GUI Improved: when HTTP/FTP task connection failed, detail error and retry info will be displayed in connection log

GUI Improved: add HTTP/FTP task error retry interval time option in perferences dialog

GUI Improved: restore allocate disk space before downloading option in perferences dialog

GUI Improved: display upload rate and left time in task list by default

GUI Improved: when available space of save location in BT task properties dialog is not enough, the available space size is displayed in red color

GUI Improved: add copy IP address to context menu of status bar in main window

GUI Improved: display task size, progress and preview button in history task list by default

GUI Bugfix: the order of tasks in queue does not match the order in tasklist when start all task from context menu of floating window

GUI Bugfix: the task number in fav list does not refresh when move task to a new category using context menu of tasklist

GUI Bugfix: the wildcard "(*)" does not work in add HTTP/FTP download group dialog

GUI Bugfix: the HTTP/FTP task in queue failed to stop when double click it in tasklist

GUI Bugfix: the wildcard "(*)" does not work in add HTTP/FTP download group dialog for FTP links

GUI Bugfix: when click cancel button of BT task properties dialog after torrent file downloaded from BC link, the BT task will not be removed

GUI Bugfix: unable to handle non-english character in publisher URL of BT task

Core Improved: support persistent seeding to seed finished torrents in background automatically without starting the task

Core Improved: support uploading rate limit for all persistent seeding, tweak in perferences dialog

Core Improved: support customize file download order for BT task, in BT task properties dialog

Core Improved: support patch TCP half-open limit in Windows Vista

Core Bugfix: program will lose respond for a while to flush disk cache when high-speed downloading HTTP/FTP file from LAN

Core Bugfix: ED plugin will upload invalid data in some situation

Core Bugfix: scheduler failed to resume download after stop tasks for 2 hour or longer

Core Bugfix: unfinished tasks will not auto-start at program startup if BitComet is not closed normally

Changelog / Download

Front End

At some point in the past with a version of MAME that added the VIPER BIOS games, a bug exposed itself with regard to parsing the game list file.

 

New features since Mike's version:

* Nearly complete rewrite of the interface elements, rom detection, graphic searching/loading.

* UltraMame now plays AVIs of attract modes (or anything you want) in the ImageBrowser mode.

* Random select. Press a predesignated button and you get a random game choice. (I need this to choose a game, personally)

* Change sort order. Press a predesignated button and you can sort the games by year of release (it's fun to scroll back to 1975 and play through history), manufacturer (so you could play all the Namco games in order), and of course by title. It subsorts each of these also, so if you're in 'year' mode it also sorts by manufacturer, then title, etc.

* I had to rewrite the file search algorithms as they did't work with either MinGW or Windows XP, not sure which.

* I added more sound effects. You can make sounds play when the selection is moved now, as well as a couple others I forgot.

>> Get it HERE.

Source

The first major change in this release is the input system. The way that the OS-specific layer communicates with the core about input devices has changed substantially, allowing a lot of the tricky functionality to be handled automatically by the core code. For the Windows build specifically, this marks a shift in behavior: on Windows XP and later, both keyboard and mouse now use the raw input APIs, which allow support for multiple keyboards and mice.

 

A second big change is an experimental one. A new built-in user interface is provided for selecting a game. This interface is intended to be minimal and will not serve to replace a true frontend. However, it does provide a better first experience for those unfamiliar with MAME and is useful for launching a game when you can’t remember the exact driver name.

 

In addition to these changes, we have discrete sound for Head On and clones thanks to couriersud; an updated Monza GP driver from Phil Stroffolino; and some nice fixes to the toaplan2 driver from Alex Jackson.

Source

0.117u1

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MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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brkthru091u1gra [Luigi30]

debbuger+psx_0117ora [Aaron Giles]

cbtime0117red [Zsolt Vasvari]

hotpinbl0117gra [Roberto Fresca]

batrider0114red [Alex Jackson]

battleg0113u4red [Alex Jackson]

battleg0116u1ora [Alex Jackson]

 

 

Source Changes

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Fixed bug in screenless systems. [Nathan Woods]

 

Fixed crash in chd code if reading beyond the end of the file. [Roman Scherzer]

 

Moved Sand Scorpian and Gals Panic over to use the Pandora emulation. Also fixed some problems in the pandora emulation which improves the sprites in Djboy. [David Haywood]

 

Added new function timer_call_after_resynch(), which effectively sets a zero-duration timer for resynchronization. Replaced instances of zero-duration timers in the code with this more descriptive call. [Zsolt Vasvari]

 

Defined new macro TIMER_CALLBACK, which should be used to wrap timer callbacks. Added a running_machine * parameter to timer callbacks. Updated all existing timer callbacks to use the new macro. [Zsolt Vasvari]

 

Added more opcode decryption to gussun. [Robiza]

 

Added discrete sound to headon and clones in vicdual.c. [couriersud]

 

Added two inverter oscillators supporting enable and mixing in signals to discrete.h / disc_wav.c. [couriersud]

 

Fixed a few bugs in the change lanes video emulation. [Adam Bousley]

 

Updated the monzagp driver into a somewhat playable state. There are still some graphics problems. LEDs still need to be hooked up for score/time-remaining display. [Phil Stroffolino]

 

Neo-Geo update: [Zsolt Vasvari]

- BIOS only driver 'neogeo' no longer crashes

- Cleaned up memory banking code to use memory_set_bank() instead of memory_set_bank_ptr()

- Fixed LEDs

 

Improvements to the toaplan2 driver: [Alex Jackson]

- Replaced byteswapped truxton2 M68K program ROM with correct one

- Fixed sound CPU communications in the Raizing games. This is educated guesswork, but it's more complete and probably more correct than what was there before, and doesn't rely on excessive use of cpu_yield()

- Added more information about the Raizing sets to the comments in the driver, and corrected some errors

- Reorganized the Battle Garegga sets in a more sensible fashion

 

Reworked input system to push more features into the core. Cleaned up architecture to properly separate dependencies. Please note that this change only addresses the lower layer of input handling. The upper layer (i.e., input port handling at the driver layer) remains the same. [Aaron Giles]

 

Major changes include:

 

* Removed the concept of os_code from the system. Now all codes are defined via a set of macros in input.h. Each code is a 32-bit value that encodes a device class, device index, item class, item modifier, and item ID.

 

* Removed OSD functions osd_get_code_list() and osd_get_code_value(). Instead, the OSD layer during osd_init() must register one or more devices and the input items attached to each device via two new functions input_device_add() and input_device_item_add().

 

* Separated input sequence code into new module inputseq.c.

 

* Moved support for the following options into the core: -mouse, -joystick, -lightgun, -steadykey, -offscreen_reload, -joy_deadzone, -joy_saturation, -paddle_device, -adstick_device, -pedal_device, -dial_device, -trackball_device, -lightgun_device, -positional_device, -mouse_device. The OSD layer should simply register all devices at osd_init() time and allow the core to enable/disable them according to the options.

 

* Added two new options: -multikeyboard and -multimouse. By default, both options are OFF. When OFF, the core will combine all keyboard or mouse input into a single keyboard or mouse device. When ON, these options instruct the core to keep inputs for each keyboard and/or mouse independent.

 

* Added new option: -joystick_map. This option allows for a 9x9 grid to be specified which controls analog-to-digital mapping of joystick inputs.

 

* Changed the Windows implementation of input handling to fully support the raw input interfaces for keyboard and mouse. DirectInput is still used for all joystick inputs, as well as for keyboard and mouse inputs on pre-Windows XP systems. This allows for multiple keyboards and mice to be supported. Also changed keyboard and mouse behavior to use non-exclusive mode in DirectInput, and to keep the devices alive during pause for more consistent input handling.

 

* Broke windows.txt into config.txt, which contains all common core-supported options and commmands, and windows.txt, which now only lists Windows-specific additions.

 

Added support for frame update callbacks, similar to pause and exit callbacks but called at the same time as osd_update(). [Aaron Giles]

 

Changed osd_init() to no longer return a value. OSD initialization should now rely on fatalerror() to report fatal initialization problems. [Aaron Giles]

 

Added new function mame_schedule_new_driver() which allows for a new driver to be queued after a hard reset. [Aaron Giles]

 

Added experimental new minimal game selection user interface. This interface can be accessed if MAME is started with no parameters, or via the main menu by choosing "Select a New Game". This interface allows you to select a game driver by typing in the name of the game. As you type, MAME's fuzzy name matching code will list the top 15 selections that match. The interface will only display games that it finds in your rompath. [Aaron Giles]

 

Added "empty" driver which is used to host the game selection screen when no valid game is selected. [Aaron Giles]

 

Changed behavior in the Windows build so that double-clicking on MAME brings up the new game selection interface. [Aaron Giles]

 

Removed the NOT_A_DRIVER flag which was overloaded to mean two different things. There are now two new flags: GAME_IS_BIOS_ROOT indicates that a particular driver represents a BIOS rather than a full game. And GAME_NO_STANDALONE indicates that the given driver should not be listed or permitted to execute on its own. For MAME, most BIOSes are executable on their own, so they have the GAME_IS_BIOS_ROOT flag set but not the GAME_NO_STANDALONE flag. [Aaron Giles]

 

Added new routines mame_openpath(), mame_readpath(), and mame_closepath() for iterating over all files in a path specification, including support for multiple paths. [Aaron Giles]

 

Changed audit interfaces to take a game_driver * instead of a game index. [Aaron Giles]

 

Changed driver_get_approx_matches() and driver_get_count() APIs to work on arbitrary driver lists rather than being hard-coded to the static driver list. Renamed the functions from driver_get_* to driver_list_get_* [Aaron Giles]

 

 

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

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Sliver [Tomasz Slanina]

 

New clones added

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Space Dragon (Moon Cresta bootleg) [David Haywood]

Battle Garegga - Type 2 (Europe / USA / Japan / Asia) [Alex Jackson]

 

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

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Gals Panic (US, EXPRO-02 PCB) [David Haywood]

Balloon & Balloon [Tomasz Slanina]