MESS 0.123 released

February 22nd, 2008, 21:21 Posted By: JKKDARK

New version of the multi-system emulator for Windows.

Changelog:

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
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- Amstrad GX4000 [Barry Rodewald]
- Aleste 520EX [Barry Rodewald]
- Memotech MTX 500 [Dirk Best]
- Memotech RS 128 [Dirk Best]


System Driver Changes:
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- [APFM1000] Cartridge support, pads fixed and hooked up [PeT]

- [APPLE2] Fixed lores graphics broken in 0.119. (bug #1472) [Nate Woods]

- [GAMEBOY] Small mode 0 stat bug triggering fixes. [Wilbert Pol]

- [GAMEBOY] Added partial support for MBC6. [Wilbert Pol]

- [GBCOLOR] Added locking of palette data registers. [Wilbert Pol]

- [GBPOCKET] Fixed video startup state to match that of a real unit. [Wilbert Pol]

- [GENEVE] Fixed memory mapping error that would cause an emulated crash on reset. [Michael Zapf]

- [MTX] Rewrote keyboard emulation, added natural keyboard support and started to cleanup the driver. [Dirk Best]

- [MTX] Rewrote memory banking and removed tape hack. [Dirk Best]

- [NASCOM] Improved keyboard layout, added natural keyboard support (not working 100%), changed RAM size configuration to use the standard method instead of dip switches and updated it to use the default black and white palette. [Dirk Best]

- [NASCOM] Added snapshot loading support (.nas files) [Dirk Best]

- [NASCOM] Added preliminary floppy support. [Dirk Best]

- [NES] Added support for mappers 42, 43, 44, 45 (partial), 46, 47, 49, 51 (partial), 57, 58, 61, 62, 83 (partial), 112, 182, 188, 193 (not working), 200, 201, 202, 203, 206, 240, 241 (partial), 242, 244, 246, 248. [Wilbert Pol]

- [ORIC] Fixed tape loading. (bug #241) [Wilbert Pol]

- [SMS] Fixed buttons for player 2. (bug #1377) [Enik Land]

- [SMS] Fixed some video mode 4 boundary checks. (bug #1454) [Enik Land]

- [TI99] Fixed Mechatronic Mouse axis swapping. (bug #966) [Miachel Zapf]

- [TI99/GENEVE] More floppy cleanups; fixed TI99_8 regression and made the floppy drive usable. (bug #1450) [Michael Zapf]



User Interface Changes:
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- [Windows] Fixed bug in state saving and loading. (bug #1494) [Nate Woods]



Imgtool Changes:
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- [Windows Imgtool] Fixed a bug that could cause filenames to get mangled when inserting files onto images with a directory structure. (bug #1458) [Nate Woods]



Source Changes:
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- The core is based on MAME 0.123. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

- Miscellaneous cleanups (staticization, constification, conditional logging, core callbacks). [Atari Ace]

- Greater use of ATTR_PRINTF. [Oliver Stoeneberg]

- Changed use of AY-3-8910A sound chip to AY-3-8912A or AY-3-8913A where appropriate across all drivers. [Justin Kerk]

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