MESS v0.141

MESS v0.141 is released. MESS is an open source project which documents the hardware for a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles, and calculators through software emulation, as MAME does for arcade games. As a nice side effect to this documentation, MESS allows software and games for these hardware platforms to be run on modern PCs

January 9th, 2011 MESS has been updated to 0.141 0.141 New System Drivers Supported: ----------------------------- - Homebrew Z80 Computer by Kun-Szabo Marton [Miodrag Milanovic] - Microbee TeleTerm (not fully working) [Robbbert] - Impuls-03 [Miodrag Milanovic] - Advanced Bridge Challenger (not working) [Kevtris, Lord Nightmare, Sandro Ronco] - Elektronika MC-1502 (not working) [Miodrag Milanovic] - Tiger Telematics Gizmondo (not working) [Tim Schuerewegen] - Hewlett Packard 49G+ Graphing Calculator (not working) [Tim Schuerewegen] Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING: --------------------------------------- - Ausbaufaehiger Mikrocomputer mit dem U 880 [Curt Coder] - Heathkit ET3400 [Robbbert] - Omnibyte OB68K1A [Curt Coder] Skeleton drivers: ----------------- - DEC DCT11-EM - Dream 6800 [Robbbert] - Tektronix 4107A/4109A [Lord Nightmare, Balrog, Curt Coder] - PHUNSY (Philipse Universal System) - Omnibyte OB68K1A - Commodore 386 SX-16 - VTA-2000 Terminal - AT&T 3B1 - Tektronix 4051 [Curt Coder] - Tektronix 4052A [Curt Coder] - SM1800 Terminal - Mikrolab KR580IK80 - Osborne Executive [Wilbert Pol] - Micro Craft Dimension 68000 - Okean-240 - NEC PC-8300 [Incog] System Driver Changes: ---------------------- - [A2600] Fixed a bug that could cause crashes on exits. (bug #1948) [Atari Ace] - [A2600] Fixed a crash in Pitfall 2. [Atari Ace] - [ABC80] Added graphics PROMs. [Ola Andersson] - [ABC80] Refactored video to work like real hardware. [Curt Coder] - [ABC800C] Added Color version ROMs. [Ola Andersson] - [ABC1600] Added ROM dumps. [Ola Andersson] - [AMU880] Fixed keyboard. [Curt Coder] - [AVIGO] Fixed regressions. [Robbbert] - [BULLET] Added PCB layout, devices, DMA, floppy, terminal. cpm22wmb.imd loads and pretty much works. [Curt Coder] - [C64] Added known good dumps software list for cartridges. Not hooked up to driver code yet. [Curt Coder] - [C64] Multisession fixes. [Atari Ace] - [CHANNELF/LYNX/SPECIAL/SVISION/WSWAN] Tokenized audio state. [Atari Ace] - [GBA] Added a workaround for the unreliable ATTOTIME_IN_HZ macro. This fixes the hang/crash problems with "Gunstar Super Heroes", "bit Generations" and maybe others too. [Tim Schuerewegen] - [GBA] Fixed an issue with the ARM7 cycle count. This fixes the crash problems with "Golden Sun", "All-Star Baseball 2003" and maybe others too. [Tim Schuerewegen] - [GBA] Fixed protected BIOS reads. This fixes the black screen in "Banjo Pilot". [Tim Schuerewegen] - [GBA] Added support for 14-bit EEPROM addressing. This fixes the lockups in "Bomberman Max 2" and "Broken Sword". [Tim Schuerewegen] - [GBA] Fixed several ARM7 core bugs. This fixes the problems with "Big Mutha Truckers" and "Colin McRae Rally" [Tim Schuerewegen] - [GBA] Fixed memory corruption due to a faulty DMA operation. This fixes the problems with "The Ant Bully", "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", and maybe others too. [Tim Schuerewegen] - [GENESIS] Added support for several genesis PCB carts [El Barto] Updated softlist to use PCB's Added J-Cart player 3 and 4 support - [H8] Progressed from skeleton to almost working. [Robbbert] - [HECTOR] Added Disc2 support. [JJ Stacino] - [JUPITER] Fixed ace/tap image loading. [Robbbert] - [OB68K1A] Refactored to use serial terminal. [Curt Coder] - [PC8201] Added support for 128KB ROM cassettes. [Curt Coder] - [PC8201] Added a software list for option ROMs. [Curt Coder] - [PCW] Added very preliminary printer emulation, output to a separate screen. [Barry Rodewald] - [QL] Added a software list for cartridges. [Curt Coder] - [SMS] Improved Light Phaser emulation and converted it to use timers that control when the beam will reach the aim area, to run the function that checks if the pixel displayed is bright enough to activate the sensor. Details are written in source code. [Enik Land] - [SMS] Added an option to play SegaScope (3D-Glasses) games without a seizure: mount any game supporting 3-D in Master System I drivers, enter Driver Configuration menu and turn on SegaScope. At this point, a new option 'Binocular Hack' appears, which removes the flickering in one or both the lens screens (remember that you can enable lens views by selecting the Segascope views from the Video Options menu). The option is turned off by default, being inaccurate [Enik Land, Fabio Priuli] - [SUPER80] Added a bios found in a scrapped machine. [Robbbert] - [SUPER80] Added printer support for the 'super80e' [Robbbert] - [TANDY200] Limited video RAM to 8 KB as per hardware. [Curt Coder] - [TANDY200] Added a software list for option ROMs. [Curt Coder] - [TRSM100] Added a software list for option ROMs. [Curt Coder] - [WD17xx] Fixed status register after a FORCE_INT command while another command is being executed. [Wilbert Pol] Imgtool Changes: ---------------- (none) Source Changes: ---------------- - The core is based on MAME 0.141. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team] - Added UTF-8 constants for Swedish/Finnish keyboard accented characters, and cursor key arrows. Refactored drivers to use these constants. [Curt Coder] - Rewrite of the system architecture of all systems of the TI-99 family (TI-99/4(A)/8, SGCPU, Geneve), now more closely representing the real hardware. Using device structures for all hardware parts now. Redundant code removed. [Michael Zapf] - Refactored the UPD765 DRQ line to use devcb. The read_write parameter is not present on the real chip, and no driver was using it. [Curt Coder] - Static/const changes, and added driver_device state to many drivers. [Atari Ace] - Refactored the following drivers to define ADDRESS_MAP_MODERN: abc80, advision, amu880, bw12, bw14, bw2, kc85, trsm100, tandy102, tandy200, pc8201a, mm1m6, sg1000, sc3000, sf7000, tandy2k, v1050, victor9k, vidbrain, ql, xerox820, xerox820ii, xor100. [Curt Coder] - Allowed the use of either decimal or hexadecimal values for size, size, and offset in software lists. [Curt Coder] - Enabled loading ROMs from software lists to ROM_CART_LOAD entries. [Curt Coder] - Preliminary work done on these systems. Results vary from little difference to almost fully working: beehive, c10, cd2650, ccs2422, czk80, d6800, dolphin, et3400, h8, h19, k8915, mccpm, mekd2, mes, pipbug, qtsbc, sapizcps3, selz80, sol20, uts20, vta2000, zsbc3 [Robbbert] - Added configurable cursor to the generic terminal device. [Robbbert] - Added rudimentary 8N1 serial I/O to the generic terminal device. [Curt Coder]

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