MESS v0.144u4

MESS v0.144u4 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.

MESS v0.144u4 Changelog:

0.144u4 New System Drivers Supported: ----------------------------- - Fidelity Champion Chess Challenger (model CSC). [Lord Nightmare, Kevtris, Sandro Ronco] - Acetronic Chess Traveller. [Curt Coder] - Triumph-Adler's Alphatronic PC [Ian Gledhill,Barry Rodewald,Robbbert] Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING: --------------------------------------- (none) Skeleton drivers: ----------------- (none) System Driver Changes: ---------------------- -v1050: Added Winchester hard disk [Curt Coder] -mac: match dumped Egret ROM versions to known machines. II/IIx/IIcx now default to Apple 4*8 video card instead of RasterOps board to better represent a common config and boot faster. [R. Belmont] -lynx: Fixes a bug in the audio emulation that was causing mess to hang. [huygens] Changed button ordering Sprite scaling changes (Blue Lightning runway fixed) -dc: added Katana Set 5 prototype BIOS (The Dumping Union) -mac: Added preliminary Cuda skeleton. Doesn't sync up properly with 68k yet. [R. Belmont, Paul Pratt] -lynx: removed clearing of collision depository for background sprites (Dirty Larry can now get to the second level, Scrapyard Dog goes in-game) [huygens] -lynx: removed drawing of pad byte on end of scanline in completely literal sprite data (fixes score display in Qix, Blue Lightning).[huygens] Software Lists: ---------------- -v1050.xml: Added CP/M 3.0 (BIOS 1.4) to softlist. [rbramante] -a7800.xml: Adding softlist information regarding known prototypes, verified descriptions, general set upkeep.. more work needed. [Tafoid] -ibmpcjr_cart.xml: adding required field for DOS disk in the carts which needs it. [Kaylee] Source Changes: ---------------- -ipf: Cope with a probable image error (Chase H.Q. ST in particular) [O. Galibert]

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