MESS v0.144u5 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 v0.144u5 Changelog:

0.144u5 New System Drivers Supported: ----------------------------- - Palm Z22 [Tim Schuerewegen] - Mini2440 [Tim Schuerewegen] - Mera-Elzab Meritum I (model 2) [Miodrag Milanovic] - RM-380Z [Gabriele D'Antona] Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING: --------------------------------------- - SLC1 [Robbbert] Skeleton drivers: ----------------- - Axel AX-20 - Didaktik M 92 - Mera 79152PC - Mera Konin - Siemens PC-D [rfka01] - NCR Decision Mate V [rfka01] - DEC Rainbow 100B [rfka01] System Driver Changes: ---------------------- -poly1: Added Terminal roms [Andrew Trotman] -Fix for a400, a800 and clones which caused a crash navigating the Input menu. [hap] -a5105: Implemented memory banking. [Sandro Ronco] -mac: Cuda device talks to the 680x0 properly; Color Classic now shows something. [R. Belmont] -mac: Fixed Cuda timer interrupt ack and default PRAM for Egret and Cuda [R. Belmont] -victor9k: Fixed keyboard MCU clock. [Lord Nightmare] -nc: Added v1.02 Danish and v1.02 German bios variations of the NC100. [Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt] -cbm: Added ICT Mini Chief hard disk ROMs. [Curt Coder] -mac: add preliminary support for LC520 (not working yet) [R. Belmont] -pet: Added skeleton for SSE SoftBox IEEE-488 peripheral. [Curt Coder] -macpci: new driver to support PCI-based Old World Macs, including Pippin [R. Belmont] -c64: Added skeleton for Serial Box IEC peripheral. [Curt Coder] -mac: Added skeleton device for low-level emulation of the original Mac keyboard [R. Belmont] -ip22: Made the SGI Indy driver about 130% faster on my machine (from 50% speed to 115% speed on a 3.2GHz i7) by commenting out debug logging wholesale rather than leaving in an inline do-nothing if(). [MooglyGuy] Software Lists: ---------------- -coleco.xml: added an earlier dump of dkong. [k1w1] -rainbow.xml: DEC Rainbow 100 Softlist [Kaylee] Source Changes: ---------------- -pc_cga.c: Fixed selection of mc6845 input clock. [Wilbert Pol] -floppy: Add media type and write splice information to the internal representation, and start handling HD [O. Galibert] -8530scc: Modernize. Hopefully nothing broke [O. Galibert] -floppy: Add an "unknown" form factor and use it to fix floptool [O. Galibert] -mcs48: Fixed I8021/I8022 clock divider. [Curt Coder] -i386: Patch for i386 helps booting Phoenix bios [Carl] -scsibus: Increment command index on acknowledge instead of data read, since Visual 1050 BIOS skips the message byte read and just acks it. [Curt Coder] -Fix four spc700 opcodes which didn't disassemble correctly [kevtris] -scsibus: Added group 6 (vendor specific) command length. [Curt Coder] -scsibus: Implemented SASI group 6 command 00 (C0, Physical Device ID). [Curt Coder] -scsibus: Sector size is now configurable in init_scsibus. [Curt Coder] -scsihd: Get sector size from CHD metadata to support old 256 bytes/sector SASI drives, and allow hard disk image subdevices. [Curt Coder] -uiimage/diimage: Dumbify the menus and add a control layer [O. Galibert] -floppy: Add diskferret format support, and a minimal pc support [O. Galibert] -First draft of i8279 device. Hooked up to mmd2, which now nearly works [Robbbert] -softlist: Fix entry count tracking issue [O. Galibert]

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