MESS v0.146u1 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 v0.146u1 Changelog:

0.146u1 MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- - 04885: [Documentation] (chesstrv.c) borisdpl: The correct year of manufacture is 1979. - 04880: [Documentation] (chesstrv.c) chesstrv: The correct year of manufacture is 1980. New System Drivers Supported: ----------------------------- (none) Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING: --------------------------------------- - EA Car Computer [Robbbert] Skeleton drivers: ----------------- - Unknown HP Z80-based mainframe. [Robbbert, Lord Nightmare] - VTech Genius PC. [PulkoMandy] - ITT3030 [rfka01] System Driver Changes: ---------------------- -tvc: Added .cas cassette image support. [Sandro Ronco] -apple II: Added the S.A.M. speech card. Literally an 8-bit DAC and speaker and that's it. [R. Belmont] -apple II: Add ALF Apple Music II card (3x SN76489s) [R. Belmont] -m20: Now passes POST, need to get FDC booting next [Christian Grössler] -pcw8256: added software list for disk images and hooked up to the driver. [Fabio Priuli] -c64: Added a 16KB EPROM cartridge, to which you can map your own ROMs either to ROML, ROMH, or both. E.g. "mess c64p -exp 16k -cart2 roml.bin -cart3 romh.bin". The cartridge can operate in 8KB/16KB or Ultimax mode. [Curt Coder] -elektor: added support for pgm quickloads. Added notes on how to use quickloads on vc4000 etc. [Robbbert] -nes.c: fixed emulation of mapper 52 variant with switched CHR bank lines, used by several pirate multigame carts [Fabio Priuli] -nes.c: added support for the MMC3 variant used by Fight Street VI [Fabio Priuli] -nes.c: added support for UNL-FS304 board used by A Link to the Past (Waixing) [Fabio Priuli] -nes.c: added support for a bootleg board by YOKO Soft used by a couple of fighting games. [Fabio Priuli] -nes.c: fixed emulation of DAOU306 pcb needed by Janggun ui Adeul. [Fabio Priuli] -Added "Mac 512" bootleg by Unitron Brazil [rbanffy] -dm7000: connected terminal keyboard [Lukasz Markowski] -Lots of Ensoniq work: [R. Belmont] * Added SQ-80, VFX-SD, SD-1, and SD-1 32 voice. * Added ubiqitous 2x40 line VFD display * Hooked up floppy drive and controller on VFX-SD, SD-1, SD-1 32, and EPS-16 * Fixed battery level readback on all 16-bit Ensoniqs and respond correctly to keyboard calibration command -m20: More floppy drive hookup. A trivial booter disk works; the OS does not. [Christian Grössler] -ensoniq: EPS-16 ROMs turned out to be plain EPS. [R. Belmont] -vidbrain: Improved sound slightly. [Kurt Woloch] -ensoniq: add floppy side select control and EPS/EPS-16+'s 68450 DMAC. EPS OS now boots and says "ERROR 129" instead of crashing. [R. Belmont] -apple II: Make Brazilian quasi-clone TK2000 show something. [R. Belmont] -apple II: Laser 128 and 128EX partially working, can boot ProDOS, DOS 3.3 dies. [R. Belmont] -megadriv.c: confirmed Asia MegaCD dump [Jakovasaur, ElBarto] -apple II: Preliminary support for German "Space 84" clone [R. Belmont, rfka01] -wangpc: Driver now boots from floppy. [Curt Coder] -apple II: Clean up Laser 128 support, support Space 84 h-flipped char roms. [R. Belmont] -wangpc: Emulated the medium resolution video controller. [Curt Coder] -eacc: fixed nmi operation. System boots. [Robbbert] -apple II: Add the Street Electronics Echo II speech card [R. Belmont] -apple II: Add support for IBS AP16 VideoTerm clone [R. Belmont, rfka01] -apple II: Support an alternate version of the AP-16 card [R. Belmont, rfka01] -apple II: fix crash on hard reset/multisession and improved IIgs soft reset behavior. [R. Belmont] -eacc: fixed remaining bugs [Robbbert] -apple II: Add two more VideoTerm clones of unknown manufacture [R. Belmont, Lord Nightmare] Software Lists: ---------------- -vsmile.xml: added some new dumps [rimsky82] -pico.xml: new Japanese dumps [Team Europe] -pico.xml: added info about Japanese releases and list of undumped items [Fabio Priuli] -apple1.xml: added a few more tapes [Anon01] -megadriv.xml: documented more carts and dumps. [ElBarto] -snes.xml: documented the copy protection algorithm of many pirate cartridges [d4s] -snes.xml: a couple of new dumps [Badablek, d4s] -megadriv.xml: added a few Russian pirate dumps. [Kaylee] -ibm5150.xml: Updated the IBM 5150 list with a few more dumps, and fixed a few errors. [Kaylee] -pico.xml: new US dumps added. [TeamEurope] Source Changes: ---------------- -upd765.c: Trigger RDY active during reset interrupt for each drive independently so that 4 consecutive Sense Interrupt commands will return the correct status. [Curt Coder] -SoundBlaster: first-pass somewhat naive working version. Autoinit DMA does not work; use sblaster1_0, not 1_5! [R. Belmont] -New TMS9900 and TMS9995 implementation with proper control line handling and wait state generation. Previous implementation has been renamed and drivers point to the old implementation until they are adapted to the new one. [Michael Zapf]

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