MESS v0.147u2

MESS v0.147u2 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 v0.147u2 Changelog:

0.147u2 ------- MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- - 05030: [DIP/Input] (coco3.c) coco3: Hi-Res joystick does not work for Tandy or CocoMax (sronco) - 04878: [Crash/Freeze] (mac.c) macii and clones: Crash before OK with nb9 slot (R. Belmont) New System Drivers Supported: ----------------------------- (none) Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING: --------------------------------------- - Macintosh LC [R. Belmont] - Macintosh IIsi [R. Belmont] - Macintosh LC II [R. Belmont] - Macintosh Classic II [R. Belmont] - Macintosh LC III [R. Belmont] - Macintosh IIvx [R. Belmont] - Macintosh IIvi [R. Belmont] Skeleton drivers: ----------------- (none) System Driver Changes: ---------------------- -snes.c: fixed Dezaemon SRAM mappings. [Fabio Priuli] -gameboy.c: Added support for the mapper used by Sonic 3D Blast 5 pirate. [Wilbert Pol] -samcoupe.c: modified the driver to not install / uninstall bank handlers, greatly improving performaces (e.g. Manic Miner demo went from 20% to 380% ingame). Plus added some very preliminary softlists. [David Haywood] -mac updates: [R. Belmont] * Line-level ADB comms for machines using the Egret ADB MCU, including standard transactions and SRQ * Built-in video support for all modes on machines with the V8 and Sonora ASICs * Corrected some minor bugs in the ADB protocol spoken by the keyboard simulation -c128: Rewrote the driver using the PLA for address decoding. [Curt Coder] -gameboy.c: Partially implemented banking for Story of La Sa Ma. [Wilbert Pol] -mac: Support original Macintosh II Video Card [R. Belmont, Sharkpuncher] -hp9k: made drive go into boot process [Gabriele D'Antona] -craft: added basic Timer 1 support to Craft driver and hooked up the DAC, currently plays only a buzzing noise due to lacking EEPROM support [MooglyGuy] -mac: Convert 343-004x RTC/PRAM chip into modern RTC device [R. Belmont] -mac: Support headless operation [R. Belmont] -mac updates: [R. Belmont] * Fixed some glitches with the SE/30's built-in video * Added preliminary infrastructure for LC and '030-type processor-direct slots * Support for SE/30 processor-direct slot version of RasterOps Colorboard 264 -mac: Add support for Lapis ProColor Server 8*16 PDS video card [R. Belmont, Sharkpuncher] -mac: Add support for PDS Sigma Designs L-View card [R. Belmont, Sharkpuncher] -a2600: Reimplemented the a2600 controllers as vcs controller devices. Switched the a2600 drivers to use slot devices for choosing controllers. [Wilbert Pol] -craft.c: Fixed DAC bit order, audio now plays but is 40% too slow [Mooglyguy] -craft.c: Preliminary video support, bad vsync and colors still. [MooglyGuy] -mac: Preliminary support for Micron XCEED 30HR and MacroColor 30 PDS cards [R. Belmont, Sharkpuncher, Balrog] -a7800: NTSC Color Generator utilized for color palette with hue shift/start based on observation of several systems across multiple displays [Robert Tuccitto] Software Lists: ---------------- -32x: added region compatibility filters to the software list [Fabio Priuli, Tafoid, Bobz] -spectrum_cass.xml: added very preliminary softlist containing some interesting test case for emulation. [David Haywood] -pcw16.xml: added softlist for available disk images [remax] -snes.xml: added region compatibility filters to the software list [Fabio Priuli, Tafoid, Bobz] -amiga.xml: added placeholder lists for system disks. [David Haywood] -amiga: added very preliminary softlist for game disks [David Haywood] -ibm5150.xml: updated with recent dumps. [Kaylee] Source Changes -------------- -floppy: Random fixes/logging [O. Galibert] -upd765: Modernize [O. Galibert] Remaining TODO list: * take WP into account * test the amstrad, implement its observational format (edsk) using pasti as a start. Or find the legendary amstrad IPFs. Or both. * correct read track, the implementation is completely wrong. See previous for testing, it's only used in protections the check the inter-sector gaps. * shake and bake on the amstrad, protections are the best to find bugs in a fdc * add the scan id commands, but nothing seems to use them * debug the 2.88M formatting which is unreliable. Fix its IDAM/DAM gap size on formatting too (but that's not what's making it unreliable) * test all the systems that were hit, and fix what needs to be fixed. Beware that multiple problems may happen: * upd765 may be wrong * the driver may not be working * the hookup may be wrong/incomplete (bitrate selection and floppy rpm in particular) * the driver may be too limited for the new implementation (the x68k dma device does not handle non-instant dma yet for instance) * report invalid command when appropriate depending on the actual chip emulated * add the russian clones with their real names -d88: Reduce the gap3 size from the standard value when the data otherwise won't fit [O. Galibert] -upd765: Implement LOCK [O. Galibert] -upd765: Fix busy status when seeking [O. Galibert] -upd765: Fix MSR DIO in EXEC phase [O. Galibert] -add innovation ssi-2001 sid-on-isa device [Carl] -upd765: Fix the dump regs command, don't exit on unknown commands and add dsr reset [O. Galibert] -added basic support for the loop flags in tzx [David Haywood]

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