MESS v0.150 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 v0.150 Changelog:

0.150 ------- MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- New System Drivers Supported: ----------------------------- -Lola 8A [Zarko Zivanov, Miodrag Milanovic] -Mattel HyperScan [Sandro Ronco] -Ampro Little Z80 Board [Robbbert] Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING: --------------------------------------- (none) Skeleton drivers: ----------------- -Hilger Analytical AB6089 Mk. 1 (LSI Octopus) [Robbbert] -Davidge DSB-4/6 [Al Kossow, Curt Coder] -Genrad Futuredata 2301 Network Control Processor [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -Control Data Corporation CDC721 Terminal [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -Seattle Computer SCP-300F [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -Onyx C8002 [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -Intertec SuperBrain [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -IBM6580 DisplayWriter [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -Telcon Zorba [Cowering, Robbbert] -Microtek Mice [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -ICS8080 Trainer [Robbbert] -Millennium Systems 9540 [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -Wicat [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -Callan PM68K [Al Kossow, Robbbert] -LFT 1230 LFT 1510 [Robbbert] -Televideo TS816 [Robbbert] -Televideo TV950 [Robbbert] -Imsai MPU-B [Robbbert] -Jade JGZ80 [Robbbert] -Jonos Escort [Robbbert] Source Changes -------------- -Emulated the SSE HardBox, a Corvus interface for PET [Mike Naberezny] -at: preliminary PS/1 support [Carl] -sage2.xml: Added Sage Sources floppies. [Chris Burrows] -Mac: cleaned up and fixed NuBus IRQ handling for machines with fake VIA2s. [R. Belmont] -Mac: convert ASC to devcb2 IRQ output, some minor modernization. [R. Belmont] -Softlist Updates: [Kaylee] amigaxxx_flop: Added two recently released files and corrected wrongly placed sets. -studio2.xml: Added MPT-02 dumps. [ranger_lennier, Charles MacDonald] -Apple II: Support for the PCPI Applicard. [R. Belmont, Alex Freed] -Fixed XML validation in studio2.xml [Kaylee] -sms.c: Enhancements for Sega Scope and LCD persistence and fix SMS Light Phaser TH read bug. [Enik Land] -studio2: Fixed loose .bin/.rom cartridge file loading, and supported loading ROMs to multiple base addresses in the software list. [Curt Coder] -visicom: Added cartridge software list. [ranger_lennier, Charles MacDonald] -mpt02: Fixed CDP1864 colors. [Curt Coder, Guru] -Added skeleton for the C64/128 version of the Star NL-10 printer interface cartridge. [Curt Coder] -a7800.c - Green miscalculated proportions fixed. [Robert Tuccitto] -Ensoniq 16-bit: SQ series are 21-voice, not 32. Fixes tuning vs. h/w. [R. Belmont] -PC200 : Added v1.3 bios [Phill Harvey-Smith] -visicom: Fixed colors and video. [Curt Coder] -visicom.xml: Fixed cartridge data bit order. [Charles MacDonald, Marcel van Tongeren] -wd_fdc: Don't switch off the motor when the fdc doesn't have a motor control pin [O. Galibert, Duke] -rainbow.c: [Bavarese] * Added 4 DIP switches (W13, W14, W15 and W18) present on the DEC-Rainbow 100-B board. W18 not wired to DSR yet. -ES5510: fixed saturating ALU operations, greatly improving the behavior of many programs. [Christian Brunschen] -added skeleton 'Yamaha Mixt Book Player Copera' to the Sega Pico driver, it appears to be similar to the Pico but with extra sound hardware (a complete Sound Blaster clone) on the MB. Added a preliminary Softlist. Added board layouts for both [Team Europe] -MPU-401: preliminary checkpoint. [R. Belmont, kevtris] -MPU-401: Preliminary working MIDI out. [R. Belmont] -mpt02: Fixed CDP1864 background color sequence. [Curt Coder] -MIDI: System Common messages should not override running status, fixes Sierra games crashing with the MT-32. [R. Belmont] -megaduck.xml : new card dumps added [Anna Wu] -a7800.c - Normalized contrast and brightness, providing a standardized grayscale and adjusted color values. [Robert Tuccitto] -Separate Ensoniq "pump" device out from esq5505.c [R. Belmont] -Rainbow updates: * add beeper, NVRAM. LED output for keyboard, Z80 and 8088 [Bavarese] * correct NVRAM mirroring [R. Belmont] * DC012 48 line mode. 3 new character attributes (reverse, blink, underline) [Bavarese] -codata : added a terminal, system responds to commands. [Robbbert] -Fix GD-Rom booting in DC US and PAL [PsyMan] -sms.c: Reduce tagmap lookups for sscope and fixed validation error when using the lphaser controller on a driver with sscope support. [Enik Land] -Fixed crashes from reading the reset port on some drivers. [Wilbert Pol] -c64: Emulated the SFX Sound Expander External Keyboard. [Curt Coder] -c64: Emulated the Wersi Wersiboard Music 64 / Siel CMK 49 Keyboard. [Curt Coder] -AppleII: Correct the TMS5220 clock rate to 640khz on the EchoII and EchoIIplus AppleII cards [Jayson Smith] -socrates.c: Add note that the Vtech Socrates' speech cart speech chip is a Toshiba TC8802AF with between 1 and 3 T6684F mask rom VSMs attached [Lord Nightmare] [epiphany brought on by Kevtris, Team Europe, Stiletto] -socrates.c: add internal and vsm german speech cart dumps [Team Europe, Lord Nightmare] -vtvideo.c : 132 column mode uses compressed characters with 1 filler pixel instead of 2. Bold implemented: 3 color palette and separate device_reset() on Rainbow. Double width line attribute fix. [Bavarese] -vtvideo.h : separate device_reset(). New variable m_height_MAX for those parts of the code shared with VT-100. [Bavarese] -rainbow.c : changed GAME_NO_SOUND to GAME_IMPERFECT_COLORS [Bavarese] -ampro : The system starts up and commands can be entered [Robbbert] -Softlists added for ampro and wicat systems. [Kaylee] -sms.c: [Enik Land] * Added expansion slot and implemented the gender adapter to allow regular cartridges to be played through the expansion slot. Usage example: mess sms1 -exp genderadp -cart2 wcup90 * Made the cartridge slot on the sg1000m3 driver to no longer be mandatory allowing the driver to also be started with media in the cardslot. -cat.c: switched driver to use the new DUART n68681 core [Lord Nightmare] -cat.c: Fix a silly issue with the video ram mapping on the IAI Swyft; now it does visible I/O accesses; the peripherals need to be figured out and hooked up still. [Lord Nightmare] -cat.c: more swyft WIP, still doesn't do very much. Found out it uses an ACIA (by looking at the rom code, 'init6850' function is kind of a giveaway), plus found where the control register for it lives. [Lord Nightmare] -sms.c: Enabled crosshair display on all screens. This makes missil3d playable on the plain '2D' view with scope emulation enabled. [Enik Land] -c64: Emulated the digital parts of the Magic Voice cartridge. Speech synthesis is not supported yet. [Curt Coder, Stefan Uhlmann] -wd_fdc: Fix ready handling, allow ready connected to vcc [O. Galibert] -wd_fdc: Data overrun drops drq [O. Galibert] -kaypro: Fix motor on line, connect ready to vcc, disable the floppy delay [O. Galibert] -ampro: Fix fdc [O. Galibert] -Added preliminary S+core CPU emulation. [Sandro Ronco] -cat.c: significantly updated the IAI Swyft driver: added preliminary guru-style readme of the swyft pcb, prepared for hooking up the VIAs [Lord Nightmare, Sandy Bumgarner, Dwight Elvey] -Renamed IDE8 to XTIDE. [smf] -dectalk.c: DECtalk DTC-01: updated to use n68681, and to use proper device for x2212 NVRAM; updated various comments [Lord Nightmare, R.Belmont, Robbert, smf] -esq5505: Sorted out BIOSes for the SD-1 family: newly dumped 3.0 for 21-voice, allow selecting 4.02 or 4.10 for 32-voice. [Christian Brunschen, R. Belmont] -a7800.c: Stored data for 26.7 & 27.7 phase shifts with corrections and label for 25.7 values. Made 26.7 (medium) default. Phase shifting falls outside the realm of video controls and hope to implement a selectable toggle hardware option similar to Donkey Kong TKG02/TKG04. [Robert Tuccitto] -rainbow.c: RAM OPTION (up to 896K) now emulated; DIP switch enhancements; cold / warm boot OK now. [Bavarese] -sms.c: Improved I/O handling for Japanese and Korean drivers (Pause button for sg1000m3, TH input for sg1000m3 and smsj, and output via controller ports for Japanese and Korean drivers) [Enik Land] -Software list update [ReadOnly] * new softlist : snes_vkun.xml (Voice-Kun audio compact discs) first Voice-Kun public dump from King Mike added * snes.xml : new prototype public dump from SNES Central - c128: Added support for double-sided Commodore GCR images to be used with the 1571 disk drive. Images can be created with e.g. "copy /b side0.g64+side1.g64 disk.g71" [Curt Coder] 0.149u1 ------- MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- - 05215: [Crash/Freeze] (pce.c) [pce] cdrom games: Peroidic crashes or black screen (Fabio Priuli) New System Drivers Supported: ----------------------------- (none) Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING: --------------------------------------- (none) Skeleton drivers: ----------------- -EVMBUG (Texas Instruments TMS9995 Trainer) [Robbbert] -Ithaca InterSystems DPS-1 [Al Kossow, Curt Coder] Software Lists: ---------------- -pet_flop.xml: Added Z-RAM floppy. [Mike Naberezny] -Added software list for BASIC programs saved to tape [Anna Wu, UglyJoe, Fabio Priuli] -victor9k_flop.xml: Added preliminary software list. [Jonathan Gevaryahu] -alphatro_flop.xml: Added floppy software list. [Spirantho] -ibm5150.xml: Added a few more disks [Kaylee] -bml3: added software list for floppy disks. [Anna Wu] -ibm5140.xml: Added floppies and fixed form factor. [Curt Coder] -ibm5170.xml: Added IBM diagnostics floppies. [Curt Coder] -pet_flop.xml: Added 8050 version of VisiCalc. [Curt Coder] Source Changes -------------- -softbox: Fixed reset. [Mike Naberezny] -corvushd: Supported 4 hard disks and usage from within a device. [Curt Coder] -Added skeleton for IMI 5000H hard disk controller. [Curt Coder, Al Kossow] -PC driver cleanup: [Dirk Best] * Much improved CS4031 emulation, added DMA, interrupt controller, timer, RTC directly to the device as sub devices and added the generic functions needed for AT compatibility * Moved the ct486 driver to its own file, to avoid all the legacy stuff in at.c * Added support for the IOCHCK signal to the ISA bus, this is used instead of directly issuing an NMI to the main CPU * Moved ISA device slot definitions to its own file to avoid copy & pasting the same list to different drivers * Updated MC146818 RTC for devcb2 -Added skeleton device for Mator SHARK (22 MB Winchester hard disk for the Commodore PET). [Curt Coder, Mike Naberezny] -Rename the bridge challenger 3 model 7014 driver from 'abc' to 'bridgec3', added pcb locations, notes, and better labels. [Lord Nightmare] -famicom: added support for loading/saving BASIC programs from/to cassette. wav files supported only. [Fabio Priuli] -nes.c: improvements and fixes to inputs [Fabio Priuli] * simplified input reading * moved most Famicom controllers to the expansion port (still configurable in the Driver Config menu) because it is more accurate and because it allows to use both the FC keyboard and the controllers in BASIC games * fixed NES paddle emulation which broke some years ago * added FC paddle emulation, see Arkanoid and Chase HQ * added Hori Twin Adapter with correct P3 & P4 Famicom protocol, see e.g. four players games by Technos Japan just a cleanup and the whatsnew entry for previous changes... -nes.c: emulated microphone input for old famicom controller, as detected by games (i.e. it only detects voice/no voice, while the actual transmission of your voice to the speakers is not emulated). To use it in games expecting you to blow or shout in the mic, select the "Gamepad (Older Version)" as "P2 Controller" in the Driver Configuration submenu, and press "6" when the game requires it. [Fabio Priuli] -nes.c: added emulation of the NES Power Pad controller, to be enabled in Controller Port 2 through the Driver Configuration submenu, and mapped by default on TY,FGHJ,BN keys for side A layout and RTYU,FGHJ,VBNM keys for side B. [Fabio Priuli] -MEK6800D2 : Added cassette interface, system listed as WORKING [Robbbert] -nes.c: added emulation of the FC Family Trainer controller, to be enabled in Expansion Port through the Driver Configuration submenu, and mapped by default like the Power Pad. [Fabio Priuli] -corvushd: Fixed physical sector calculation. [Mike Naberezny] -snes.c: simplified input handling and made controller ports 16bits wide, since this is the way they are accessed by our code. [Fabio Priuli] -snes.c: simplified input handling, moved the console specific inputs to MESS driver and added preliminary Multitap support. Multitap has to be enabled in the Driver Configuration menu. The code is considered preliminary because some games recognize 4 pads (e.g. Kunio-kun no Dodge Ball), other ones recognize 3 pads only (e.g. Super Bomberman 3, 4 & 5) and some recognize 2 pads only (e.g. FIFA 96 and 97). [Fabio Priuli] -Acorn System 1: added cassette [Robbbert] -corvushd: Fixed log message. [Mike Naberezny] -sms: Converted SMS inputs to use slot devices. You now select controllers in the Slot Devices menu of the internal UI, not in the Driver Configurations anymore. [Enik] -bml3: split into three variants (bml3, bml3a and bml3b) according to floppy disk support. Only bml3a (5.25" disk) is considered working. [jedwidz] -c64: Updated SwiftLink/Turbo232 settings. [Mike Naberezny] -SNES SA-1 improvements [R. Belmont] * S-CPU can properly write to SA-1 registers * SA-1 CPU boots properly from its own vectors * Interrupt controller implemented * Message-passing registers and status flags hooked up -SNES SA-1: fixed initial SA-1 status and added preliminary SA-1 to S-CPU IRQ. [R. Belmont] -gameboy: converted the various LCD types (DMG, MGB, CGB...) to be devices. [Fabio Priuli] -pet: Fixed ROM signatures for Mator Shark hard drive. [Mike Naberezny] -Fidelz80.c: rename vbc to vbrc, and noted that Fidelity Bridge Challenger models VBRC and 7002 are two names for the same thing. [Lord Nightmare, Cowering, Kevtris] -apollo: fixed disk and tape DMA, improved logging [Hans Ostermeyer] -ibm5170: Emulated the IBM Model F PC/AT 84-key keyboard. [Curt Coder, John Elliott] -Apollo: fix out-of-bounds framebuffer access crash on OS X [Hans Ostermeyer] -SNES SA-1 work: [Fabio Priuli, R. Belmont] * Initial support for plain SA-1 DMA * Fixed incorrect BWRAM banking * Fixed SA-1 vectors to not blot out all banks * Added S-CPU vector override * Fire interrupt for CC type 1; this allows levelling up in SMRPG (gfx not correct yet) -bml3: Add stub variants bml3mk2 (for MB-6891) and bml3mk5 [jedwidz] (for MB-6892). For now these behave the same as bml3 (MB-6890). Refactor disk controllers and kanji ROM as slot devices. This allows switching between MP-1802 and MP-1805 disk controllers. MP-1805 disk controller now works. Kanji ROM now works. Keyboard scanning in 'counter disabled' mode now works. -imgtool: Add bml3 driver, supporting both single-density (MP-1805 [jedwidz] controller) and double-density (MP-1802 controller) disks in D88 format. -ibm5160: Emulated the IBM Model F PC/XT 83-key keyboard. [Curt Coder, John Elliott] -PDP1 : Fixed loading of paper tape, Spacewar works again [Robbbert] -TX0 : Fixed paper tape reader [Robbbert] -Fixes for building MESS with Visual Studio 2013 preview [smf] -Vtech1 : fixed i/o error when reading disks. [Robbbert] -vtech1: fixed i/o ports for vz300, laser310 allowing disk to work. [Robbbert] -pc1640: Promoted to working with imperfect graphics, the extended Paradise EGA-350 video modes are not supported yet. [Curt Coder] -sms.c: Converted TH line callbacks to use write_line. [Enik Land] -Ensoniq 16-bit: better A/D parameter handling, allow panel device to send new analog data. [Christian Brunschen] -a7800.c - XM/XBoard POKEY support. 'Bentley Bear - Crystal Quest' & 'Donkey Kong XM' now work, while maintaining support for original library titles, Commando and Ballblazer. [Robert Tuccitto] -Mac updates: [R. Belmont] * Corrected memory map errors with the SE and Classic * Preliminary support for the SE's 68000 processor-direct slot * Preliminary support for the Radius Full Page Display card which goes in the SE PDS slot -softbox: Added reset when IEEE-488 IFC is asserted. [Mike Naberezny]

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