MESS v0.157 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 v0.157 Changelog:

0.157 ------- MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- - 05795: [Misc.] (ampro.c) ampro: Does not want to start! (Robbbert) New System Drivers Supported: ----------------------------- -Gamate [PeT] -Excalibur 64 [Robbbert] -BBN BitGraph terminal [Sergey Svishchev] -V-Smile (France) [segher] -Amaze-A-Tron [hap, Sean Riddle] -Comp IV [hap, Sean Riddle] -Code Name: Sector [hap, Sean Riddle] -Star Wars - Electronic Battle Command [hap, Kevin Horton] -Mathemagician [hap, Kevin Horton, incog] -Tandy-12: Computerized Arcade [hap, Kevin Horton] -TI TMS1xxx-based calculators [hap, Sean Riddle] -Speak & Spell hardware [hap, Lord Nightmare, Kevin Horton, Sean Riddle] Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING: --------------------------------------- -Stop Thief (Electronic Crime Scanner) [hap, Sean Riddle] Skeleton drivers: ----------------- -HP9000 Series 300 [R. Belmont, Al Kossow] -unknown TMS1100 electronic game [hap, Kevin Horton] Software Lists: --------------- -vsmile_cart.xml: new dumps added. [TeamEurope] -m5_cass: dumped Solar System Forces tapes [Ola Andersson] -added software lists for Altos 5 floppies and Memotech MTX tapes. [Riley110] -softlist: added new list for Patisonic Aleste floppies and added more images to Tatung Einstein list. [Riley110] -added softlist for Archimedes disks. [Riley110, Fabio Priuli] -adam: added info and some images from sacnews website. [Riley110] -softlist: added apollo_ctape softlist [Riley110] -Leapster dumps [Team Europe] -softlist: added new lists for mc1000 tapes and tvc floppies. also added info to osborne1.xml. [Riley110] -vsmile.xml: two new dumps added. [TeamEurope] -psx.xml: added info to all the remaining images. [AntoPisa] -pico.xml: new dumps added from Jpn and Korea [TeamEurope] -vsmile_cart.xml: new dumps added [FatArnold, TeamEurope] -tutor.xml: added some new dumps [ssj, TeamEurope] -vc4000.xml: added some new dumps [ssj, TeamEurope] -channelf.xml: added dump of Werbetextcassette [Fredric QJ Blaholtz, ranger_lennier] -svision.xml: added dumps of Mahjang Leitai and Journey to the West [PeT, ranger_lennier] Source Changes -------------- -cbm8296: Added mysterious "GV" ROM set. [Mike Naberezny] -intvkbd - intv.c: Added keyboard proms and readme information from initial rom package. [Tafoid] -Rewrote TMS1xxx MCU core and added support for a couple of classic Texas Instruments handheld calculators. [hap, Sean Riddle] -apollo: made possible to load cartridge tapes from softlist, by dealing with these images like it's done for cassettes and floppies. [Fabio Priuli] -maria.c: Implemented "colorburst kill" bit of the MARIA CTRL register. [Mike Saarna, Robert Tuccitto] -megacd: verified and better documented bios of Japanese Rev.E [ShouTime] -gamate bios and cartridges [Peter Wilhelmsen,Morten Shearman Kirkegaard] -Fixed writing to disk with the Commodore 2040/3040/4040 and 1541/1551/1570/1571 drives. [Curt Coder] -fdc_pll: Added write_next_bit_prev_cell() that writes a bit at the position the previous bit was read from. This is needed for FDC's that read and write on the same clock cycle, e.g. the Commodore 8050 and Victor 9000. [Curt Coder] -apple2e: fix LC save states and don't enter double modes if 80COL isn't set. [R. Belmont, Peter Ferrie] -apple2: disable orange/blue in hires if dhires set but not 80col. [R. Belmont, Peter Ferrie] -Update Victor 9000 keyboard diagram [Lord Nightmare] -pc98: added preliminary support for disks in DCP, DCU, DIP and NFD formats. [Fabio Priuli] -Victor 9000 keyboard: added layout and documentation of what capacitive switch pads correspond to what key [Lord Nightmare] -Victor 9000 Keyboard: add more diagrams and connection lists for the various IC and cable connections [Lord Nightmare] -Victor 9000 Keyboard: Add the keyboard matrix table. [Lord Nightmare] -Victor 9000 Keyboard: Document the RJ-45 Keyboard cable connector pinout. [Lord Nightmare] -pc98: added support for disks in .fdd format. [Fabio Priuli] -Victor 9000 Keyboard: Hook the keys to the keyboard matrix. [Lord Nightmare] -hp16500b: Fix the display ram test [O. Galibert] -MZ-2500: Fixed floppy drive reverse behaviour, allows Laydock to get farther [Takeda Toshiya, Angelo Salese] -Fix VSM rom read through the tms51xx, and add tms6100 hookup to tispeak.c, fixing speech in speak and spell and speak and math. The drivers are usable but no display yet. Fixed speak and spell clock speed (it is 1/2 the clock input of the tms51xx chip) [Lord Nightmare] -gamate :added bankswitched cartridges support, basic scrolling support [PeT] -Intellivison: fix loading of very large .rom carts like D2K Arcade. [R. Belmont] -gamegear: moved GG-SMS scaling from VDP file to the machine file; undone the specific X-Scroll timing introduced to fix Chicago Syndicate, for Game Gear, because it causes problems with the games Sonic Drift 1 and 2; reduced the amount of duplicated code in the VDP file. [Enik Land] -gamate - multi cartridge support [Peter Trauner] -vc4000: properly supported 4K carts with no RAM. [Fabio Priuli] -tutor.c: added correct mapping for 32K carts, promoting recent Baseball dump to working state. [Fabio Priuli] -sms: added support for Hi-Com multigame carts, recently dumped by smspower guys. Korean or Japanese consoles are suggested for these carts. [Fabio Priuli] -gamegear: fixed detection of SMS games (via adapter) and added support for connecting a SMS pad to the unit (via Gear2Gear port + adapter) to play 2players games. [Enik Land] -Add a TEA1002 color encoder device and use it for the Aquarius. It might make sense to make this a direct descendent of the palette_device instead. Color information based on TEA1002 datasheet. [Dirk Best, nitrofurano, Bruce Abbott] -Fixed save state regressions in the following drivers [Osso]: plus4.c, micromik.c, pt68k4.c, apple2gs.c, ng_aes.c and snes.c.

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