Source: http://www.innoveware.com/index.html

10-04-2006 - JAPE

 

I started to receive some contributions or help on the JAPE project.

This is quite interesting as the amount of work could be reduced for every porting of a MAME build.

If you would like to join, do not hesitate to contact me (it is preferrable to have a good understanding of MAME, C and Java code).

As for now, thanks to the help of AJ Mas, we have a working Williams driver and perhaps sound support soon.

 

Here are all the latest changes:

 

* Added support for Blaster, Robotron, Defender, Stargate, Joust, Splat... (AJ Mas).

* Added support for Star Force, Tutankham, AntEater, Rescue, Mysterious Stone, Naughty Boy, Jr. Pacman, Qbert Qubes, Kung Fu Master.

* Fixed support for Seicross.

* Added double-buffering support (we now have very smooth scrolling and faster scanlines display).

* Faster and more accurate I86 core.

* Fixed cpu issues in the M6809 core (Williams driver).

* Added new user interface.

* Removed the unuseful VESA options.

* Incorporated most changes from MAME 0.23 to MAME 0.25.

Multi-computer emulator

R.Belmont has released his SDL port of MESS

SDLMESS 0.109

In sync with the latest baseline release [25.6 MB]

 

The major SDL-layer improvement this time is a set of improvements to the Mac OS X debugger by Tim Lindner. There's a bugfix for scrolling as well as a button to host the popup menu, so it's more obvious that there *is* a menu.

>> Get it HERE.

Front End

4th October, 2006 - GameEx 6.92

 

* Update to video, DVD and karaoke player dialog box - less flicker, better cosmetics, and video and karaoke progress bar

* Enhancements and fixes to model 2 support thanks to headkaze

 

3rd October, 2006 - GameEx 6.91

 

* Updates and enhancments to the GameEx setup wizard.

 

1st October, 2006 - GameEx 6.90

 

Introducing the GameEx Setup Wizard!

A new innovation in gaming frontends - The GameEx setup wizard allows wizard style configuration, download, setup of GameEx, MAME, emulators and all your media needs.

This makes the setup of GameEx even easier than it ever it was.

Now the gaming frontend with the most complex backend and amount of features, is probably now the easiest to setup and use.

The GameEx setup wizard is entirely the work of Ben Baker (AKA Headkaze).

You should get this version of GameEx as soon as you can.

Please give feedback and ask questions about this new addition to GameEx on the GameEx forums.

My thanks, gratitude and admiration go out to Ben.

 

1st October, 2006 - GameEx 6.81

 

* The rom filter setting now works with emulators setup with GoodMerge 7-zip. You don't need to set the rom filter as *.7z, if you do it will list all unzipped contents, same as *.* So you can set it to what to filter on the unzipped contents such as *.bin.

* Fixes CD-Player and CD-Ripper due to a missing file in the install

* Most recently played emu games shown at the top of the list now show database info at the top of the screen if available

* Create emulator snaps now works when emulators are setup as goodmerge 7-zips

* Fixes to auto updater which will take affect for future versions

* I recommend doing a manual download and install from the GameEx web site for this version if updating.

>> Get it HERE.

Multi-computer emulator

0.109

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

----------------------------------------------------------------

- Apple IIc (ROM revision 4) (not working) [Nick Westgate]

- Tano Dragon 64 [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

System Driver Changes:

----------------------------

- [C64] Fixed issues found by the TRAP4, TRAP5, and TRAP6 tests of the c64 test suite. (bug #952) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [CBM] Fixed SID code to remove potential divide by zero issues. (bug #936) [Nate Woods]

 

- [COCO3] Fixed a bug that could cause hi-res text and graphics to not display properly when RGB is enabled. (bug #938) [Nate Woods]

 

- [DRAGON] Fixed side specification on floppy disk controller. [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

- [GAMEBOY] Fixed battery backed RAM saving. (bug #948) [Dirk Best, Wilbert Pol]

 

- [TELMAC] Fixed crash when running without sound. (bug #922) [Nate Woods]

 

- [THOMSON] Improved video emulation, floppy disk support, preliminary network extension support, and LEDs. [Antoine Mine]

 

- [THOMSON] Added CRCs to the BIOS declarations. (bug #942) [Antoine Mine]

 

- [VIC20] Fixed bug that caused the driver to fail when sound was disabled. (bug #930) [Nate Woods]

 

 

User Interface Changes:

----------------------------

- [Windows] Fixed a bug that caused the Pause menu item to always appear as checked. (bug #926) [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows GUI] Fixed a bug that caused the GUI to fumble on paths with spaces in them. (bug #918) [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows GUI] The GUI will no longer process software entries when an emulation is running. (bug #940) [Nate Woods]

 

 

Imgtool Changes:

---------------------

- Fixed the listfilters command. (bug #945) [Tim Lindner]

 

- Added Thomson support. [Antoine Mine]

 

- [Windows] Modified wimgtool so that it will function properly if it cannot locate an icon for a given file extension. [Nate Woods]

 

 

Source Changes:

--------------------

- The core is based on MAME 0.109. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

 

- Fixed improper use of options.sample_rate in drivers to use Machine->sample_rate. (bug #939) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

- Build system cleanups. (bug #929) [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows] Fixed incorrect "Illegal integer value for threads" error. (bug #920) [Nate Woods]

>> Get it HERE.