Front End

version 5.1.8 change log - December 20, 2007

 

Fixed

 

* When disabling left panel, main tool bar filters were not being applied again

* Hidden games stay hidden when left panel and hidden games features are enabled at the same time

* Open/close button for root nodes in left panel disappearing when starting front-end with left panel enabled

* Memory leak in "game details" screen

* Incremental search not working in several screens

 

Improved

 

* Files that do not follow the standard format are not added into the left panel (catver.ini for example)

* Merged some more functions to remove unecessary code duplicates

 

Removed

 

* Several audit icons from folder "\resources\main_icons\"

* Artwork filters from "Games Filters" main menu. Also removed support for the now old artwork.ini (thanks Mr. Do!)... "[frontend]\ini_files\artwork.ini" file

* Only the new artwork.ini file is supported and is to be used with the left panel

* Audit feature is completely removed from the project (see new feature "Scan Results" for more info)

 

Added

 

* Added a new main tool bar button: "Left Panel Filters" for easier access and removed the menu item from the "Games Filters" main menu

* Left panel now have a popup menu with some options

* New files: -> folder: "\resources\main_icons\": "left_panel.ico" "scanresult_ok.ico" "scanresult_badcrc.ico" "scanresult_notfound.ico" "scanresult_game.ico"

* Support for custom background image and font for the left panel Same background image as games list and font is the same as parent games font

* New options for MAME 0.122 in MAME settings screen

* Custom width for the left panel is now saved in "EmuLoader.ini"

* New folder "font_ttf" with some custom fonts used by the front-end, in case you don't have them

* New feature: "Scan Results" (games popup menu)

* Every time you scan the games list, files are created or updated in a new folder: "[frontend]\arcade\scan_results\". Each system have a file with the ".miss" extension, except for "ZiNc" and "Daphne" systems (no support for these 2). Only games that have missing ROMs/CHD are added

There are 2 options for this feature:

1. Selected Game ("Shift+A" hotkey) -> view the results of a single game

2. All Missing Games ("F8" hotkey) -> view the results of all missing games for all systems

NOTES:

- At least one ROM or CHD file must be found for each game or it will not be added in the list

- Green status is for "Ok" ROMs/CHD files

- Red status is for "bad checksum" and is for CHD files only (no ROMs)

- Gray status is for "missing" ROMs/CHD files

- If you download a new .zip file you must re-scan the games list since this feature does not do any scanning, it only read "system_name.miss" files

>> Get it HERE.

Multi-system emulator

AmiArcadia emulates the Emerson Arcadia 2001 (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand,

Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy,

Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) and Interton VC 4000

(Acetronic, Fountain, Interton, Prinztronic, Rowtron, Voltmace,

Waddington, etc.) console families, and the Elektor TV Games Computer.

 

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

 

Changes since 4.83:

. Optional console-based debugger interface.

. "Debug|Ignore next instruction" command.

. Miscellaneous improvements.

Dreamcast emulator for Linux

Change of plans - because svn looks likely to become unstable for a little bit with recent work (mmu changes are fairly invasive, and there’s quite a performance penalty that I haven’t optimized away yet), I’m releasing 0.8.2 as it is now (without TLB) for the benefit of those who need the fixes since 0.8.1.

Note: There are no significant changes to the emulation (ie no change to compatibility) - If 0.8.1 runs properly for you, you don’t need 0.8.2

 

Changes from 0.8.1

 

* x86-64 architecture support

* Preliminary Mac OS X support

* Pbuffer support (to support OpenGL drivers without EXT_framebuffer_object)

* Support for more recent CDI and NRG image file versions

* Minor bugfixes

>> Get it HERE.

PSX emulator

>> Get it HERE (bottom of page).