Release notes for 1.81 - September 17th, 2007

 

* Lots of fixes and improvements to mouse and keyboard input blocking for XIG

* Non-admin users to be able to use Xfire again

* Lots of minor Shadow skin improvemnts

* A small fix when changing download directory

* Fixed leak when resizing XIG in OGL based games

* Fixed crash on exit issue

* Under Vista, City of Heroes can be launched from Xfire

* The following games were added Medal of Honor:

 

Airborne - Demo World in Conflict - Demo Civilization IV Gold Edition Two Worlds - Demo Two Worlds Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms (Steam version included)

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 Desperate Housewives Urban Terror Quake III Arena Mod Medal of Honor: Airborne Pet Vet 3D Animal Hospital The Sims 2 Bon Voyage

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Demo

 

* The following games now have XIG 2.0:

 

Unreal Tournament Battlefield 1942 Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo Unreal Tournament 2004 World of Warcraft The Sims 2

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Sid Meier's Pirates! Zoo Tycoon 2 Lego Starwars Delta Force Xtreme Battlefield 2

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Soaked The Sims 2 Nightlife Battlefront II Call of Duty 2 Single Player Demo Age of Empires III Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Wild

Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species Dungeons & Dragons Online - Stormreach The Sims 2 Open for Business Oblivion Spellforce 2 - Shadow Wars The Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff

Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure The Suffering Ties that Bind CivCity Rome Company of Heroes Multiplayer Beta Company of Heroes Single Player demo Company of Heroes (Steam)

Caesar 4 Demo Caesar 4 The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff Battlefield 2142 Demo Gothic III Paraworld

Age of Empires III - The Warchiefs The Sims 2 Pets Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania Stronghold Legends Reservoir Dogs Star Trek Legacy

Ijji Gunz Titan Quest: Immortal Throne The Sims Life Stories Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Demo Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Resident Evil 4

Brian Lara Cricket The Sims 2 Deluxe Tomb Raider - Anniversary The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff The Sims Pet Stories Mount & Blade

Rappelz Epic4 Madden NFL 08 Shadowrun World in Conflict DEMO Attack on Pearl Harbor Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided

Call of Duty 2 Single Player Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer Titan Quest Battlefield 2142 Demo Battlestations Midway The Sims 2 Seasons

The Sims 2 Celebration! Stuff

>> Get it HERE.

Saturn emulator

After a few months of down time, the SSF team have bounced back with a new release!

Unfortunately the Google translation site was unable to make any sense of the changelog.

>> You can download SSF HERE.

Multi-system emulator

0.119

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Atari STe (not working) [Curt Coder]

- Atari Mega STe (not working) [Curt Coder]

- Matra & Hachette Alice [Dirk Best]

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [3DO] Protection fixes. [Ernesto Corvi]

 

- [AMIGA] Added CD-ROM and cartridge support, marked as working but with imperfect graphics, added CDDA audio. Bug fix to FDC. [Ernesto Corvi]

 

- [AMIGA] Made battery backed-up RTC support configurable. [Dirk Best]

 

- [AMSTRAD] Palette fix. [barry Rodewald]

 

- [APPLE2GS] Fixed raster interrupts and scanline counter registers to fire at the proper times. Mouse pointer is no longer flickery in GUI apps and some border effects work in the FTA XMAS DEMO. [R. Belmont]

 

- [A2600] Added automatic input device selection. [Cowering & Wilbert Pol]

 

- [C64] Added partial T64 tape image loading support. [Pugsy]

 

- [CPCPLUS] Fixed palette regression from 0.106. [barry Rodewald]

 

- [MC10] Added driver for the Matra & Hachette Alice, fixed keyboard inputs, removed some dead code and ran srcclean.exe on the driver files. [Dirk Best]

 

- [MK1] Fixed interrupt issues and re-enabled driver. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [NES] Improved mapper 82, added support for mapper 140. [Heretical_One]

 

- [PC1251, PC1350, PC1401, PC1403] Fixed background regression introduced in 0.107. (bug #1338) [Nate Woods]

 

- [PCE] Fixed endian issues and regression from 0.106. (bug #1143) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [PCE] Fixed several graphics issues. Added support for Street Fighter II mapper. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [PC88] Fixed regression from 0.112. [R. Belmont]

 

- [X68000] Supported more BIOSes, sprite fixes, DIM image fixes, made SRAM executable and added an hsync timer. Implemented writing to the MFP interrupt pending registers. [barry Rodewald]

 

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- [Windows] Created a maximum speed feature, allowing manual control of the emulation speed. [Nate Woods]

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.119. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

>> Get MESS HERE

>> Get SDLMESS HERE

>> Get WOLFMESS HERE

PC emulator

Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486, Pentium/PentiumII/PentiumIII/Pentium4 or x86-64 CPU including optional MMX, SSEx and 3DNow! instructions.

Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS, Windows® 95/98 and Windows® NT/2000/XP or Windows Vista.

The gigantic changelog can be viewed HERE.

>> Download it HERE.