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version 5.0.1 change log [June 09, 2007]

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.fixed: Image types not being properly set at frontend's startup

 

.fixed: MAME custom game options not being generated on correct folder

 

.fixed: Favorites tool bar button not being properly loaded when switching to small tool bar

 

.fixed: if columns profile file do not exist, customize columns feature generate errors

 

.fixed: Add single game to favorites was not working properly

 

.fixed: File not found error message when favorites icon did not exist

 

.fixed: Access violation when favorites list is empty

 

.added: Columns captions can be customized now (customize columns screen)

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Windows API emulator for *nix

This is release 0.9.39 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

 

What's new in this release:

- Many MSHTML improvements.

- Several improvements to the sound support.

- A number of Winsock fixes.

- Several new supported constructs in the IDL compiler.

- Many Direct3D threading fixes.

- Lots of bug fixes.

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Multi-system emulator

A lot of work was done on the Atari 2600 driver and it is now able to play > 99% of games.

0.116

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Atari 2600 PAL [Wilbert Pol]

- Sega SG-1000 [Curt Coder]

- Sega SG-1000 Mark II [Curt Coder]

- Sega SC-3000 [Curt Coder]

- Sega SC-3000/Super Control Station SF-7000 [Curt Coder]

- Texas Instruments TI-82 (not working) [Curt Coder]

- Texas Instruments TI-83 (not working) [Curt Coder]

- Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus (not working) [Curt Coder]

- VTech CreatiVision [Curt Coder]

- Samsung Gam*Boy II [Wilbert Pol]

 

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [A2600] Updated delay when writing to the playfield registers (bug #389, partially fixes bug #1152). [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Updated how RESPx/NUSIZx combinations are handled (partially fixes bug #1152). [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Added support for handling hardware oddity with writes to HMMx when the HMOVE timer is about to expire (bug #391). [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Changed start up bank for 16KB cartridges (partially fixed bug #1170). [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Recoded tia to support MDRV_SCREEN_RAW_PARAMS and adjusted screen sizes (partially fixes bug #1170). [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Updated playfield reflect bit to only have effect when set before pixel 80. (bug #1174) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Paddles no longer auto-center. Set default keys for player 4. (bug #1176 and bug #1167) Adjusted Driving Controller sensitivity, and fixed player two Booster Grip. [Christopher Stone]

 

- [A2600] Fixed delay behavior when resetting BL/M0/M1 position during HMOVE period. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Corrected HMOVE behavior when initiated outside hblank. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Improved positioning of all graphics when position counters are reset in the extended HBlank period during a HMOVE. (bug #1184) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] HMOVE triggered on the last possible CPU cycle also triggers a delay of the end of HBlank. (bug #1222) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Rewrote player graphics drawing and handling. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [A2600] Added SuperCharger support. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [AMIGA] Updated the Amiga driver to output the power and drive LED status to the artwork system. [Dirk Best]

 

- [COCO/DRAGON] Cartridge slot rearchitecture. [Nate Woods]

 

- [FUNVISION] Driver is now working and fully playable. [Curt Coder]

 

- [VIP] Fixed the RUN/RESET switch to work like the original. [Curt Coder]

 

- [ABC80] Fixed the keyboard, although scanning is very slow. [Curt Coder]

 

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- Fixed bug mounting files in the old UI. (bug #1149) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

- [Windows GUI] Fixed a couple of static text fields. (bug #1073) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

- [Windows GUI] Fixed a crash when adding a system-specific software directory. (bug #1196) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.116. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

 

- WD17xx cleanups. [Nate Woods]

 

- Fixed a memory leak. (bug #1019) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

- Massive update to entire sysinfo.dat file. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- Added many SHA1 hashes. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- Added some missing TESTDRIVERs to messdriv.c that were only specified in the driver source files. [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

- [Windows] UNICODE=1 fixes. [Oliver Stoeneberg]

SDLMESS

The latest version is 0.116. Note that this fully-packaged version is deprecated due to the fast-moving nature of MESS development, but I’ll update it on integer MESS releases. New in this version: all the baseline goodness plus improved Mac OS X multithreading (Vas Crabb).

 

MESS overlays are no longer provided here - the SDLMESS components are now an official part of the MESS Subversion repository and the checked-in version there will be kept up to date that way.

>> Download MESS source code and binary HERE.

>> Download SDLMESS HERE.

>> Download WolfMESS HERE.

I received a PM from Minuous and he said:

Ami/WinArcadia 4.26 have been released.

 

Changes since 4.25:

* Interton VC 4000, Elektor TV Games Computer: compatibility improvements.

* Miscellaneous improvements.

 

Available from Emerson Arcadia 2001 Central ( http://amigan.classicgaming.gamespy.com ) (unfortunately NOT from http://members.optusnet.com.au/jrjacobs76/, site updates there are not possible due to technical issues).

 

Regards

 

Minuous