MESS 0.96 Released!

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http://www.mess.org/

0.96

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Apple /// [Nate Woods]

- Microkey Primo A-32, A-64, B-64 [Krzysztof Strzecha]

- SGI IRIS Indigo workstation (not working) [Mooglyguy]

- SGI IP22 Indy workstation (not working) [Mooglyguy]

 

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [ADVISION] Fixed a video glitch.  (bug #17) [Dan Boris]

 

- [AMSTRAD] Cassette now starts up stopped.  [barry Rodewald]

 

- [APPLE1] Improved driver.  [Colin Howell]

 

- [APPLE1] Fixed snapshot loading.  (bug #690) [Colin Howell]

 

- [APPLE1] Added cassette support.  (bug #477) [Colin Howell]

 

- [APPLE1] Added RAM at $E000-$EFFF for BASIC.  (bug #697) [Colin Howell]

 

- [APPLE2] Keyboard refactorings.  (bug #694) [Christopher Stone]

 

- [APPLE2CP] Now uses the IWM chip and implemented CE00 RAM.  System now runs

  (bug #312) [Nate Woods]

 

- [COCO] Fixed joystick ranges (they were previously 0-62 instead of 0-63.)

  (bug #698) [Nate Woods]

 

- [COCO] Lengthened certain floppy disk controller operations; now NitrOS-9

  boots on the CoCo 1/2.  (bug #502) [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

- [GALAXY] Possibilty to disable ROM 2. 2k, 22k, 38k and 54k memory

  configurations added. Memory mapping improved. Palette corrected. Supprort

  for newer version of snapshots added. Lot of cleanups. Keyboard mapping

  corrected. [Krzysztof Strzecha]

 

- [sVISION] Fixed aspect ratio.  [PeT]

 

- [sysinfo.dat] Updated Apple I entry.  [Colin Howell]

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- [Windows GUI] Improved error reporting if the emulation fails at runtime.

  [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows GUI] Stopgap measure to fix image loading on the Apple IIgs; this

  will not work if the Apple IIgs 5.25" disk is ever enabled; in the long run

  the INI and CFG system must be merged for a real fix. (bug #686) [Nate Woods]

 

 

 

Imgtool Changes:

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(none)

 

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.96.  This incorporates all features of the

  update to this core.  [MAME team] 

 

- Fixed SEXW in hd6309 core. It really is a signed extension of W into Q.

  Also, it is 4 cycles long. Thanks to David Keil and Sockmaster for pointing

  this out.  [Tim Lindner]

 

- Fixed ESC key under natural keyboard emulation.  [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows] Fixed arrow keys under natural keyboard emulation.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Fixed index addressing mode disassembly for the hd6309. [tim lindner]

 

- Merged Apple 2 floppy disk controller and IWM code.  The apple2c0 and

  apple2c3 drivers now work.  [Nate Woods]

[James]

Cool there updates seem to be getting released faster.