MESS 0.104 released

[Robert]

0.104

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Exidy Sorcerer (diskless) [Robert]

- Sony Playstation (scph3000 J v1.1 01/22/95) [incog]

- Sony Playstation (scph3500 J v2.1 07/17/95) [incog]

- Turbo Grafix-16 [Rob Bohms]

- Acorn Electron [Wilbert Pol]

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [AT] Cleaned up A20 gating.  [Nate Woods]

 

- [COCO3] Fixed a timing bug in video rendering.  (bug #743) [Nate Woods]

 

- [PC] Fixed PC keyboard ESC char code (it is now 27; used to be 26).  [Nate Woods]

 

- [EXIDY] Fixed keyboard, printer and video speed.  Added natural keyboard support.  (bug #615) [Robert]

 

- [PCE] Various improvements, updated renderer and removed GAME_NOT_WORKING flag.  [Rob Bohms and Charles MacDonald]

 

- [VTECH1] Fixed key definitions.  (bug #835) [Robert]

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- [Windows] Fixed a bug that caused crashes if a dialog was presented, the emulation reset, and a subsequent dialog presented.  (bug #834) [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows GUI] Fixed a bug that caused zip files where the file extension was not all lowercase to not be recognized as such.  (bug #831) [Oliver Stoenberg]

 

 

Imgtool Changes:

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- [OS9] Removed a limitation that prevented images from loading that have allocation bitmaps larger than 1024 bytes.  (bug #825) [Nate Woods]

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.104.  This incorporates all features of the update to this core.  [MAME team]

 

- Changed how devices are specified.  The new system resembles how MAME CPU and sound cores are specified.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Added a "input" command to the debugger.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Cleaned up natural keyboard code.  No longer have QUEUE_CHARS/ACCEPT_CHARS and CHARQUEUE_EMPTY; callbacks are now installed at runtime.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Fixed a file manager memory allocation bug.  [brian Sturk]

 

- Moved MESS validity code into a separate file.  [Nate Woods]

 

- Enhanced error reporting when loading images.  (bug #827)  [Nate Woods]

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