MAME 0.106u1, Intermediate update !

[Robert]

0.106u1

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Major video-related changes are beginning in the system. Attempts will be made to keep the existing video code working to a large degree, but some features may be broken or working improperly until the video changes are complete. Most notably, in this release, RGB effects are broken for non-Direct3D blitting. For the moment, do not report anomalies or problems in the video system. If you like a nice, stable MAME, please stick with the 0.106 release. You have been warned.

 

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

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gladiatr0105u4gra [Don Maeby]

 

Source Changes

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Updates to the taito_x driver: [AWJ]

- fixed sound problems in twinhawk

- fixed a couple of dipswitch mistakes introduced recently

- added PORT_DIPLOCATIONs for superman and twinhawk

 

Improved MSVC compiler support: [Nathan Woods]

- modified vconv to support multiple versions of MSVC based on version info

- added support for more parameter translations

- makefile now displays compiling and linking messages when building vconv

 

Converted the Windows blitters to use the DRC engine for generation. RGB effects are officially broken with this change. [Nathan Woods]

 

Fixed a bug that caused a crash when the -debugscript command line option was used with an invalid filename. [Nathan Woods]

 

Corrected the ordering of the DIP_PORTLOCATION() macros to be consistent. Multi-bit DIP switches should be specified in LSB-first order. Added a comment to this effect in inptport.h. [AWJ, Aaron Giles]

 

Fixed background color in the Deco cassette games. [Nicola Salmoria]

 

Fixed potential crash in the micro3d driver. [MamePlus!]

 

Improvements to CHD-CD support: [R. Belmont]

- additional RAW CD sector conversion support, so a game can request e.g. 2048-byte data sectors from a RAW CHD-CD and still get the right data

- reversed CHDMAN error message - now non-RAW CHD-CDs are deprecated

- susume now uses a RAW CHD-CD read directly from an original pressed Konami disc

 

Some improvements to the Polygonet Commanders driver: [Andrew Gardner]

- adds change_PC() calls to the dsp56k core

- removed hacky dsp56k initialization, enabling, and disabling

- added preliminary implementation of banking hardware tied to the dsp56k in Polygonet Commanders

 

Fixed MSB accesses and latch reading in the 6840 emulator. [El Condor]

 

Improved N64 audio output: [R. Belmont]

- rewrote Audio Interface as a stereo DMADAC (which it actually is), greatly simplifying the code along the way

- fixed AI interrupt semantics

 

Changed a number of games that were incorrectly using IPT_LIGHTGUN to use IPT_AD_STICK instead. [Aaron Giles]

 

Some preparations for proper multiple screen support. The visible_area and refresh_rate values in the Machine structure are now defined as arrays (1 per screen). The machine_config structure has been altered as well, removing the following fields:

 

   frames_per_second

   aspect_x, aspect_y

   screen_width, screen_height

   default_visible_area

   vblank_duration

 

These are all stored per-screen in a new screen_config structure. [Aaron Giles]

 

Reorganized the user interface code to better support the new render system. [Aaron Giles]

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