MESS 0.114 released

[Robert]

0.114

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Sega Master System Store Display (not working) [Wilbert Pol]

- Apple IIgs (ROM00) [R. Belmont]

- Toshiba HX-10 [incog nito]

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [APPLE2GS] Major fixes to the quality and accuracy of the ES5503 sound emulation. [R. Belmont]

 

- [APPLE2GS] First pass at proper raster timing. FTA XMAS DEMO now runs, no border f/x yet though. [R. Belmont]

 

- [APPLE2GS] Fixed scanline interrupts to work properly. Fixed Cavern Cobra, FTA Modulae demo, probably more. (bug #673) [R. Belmont]

 

- [APPLE2GS, SNES] Fixed some 65816 core bugs. (bug #661) [R. Belmont]

 

- [COCO] Fixed PIA misconfiguration. (bug #1115) [tim lindner]

 

- [COCO] Fixed Lightgun emulation. [tim lindner]

 

- [COCO] Implemented MUX switching delay. (bug #655) [tim lindner]

 

- [FAMICOM/FAMITWIN] Fixed Disk System, marked working now. (bug #1101) [R. Belmont]

 

- [GAMEGEAR] Added SMS compatibility mode. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [GENESIS/MEGADRIVE] New emulation engine from HazeMD, improves compatibility and accuracy plus supports the 6-button pad and the Super Street Fighter 2 mapper. [R. Belmont, David Haywood]

 

- [GENEVE] Fixed assertion failure on exit. (bug #1136) [Nate Woods]

 

- [MSX] Fixed MSX visible area. [MJSTY]

 

- [ODYSSEY2] Major update: banked carts, drawing, and hardware collision detection now all work much better. [telengard]

 

- [sMS] Drivers have been split up to support specific hardware versions: sms and smspal still exist; smsj21 has been renamed to smsj; sms1, sms1pal, and sg1000m3 have been added. Support for the prototype bios has also been added [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [THOMSON] Switch 6850 ACIA implementations to use the MAME version, and added natural keyboard support. [Antoine Mine]

 

- [TI99_4X] Fixed assertion failure. (bug #1129) [Nate Woods]

 

- [TI99_8] Fixed assertion failure on exit. (bug #1137) [Nate Woods]

 

 

User Interface Changes:

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- [Windows GUI] Fixed hash entry loading. (bug #1128) [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows GUI] Added missing screen and controller tabs. (bug #1134) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

 

 

 

Imgtool Changes:

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- Added the ability for modules to "warn" the core of inconsistencies. These warnings will cause failues in Imgtool test cases. [Nate Woods]

 

- [OS9] Fixed some bugs that could cause corruption on OS-9 disk images. (bug #1122 [tim lindner, Nate Woods]

 

- [OS9] Put will now use free entries in the directory file before expanding it. (bug #1125) [tim lindner]

 

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.114. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

 

- Moved per-image working directory handling into the MESS core. [Nate Woods]

 

- Fixed NVRAM folder creation for battery backup. (bug #1120) [Nate Woods]

 

- Fixed a bug that could cause multiple file extensions to be dropped for devices on certain drivers in both MESS and Imgtool. (bug #1095) [Nate Woods]

 

- [Windows] Fixed deadlock. (bug #1140) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

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