MESS 0.121 released

[Robert]

Multi-system emulator

 

0.121

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Acorn System 1 [Dirk Best] (not working)

- Atari STBook [Curt Coder] (not working)

- BBC Bridge Companion [Phil Bennet, incog] (not working)

- HKT-0120 Sega Dreamcast Development Box [incog] (not working)

- Osborne-1 [Wilbert Pol, Cowering]

- Spectravideo SVI-318 (NTSC) [Tomas Karlsson]

- Spectravideo SVI-328 (NTSC) [Tomas Karlsson]

- Synertec Systems Corp. SYM-1 [Dirk Best] (not working)

- VG-8020 [incog]

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [ADAM] Input ports cleanup, natural keyboard support. [stefano Priore]

 

- [ATARIST] Implemented iKBD68000 communications, so the keyboard is working now. [Curt Coder]

 

- [bEBOX] Fixed VGA regression introduced in 0.119. [Tomas Karlsson]

 

- [COCO] Updated to use MAME's 6242 RTC implementation. [tim lindner]

 

- [COCO] Modified the CoCo's keyboard handler to pass along the tri-state buffer from port B to port A. [tim lindner]

 

- [GAMEGEAR] Fixed graphics issues in Ax Battler. (bug #1332) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [GAMEGEAR/SMS] Allow the VDP status bits to be read before an interrupt is triggered and handled. Fixes hang in first level of Zool. (bug #1419) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [GAMEGEAR/SMS] The internal video data buffer should hold the data written to the data port. (bug #1378 and bug #1418) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [MEPHISTO] Implemented artwork/code for real chess board usage. [Ralf Schfer, Cowering]

 

- [ORIC] Fixed floppy interface detection. [Dirk Best]

 

- [PET] Updated to use MAME's CRTC6548 implementation. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [PET] Fixed keyboard regression introduced in 0.116. (bug #1405) [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [QL] The system is now usable, except that microdrives don't work yet. [Curt Coder]

 

- [sVI318] Fixed borders. Added selectable bioses for all models. Added serial port support. Added support for NTSC models. [Tomas Karlsson]

 

- [sVI318] Fixed a bug in banking for SVI-328 with 64KB RAM. Added SVI806 80 column card support. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [sVI328] Fixed numeric pad input ports. [Tomas Karlsson]

 

- [sYM1] Rewrote, still many issues and doesn't fully work. [Dirk Best]

 

- [TI99] Fixed TI99 border regression. [Michael Zapf]

 

- [X68000] Raster effects, DMA and vblank improvements. [barry Rodewald]

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.121. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

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