MESS 0.129 released

[Robert]

0.129

 

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Ivel Ultra [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Pecom 64 [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Sharp MZ80K [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Sony HB-10P/HB-20P [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Yamaha YIS503IIR Russian/Estonian [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [ABC800M] Added HR graphics. [Curt Coder, Erik Isaksson]

 

- [ABC802] Added keyboard simulation. [Curt Coder]

 

- [ABC806] Added keyboard simulation and HR graphics. [Curt Coder, Erik Isaksson]

 

- [ADVISION] Fixed cartridge ROM banking. (bug #1690) [Curt Coder]

 

- [b2M] bug #1661 fixed [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [bBC] Changed memory handling for the 0xfc00 to 0xfeff memory region on the Master driver, to allow correct debugging of code in this area when ROM is paged in for read. [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

- [bBC] Added version 3.20 of the Master MOS, selectable as a bios, as this is the more common version of the bios. [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

- [bBC] Fixed up loading of 8K roms as cartriges so that they mirror correctly and don't cause an error on loading, 16K was already working correctly. [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

- [bBC] Changed to use MAME's 6850 implemenation. Deleted MESS's private 6850 implementation. [Nathan Woods]

 

- [COCO] Fixed Dragon Alpha, via MAME update, the NMI enable/disable allowing disks to boot again. [Phill Harvey-Smith]

 

- [COCO] Minor cartridge loading code cleanups. [Nathan Woods]

 

- [COMX35] Added support for the 80 column card. [Curt Coder, Marcel van Tongeren]

 

- [GAMECOM] Fixed aspect ratio. [Justin Kerk]

 

- [GENEVE] Adds dip switch to select boot eprom version (0.9 or 1.0). Default is 1.0, making it behave as before. To use the old eprom, geneve.zip must contain a file genbt090.bin. Release dates of Geneve and GenMod adjusted. [Michael Zapf]

 

- [NES] Fixed bug #1672. [Wilbert Pol]

 

- [MSX] Update of Panasonic MSX disk ROMs [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [MSX] Update of Toshiba HX-20, HX-23 memory map [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [ONDRA] Both computers now work, cassette supported [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [TS2068] Fixed CPU and AY clocks based on crystal values from schematics [Justin Kerk, Lord Nightmare]

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.129. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

 

- Changed the 8251 UART implementation to be a device. [Nathan Woods]

 

- Changed the 6551 ACIA implementation to be a device. [Nathan Woods]

 

- Changed the 8521 RTC implementation to be a device. [Nathan Woods]

 

- Changed the 8593 RTC implementation to be a device. [Nathan Woods]

 

- Changed the TMS5501 implementation to be a device. [Nathan Woods]

 

- Changed the MM58274C implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the TTL74145 implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the UPD7002 implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the TMS9901 implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the TMS9902 implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the I8271 implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the WD17XX implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the NEC765 implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the SAM6883 implementation to be a device. [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- Changed the RP5C15 RTC implementation to be a device. [barry Rodewald]

 

- Changed the 6525 TPI implementation to be a device and added save state support. [Dirk Best]

 

- Various code cleanups. [Atari Ace]

 

- Fixed regression that could cause hanging when creating an image from the command line or the MESSUI. (bug #1744) [Nathan Woods]

 

- Changed cartridges to be MAME devices. [Miodrag Milanovic, Nathan Woods]

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