MESS 0.133 released

[Robert]

>> Get it HERE.

 

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Canon Cat [Miodrag Milanovic]

- MMD-1 [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Nuova Elettronica Z80NE + LX.388 + LX.390 [Roberto Lavarone]

- Netronics Elf II [Curt Coder]

 

 

 

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:

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- Bondwell 12 [Curt Coder, Tomas Karlsson]

- Bondwell 14 [Curt Coder, Tomas Karlsson]

- C-80 [Curt Coder]

- CCE MC-1000 [Curt Coder]

- Fujitsu FM-7 [barry Rodewald]

- Fujitsu FM-77AV [barry Rodewald]

- KONTIKI 100 [Curt Coder]

- Lerncomputer LC-80 [Curt Coder]

- Lerncomputer LC-80.2 [Curt Coder]

- PK8000 Sura/Hobby [Miodrag Milanovic]

- PK8000 Vesta [Miodrag Milanovic]

- PK8020 Korvet [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Poly-Computer 880 [Curt Coder]

- TI-83 [Xander]

- TIKI 100 [Curt Coder]

- VCS-80 [Curt Coder]

- Visual 1050 [Curt Coder, rbramante]

 

 

Skeleton drivers:

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- ACT Apricot Xi / F1 / F10 / Portable

- AIM 65/40

- Apple Bandai Pippin

- A.S.EL. Amico 2000

- Beta Computer

- DEC VT220

- DEC VT320

- DEC VT520

- EC-65

- EC-65K

- Elektor Junior

- Epson LX-800

- Intel SDK-86

- Jugend+Technik CompJU+TEr

- MMD-2

- MPF-1 Plus

- Netronics Explorer 85

- Nintendo Virtual Boy

- PROF-180X

- PTC SOL-20

- Robotron Z9001 / KC85/1 / KC87

- Swyft

- ZRT-80

 

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [APRICOT] Added proper dumps. [John Elliott]

 

- [bW12] System is now fully working. Disk operations are very slow, so set maximum speed to unlimited while loading. [Curt Coder, Tomas Karlsson]

 

- [C80] System is now fully working. [Curt Coder]

 

- [EINSTEIN] Largely rewritten and lots of cleanups. [Dirk Best]

 

- [GENESIS] Save RAM emulation improved for several games (bugs #1691, #1696, #1823, #1824) [Enik]

 

- [LC80] System is now fully working. [Curt Coder]

 

- [MC1000] System is now basically working. [Curt Coder]

 

- [MZ80] [MZ700] Sound works now [Miodrag Milanovic]

 

- [NES] Fixed mappers #88, #193, added mappers #107, #154. [Heretical One]

 

- [PC] Renamed bondwell to bw230. [Curt Coder]

 

- [PC200] Proper ROM labels and PCB locations, added v1.2 dump. [John Elliott]

 

- [POLY880] System is now working, except single stepping. [Curt Coder]

 

- [sC80] Merged with lc80.c. [Curt Coder]

 

- [sEGA CD] Rearranged sets and added new and better dumps. [Justin Kerk, TmEE, segaloco]

 

- [sNES] Fixed a blending flag bug (see Micro Machines bg colors), added

basic Horizontal Mosaic effect, fixed 16x16 tiles in 2bpp mode (see e.g. Super Adventure Island, but also many others). [Angelo Salese]

 

- [sPECTRUM] Added logging support for Text/Message/Archive/Hardware/Custom Blocks in TZX files. Info are not (and won't be) used directly by the emulator, but can be of use to improve bug reports. Also, updated TZX support to v1.20 by deprecating some block types. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [TI85] TI-83 now works [Xander]

 

- [TI85] Fixed TI-82/TI-83 on/off and NVRAM, added a DSW to TI-83 for the battery status [Xander]

 

- [TI85] Initial work on TI-83+ emulation. [Xander]

 

- [TI99] Implemented p-Code peripheral card. [Michael Zapf]

 

- [TIKI100] System is now working, except for double sided disks. [Curt Coder]

 

- [VCS80] System is now fully working. [Curt Coder]

 

- [V1050] System is now working with some minor issues. [Curt Coder, rbramante]

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.133. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

 

- Added support for passing around 'deleted address mark' information to the floppy system. [Roberto Lavarone]

 

- Changes to the wd17xx implementation:

- Added support for head loaded feedback from floppy drive.

- Busy flag was cleared too early.

- Added support for the WD1771. [Roberto Lavarone]

 

- Changes to the NEC765 implementation:

- Fixed interrupt timing in FM/MFM modes.

- NO DATA error flag is no longer set during EOT condition. [Curt Coder]

 

- Added natural keyboard support to KR2376. [Roberto Lavarone]

 

- Static/const/include improvements. [Atari Ace]

 

- Cleaned up the makefile: grouped drivers by manufacturer, sorted manufacturers in alphabetical order, and moved general use ICs to shared group. [Curt Coder]