MESS 0.144u7 released

[Robert]

http://mess.redump.net/downloads

 

0.144u7

 

Skeleton drivers:

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- Wang Professional Computer [Anna Wu]

- Boris Diplomat [sean Riddle, Justin Kerk]

- Apricot FT//ex 486 (J3 Motherboard) [Kaylee]

- Apricot FTs (Panther Rev F 1.02.26) [Kaylee]

 

System Driver Changes:

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-nespal: fixed bug #1394, the driver is back to the correct speed. [Fabio Priuli]

-bullet: Implemented Wave Mate Bullet Revision F hardware, a ROM dump is missing though. [Curt Coder]

-nes: fixed longstanding regression in 4screen mirroring games (e.g. Gauntlet) [Fabio Priuli]

-vic20: Implemented the expansion port. You can now plug in an IEEE-488

cartridge and any of the CBM IEEE floppy/hard drives.

(e.g. mess vic20p -exp ieee488 -exp:ieee488:ieee9 c4040

-flop2 diskimage.d64; SYS 45065; LOAD "$",9) [Curt Coder]

-vic20: Emulated the VIC-1110 8K RAM Expansion cartridge. [Curt Coder]

-vic20: Emulated the VIC-1210 3K RAM Expansion cartridge. [Curt Coder]

-vic20: Emulated the VIC-1111 16K RAM Expansion cartridge. [Curt Coder]

-vic20: Emulated the VIC-1211A Super Expander with 3K RAM cartridge. [Curt Coder]

-vic20: Emulated the VIC-1010 Expansion Module. You can now connect up to 6

cartridges using this expander. (e.g. mess vic20p -exp exp -exp:exp:slot1 ieee488

-exp:exp:slot2 8k -exp:exp:slot3 8k -exp:exp:slot4 8k) [Curt Coder]

-lynx: timer changes (fixes a palette change bug in viking child) [Huygens]

xor sprites check if collision processing is enabled (fixes todd's adventures intro flicker and xenophobe)

added rendering to a secondary bitmap to fix tearing (there's probably a better way to do this)

 

Software Lists:

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-tiki100.xml: Added software list. [Curt Coder]

-a2600.xml: added a couple of dumps and region compatibility. [Kaylee]

 

Source Changes:

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-i386: Various improvements of cpu core, mostly protected mode related [Carl,Barry Rodewald]

-SoundBlaster: added DMA timer for more realistic IRQ acks, added 0xD0 stop DMA command,

cleaned up DRQ semantics. [R. Belmont]

-floppy: Do specific UI handling [O. Galibert]

-ppu2c0x: converted NES PPU to be a modern device. [Fabio Priuli]

-m68fpu: Accept some more variants of fsave/frestore [O. Galibert]

-flopimg.h: docbookified documentation [balrog]

-floppy: libertarian relicensing [O. Galibert]

-m4510: initialize the input callback too [O. Galibert]

 

Note that clickable artwork is broken, therefore Chess games and similar will not be playable.