MESS 0.142

W najnowszej wersji MESS'a, który korzystając z architektury MAME, emuluje poszczególne mikrokomputery i jako tako radzi sobie z poszczególnym konstrukcjami. W tej edycji jedynaście nowych konstrukcji, z czego tylko cztery działają na tyle dobrze aby można było się im bliżej przyjrzeć, spora ilość poprawek w driverze obsługującym NINTENDO GAMEBOY ADVANCED (gba) i zasadniczo dość krórka ilość poprawek w innych modułach. Cóż, prawdopodobnie to właśnie w gui messa są problemy, które tak dają się we znaki windosowskim klonom MAME - trudno więc się dziwić, iż przynajmniej ta wersja MESS'a, także jest pozbawiona zwyczajowego GUI.

Dobrze jest czasami zerknąć na automatyczny build MESS'A - http://bobz38.free.fr/mess_autobuild/index.php aby śledzić zmiany na bieżąco w tym drugim po MAME największym multiemulatorem na emuscenie.

MESS 0.142

New System Drivers Supported:

• Victor Wondermega M2 (not working) [Justin Kerk]
• Ferguson Big Board [Miodrag Milanovic]
• Sanyo MBC-550, MBC-555 (boots but partial keyboard) [Phill Harvey-Smith]
• Fujitsu FM-Towns II UX (not working) [bernhardh, Anna Wu, Barry Rodewald]
• Fujitsu FM-Towns II HR (not working) [bernhardh, Anna Wu, Barry Rodewald]
• Mikrosha-86RK [Miodrag Milanovic]
• IBM PC 5155 [Lord Nightmare]
• EA Car Computer (not working) [Robbbert]
• 68k Single Board Computer [Robbbert]
• PB-1000, PB2000c (not fully working) [Sandro Ronco]
• DataSlim 2 (not working) [Sandro Ronco]

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:

• ZRT80 terminal [Robbbert]

Skeleton drivers:

• Applix 1616
• Commodore PC 30 III
• Ferguson Big Board II
• Hewlett-Packard HP9816
• IBM PC 5140 Convertible
• IBM PC JX
• Olivetti M24
• Olivetti M240
• PDP-11 [Unibus](M9301-YA)
• PDP-11 [Unibus](M9312)
• PDP-11 [Q-BUS] (M7195 - MXV11)
• SacState 8008
• Savia 84
• Terak 8510A

System Driver Changes:

• [ABC802] Connected to ABC99 keyboard, removed keyboard hack. [Curt Coder]
• [ABC806] Connected to ABC99 keyboard, removed keyboard hack. [Curt Coder]
• [ABC1600] Implemented video and ABC 99 keyboard. [Curt Coder]
• [AC1] Added cassette support. [Robbbert]
• [ADAM] Added dumps of the internal M6801 ROMs. [KevinP]
• [ADAM] Rewrote driver to use the M6801 CPUs. Currently the only working
• peripheral is the keyboard. [Curt Coder]
• [ASTROCDE] Add options for several RAM expansions. Some features
• are not implemented yet, as noted in comments. Extended BASIC carts
• are now playable. [ranger_lennier]
• [BBC] Made the SAA505x implementation a device. [Atari Ace]
• [BW2] Set proper FDC type and removed floppy side select hack. [Curt Coder]
• [Einstein] Fixed addressing of character ROM for 80 column mode, added dump of 80 column rom, fixed bit 0 of status register to reflect 6845 DE line. 80 Column interface is now usable. [Phill Harvey-Smith]
• [GBA] Fixed EEPROM detection for "Banjo-Kazooie" and "Custom Robo GX". [Tim Schuerewegen]
• [GBA] Fixed an ARM7 carry flag bug. This fixes the palette corruption in "Banjo-Kazooie". [Tim Schuerewegen]
• [GBA] Fixed timer overflow/reload bugs. This fixes the lockups in "2 in 1 - Dragon Ball Z 1 and 2", "Aggressive Inline", "Bibi und Tina" and probably other games too. [Tim Schuerewegen]
• [GBA] Implemented an undefined ARM7 THUMB instruction used by "Moto GP". [Tim Schuerewegen]
• [GBA] Allow reading of the BLDALPHA register. This fixes the lockup in "Donkey Kong Country". [Tim Schuerewegen]
• [GBA] Implemented FLASH bank select command. This fixes the NVRAM issue in "Super Mario Advance 4". [Tim Schuerewegen]
• [GBA] Generate SIO data transfer completion interrupt. This fixes the lockup in "Digimon Racing". [Tim Schuerewegen]
• [GBA] Removed "Metroid Fusion" DMA hack. This fixes the lockup in "Caesar's Palace Advance". [Tim Schuerewegen]
• [GENEVE] Made SRAM size configurable. Added MEMEX emulation. Genmod is nowa mode of the Geneve, not a separate system. Fixed Genmod. [Michael Zapf]
• [M5] Added FD-5 floppy interface ROM, renamed driver to m5. [Curt Coder]
• [MEKD2] Fixed keyboard. System is usable except for cassette. [Robbbert]
• [PCFX] Added BIOS v1.01. [trap15]
• [PDP1] Made the CRT implementation a device.[Atari Ace] Made papertape, cylinder and printer into devices and added back in (not working) [Robbbert]
• [PIPPIN] Added pre release rom
• [PSX] Added CD-ROM support. Some commercial games work well. Some don't. [pSXAuthor, R. Belmont]
• [PSX] Added memory card support, not working yet. [pSXAuthor, R. Belmont]
• [PV1000] 4 new cartridge dumps for the software list. [anondumper]
• [QL] Added support for Miracle Systems Trump Card disk and memory interface
• Added support for Sandy SuperDisk disk interface
• Fixed up WD177x so disks can be formatted (single sided only) [Phill Harvey-Smith]
• [SNES] uPD96050 DSP (aka Seta ST-010) is now emulated instead of simulated. [R. Belmont, byuu, Dr. Decapitator]
• [STE] Added a proper dump of some French TOS ROM. [ElBarto]
• [TI] Converted strata/733_asr/911_vdt to devices. [Atari Ace]
• [X68K] Refactored to use new MC68901 device. [Curt Coder]
• [TX0] Made papertape, printer and magtape into devices and added back in (not working) [Robbbert]

Source Changes:

• The core is based on MAME 0.142. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]
• Added support for a new template to -snapname to use software names for
• snapshots. It is now possible to use %d_XXXX to name snaps after the name of the file mounted in the device XXXX, being XXXX the brief name of any device. E.g. you can use "-snapname %d_cart" to use the name of the game
• mounted in the cartslot, or "-snapname %d_flop2" to use the name of the game
• mounted in the second floppy drive, etc. If you are loading software through software lists, its shortname will be used; if you are using the fullpath of the software, its filename is used. Any combination of the new template with the old "/", "%g" and "%i" templates is supported as well. Notice that if you specify an invalid device, or if you have no software mounted in the chosen
• device, MESS will revert to the default template "%g/%i". [Fabio Priuli]
• softlists: Added new lists, new dumps and info [anondumper, Barry Rodewald,
• Curt Coder, MESSfan, Fabio Priuli]
• Cleanups; static qualifiers, added driver_states, consistent get_safe_token
• usage, reduced calls to ram_get_ptr() and region(...)->base(). [Atari Ace]
• [WD17XX] Added device types WD1795, WD1797, WD2795, and fixed  wd17xx_has_side_select(). [Curt Coder]
• [WD17XX] Set complete command delay to 16/32 usec based on DDEN. [Curt Coder]