0.18 1997/04/20 [#020 - Nicola Salmoria]
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This will be the last version of MAME released by me (Nicola Salmoria). From now on, the project will be maintained by Mirko Buffoni (mix@lim.dsi.unimi.it). Contact him if you have material to submit for inclusion into MAME. Please don't send such material to me.


New games supported:
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(ckongs)   Crazy Kong (Scramble hardware) [Nicola Salmoria]
(elevator) Elevator Action [Nicola Salmoria]
(jungleh)  Jungle Hunt (US) [Nicola Salmoria]
(junglek)  Jungle King [Nicola Salmoria]
(mrdo)     Mr. Do! [Nicola Salmoria]
(mtrap)    Mouse Trap (version 5) [Marc Lafontaine]
(panic)    Space Panic (set 2) [Mike Coates]
(pepper2)  Pepper II (version 8) [Marc Lafontaine]
(seicross) Seicross [Nicola Salmoria]


Program:
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- Added support for the original, Universal version of Mr. Do!. I renamed the other, which has an additional Taito copyright notice, "mrdot".
- Bomb Jack is much faster on a 486. Now runs very well with -frameskip 1 on my 486/100.
- Fabrice Frances submitted a much faster version of the 8086 emulation. Q*Bert now runs at full speed with -frameskip 1 on my 486/100.
- Fixed bug in the 8910 emulation which caused noise to be played in Crazy Kong when you jumped over a barrel.
- Fixed bugs in Jump Bug and Bagman sound drivers which caused page faults when run under DOS.
- Green Beret:
  * The speed should now be VERY accurate. It also syncs correctly with the music.
  * Sound pitch should be correct as well (though it changes after you die for the first time...)
  * High score support.
  * Fixed sprite clipping problem on the left of the screen.
  * Fixed memory trashing bug in dirtybuffer handling.
- High score support in Space Invaders (Invaders only - not clones).
- I also added the same lousy noise to Galaxian, Pisces, Moon Cresta, Moon Quasar.
- I finally added some lousy, very inaccurate, noise to the 76496 emulator. This affects Lady Bug and Green Beret.
- Marc Lafontaine fixed some problems in the Venture driver, and provided drivers for Mouse Trap and Pepper II, which run on similar hardware (Pepper II is not complete yet). Note that the required Venture ROM set has changed - the other one was missing one ROM. Collision detection doesn't work - in Mouse Trap, you can use keys 7 and 8 to simulate a sprite-to-character and a sprite-to-sprite collision.
- Mike Coates provided a Space Panic driver.
- Preliminary support for Jungle King / Jungle Hunt. Slow but playable. I haven't the gfx bank selector, therefore you'll have to pick the correct background graphics yourself. Use keys C and V to change it.
- Preliminary support for Seicross, using the Crazy Kong driver. Not playable.
- Rotated the controls for Q*Bert.
- Some changes to music tempo in Amidar, Pooyan, Time Pilot.
- Sprite placement in Pac Man, Ms Pac Man and Crush Roller should now be arcade perfect. Thanks to Richard Davies who verified it on a real machine.
- Support for a version of Crazy Kong running on Scramble hardware.
- VERY preliminary support for Elevator Action. Not playable.
- Zaxxon and Congo Bongo now save their high scores for real. The code had disappeared from the drivers... I _did_ write it, since I had .hi files in my directories ;-)


Source:
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- Samples are now loadaed by the main engine, not the single drivers. This is done via the new field samplenames in the GameDriver structure. Samples can then be retrieved by the drivers in Machine->samples.