0.35b6 1999/03/15 [#062 - Nicola Salmoria]
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Note: the CPU cores have been completely torn apart and rearranged in this release. Don't be surprised if a large number of games donì't work at all. For example, Twin Cobra doesn't boot, and most (all?) of the games using a 6803 lock up (ctrl-alt-del needed).


New games supported:
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(armora)   Armor Attack [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(barrier)  Barrier [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(boxingb)  Boxing Bugs [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(darkseal) Dark Seal (revision 3) [Bryan McPhail]
(demon)    Demon [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(inferno)  Inferno [Michael Soderstrom]
(joust2)   Joust2 Survival of the Fittest [Michael Soderstrom]
(mysticm)  Mystic Marathon [Michael Soderstrom]
(pontoon)  Pontoon [Zsolt Vasvari]
(ripoff)   Rip Off [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(solarq)   Solar Quest [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(spacewar) Space Wars [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(speedfrk) Speed Freak [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(starcas)  Star Castle [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(starhawk) Star Hawk [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(sundance) Sundance [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(tailg)    Tailgunner [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(tshoot)   Turkey Shoot [Michael Soderstrom]
(warrior)  Warrior [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(wotw)     War of the Worlds [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]
(yiear)    Yie Ar Kung-Fu (set 1) [Zsolt Vasvari]


New clones supported:
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(elim2a)   Eliminator (2 Players, set 2) [Thierry Lescot]
(nprincsu) Ninja Princess (not encrypted) [Nicola Salmoria]
(pcktgal2) Pocket Gal 2 [Bryan McPhail]
(rthundr2) Rolling Thunder (set 2) [Nicola Salmoria]
(sbbros)   Super Buster Bros (US) [Nicola Salmoria] (keep 1 pressed while booting the first time)
(scramblb) Scramble (bootleg) [Zsolt Vasvari]
(scramblk) Scramble (Konami) [Zsolt Vasvari]
(spool3)   Super Pool III [Bryan McPhail]
(spool3i)  Super Pool III (I-Vics) [Bryan McPhail]
(tazmani2) Tazz-Mania (Strategy X hardware) [Zsolt Vasvari]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed colors in Lode Runner 2. Also fixed the layout of round 8 and 28 [Nicola Salmoria].


Changes to the main program:
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- [DOS] All new, completely rewritten autoframeskip code [Nicola Salmoria].
- [DOS] New option -volume n to set the startup volume. The volume is an attenuation in dB, e. g. "-volume -12" will start with a -12dB attenuation [Nicola Salmoria].
- [DOS] New -stretch option to optionally stretch low resolution games to fill the screen. The default is -stretch=off, which is the same behaviour as before. -stretch=1024x768 automatically uses the "quadra" mode for horizontal games whose resolution is less or equal to 256x256. -stretch=800x600 uses the "triple" mode. The -quadra and -triple options are no longer needed and have been removed. 1024x768 will be perfect (for 256x256 games) or almost perfect (for 256x240 and 256x224 games) without monitor adjustment, so it is indicated for LCD displays. However, it is slower than 800x600. 800x600 is faster but the games are stretched to resolutions from 768x448 to 768x512, so they don't fill the screen and are squashed vertically. Here's the tip: if your monitor is good enough, you can use the controls to expand the picture and make it fit perfectly in the screen. Note that this tip  applies not only to stretched modes, but also to med-res games like Lode Runner (384x256) and the CPS1 games (384x224). The CPS1 games in particular are unbearably squashed unless you adjust the monitor [Nicola Salmoria].
- Improvements to the YM2610 timers, added an interface for external volume control [Tatsuyuki Satoh].
- Major changes to the whole CPU interface and cores [Juergen Buchmueller].
- The user interface is rotated by -rol and -ror [Nicola Salmoria].