0.36b3 1999/08/22 [#076 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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'88 Games [Nicola Salmoria]
Air Wolf [Nicola Salmoria]
Capcom Baseball [Nicola Salmoria]
Dokaben [Nicola Salmoria]
Enduro Racer [Andrew Prime]
Flash Gal [Nicola Salmoria]
Go Go Mr. Yamaguchi / Yuke Yuke Yamaguchi-kun (not working) [Phil Stroffolino]
Hunchback (Scramble and Donkey Kong conversions) [Mike Coates]
Nunchackun [Phil Stroffolino]
Off the Wall [Aaron Giles]
Parodius [Nicola Salmoria]
Samurai (Taito) [Phil Stroffolino]
Super Contra [Manuel Abadia]
Thunder Cross (no collision detection, probably protection) [Bryan McPhail]
Vendetta [Phil Stroffolino]

New clones supported:
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64th Street (Japan) [Alessio Manuele]
'99 The Last War (= Son of Phoenix) [Gerald Vanderick]
Akuma-Jou Dracula (= Haunted Castle) [Yasuhiro Ogawa]
Aliens (Japan) [Yasuhiro Ogawa]
Bermuda Triangle (Japan) [Alessio Manuele]
Empire City: 1931 (= Street Fight) [Gerald Vanderick]
E-Swat (protected, not working) [Andrew Prime]
Gryzor (= Contra) [Yasuhiro Ogawa]
Repulse (= Son of Phoenix) [Gerald Vanderick]
Simpsons (Japan) [Yasuhiro Ogawa]
Strider (Japan set 2) [Marco Cassili]
Sunset Riders (5 new sets) [Nicola Salmoria]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Added the zooming/rotating layer to 'Ajax' [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed colors in 'Empire City: 1931' [Nicola Salmoria].
- Fixed the background in 'Led Storm' [Bryan McPhail].


These drivers have new or improved SOUND:
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- Added support for external volume control to the K007232 and fixed 'Aliens', 'Ajax', etc. [Nicola Salmoria].


Source changes:
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- Emulated the 68705 protection in 'Mania Challenge' [Nicola Salmoria].
- Changed the UPD7759 emulator to support two chips ('88 Games needed this) and fixed a bug in the ADPCM decoding [Ernesto Corvi].
- The gfxdata field of the GfxElement structure is no longer a osd_bitmap *; it is instead a simple unsigned char *, pointing to a continuous stream of pixel data. The new line_modulo and char_modulo fields are helpers to find the offset in the array [Nicola Salmoria].
- Updated the 68000 C core [Karl Stenerud].