0.36b7 1999/10/17 [#080 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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Arcade Classics [Aaron Giles]
Battle Chopper [Nao]
Chimera Beast [Luca Elia]
Crazy Climber 2 [Takahiro Nogi]
Dragon Breed [Nao]
Finalizer - Super Transformation [Nicola Salmoria]
Herbie at the Olympics [Mike Coates]
Iga Ninjyutsuden [Luca Elia]
Image Fight [Nao]
Legend of Hero Tonma [Nao]
Mayday [Aaron Giles]
Mystic Riders [Bryan McPhail]
Ninja Spirit [Nao]
Orbitron [Zsolt Vasvari]
Peek-a-Boo! [Luca Elia]
Plus Alpha [Luca Elia]
Sparkz [Aaron Giles]
Spiker [Aaron Giles]
Syusse Oozumou [Takahiro Nogi]
X Multiply [Nao]


New clones supported:
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Growl (US) [Nicola Salmoria]
Makai Densetsu (= Legend of Makai) [Nicola Salmoria]
Runark (= Growl) [Nicola Salmoria]
Snow Bros (set 3) [Nicola Salmoria]
Tough Turf (US) [Andrew Prime]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Added raster effects to Neo Turf Masters and Sengoku 2 [Massimo Morra].
- Fixed colors in Wanted, Marine Boy, Changes and Hopper Robo [Zsolt Vasvari].
- More fixes in the Toaplan games [Satoshi Suzuki].


These drivers have new or improved SOUND:
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- Completed samples support in Space Panic [Mike Coates].
- Fixed coin sound in Naughty Boy [Sal Bugliarisi].
- Fixed YM2151 sound board support for Joust 2 [Aaron Giles].
- Samples support in Invinco and Pulsar [Zsolt Vasvari].
- Sound in Blasted and Max RPM [Aaron Giles].
- Sound in Hot Chase [CAB].


Other drivers changes:
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- Fixed Turkey Shoot [Aaron Giles].
- Improved Battle Lane [Paul Leaman].


Changes to the main program:
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- [DOS] The new Allegro library supports the Gravis GrIP devices, use -joy grip or -joy grip4 to enable.


Source:
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- [DOS] Now compiled with Allegro 3.9.26 WIP.
- Improvements to the 34010 emulation [Aaron Giles].
- Improvements to the other YM2151 emulator too [Jarek Burczynski].
- New function findmemorychunk() that lets you look up a chunk of memory and get its start/end addresses, and its base. This can be used (carefully!) by drivers that wish to access memory directly without going through the readmem/writemem accessors (e.g., blitters) [Aaron Giles].
- Replaced cpu_reset() with cpu_set_reset_line(). cpu_set_reset_line(num,PULSE_LINE) is equivalent to the old cpu_reset(). ASSERT_LINE resets the cpu and halts it. CLEAR_LINE restarts it. This avoids the need to call cpu_halt() in most cases [Nicola Salmoria].
- Rewritten the HC55516 CVSD decoder. This affects Sinistar, Joust 2, Arch Rivals, Pigskin, Tri-Sports, Smash TV, Trog, Narc [Aaron Giles].
- Several improvements to FM sound emulators. This also fixes crashes in some Jaleco Mega System 1 games [Tatsuyuki Satoh].
- Some fixes to HD63701 IRQ handling, and support for ICI (Input Capture Interrupt) [Tatsuyuki Satoh].
- Some improvements to the Z80 emulator [Juergen Buchmueller].
- VIDEO_UPDATE_BEFORE_VBLANK is now the default. If you want your driver to redraw the screen after vblank, use VIDEO_UPDATE_AFTER_VBLANK.