0.95u3 2005/04/18 [#247 - Aaron Giles]
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New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Flying Tiger [David Haywood]
Thunder Dragon [Angelo Salese, Nicola Salmoria]
Hacha Mecha Fighter [Angelo Salese]
World Beach Ball Championship 1997 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

New clones added
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Operation Wolf (World) [Bryan McPhail]
Great Swordsman (World?) [Nicola Salmoria, Corrado Tomaselli]
Sharpshooter (Rev 1.2) [Brian Troha]
Cascade (Avalanche bootleg) [David Haywood]
Catt (Japan) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Hollywood Action [David Haywood]
Power Spikes (bootleg) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Aero Fighters (bootleg) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]


Changes from Nathan Woods:
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- Fixed crashes in NES games with new 6502 code.
- Updated some M6502 variants in accordance with my recent M6502 changes.
- Merged in 8255 PPI mode 2 functionality.


Changes from smf:
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- Increased MAX_INSTANCES in src\state.c.
- Increased FLASH_CHIPS_MAX in src\machine\intelfsh.h
- Merged 8 bit & 16 bit intelflash nvram handler & passes the chip number as a parameter.
- Cycle accurate emulation of ADC0831/ADC0832/ADC0834/ADC0838 serial 
  analogue to digital converters
- Hooked up konamigx.c to use adc083x.c.
- Commented out logerror's in timekpr.c.
- Added rudimentary support in artwork.c for resizing after a visible area change.


Changes from R. Belmont:
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- Made gradius 3 vis region symmetrical.
- Added dx/dy settings to K052109, similar to those
  known to exist in the '156 and later chips.
- Fixed layer 2's X offset in gradius3.


Changes from Aaron Giles:
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- Williams driver rewrite:
   * Rederived all addressing from schematics.
   * Cleaned up banking mechanisms.
   * Fixed sound CPU clock in later games.
   * Simplified blitter code significantly.
   * Added timing to the blitter (just a guess right now).
   * Implemented clipping circuits correctly.
   * Simplified palette handling significantly.
   * Rewrote video system to use tilemaps for later games.


Other changes:
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- Fixed DIP switches in ghoshunt/tutstomb [Sonikos].
- Fixed ROM names in Rastan [Bryan McPhail].
- Sped up reading of input ports [wpcmame].
- Fixed cycle counts for several 68000 instructions [Andrew Seed] 
- Updated tone sounds in Phoenix to use discrete system [Derrick Renaud].
- Removed fake hack ports from Battlezone and Vindicators Part II [Aaron Giles].
- Cleaned up DIP switches in the M90 games [Brian Troha].
- Added graphics decryption to panicr [Nicola Salmoria].
- Cleaned up error.log messages in atarijsa.c and marineb.c, and while displaying sound chip info [Sebastien Volpe].
- Removed Phoenix sound from Pleiads [Derrick Renaud].
- Fixed dipswitches in Pocket Gal Deluxe [Sonikos].
- Fixed dipswitches in Vs. Sky Kid [chaneman].
- Fixed gsword sprite palettes [Nicola Salmoria].
- Added oki banking to Speed Spin driver [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Fixed clock speeds and refresh rate for crimfght [Mamesick].
- Added samples to Kabuki-Z with a new redumped rom for cpu3 too and fixed the garbage colors at startup [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Fixed index addressing mode disassembly for HD6309 [Tim Lindner].