0.103u4 2006/01/26 [#299 - Aaron Giles]
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New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Laser Battle/Lazarian [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Cat and Mouse [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
KlonDike+ [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Alien Arena
Crowns Golf in Hawaii [Aaron Giles]

New clones added
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Joust (Solid Green Label) [Reznor007]
Space Intruder (Japan) [Tomasz Slanina, Guru]

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Galaxia [David Haywood]


MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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xevious083gre [MASH]


Source Changes
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- Intel i386/i486/Pentium update [Nathan Woods]:
  * Fixed A20 mask implementation.
  * Added A20 mask to debugger translate callback.
  * Implemented Pentium opcode CMPXCHG8B.
  * Fixed XADD, and added support for the 8 and 16 bit variants.
- Fixed 'Top Shooter' sprites. Game still not playable [Tomasz Slanina].
- Changed debug view property code to pass property values as unions rather than void pointers, in order to appease compilers that whine about strict aliasing [Nathan Woods].
- Fixed resource allocation issue with bitmaps in the Windows code and MESS [Nathan Woods].
- Removed a number of unnecessary video_stop and machine_stop routines [Atari Ace].
- Converted a few more exit() calls to osd_die() [Oliver Stoneberg].
- Fixed inputs on 'Ninja Spirit' and the Sega System 16b driver to match the JAMMA button ordering [Corrado Tomaselli].
- Fixes to the Hyperstone core [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]:
  * Removed nested delays.
  * Don't allow software opcodes to be executed in a delay slot.
- Added/changed the following discrete modules [Derrick Renaud]:
  * DISCRETE_WAVELOG - easy way to log discrete nodes as a .wav file to compare against scope waveforms.
  * DISCRETE_OUTPUT - added a final gain parameter to get it to 16 bit wav level.  (The old VOL setting was disabled after the last sound re-write).
- Fixed graphics banking in 8751-based 'Altered Beast' sets [David Haywood].
- Fixed some bad gfx in kdynastg when levels start [Pierpaolo Prazzoli].
- Decrypted graphics in 'Darkmist' and 'Panic Road' [Nicola Salmoria].
- Added stream_set_sample_rate() call, and converted the TMS5110, TMS5220, ES5505/6, BSMT2000, AY8910, POKEY, TIA, Sega PCM/Multi-PCM, SN76496, OKIM6295, and YMZ280B sound cores to output at their native sample rates, allowing the core sound system to perform over/ re-sampling to the output rate [Aaron Giles].
- Moved CHD file access routines to fileio.c [Aaron Giles].
- Added assert macro to mamecore.h [Aaron Giles].