0.104u4 2006/03/02 [#305 - Aaron Giles] --------------------------------------- IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR OSD DEVELOPERS: 1. osd_pause is no longer called directly. Rather, your osd_init function should register the osd_pause callback (if necessary) using add_pause_callback. 2. osd_die is now handled by the core; you should remove this function from the OSD layer. 3. logerror is front-ended in the core; it calls to a new OSD function osd_logerror which handles the OS-specific file and/or debugger logging. New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status --------------------------------------------------- Fred Flintstone's Memory Match [Aaron Giles] New clones added ---------------- Dragon Breed (M81 pcb version) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING ------------------------------------ Crazy Fight [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] Search for the Magical Error [David Haywood] Final Furlong 2 [R. Belmont] Gekitoride-Jong Space [smf] Mr. Driller G [smf] Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan [smf] Star Trigon [smf] MAMETesters Bugs Fixed ---------------------- memwindow0104u3red [Aaron Giles] i9600104u2ora [Aaron Giles] dietgo0104u2red [Aaron Giles] st0016_0104u3red [Aaron Giles] 8751MCUgames0104u3 [Aaron Giles] warriorb0104u2gre [Pierpaolo Prazzoli] cheat0104u3ora [Ian Patterson] Source changes: --------------- - Added comments support to the debugger. You can now dynamically add comments that are visible next to the disassembly view. Comments are saved to an XML-based .cmt file in a 'comments' directory by default upon exiting [Andrew Gardner]. - Added "wb+" disposition to osd_tool_fopen [Nathan Woods]. - Fixed cheat timer to fire at the correct rate. Also fixed initialization order to work around dependency on the video/UI system [Ian Patterson]. - Added save states to 3 more drivers: arkanoid.c, system1.c, and taitosj.c, and to the SN76496 sound chip for system1 [Adam Bousley]. - Fixed a couple of small memory leaks and a crash bug found by valgrind [Lawrence Gold]. - Added save state support to the tetrisp2 driver [Nathan Woods]. - Added save state support to 'Cloak and Dagger', 'Mario Bros.', 'Crazy Baloon', and the SN76477 sound chip [Adam Bousley]. - Hooked up the R4650 properly in the MIPS recompiler [R. Belmont]. - More Namco System 23 progress: [R. Belmont] * Further hardware work. * Hooked up H8/3002 MCU and sound system. * Many notes added. * 'Final Furlong 2' (World and Japan sets) added. - Added sanity checking to the set_visible_area() call to ensure it is not set larger than the screen bitmap [Nathan Woods]. - Added decryption of the BIOS for the Namco System 10 games using MEMN ROM boards [smf]. - Changed the ROM banking of the Bellfruit 'Adder' card to the new standard, as well as tidying up the MPU4 emulation with some new information [El Condor]. - A bit more progress on 'Raiden 2' sprite decryption [Olivier Galibert]. - Added save states to Namco Classics Collection 1 & 2, Taito B System, and fixed save states in 'Operation Wolf' [Adam Bousley]. - Debugger changes/updates [Aaron Giles]: * Added new streaming text buffer system. * Rewrote the console window to use the streaming text buffer. * Added new log window (Ctrl+L) which displays live error.log output. * Added disassembly view menu to control comments versus raw or encrypted opcodes. * Added disassembly menu to the main console window as well. * Now detect expressions with assignment or ++/-- operators as commands, do you can just say "pc=0" to modify registers instead of needing to type "do pc=0". * Fixed bug that would sometimes lock the disassembly view to the top line. - More global system cleanup [Aaron Giles, Atari Ace]: * Remapped osd_die to fatalerror, which cleans up behind itself and returns to the osd code by returning from run_game. * Removed a number of unnecessary includes from driver.h. * Moved logerror into the core. * Moved 68000-specific build rules to cpu.mak * New function skip_this_frame, should be called by drivers instead of osd_skip_this_frame. * Removed includes of osdepend.h and osd_cpu.h from drivers; only the core should include these. - More initialization/reset/pause cleanup [Aaron Giles]: * New function add_pause_callback can be called by other modules to register a callback for whenever MAME is paused/resumed. * Converted all existing pause hooks to use the new system. * New function add_reset_callback can be called by other modules to register a callback for whenever MAME is reset. * Converted all existing reset hooks to use the new system. * Removed machine_reset; replaced with mame_schedule_soft_reset. * New function mame_schedule_exit to force an exit cleanly from external events. * Removed all the "trying_to_quit" crap from the Windows code. * Moved save/restore system out of cpuexec.c into mame.c. * Moved core game loop out of cpuexec.c into mame.c. * Added hard reset support (complete tear down and re-init). - More core file shuffling [Aaron Giles]: * Split sndintrf.c into sound.c, sndintrf.c, and sndhrdw/generic.c. * Added #include vidhrdw/generic.h to mamecore.h, and removed all explicit includes elsewhere. - Added save state support to the BSMT2000 sound emulator and the dcheese driver [Aaron Giles]. - Fixed missing save state data in the dkong driver [Aaron Giles]. - Updated the 68000 disassembler to use the new interfaces [Aaron Giles].