0.176 2016/07/27 [#615 - Miodrag Milanovic] ------------------------------------------- New Machines Added or Promoted from NOT_WORKING Status ------------------------------------------------------ Flaming 7 (Custom Hardware, Egyptian Gold, 2000 Bonus) [Roberto Fresca] Flaming 7 (Custom Hardware, Main, 2000 Bonus) [Roberto Fresca] Flaming 7 (Custom Hardware, Main, 50 Bonus) [Roberto Fresca] Flaming 7 (Custom Hardware, Main, 500 Bonus) [Roberto Fresca] Flaming 7 (Taiwanese Hardware, unknown version) [Roberto Fresca] Gorodki [shiru8bit, IgorR76, '15kop' arcade museum] Kot Rybolov [MetalliC, shiru8bit, IgorR76, '15kop' arcade museum] MBC200 [Robbbert] Player's Choice (M4C1) [Blair Quinney, The Dumping Union] Rainbow-100B [Bavarese] Swing Gal [BET] [system11] TeleVideo 990 [R. Belmont, Al Kossow, Carl] TeleVideo 995-65 [R. Belmont, Al Kossow, Carl] New Clones Added or Promoted from NOT_WORKING Status ---------------------------------------------------- Beastie Feastie (Epos Tristar 9000 hardware) [The Iron Goat] Bubble Trouble (World, Rev B) [Alex Cmaylo, The Dumping Union] Digital Equipment Corporation VT240 [Carl] Elektronika MC7105 [Shattered] Intergirl [f205v] LTM Portable (B+) [Nigel Barnes] LTM Portable (Master) [Nigel Barnes] Operation Thunderbolt (World, rev 1) [Muddymusic, The Dumping Union] Raiden Fighters 2 - Operation Hell Dive (Japan set 3) [IronGiant] Sensory Chess Challenger 9 (set 2) [anonymous] New Machines Marked as NOT_WORKING ---------------------------------- Datamax 8000 [Robbbert] Tomy Prin-C [TeamEurope] New Clones Marked as NOT_WORKING -------------------------------- BT Merlin M2105 [Nigel Barnes] New WORKING Software List Additions ----------------------------------- pc98_cd.xml: Final batch of additions [rzero9] pce_tourvision.xml: Added a number of new dumps (15) [system11, Tafoid] poisk1_flop.xml: Added basic softlist [shattered] New NOT_WORKING Software List Additions --------------------------------------- gamate.xml: Volcano Panic [Juan Felix Mateos and Mr. Postman] gamate.xml: Hot Hero; Baseball [Peter Wilhelmsen] gba_ereader.xml: Starting work doing the GBA e-reader software-list [Shideravan] MAMETesters Bugs Fixed (22): ---------------------------- - 05534: [Crash/Freeze] (pc8001.c) All sets in pc8001.c: Crash after OK (Robbbert) - 06246: [Graphics] (legionna.c) cupsocsb, cupsocsb2: Black screen (Angelo Salese) - 06262: [Crash/Freeze] All sets using SHARC drc: Crash when running DRC (Linux only?) (Ville Linde) - 06263: [Interface] UI: Choosing any filter which has no data makes the UI unrecoverable (Maurizio Petrarota) - 06266: [DIP/Input] (seta.c) metafox: Bonus_Life DIPSETTING values and labels are incorrect (Tafoid) - 06268: [Crash/Freeze] MAME can crash when switching languages (Vas Crabb) - 06279: [Interface] PLUGINS: pluginspath does not resolve $HOME (crazyc) - 06280: [Interface] PLUGINS: The plugin.ini file is created in the current folder when it should be created in the "ini" path. (crazyc) - 06281: [Crash/Freeze] astrocde [280zzap]: 280Zzzap/Dodgem Cartridge Resets (Duke) - 06284: [Interface] Watchdog dialog is not able to be captured (cuavas) - 06285: [Gameplay] (vendetta.c) esckids, esckidsj: Slowdowns in gameplay (Osso) - 06286: [Misc.] (segaorun.c) shangon: Captured AVI video from this game shows only sound, no image (Angelo Salese) - 06288: [Interface] UI:: Selecting "Category" after listing "Favorites" causes exception (Vas Crabb) - 06291: [Interface] (carpolo.c) carpolo: Unable to view recorded video made with -video bgfx/-window (Jezze) - 06304: [Crash/Freeze] (mac.c) macse30: Crash when attempting to use any slot option for -pds030 (Osso) - 06305: [Crash/Freeze] (atpci.c) at586, at586x3, ficvt503: Use of -kbd slot options 3270pc or pcat causes crash (crazyc) - 06309: [Crash/Freeze] (mac.c) macsefd: Crash on Exit using -pds slot (Osso) - 06311: [Crash/Freeze] (myb3k.c) Crash when using -fdc:0 and -fdc:1 slot with '525sssd' option (Pernod) - 06312: [Crash/Freeze] (osborne1.c) Crash when using -mb8877:0 and -mb8877:1 slot with '525sssd' option (Pernod) - 06313: [Crash/Freeze] (victor9k.c) Crash when using -fdc:5d:0 and -fdc:5d:1 slot with '525ssqd' option (Pernod) - 06323: [Debugger] (psikyosh.c) gunbird2, s1945iii: Crash when attempting to use -cheat (AJR) - 06324: [Crash/Freeze] (funkball.c) funkball: Fatal Error at Start (Osso) Translations added or modified ------------------------------ Chinese (simplified/traditional) [YuiFAN] Greek [BraiNKilleRGR] Japanese [Vas Crabb] Portuguese (Brazil) [Ashura-X] Source changes: --------------- - Scorpion4 7segment displays mostly fixed [John Parker]. - Fixed coinage in Touchmaster 2000-8000 [MASH]. - z80scc: Fix dropped character problem for sun4_75, and fix edge cases where datasheet recommendations are ignored allowing sun3/sun4 to recognise keyboard and hk68v10 to work with correct SCC clock [Joakim Larsson Edstrom]. - pc9801: Fixed mouse buttons [rzero9]. - coco3 Improvements [milliluk]: * Improve palettes and support alternate composite mode; * GIME fix for scanlines in legacy graphic modes. - m6809: Improve debugging support for 6809/6309 CPUs [milliluk]. - GNU/kFreeBSD support [stevenc99]. - Add arch defines for Linux alpha and mips64el [Jordi Mallach]. - Take pkg-config path from env if defined [Bernhard Frauendienst]. - Name Neo-Geo AES, NeoGeo CD and FM Towns Marty buttons [Shideravan]. - Updated *nix man pages [Cesare Falco]. - poisk1: Unbreak after "Memory fun", add B623 sound card (skeleton) [shattered]. - r9751: Add save state support, document progress and clean up, add PROM version 4.2 [Brandon Munger]. - ym2151, ym2413: Isolate, objectify, integrate [Olivier Galibert]. - Add Net-DIMM 3.03 firmware [letoram, gamerfan, Mark F., Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]. - Netlist improvements [Couriersud]: * nltool now accepts -Ddefine=value to pass on to netlists; * improved option handling and added "dummy" options to add grouping and examples in help output; * Improved --cmd=listdevices output; * Fix dynamic timestepping. This will work with breakout using real capacitor modelling instead of delay devices. Really slow, but very useful to calibrate timings; * Fix an awful bug in timing for delay devices; * Switched to clang 3.8 and made code compile with aggressive warnings. This exposed serious issues with implicit constructors; * Removed trampolines (OUTLOGIC, INPLOGIC and friends); * Started using doxygen comment and documentation style. Added doxygen files to documentation folder; * Refactored code triggered by doxygen output; * Moved internal and support classes into namespace detail; * Use an unordered map in parser; * Added iterators to pstring; * Moved two macros, added more RAII and improved exceptions. Fixed some bugs in parser code; * Fixed a number of bugs in parser code and exception handling. - Forte Card: Switched the ver 110 (spanish) to parent set since it's a newer version. Also cleaned up the driver [Roberto Fresca]. - Render module improvements [Giuseppe Gorgoglione]: * Direct3D HLSL: use aviwrite to record AVI movies; * Cleanup patches for Direct3D renderer; * BGFX: fix crash when bgfx effect folder is not present, - Fixed priority issues in Legionnaire, Heated Barrel, Denjin Makai and Godzilla [Angelo Salese]. - opwolf.cpp: fix all the gameplay problems by improving the c-chip protection simulation [Bryan McPhail]. - Miscellaneous modernisation [Nathan Woods]: * File create and format refactoring, better name/path validation (with POSIX implementation from Vas Crabb); * Use string objects in in core_file static functions, menu items, strconv functions, image device extensions and softlist classes; * Consolide default implementation of create_option_guide(); * Filesel cleanup; * Migrate softlist code from simple_list to std::list. - Added crt-geom and crt-geom-deluxe shaders for bgfx including several aperture grille/shadow mask patterns (designed for RGB subpixel order) [cgwg]. - Added option hide ROMless machines from the availables list [Maurizio Petrarota]. - sun4 updates: * Added SPARCStation 1+, 4/110, and 4/4x0 ROMs [Al Kossow]: * SPARC CPU core fixes [Ryan Holtz, Vas Crabb]; * Preliminary counter/timer support [R. Belmont]; * Separated sun4 and sun4c, started implementing unique original sun4 features [R. Belmont]; * Support both 8 and 16 context variants of sun4c arch [R. Belmont]; * Improved original sun4 architecture support [R. Belmont]; * Initial FDC hookup [Ryan Holtz]; * Improved timers, logging - sun4_40 runs FORTH programs at ok prompt [Ryan Holtz]. - Add high-level emulation of Sun type 3/4/5/6 keyboards [Vas Crabb]: * U.S.A, Great Britain, Sweden and Japan layouts for Type 5; * Layout selection settings for Type 4 and Type 5; * Identification selection for type 4; * Adaptor for connecting to RS-232 port representing level translator; * Hook up to sun3, sun4 and sun4c. - zeroteam: Improve sprite/sprite priorities [AJR]. - feversoc.cpp: Hook up EEPROM; remap buttons, hook up lamps and serial RTC [AJR]. - denjinmk: Hack sound comms to work without ROM patch [AJR]. - vt100.cpp: Add the older vt102/vt131 romset to the vt131 driver as another bios set [Lord Nightmare, Al Kossow]. - Corrected many Mahjong dip switches and settings [system11]: * Fixes for: Mahjong Focus, Nozokimeguri Mahjong Peep Show, Mahjong Fantasic Love & Ojousan; * Various Video System Mahjong DIP switches. - Final enhancements to HP TACO driver [F. Ulivi]. - Further IRQ passthrough cleanup [AJR]: * Remove irq_line methods from M6502, M6800, M6809, S2600 and replace uses with DEVCB_INPUTLINE; * Remove a few IRQ passthroughs from spiders.cpp; * Add several aliases for M6800_IRQ_LINE. - Increase uismall.bdf coverage [Vas Crabb]: * Complete coverage of Latin Extended-A, most of Latin Extended-B; * Monotonic Greek; * Full ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic, many other Cyrillic characters; * Half-width katakana; * Some IPA Extensions. - UI refactoring [Vas Crabb]: * Move most main launch menu stuff out of the base menu class; * Move some common code from selgame and selsoft into selmenu; * Eliminate the troublesome static members in ui::menu; * Eliminate some function statics; * Move palette menu drawing code out of base into palette menu class; * Use std::bind, references where nullptr is unacceptable, and const where appropriate; * Improve encapsulation of class members; * Reduce repeated string allocation in audit code; * Don't play so fast and loose with integer types; * Eliminate some expensive deep copies of vectors/maps; * .h -> .ipp for things that aren't really headers; * Remove members that have lifecycle associated with operation. - DPS1: System boots up, working [Robbbert]. - bankdev: Pass through the debugger flag from the incoming space argument [R. Belmont]. - Apollo changes: [Hans Ostermeyer]: * Keyboard mapping adjusted to fit current MAME; * Fixed screen raw parameters; * Fixed disp.dex Test 20 (Video SYNC Gen. Add. Test) for color displays. - 3c505: The Ethernet frame check sequence is now appended to transmit data [Hans Ostermeyer]. - input_common: Fixed 0.172 regression for non-US keyboards [Hans Ostermeyer]. - Fix item hilighting in debugger state view when scrolling [Vas Crabb]. - Introduce validity checks for RGB utilities and fix bugs uncovered [Vas Crabb]: * Fix rgbvmx on Linux ppc64 and ppc64le targets with GCC 5; * Added several missing functions to rgbgen; * Fixed logical shift right in rgbgen; * Fixed sra that should be sra_imm in rdptpipe; * Added some simple SSE4.1 optimisations in rgbsse; * Re-organised rgbsse, rgbvmx and rgbgen to be in more logical order; * Fixed return type on some modifying operators; * Made some more reference parameters const; * Removed inline qualifier from a number of methods as it's implied when body is present at declaration; * Mark some constructors explicit. - null_modem: rtscts flow control + relevant fix to i8251 [shattered]. - Updated driver with new information related to ID and gamelist for tourvis.cpp [system11, Tafoid]. - Fix archimedes disk format [Olivier Galibert]. - apple2: Don't allow debugger to trigger slot switching [Peter Ferrie]. - tiamc1: Kot-Rybolov implemented sound, documentation updates [MetalliC]. - Tia-MC1 driver: Added support for KR580VV55A parallel peripheral interface (clone of i8255), added technical notes about some odd behaviour with some ports, listed the specs of Kot-Rybolov hardware, and added all clocks via #define [Roberto Fresca]. - amstrad: Fix undocumented mode 3 [Barry Rodewald]. - bbc: Added monitor configuration (Colour, B&W, Green, Amber) and preliminary slots for expansion [Nigel Barnes]. - Flaming 7's, original custom hardware improvement [Roberto Fresca]: * Reverse-engineer protection to bypass the requested serial number. The iButton device still needs to be hooked. Promoted these games to working with their correspondent flags; * Added tech notes, comments and instructions to boot the machine for first time. - Flaming 7's, Taiwanese hardware: Reverse-engineer protection to bypass the requested serial number. The iButton device still needs to be hooked. Promoted the game to working with its correspondent flags. Added technical notes [Roberto Fresca]. - hiscore.dat: Updates [Leezer]. - alto2: Hunting the jiggly cursor bug [Juergen Buchmueller]. - chihiro: Added 837-13551 jvs input device, completed the communication with jvs devices through USB [Samuele Zannoli]. - chihiro: Game crtaxihr "Crazy Taxi High Roller (Rev B)" boots too [Samuele Zannoli].