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0.27 REMEMBER: IF A GAME DOESN'T WORK, TRY DELETING THE .CFG FILE IN ITS DIRECTORY There has been much talk about the License under which MAME is released. We had to drop the GPL because it was not applicable. See readme.txt for the new rules. New games supported in this release (in no particular order): Xevious Star Wars Bubble Bobble Exed Exes Eliminator Space Fury Star Trek Tac-Scan Zektor Super Bagman Warlords 10 Yard Fight Bosconian Dig Dug 2 Pac & Pal Son Son Loco-Motion Blue Print Snap Jack Cosmic Avenger Eggs ... plus many alternate versions which are not listed here. Program: - The Energy shields in Vanguard now work. Nibbler, Vanguard and Fantasy now run at half their previous speed. Is this the correct one? - Support for a GnG version with different graphics (cross instead of shield) - Thanks to the precious information on the Pokey random number generator provided by Eric Smith, Hedley Rainnie and Sean Trowbridge, some problems with Centipede (start with 18 credits) and Tempest (hang after level 13) are now solved. - Thanks to Virtu-Al and Peter Clare, Carnival now has 100% accurate colors. - Mirko Buffoni and Tatsuyuki Satoh provided a preliminary Xevious driver. - Al Kossow and Brad Oliver provided drivers for the Sega vector games (Eliminator, Space Fury, Star Trek, Tac-Scan, Zektor). Partial sound support (speech) is available through samples for some of them. - Jarek Burczynsky provided better colors for Bagman and also added support for Super Bagman. - Andrew Scott improved sound in Pleiads. - Thanks to Virtu-Al, Rescue now has accurate colors. - Lee Taylor (nxsl2819@defender.demon.co.uk) and John Clegg provided a Warlords driver. - Andrea Fregoli added a scroll routine used when the keyboard/joystick settings menu doesn't fit on the screen. - Andrew Scott and Robert R. Anschuetz II improved sound support in Galaxian and clones. The background noise is now emulated, while the shoot noise still requires a sample. These changes also affect other games using the same sound routines. - Thanks to Brian Levine's freely available Rockulator, Andrew Scott was able to add sound support to Vanguard. - Mike Coates improved again the Gorf driver. It's now (sort of) playable. - Lee Taylor and John Clegg provided preliminary 10 Yard Fight support. - Martin Scragg added Bosconian support. - Aaron Giles did a major rewrite of his Super Pac man and Mappy drivers: - support for Dig Dug 2 and Pac & Pal - High score save in all games - 100% colors and sound samples (in Super Pac man the siren clicks a bit, but neither I nor jrok can figure it out; the sample data *is* correct) - better sound playback frequency (was missing some high bits!) - arcade accurate frequency calculation (thanks to jrok!) - removed all palette hacks; everything is clean - added loop optimizations for speed - video now properly displayed, including high priority characters - John Butler and Aaron Giles fixed sound and trackball support in Millipede. - Steve Baines, with the help of Frank Palazzolo and Brad Oliver, implemented Star Wars. It's playable, but far from perfect. There's even some preliminary sound support (slows the game down a lot). - Bernd Wiebelt implemented a new option for vector games: "-vg". This adapts the Vector games to a given screen resolution (default 800x600). - Lot of work on the Atari Vector games (Brad Oliver & Bernd Wiebelt) - Quite a few bugs hunted down. - Thanks to Aaron Giles, the Atari vector games do correct scaling now and we can do cycle counting on the vector CPU. Aaron also fixed the scaling in the Sega vektor games. - Tempest does no longer crash after level 13, has better colors (colorram emulation) and is overall a bit faster. - Highscore saving for all games except Black Widow and Starwars - Trackball support for Tempest and Red Baron. Red Baron tries to calibrate its analog joystick at the start, so you'll have to move the "joystick" a bit before you can fly in all four directions. Thanks to baloo@kaiwan.com for his suggestions. - Mauro Minenna made Battlezone playable with one joystick. - Changes to game resolutions. On MSDOS, they now use tweaked VGA modes. REMEMBER TO DELETE EVERY *.CFG AND .HI FILE FOR VECTOR GAMES, OTHERWISE THE GAMES MIGHT NOT WORK CORRECTLY. - Mike Coates added partial sound support (thru samples) to the Carnival driver. - Bubble Bobble support, provided by Chris Moore (chris@aethos.co.uk). - Son Son support (dedicated to Roberto Ventura! ;) - Preliminary Exed Exes support, implemented by Richard Davies. Thanks to Paul Swan, it has 100% accurate colors. To do: find where tile ram is located and how it works, and whether banked ROMs contain code or only data. The structure of this game is similar to the other Capcom games. - Mirko Buffoni and Tatsuyuki Satoh added Starforce sound emulation. - Mike Coates tidied up the wow drivers, added definable keys to most games, and joystick & 2 player support to Seawolf II. - Fabrice Frances added hiscore saving support to all Gottlieb drivers. - Ray Giarratana included trackball support to Missile Command. - Added support for Mr'Do vs Unicorns (earlier version of Do's Castle). Thanks to Lee Taylor for info) - Sound support in Tutankham. - Elevator action sound is perfect now. - Improvements in Zaxxon colors by Marc Vergoosen. - Jarek Burczynski changed showcharset() in usrintrf.c. Now you can use PGUP and PGDN to scroll through a charset which doesn't fit in the screen. Sources: - Brad Oliver wrote the new sndhrdw/pokyintf.c file. It handles most of the pokey interface to pokey.c. Rather than call milliped_sh_start() or whatever, call pokeyx_sh_start(), where x is the number of pokeys. It will keep track of the pokey count and use the appropriate clipping. I'm not sure 3 pokeys is a possible combination so there is no such pokey3_sh_start() routine. - Christopher Kirmse <ckirmse@ricochet.net> ported MAME to Win32. It compiles from the same source tree as the DOS version; to compile using visual c++ 5, just do nmake -fmakefile.w32 To build mame32.exe, you also need the SEAL audio library for win32. - Changes in SN76496 emulation (added SN76496UpdateB function to emulate 2 chips on 8 channel PCM sound cards), added Z80PIO and Z80CTC emulator, in COMMON.C, 'TRANSPARENCY_PEN' and 'TRANSPARENCY_COLOR' mode were speeded up (for X/Y dual scroll games). All this was done by Tatsuyuki Satoh. - Added generic EAROM routinges for the Atari Vector games, they are in src/machine/atari.c and src/machine/atari.h - Bernd Wiebelt sincerely hopes he fixed the BCD-emulation in the 6502 emulation. At least the authentic Tempest feeling (broken X/Y monitor) is gone, since the game now starts without pressing Fire. The following changes were done by Nicola Salmoria: Program: - Crystal Castles now has accurate colors and load/save of high score and settings. - You can now turn off speed throttling (F10) even on games which use audio streaming (i.e. all the ones with 8910 or Pokey sound chips) - Loco-Motion support - Blue Print support - Thanks to F. Kurokawa, preliminary Snap Jack and Cosmic Avenger support. They run on the Lady Bug driver. - Fixes to the audio code which should fix crashes on some games and compatibility problems with GUS and AWE 32. However let me stress once again that if you have an AWE 32 you should use the plain SoundBlaster driver. The AWE 32 driver sounds NOTHING like the original (and is slower). - In Galaga, star scroll speed in levels > 32 should be correct now. - Pressing ESC in all menus returns to pthe previous menu instead of quitting. - Changed the 8910 sound chip emulation interface to allow updates more frequent than 60 per second. I also increased the sampling frequency to 44.1kHz. These changes provide dramatic improvements in sound quality, which you can appreciate in e.g. Gyruss and Pooyan. The price to pay is slower execution. To make things worse, I had to (hopefully temporarily) remove some optimizations, so the above games will probably not run as well as before on slower systems. - Donkey Kong has better colors. Are they entirely accurate? - Preliminary driver for Eggs. - Popeye runs at the correct speed of 30 fps. - Increased the maximum number of digital audio channels from 8 to 16, so there are no more missing voices in the Mr. Do! games (Castle, Unicorns, Wild Ride, Run Run, and Kick Rider). - Thanks to Gary Walton, speed in Pengo should now be closer to the original. - The unencrypted versions of Penta and "pengopop" are no longer supported because they are just hacks, not coming from a real board. The *original*, *encrypted* versions are now supported instead. They are exactly the same, the only difference is that they are encrypted and come from real boards. The names now are: "pengo" original Pengo with "PopCorn" music "pengoa" alternate version (earlier) with different music and no slow screen draw "penta" the bootleg called Penta - Elevator Action, Jungle King and Wild Western now use the same video hardware driver (taito.c) - ROMs are checksummed before starting the emulation. If the checksum doesn't match, a warning message is printed on the screen (along with the expected checksums). Execution resumes after pressing Return. Not all drivers use this feature yet! - Some alternate ROM sets supported: ckonga, galaganm, gallag, bzone2, asteroi2, panica, pacmanjp. - Some ROM renaming here and there, just to annoy you ;-) - Lots of minor fixes and enhancements. - Exchanged the infamous two sprite banks in Moon Cresta. Sources: - EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: osd_obtain_pen() now doesn't return pens sequentially. This ensures that MSDOS driver writes are aware of the existence of Machine->pens[] and use it appropriately. Drivers which don't do this will have wrong colors. - modified readinputport() to scan the keyboard only once per frame, and handle everything more efficiently. It is now MUCH faster than before - useful with games which continuously poll a port for VBlank. - generic_vh_start() now checks that videoram_size has been initialized and fails otherwise. - When using TRANSPARENCY_COLOR and TRANSPARENCY_THROUGH with drawgfx(), the argument must now be the pen code instead of the remapped pen number, e.g. instead of Machine->background_pen (= machine->pens[0]) you just specify 0. I also removed the background_pen field from Machine: use Machine->pens[0] instead. - The ROM_LOAD() macro now requires four parameters, the last one being the checksum. To quickly upgrade from previous sources you can be used (temporarily) ROM_OBSOLETELOAD(), however adding the checksum is easy (just do a cut & paste from the warning message) so it's better to put them in as soon as possible. - New macro ROM_RELOAD(), meaning to reload the previous ROM at a different address (useful with 6502 games which need reset/irq vectors at FFFx). - In common.c, new function printromlist(), used by loadroms() and mame.c. (-listroms). - Drivers are now allowed to modify the RAM and ROM pointers to implement bank switching. Bubble Bobble uses this. Be careful: when using this feature, you cannot use the standard MRA_RAM and MWA_RAM memory hooks to access RAM. - InputPorts now can automatically handle VBlank bits. No more need to write custom code. Lady Bug, Carnival, Mysterious Stones, Naughty Boy and Phoenix use this feature. Many other drivers need to be updated to use it. MAKE SURE TO DELETE LADYBUG\LADYBUG.DSW AND LADYBUG\LADYBUG.CFG, OTHERWISE THE GAME WILL NOT WORK CORRECTLY. - New support functions in cpuintrf.c: cpu_getfcount(), which returns the number of CPU cycles till the end of the current video frame (as opposed to cpu_geticount(), which returns the number of CPU cycles till the next call of the interrupt handler) cpu_getiloops(), which returns the number of times the interrupt handler will be called before the end of the video frame (useful in interrupt handlers). cpu_gettotalcycles(), which returns the total number of CPU cycles passed since the CPU was reset. ignore_interrupt(), companion to interrupt() and nmi_interrupt(). This allows interrupt handlers to be cpu-independant, avoiding use of CPU-specific interrupt indetifiers. 0.26a - This is a bug fix version. I did a mess with the famous heavy modifications I mentioned before. Well, I was the first to try the feeling of working on wrong sources ;) Funny!! BTW, now everything is back to normality, Pacman, Galaxians, Centipede, and others. I have learned a thing: never work until 4.30am in the morning :> - Thanks to Gary Walton, Nicola added 100% correct colors in Mr Do's Castle Fixed also a bug in Ghosts 'n Goblins hiscore saving. Now GnG does the self test too. - Some credits that were left out in this file only, last time: Thanks to Al Kossow, Hedley Rainnie and Eric Smith for the code to their vecsim emulator which had emulated these games previously on the unix and the mac, and thanks to Neil Bradley for pointing out the critical bug in the vector generator engine which prevented Tempest from working. - Super Pac Man and Mappy have correct pitch now (thanks Aaron and Satoh). Also, SuperPac has speed cheat control again. - Frogger doesn't have garbled chars anymore, and Galaga has correct stars speed now. - Added support for KickRaider. It's a rom swap, same hardware of Mr. Do Wild Ride. - Patrick Lawrence added trackball sensitivity setting menu - Morten Eriksen added hiscore save support to Arabian and AntEater - Sound is back on williams games too - Changed Dig Dug Atari rom dir into "digdugat", indicating the correct roms archive name. 0.26 - After so much time of hard work the policy of "back to quality" is starting to bring back the efforts. I'm proud to announce I'v beated Mr Do's Castle. Done one, done all. So now we have also Mr Do! RunRun and Mr Do! Wild Ride. Thanks to the invaluable help of Nicola, they are also arcade colors perfect, very fast (!) and each game has audio support and hiscore saving! :D - Me and Aaron Giles (agiles@mail1.sirius.com) have added support for MAPPY!! One of the most requested games. It was a pleasure working with Aaron! He also added sound support and very close arcade colors (I think to have found the color_prom... if it's the correct prom it will be added in the next release). Hiscore saving is supported as well. - Thanks to the outstanding combined efforts of Brad Oliver, Bernd Wiebelt and Allard Van Der Bas, MAME entered in vectorial emulation world! (YEAH!!!) All in a time, we have support for Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Black Widow Battlezone, Gravitar, Lunar Lander, Red Baron, Spaceduel, Tempest!!! - Again Aaron Giles added sound support to Super Pac Man! - Patrick Lawrence (pjl@ns.net) did a great work adding trackball support to the main core system. Trackball is enable with -trak parameter. Trackball support has been added to Centipede and Reactor. Also, Patrick provided a driver for Crystal Castles. Great Work! ;) - And three... Aaron added support for Dig Dug!! Hey man, you'r at a step to become a God of Arcade emulation ;) - Mike Coates has joined to the "back to quality" team. He added support for SeaWolf ][, and improved Space Zap and Gorf (which is still unplayable). Also Robby Roto is now fully playable (you'll need a bug free rom set). - Ray Giarratana (ray@loop.com) added support for Missile Command. I didn't include modifications for trackball for now. The code needs to be cleaned a bit, but the game is still playable. - Enrique Sanchez provided me documentation for Yie Air Kung Fu. Also, Philip Stroffolino (phil@maya.com) sent me a more complete driver than mine for this game which is now playable. - Eric Anschuetz fixed a bug in joystick redefinition menu. Also added the selection support for Any Button ("A" key), and None ("N" key). - Fabrice Frances added a driver for 3 Stooges. - Andrew Scott provided a better sound support for Phoenix. Melody is still missing, because Shaun's board doesn't have it. - Nicola fixed Jump Bug driver which is now perfect. Colors are still wrong without proms. - Morten Eriksen (Morten.Eriksen@due.unit.no) added hiscore saving to Ghosts 'n Goblins. - Valerio Verrando provided a new tweaked mode 256x232 for Crystal Castles. He also provided a new tweaked video mode to get vsynced 60Hz (perfect speed) with 256x256 games. It has horizontal clock recover (thus video is less mashed vertically, without having to modify monitor settings, and it doesn't be confused with 224x288 by monitors that remember settings. Really nice on scrolling games: try it with "-noscanlines -vsync -vgafreq 1" - Fixed Commando dip switch bonus settings. Also fixed a setting in Ant Eater dipswitch. - Fixed a bug that locked your PC if BLASTER variable was not found (thanks to James Oliver for the suggestion). - Tatsuyuki Satoh fixed sound tempo speed in Elevator Action (tempo speed is 37.5Khz). - Added support for two versions of Pengo (one with the music of Popcorn and a clone). Sources: - Me, Nicola, Bernd and Patrick have heavily changed the main core set of sources. Improvements to speed, memory access, drivers structure were done. We strongly suggest to developers to start their code on a clean 0.26 version. - Opcode decode and graphic decode are now done by a single function in one step. - Tatsuyuki Satoh (tatuyuki@tky.threewebnet.or.jp) optimized DrawGfx() function in case TRANSPARENCY_PEN and TRANSPARENCY_COLOR without remap, producing a speed increment of 22-25% (try yourself with Elevator Action!) - Mauro Minenna introduced a new option (-dir4) that simplify the use of the joysticks to be connected on the keyboard. This modify resolves the problem of diagonal direction in games such as PacMan, Popeye, and Kung Fu Master. 0.25 Program: - We have added Starforce! Another one that rocks!! Sound is not supported yet. - Finally I've added Tutankham. (Hi Moose!! ;) Moose provided me a good bunch of information and I lost much time on a stupid bug in bank selection. Thanks to David Dahl (techt@juno.com) that provided me a driver too, and I found the light!! Also thanks to Rob Jarrett for the exaustive memory map (I've included it in sources, it's better than mine). - I've decrypted the garbled graphics of AntEater and Rescue which are now fully playable. And Fabio Buffoni improved the decode routines with thrilling code. Colors are wrong, unless someone provides me a good set of screenshots to study. Hunchback doesn't work yet. - Nicola added a driver for Mysterious Stone. - Sal and John Bugliarisi provided us technical information about the game Naughty Boy. (Remember that code area is 64k long and not 32k). We have implemented a driver and for this game which is now supported. - I took the time to add some high score saving. So, now Junior Pacman, Naughty Boy, Tutankham, Kangaroo, have high score saving support. (So Dave will stop bothering me about that ;) heheh!!! Joking ;) - Nicola fixed Commando driver, so now intermissions have the correct tiles positioned. - Added JrPacman speed cheat. It works in the same way of Pacman. (thanks to Hugo Pi for let me notice this). - Chris Hardy added support for Space Firebird. Thanks to Chris and to all Sage Staff. - Nicola did some fixes to Taito Games (Jungle King and Elevator Action) about background placement and coins per credit dipswitch. Plus vertical scroll support in Jungle King (used in ground shake), correct sprite priority, and no more rubbish is present during change of stage. Finally, he also added preliminar support for WildWestern and FrontLine, which are not yet playable. DELETE ELEVATOB\ELEVATOB.DSW, JUNGLEK\JUNGLEK.DSW, JHUNT\JHUNT.DSW, OTHERWISE THE GAME WILL NOT WORK CORRECTLY. - Eric Anschuetz proposed me to implement a different button layout for joysticks. I replyed with a configurable joystick setup (like the keyboard one). So Eric finished the work providing us a useful joystick setup menu. Thanks Eric and Robert! ;) - Refixed the galaga hiscore bug (it happened when syncing my sources with Nicola's ones) - Maurizio Zanello provided a better interface between MAME and frontends. And now you can select frameskip rate even while playing, without have to exit. Volume can be controlled with keypad PLUS and MINUS keys. - Robert Anschuetz provided me info about how to enable a shot sample with moonquasar, mooncresta, galaxian and clones. - Valerio Verrando fixed the Williams driver to support joystick in Blaster, Defender, Joust, Robotron, Splat, Stargate. Also fixed the Space Invaders driver to include high score saving and 100% arcade-perfect colors for Lunar Rescue; since some bootleg machines did not use this colorful overlay, Destination Earth retains the Space Invaders color scheme. - Bernd has cleaned up VESA command line options. No longer supported: '-vesascan' --> use '-vesa' or (faster, if it works) '-vesa2l' '-vesaskip N' --> use '-640x480 -skiplines N' instead '-rotate' --> use '-rol' or '-ror' instead New: '-ror' '-rol' Rotate the display (anti)clockwise. Since this uses the standard VESA scanline mode, you'll get *vertical* scanlines on rotated games (authentic?). '-nodouble' prevents pixel doubling, if you like miniaturised arcade emulation. It's also faster than the standard pixel-doubling VESA modes. '-skiplines N' does what '-vesaskip N' used to do, except it does not select 640x480 VESA mode. - Minor modifications to Arabian palette. Ville Laitinen also provided some modifications to Kangaroo driver. - Pause key back to 'P'. Sorry, you cannot use it for your redefinitions, but, hey, you have 101 keys left!!! ;) - Found the meaning of SW1 in Moon Cresta (Thanks to Mikiya Yadohisa) - Added Crazy Kong bootleg version by Jeutel and Ms Pac Man Attacks clones Sources: - Added an alternate 224x288 video mode (on my Matrox this produce correct aspect ratio with this tweaked mode). To select it simply add -224 or -224x288 parameter. - Nigel T. Barber (Nigel.Barber@sgcs.co.uk) added mouse support. We need some feedback, because each mouse device has its own sensitivity. Enable mouse support with -mouse parameter. - Time to use proper MAME fonts. I draw a good looking complete set of chars to be used for messages and menu system in MAME. Nicola changed the entire set of drivers and implemented a user interface sublevel (file is USRINTRF.C). - Modifications done by Eric Anschuetz to add joystick reconfiguration menu. - I'v changed the system configuration of each game. Now a game saves all vital informations (DSW, KEY, and JOY settings) in a unique file with .CFG extension. A backward compatibility is provided, so the first time MAME read previous settings and saves them in the .CFG file at exit/reset. - Bernd changed the VESA code to provide '-rol' and '-ror' replacing '-rotate'. Rotation modes are now supported in all VESA resolutions. The '-nodouble' option prevents pixel doubling in VESA modes, resulting in more speed and a smaller display. 0.24 Program: - Nicola added support for Jr. Pacman. Decryption method provided by David Caldwell (david@indigita.com). Colors should be 100% right too. Hiscore saving not supported yet. Nicola also thanks Lee Taylor for help. - I've found the decryption scheme for garbled chars of Lost Tomb which is now playable. Colors are still wrong. - Also, I've finally fixed my problems with ADPCM decoding, so now Kung Fu Master doesn't need separate samples anymore (I didn't distribuite them because of copyright on sounds). The samples are now calculated during bootstrap of the game. - Again Nicola added Turpin (Another version of Turtles) support. Also colors are 100% correct the two games now. - Fabrice Frences added support for Qbert Qubes. Only hitch with the driver: you have to reset (F3) the game at first time when the empty supreme noser table appears, then the table will be correctly filled. Alternatively, you can insert a coin before this empty table appears... Hiscore save not supported yet. - New option in the setup menu: "CREDITS". It displays a list of the people who contributed to the current driver. I have surely left out many people, and apologize in advance for that. If you contributed to a driver and your name doesn't appear in the list, please let me know. - Since many people asked for this and Bernd Wiebelt was so kind to do me this gift for my birthday, MAME has now -rotate option. You'll have to turn your monitor (or your head (!) ;) - Nicola fixed definetively Kung Fu Master driver which has now 100% perfect colors and sprite positioning. Thanks to Paul Swan for color scheme. Original version (copyright Irem) is now supposed to be in 'kungfum' directory, while the bootleg (O.K.) is supposed to be in 'kungfub'. Test mode doesn't work for bootleg version (as is right to be). Hi Score Support in each version as well. - In Seicross now shots are enabled. REMEMBER TO DELETE PREVIOUS .DSW FILE, AND SET "DEMO & DEBUG MODE" TO OFF, AND "SW7B" to 1. Setting SW7B to 0 will cause to play the game without FIRE facility. - Marc LaFontaine provided drivers for Robotron, Splat, Defender, Joust, Stargate, Bubbles, Blaster and Sinistar. Bubbles doesn't start, and Sinistar do weird things at startup. The other games work very well, though. For this version I provide a set of fonts that can be used to avoid jerkiness in williams games. If you use zipped roms remember to include them in the ZIP files. - Added SpaceZap support. It is based mainly on WOW driver. Mike Coates provided a more stable driver too. Sources: - Bernd Wiebelt provided new Vesamodes: 320x240 and 512x384. You can select a mode either by -X (e.g. -640) or -XxY (e.g. -640x480). Also fixed a bug that caused -vesaskip 0 not to run properly. Also added -rotate option. Also, any vesa mode in combination with -noscanlines option can be used to achieve correct aspect ratio on most monitors. This method is of course slower, and can work flawlessy on P166+ class. - Modifications to support Driver Description and Credits. - Nicola added a new mode in drawgfx: TRANSPARENCY_THROUGH. When background has a higher priority of sprites, it's a lot faster using this option than draw sprites and then apply a bitmap with TRASPARENT_COLOR. - Fabrice Frances submitted a new faster I86 emulator. The entire I86 directory is changed, and most of Gottlieb games are now faster. - Mike Coates provided a modification to COMMON.C to support multi bank characters. It uses bits 8-15 of the charset array (short int - so hopefully at least 16 bits on all implementations) to signify bank number. - Changed the PAUSE key to Scrl-Lock key. This permits to redefinite the P key for playing. - TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS: Please do not make use of C++ // comments in your sources. I loose a lot of time every release to adjust them. Then use official source release as a base for your next updates. Use a comment style like in Williams.c sources (this is actually my comment style and almost clear to read). Thanks. 0.23 Program: - "And there was MUSIC!". Thanks to Ishmair's FM engine, music is supported in Commando, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Diamonds. Since the synthesis is based on FM generation via OPL, you must have a SoundBlaster, Adlib, or compatible to get the music. However I heavily dislike this approach and I'm looking for documentation on FM generation. If anyone want to join to the party forward me a mail! - I've also fixed GALAGA hiscore saving, which is now flawlessy supported! ;) - I've added Kung Fu Master driver to MAME. Credits fly to Ishmair for the hardware information and to Nicola for fixing my sprite bugs. - Steven Hugg (hugg@pobox.com) provided a Williams games driver. Stargate, Robotron and Joust are currently supported and playable. However Robotron and Joust have some glitches yet. - Tormod Tjaberg (tormod@sn.no) provided several modifications to Invaders Deluxe driver which has now Hi-score Name saving feature (the only one Space Invaders Emulator doing so at the moment!). All Invaders have now Tilt too. Keys and Dip Switch adjusted. REMEMBER TO DELETE PREVIOUS .DSW and .KEY FILES. - John Butler and Ed. Muller provided a driver for QIX! High Score saving supported too. - Thankx to Dock Cutlip (dockc@cyberplanet.net) Pacman Plus has now 100% arcade correct colors. - While talking of colors, Ghosts 'n Goblins has 100% correct colors too! Thanks to Gabrio Secco that provided us the complete colors LOG file ;) - I've fixed Seicross which is now playable and has music too. REMEMBER TO DELETE PREVIOUS .DSW FILE, AND SET "DEMO & DEBUG MODE" TO OFF. - Also fixed Nibbler colors: I should say 100% correct colors, but I remember the Nibbler hairs were Green versus Purple. Maybe I played a bootleg version. - Added Phoenix TPN clone ("phoenix3"). I've also added hiscore support to all Phoenix and Pleiads as well. - Fixed the "ape" bug in Kangaroo. - Full rotation allowed in Mad Planets (Thanks to Andrew Scott). - Some fix to Popeye and Burgertime sound pitch. Sources: - Modifications were done to M6809 emulator to support FIRQ. - Changes were done to MSDOS.C to fix OSD_READ_KEY for people having problems with keyboard. - Dip Switches and Key Settings are now selectable thru a menu system. F8 key is no longer supported. [ Sorry to be late, but this is my birthday MAME release and I wanted it to be as good as possible. Enjoy, and send a postcard if you like ;) NdMix ] 0.22 Program: - Nicola added COMMANDO!! Another of my favourite games back to life ;) High score supported as well. Original Sound is done by YM2203 (FM synthesis) while now is done by 8910 (no FM). So music is not present. - And here it is: thanks to Roberto Ventura's superdetailed documentation I've added Ghost 'n Goblin support. I lost one week because of a bug in the new 6809 emulator, so I switch back to the previous one. Big thanks to Nicola that fixed some stupid bugs in color palette generation. ;) We need a skilled player. READ THE README.TXT FILE! - Another one added: based on GnG hardware I've added Diamond Run support. Don't know if the banks mode switch is right, it's too slow for me to go further the first level! - Added Vulgus support. Colors are wrong unless I find the color proms. High score save supported. I played around with Dip Switches: they are almost right, though, but there should be also a sound toggle while in attract mode. - Rick Wirch (wirch@execpc.com) proposed a better optimization to Cpu_readmem and Cpu_writemem. Speed results are good under DOS and Windows. - Brad Oliver provided me a lot of suggestions to improve portability and fixed a lot of bugs. - Paul Berberich fixed some colors of Congo Bongo. They are not right but a lot better of the previous. Screenshots could be useful. - I have fixed colors in Centipede. Thanks to Ivan Mackintosh for sending me the info. - Nicola added cars in radar update of RallyX and improved color palette emulation in Bombjack which has now perfect colors. - Fixed credit bugs in Elevator Action and Turtles. REMEMBER TO DELETE THE PREVIOUS .DSW FILES OTHERWISE THE GAMES WON'T WORK PROPERLY! - Added preliminary sound support to Elevator Action and Jungle King. Tarzan yell scream sample missing. - Time pilot has now 100% correct colors (thanks Virtu-Al!). - Some fixes to sprite priority in Frogger. - Added high score support to Amidar, Frogger. - Added Phoenix Amstar (clone) support, Pac Man Plus (clone) and fixed all Invader's clones bugs. Also fixed charset of all Invader's clones. Sources: - Changed CPUIntrf regarding readmem/writemem optimizations - Minor fixes to some drivers - Bernd Wiebelt provided modifications to MSDOS.C for Vesa 2.0 linear and banked extensions. Also inline assembly double pixeling provided a faster approach on slower videocards. Check the readme.txt file for new video options. 0.21.5 - Nicola fixed a bug in Memory addressing that caused Galaga to trash under DOS. Also, fixed colors in Elevator Action (100% correct colors) and Jungle King (I have some screenshots and colors doesn't match. BTW these are much better than previous). Finally Jungle King doesn't need to select the graphic bank, but still have some glitches on sprites. - Fixed a bug in sound init of phoenix/pleiads that caused the game to crash under dos. - Fixed a bug in keys redefinition routine: ALT, SHIFT, and CONTROL are now selectable. - Fixed 224x288 noscanline video mode. It's centered again now. Sources: - Changed MSDOS.C to support 240x272 (video mode provided by V.Verrando) - Changes in COMMON.C to copyscrollbitmap() 0.21 Program: - I'd like to say I've finished, but Nicola is too fast as always! ;) So thanks to Nicola we have GALAGA!! And very special thanks to Martin Scragg that provided us crucial information on custom I/O chips. - Thanks to Dark Schneider (DS wanted to be anonymous, so I'll call him this way) that provided 6809 support and the first driver working on this CPU: Super Pac Man. The driver is based on the super-detailed KEG file of Replay emulator by Kevin Brisley (kevin@isgtec.com). Thanks to everyone. - Ville Laitinen provided a driver for Kangaroo, based on the Arabian hardware. I've also adjusted the number of frames per second to 60 to the two drivers. Sync with sound should be better, though. - Thank to Virtu-Al (Alan J McCormick (gonzothegreat@JUNO.COM)) Amidar and Turtles now have 100% correct colors. - Arabian has correct colors now. - Fixed a bug in all games with starbackground: using a frameskip > 0 introduced slowdowns. Now the speed remains unchanged. - Fixed tempo speed in 1942. It was playing at half speed. Should be correct now. Also fixed a bug in noise volume of PSG. Noise was playing at half volume. - Added support for Donkey Kong japanese version - Minor adjustment to Space Invaders color strips - Mad Planets doesn't crash anymore with the new samples (shorter!) - Added colors to Warp Warp. Thanks again Chris. - Fixed Dipswitch in Elevator Action. YOU'LL HAVE TO DELETE THE PREVIOUS DSW FILE IN "ELEVATOB" DIRECTORY IN ORDER TO GET IT RUN CORRECTLY. Sources: - Added M6809 CPU support. Changes in CPUIntrf.c and Driver.h to accomodate the new CPU. - Nicola introduced changes to the Z80 emulator code that intercept some sorts of tight loop used during an interrupt waitstate. Normal games should not be affected, while Galaga and 1942 are now very fast!! - Added MasterVolume in MSDOS.C, and changed MAME.C to support this feature. You can change the volume thru various volume percentage [100,75,50,25,0] pressing F9. - Sound is freezed now during GFXView, Pause and DipSwitch settings.[Ahhh! ;)] - I've added redefinable keys in MAME. A new structure cointains which input ports and bits have a certain meaning. The KEY settings will be saved in a .KEY file, in the game directory. - Changes in COMMON.H for the sample structure. Now it has infos on replayrate, resolution and volume of the sample to be played. BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD THE NEW SET OF SAMPLES, OR THE "MAMESAM" CONVERTER OR YOU WILL GET NO SOUND FOR SAMPLE BASED GAMES!! 0.20 Program: - Yes!! Finally I wrote a driver for Gyruss, one of my favourite games and one of the reasons why I started emulation. Big special thanks to Michael Cuddy, without help and information this game would probably never be done; and to Nicola Salmoria that fixed some of the sprites bugs that turned me mad and cleaned the code! ;) - The following changes were done by Nicola Salmoria: - 1942 has correct colours. Also fixed rom paging, so now it has no more slowdowns. Fixed jerkiness. Sound is better, too. How about the tempo? How about the pitch? Are they right? - fixed missing sprites when exiting from doors in Elevator Action. There are still some sprite priority bugs. Also better colors. - Thanks to Marc LaFontaine's invaluable help, Popeye is now fully playable and has 100% accurate colors. Supports high score saving, too. Still very slow. - Brad Oliver found a lot of bugs around the code. Fixed 1942 background scroll, Arabian video driver, and Phoenix sound init routine (all those caused trashes on MAC). - Paul Berberich fixed some colors of Donkey Kong that is now quite close to original arcade. Also Donkey Kong Jr. has better colors now. - Fabrice Frences provided a driver for Krull. Also fixed some bugs in qbert, and returned audio to Mad Planets. - Ron Fries created a new set of Donkey Kong samples, using Mike Cuddy's 8039 emulator. The new samples no longer have static, they are aliased and louder. All names are now generic, so the same name can be used across Nintendo line (DK, DKjr, DK3, Mario). - Chris Hardly kindly provided a working driver for Warp Warp. - Dave W. provided a new set of invaders samples. Should be better, though. - Frogger music tempo bring back to original value. Fast but flawless! Sources: - Changed 8910intf to support 5 PSGs (Gyruss have them!) - Changes in MAME.C: added -list option. This is useful for mantaining the readme file. It lists currently supported games. Thanks to Zanello Maurizio for suggestion. - Changes in MSDOS.C: vesa and vesascan are now mutex. Also fixed a bug caused by calling joystick initialize before starting allegro. - To UNIX users: sorry for the mess I did in my previous distribuition. All names and patches should be ok now. - Nicola Salmoria provided the following changes: - changed GENERIC.C to add sound_command_latch_r(): this always return the last command, instead of 0, if there are no more pending commands. This was required by 1942. - new flag for the cpu type: CPU_AUDIO_CPU. For example, you'll define a CPU type as CPU_Z80 | CPU_AUDIO_CPU. This indicates that the CPU is a slave used for audio only, and is therefore not needed if sound is disabled. The CPU will not be emulated when sound is turned off, therefore speeding up the emulation a lot. - also, 8910_sh_update() doesn't emulate the 8910 audio if sound is disabled (the I/O ports of the chip are still emulated, since some games use them for input). [ Sorry to be late, I just taken my graduation in Computer Science and I was a little busy. Here we go! :> ][NdMix] 0.19 Program: - Thanks to Marc LaFontaine we have now support for Popeye. It's not yet playable (when the game starts the machine resets) but it has music already. It's also very slow, since it uses a 512x480 screen. I'm looking for decryption scheme for original Popeye board using Lionel's idea [pain!]. - Fabrice Frences fixed the Qbert driver and added support for Reactor. - Jarek Burczynski provided a preliminar but playable driver for Arabian. Colors are wrong, but it support sound already. - Mike Coates fixed the Space Panic background colors. Also added hiscore support. - Nicola Salmoria found how Elevator Action background works. Also updated all drivers that have a scrolling background. Support for the bootleg version of Elevator Action ("elevatob"). The original version doesn't work because of copy protection. The graphics are almost OK now, albeit quite slow. - Paul Leaman (author of the 1942 emulator) provided exhaustive information on (guess what) 1942, which is now supported. - Some changes to music tempo of Frogger - Added partial sound support to RallyX (no explosions yet). Thankx to Ron Fries. - Added preliminar unplayable WarpWarp. Graphic is ok, but the game hangs during diagnostic. - Changed noise_lenght and noise_rate values in Moon Cresta audio driver, so now noise is much more noisier! - Shaun Stephenson provided me original Phoenix sound samples, so I adjusted sound driver to achieve correct sound modulation and frequency, and substituted noise generator for shots and explosions with a couple of samples. Noise generator can be still used (just don't put the samples in the directory) with Phoenix and it's used in Pleiads. I changed white noise waveshape and adjusted frequency, so now it sounds better. Source: - Added input ports 5 and 6 in CPUINTRF module. - Fixes to setdipswitches() and the fps counter in COMMON.C, to make them work correctly with non 8x8 fonts. - Substituted strcmp() with case insensitive stricmp() in MAME.C and MSDOS.C. This solve the problem with upcase gamename (ex: Win95 and NDOS). - Added copyscrollbitmap() to COMMON.C, that semplifies programming for those games that use scroll. 0.18 ---- IMPORTANT NOTE: This will be the last version of MAME released by me (Nicola Salmoria). From now on, the project will be maintained by Mirko Buffoni (mix@lim.dsi.unimi.it). Contact him if you have material to submit for inclusion into MAME. Please don't send such material to me. Program: - Green Beret: - The speed should now be VERY accurate. It also syncs correctly with the music. - Sound pitch should be correct as well (though it changes after you die for the first time...) - High score support. - Fixed sprite clipping problem on the left of the screen. - Fixed memory trashing bug in dirtybuffer handling - I finally added some lousy, very inaccurate, noise to the 76496 emulator. This affects Lady Bug and Green Beret. - I also added the same lousy noise to Galaxian, Pisces, Moon Cresta, Moon Quasar. - Fixed bug in the 8910 emulation which caused noise to be played in Crazy Kong when you jumped over a barrel. - Zaxxon and Congo Bongo now save their high scores for real. The code had disappeared from the drivers... I _did_ write it, since I had .hi files in my directories ;-) - High score support in Space Invaders (Invaders only - not clones) - Bomb Jack is much faster on a 486. Now runs very well with -frameskip 1 on my 486/100. - Sprite placement in Pac Man, Ms Pac Man and Crush Roller should now be arcade perfect. Thanks to Richard Davies who verified it on a real machine. - Preliminary support for Jungle King / Jungle Hunt. Slow but playable. I haven't the gfx bank selector, therefore you'll have to pick the correct background graphics yourself. Use keys C and V to change it. - VERY preliminary support for Elevator Action. Not playable. - Preliminary support for Seicross, using the Crazy Kong driver. Not playable. - Marc Lafontaine fixed some problems in the Venture driver, and provided drivers for Mouse Trap and Pepper II, which run on similar hardware (Pepper II is not complete yet). Note that the required Venture ROM set has changed - the other one was missing one ROM. Collision detection doesn't work - in Mouse Trap, you can use keys 7 and 8 to simulate a sprite-to-character and a sprite-to-sprite collision. - Rotated the controls for Q*Bert - Some changes to music tempo in Amidar, Pooyan, Time Pilot. - Added support for the original, Universal version of Mr. Do!. I renamed the other, which has an additional Taito copyright notice, "mrdot". - Support for a version of Crazy Kong running on Scramble hardware - Mike Coates provided a Space Panic driver. - Fixed bugs in Jump Bug and Bagman sound drivers which caused page faults when run under DOS. - Fabrice Frances submitted a much faster version of the 8086 emulation. Q*Bert now runs at full speed with -frameskip 1 on my 486/100. Source: - Samples are now loadaed by the main engine, not the single drivers. This is done via the new field samplenames in the GameDriver structure. Samples can then be retrieved by the drivers in Machine->samples. 0.17 ---- Program: - Various fixes to Green Beret: - Thanks to Paul Swan, it now has 100% accurate colors. - Dip switches didn't work, fixed. - Support for Rush'n Attack (the US version) - I've been told that it actually was too fast, so now it runs slower. Let me know how accurate it is. - Fabrice Frances submitted a massive contribution: an 8086 CPU emulator, and drivers for Q*Bert and Mad Planets. They run quite slowly on my 486/100 (~25 fps) but are playable. Q*Bert has sound too (with samples). 0.16 ---- Program: - Support for Green Beret, with partial sound (probably inaccurate). Colors are terrible. If you can see what you are doing, it's playable (but should it be this fast? I find it very hard) - Richard Davies and Brad Oliver provided drivers for the so-called "Sega" version of Jump Bug (it's actually a bootleg with the protection checks removed). The driver supports sound. - Added joystick support to Vanguard. - Support for Fantasy on the Nibbler driver. There are several problems, it's not playable. - Thanks to Mike Coates and Peter Clare, Carnival now has colors. - Stefano Mozzi provided a much better palette for Mario Bros. - Matthew Hillmer submitted a new palette for Donkey Kong 3. It is not intended to be correct, but at least it gets rid of the annoying checkerboard effect. - Tormod Tjaberg provided updated Space Invaders (+clones) drivers which support sound. They use samples, derived from Michael Strutts' emulator. - Support for Fantazia (bootleg version of Moon Cresta) - Fixed a couple of remaining graphic glitches in the Wizard of Wor driver. - Various fixes to Burger Time: - Fixed CPU clock speed to avoid slowdowns on fourth level. - It's much faster on a 486. - Sprites no longer "stick" on the screen on a level change. - Fixed a bug in high score save. DELETE BTIME\BTIME.HI, OTHERWISE THE HIGH SCORE TABLE WILL BE CORRUPTED - Marc Lafontaine provided a Venture driver. It is partially playable, sprites are wrong. On startup, keep 1 or 2 pressed to proceed. Source: - I wrote some general purpose routines to simplify interface with the AY8910. They are in 8910intf.c. See the existing drivers for usage examples. - To solve the problem with garbled text messages in Time Pilot, modified the GameDriver structure replacing letters_start and numbers_start with the array charset[36]. - I finally took the time to change Z80.h/M6502.h to make them work together. This allowed me to remove some kludges in cpuintrf.c. I also added some new functions, which can be used regardless of the CPU type: cpu_getpc(), cpu_geticount(), cpu_seticount(). - Fixed a couple of bugs in M6502 BCD arithmetic. One of them was causing the pepper counter in Burger Time to behave strangely. - Brad Oliver modified pokey.c and pokey.h to make them more portable. 0.15 ---- Program: - Jarek Burczynski submitted a sound driver for Bomb Jack. The game is now a bit slow on my 486/100, -frameskip 1 is almost good but not quite. - Sound support in: Scramble Super Cobra (note that the "scobra" rom set is wrong - ROMs 5c, 5d and 5e must be 2k, not 4k. You can take them from one of the other two sets). The End Battle of Atlantis Lost Tomb (very nice sound, pity the ROMs are corrupted) Amidar Turtles Frogger Pooyan Time Pilot All these require -frameskip 1 on my 486/100. I have no idea how accurate the tempo and pitch is. If you can compare it with a real machine, please let me know what's wrong. Note: I discovered that the garbled sound I experienced in Scramble was caused by a bad ROM. Therefore, if sound doesn't work, check your ROM set. Note that I also changed one ROM name from "2c" to "2d". - Carnival is finally working! Many thanks to Richard Davies who understood how to make it accept coins. - Brad Oliver deserves a prize for being the person who, alone, has discovered more bugs than everyone else put together. This time the bug was illegal memory acesses in games using 224x288 and 288x224 modes (Pengo, Pac Man, Rally X). - Thanks to the invaluable help of Steve Scavone, I've been able to fix many bugs in the Wizard of Wor driver. - Added support for a version of Galaxian which is known to be original. It has Namco copyright and the code is slightly different from the other Galaxian (which has Midway copyright). I called this version "galaxian", and renamed the other "galmidw". - High score support in Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Crush Roller, Burger Time, Zaxxon, Congo Bongo, Pooyan, Moon Cresta, Moon Quasar. - Support for a different version of Frogger ("frogsega"). - Miscellaneous graphics fixes to Zaxxon and Congo Bongo. Also better colors (especially in Congo Bongo), thanks to Marc Lafontaine. - Fixed most of the graphics problems with Moon Patrol. The video driver is a gigantic kludge right now, but it works and at a reasonable speed (though I can't reach 60fps on my 486/100). - Many people requested a way to syncronize with the video beam, to avoid jerkiness. Here it is: -vsync. It should be used together with -noscanlines, and possible -vgafreq to adjust the frame rate to be as close as possible to 60fps (use F11 to check the actual frame rate). Note that this, unlike the default timer based sync, will NOT downgrade nicely if your system is not fast enough. - Bernd Wiebelt provided new code for -vesascan, and implemented the new "-vesaskip n" mode. It uses a 640x480 screen instead of the 800x600 used by -vesascan, and allows you to scroll the visible area using the PGUP and PGDOWN keys. - Maintaining the endless list of ROM subdirectories was getting quite boring, so I modified readroms() to make it automatically print the complete list of required ROMs if one is missing. I think I should add a CRC check as well. I also added a brief explanation of what ROMs are and why they are required - hoping this will cut down the flow of e-mail asking "gee, I run your program and it says 'unable to open file xxxx/xxxx', what should I do?" 0.14 ---- Program: - Fixed bug in Mario Bros. high score loading: it was recovering the high score table, but the high score at the top of the screen was not set accordingly. - Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong 3 now also preserve the score distributions (use F1 to see them) - High score support in Galaxian, Time Pilot, Centipede and Millipede. However, high scores don't seem to work in Millipede (you are not asked to enter your name). - Fixed bug which sometimes caused 6502 games not to run (actually they did run, but interrupts didn't happen). - Since the US version is better, I renamed amidar to amidarjp, and amidarus to amidar. - Renamed pleiades to pleiads. - The change in video modes suggested by ue303ey@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de didn't work on some systems, so I reverted to the previous one. - Ron Fries provided a new version of his Pokey emulator which fixes problems in the interface with the SEAL audio library (signed vs. unsigned samples). - Ron Fries also added preliminary sound support to Donkey Kong! It uses some very bad samples for now. The samples are distributed in a separate archive - put them in the dkong subdirectory. - Richard Davies updated the audio routines in Phoenix, sound is now closer to the original and noise is emulated. - Brad Oliver and Mirko Buffoni provided a driver for Vanguard, based on Brian Levine's Vanguard emulator. Source: - driver.c was getting much too large and confused. I moved the GameDriver structures inside the single driver/xxxx.c files. This has the additional benefit that people sending me drivers will not forget to include the ROM loading addresses ;-) - I also changed the GameDriver structure, moving there fields from the MachineDrivers structure. The idea is that MachineDriver should describe the hardware, while GameDriver the software. Therefore things like colors (which are usually stored in a PROM) and dip switch settings go into GameDriver; decode_color_prom, on the other hand, goes into MachineDriver because it is an hardware function. It could be argued that input_ports belong to the hardware; but sometimes we have keys tied to dip switches (test switches and so on) whose function is determined by the software. Moreover input_ports contains the default values for all ports, including dip switches, and those are definitely software related. 0.13 ---- Program: - Added the most frequently asked feature: high score saving. Check the table at the beginning of readme.txt to see which games already support it. High scores are also reset-proof: you can reset the game by pressing F3 without losing them. To reset the high scores to their default, just delete xxx\xxx.hi where xxx is the game name. Note that hi score saving will NOT work if the default hi scores have been modified in the ROMs. Use the original ROMs. - Fixed all of the problems in Burger Time related to ROM encryption. Slices fall more than one level when an enemy is on them, no more crashes when a bonus life is earned, the high screen table works, two players mode works, and other things. - Support for an alternate ROM set for Burger Time, which is likely an earlier version. - Millipede's dip switches now work. DELETE MILLIPED\MILLIPED.DSW, OTHERWISE THE GAME WILL NOT WORK CORRECTLY. - Marc Lafontaine submitted a new palette for Zaxxon. - Richard Davies provided a new Phoenix/Pleiads driver with partial sound support. - Fixed "froggers" (I broke it while adding sound to Scramble). It now also uses the correct palette. Yes, I know that it is completely different from the real Frogger. This is a bootleg version, remember. - As promised, I modified the 8910 emulator to set the clock frequency at run time, so sound in Crazy Climber and Crazy Kong is now back as normal. - ue303ey@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de reports that changing the horizontal total register of the custom video modes (0x3d4, 0x00) from 0x5f to 0x61 makes them work on his monitor. I experimentally made the change. IF THE CUSTOM MODES WORKED FOR YOU IN VERSION 0.12 AND THEY DON'T WORK ANY MORE, PLEASE NOTIFY ME AND I WILL REVERT TO THE PREVIOUS SETTING. - Keith Smethers suggested to add -vgafreq n command line parameters, to select the VGA clock frequency. This may reduce flicker, especially in the 224x288noscanlines mode. WARNING: THE FREQUENCIES USED MIGHT BE WAY OUTSIDE OF YOUR MONITOR RANGE, AND COULD EVEN DAMAGE IT. USE THESE OPTIONS AT YOUR OWN RISK. - I began working on Moon Patrol's background. It's quite messed up now. - Fixed a couple of minor bugs in Bomb Jack background colors. Source: - Use latest version of Marat's 6502 engine. - Changes to struct GameDriver to accomodate the high score saving functions. I also moved the decryption pointers at the end, so it is not necessary to explicitly define them as 0 when they are not needed. Check driver.c to see how high score handlers should be written. hiscore_load() is called every vblank until it returns nonzero; this allows it to wait for the hi score table to be fully initialized before replacing it. To avoid saving an incomplete table, hiscore_save() is called only if hiscore_load() previously returned nonzero. 0.12 ---- Program: - Sound support in Burger Time. This is the first multiple CPU game supported by MAME (two 6502, one for code, one for sound). It's not perfect, but we're getting there. Also, as you can guess, this is slow. A 486/100 cannot handle it at 60 fps. Runs reasonably with -frameskip 1, though. - I also set up the second CPU to emulate sound in Scramble, but the sound that comes out is completely wrong. I don't know what I'm missing, anyone can help? - Since the 8910 emulator doesn't allow to set the clock frequency at runtime, I temporarily switched to using the default one. This affects sound in Crazy Climber, Crazy Kong and Bagman. Let me know whether it's better or worse than before. - Sound in Centipede, through Ron Fries' POKEY emulator. - Fixed speed in Burger Time (was running at about half the real speed). - Valerio Verrando provided 288x224 video modes to be used with Rally X. WARNING: these video modes might be unstable (the noscanlines one hangs my system). Any help to make them better would be appreciated. As usual, if the default mode doesn't work on your system, try -noscanlines. If that doesn't work as well, use -vesa. - I finally found out what was causing slowdowns in Rally X and Bagman. It was an interrupt related issue (see later). I hope I didn't break a dozen of other games to fix this ;-) - Thanks to Mike Cuddy and Mirko Buffoni, Pooyan colors are now MUCH better ;-) I also fixed a bug in the dip switches. MAKE SURE TO DELETE POOYAN\POOYAN.DSW, OTHERWISE IT WILL NOT WORK CORRECTLY. - I suddenly realized that Time Pilot runs on the same hardware as Pooyan, so I made a driver for it. Colors come straight from Mike Cuddy's emulator. - Gary Walton confirms that the colors in Moon Cresta and Moon Quasar are 100% accurate. Very good! - The background stars in Scramble / Super Cobra now blink. However I don't know how close to the real thing it is. - Ville Laitinen pointed out that The End runs on Scramble hardware, so it now uses the same driver. He also fixed problems with the input controls and two players modes. IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE TO DELETE THE FILES SCRAMBLE\SCRAMBLE.DSW AND THEEND\THEEND.DSW, OTHERWISE THE GAMES WILL NOT WORK CORRECTLY. - Ville also fixed sprite priorities in Congo Bongo. - Doug Jefferys provided the color PROMs for Crazy Kong, so colors are now 100% accurate (with the possible exception of Kong itself, which uses a separate palette). - Support for Moon Ranger (bootleg version of Moon Patrol). - Added support for Lost Tomb (Stern game running on Super Cobra hardware), but it doesn't work well (crashes during the demo, and it's not playable) and the graphics are garbled. I think some of the ROMs might be corrupted. - Preliminary support for Jump Bug. It uses a modified Scramble driver, the hardware seems to be similar. It's not playable (the input bits are not even mapped), and resets after a few seconds. I'm not particularly interested in this game, anyone volunteers to complete the driver? - Support for the version of Super Cobra with Stern copyright. NOTE THAT I RENAMED THE OTHER ONE (Konami copyright) "scobrak". - Ivan Mackintosh provided a Millipede driver (dip switches are not supported yet). Sound doesn't work, I don't know why. - Brad Oliver provided a preliminary version of the Mr. Do's Castle driver. Not working yet! - Mike Coates pointed out that Carnival uses a RAM for character generation (like Nibbler) and provided a driver for it. It's still not playable, but the graphics are now correct. - Bernd Wiebelt suggested to add a new option: "-vesascan". It uses a VESA 800x600 screen to simulate scanlines. It is much slower than the other video modes. Use this if you want scanlines and the default video mode doesn't work. Source: - Multiple CPU support. All you have to do to setup multiple CPUs is add entries to the cpu[] array in the MachineDriver definition. Each CPU can have different type (currently Z80 and M6502 are supported), clock, address space, memory/IO port hook, interrupt handlers, number of interrupts per video frame. - Sometimes interrupt requests happen while interrupts are disabled. Until now I just ignored them, but some games need them to be processed as soon as interrupts are reenabled. Rally X is an example of such a game. The Z80 engine has provision to do that, but it would make writing a driver more complex (need to find the interrupt acknowledge register) so I slightly modified the engine to automatically cache an interrupt request and execute it as soon as interrupts are enabled. I had already done a similar change to the 6502 engine, it was needed by Burger Time which wouldn't accept coins otherwise. - Since the functions xxx_vh_start(), xxx_vh_stop(), xxx_videoram_w(), xxx_colorram_w() are the same for most video drivers, I moved them, alongside with some variables, to vidhrdw/generic.c. This doesn't reduce much the size of the executable, but greatly reduces the amount of code that has to be put in a video driver (in many cases, you just have to write xxx_vh_screenrefresh()) - Fixed bug in msdos.c/osd_play_streamed_sampled() which prevented it from handling more than one audio stream. This part of the code still needs a major cleanup. - Fixed bug in drawgfx() which sometimes allowed transparent non remapped copies to be drawn outside of the clip region. 0.11 ---- Program: - Moon Patrol support. There is no scrolling background because I don't know where to place it... can anyone provide a screen snapshot? - Burger Time and Donkey Kong 3 drivers provided by Mirko Buffoni. The colors for Burger Time should be accurate, but I'm not quite sure - can anyone confirm? - Fixed joystick controls for Congo Bongo. - Lionel Theunissen dumped the color PROM of his Uniwars board and... it's different from the one provided by Gary Walton. Galaxian boards were widely pirated so it's difficult to determine which one is the "correct" palette. What I did was set the Uniwars driver to use one palette, and the "Japanese Irem" to use the other. Play the one you prefer. - Marc Vergoossen provided a much better palette for Zaxxon. Source: - increased the maximum size of the graphic elements that can be handled by decodegfx() from 32x32 to 64x64. Actually I would have needed 256x64 to do Moon Patrol backgrounds, but that seemed slightly overkill ;-) 0.10 ---- Program: - Centipede support. This is the first 6502 game supported by MAME. I'm currently using Marat Fayzullin's engine. - Nibbler support. This is the second 6502 game supported by MAME ;-) Interesting hardware: no sprites, two playfields, and it uses RAM for character generation (redefining the characters to animate the worm). - I had also broken Pleiades, fixed. That's the drawback of emulating more than 60 games, I can't check them all before releasing a new version ;-) - Ville Laitinen provided a Congo Bongo driver! The colors are terrible ;-), but it's playable. - Thanks to Valerio Verrando, now -noscanlines works on Pac Man and the other games using a 224x288 screen. If you have problems with the default video mode try this one, it will hopefully solve them. - I received no less than three different palettes for Donkey Kong Jr., from Brad Oliver, Marc Vergoossen and Richard Davies. The one included is from Marc. - Thanks to Gary Walton and Simon Walls, we now have 100% accurate colors in Crush Roller and Uniwars/Japirem. Moon Cresta and Moon Quasar might be correct as well, but I'm not sure. - Fixed a small graphics glitch in the background of Bomb Jack's third level. Thanks to Philip Chapman for the report. Source: - Support for 6502 CPU. From a driver writer point of view, it is used just like the Z80, the only difference being that you have to specify CPU_M6502 instead of CPU_Z80 in the MachineDriver definition. Multiple CPUs are still NOT supported. - New function in common.c: decodechar(). It was originally part of decodegfx(), and is used to convert one single char from the machine format to the one used by the emulator. This function was needed by the Nibbler driver to dynamically convert the graphics at runtime. 0.91 ---- Program: - OK, even this time I managed to screw up one game (Phoenix). It works again. I'm not updating the source, you can fix it yourself if you need to: the line ROM_LOAD("phoenix.49", 0x2000, 0x0800) in driver.c was missing the '2'. 0.9 --- Program: - Bomb Jack support. - Background graphics in Zaxxon now work, albeit a bit slow (45-50 fps on my 486/100) - Support for the original version of Super Cobra. Note that I renamed the other one (which is a bootleg) "scobrab". - Support for the original Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu copyright). These ROMs are encrypted, and slightly different from the other version. This is very likely the version Chuck Cochems remembers (with aliens teleporting right in front of your ship). I renamed the other version (which looks like a mix of the code from a bootleg version and the graphics from the Gremlin original version) "mooncrsb". - Space Invaders now seems to work correctly. Deluxe version still doesn't work properly. - F12 to take a snapshot of the gfx set (displayed using F4) now works. - Better colors in Donkey Kong Jr. (thanks to Brad Oliver) - Thanks to Gary Walton, Moon Quasar dip switches now are correctly described in the dip switch menu. - F11 is now a toggle, also added F10 to turn off speed throttling (toggle as well) Source: - The memory handling was no longer up to the task, so I had to make it more flexible. RAM is no longer a static array; it is dynamically allocated by readroms(), split in memory regions (one for the CPU addressing space, one for graphics ROMs, and so on) so data not needed at run time, like the graphics data, can be unloaded from memory after conversion. The definition and usage of struct RomModule and struct GfxDecodeInfo has changed. struct RunningMachine contains an array of pointers to memory regions. RomModules are now defined using macros, and readroms() does some error checking as well. This greatly reduces the chance of making a silly mistake. And don't ask me why, but as a result of this change the emulation seems to run much faster than before! - New rom_decode function pointer in the GameDriver structure. It is used to decrypt the whole ROMs after loading them (as opposed to opcode_decode, which is used to decrypt only CPU opcodes). Also, opcode_decode is now handled differently: instead of calling it at runtime when the CPU reads an opcode, another 64k of memory are allocated and the whole ROMs decrypted. opcodes are then fetched from this new array. This approach is less flexible, for example it cannot handle code created in RAM (Pengo does that). However, it is MUCH faster (finally I get 60fps in Crazy Climber!), so I'll go with it for now. Should the need arise for a more flexible decryption, we'll think about it. - Some changes to the MachineDriver definition and mame.c needed to support multiple CPUs (they are NOT supported yet - this is just the first step) 0.81 ---- Program: - Sorry about screwing Donkey Kong Jr. colors... it's playable again. Colors are still way off though: anyone volunteers to fix them? ;-) - Zaxxon now works, but the background graphics are missing 0.8 --- Program: - Added some support for Carnival - it boots and runs the demo, but the graphics are messed up. - Fixed graphics in Moon Quasar (yes it does run, but you need the correct ROMs) - Better error checking in the sound initialization routines. It still sucks, but at least will notify of problems instead of locking up the emulation. The "0. Silence" driver also works. - Removed the "-nosound" command line switch, replaced it with "-soundcard n" which allows to bypass the audio driver selection menu. Use "-soundcard 0" to turn off sound. - Some support for Space Invaders (+ some clones) but it doesn't work well. - Support for Battle of Atlantis (a Scramble hack) - The ROM copyright notice is displayed in the main emulation screen. - Maybe I understood how the character colors are selected in Donkey Kong, at least in part, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I started fixing them. I based on the Kong emulator by Gary Shepherdson. Following changes provided by Mirko Buffoni: - You can view the game graphics pressing F4. Use cursor keys to change graphics set/color, F4 to return to the game. - Support for Mario Bros. (wrong colors, no sound) and Zaxxon (doesn't work yet). - Better colors in Amidar and Frogger. Source: - Added visible_area to the MachineDriver definition. It was used in all video drivers, so it's better to keep it centralized. - Long-awaited function clearbitmap(), which correctly initializes a bitmap using background_pen. Note for people porting MAME to other systems: osd_create_bitmap() must call this function, the video drivers rely on that. - I got rid of machine.c and put all into mame.c... when I have time, I'll try to organize the source better. 0.7 --- Program: - Support for: Super Cobra (version running on a modified Scramble board) Amidar US version Crazy Climber Japanese version Pooyan (wrong colors, no sound) Phoenix/Pleiades (no sound) - Scramble has 100% correct colors. The same palette is used by Super Cobra, but it doesn't look right. - Gorf and Robby Roto boot but don't work. - Added some support for Moon Quasar, but it doesn't work. Since the ROMs are encrypted, I don't know if this is due to wrong decryption, bad ROM, or wrong driver (I'm using the Moon Cresta one). I think that either MQ3 (which maps at 1000-17ff) is bad, or it uses a different encryption. 0.6 --- Program: - Support for: Scramble (wrong colors, no sound) Uniwars (US version of Japanese Irem game) Frogger (including bootleg version running on a Scramble board) (wrong colors, no sound) Amidar (wrong colors, no sound) Turtles (wrong colors, no sound) Rally X (wrong colors, no sound, slowdowns) - I'm beginning to understand how the Wizard of Wor video hardware works, gameplay hasn't changed but the graphics are more faithfully reproduced. - Star background in Galaxians & co. The way I calculate it is probably not correct, anyway it looks reasonable. - Fixed staccato notes in Pacman and other games using the same hardware. There are still some minor glitches (especially in Ms. Pac Man) but Pac Man tunes are now very close to the original. Source: - I reorganized the source directory tree, instead of one directory for every game there are now four directories (drivers, machine, vidhrdw, sndhrdw) which contain files named after the game. 0.5 --- Program: - Fixed some problems in the Wizard of Wor driver, but it is still far from complete. - Support for: Donkey Kong Jr. (wrong colors, no sound) Galaxians and the plethora of clones (correct colors, limited sound) Pisces (correct colors, limited sound) "Japanese Irem game". I believe the colors are correct, but since I've never seen the original game I can't know for sure. War of the Bugs (wrong colors, limited sound) Moon Cresta (wrong colors, limited sound) The End (wrong colors, no sound) - By popular demand, reverted to the old AY-3-8910 emulation code. Source: - Changed readroms() to allow scatter loading of a single ROM. This was needed for Donkey Kong Jr. Now the end of the RomModule array is marked by a size==0, while name==0 means "continue loading the previous ROM at this address". - Some bug fixes and changes to reduce porting problems (thanks to Brad Oliver) - New function copybitmap() in common.c. Limited for now, will change in the future. 0.4 --- Program: - Bagman support (wrong colors) - Early Wizard of Wor support (not playable). - New experimental AY-3-8910 sound emulation code provided by Andy Milne (andy@canetics.com). This sounds better in some places and worse in others. It is used by Crazy Climber, Crazy Kong and Bagman. Let me know what you think. Source: - Optimizations in drawgfx(), Mr. Do!'s title screen and intermissions now run faster, Crazy Climber and Crazy Kong benefit as well. - Use version 1.1 of Z80Em by Marcel de Kogel. Faster! (note that I had to make a couple of changes to Z80.c to make Crazy Climber work). - Handle IN and OUT instructions in the same way as memory accesses (table of handler functions). The parameters of the functions are the same, so the same function can be used both for memory and ports. Had to change the driver structure, removed the pointers to _in and _out functions and added port_read and port_write array pointers. Also defined a generic interrupt_vector_w() function, this makes the Pac Man driver tinier (look at pacman/machine.c, it's now there only to handle the cheat). 0.3 --- Program: - Donkey Kong support (wrong colors, no sound) - New definition of custom video modes, this will hopefully be compatible with more systems. - Lady Bug and Crazy Climber should run a little faster on slow machines (Crazy Climber is still too slow, I know). Source: - new general purpose readinputport() function used to handle reads of input ports and dip switches. This saves some work when creating a game driver. Required changes to struct MachineDriver. - struct GfxLayout now contains a planeoffset array instead of planeincrement, to better support more than 2 bitplanes. I also fixed (I hope) all the code which assumed 2 bitplanes. struct GfxDecodeInfo had to be changed as well.