MAME 0.74
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Release Date
MAME 0.74 was released on 14 September 2003.
Contributors
The known contributors for this version are, in alphabetical order:
- Angelo Salese
- David Haywood
- Howard Casto
- Manuel Abadia
- Nathan Woods
- Olivier Galibert
- Pierpaolo Prazzoli
- Robin Merrill
- smf
- Stefan Jokisch
- Takahiro Nogi
- Tomasz Slanina
- Uki
Specific Contributions
The known contributions for this version are, in the order specified in the whatsnew:
- Nathan Woods made misc source changes mainly to improve compatibility with MESS
- Minor changes within #ifdef MESS
- Minor change to recognize MESS IPT_CONFIG input ports
- Changed some of the prototypes to use 'mame_file *' instead of 'void *'
- Added APPNAME and APPLONGNAME macros to define the name of the program (MAME/M.A.M.E. vs MESS/M.E.S.S.)
- Adds some MESS specific templated blitters within #ifdef MESS
- Small speedups (eliminated some usage of plot_pixel())
- Added support for scanline counts other than 262
- Interrupt changes by Brad Oliver
- Requisite changes to playch10 and vsnes to support Brad's interrupt changes
- Misc changes to support MESS's menu bar (should not affect MAME)
- Misc changes to use APPNAME and APPLONGNAME
- Stefan Jokisch improved Loading of .72 cfg Files (prevents Mixer settings corruption)
- Stefan Jokisch fixed a User-Interface bug which was causing problems setting controls for some of the players
- Robin Merrill added support for 8 controllers
- Tomasz Slanina added a workaround for a v60 crash causing ultra-x not to run on some systems
- Olivier Galibert added support for the upd7759 silence compression
- Olivier Galibert made some SegaPCM cleanups / fixes
- Howard Casto changed the Afterburner inputs to use z-axis for throttle
- Angelo Salese imnproved the Chequered Flag protection + Sound
- Angelo Salese and David Haywood made more ST-V Improvements
Game Support
New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status
- Miyasu Nonki no Quiz 18-Kin (Japan)
- Ojanko Club (Japan)
- Quiz & Variety Sukusuku Inufuku (Japan)
- Dancing Eyes (DC1/VER.A)
- Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3 (KQT1/VER.A)
- Super-X
- A Few new Megatech sets
New clones added
