Georg: Initial version.

2007-07-30T10:54:04Z

Initial version.

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== Release Date ==
MAME 0.117u2 was released on 26 July 2007.

== Contributors ==
The known contributors for this version are, in alphabetical order:

* [[Aaron Giles]]
* [[Andrew Gardner]]
* [[Atari Ace]]
* [[Barry Harris]]
* [[Captain Ahab]]
* [[Dirk Best]]
* [[Ernesto Corvi]]
* [[Fabio Priuli]]
* [[Lord Nightmare]]
* [[Nathan Woods]]
* [[Phil Stroffolino]]
* [[Roberto Fresca]]
* [[Samuele Zannoli]]
* [[Sonikos]]
* [[Wilbert Pol]]

== Specific Contributions ==
The known contributions for this version are, in the order specified in the whatsnew:

* [[Phil Stroffolino]] updated the Imola GP driver:
** renamed from "monzagp"
** the leds are fully mapped
** fixes for blitter modes, that affect the "tunnel" area
** dipswitch/port fixes; game now starts in attract mode, rather than immediately starting
** placeholder (handpicked) colors

* [[Fabio Priuli]] updated DIP switches for topland & ainferno according to their manuals.

* [[Samuele Zannoli]] made more SH-4 core improvements:
** fixes some problems in the disassembly and instruction execution from the previous patch
** adds interrupt management
** implements register bank switching
** adds RTC timer counters
** adds memory refresh timer
** adds three timers of the TMU
** adds a configuration structure that specifies the processor mode pin settings
** internal processor clock frequencies calculated from mode pins and cpu clock
** systems using the sh4 processor secify its configuration structure

* [[Sonikos]] fixed some DIP switches in littlerb.

* [[Atari Ace]] made some minor code quality changes across the code:
** avoided exporting a few global variables
** fixed variable names that conflicted with typedef names
** removed some shadow variables that were bugs or unnecessary
** removed extraneous #defines

* [[Nathan Woods]] fixed up the sc61860 core, f3853 core, and pckeybd.c to work with new timing code.

* [[Wilbert Pol]] made more TIA improvements:
** fixed some minor missile graphics positioning issues
** moved some initialization code from tia_init to tia_reset

* [[Atari Ace]] fixed a few errors related to headers in the source code. Added missing self-includes, removed dead prototypes, and added location comments in headers in mame/includes. In a few cases the audit showed items that didn't need to be exported so they were made static.

* [[Roberto Fresca]] cleaned up the inputs in gdrawpkr and changed the hold buttons to "discard" since they are in fact discard buttons.

* [[Dirk Best]] added support for 14- and 16-segment LED displays to the MAME artwork system.

* [[Barry Harris]] fixed button 4 of player 2 inputs in bloodwar.

* [[Lord Nightmare]] connected the S14001A speech to the wolfpack driver.

* [[Ernesto Corvi]] fixed the incorrect implementation of SSIO volume controls in the MCR driver. This makes the engine sound in Spy Hunter audible again, among other things.

* [[Nathan Woods]] added support back for the "none" option for the various *_device options.

* [[Captain Ahab]] fixed the HD6309 dissaembly of the post-byte for ,W++ and ,--W.

* [[Wilbert Pol]] updated the 6532 riot interface to be more like the 6522via and 6821pia interfaces.

* [[Aaron Giles]] improved the -listxml output to reflect new BIOS flag. New attribute isbios="yes" indicates that a given game is a BIOS.

* [[Aaron Giles]] made further tweaks to the game selection UI:
** disabled the tab key
** added hook for general input configuration from the menu
** split set names from friendly names into left/right columns
** added a background to the descriptive names of clones
** if you start with the game selection menu, hitting Esc to exit a game brings you back to the menu rather than quitting immediately
** fixed logic so that INI files are reloaded for each game

* [[Aaron Giles]] moved the INI file handling fully into the core. As a side-effect of this change, <exename>.ini is no longer parsed. Changed -createconfig to always output mame.ini instead of <exename>.ini as a result.

* [[Aaron Giles]] renamed run_game() to mame_execute(). The game driver is no longer specified as a parameter; rather, this information is extracted from the options via OPTION_GAMENAME.

* [[Aaron Giles]] fixed the raw input-based lightgun buttons.

* [[Aaron Giles]] cleaned up the options.c code. Added priority levels to options as they are set. New options are only accepted if they have greater or equal priority to a previous change. Added new function options_revert() to revert options below a given priority to their defaults. Changed options_get_string() so that it always returns a valid string (never NULL). Invalid strings are returned as empty strings.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added new functions core_filename_extract_base() and core_filename_ends_with() to corefile.h.

* [[Aaron Giles]] changed the menu rendering a bit. Added a background hilight to more strongly emphasize the current item. Added rendered arrows to indicate more items on the top/bottom and to indicate selection options in the DIP switch menus. Changed hilighting to be a bit less garish. Fixed repeat rates on keys to no longer be tied to the framerate.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added support for page up/page down generically in menus. Also made pause toggle work while menus are visible.

* [[Aaron Giles]] changed render_textures to allocate in a pool model, to avoid high memory overhead when allocating large numbers of textures (for example in the 14- and 16-segment LED displays).

* [[Aaron Giles]] fixed a number of 64-bit compiler warnings.

== Game Support ==
'''New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/kingpin King Pin]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/kingpinm King Pin Multi-Game]

[[Category:Releases 2007]]

MAME 0.117u2 - Revision history

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