Georg: Initial version.

2007-09-24T05:39:49Z

Initial version.

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== Release Date ==
MAME 0.118u5 was released on 6 September 2007.

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

* [[Aaron Giles]]
* [[Atari Ace]]
* [[Ernesto Corvi]]
* [[James Wallace]]
* [[Luca Elia]]
* [[MASH]]
* [[Nathan Woods]]
* [[Nicola Salmoria]]
* [[Pierpaolo Prazzoli]]
* [[pSXAuthor]]
* [[smf]]
* [[Tomasz Slanina]]
* [[Ville Linde]]

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

* [[Ernesto Corvi]] updated memconv.h to convert from basically any to any widths (8/16/32/64), on both little and big endian. Also added macros to create the stubs for the most commonly used mappings, both in the 1:1 fashion, or the LSB/MSB/LSW/MSW style.

* [[Ernesto Corvi]] contributed CuboCD32/Amiga updates:
** Finished implementing the CDROM controller, so now the games boot
** Moved the entire Akiko code to machine/cubocd32.c to make things a little more easier to work with
** Added CDDA audio support to the CDROM controller and driver
** Systems with the AGA chipset no longer connect bit 0 of the CIA that was previously connected to the Overlay pin not connected
** Made BLTDDAT return it's value. This is a readable register which we were not handling.
** Initialized the SERDATR register upon reset to reflect that the transfer buffer/shift reg is empty.

* [[Ville Linde]] added support for the PowerPC 601.

* [[MASH]] fixed missing a PLD region in -listxml.

* [[Atari Ace]] changed all comparison for CPU and sound chip types to compare against CPU_DUMMY or SOUND_DUMMY instead of 0. Also updated usages of sndti_to_sndnum() so that they use sndti_exists() where appropriate.

* [[Nathan Woods]] removed the CHD interface structure. CHDs now rely on the corefile routines to perform file I/O. Updated the rest of the system to handle this reality. A side-effect is that "split" CHDs, which never got much play, have now been deprecated.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added a new core library utility module palette.c for managing palettes. Renamed emulator-specific palette code to emupal.c and restructured to live on top of the core library code.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added support for attaching palettes to bitmaps in the core. Removed support for the 16-pixel bitmap "safety" zone by default, since most drivers do not need it. Added new function bitmap_alloc_slop() which supports creating bitmaps with caller-specified slop values.

* [[Aaron Giles]] removed the gfx_element.colortable element and replaced it with a new element color_base which specifies the global color offset. This breaks an awkward dependency between the palette and graphics code, and removes a lot of odd pointer arithmetic in the system.

* [[Aaron Giles]] tagged Machine->pens, Machine->colortable, and Machine->remapped_colortable as const to prevent their abuse. Fixed several abusing drivers, and tagged the remainder for future cleanup.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added new colortable management functions in emupal.c. These functions can be used to manage a colortable on top of the core palette in cases where TRANSPARENCY_COLOR is currently used (essentially mapping to a pen mask for TRANSPARENCY_PENS). Updated pacman, mappy, toypop, and several other drivers to use the new functions.

* [[Aaron Giles]] vastly simplified the rendering code in docastle.

* [[Aaron Giles]] fixed remaining errors and warnings when building under gcc 4.2.1.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added new function render_target_set_max_update_rate() which allows the OSD layer to inform MAME of the target's refresh rate (or 0 if there is no maximum). This is used to allow for the dynamic speed adjustment parameter below.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added new parameter -refreshspeed (-rs for short) which dynamically adjusts the -speed parameter to keep the effective refresh rate below that of the lowest screen refresh rate.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added more opcode emitters to x86emit.h.

== Game Support ==
'''New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/lastfght Last Fighting]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/bishjan Bishou Jan]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/mjapinky Almond Pinky]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/cafetime Mahjong Cafe Time]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/mjcomv1 Mahjong Comic Gekijou Vol.1]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/speglsht Super Eagle Shot]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/dquizgo2 Date Quiz Go Go Episode 2]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/dsfdct Dancing Stage featuring Dreams Come True]

'''New clones added'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/xmcotaj X-Men: Children of the Atom (Japan 941222)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/quintoon Quintoon (UK, Game Card 95-750-206)]

'''New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/srmp1 Super Real Mahjong Part 1]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/ddrextrm Dance Dance Revolution Extreme]

[[Category:Releases 2007]]

MAME 0.118u5 - Revision history

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