Georg: Initial version.

2008-03-25T06:37:08Z

Initial version.

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== Release Date ==
MAME 0.124 was released on 24 March 2008.

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

* [[Aaron Giles]]
* [[Andrea Turci]]
* [[Atari Ace]]
* [[Cesare Falco]]
* [[Corrado Tomaselli]]
* [[Curt Coder]]
* [[Derrick Renaud]]
* [[Dirk Best]]
* [[James Wallace]]
* [[Nicola Salmoria]]
* [[R. Belmont]]
* [[RansAckeR]]
* [[Reip]]
* [[robiza]]
* [[Zsolt Vasvari]]

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

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] fixed sprite wrapping in bbusters -- this is used on the gun calibration screen, at least. The game still hangs on a black screen after service mode is turned off. Even exiting MAME and restarting doesn't fix it, so it's probably a EEPROM issue.

* [[Nicola Salmoria]] added Noise Output to the MSM5232 emulation.

* [[Nicola Salmoria]] added placeholder effects for cymbal and hihat to equites.c. These will need further work to properly emulate the discrete circuitry.

* [[Curt Coder]] cleaned cidelsa driver up to the latest spec.

* [[Nicola Salmoria]] added NVRAM to Gekisou. Fixed inputs and promoted to working.

* [[Aaron Giles]] explicitly fixed unmapped handler masks so that we don't report all unmapped addresses as 0.

* [[Aaron Giles]] centralized definitions of _WIN32_WINNT. Removed malloc/calloc/realloc/free link-time overrides; we now rely exclusively on compile-time overrides. Made a few tweaks toward getting mingw-w64 working, but there are still linker issues.

* [[Aaron Giles]] fixed assertions in skullxbo and exerion.

* [[Aaron Giles]] de-deprecat-ed ui.c.

* [[Aaron Giles]] changed xmlfile.c to pass in memory handlers to expat so that our memory overrides are properly managed.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] fixed a wbbc97 regression.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] fixed a crospang.c regression. Not sure why this needed to be RGB15, works fine with INDEXED16.

* [[R. Belmont]] fixed a crash in GTICLUB.

* [[R. Belmont]] fixed the case when no SCSI device exists (e.g. running the sys573 BIOS directly).

* [[R. Belmont]] got most of the Konami PPC games running again.

* [[R. Belmont]] fixed a crash running "kviper" BIOS.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] changed crystal.c from RGB15 to RGB32. RGB15 is not enough bits to hold the 5-6-5 colorspace.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] updated astrof.c to use the timer device.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] converted dgpix and eolith to INDEXED16. Removed temp bitmaps. Changed ugly recursive video RAM code.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] removed RGB15 in ddz -- it's a "skeleton" driver, so why have it?

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] added PALETTE_INIT functions to video\generic.c for common 16-bit RGB patterns.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] converted f-32, kinst, lethalj, ultrsprt, gamecstl, taitowlf to use INDEXED16.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] added an option in MC6845 to programatically set the clock pin. This is needed by at least one MESS driver. Added mc6845_set_hpixels_per_column() for the Hercules gfx adapter.

* [[Aaron Giles]] fixed video timing in xtheball. Still don't know why it changed recently, but the new parameters reproduce the old values.

* [[Dirk Best]] removed unnecessary assert in video.c that broke screenless games.

* [[Derrick Renaud]] changed the zombraid gun input ports to work with the calibrated settings.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] fixed malzak2 from crashing.

* [[Cesare Falco]] fixed graphics ROMs in gnga.

* [[Aaron Giles]] added a validity check to ensure input port tags don't have duplicates. Fixed several drivers where there were duplicates.

* [[Corrado Tomaselli]] corrected clocks on Cabal the bootleg.

* [[RansAckeR]] blockhl.c, blockout.c: Added dip locations, fixed unknown dip switches.

* [[James Wallace]] removed improper use of PERIODIC_INT in mpu4, to use new timer devices. Also corrected 50Hz timer in MPU4 Video games.

* [[Atari Ace]] fixed a bug in tx1.c spotted by new compiler warnings in gcc 4.3.0.

* [[Atari Ace]] contributed another batch of pedantic static/const/include fixes.

* [[Aaron Giles]] redid video timing in orbit with raw parameters. Added full memory map and a few other cleanups.

== Game Support ==
'''New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/gekisou Gekisou]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/mermaid Mermaid]

'''New clones added'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/ridgerac Ridge Racer (Rev. RR3, World)]

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MAME 0.124 - Revision history

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