Georg: Initial version.

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Initial version.

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== Release Date ==
MAME 0.37b1 was released on 6 April 2000.

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

* [[Aaron Giles]]
* [[Luca Elia]]
* [[Manuel Abadia]]
* [[Mathias Rosenhauer]]
* [[Nicola Salmoria]]
* [[Phil Stroffolino]]
* [[Takahiro Nogi]]
* [[Tatsuyuki Satoh]]
* [[Zsolt Vasvari]]

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

* [[Aaron Giles]] added background to Exerion.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] added Artwork support to Space Encounters.

* [[Aaron Giles]] fixed sprite colors in the MCR2 games, however overlapping sprites are still wrong.

* [[Nicola Salmoria]] fixed colors and stars in the Astrocade games (Gorf, Wizard of Wor, etc.).

* [[Nicola Salmoria]] fixed the front layer in Turbo Force.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] fixed the colors in Lupin III.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] emulated the saucer sound in Space Invaders - sample no longer used (the other samples are still required).

* [[Manuel Abadia]] completed the sound in Splash.

* [[Zsolt Vasvari]] added samples support in Got-Ya.

* [[Luca Elia]] added sound to Berlin Wall.

* [[Mathias Rosenhauer]] added support for 24-bit artwork.

* [[Phil Stroffolino]] and [[Nicola Salmoria]] added support for a priority buffer, updated by tilemap.c, which can be used to draw sprites using the new function pdrawgfx(). This allowed to fix many tile/sprite priority bugs e.g. in Ajax, Lightning Thunder, Simpsons, Vendetta, Punk Shot, Gradius III and others.

* [[Phil Stroffolino]] changed the API for tilemap_mark_tile_dirty() and the get_tile_info hooks, now a single parameter tile_index is used instead of (col,row). A function passed to tilemap_create() does the (col,row)->tile_index mapping, two standard functions are provided for the common cases. All drivers have been converted to the new API except for namcos2.c, which is therefore broken at the moment.

* New GAME_UNEMULATED_PROTECTION flag.

* [[Tatsuyuki Satoh]] changed 6803/63701 external port writes to no longer set to 1 the bits that are set as inputs in the DDR register. Instead, they are set to the value returned by a read from the port.

* Updated all memory handlers to the new READ_HANDLER()/WRITE_HANDLER() macro declarations. The old "function(int offset,int data)" style must not be used anymore.

== Game Support ==
'''New Games added or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/airduel Air Duel]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/poundfor Pound for Pound]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/rabiolep Rabio Lepus / Rabbit Punch]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/svolley Super Volleyball]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/fnkyfish Funky Fish]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/mrjong Mr. Jong / Crazy Blocks]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/karatblz Karate Blazers]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/spinlbrk Spinal Breakers]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/tndrcade Thundercade]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/twineagl Twin Eagle]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/downtow2 DownTown]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/usclssic U.S. Classic]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/arbalest Arbalester]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/metafox Meta Fox]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/zingzip Zing Zing Zip]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/wrofaero War of Aero]

'''New clones added'''
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/ryukendn Ninja Ryukenden (= Ninja Gaiden)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/spyhnt2a Spy Hunter 2 (revision 2)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/rtypej R-Type (Japan)]
* [http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/dygera Dyger (set 2)]

[[Category:Releases 2000]]

MAME 0.37b1 - Revision history

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