MAME 0.108u3

Release Date

MAME 0.108u3 was released on 7 September 2006.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Andrew Gardner
• Bobby Conover
• Brian Troha
• ClawGrip
• David Haywood
• El Condor
• Eugene Sandulenko
• Firewave
• Nathan Woods
• Peter Townson
• Roberto Fresca
• Robiza
• Steph
• wolf676

Specific Contributions

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

• Robiza improved offsets of the "normal spites" in the SSV games twineag2, ultrax, and dynagear.

• David Haywood added a missing video change to the lethalen driver.

• Andrew Gardner made some improvements to the debugger:
  • added ability to tab between views in the disassembly windows
  • added a 'cursor' to the dasm view and hooked up navigation keys
  • added F4 'run to here' key when the disasm view has focus
  • added F9 'toggle breakpoint' key when the disasm view has focus
  • enhanced memory view keyboard navigation

• David Haywood added a workaround for a crash in the sound code under some edge cases.

• David Haywood fixed background ROM loading in the new wbmlbg set.

• wolf676 overhauled and corrected the DIP switches in the trivia and quiz games in the findout driver.

• Roberto Fresca added PORT_DIPLOCATION to the airbustr driver.

• Eugene Sandulenko made TIA-MC1 driver improvements:
  • fixed documentation
  • hooked game counter and coin lockout
  • added save state support

• El Condor fixed the 6840 counter behavior in continuous mode.

• wolf676 identified some unknown DIP switches in Robby Roto.

• Steph commited a big update to the arkanoid driver which improves emulation of some bootlegs:
  • Interverted 'arkblock' and 'arkbloc2' sets for better comparaison
  • Renamed sets :
    • 'arkbl2' -> 'arkmcubl'
    • 'arkbl3' -> 'arkgcbl'
  • Changed some games descriptions
  • Removed flags from the following sets :
    • 'arkbloc2' (old 'arkblock')
    • 'arkgcbl' (old 'arkbl3')
    • 'paddle2'

• Nathan Woods fixed a multithreading race condition at startup.

• Firewave added some minimal validation on the sample rate configuration parameters.

• Brian Troha fixed a few DIP switches and added diplocation setting for Wonder Stick in the nmg5.c driver.

• El Condor did a big update to the MPU4 driver:
  • added support for reverse clocking in the VFD code.
  • changed the 6840 to not run the counter clock if no frequency is specified
  • reworked the MPU4 drastically to be more in sync with AGEMAME
  • MPU4 video should now be working a little better
  • deprecated 6850acia.c, replacing it with a specialized driver

• Nathan Woods updated core.mak to ensure the make clean will remove file2str.exe.

• Aaron Giles added a new ROM loading option, ROM_IGNORE() which works just like ROM_CONTINUE() except that you don't need to load the data anywhere. It can be used when larger ROMs are present and only a portion of the data is used. See solomon.c for an example.

• Aaron Giles removed support for the old debugger.

• Aaron Giles added a driver_data member to the Machine structure, where drivers can hang data instead of using global variables. Added MDRV_DRIVER_DATA macro so the core can allocate this structure at startup. Added AM_BASE_MEMBER and AM_SIZE_MEMBER which are similar to AM_BASE and AM_SIZE but let you specify a member of a struct hanging off of driver_data. Updated the Turbo driver to use these new features as an experiment.

• Aaron Giles commited more Turbo driver cleanups:
  • doubled the horizontal resolution to better draw analog sprites
  • improved Buck Rogers and Subroc video

Game Support

New clones added

• Solomon's Key (US)
• Commando (bootleg)
• Beam Invader (set 2)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Connect 4
• PlayMan Poker (Germany)
• Big Boy