MAME 0.79u3

Release Date

MAME 0.79u3 was a private internal release and never released to the public.

It was released privately to MAMEDev on 25 February 2004.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Mike Coates
• Nathan Woods
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• smf

Specific Contributions

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

• Nathan Woods made misc changes:
  • Updated I286 CPU core to MAME 0.79
  • Adding a missing case to jaguargpu_get_info()
  • Updated m4510 and m6509 CPU cores to MAME 0.79
  • Removed a duplicate global variable definition
  • Removed NEOMAME and CPSMAME declarations
  • Added a new consistency check on CPUs to check for the existence of certain get_info cases needed for debugging. This consistency check is currently only enabled for MESS.
  • Changed key_trans_table to be non static and renamed to win_key_trans_table (this table is now used in MAME32)
  • Changed all fatalerror() calls to osd_die()
  • Added -createblankhd and -copydata commands
  • Added new arguments to -createhd
  • Ported to Macintosh
  • Changed artwork_override_screenshot_params() so that its functionality will kick in whenever the artwork system is active, even without artwork pieces
  • Introduced a static artwork_system_active(); a call to check to see if the artwork system is active.

• smf cleaned up misc parts of the PSX code

• Aaron Giles removed some memory system test code

• Aaron Giles fixed a TMS32031 bug that was causing some problems in Radikal bikers

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Quasar

New clones added

• FX