MAME 0.106u5

Release Date

MAME 0.106u5 was released on 8 June 2006.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• El Condor
• Juergen Buchmueller
• Malice
• Nathan Woods
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli

Specific Contributions

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

• Juergen Buchmueller cleaned up the decocass driver:
  • All hardcoded tables are gone now
  • cexplore.pro 32 byte PROM reverse engineered

• Malice fixed windows.mak to support 64-bit builds.

• Nathan Woods fixed a bug where the gamename was reallocated out from under us by the new config system.

• Nathan Woods added the ability to specify a callback when a given option is parsed. This is used on the MESS side to add system-specific command line options.

• El Condor made more generic 6840 improvements.

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli made some improvements to the Pasha Pasha 2 driver.

• Aaron Giles added experimental OSD locks:
  • osd_lock_alloc() allocates a lock
  • osd_lock_acquire() acquires a lock, blocking until success
  • osd_lock_try() tries to acquire a lock and returns whether or not it succeeded
  • osd_lock_release() releases a lock
  • osd_lock_free() frees memory used by a lock

If the OSD layer is not using multiple threads, these can just be stubbed out (return TRUE for osd_lock_acquire and fake the rest).

• Aaron Giles fixed ESC key not cancelling out of initial UI screens.

• Aaron Giles added more rendering changes/fixes:
  • Added new render_view_item_get_state() function to return the state of a given item
  • Changed render_target_get_primitives to return a new structure render_primitive_list, which contains the list of primitives along with an osd_lock which must be held while the list is being traversed
  • Added "Rotate View" option to the video menu for dynamic in-game rotation
  • Moved window creation and management to a separate thread; this means all software rendering and all Direct3D calls are done on a separate thread from the main game, and will take advantage of multiple CPUs/dual cores
  • Changed throttling behavior to skip rendering if we are already pending; this makes for a better "fast forward" effect
  • Added -prescale option to pre-scale the game bitmaps before rendering to the screen; this helps get rid of the "fuzzy" look when running with -filter enabled, at the expense of some speed. Note that only integral values are currently supported (no "auto")

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Hard Times