MAME 0.70u5

Release Date

MAME 0.70u5 was released on 29 June 2003.

Contributors

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

• Acho A. Tang
• Barry Rodewald
• Bryan McPhail
• David Haywood
• Guru
• Iñigo Luja
• Jason Lo
• Leon van Rooij
• Nathan Woods
• Phil Stroffolino
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli

Specific Contributions

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

• Iñigo Luja contributed some Dipswitch fixes

• David Haywood, Guru, and Leon van Rooij made improvements and Fixes to Strato Fighter / Raiga. There are still some graphics problems (priority, incomplete alpha blending effects, bad tiles)

• Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed some Misplaced Sprites in Tricky Doc

• Barry Rodewald changed drivers to use mame_rand for random numbers

• Phil Stroffolino made a few Namco fixes for things broken in u4

• Bryan McPhail changed Steel Gunner to use the correct ROM

• Guru improved the ncv1 filenames

• Acho A. Tang fixed sprites in simpsons

• Nathan Woods made various changes
  • Introduced a "debug cookie"; when in debug mode, puts a cookie value in the mame_file structure to prevent files from being closed twice without an assertion
  • Fixes a bug in visible area changing in windowed, non-stretch mode. Previously, when the visible area changed, the code would simply change the visible area, and look at the resulting window size and tweak it accordingly with win_adjust_window(). The problem with this is that if you have a sequence where the visible area is made larger, then smaller again, what would happen is you wouldn't get the original window size; you would simply get the enlarged window with a bunch of buffer area. Now instead of calling win_adjust_window(), I added code that preserves the "scale" factors, and the space between the emulation rectangle and the window client area.
  • Added a call win_ddraw_fullscreen_margins() that given the dwWidth and dwHeight parameters of a DirectDraw surface, comes up with a RECT that represents the margins. For MAME, this is a very simple operation (a rectangle from (0,0)-(dwWidth,dwHeight)) (and the implementation that I've submitted is corrspondingly simple), but in MESS the window can have a menu bar so this operation works differently. I've also modified winddraw.c and wind3d.c to use this call.
  • Changes timers so that they are now 'mame_timer *' instead of 'void *'. mame_timer is an opaque structure, similar to mame_file in fileio.h. I didn't update any code using timers yet; it doesn't seem to me that there isn't a rush and since they used 'void *' before, everything compiles just fine. I hope noone objects to this one.
  • Fixes a potential crash in jaguar_tom_regs_w() (while this crash doesn't occur under normal execution of the cojag games though, it can occur if modified ROMs are being used).
  • Added #if/#endif pair

• Leon van Rooij changed the message for double clicking on the EXE slightly

Game Support

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status

• Stadium Cross
• R2D Tank

New clones added

• Some namco ones that were forgotten last time

New TESTDRIVERS added

• Counter Run (bootleg)