MAME 0.115u4

Release Date

MAME 0.115u4 was released on 6 June 2007.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• ahofle
• Barry Gemma
• Corrado Tomaselli
• Lord Nightmare
• Vas Crabb
• Zsolt Vasvari

Specific Contributions

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

• Lord Nightmare fixed a number of games to explicitly use the SN76489 now that it behaves differently from the SN76496.

• Barry Gemma fixed inputs in Ace Attacker.

• ahofle fixed ledutil.c to work for USB keyboards again.

• Zsolt Vasvari improved the colors in Safari Rally.

• Zsolt Vasvari fixed the strobe light in Space Encounters.

• Vas Crabb refactored the Dooyong video hardware to take advantage of tilemaps. Also included priority fixes.

• Zsolt Vasvari updated the Astro Fighter driver:
  • Added memory map/interrupt/video timings from schematics
  • Hooked up SN76477 to Tomahawk 777
  • Switched the two Tomahawk 777 sets. The newer version is now the main set and the older has been renamed to tomahaw1
  • General driver clean-up

• Zsolt Vasvari removed an unused return value from MACHINE_START and SOUND_START.

• Zsolt Vasvari changed the save state code to not save any palette information if no palette is used.

• Aaron Giles simplified a number of videoram write handlers by removing extraneous dirty checking.

• Aaron Giles added support for scaling graphics layouts automatically. The X and Y scale factors are specified in the gfx_decodeinfo structures. Updated the MCR driver to use this feature.

• Aaron Giles removed colortables from a number of drivers that didn't need them. Also converted pacman and mappy drivers to collapse the colortable and palette.

• Aaron Giles removed a number of common but useless and/or frequently incorrect comment patterns throughout the code.

Game Support

New clones added

• Asuka & Asuka (World)