MAME 0.105u3

Release Date

MAME 0.105u3 was released on 26 April 2006.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Atari Ace
• Brian Troha
• Bryan McPhail
• Corrado Tomaselli
• David Haywood
• Derrick Renaud
• Giuseppe Gorgoglione
• MAME32Plus
• Mariusz Wojcieszek
• Nathan Woods
• Pierpaolo Prazzoli
• Roberto Fresca
• Sonikos
• Tomasz Slanina
• Twisty
• XingXing

Specific Contributions

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

• Roberto Fresca fixed and cleaned up the DIP switches in the dec0 driver.

• David Haywood made more improvements to the PGM video code. Also added hooks for halting the sound CPU which allows ddp2 to boot.

• Derrick Renaud fixed incorrect lightgun names.

• Bryan McPhail fixed Bonze Adventure levels 2 & 9.

• Nathan Woods refactored the 8530 CIA code from the Amiga into a separate module and made it support both the 6526 and 8530 variants.

• Twisty fixed/improved DIP switches in the megasys1, dietgo, and yunsun16 drivers.

• Sonikos fixed some DIP switches and added controls for 2nd player in cocktail mode in Lost Castle in Darkmist.

• Giuseppe Gorgoglione fixed a number of issues in the Windows rendering code:
  • fixed blit_vectors so it used the dirty pixel array in D3D mode
  • fixed blit_vectors rotation issue for dirty pixels as well
  • changed -full_screen_brightness to -full_screen_gamma (which is a more correct description)
  • changed -d3dfilter to be a boolean, since the other filtering modes are either obsolete or not applicable to MAME
  • removed limitations on windowing position so you no longer need to be aligned on an 8-pixel boundary
  • cleaned up a number of unused global variables
  • improved multi-monitor support to work in GDI mode as well as in non-full-screen modes
  • added missing documentation for the -screen parameter

• Atari Ace fixed some remaining errors and inconsistencies in the content and usage of MAME header files by comparing declarations against actual definitions. Removed many orphaned/duplicate declarations. Added #includes where appropriate, and moved a few declarations to another file when they were in the wrong location.

• Aaron Giles removed a number of unused ROM regions. Most (but not all) of the empty ROM region warnings are now taken care of. Also uncommented/added missing undumped ROMs/XORs in the Namco and CPS2 games.

• Aaron Giles did more Amiga cleanups:
  • fixed dual playfield mode
  • rewrote blitter code (fixes glitches in ar_bowl and others)
  • changed Arcadia boot loading to use ROMtags instead of autoconfig
  • swapped Kickstart 1.2 in for Arcadia BIOS (fixes ar_sdwr)

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Puzzle Star
• Marine Date
• Speed Up
• Up Scope
• Greyhound Poker (Version 50.02)

New clones added

• The Pit (Bootleg)
• Amidar (Bootleg)
• Moon Cresta (bootleg set 3)
• Xexex (ver AAA)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• The Gladiator