Aaron's To-Do List

Note that nothing here is a promise. This all just represents ideas in my head. Who knows if I'll get to it all!

Immediate Bugs

• add warning/error about wacky performance counter results
• identify and fix up 64-bit specific errors
• add proper latching to the Cliffhanger driver

Video

• add support for separate visible versus blanking rects
• font improvements:
  • built-in font that is smaller, proportional
  • good unicode font
  • change UI logic to allow for minimum font sizes

Interrupts

• add asserts to ensure proper PULSE_LINE/HOLD_LINE usage
• add MDRV_SCANLINE interrupt generators
• change MDRV_CPU_VBLANK_INT to specify a screen number
• add timed interrupt generator: cpunum_toggle_input_line_timed(cpu, input, time). This will ASSERT_LINE immediately and then CLEAR_LINE after the specified time. 'time' can be zero, which is equivalent to PULSE_LINE, though perhaps we should discourage such usage since it's not realistic. If you've asserted the line via this function, and another cpunum_assert_input_line_timed() call is made, it will override the previous CLEAR_LINE time with the new time. Note that this is not a proper wire-OR, so we could alternatively reschedule the CLEAR_LINE to the maximum of the new time and the previously pending time.

Sound

• fix all sound cores to be independent of Machine->sample_rate
• remove OSD hack that allows changing of sample rates on the fly

Graphics

• fix drawgfx/palette global palette-ness
  • certain formats should imply a palette
  • palettes should be independent objects
  • each palette can have multiple clients
  • each client can request a list of changes, and clear out flags

CPUs

• automatically respect CPUINFO_INT_CLOCK_DIVIDER
• finish work on 64-bit DRC engine
• write 64-bit MIPS3 DRC
• investigate and fix TMS32031 calculation bug

Sources

• move fronthlp.c into common code
• push more options into the code to reduce OSD burden
• break core fileio.c into fileio.c and corefile.c
• make util directory with corefile.c and all other utilities with light dependencies

Outputs

• add pause notifications
• add ability to get XML description of current game

Driver cleanups

• astrocde.c
• vicdual.c

Documentation

• write description for how to compute crosshair parameters

mamedev.org

• source code browsing (a la MAWS but with proper spacing)