MAME 0.106u1

Release Date

MAME 0.106u1 was released on 18 May 2006.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Alex Jackson
• Andrew Gardner
• Don Maeby
• El Condor
• MamePlus!
• Nathan Woods
• Nicola Salmoria
• R. Belmont

Specific Contributions

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

• Alex Jackson updated the taito_x driver:
  • fixed sound problems in twinhawk
  • fixed a couple of dipswitch mistakes introduced recently
  • added PORT_DIPLOCATIONs for superman and twinhawk

• Nathan Woods improved MSVC compiler support:
  • modified vconv to support multiple versions of MSVC based on version info
  • added support for more parameter translations
  • makefile now displays compiling and linking messages when building vconv

• Nathan Woods converted the Windows blitters to use the DRC engine for generation. RGB effects are officially broken with this change.

• Nathan Woods fixed a bug that caused a crash when the -debugscript command line option was used with an invalid filename.

• Alex Jackson and Aaron Giles corrected the ordering of the DIP_PORTLOCATION() macros to be consistent. Multi-bit DIP switches should be specified in LSB-first order. Added a comment to this effect in inptport.h.

• Nicola Salmoria fixed the background color in the Deco cassette games.

• MamePlus! fixed a potential crash in the micro3d driver.

• R. Belmont made improvements to CHD-CD support:
  • additional RAW CD sector conversion support, so a game can request e.g. 2048-byte data sectors from a RAW CHD-CD and still get the right data
  • reversed CHDMAN error message - now non-RAW CHD-CDs are deprecated
  • susume now uses a RAW CHD-CD read directly from an original pressed Konami disc

• Andrew Gardner made some improvements to the Polygonet Commanders driver:
  • adds change_PC() calls to the dsp56k core
  • removed hacky dsp56k initialization, enabling, and disabling
  • added preliminary implementation of banking hardware tied to the dsp56k in Polygonet Commanders

• El Condor fixed MSB accesses and latch reading in the 6840 emulator.

• R. Belmont improved N64 audio output:
  • rewrote Audio Interface as a stereo DMADAC (which it actually is), greatly simplifying the code along the way
  • fixed AI interrupt semantics

• Aaron Giles changed a number of games that were incorrectly using IPT_LIGHTGUN to use IPT_AD_STICK instead.

• Aaron Giles made some preparations for proper multiple screen support. The visible_area and refresh_rate values in the Machine structure are now defined as arrays (1 per screen). The machine_config structure has been altered as well, removing the following fields:
  • frames_per_second
  • aspect_x, aspect_y
  • screen_width, screen_height
  • default_visible_area
  • vblank_duration

These are all stored per-screen in a new screen_config structure.

• Aaron Giles reorganized the user interface code to better support the new render system.