MAME 0.59
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Release Date
MAME 0.59 was released on 22 March 2002.
Contributors
The known contributors for this version are, in alphabetical order:
- Aaron Giles
- Acho A. Tang
- Andrea Mazzoleni
- David Haywood
- Olivier Galibert
- R. Belmont
- Robert Gallagher
- Stefan Jokisch
- Stephane Humbert
- Tormod Tjaberg
- Uki
Specific Contributions
The known contributions for this version are, in the order specified in the whatsnew:
- Stephane Humbert made loads of fixes to input ports etc. in several drivers.
- Robert Gallagher and Tormod Tjaberg fixed Rainbow Islands and Rainbow Islands Extra c-chip emulation
- Acho A. Tang fixed Super Stingray and Kyros, and most problems in Gold Medalist.
- Aaron Giles made some changes to use less CPU time when it's not needed in the Windows port. Use -nosleep to disable this behaviour during gameplay.
- Andrea Mazzoleni added a MMX implementation of the tilemap drawing code to the Windows port, providing a 5-10% speed increase with some games.
- Olivier Galibert rewrote the UPD7759 emulator (used by TMNT etc).
- Aaron Giles added support for compressed hard disk images.
- Aaron Giles added a new function tilemap_set_palette_offset() to set a global palette offset without having to use tilemap_mark_all_tiles_dirty().
Game Support
New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status
- Police Trainer
- Pass
- Super Pinball Action
- Sol Divide
- Strikers 1945 II
- Space Bomber
- Daraku Tenshi - The Fallen Angels
- Gunbird 2
- Mahjong Sisters
- Quiz Gakuen Paradise
- Quiz DNA no Hanran
- Quiz Gekiretsu Scramble
- Wild West C.O.W.boys of Moo Mesa
- Bucky O'Hare
- Super Bug
- Paddle Mania
- Scorpion
New clones added
