MAME 0.140

Release Date

MAME 0.140 was released on 21 October 2010.

Contributors

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

• Aaron Giles
• Angelo Salese
• Balrog
• Brian Troha
• Curt Coder
• David Haywood
• Derrick Renaud
• Harmony
• Mariusz Wojcieszek
• MooglyGuy
• Pat Dardenko
• Roberto Fresca
• Siftware
• The Dumping Union

Specific Contributions

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

• Harmony considerably improved UART communications in the CD-i 68070 implementation, increasing Quizard stability as a result.

• David Haywood fixed use of the sign bits on the SegaCD Roz parameters, improves the SegaCD intro rotations etc. which now appear correct. Clamp Roz stuff to 24-bit, seems to fix the remaining issues with the Sega logos.

• Aaron Giles moved -effect implementation out of OSD code and into core since the implementations were identical across Windows/SDL and implemented in the core itself.

• Balrog provided more Clang fixes (verified OK with GCC).

• Aaron Giles made the emu correctly free textures when screen size dynamically changes. Fixes texture assert when exiting on a number of games.

• Pat Dardenko and Angelo Salese attempted to provide a correct M50458 char rom, used by the Nintendo Super System.

• Harmony re-worked Quizard MCU communications handling to be more easily expanded.

• Aaron Giles converted rendlay objects into C++, reduced the number of unused textures allocated.

• Aaron Giles fixed texture leak in crsshair.c.

• Aaron Giles added new method reset_origin() to screen devices to allow manual synchronization of VBLANK start against an external timing source. Updated the MC6845 device to call reset_origin() on its screen at the start of each frame if a screen is present.

• Curt Coder converted the RCA CDP1802 CPU into a C++ device. Refactored cidelsa.c to use the new RCA COSMAC CPU.

• Aaron Giles added new devcb type DEVCB_TYPE_DRIVER, which implies the driver_device.

• Aaron Giles added new macros DEVCB_DRIVER_LINE_MEMBER and DEVCB_DRIVER_MEMBER to specify member functions of the driver device in callbacks.

• Angelo Salese reworked NMK16 irqs by not using cpu_getiloops() function

• Aaron Giles fixed custom mapping for dsp56k internal memory.

• Curt Coder refactored the CDP1869 chip into a C++ device.

• Aaron Giles added explicit control handler for the console. Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break now explicitly terminate the process forcefully, rather than unwinding through the system in an unexpected state. Other console events (exit, shutdown, logoff) request a graceful exit.

• Angelo Salese reworked 1942 interrupts by not using cpu_getiloops() function.

• Angelo Salese removed deprecat.h usage from 1943 driver.

• Angelo Salese removed deprecat.h usage from 40love driver.

• Angelo Salese removed deprecat.h usage and did some minor clean-ups to the 4enraya driver.

• Angelo Salese rewrote Alien Command irqs by not using cpu_getiloops() function.

Game Support

New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status

• Devil Island (2 sets)

New clones added

• Streaking (set 2)

New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING

• Magical Touch