Changes:
Release 0.80.1, 13 March 2004
- Everything from MAME 0.80 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mame.html)
and MESS 0.80 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mess.html).
- Improved support for GNU make's -j option, which can especially
benefit SMP and SMT machines. (Arnaud G. Gibert)
pkgsrc changes:
o Make esound support optional via USE_ESOUND (by default is NO).
Changes since 0.78.1 includes:
- Everything from MAME 0.79 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mame.html) and
MESS 0.79 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mess.html).
- Updated the ALSA DSP module to use the ALSA 1.0 API. (Shyouzou
Sugitani)
- Paths now allow a literal "$" if it's preceded by "\". (Andre
Majorel)
- Fixed a segfault that occurred when "-debug" was used with a rotated
game.
- The debugger window should no longer be blank for 32bpp games.
- Fixed a bug in fix-comments.c that was causing it to mangle
src/drivers/vendetta.c.
- When XINPUT is defined in the makefile but no XInput devices are
configured, the mouse is treated as a trackball. (Gerd Sussner)
- The Xv YUV code should now work on big-endian platforms. (Maciej J.
Woloszyk)
- The trigger for the ACT LABS TV light gun now works; reloading now
requires only one offscreen shot instead of two. (Joe)
Changes since 0.77.1 includes:
- Everything from MESS 0.78.
- Changed the abbreviation of "-pause_brightness" to "-pbrt" to prevent
a conflict with "-playback".
- Fixed an infrequent spurious error reported by zlib 1.2.1. (Mark
Adler)
Changes since 0.74.1 includes:
- Everything from MESS 0.77.
- Ported two more effects from AdvanceMAME: hq2x and lq2x. (Pieter
Hulshoff)
- Adjusted and cleaned up some YUV code. (Alastair Robinson)
- Improved the Superboard II emulation in xmess. For details, see
http://claudio.ch/SuperboardII/ (Claudio Nieder)
- The I/O section of the xmess manpage should be more up-to-date.
- A leading '.' on a path now causes xmess to treat it as absolute.
This allows "xmess.x11 nes -cart ./zelda.zip" to work.
- Set options.mess_printf_output so that xmess spits out more
informative error messages, e.g., when it's unable to load an image.
- The "-list-dsp-plugins / -ldp" and "-list-mixer-plugins / -lmp"
commands now cause the program to exit with a return value of 0.
Changes since 0.72.1 include:
- Everything from MESS CVS.
- Reapplied David Mitchell's fix for the XInput inertial effect when
a mouse or spinner is used. (Jake Stookey)
- Added support for controllor setup via "-ctrlr". Note that "-hotrod"
and "-hotrodse" have been replaced by "-ctrlr HotRod" and "-ctlrlr
HotRodSE".
Changes since 0.71.1 include:
- Everything from MAME 0.72 and MESS 0.72.
- The various effects enabled by -effect now work with rotation enabled.
(Shyouzou Sugitani)
- The Xv target supports more effects. (Shyouzou Sugitani)
- The rc parsing code displays more compact and readable error messages.
(Andre Majorel)
- Xv windowed mode is now enabled with "-x11-mode 2" or "-x11 2", and
Xv fullscreen mode is enabled with "-x11-mode 3" or "-x11 3". The
"-[no]xv" and "-fullscreen" switches are no longer available.
- Added hotkey switching for Xv windowed mode via ALT + DEL and Xv
fullscreen mode via ALT + END.
- Added -widescreen for Xv. This shrinks the width of the output for
display on a widescreen TV. (Per Wigren)
Changes since 0.69.1 includes:
- Almost everything from MESS 0.70
- Fixed the default values for -sysinfo_file and -messinfo_file, which
were missing a '/'.
- Fixed the handling of leading zeros in the fractional part of a float
in src/unix/snprintf.c. (Chris Kirmse)
Changes since 0.68.1 includes:
- Re-added Ben Collins' core change that adds support for extra mice.
- Reverted to using the original fronthlp.c (from 0.67.2) modified to
work with the 0.69 core.
- Fixed a logic bug in the XInput devices button-handling. (Ben
Collins)
- Made a tiny fix in fileio.c that allows specifying direct paths to
roms to work again; e.g., ./xmame.x11 ./moo.zip
Changes since 0.67.2 include:
- Almost everything from MESS 0.68.
- Fixed the analog joystick support so that the Y-axis is
recognized as analog. (Sebastien Devaux)
- The command line is now parsed even if the display cannot be
opened. (Christopher Stone, David Mitchell)
- Added support to the core for 4-button mice and 10-button
joysticks. (Ben Collins)
- Fixed several problems and did a lot of cleanup in the XInput
code, especially for the output (e.g., showing detection
status. (Ben Collins)
- Fixed a few problems with -listinfo output. (Andrea Mazzoleni)
Changes since 0.66.2 include:
- Almost everything from MESS CVS.
- Added support for konamigx to info.c. (David Haywood)
- Building the neomame target now works. (Steve Behling)
- Using XFree86 3.3.6 fbdev in 32bpp now works. (Steve Behling)
- USB patches to take recent FreeBSD changes into account. (Matthew N. Dodd)
Changes since 0.65.1 include:
- Amost everything from MAME 0.66 and MESS CVS.
- The Barath frameskipper is now enabled by default. (suggested by
Christopher Stone)
- Rotation has been moved to the blit core and should be a lot faster.
(Shyouzou Sugitani)
- Analog controls work again, and the analog code is now synced up with
the Windows code. (Sebastien Devaux)
- The "-joydev" switch now allows a full device name, such as
/dev/input/js0, to be specified.
- Added makecd_mame2.pl to contrib tools; this script aids with burning
CDs with ROMs, flyers, and cabinets. (Luc Saillard)
- Renamed "-gamma-correction" to "-gamma" to be consistent with the
Win32 version. It should also work now.
- An Xv-enabled build should no longer report 0 bits per pixel and stop
on a display that doesn't support the Xv extension. (Alexander Miller)
- The "-brightness" switch now works as in Windows. Removed obsolete
brightness and gamma code from sysdep_palette.
- Idle sleeping is now disabled while the onscreen configuration menu
is displayed. This works around a problem with key and button
presses not registering when setting input preferences.
- The "-record" and "-playback" switches now work as in the Win32
version. Also, the "inp" directory is now created on startup if
it is missing.
- MAME's disassemblers are no longer built by default. This avoids
having to make some ugly little patches to the core. (Christopher
Stone)
- Removed the obsolete 8bpp update functions from most of the targets.
This should speed compilation and produce a smaller binary.
Changes since 0.62.1nb1 include:
- Fixed problems in memory.c that could lead to crashes and default.cfg
corruption. (smf)
- Aspect and mode switches are now available for the Xv driver even if
DGA isn't enabled.
- The 'rc' and 'hi' directories are now created on startup if they're
missing. (Gerd Sussner)
Changes since xmess-0.37b15 include:
New System Drivers Supported
----------------------------
* Unipolbrit Komputer 2086 [Krzysztof Strzecha]
* ZX Spectrum 48k Psycho (ROM modification) [Krzysztof Strzecha]
System Driver Changes:
----------------------
* [TI81] ON/OFF fixed. ROM bank switching added (port 5). NVRAM support added.
[Krzysztof Strzecha]
* [TI85/TI86] Snapshot loading corrected. [Krzysztof Strzecha]
* [TC2048/TS2068] Aspect ratio corrected. [Krzysztof Strzecha]
* [TS2068] Support for DOCK cartridges added. Support for Z80 snapshots added.
AY sound added. [Krzysztof Strzecha]
* [DRAGON/COCO] Improved one bit sound out. Improved support for DMK file
format; now supports multiple sector sizes. Fixed double sided disk access
in OS-9. Added support for the memory sense switch used to select between
64/32, 16 and 4K. [tim lindner]
* [APF Imagination] Cassette loading and saving is working. Disc emulation
is wo rking. Added some more key definitions. [Kev Thacker]
* [ORIC] Fixed cassette loading and saving. [Kev Thacker, Mathis Rosenhauer]
included in the xmame tar ball. xmess doesn't however get updated for
every new mame release, so it makes sense of having a separate package
for it.)
The current xmess version is xmess-0.37b15.2.
