13/11/2005 *** v2.23 ***
- Uses DatLib v2.11.
- Added support for 'board', 'colordeep', 'credits' and 'archive'
(fully supported by ListInfo, ListXML and Delimited formats).
- M1 XML loader now retains the 'board' information (see above).
- M1 XML will not use hex for ROM sizes after all... changed back!
- Improved the way that the Nebula driver handles Neo-Geo ROMs.
- Fixed Nebula Jukebox driver for Neo-Geo ROMs (broken in v2.7).
31/10/2005 *** v2.22 ***
- Uses DatLib v2.10.
- Fixed identification of ListXML for MAME+MESS v0.101u4 onwards.
- Added the '-q' option (to save Listinfo with quotes throughout).
28/10/2005 *** v2.21 ***
- Uses DatLib v2.9.
- M1 XML will use hex for ROM sizes. Changed driver accordingly.
- Now reports duplicate game descriptions and CRCs (i.e. ROMs).
13/11/2005 *** v2.11 ***
- Added support for 'board', 'colordeep', 'credits' and 'archive'
(fully supported by ListInfo, ListXML and Delimited formats).
- M1 XML loader now retains the 'board' information (see above).
- M1 XML will not use hex for ROM sizes after all... changed back!
- Improved the way that the Nebula driver handles Neo-Geo ROMs.
- Fixed Nebula Jukebox driver for Neo-Geo ROMs (broken in v2.7).
31/10/2005 *** v2.10 ***
- Fixed identification of ListXML for MAME+MESS v0.101u4 onwards.
- Added OPTION_ALWAYS_QUOTE for DatUtil (the '-q' option).
28/10/2005 *** v2.9 ***
- Added better support for file formats that use hex ROM sizes.
- M1 XML will use hex for ROM sizes. Changed driver accordingly.
- Now reports duplicate game descriptions and CRCs (i.e. ROMs).
Additional patch from dillo@:
Fix display and sync on sound. Ignore NoWaiting and the rest for now.
Changes since 0.98.12:
SDL: Fixed button configuration when using joystick hats. Thanks to
ShaolinMan for pointing out the code errors.
Readded checks in ines.c for some common bad dumps and non-working hacked
games.
Sprite hit emulation is more precise(as it was in 0.97.5).
Fixed mapper 185 emulation to work properly with the Japanese
version of "Spy vs Spy", and hopefully with the GOOD dump
of Banana(I don't think one exists).
Added per-game hacks for Shougi Meikan '92 and Shougi Meikan '93.
Fixed a bug in SetupCartMirroring() that could cause some games to have corrupted
mirroring if loaded in a certain order. This was a rather major, long-standing
bug. :/
Added many iNES header corrections.
Fixed emulation of the "ISB" and "DCP" invalid opcodes.
Optimized the PPU background drawing code with inline assembly. Older/some(?) versions
of gcc may produce bad code(from previous experience with inline
assembly in gcc), but 3.4.1 seems to do ok.
Optimized some of the low-quality sound emulation code.
Added a command-line option to the configure script to enable the FCE Ultra
debugger(disabled by default). It reduces executable size, and may increase speed
of execution slightly.
In unix-netplay.c, replaced the ioctl() on a socket to read the number of bytes available to read
with a select(). I've also added some "BEOS" #ifdefs. I don't know if they will
work properly.
Replaced archaic include of "malloc.h" in unix-netplay.c with "stdlib.h".
Also in unix-netplay.c, I've added:
#ifndef SOL_TCP
#define SOL_TCP IPPROTO_TCP
#endif
Fixed a bug in sdl-sound.c that would prevent FCE Ultra from being compiled
on certain platforms(Mac OS X).
Fixed variable declarations in the following files to be compatible
with C compilers that don't adhere to C99(or was it C98...):
movie.c
drivers/sexyal/convertgen.c and drivers/sexyal/convert.inc
drivers/pc/unix-netplay.c
This is release 0.9 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
After 12 years of development, this release marks the beginning of the
beta testing phase. Everybody is encouraged to try it; while there
are still bugs, most applications are expected to at least install and
do something useful.
Changes since 0.100:
- Everything from MAME 0.101 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mame.html) and
MESS 0.101 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mess.html).
- When the LIRC configuration cannot be read, the joystick polling code
no longer tries to use LIRC. This fixes a crash that occurs under
memory pressure. (Paul "TBBle" Hampson)
- Enabling full keyboard emulation in the classic MESS UI once again
prevents keys such as P and Esc from being intercepted by the
emulation core.
- Added support for BGR visuals to the blit core for, e.g., Solaris.
(Hans de Goede)
Changes since 0.100:
- Everything from MAME 0.101 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mame.html) and
MESS 0.101 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mess.html).
- When the LIRC configuration cannot be read, the joystick polling code
no longer tries to use LIRC. This fixes a crash that occurs under
memory pressure. (Paul "TBBle" Hampson)
- Enabling full keyboard emulation in the classic MESS UI once again
prevents keys such as P and Esc from being intercepted by the
emulation core.
- Added support for BGR visuals to the blit core for, e.g., Solaris.
(Hans de Goede)
The 0.3.6.1 release fixes some issues related to ARM emulation:
x) The emulator can now be compiled inside NetBSD/cats or OpenBSD/cats,
inside the emulator itself. (In 0.3.6, some bugs prevented this.)
x) Performance increase: A non-scientific but realistic test, measuring
the real-world time it takes to do a full NetBSD/cats installation,
seems to indicate that 0.3.6.1 can be twice as fast as 0.3.6 was.
A fast and stable emulator for the mighty Atari 2600 game console.
Lots of features and options, even comes with a man page with gobs of
detailed information to help you fine tune everything. Try the
various timing and video mode settings to get the maximum performance
on your computer.
05/10/2005 *** v2.7 ***
Removed M1 ROMs since they are now MAME compatible (from v0.7.6)
Removed Nebula ROMs since they are now MAME compatible (from v2.25)
Added support for invaders.rom for SIDE
05/10/2005 *** v2.19 ***
- Uses DatLib v2.8.
- Improved the logerror() function (used for reporting ZIP errors).
- Added support for M1's XML format (when it becomes available).
05/10/2005 *** v2.20 ***
- Uses DatLib v2.8.
- Improved the logerror() function (used for reporting ZIP errors).
- Added support for M1's XML format (when it becomes available).
05/10/2005 *** v2.8 ***
- Improved the logerror() function (used for reporting ZIP errors).
- Added support for M1's XML format (when it becomes available).
Changes since version 0.22:
- Moved over some features from WinUAE:
* better m68k exception handling
* better m68k prefetch emulation
* better debugger
- More merging with WinUAE; a lot of the input device code has changed
- GUI cleaned up.
- Quest to eliminate useless options continues: 68000 mode is always "slow
but compatible"; it's not that slow after all.
- Now uses GTK2 for the GUI.
- Added ALSA sound support from Heikki Orsila
Changelog:
- Everything from MAME 0.100 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mame.html) and
MESS 0.100 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mess.html).
- Improved support for OpenBSD, including fixing audio on 8-bit sound
cards. (Claudio Castiglia)
- Improved the SDL joystick driver so that it will work better with
components identified as hat switches or trackballs. (Dave Ahlswede)
- Increased the maximum number of joystick axes from 8 to 16 to support
the Gravis Xterminator joypad. (Dave Ahlswede)
- Joystick force feedback support.
- Beginnings of Win64 support.
- Many MSI fixes and cleanups.
- Font linking support.
- Several OLE fixes.
- Some fixes for MacOS/x86.
- Lots of bug fixes.
The most imporant user-visible change between release 0.3.5 and 0.3.6 is:
(X) The experimental ARM emulation mode is now working well enough
to install NetBSD/cats and OpenBSD/cats onto harddisk images.
Based on the pkg found at
http://cherry.beevomit.org/downloads/netbsd-anvil/pkgsrc.emulators.hp-ski.tar.gz
The Ski simulator is a software package designed to functionally
simulate the IA-64 processor architecture at the instruction level.
Ski offers an informative, screen-oriented machine-state display and a
friendly, powerful command-line interface. Programs may be loaded from
disk in executable format; they may be run from start to finish, single-
stepped, and break-pointed. Execution can occur in a text-oriented or
a graphical user interface or in batch-mode, with no user-interface at
all. Both the user-level and the system-level machine-state can be
simulated. For user-level execution, Ski will intercept IA-64 Linux
system calls and translate them into the corresponding system calls of
the host operating system.
2005-09-02
* Moved inclusion of most system header files to hdr/generator.h and
added check for sys/param.h for less #include trouble.
* Removed platform-specific versions of the SWAP16/SWAP32 macros as
these were only used in two places.
