MESS v0.70

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Jun 16th, 2003

MESS is an emulator of many, many systems. The Windows version has been updated with the latest (v0.70) MAME core. Here's what's new:

Corvus Concept
Tomy Tutor

A2600- Fixed bug #405 and corrected some dipswitches
A7800- Reset and Start buttons now appear in the Input menu. Added console's own Pause button
ASTROCADE- Fixed some Input menu descriptions and corrected paddles' sensitivities
COCO- Implemented cocodmk_sector_count() and cocodmk_sector_info() in coco_dsk.c, allowing DMK images with weird sector sizes to load properly (bug #378)
EINSTEIN/EP128- Fixed crashes on startup (bug #407)
GENEVE- Fixed sound in native mode and a mirror of the VDP ports that is used by the converted Tomy carts. Enabled access to the RTC in TI99 mode. Implemented extra VDP ports in TI99 mode. Implemented third mouse button.
IBMPC- Fixed a bug in the DAA instruction that prevented the driver from starting up (bugs #423, #425)
LISA- Implemented some missing MMU features. The Lisa OS still won't boot though
PC- Added support for natural keyboard handling. Also fixed a bug in hard disk handling (bug #403)
PC200- Fixed a bug causing corrupted characters (bug #398) and a bug affecting floppies at startup
PCMDA- Fixed a bug whereby the screen wouldn't fully refresh all the time (bug #419)
SNES- Fixed negative increment in GDMA
TI99- Fixed some bugs that have been introduced in IDE emulation
TI99 EVPC Card- Implemented missing VDP ports
TI99, GENEVE- Added hfdc HD support. Changed floppy disk image format from the previous MESS-specific format to the more universal v9t9 format

WIN32 FE- The emulation will not be started up if any required devices are not specified with an image, like cartridges on a console system (bug #415)

Renamed the TI99 module to ti99_old, since the format it handles has been obsoleted by changes in the TI99 driver
Added support for Corvus Concept disk images

The core is based on MAME v0.70. This incorporates all features of the update to this core
Modified flopdrv.c to reset pDrive-id_index to zero when head is moved from track to track
CRC calculation of read/write images has been disabled (bug #416)

Be sure to check out this great emulator. It supports much more than just seen here in this update.

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