MESS v0.82

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on May 17th, 2004

MESS, a multiple system emulator for Windows and *nix, has been updated recently as well. Here is what's new:

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

AT 386 (Not yet working)
MSX2+ and variants
Telmac TMC-600 (Series I/II)

System Driver Changes:

[A2600] Updated to support most games above 4 KB.
[A7800] Changed Atari 7800 (NTSC) BIOS set. (Thanks to Mitch)
[C64] Implemented natural keyboard support.
[C128] Fixed a regression introduced in MESS 0.79. (bug #544)
[GENESIS] Almost complete rewrite.
[MPF1] Changed MPF-1 BIOS set.
[ORIC] Fixed fatal regression crash on startup. (bug #538)
[PC] Cleanups; code simplified and CGA video slightly faster now.
[STUDIO2] Modified to use io_write_byte/io_read_byte for I/O ports, moved registers enum to cdp1802.h for access needed by a future driver, and changed studio2/vip drivers to work on the modified core.
[PMD85.1] Tape emulation with support for .pmd format files added.

User Interface Changes:

[Windows] Fixed a bug in which if the "About MESS" menu item was selected, the help file would come up but be set to an invalid page. (bug #537)
[Windows] Fixed a bug in the new UI input dialogs that could cause the scrolling to malfunction if the mouse wheel was used. (bug #539)
[Windows] Fixed a bug that caused input items with ampersands in them to have the ampersands dropped. (bug #541)

Source Changes:

The core is based on MAME 0.82. This incorporates all features of the update to this core.
[Windows] Fixed a very subtle bug in Win32 file handling that caused a very serious disk corruption bug in the CoCo driver (bug #500)
CDP1802 CPU improvements

You can download this from our MESS for Windows and *nix sections.

Emulators For:
Windows/DOS
Unix/Linux
BeOS
Macintosh
Amiga
Consoles
Java
Palm OS
Pocket PC
Digital Cameras
Digital Phones
Calculators
QNX
Windows Mobile Smartphone
Microsoft Silverlight

Other Releases
Extenders
Frontends
ROMs (Public Domain)
Hacks
Cheats
Movies
Savestates
Music
Technical Documents
Translations

Utilities:
General
Auditing
Cheating
Development
Game Modification
Music Playback / Manipulation
Plugins