MESS v0.87 (Win32)

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on Sep 26th, 2004

gorec98979 wrote in to tell us about a recent update to MESS, an emulator for various machines. Here is what's new:

System Driver Changes:

[APPLE1] Added natural keyboard support.
[AMSTRAD] M6845 changes; the Backtro demo now runs.
[MICROBEE,EXIDY,VTECH] Implemented a binary quickload device. (bug #599)
[NESPAL] Fixed a major slowdown that only affected the PAL version of the NES driver. (bug #457)
[VTECH1] Fixed '*' and '+' keys on natural keyboard.

User Interface Changes:

[Windows] Fixed a regression that prevented all customize input, analog controls and configuration dialogs from working on Win95/Win98/WinME.
[Windows GUI] Fixed a problem in hash calculation in which UnmapViewOfFile() was not properly being called. (bug #584)
[Windows GUI] ZIP paths prefixed with ./ will now have the ./ ignored.

Source Changes:

The core is based on MAME 0.87. This incorporates all features of the update to this core.
Major changes to the IODevice structure; made major changes to how they are initialized and iterated. The new technique should be much more maintainable in the long run.
Hash tags in hash file now can specify a 'type' attribute that indicates what device type to which any given entry pertains.

You can download this from our MESS section.

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