PinMAME v1.21

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Apr 1st, 2003

PinMAME is a Multi-Arcade Pinball Machine emulator for Windows, and has seen it's first update in several months! Three versions were updated PinMAMEW (the DOS version), PinMAME32 (the Windows version), and Visual PinMAME (a newer project in VB). Brace yourselves, because this is a long list of what's new covering all three programs...

Visual PinMAME

The most prominent feature this time should be Tom's "SyncLevel"(TM), which is a most delicate and interesting way of synchronizing two separate Windows applications from one thread only! In other words: Visual PinMAME decides how fast any other application running in the same graphical environment will update its view... need I say more?

Added "SyncLevel" feature:
'Controller.Games(Controller.GameName).settings.value("synclevel")'
This will help to keep the emulation in sync with any other thread running at the same time (like your favorite Pinball simulation software) :)
Went back to the orange display color everybody loved so much

PinMAMEW and PinMAME32

Happy late 2nd birthday greetings to PinMAME! Yes, 2 years and 2 days ago, PinMAME was officially released for the first time. Hard to believe two years have passed since but then, not so hard when you look at how much has changed in between! PinMAME 0.99 didn't have support for a single working Bally game, and look what it can do today: A total of 548 sets are supported, including 106 clones, so excluding some test sets, there are some 430 individual working games in there. Considering the worldwide total of solid state pinball games ever produced is about 900, I'd say we're right on course... :) This latest release is a much stabilized version of 1.20, only so much has changed since that we decided to call the new version 1.21, to avoid any more confusion than necessary...

Fixed crashes in some DCS games
Removed flipper switches 5 & 7 from Dungeon & Dragons
Changed Mousin' around display to one row
Some small fixes in Bally cheap-squeek sound (Black pyramid is still strange)
COrrected 6809 core bug involving CC register
Greatly improved lamps in Baby Pacman, although there are still some issues
GOttlieb System 3 music and speech FINALLY working! (Requires heft system to work perfectly unfortunately)
Robocop sound working 100%
Improved Gottlieb System 80B sound
Added comma segments to GTS80A games
Increased CPU speed for Midway's Rotation VIII
Finally, truly, sincerely, Caveman is really working! :)

Added GameOn solenoid for WPC games (Sol 31). Only used in games that don't use Fliptronics flippers (before TAF), but it seems like many later games still activates the signal. Can be used to disable bumpers/slingshots in VPM
Added GameOn and Tilt solenoid for GTS80 games (Sol 10 & 11). GameOn is adjusted to mean "game in progress and not tilted"
Solenoid display now shows 4 last activated solenoids
Added ROM support for 'The Getaway: High Speed II" (L-2)
Added ROM support for 'Stern Simpsons Party Machine'
Some sound working on Zaccaria Games, but still much work to be done
Added skewed, anti-aliased LED digits for greater authenticity
Added support for alphanumeric digit display on Hyperball
Added lots of romsets for bowlers, shuffle alleys, prototypes, some bootlegs too.

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