AdvanceMAME 0.37 beta 12.0
posted in Emulator Release by xip on Feb 26th, 2001
A new AdvanceMAME is out. AdvanceMAME is a build of MAME that gives better video support. Here's what's new:
The scripts are terminated correctly also if the program crash.
Better system recorver if the program crash. Now the system should be more stable.
Solved some "Page Fault" error in systems with low memory. Now you can run any game also with only 64 Mbyte of memory.
Increased the maximum turbospeed to 30 and turbostartuptime to 180 seconds
Solved a precision time problem of the scripts. Now they work also if the frame rate is very high (< 1000)
Now you can use the joystick, the keyboard and the mouse together like the official MAME.
Added the support for the alpha blending and for the color conversion to any video mode depth. You can use the alpha blending also with 8 and 16 bits video modes. The best speed is with 15 bits video modes. The 32 bit video modes and the blit level rotation are currently unsupported.
Minor speedup for the case with "depth=16" and a 8 bit video mode.
Compiled with Allegro WIP 3.9.34 like the current MAME
Added the new default mode 384x224 mainly for the CPS2 games
Added the new config option `aspect'. This option control how compute the aspect ratio of the game emulated. The default behaviour is different than the previous version. Check the file `mame.txt'
Get it at the MAME page. Thanks to ThumB for the news.
