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.