MESS v0.82
posted in Emulator Release by mfc on May 17th, 2004MESS, 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