MESS v0.85

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on Aug 11th, 2004

MESS, an emulator for an extraordinarily large amount of systems, has been updated today! Only the Windows build has been touched so far. Here is what's new:
    New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
  • Coleco FunVision [Curt Coder]
    System Driver Changes:
  • [A2600] Various fixes on certain Activision games.
  • [AMSTRAD] Renamed cpc6128fr to cpc6128f to be 8.3 compliant.
  • [C16] Added natural keyboard support.
  • [COCO] Implemented .os9 disk image creation support.
  • [COLECO] Miscellaneous cleanups.
  • [GENESIS] Fixed button input declarations.
  • [MICROTAN] Fixed a video hardware crash.
  • [PC] New PIT8253 implementation; Styx and Digger run better now. Also fixed the PIT8253 frequencies and mades some PIC8259 fixes.
  • [TI99, GENEVE] Updated the IDE card emulation with the latest changes to the prototype.
  • [ZX80] Added natural keyboard support and miscellaneous cleanups.
    User Interface Changes:
  • [Windows] Fixed a bug when creating disk images in which default extensions were not spcified.
  • [Windows] Modified the new UI input dialogs so that they behave like the MAME UI input dialogs, allowing for multiple input sequences.
  • [Windows GUI] Fixed some miscellaneous bugs having to do with the software picker settings.
  • [Windows GUI] Fixed a bug that could cause the MESS GUI to use 100% of CPU time when idling.
    Source Changes:
  • The core is based on MAME 0.85. This incorporates all features of the update to this core.
You can download this from our MESS for Windows/DOS section.