Past-O-Rama 0.05

posted in Emulator Release by xip on Mar 21st, 2001

Past-O-Rama is a multiple Sega 8-bit system emulator. It supports the SG1000, Master System, and GameGear. Actually, the Master System and GameGear support is new in this version. Here's what's new: SG1000
  • improved the SG1000 support (can run now 99,99% of the games)
  • rewrite the TMS9918 code and implentation of a tile caching engine ( great speed gain )
  • changed the saves states format (for the use of the new comment feature) warning old save states won't work anymore !
  • games fixed : Rock'n Bolt, Safari Hunt MasterSystem / Mark3 / GameGear
  • Add MasterSystem support
  • Add GameGear support
  • SMSVDP support for Mode 4, Mode 5 and Mode 2 using a tile caching engine i've follow the great docs from Charles MacDonald (F16 fighter is working)
  • 3D glasses support
  • FM chip support
  • Voices support (thanks to Steph)
  • country selection for SMS and GG Emu / User interface
  • Total recoding with a implementation of a driver way architecture
  • Inputs fully redifinable using a cool joypad picture done by Alexandre Dumur (Tohtori Paha)
  • Add resolution selection for fullscreen mode
  • add a feature allowing to add comments to the save states and displaying then in the UI
  • change the Sizex1,Sizex2,.. to Size + and Size - so can scale the window to your needs.
  • add frame skip support
  • add the possibility to use the video memory , it can be speedier on most video card
  • can choose at the same time vsync and speed throttle
  • 50/60hz selection
  • can disabling sprites or background
  • Sprites limit
  • Hardware pause and reset
  • Remove the roms path options replaced by the last directory of the last opened roms
  • Zip files support
  • Saving the directory of the SRAM and STATES path
  • 15,16,32 bpp support
  • can swith to full screen mode using the ESC key
  • possibility to switch fullscreen after a rom load
  • possibility to load a rom in fullscreen mode
  • remove the sound rate selection as it was not useful Get it at the Master System/GameGear page.