News April 2007

Nintendo DS emulator iDeaS 1.0.1.4 was released today. Second release this month!.

What's new in 1.0.1.4

Added test if cuboid sits inside view volume.
Added flip textures coordinates.
Added test for position coordinates.
Added microphone support.
Fixed a bug in EEPROM management.
Fixed a bug in Display Capture Control Register.
Fixed a bug in texture coordinates trasformation.
Fixed a bug in sprites management.
Fixed a bug in GXFIFO register.

Atari 5200 emulator MESS updated to 0.114.

What's new in 0.114

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

- Sega Master System Store Display (not working) [Wilbert Pol]
- Apple IIgs (ROM00) [R. Belmont]
- Toshiba HX-10 [incog nito]

System Driver Changes:

- [APPLE2GS] Major fixes to the quality and accuracy of the ES5503 sound emulation. [R. Belmont]
- [APPLE2GS] First pass at proper raster timing. FTA XMAS DEMO now runs, no border f/x yet though. [R. Belmont]
- [APPLE2GS] Fixed scanline interrupts to work properly. Fixed Cavern Cobra, FTA Modulae demo, probably more. (bug #673) [R. Belmont]
- [APPLE2GS, SNES] Fixed some 65816 core bugs. (bug #661) [R. Belmont]
- [COCO] Fixed PIA misconfiguration. (bug #1115) [tim lindner]
- [COCO] Fixed Lightgun emulation. [tim lindner]
- [COCO] Implemented MUX switching delay. (bug #655) [tim lindner]
- [FAMICOM/FAMITWIN] Fixed Disk System, marked working now. (bug #1101) [R. Belmont]
- [GAMEGEAR] Added SMS compatibility mode. [Wilbert Pol]
- [GENESIS/MEGADRIVE] New emulation engine from HazeMD, improves compatibility and accuracy plus supports the 6-button pad and the Super Street Fighter 2 mapper. [R. Belmont, David Haywood]
- [GENEVE] Fixed assertion failure on exit. (bug #1136) [Nate Woods]
- [MSX] Fixed MSX visible area. [MJSTY]
- [ODYSSEY2] Major update: banked carts, drawing, and hardware collision detection now all work much better. [telengard]
- [SMS] Drivers have been split up to support specific hardware versions: sms and smspal still exist; smsj21 has been renamed to smsj; sms1, sms1pal, and sg1000m3 have been added. Support for the prototype bios has also been added [Wilbert Pol]
- [THOMSON] Switch 6850 ACIA implementations to use the MAME version, and added natural keyboard support. [Antoine Mine]
- [TI99_4X] Fixed assertion failure. (bug #1129) [Nate Woods]
- [TI99_8] Fixed assertion failure on exit. (bug #1137) [Nate Woods]

User Interface Changes:

- [Windows GUI] Fixed hash entry loading. (bug #1128) [Nate Woods]
- [Windows GUI] Added missing screen and controller tabs. (bug #1134) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

Imgtool Changes:

- Added the ability for modules to "warn" the core of inconsistencies. These warnings will cause failues in Imgtool test cases. [Nate Woods]
- [OS9] Fixed some bugs that could cause corruption on OS-9 disk images. (bug #1122 [tim lindner, Nate Woods]
- [OS9] Put will now use free entries in the directory file before expanding it. (bug #1125) [tim lindner]

Source Changes:

- The core is based on MAME 0.114. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]
- Moved per-image working directory handling into the MESS core. [Nate Woods]
- Fixed NVRAM folder creation for battery backup. (bug #1120) [Nate Woods]
- Fixed a bug that could cause multiple file extensions to be dropped for devices on certain drivers in both MESS and Imgtool. (bug #1095) [Nate Woods]
- [Windows] Fixed deadlock. (bug #1140) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

Nintendo DS emulator iDeaS 1.0.1.3 released.

What's new in 1.0.1.3

Fixed a bug in EEPROM management.
Fixed a bug in RTC functions.
Fixed a bug in Extended Draw Mode management.
Fixed a bug in Bitmap Sprites management.
Fixed transparent color backgrounds.
Fixed a bug in EXTKEYIN register.
Fixed a bug in DIVREM_RESULT register.
Fixed a bug in 3d stacks.
Fixed a bug in 3d coordinates trasformation.
Fixed a bug in texture management.
Fixed a bug in GXFIFO register.
Fixed a bug in load rom.
Fixed a bug in Display Capture Control Register.
Fixed a bug in plugins management.
Fixed a bug in SWI5 functions.
Added Background Mode 6.
Added 4x4-Texel Compressed Texture management.
Added Textures Coordinates Transformation Mode.
Added Alpha channel for 3d layer.
Added keys configuration dialog.
Added Increase CPU Speed options.
Added RLUnComp function.

Playstation 2 emulator PCSX2 0.93 was released. Linux 32bit, 64bit and source code versions available. There is no Windows version release this time, hope to see it soon.