News June 2007

Atari 5200 emulator MESS 0.116 was released today.

What's new in 0.116

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order)

- Atari 2600 PAL [Wilbert Pol]
- Sega SG-1000 [Curt Coder]
- Sega SG-1000 Mark II [Curt Coder]
- Sega SC-3000 [Curt Coder]
- Sega SC-3000/Super Control Station SF-7000 [Curt Coder]
- Texas Instruments TI-82 (not working) [Curt Coder]
- Texas Instruments TI-83 (not working) [Curt Coder]
- Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus (not working) [Curt Coder]
- VTech CreatiVision [Curt Coder]
- Samsung Gam*Boy II [Wilbert Pol]

System Driver Changes

- [A2600] Updated delay when writing to the playfield registers (bug #389, partially fixes bug #1152). [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Updated how RESPx/NUSIZx combinations are handled (partially fixes bug #1152). [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Added support for handling hardware oddity with writes to HMMx when the HMOVE timer is about to expire (bug #391). [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Changed start up bank for 16KB cartridges (partially fixed bug #1170). [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Recoded tia to support MDRV_SCREEN_RAW_PARAMS and adjusted screen sizes (partially fixes bug #1170). [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Updated playfield reflect bit to only have effect when set before pixel 80. (bug #1174) [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Paddles no longer auto-center. Set default keys for player 4. (bug #1176 and bug #1167) Adjusted Driving Controller sensitivity, and fixed player two Booster Grip. [Christopher Stone]
- [A2600] Fixed delay behavior when resetting BL/M0/M1 position during HMOVE period. [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Corrected HMOVE behavior when initiated outside hblank. [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Improved positioning of all graphics when position counters are reset in the extended HBlank period during a HMOVE. (bug #1184) [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] HMOVE triggered on the last possible CPU cycle also triggers a delay of the end of HBlank. (bug #1222) [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Rewrote player graphics drawing and handling. [Wilbert Pol]
- [A2600] Added SuperCharger support. [Wilbert Pol]
- [AMIGA] Updated the Amiga driver to output the power and drive LED status to the artwork system. [Dirk Best]
- [COCO/DRAGON] Cartridge slot rearchitecture. [Nate Woods]
- [FUNVISION] Driver is now working and fully playable. [Curt Coder]
- [VIP] Fixed the RUN/RESET switch to work like the original. [Curt Coder]
- [ABC80] Fixed the keyboard, although scanning is very slow. [Curt Coder]

User Interface Changes

- Fixed bug mounting files in the old UI. (bug #1149) [Oliver Stoeneberg]
- [Windows GUI] Fixed a couple of static text fields. (bug #1073) [Oliver Stoeneberg]
- [Windows GUI] Fixed a crash when adding a system-specific software directory. (bug #1196) [Oliver Stoeneberg]

Imgtool Changes

(none)

Source Changes

- The core is based on MAME 0.116. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]
- WD17xx cleanups. [Nate Woods]
- Fixed a memory leak. (bug #1019) [Oliver Stoeneberg]
- Massive update to entire sysinfo.dat file. [Fabio Priuli]
- Added many SHA1 hashes. [Fabio Priuli]
- Added some missing TESTDRIVERs to messdriv.c that were only specified in the driver source files. [Oliver Stoeneberg]
- [Windows] UNICODE=1 fixes. [Oliver Stoeneberg]

Nintendo DS emulator DeSmuME 0.7.1 was released today. Multiple language support for the Windows port is now avalaible.

What's new in 0.7.1

general

- Added GDB debugger stub [masscat]
- Added new/different GBAMP CFlash image reader/writer [masscat]

gpu

- Major speedup to the 2D core [shash]

gtk-glade

- Added command line options. [masscat]
- Added FPS limiter [masscat]

cli

- Added command line options. [masscat]
- Added FPS limiter [masscat]
- Added option to use OpenGl to render window (allows resizing). [masscat]

windows port

- Added command line options. [masscat]
- Added multiple language support [cyberwarriorx]
- Added Danish language translation [thomas-2007]

Nintendo DS emulator iDeaS 1.0.1.6 was released today, less that a month and we already have a new version.

What's new in 1.0.1.6

Added Backup Memory autodetection.
Added R4DS/FAT emulation.(read only)
Added GetPitchTable function.(experimental)
Added GetSineTable function.
Added Memory View in debugger.
Added SRAM byte management.
Fixed bug in size background in affine mode.
Fixed bug in RTC management.
Fixed bug in bitmap sprites.
Fixed transparent direct color backgrounds.
Fixed bug in generating save states routines.
Fixed bug in EEPROM management.
Fixed bug in GXFIFO register.
Various speedups to emulation.