MESS 0.140

Po paru tygodniach oczewkiwań, w końcu mamy kolejną pełną wersję MESS (Multi Emulator Super System). Ten największy chyba w chwili obecnej multiemulator udaje już  chyba wszystkie najważniejsze konstrukcję, a w 0.140 wzbogacił się o kolejną partie driverów dla Microbee, Elektroniki, Panasonic, Mephisto, czy też komputera szachowego Novag.

W chwili obecnej MESS posiada drivery do 300 z kawałkiem systemów - to całkiem niezły wynik jak na bodajże 10 lat (11?) historii:).

MESS 0.140

• New System Drivers Supported:
  
  • Tomy Pyuuta [anondumper]
  • Elektronika KR-03 [Miodrag Milanovic]
  • Microbee 128k [Robbbert]
  • Microbee 256TC [Robbbert]
  • Microbee PC85 Newer version [Robbbert]
  • Microbee PC85 Swedish version [Robbbert]
  • Panasonic JR-100U [Murray Moffatt, Miodrag Milanovic]
  • National JR-100 [anonymous, Miodrag Milanovic]
  • Novag SuperConstellation Chess Computer [Ralf Schaefer]
  • Mephisto MM2 [Ralf Schaefer]
  • Alice 32 [Sandro Ronco]
• Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:
  
  • Microbee Premium PC85 [Robbbert]
  • TRS-80 Model II [Curt Coder]
  • Schachcomputer SC2 [Sandro Ronco]
  • Psion Organiser II [Sandro Ronco]
• Skeleton drivers:
  • Cromemco C-10
  • CZK-80
  • Robotron K8915
  • Schleicher MES
  • Fidelity Chess Challenger 10
  • Systec Z80
  • P112 Single Board Computer
  • NEC TK-80
  • SEL Z80 Trainer
  • mc-CP/M-Computer
  • TIM-011
  • WaveMate Bullet
  • ABC 1600 [Rune Tapper, Curt Coder]
  • Atari TT030 [Curt Coder]
  • Atari Falcon [Curt Coder]
  • Atari Falcon040 [Curt Coder]
  • IBM PS/2 Model 55SX [Joseba Epalza]
  • Nakajima ES-210 (Spain) [Joseba Epalza]
  • Laser PC4 [Joseba Epalza, Curt Coder]
  • Atari Portfolio [Joseba Epalza, Curt Coder]
  • System Driver Changes:
  • [ABC800] Added a new revision of the floppy controller ROM. [exon, Curt Coder]
  • [ABC800] Added a dump of the keyboard controller ROM. [exon, Curt Coder]
  • [ABC800] Emulated the built-in keyboard. [Curt Coder, exon]
  • [ABC800] Emulated the "fast" floppy disk controller. Note that only raw sector dumps work currently (td0 not supported). [Curt Coder, exon]
  • [ABC800] Refactored drivers to define ADDRESS_MAP_MODERN. [Curt Coder]
  • [ABC806] Added enhanced options ROM. [exon, Curt Coder]
  • [ATARIST] Added several language variants. [Curt Coder]
  • [COCO] Fixed delays in when propagating interrupts signals from the floppy disk controller to the CPU. Added a small pool of timers to allow overlapping interrupt signals. [tim lindner]
  • [COCO] Added bi-directional bitbanger support. Needs further core
  • changes to be fully implemented. [tim lindner]
  • [HECTOR] Added initial support for DISK II unit [JJ Stacino]
  • [MAC] Macintosh IIci now boots, promoted to working. [R. Belmont]
  • [MAC] Improvements to PMU and Egret MCU emulation. [R. Belmont]
  • [MAC] Greatly improved Apple Sound Chip emulation for Mac II, IIx,
  • IIcx, and SE/30. [R. Belmont]
  • [MEPHISTO] the mephisto chess board is defined as a
  • machine (mboard). [Ralf Schaefer]
  • [MEPHISTO] to reduce the artwork files glasgow, amsterd and mm4
  • are defined as PARENTS. [Ralf Schaefer]
  • [MYCOM] Improved video and keyboard [Robbbert]
  • [MBEE] Added some accessory roms, made various improvements. [Robbbert]
  • [POFO] Refactored driver to define ADDRESS_MAP_MODERN. [Curt Coder]
  • [PSION] Added support for datapack images [Sandro Ronco]
  • [VIP] Refactored driver to define ADDRESS_MAP_MODERN and use the new
  • RCA COSMAC CPU. [Curt Coder]
• Imgtool Changes:
  • Fixed WIMGTOOL to properly support file systems that use directory separators other than the backslash. [tim lindner]
  • Added module for create and manage psion datapack images [Sandro Ronco]
• Source Changes:
  • The core is based on MAME 0.140. This incorporates all features of the
  • update to this core. [MAME team]
  • Fixed Z80-SIO and DMA to allow trs80m2 to boot CP/M and TRSDOS. [Curt Coder]
  • Fixed sector counting in TeleDisk images. [Curt Coder]
  • Added automatic sector translation to the basicdsk format when the
  • INTERLEAVE parameter is specified in a FLOPPY_OPTION block. [Curt Coder]
  • Fixed writing with the WD17xx. When writing, a timed data request will only set
  • the DRQ. All of the other functionality (for reading) will be omitted.
  • [tim lindner]
  • - Added support for external character generator ROM to HD61830 LCDC. [Curt Coder]
  • Introduced more accurate MC6847 palette. [Ensjo]
  • Refactored the HD61830 LCD to a C++ device. [Curt Coder]
  • Added call to fetch metadata (in cartslot.c) so correct PCB can be loaded. [tim lindner]
  • Refactored the RCA CDP1802 CPU to a C++ device (COSMAC). [Curt Coder]