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Atari 7800 Updates

Emulators updated for Atari 7800.

There was V7800 online on Andys Roms, now added is ProSystem 1.3 for Windows and linux source. Also added is MESS for Win 32, 64 and the source for linux and mac. The final addition is EMU7800 1.0 for Windows – released on the 1st of January 2012.

ProSystem 1.3

  • Modified snapshot engine (Take screenshots by pressing F12 without any prompt)
  • Main menu changes
  • Text moved to resource (for future translations)
  • Updated palette
  • Sample rate property/configuration fixed
  • Other optimizations

ProSystem 1.2

  • Implemented INTFLG (Beef Drop now works)
  • Added Command Line parameters
  • Added mapping of Exit and Menu Enable keys
  • Added storing of Menu Enable parameter

 

MESS 0.144

New System Drivers Supported:
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- Sanyo MBC-200 [Matt Dawson,Angelo Salese,Miodrag Milanovic]

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:
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- Juicebox [Tim Schuerewegen]
- Avigo [Sandro Ronco]

Skeleton drivers:
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- BK-8T Terminal [DATAsoft]

System Driver Changes:
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- ti99: Fixed GROM address counter handling and GRAMKracker’s
wrong RAM pointer [Michael Zapf]
- ti99: Fixed GRAMKracker’s write protection [Michael Zapf]
- pc1512: Added a dump of the WD1015 MCU. [John Elliott]
- mac: Further improvements to Quadra 700; System 7.5.0 (and probably 7.1)
will boot, but system remains NOT_WORKING due to many known flaws.
Fixed slot interrupts on IIci so 4-head operation is possible. [R. Belmont]
- iq151: Added slot interface and moved video32/video64/disc2
emulation into slots. [Sandro Ronco]
- iq151: Added emulation of Grafik module. [Sandro Ronco]
- amiga: a number of games seem to get confused when there’s two drives
(they wait for a index pulse on the second) [O. Galibert]
- mac: Fixed name of Asante MC3NB card, added Apple NuBus Ethernet Card
which the Asante is a perfect clone of, fixed 24-bit mirroring so
ethernet cards work in all slots [R. Belmont]
- amstrad: Added support for ROMbox, SSA-1 speech synth and DK’Tronics speech
synth to be used in a daisy-chain of expansion devices. [Barry Rodewald]
- samcoupe: Hook up the new wd1772, format support incomplete though [O. Galibert]
- abc1600: Added portrait/landscape layouts. [Curt Coder]
- abc800: Refactored the ABC bus to single-slot (as it really is). [Curt Coder]
- aes: cleanup of code, and made aes use neogeo softlist from MAME [David Haywood]
- mac: fix SCC so AppleTalk check fails gracefully instead of locking up;
removed ROM patch on II/IIx/IIcx since it’s no longer necessary [R. Belmont]

Software Lists:
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- snes.xml: new dump added, NHL ’97 Revision A [badinsults]
- snes.xml: redumped and profiled arround 100 cartridges [MESSfan]
- lynx.xml: stripped headers of dumps, removed bad dumps, added auto-rotate code [Huygens]
- astrocde.xml: fix errors and add several new or previously missing dumps [ranger_lennier]

Source Changes:
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- amigafdc: Upgrade and fixes [O. Galibert]
- wd1772: Adapt the pll to a 8MHz frequency [O. Galibert]
- ipf: Describe the remaining fields [O. Galibert, SPS]
- floppy,wd1772: First stab at write support, in-memory only for now [O. Galibert]
- ipf: weak bits are usually badly-written/not written zones [O. Galibert]
- floppy: Slot-ize the floppies so that you can choose
how many are connected [O. Galibert, R. Belmont]
- ami_dsk: ADF write support [O. Galibert]
- refactored the Commodore IEC bus to use slots. You can now connect up
to 4 IEC floppy drives of your choice (1540/1541/1571/1581) to
a VIC-20, C64, C128, C16, Plus-4, or C65. [Curt Coder]
- refactored the IEEE-488 bus to use slots. You can now connect up
to 4 IEEE-488 floppy drives of your choice (C2040/C3040/C4040/
C8050/C8250/SFD1001) to a Commodore PET or CBMB. [Curt Coder]

EMU7800 1.0

- Small performance optimization by using 32-bit integer arrays over byte arrays for framebuffer data.
- Fixed: Broken functionality on Console Tab for configuring unrecognized roms.
- Fixed: Broken Key Binding functionality in certain scenarios.
- DirectX: Eliminated synchronization with vertical retrace to make UX acceptable on a wider range of systems.
- DirectX: Now runs when there is no system audio device available.
- Custom binary serialization necessary for the Windows Phone platform.
- Introduced lightweight WebInstaller (ClickOnce) option to prepare for future deprecation of the .msi installer.
- Upgraded Silverlight version to Silverlight 5.
- Initial Windows Phone release to Windows Phone Marketplace.
- More games added to the Silverlight distribution.
- Added: ROM entry for Pac-Man Collection (an Atari 7800 Homebrew.)

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