The Emulation Timeline:December 2002

0.62.1

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
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System Driver Changes:
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- [AQUARIUS/TRS80/MICROTAN] Now use tilemap. [Nate Woods]

- [GAMEBOY] Fixed envelope generation in sound channels 1 and 2. (bug #289)
  [Anthony Kruize]

- [APPLE2] Added support for lo-res color and 80 column text. [Nate Woods]

- [APPLE2] Fixed open/closed apple keys and joystick buttons. (bug #297,
  bug #302) [Nate Woods]

- [A800] Fixed a recently introduced bug in disk support. [Lawrence Gold]

- [SFZCH] Fixed and re-enabled. [Anthony Kruize]

- [T1000HX] Minor video optimizations. [Nate Woods]

Source Changes:
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- New generic code for emulating terminals, now in use by the Apple I and
  Kaypro drivers. [Nate Woods]

- Added the ability to specify a minimum resolution to display a system, in
  order to better support low resolution drivers. [Nate Woods]

0.62.1

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
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(none)

System Driver Changes:
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- [AQUARIUS/TRS80/MICROTAN] Now use tilemap. [Nate Woods]

- [GAMEBOY] Fixed envelope generation in sound channels 1 and 2. (bug #289)
  [Anthony Kruize]

- [APPLE2] Added support for lo-res color and 80 column text. [Nate Woods]

- [APPLE2] Fixed open/closed apple keys and joystick buttons. (bug #297,
  bug #302) [Nate Woods]

- [A800] Fixed a recently introduced bug in disk support. [Lawrence Gold]

- [SFZCH] Fixed and re-enabled. [Anthony Kruize]

- [T1000HX] Minor video optimizations. [Nate Woods]

Source Changes:
---------------
- New generic code for emulating terminals, now in use by the Apple I and
  Kaypro drivers. [Nate Woods]

- Added the ability to specify a minimum resolution to display a system, in
  order to better support low resolution drivers. [Nate Woods]

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What's New (since the last alpha):
	- sped up C CPU core a bunch 
	- several key changes to NES core -- more accuracy
	- new tile cache for both BG and Sprite Tiles
	- new APU core -- square 1 & 2, triangle and noise emulated	
	- rewrote all BeOS video code
	- rewrote all BeOS sound code
	- fullscreen video is now 2x without scanlines (looks better)
	- probably a bunch of other things I can't recall

Boob!boy 1.5 (http://www.boob.co.uk)
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Port of Visual Boy (http://www.emuhq.com/vboy)
by cyRUS (cyrus@boob.co.uk)

I dont have the time nor will to work on a gui for this right now so here's a little preview version of Boob!boy which is now written using KallistiOS. If I have time I'll add support for buffer switching and compile a version using PowerVR dma to see if its noticeably faster or not.
This should work with all gameboy black&white, gameboy colour, and super gameboy games. (let me know if the borders are displaying or not for sgb games!)

Utilize as follows:
You'll probably only want to try this release if you have a serial cable or bba/lan but do the following:
1) Create an empty directory 'boobboy'
2) Rename the game you want to play to 'game.gb'
3) Place it in the 'boobboy' directory
4) Go to the parent directory of 'boobboy' and type 'mkisofs -o boobboy.iso boobboy' (you may need to download cdrecord for win32 first!)
5) Then make sure boobboy.bin is in your parent directory, and upload using dc-tool with iso redirection...
eg:
dc-tool -t 192.168.0.4 -x boobboy.bin -i boobboy.iso

-CyRUS

Boob!boy 1.5 (http://www.boob.co.uk)
======== ===

Port of Visual Boy (http://www.emuhq.com/vboy)
by cyRUS (cyrus@boob.co.uk)

I dont have the time nor will to work on a gui for this right now so here's a little preview version of Boob!boy which is now written using KallistiOS. If I have time I'll add support for buffer switching and compile a version using PowerVR dma to see if its noticeably faster or not.
This should work with all gameboy black&white, gameboy colour, and super gameboy games. (let me know if the borders are displaying or not for sgb games!)

Utilize as follows:
You'll probably only want to try this release if you have a serial cable or bba/lan but do the following:
1) Create an empty directory 'boobboy'
2) Rename the game you want to play to 'game.gb'
3) Place it in the 'boobboy' directory
4) Go to the parent directory of 'boobboy' and type 'mkisofs -o boobboy.iso boobboy' (you may need to download cdrecord for win32 first!)
5) Then make sure boobboy.bin is in your parent directory, and upload using dc-tool with iso redirection...
eg:
dc-tool -t 192.168.0.4 -x boobboy.bin -i boobboy.iso

-CyRUS

Merry Christmas! I'm releasing a Christmas gift for you all - a build of DCGen!

I'm not sure when the source from this build was made, as I found it on a backup CD from my old hard drive before it died earlier this year. So I can't exactly tell you all of what's new - or how it works as I just built it, and it hasn't been tested - but here it is anyway - DCGen 12/25/02. :P
UPDATE 12/29/02 - DCGen 12/25/02 Source.

OK, here's what I'm doing now:

# I'm moving all the controller code and other relevant code to the newest KOS release:

# Themeable menus didn't really work the way they were supposed to - so I'm going to go about doing it a different way. (So to those who hoped that the Christmas release had theme support - I'm sorry - not this time, but I'm working on it. :P)

# All sorts of little things. :D

Merry Christmas! I'm releasing a Christmas gift for you all - a build of DCGen!

I'm not sure when the source from this build was made, as I found it on a 
backup CD from my old hard drive before it died earlier this year. So I can't 
exactly tell you all of what's new - or how it works as I just built it, and it 
hasn't been tested - but here it is anyway - DCGen 12/25/02. :P

UPDATE 12/29/02 - DCGen 12/25/02 Source.

OK, here's what I'm doing now:

# I'm moving all the controller code and other relevant code to the newest KOS 
release:

# Themeable menus didn't really work the way they were supposed to - so I'm 
going to go about doing it a different way. (So to those who hoped that the 
Christmas release had theme support - I'm sorry - not this time, but I'm 
working on it. :P)

# All sorts of little things. :D

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Solomon's Key (Japan)
© Tecmo 1986

speed is  100%   or close to it  real arcade speed 

THIS release was fun because when i first started with it , i was geting only about 80% or less speed and the sound was lagging bad after some tweaking its much nicer  im happy with that and these changes may make other games faster ,also the menu before the main roms selection,is taking shape  ive got dc_land grafix and puting them together its just a test but IT looks sort of cool ...  the game has auto BILINEAR filtering AT the moment so all the grafix ingame dont look blocky as they would on pc mame .. ill take it off if people dont like it.... thats about it  the screen at the botton is cut off slightly  but does not effect gameplay that i can tell so far

full sound   start of the  menu before  the main emulator
with title  some added features like   anti-alisa  can choose now but its buggy so i dont advise it

sound is now working due to the help of warmtoe his help was invaluable
 "Press OK" screen ive not changed yet or the copyright screen as that may not be allowed dont know waiting for a reply

THats about it  and heres the request    im working on adding most of those features .
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OK ive made some changes to the z-80 core  for this game it seems to be 100% speed the sound is a little off but is working when first starting select frame skip (1) sound on yes  then press a  to start the emulations  the copyright screen is messed just press left and right on the controler to  get by then you can play with these settings its full speed and sound but

rom set is the Solomon's Key (Japan)
© Tecmo 1986

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Cabal (US set 1) only use this romset
© Tad (Fabtek license) 1988


speed is  100%   or close to it  real arcade speed 

  the game has auto BILINEAR filtering AT the moment  the menu before the  romselection screen has been changed to include more dc_land examples .....

full sound  but its not correct   start of the  menu before  the main emulator
with title  some added features like   anti-alisa  can choose now but its buggy so i dont advise it

sound is now working due to the help of warmtoe his help was invaluable
 "Press OK" screen ive not changed yet or the copyright screen as that may not be allowed dont know waiting for a reply

THats about it  and heres the request    im working on adding most of those features .
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when first starting select frame skip (1) sound on yes  then press a  to start the emulation  the copyright screen is messed just press left and right on the controler to  get by then you can play with these settings its close to full speed and sound but the controls are a little hard to play on this game 


Cabal (US set 1) only use this rom set
© Tad (Fabtek license) 1988

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vist DC_LAND http://www.stalemeat.net/dc.html  great lib for easyer menus and 2d grafix



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1.3.1
  19-Dec-02       - PalmOS(r) 5!

                  Serious modification to blitting engine, save game state
                  and general memory configuration/tweaking to be 100% API
                  compliant for PalmOS(r) 5 devices.

                   >> NOTE: liberty contains absolutely ZERO arm code! <<

                  Our internal testing has shown that Liberty running on a 
                  Tungste

2 ADVANCEMESS VERSION 0.62.0.0 2002/12
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* All from AdvanceMAME 0.62.2.

2 ADVANCEMESS VERSION 0.62.0.0 2002/12
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* All from AdvanceMAME 0.62.2.

2 ADVANCEMESS VERSION 0.62.0.0 2002/12
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* All from AdvanceMAME 0.62.2.

2 ADVANCEMESS VERSION 0.62.0.0 2002/12
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* All from AdvanceMAME 0.62.2.

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2.21b
	GENERAL
    Fixed a severe bug in the startup code that caused nebula
    to allocate huge amounts of RAM for absolutely no use on
    startup. This was causing crashes in WinXP/2k and wrong
    graphics decryption in big neogeo games.

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zerowing
Gametype:  Shooter/
Toaplan 1989
 


speed is 50 to 60 %  speed slow in game menus and sound is not right yet

  start of the  menu before  the main emulator
with title  some added features like   anti-alisa  can choose now but its buggy

sound is now working due to the help of warmtoe his help was invaluable
No "Press OK" screen ive not changed yet or the copyright screen as that may not be allowed dont know waiting for a reply

THats about it  and heres the request    im working on adding most of those features .
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by request og gatesofbill   first slow beta  its playable with sound off and on but the sound is  not right  frameskip and BILINEAR grafix filter are being used

press left and right when it says type ok then wait it takes a little while to setup  also  when you first start it select frameskip 1 sound  on  then if you need to change things  press  start and (a) together to change frame skip or mute sound .....



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0.62

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
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- Odyssey 2 [PeT, Dopefish Justin]

System Driver Changes:
----------------------
- [SPECTRUM] Fixed snapshot loading. [Nate Woods]

- [COCO] Fixed some bugs related to handling of degenerate JVC files (where the
  file size is less than 161280 bytes) (bug #281) [Nate Woods]

- [SNES] Fixed a GDMA bug that was causing graphics corruption. Added support
  for FastROMs. Improved object and background layering priorities. Colour
  addition/subtraction is greatly improved. Added vertical mosaic effect. Fixed
  Mode 7 rotation and draw outside screen area. Added x/y flip to Mode 7. Added
  support for the back colour constant. [Anthony Kruize]

- [APPLE2] Fixed keyboard and aspect ratio, and also added color, joystick, and
  natural keyboard support. (bug #291) [Nate Woods]

Source Changes:
---------------
- The core is based on MAME 0.62.  This incorporates all features of the 
  update to this core.  [MAME team]

- Added new snapshot/quickload code, to hide the details about loading
  snapshots and quickloads from the drivers.  [Nate Woods]

- Added the ability for systems to override the friendly names of devices. [Nate
  Woods]
  
- [WIN32] Added the ability to toggle the frames per second view, differentiate
  between soft and hard resets in certain systems, and to save screenshots in
  the new UI.  [Nate Woods]

0.62

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
------------------------------------------------------
- Odyssey 2 [PeT, Dopefish Justin]

System Driver Changes:
----------------------
- [SPECTRUM] Fixed snapshot loading. [Nate Woods]

- [COCO] Fixed some bugs related to handling of degenerate JVC files (where the
  file size is less than 161280 bytes) (bug #281) [Nate Woods]

- [SNES] Fixed a GDMA bug that was causing graphics corruption. Added support
  for FastROMs. Improved object and background layering priorities. Colour
  addition/subtraction is greatly improved. Added vertical mosaic effect. Fixed
  Mode 7 rotation and draw outside screen area. Added x/y flip to Mode 7. Added
  support for the back colour constant. [Anthony Kruize]

- [APPLE2] Fixed keyboard and aspect ratio, and also added color, joystick, and
  natural keyboard support. (bug #291) [Nate Woods]

Source Changes:
---------------
- The core is based on MAME 0.62.  This incorporates all features of the 
  update to this core.  [MAME team]

- Added new snapshot/quickload code, to hide the details about loading
  snapshots and quickloads from the drivers.  [Nate Woods]

- Added the ability for systems to override the friendly names of devices. [Nate
  Woods]
  
- [WIN32] Added the ability to toggle the frames per second view, differentiate
  between soft and hard resets in certain systems, and to save screenshots in
  the new UI.  [Nate Woods]

0.62.3
 ------
   - Changed the CPU speed for Dimahoo and Great Mahou Daisakusen to compensate for the
     game using the faster VRAM to speed things up.
   - Added Kale's Kaneko Super Nova RTC playback fix.
   - Recorded speed display (F11) now disappears once playback ends, rather than show
     some outrageous figure.

v0.5c:
   - ScreenShot-Funktion aus v0.5 überarbeitet, nochmal überarbeitet,
     verflucht, ferngesehen, nochmal überarbeitet, komplett neu ge-
     schrieben, für gut befunden, eingebaut :)
   - Es gab einen kleinen Konflikt zwischen Joystick/-Pad und Tastatur-
     Steuerung, wodurch die Tastatur-Steuerung stellenweise hakte -
     gefixt!

 - new ogl/d3d/mesa cfg option: "EnableKeys" (default=1) to enable/disable the renderer keys
- d3d plugin compiled without debug key support

2.21a
	CPS2
	Added new XOR tables for
		- Dimahoo (US 000121)
		- Great Mahou Daisakusen (Japan 000121)
		- Battle Circuit (Euro 970319)
	Changed Battle circuit parent set to Euro version.

	NEOGEO
	Fixed Neogeo CD support broken in last version.

Notes
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Welcome to the first official Win32 port
of Laser. We hope you enjoy this release of
Laser!

Thanks to Atani for the previous Win32 port. :D

Notes
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Welcome to the first official Win32 port
of Laser. We hope you enjoy this release of
Laser!

Thanks to Atani for the previous Win32 port. :D

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Mimic 2.11 03-12-2002 (r21)
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Fix:WindowsNT/2000/XP issue resolved

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2002/12/31

Happy New Year!

2002/12/21

Few more screenshots..

• Note from EmuWiki.com : the screenshots could not be retrieved.

2002/12/20

Thanks to : Iceman2k Jay Elrod TommyboyX

for their donations. Thank you for your support of the project.

2002/12/18

Does any one recognize this screen? :-))))))

• Note from EmuWiki.com : the screenshots could not be retrieved.

2002/12/13

YESSSS we've got huge breakthrough tonight (it's 3:18AM here). Fresh screenshot can be seen in our screen shots page For questions please visit our forums.

The Win32 port of MESS has been updated to 0.62.