FMAME32 0.60 Release 2 for W9x/XP/NT
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NEW IN RELEASE 2:

* Great 1000 Miles Rally 2 (new dump)

* Support for Space Invaders and Space Invaders Deluxe Artwork
  Download the Artworks at:
  http://www.geocities.com/vicerator/8080bw_Artwork.html

* Sorted more unknown games in Categories

* Disable sound in TAB menu for Mameinfo-, Driver- and History.dat

* Better ROM REGION output in the Mameinfo menu. For the output
  in the window use the Game List Fonts:
  Courier (Standard 10)
  Fixedsys (Standard 9)

* Compiled with m32v60.1s


OTHER FEATURES:

* 80 Game categories

* Filters for Mahjong and Quiz games

* Columns for Category and Source drivers

* View Source Driver, PCB info and Game FAQs


FOLDER FOR:

* Version: MAME 0.53 - 0.60
* CPU type:  ARM, M6502, Z80...68000
* Sound type: AY-8910, ES5505, Pockey, QSound...
* Source driver: 1942.c, 8080bw.c, gottlieb.c, sega.c ...
* Driver Flags: WRONG COLORS, IMPERFECT SOUND, NO COCKTAIL...
* Video Attributes: DUAL MONITOR, VIDEO HAS SHADOWS, VIDEO RGB DIRECT...
* Game types: CPS1/2, CVS, DECO Cassette, Horizontal, Vertical etc.



View Source Driver:
To view the source driver of a game you must have the MAME 0.60 source and the drivers
in the directory c:\mingw\mame\src\drivers\. To view a driver with your favourite
Editor or Notepad you must first associated it with the filename extension (.c) !
Use your Windows Explorer to do this. After this you can right-click on the
selected game and with the option >View Source Driver< you can view the driver.

View PCB info:
Download the newest PCB-Infos at http://www.mameworld.net/mameinfo/download/PCB-infos060.zip
and unzip the archiv directly into your MAME32 directory. The files are now in the
PCB directory and can be viewed with right-click and option >View PCB Info<.
This only works with the PCB-infos060 and higher.

View Game FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) 
Right-click on the game and option >Game FAQ<. The FAQ-files for a game can be text (.txt) or
HTML (.htm/html) and must be in the MAME32/faqs directory. If a game has a text and HTML file,
both files will be displayed.
At http://www.gamefaqs.com/coinop/arcade/ you can find many FAQS in txt or html format.





NEW FEATURES:


* Pong (Atari 1972)   The cult game. Remember: The 30th Anniversary of Atari's Pong is this year (August 13).
                      For better sound in Pong set in mame.cfg: resamplefilter = no


* Monaco GP (Sega 1979)


* Gambling Games:  Golden Star - goldstar
                   Golden Star (Blue version) - goldstbl
                   Pontoon (Tehkan 1985) - pontoon
                   Champion Skill (with Ability) -  csk227it
                   Champion Skill (Ability, Poker & Symbols) - csk234it


* SYSTEM16:

  - Fix graphic and sprites in Super Hang-On (bootleg), After Burner I+II, Shadow Dancer and Quartet
 
  - Music and sound in Wonder Boy III.
 
  - Digital control in Outrun


* Full sound in all Seta games (Twin Eagle, Zing Zing Zip, Meta Fox and others).

* Full sound in Copper I.

* Sound in the Cinematronic games War of the Worlds, Armor Attack and Star Hawk

* Preliminary sound in Polaris


* Turbo Tape in DECO Cassette games:
  - Whenever you start a DECO Cassette game, FixMAME sets the emulation to fullspeed
    (like F10), the frameskip to 11 and disabled the sound.
    A Duron-700 PC loads for example Cassette: Boulder Dash (cbdash) now in 12 seconds.
    After the tape was loaded, the settings will be set to default again.


* Listinfo:
  - Add to MAME32's listinfo option the sourcefilename of the driver.

    game (
	    name motos
	    description "Motos"
	    year 1985
	    manufacturer "Namco"
	    source "mappy.c"       <--- driver name
          .
          .

    This function is instead of the old history output.


* Working Sample AUDIT functions in MAME32                                         


MAMEINFO. DAT FEATURES:

- Compiled with Mameinfo Source v4.65 for Windows
- Mameinfo-, Driver-, History.dat are all in the window under the screenshot.
- Extra TAB menu points for Mameinfo-, Driver-, History and MAME STATISTICS
- Faster TAB menu textscroll
- TAB menu selector shows on GAME MAMEINFO at startup
- MAME32 shows all game flags/warnings in the window under the screenshot.
  When MAME is running with TAB and 'GAME MAMEINFO'.
- Palettesize in 'GAME INFORMATION' 
- History Buffer is set to 20480 kbytes (see Scramble History)


NEW TAB MENU/Dat-Display FUNCTIONS:

With 'GAME MAMEINFO' you list the following game informations:
- List the game info 'flags' (GAME_NO_SOUND, NO_COCKTAIL...)
- TODO List
- SETUP, SERVICE- and TESTMODE
- Reported bugs from the MAME Testing Project
- Work-In-Progress (WIP) news
- Category/Recommended Games
- Other Emulators for the game
- Romset (kb/files/zipsize)
- ROM REGION (listed by the program)
- ORIGINAL/CLONES (listed by the program)

With 'GAME DRIVERINFO' you list the following game informations:
- Game driver name and author
- Driver WIP news
- Supported games by the driver

With 'GAME HISTORY' you list the History.dat informations

With 'MAME STATISTICS' you list the following MAME statistics informations:
- The number of supported games
- Arcade, Clones, NeoGeo, Playch10, DECO Cass and CVS games
- Vector and Raster
- Screen Orientation and Stereo
- Various game info 'flags'
- Games sorted by year and type
- Romfiles and Filesize
- Typical romset sizes
- Hardware list: CPU, Sound and Input
- Monitor/Video ASPECT RATIO
- Dual Monitor, 24-bit Display, RGB direct, Shadows and Highlights
- FPS, Graphics Resolution and Palettesize List
- Drivers and supported games in MAME from 0.01 - 0.58
- All MAME versions and releases




MAME STATISTICS NOTES:

GAMES (ALL)     : GAMES(ALL) = ORIGINALS (+CLONES) + NEOGEO (+CLONES)  or
                  GAMES(ALL) = RASTER (+CLONES) + VECTOR (+CLONES)     or
                  GAMES(ALL) = HORIZONTAL (+CLONES) + VERTICAL (+CLONES)
NEOGEO/Playch10/: If you compile the Mameinfo Source with your MAME version you must
DECO Cass/CVS     have the drivers in the directory mame\src\drivers\ to calc all
                  these games, because the function that MAME STATISTICS use is
                  if (!ci_strcmp (s, drivers[i]->source_file+12)).
ROM NEEDS REDUMP: The number of games with 'ROM NEEDS REDUMP' cannot be displayed,
                  because the bad checksums of a rom is only to find in the romset.
HARDWARE        : CPU and SNDINTRF list the hardware of all >original< games, without
                  Clones and NeoGeo games. And the full name of the CPU TMS9980A is
                  TMS9980A/TMS9981 and 'Discrete' means Discrete Components.
                  The only game with a subsystems of 5 (YM2151, 007232, uPD7759,
                  Samples and Custom) sounds is 'tmnt'. This is not in the list.
TOTAL           : This is the number of all CPU or Sound hardware in the original games. 
DUAL MONITOR    : All games with two or more monitors (VIDEO_DUAL_MONITOR).
24-BIT DISPLAY  : All games with a palette that has 6 or more bits per gun, and would
                  therefore require a 24-bit display. This is entirely up to the OS
                  dependant layer, the bitmap will still be 16-bit (VIDEO_NEEDS_6BITS_PER_GUN).
HI/TRUE BITMAP  : All games that wants to use a hicolor or truecolor bitmap,
                  e.g. for alpha blending (VIDEO_RGB_DIRECT).
SHADOWS         : All games that automatically extend the palette creating a darker
                  copy for shadows (VIDEO_HAS_SHADOWS). Games: TMNT, Asterix and GI Joe.
HIGHLIGHTS      : All games that automatically extend the palette creating a
                  brighter copy for highlights (VIDEO_HAS_HIGHLIGHTS). Games: all SEGA C/C2.
RESOLUTIONS     : Displays all graphic resolutions and the number of games without the
                  Vector games. Because Vector games didn't have a graphic resolution.


>> Test 'MAME STATISTICS' with games like '720' or 'Mr. Do' <<







FMAME32 HISTORY:

0.60r2: Correct Mameinfo menu.
0.60r1: Add 'Game FAQs' and Aspect Ratio to Properties.
0.59r2: Correct wrong folder icons, MAME32 Sample Audit and the 0.59 Version folder.
        Note: The CPU type folder list the R3000 CPU twice, because the MAME CPU Interface
              use a R3000BE and R3000LE.
0.59r1: Correct CPU tpye folder (see M68705)








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