MESS 0.37b15

posted in Emulator Release by outsider on Aug 17th, 2001

MESS for Win32 has been updated to version 0.37b15. Here's the changes: New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
  • NEC PC8801SR [Shouhei Nishi]
  • Emerson Arcadia 2001 (preliminary) [PeT]
  • More Nascom1/2 official releases [JoJo]
  • Sharp PC1403/1403H (preliminary) [PeT]
  • Texas Instruments TI-81 (preliminary) [Krzysztof Strzecha]
  • Texas Instruments TI-86 (preliminary) [Krzysztof Strzecha]
  • CoCo 3 PAL [Cowering and Nate Woods]
  • Intellivision & Intellivision Kbd Component (preliminary) [Frank Palazzolo]
  • Sord M5 (preliminary) [Kev Thacker]
  • Einstein TC-01 (preliminary) [Kev Thacker] System Driver Changes:
  • [ATARI7800] Fixed a bug in TIA emulation: now the driver doesn't lock anymore with some ports. [Frank]
  • [NC200] Keyboard reading and display memory address differences (compared to NC100) implemented. [Kev Thacker and Russell Marks]
  • [NC100/NC200] Changed CPU frequency to be more accurate [Kev Thacker and Russell Marks]
  • [PRAVETZ] Emulation of Apple2 disc controller interface (low 8D DOS and high 8D DOS is supported. (DOS1- 1.30 for low DOS and DOS 2.10 or better for high DOS) Disk images are ".DSK" and same as used by Apple2 driver. [Kev Thacker]
  • [KC COMPACT] colours generated from colour rom [Kev Thacker]
  • [TI85] Snapshot loading (VTI 2.0 save state files). Sound added (speaker connected to link port). Video engine totaly rewriten so grayscale works now. NVRAM support added. Link port emulation added (variables, memory backups and screen dumps receiving, variables and memory backups sending). Reset fixed. PCR emulation added.
  • [APPLE I] Support for the correct chargen ROM. Character grid has now the correct dimensions [JoJo]
  • [AQUARIUS] Added correct palette. [JoJo]
  • [ATARI5200] Changed the cart loading strategy. Many more carts work now. [PeT]
  • [COLECO] Changed MEMORY handlers which allows more carts to work (like aqua attack and tutankham). Small fix to input handling which means Defender and Centipede now work. Accurate NMI handling added which fixes remaining carts like Buck Rogers, DragonFire, Zenji, Bump and Jump, etc. Also, keys are configurable from the OSD for both controllers. Code cleanup. [Ben, Sean Young] Check out the included messnew file for the complete list of the changes. Download it from the MESS page.