MESS 37b10

posted in Emulator Release by dhalamar on Dec 25th, 2000

The DOS port of MESS has been updated to v37b10. Here's what's new:

Several drivers may be broken due to the MAME memory handling changes. And as a result, the Amiga has been temporarily removed. Note: .inp record/playback does still not work currently. New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

  • Super Vision [PeT]
  • SVI-318 and SVI-328 [Sean Young]
  • Pravetz,Pravetz 8D (clone of Oric) [Stefano Priore]

    • System Driver Changes:

  • [ATOM] Implemented colour change support of M6847. Fixed eprom box emulation. [Kev Thacker]
  • [LASER110/LASER200/LASER310] Changed video hardware to use M6847 [Kev Thacker]
  • [NC100] Added MENU key and fixed problems with characters being dropped in serial transfer [Kev Thacker]
  • [NC200] Added MENU key, fixed some key assignments, fixed a memory problem. Blockade game now works. Fixed characters being dropped in serial transfer [Kev Thacker]
  • [ORIC] Added VSYNC cable hardware; This can be enabled with a dipswitch in the UI. Added support for Jasmin floppy disc interface; Floppy disc interface can be chosen in UI: None, Microdisc or Jasmin. Improved video emulation; hires/text changes in the middle of a line will now work. [Kev Thacker]
  • [COCO 3] Fixed the GIME Timer so that it isn't resetting on writes to $FF95 [Nate Woods]
  • [COCO 3h] 6309 core completed; so NitrOS9 now runs. GAME_NOT_WORKING flag removed [Tim Linder]

    • Other Changes:

  • The core is based on MAME 0.37b10. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]
  • [IMGTOOL] Added filter support, and filters that translate endoflines, as well as the startings of BASIC tokenization. Also updated the docs [NateWoods]

    • You can download this from the MESS Emulator section.