Past-O-Rama 0.05
posted in Emulator Release by xip on Mar 21st, 2001
Past-O-Rama is a multiple Sega 8-bit system emulator. It supports the SG1000, Master System, and GameGear. Actually, the Master System and GameGear support is new in this version. Here's what's new:
SG1000
improved the SG1000 support (can run now 99,99% of the games)
rewrite the TMS9918 code and implentation of a tile caching engine
( great speed gain )
changed the saves states format (for the use of the new comment feature)
warning old save states won't work anymore !
games fixed : Rock'n Bolt, Safari Hunt
MasterSystem / Mark3 / GameGear
Add MasterSystem support
Add GameGear support
SMSVDP support for Mode 4, Mode 5 and Mode 2 using a tile caching engine
i've follow the great docs from Charles MacDonald (F16 fighter is working)
3D glasses support
FM chip support
Voices support (thanks to Steph)
country selection for SMS and GG
Emu / User interface
Total recoding with a implementation of a driver way architecture
Inputs fully redifinable using a cool joypad picture done by Alexandre Dumur (Tohtori Paha)
Add resolution selection for fullscreen mode
add a feature allowing to add comments to the save states and displaying then in the UI
change the Sizex1,Sizex2,.. to Size + and Size - so can scale the window to your needs.
add frame skip support
add the possibility to use the video memory , it can be speedier on most video card
can choose at the same time vsync and speed throttle
50/60hz selection
can disabling sprites or background
Sprites limit
Hardware pause and reset
Remove the roms path options replaced by the last directory of the last opened roms
Zip files support
Saving the directory of the SRAM and STATES path
15,16,32 bpp support
can swith to full screen mode using the ESC key
possibility to switch fullscreen after a rom load
possibility to load a rom in fullscreen mode
remove the sound rate selection as it was not useful
Get it at the Master System/GameGear page.