PinMAME, PinMAMEW, and Visual PinMAME v1.50

posted in Emulator Release by spacetiger on Nov 2nd, 2004

There was another MAME release today, but it wasn't in any way related to v0.88u2. In fact, it's built on the v0.76 source code. PinMAME is a project that attempts to emulate the hardware on virtually every solid state pinball machine in existence. The team has taken on some new members dredged up an old one from retirement in order to bring you this release. One of the most notable changes is the addition Stern sound emulation. Here are the other changes:
      Bugs Fixed
    • Bally 6803: improved display/lamp operation and fixed a problem with switches 41 to 48 for all games of this family
    • WMS System 11 and Data East: Fixed code to remove erraneous solenoid "spikes"
    • Corrected IRQ value for all games based on Bally hardware
    • Corrected half byte ram bug in Bally Video/Pin driver
    • Fixed some bugs in 8051 cpu core
    • Adjusted CPU & FIRQ frequency on the Alvin G games
    • WMS System 3 to 7: Improved solenoid smoothing method
    • WMS System 3 to 7: Fixed/Added support for game adjustment dip switches
    • Stern Golden Cue and Sharkey's Shootout now working
      New Features
    • Spinball hardware emulation including full Sound and DMD support
    • Mr. Game hardware emulation including sound and video support
    • Added tons of new games and clones
    • Emulation of Stern Pinball's new Sound board
    • Working Technoplay driver (X-Force) including display, lamps, solenoids, switches
    • New ARM7TDMI CPU Core and Atmel 9140008 CPU Core (for new Stern Sound)
    • Added External Hardware Addressing to 8051 cpu core
    • Added support for Serial UART mode 1 to 8051
    • Emulation of the 4094 Serial shifter chip (used in Championship Pub Dual LEDS)
    • New M114S Sound Chip Emulation (for Mr. Game)
    • Preliminary Nuova Bell driver (F1 Grand Prix)
    • Sound support for Zaccaria games from Winter Sports to Locomotion
    • Added AFM Saucer LEDs, and CP life lamps
    • Old Stern: emulation of the SB-300 and samples support for the VSU-100 Speech board
    • Bally: Samples support for early -32 and -50 sounds; much more accurate than before
    Again, head over to the MAME Emulators page for this.