MESS v0.140 Released

[Alastor]

M.E.S.S. - The Multi Emulator Super System

http://www.mess.org/

Changes :
New System Drivers Supported:
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- Tomy Pyuuta [anondumper]
- Elektronika KR-03 [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Microbee 128k [Robbbert]
- Microbee 256TC [Robbbert]
- Microbee PC85 Newer version [Robbbert]
- Microbee PC85 Swedish version [Robbbert]
- Panasonic JR-100U [Murray Moffatt, Miodrag Milanovic]
- National JR-100 [anonymous, Miodrag Milanovic]
- Novag SuperConstellation Chess Computer [Ralf Schaefer]
- Mephisto MM2 [Ralf Schaefer]
- Alice 32 [Sandro Ronco]


Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:
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- Microbee Premium PC85 [Robbbert]
- TRS-80 Model II [Curt Coder]
- Schachcomputer SC2 [Sandro Ronco]
- Psion Organiser II [Sandro Ronco]



Skeleton drivers:
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- Cromemco C-10
- CZK-80
- Robotron K8915
- Schleicher MES
- Fidelity Chess Challenger 10
- Systec Z80
- P112 Single Board Computer
- NEC TK-80
- SEL Z80 Trainer
- mc-CP/M-Computer
- TIM-011
- WaveMate Bullet
- ABC 1600 [Rune Tapper, Curt Coder]
- Atari TT030 [Curt Coder]
- Atari Falcon [Curt Coder]
- Atari Falcon040 [Curt Coder]
- IBM PS/2 Model 55SX [Joseba Epalza]
- Nakajima ES-210 (Spain) [Joseba Epalza]
- Laser PC4 [Joseba Epalza, Curt Coder]
- Atari Portfolio [Joseba Epalza, Curt Coder]



System Driver Changes:
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- [ABC800] Added a new revision of the floppy controller ROM. [exon, Curt Coder]

- [ABC800] Added a dump of the keyboard controller ROM. [exon, Curt Coder]

- [ABC800] Emulated the built-in keyboard. [Curt Coder, exon]

- [ABC800] Emulated the "fast" floppy disk controller. Note that only raw sector dumps work currently (td0 not supported). [Curt Coder, exon]

- [ABC800] Refactored drivers to define ADDRESS_MAP_MODERN. [Curt Coder]

- [ABC806] Added enhanced options ROM. [exon, Curt Coder]

- [ATARIST] Added several language variants. [Curt Coder]

- [COCO] Fixed delays in when propagating interrupts signals from the floppy disk controller to the CPU. Added a small pool of timers to allow overlapping interrupt signals. [tim lindner]

- [COCO] Added bi-directional bitbanger support. Needs further core changes to be fully implemented. [tim lindner]

- [HECTOR] Added initial support for DISK II unit [JJ Stacino]

- [MAC] Macintosh IIci now boots, promoted to working. [R. Belmont]

- [MAC] Improvements to PMU and Egret MCU emulation. [R. Belmont]

- [MAC] Greatly improved Apple Sound Chip emulation for Mac II, IIx, IIcx, and SE/30. [R. Belmont]

- [MEPHISTO] the mephisto chess board is defined as a machine (mboard). [Ralf Schaefer]

- [MEPHISTO] to reduce the artwork files glasgow, amsterd and mm4 are defined as PARENTS. [Ralf Schaefer]

- [MYCOM] Improved video and keyboard [Robbbert]

- [MBEE] Added some accessory roms, made various improvements. [Robbbert]

- [POFO] Refactored driver to define ADDRESS_MAP_MODERN. [Curt Coder]

- [PSION] Added support for datapack images [Sandro Ronco]

- [VIP] Refactored driver to define ADDRESS_MAP_MODERN and use the new RCA COSMAC CPU. [Curt Coder]



Imgtool Changes:
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- Fixed WIMGTOOL to properly support file systems that use directory separators other than the backslash. [tim lindner]

- Added module for create and manage psion datapack images [Sandro Ronco]



Source Changes:
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- The core is based on MAME 0.140. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

- Fixed Z80-SIO and DMA to allow trs80m2 to boot CP/M and TRSDOS. [Curt Coder]

- Fixed sector counting in TeleDisk images. [Curt Coder]

- Added automatic sector translation to the basicdsk format when the INTERLEAVE parameter is specified in a FLOPPY_OPTION block. [Curt Coder]

- Fixed writing with the WD17xx. When writing, a timed data request will only set the DRQ. All of the other functionality (for reading) will be omitted. [tim lindner]

- Added support for external character generator ROM to HD61830 LCDC. [Curt Coder]

- Introduced more accurate MC6847 palette. [Ensjo]

- Refactored the HD61830 LCD to a C++ device. [Curt Coder]

- Added call to fetch metadata (in cartslot.c) so correct PCB can be loaded. [tim lindner]

- Refactored the RCA CDP1802 CPU to a C++ device (COSMAC). [Curt Coder]