MESS 0.112

docs/license.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 1997-2006, Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team
+Copyright (c) 1997-2007, Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team
 All rights reserved. 
 
 Redistribution and use of this code or any derivative works are permitted

docs/mame.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 MAME(tm), the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
-Copyright (c) 1997-2006 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team
+Copyright (c) 1997-2007 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team
 MAME is a trademark owned by Nicola Salmoria
 
 

docs/messnew.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,132 @@
+0.112
+
+New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
+------------------------------------------------------
+- Amiga 500 NTSC (former "amiga" driver) [Ernesto Corvi]
+- Amiga 500 PAL [Ernesto Corvi]
+- Amiga 1000 NTSC [Ernesto Corvi]
+- Apple IIj+ [Nick Westgate]
+
+
+
+System Driver Changes:
+----------------------
+- [AMIGA] Fixed regressions; now boots properly.  Also added keyboard support,
+  512KB "slow-ram" support, preliminary support for Datel Action Replay 1 and
+  many floppy controller fixes.  Added Chip RAM mirroring and Extended ADF 1
+  disk format.  [Ernesto Corvi]
+
+- [APPLE2] Fixed crash when ramsize was set to 4k.  (bug #1048) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [ATARI] Fixed hang on reset bug.  (bug #982) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [AVIGO] Removed redundant artwork in avigo.zip.  (bug #1043) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [C16] Fixed crash when ramsize was set to less than 64k.  (bug #1049) [Nate
+  Woods]
+
+- [COCO] Fixed crash when ramsize was set to less than 32k.  (bug #993) [Nate
+  Woods]
+
+- [COCO] Fixed hi-res interface regression introduced in 0.105.  Also cleaned
+  up how input devices work.  (bug #1025) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [COCO] Fixed regression in one-bit sound.  (bug #1041) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [DGNBETA] More fully implemented certain graphics modes.  [Phill
+  Harvey-Smith]
+
+- [GAMEBOY] Updated aspect ratios for gameboy, gbpocket, and gbcolor to 10:9,
+  supergb to 4:3.  [Belegdol]
+
+- [IP204415] Fixed driver.  (bug #986) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [MK2] Updated to use the new artwork system.  [Justin Kerk]
+
+- [MSX2] Fixed MSX2 PAL framerates.  (bug #963) [MJSTY]
+
+- [N64] Added the .bin file extension.  (bug #1016) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [SATURN] Saturn driver back up to date so it starts up and shows the boot
+  screens properly.  [R. Belmont]
+
+- [THOMSON] Fixed device name that clashed with "cc" option on main MESS.  (bug
+  #994) [Antoine Mine]
+
+- [THOMSON] Improved video and mouse emulation, and all machines now use the
+  Model 2 Game Extension.  [Antoine Mine]
+
+- [TRS80] Fixed TRS-80 drivers.  [Robbert, R. Belmont]
+
+- [VTECH1] Fixed memory leak.  (bug #1021) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [VTECH1] Rewrote memory and input handling, added support for the 4MB
+  extension.  Also changed BASICV2.1 loading and corrected Laser 310 clock
+  frequency.  [Dirk Best]
+
+
+
+User Interface Changes:
+-----------------------
+- Changed -biospath command line option to be -rompath.  -biospath still works
+  but it is secondary and configuration files created by MESS will use
+  -rompath.  Also removed -softwarepath, paths passed on the command line will
+  now be absolute.  The concept of software paths will continue within the
+  MESS GUI.  [Nate Woods]
+
+- [Windows] Fixed bug that could cause the loss of mouse capture when toggling
+  the menu bar.  (bug #977) [Nate Woods]
+
+- [Windows] Fixed regression when saving and loading save states.  (bug #1035)
+  [Nate Woods]
+
+- [Windows] Fixed device create bugs that could cause file extensions to not
+  be specified by default or crashes.  (bug #1040) [Nate Woods]
+
+
+
+Imgtool Changes:
+----------------
+- Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when opening ZIP files.  [Nate Woods]
+
+- Updated help text.  [Nate Woods]
+
+
+
+Source Changes:
+----------------
+- The core is based on MAME 0.112.  This incorporates all features of the
+  update to this core.  [MAME team]
+
+- Fixed certain crashes that occured on hard reset.  (bug #988) [Nate Woods]
+
+- Fixed bug that caused a crash when a device was passed an empty string at
+  the command line.  (bug #991) [Nate Woods]
+
+- Fixed error reporting when startup images are not properly loaded up.  (bug
+  #928, #990, #992) [Nate Woods]
+
+- Fixed crash when unmounting images in the old UI file manager.  (bug #998)
+  [Nate Woods]
+
+- Fixed various memory leaks in debug builds when the debugger is not enabled.
+  (bug #1018) [Nate Woods]
+
+- Fixed hash file processing.  [MJSTY]
+
+- Fixed problem creating printer output.  (bug #1039) [Nate Woods]
+
+- Removed redundant checks for tilemap allocation failute.  [Dirk Best]
+
+- [Messtest] Now displays emulation error output.  [Nate Woods]
+
+- [Windows] Fixed several memory leaks in the Windows code.  [Nate woods]
+
+- [Windows] COnsolidated some MESS specific OSD code into the MAME OSD core
+  code and removed redundant directory functions.  [Nate Woods]
+
+
+
 0.111
 
 New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
@@ -2125,7 +2254,7 @@ User Interface Changes:
 
 Imgtool Changes:
 ----------------
-(none)
+- Created a Cybiko image driver.  [Tim Schuerwegen]
 
 
 

docs/windows/compile.htm

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ <h1>Compiling MESS</h1>
 written in C, with some assembler hacks in speed-critical places. The Win32 version of <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> is compiled with
 <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a>, which is the minimalist Win32 port of a C compiler called <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">GCC</a> and its
 libraries.</p>
-<p>This particular how-to is written for <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> 0.80, but with a bit of luck you can compile other versions with the
+<p>This particular how-to is written for <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> 0.111, but with a bit of luck you can compile other versions with the
 help of this page. This how-to tells how to compile the Win32 version of <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a>, which includes both the command
 line and GUI versions.</p>
 <p>The MinGW development environment will be installed to <span class="filename">C:\MINGW</span> and <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> sources
@@ -71,38 +71,24 @@ <h2>3. Get MinGW</h2>
 <td><span><b>Description</b></span></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td><span><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe?download">MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe</a></span></td>
-<td><span>12525 kB</span></td>
-<td><span>MinGW 2.0.0 compile environment for use in Windows.</span></td>
+<td><span><a href="http://mamedev.org/tools/mingw-mame-20060210.exe">mingw-mame-20060210.exe</a></span></td>
+<td><span>6718 kB</span></td>
+<td><span>MinGW tools for MAME/MESS.</span></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td><span><a href="http://www.mame.net/downmain.html">mingw-over.zip</a></span></td>
-<td><span>549 kB</span></td>
-<td><span>Other files needed to compile <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> in the MinGW compile environment. Uncompress this over the MinGW
-directory and add <span class="filename">c:\mingw\bin</span> to your PATH. Compile the Win32 version by typing make.</span></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td><span><a href="http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-3.2.2-20030208-1.tar.gz">gcc-3.2.2-20030208-1.tar.gz</a></span></td>
-<td><span>7148 kB</span></td>
-<td><span><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">GCC</a> 3.2.2, required for <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> 0.80. Uncompress this over the MinGW
-directory.</span></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td><span><a href="http://www.mame.net/zips/dx70_mgw.zip">dx70_mgw.zip</a></span></td>
-<td><span>240 kB</span></td>
-<td><span>DirectX 7.0 headers, required for <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> 0.80. Uncompress this over the MinGW directory.</span></td>
+<td><span><a href="http://alleg.sourceforge.net/files/dx80_mgw.zip">dx80_mgw.zip</a></span></td>
+<td><span>451 kB</span></td>
+<td><span>DirectX 8.0 headers, required for <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> 0.111. Uncompress this over the MinGW directory.</span></td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 <hr />
 <h2>4. Uncompress MinGW</h2>
 <p>Next we will uncompress the MinGW files and set up some environment variables so that MinGW is functional. First run the MinGW installer, which
-will install a fresh MinGW installation.&nbsp; Now you need to add a few associated files to the MiNGW installation.&nbsp; Open up a command prompt.
+will install a fresh MinGW installation.&nbsp; Now you need to add a few associated files to the MinGW installation.&nbsp; Open up a command prompt.
 You can find it either from under Start Menu&nbsp;--&gt; Programs, or you can simply select Run and type command.com into the dialog box. When you
 have it open, type <span class="command">cd \Program Files\MinGW</span> &nbsp;and hit enter to change to the correct directory. After that, type</p>
 <ul>
-<li><span class="command">gunzip c:\download\gcc-3.2.2-20030208-1.tar.gz</span></li>
-<li><span class="command">tar -xvf gcc-3.2.2-20030208-1.tar</span></li>
-<li><span class="command"><span class="command">unzip c:\download\dx70_mgw.zip -d c:\</span></span></li>
+<li><span class="command"><span class="command">unzip c:\download\dx80_mgw.zip -d c:\</span></span></li>
 </ul>
 <p>If you do not see the message "1 archive was successfully processed.", re-download the archives. If you get a "Bad commmand or file name", verify
 once again that you have <span class="filename">unzip.exe</span> in <span class="filename">c:\windows\command\</span></p>
@@ -129,22 +115,22 @@ <h2>6. Compile MESS</h2>
 <td><span><b>Description</b></span></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td><a href="http://mirrors.xmission.com/mame/main/mame080s.zip"><b>mame080s.zip</b></a></td>
-<td>9208 kB</td>
-<td>This is the source archive of <a href="http://www.mame.net/">MAME</a> 0.80.</td>
+<td><a href="http://www.mamedev.org/releases/mame0111s.zip"><b>mame0111s.zip</b></a></td>
+<td>12136 kB</td>
+<td>This is the source archive of <a href="http://www.mame.net/">MAME</a> 0.111.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td><a href="http://www.retrogames.com/mess/mess080s.zip"><b>mess080s.zip</b></a></td>
-<td>2717 kB</td>
-<td>This is the source archive of <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> 0.80.</td>
+<td><a href="http://www.mess.org/files/mess0111s.zip"><b>mess0111s.zip</b></a></td>
+<td>10819 kB</td>
+<td>This is the source archive of <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> 0.111.</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 <p>Go to the download directory by typing <span class="command">cd \download</span> and uncompress the <a href="http://www.mame.net/">MAME</a> and
 <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> sources by typing the following commands</p>
 <ul>
-<li><span class="command">unzip mame080s.zip</span></li>
+<li><span class="command">unzip mame0111s.zip</span></li>
 <li><span class="command">unzip mame.zip -d c:\mingw\mess\</span></li>
-<li><span class="command">unzip</span> <span class="command">mess080s.zip -d c:\mingw\mess\</span> .</li>
+<li><span class="command">unzip</span> <span class="command">mess0111s.zip -d c:\mingw\mess\</span> .</li>
 </ul>
 <p>Then you can compile <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a>. Type <span class="command">make -f makefile.mes</span> and hit enter. This will
 finally compile <a href="http://www.mess.org/">MESS</a> itself. If you want to compile the CPU optimized versions, type <span class="command">make -f