MAME 0.106u2 has been released over at MAMEDev. Video system updates are rife. You need a special compile and mame.ini to enable D3D. See the whatsnew.txt for details.
No information yet on the new CHD gv027j1.chd added in MAME 0.106u1.
I've updated all but the CHD Info: Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 288 + 504 = 792, no change to baddumps and no change to nodumps from MAME 0.106u1. See Tim's Emulation Page.
MAME 0.106u1 has been released over at MAMEDev. Several changes to the video system are underway. See the whatsnew.txt for details.
Sadly, xml2info.exe is broken in the current release. Essentially the standard command 'mame.exe -listxml | xml2info.exe > listinfo.txt' fails with the error '97:aspectx:integer number expected'. Examination of the source code and listxml output shows that aspectx and aspecty attributes in the video tag have been promoted from integers to floats. I applied a fix to xml2info.c since my Info scripts critically rely on the listinfo output. For those interested, here is the fix - xml2info.c.
A new CHD has been added in this release of MAME. It's for the game "Susume! Taisen Puzzle-Dama (GV027 JAPAN 1.20)". The CHD is gv027j1.chd. I have no information on the CHD at this stage.
I've updated all but the CHD Info: Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 288 + 504 = 792, no change to baddumps and no change to nodumps from MAME 0.106. See Tim's Emulation Page.
MAME 0.106 has been released over at MAMEDev. See the whatsnew.txt for details.
I've updated all the Infos: CHD, Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 288 + 504 = 792, no change to baddumps and no change to nodumps from MAME 0.105u5. See Tim's Emulation Page.
I have two large PNG images at this site, displaying arcade background maps for StarForce and 1942.
Until my latest Windows update, IE used to display these maps perfectly. It now regards the 320x53248 and 224x118016 pixel PNG StarForce and 1942 images as being 320x1 and 224x1 respectively and displays them in a 1 pixel wide display. Genius like this beggars belief.
Mozilla Firefox does a bit better. It displays the StarForce image perfectly and recognises the dimensions of the 1942 map but won't display it, declaring that it contains errors. I don't know why the 1942 map which was displayable before is now considered to contain errors. I'll have to investigate further.
In short, you may have trouble displaying the full images for these games at my site. Apologies for that.
MAME 0.105u5 has been released over at MAMEDev. MAME shrinks in size by 3MB and there is now experimental support for Visual C++ 2003/2005. See the whatsnew.txt for details.
I've updated all the Infos: CHD, Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 288 + 504 = 792, no change to baddumps and nodumps up by 10 from MAME 0.105u4. See Tim's Emulation Page.
MAME 0.105u4 has been released over at MAMEDev. A new rom region REGION_PLDS has been added to MAME to hold binary dumps of PLD fusemaps (Programmable Logic Devices). Looks like MAME has a new type of rom. See the whatsnew.txt for details.
I've updated all the Infos: CHD, Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 288 + 494 = 782, no change to baddumps and nodumps up by 8 from MAME 0.105u3. See Tim's Emulation Page.