2006 October

29th - MAME 0.109u4 Released

MAME 0.109u4 has been released over at MAMEDev. See the whatsnew.txt for details.

There are 4 new CHD's added in 109u4. They are:

  1. Dark Horse Legend (Japan ver JAA): darkhleg\darkhleg.chd.
  2. Konami 80s Gallery (US ver UAA): konam80s\gc826uaa.chd.
  3. Konami 80s Gallery (Japan ver JAA): konam80j\gc826jaa.chd.
  4. Powerful Pro Baseball EX (Japan ver JAB): pbballex\gx802jab.chd.

There are now 90 CHD games in MAME made up of 74 CHD's and 16 clones. There are 16 CHD sooners that haven't yet been added to MAME.

A new BIOS "Konami's System 573 BIOS" has been added in 109u4. MAME now has support for 27 BIOS's.

I've updated the Infos: CHD, Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 312 + 745 = 1057, baddumps up by 4 and no change to nodumps from MAME 0.109u3. See Tim's Emulation Page.

21st - MAME 0.109u3 Released

MAME 0.109u3 has been released over at MAMEDev. See the whatsnew.txt for details.

I've updated the Infos: CHD, Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 308 + 745 = 1053, baddumps up by 6 and no change to nodumps from MAME 0.109u2. See Tim's Emulation Page.

14th - MAME 0.109u2 Released

MAME 0.109u2 has been released over at MAMEDev. See the whatsnew.txt for details.

I've updated the Infos: CHD, Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 302 + 745 = 1047, baddumps down by 3 and nodumps up by 1 from MAME 0.109u1. See Tim's Emulation Page.

12th - GIMPS Prime Number News

This news is a month old now, but the GIMPS project has found the 44th Mersenne prime. It's also the current largest known prime. The find was by the CMSU team again. Go to the GIMPS Home Page for details.

Concentrating mainly on factoring for the GIMPS project these days, I've found some more factors over the past few months. See Tim's GIMPS Page.

7th - MAME 0.109u1 Released

MAME 0.109u1 has been released over at MAMEDev. See the whatsnew.txt for details.

I've updated the Infos: CHD, Baddumps, Nodumps, BIOS's. The Baddump + Nodump total is 305 + 744 = 1049, baddumps down by 1 and nodumps up by 1 from MAME 0.109. See Tim's Emulation Page.