0.36 BETA 7 New games supported: -------------------- Spiker [Aaron Giles] Finalizer - Super Transformation [Nicola Salmoria] Crazy Climber 2 [Takahiro Nogi] Syusse Oozumou [Takahiro Nogi] Mayday [Aaron Giles] Chimera Beast [Luca Elia] Iga Ninjyutsuden [Luca Elia] Plus Alpha [Luca Elia] Peek-a-Boo! [Luca Elia] Orbitron [Zsolt Vasvari] Mystic Riders [Bryan McPhail] Herbie at the Olympics [Mike Coates] Arcade Classics [Aaron Giles] Sparkz [Aaron Giles] Battle Chopper [Nao] Ninja Spirit [Nao] Image Fight [Nao] Legend of Hero Tonma [Nao] X Multiply [Nao] Dragon Breed [Nao] New clones supported: --------------------- Snow Bros (set 3) Makai Densetsu (= Legend of Makai) Growl (US) Runark (= Growl) Tough Turf (US) [Andrew Prime] These drivers have improved GRAPHICS: ------------------------------------- - Added raster effects to Neo Turf Masters and Sengoku 2. [Massimo Morra] - Fixed colors in Wanted, Marine Boy, Changes and Hopper Robo. [Zsolt Vasvari] - More fixes in the Toaplan games. [Satoshi Suzuki] These drivers have new or improved SOUND: ----------------------------------------- - Fixed YM2151 sound board support for Joust 2. [Aaron Giles] - Sound in Blasted and Max RPM. [Aaron Giles] - Completed samples support in Space Panic. [Mike Coates] - Samples support in Invinco and Pulsar. [Zsolt Vasvari] - Fixed coin sound in Naughty Boy. [Sal Bugliarisi] - Sound in Hot Chase. [CAB] Other drivers changes: ---------------------- - Improved Battle Lane. [Paul Leaman] - Fixed Turkey Shoot. [Aaron Giles] Changes to the main program: ---------------------------- - [DOS] The new Allegro library supports the Gravis GrIP devices, use -joy grip or -joy grip4 to enable. Source: ------- - [DOS] Now compiled with Allegro 3.9.26 WIP. - Several improvements to FM sound emulators. This also fixes crashes in some Jaleco Mega System 1 games. [Tatsuyuki Satoh] - Improvements to the other YM2151 emulator too. [Jarek Burczynski] - VIDEO_UPDATE_BEFORE_VBLANK is now the default. If you want your driver to redraw the screen after vblank, use VIDEO_UPDATE_AFTER_VBLANK. - Rewritten the HC55516 CVSD decoder. This affects Sinistar, Joust 2, Arch Rivals, Pigskin, Tri-Sports, Smash TV, Trog, Narc. [Aaron Giles] - Some improvements to the Z80 emulator. [Juergen Buchmueller] - Some fixes to HD63701 IRQ handling, and support for ICI (Input Capture Interrupt). [Tatsuyuki Satoh] - Improvements to the 34010 emulation. [Aaron Giles] - New function findmemorychunk() that lets you look up a chunk of memory and get its start/end addresses, and its base. This can be used (carefully!) by drivers that wish to access memory directly without going through the readmem/writemem accessors (e.g., blitters). [Aaron Giles] - Replaced cpu_reset() with cpu_set_reset_line(). cpu_set_reset_line(num,PULSE_LINE) is equivalent to the old cpu_reset(). ASSERT_LINE resets the cpu and halts it. CLEAR_LINE restarts it. This avoids the need to call cpu_halt() in most cases. [Nicola Salmoria]