New working software list additions
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F-15 Strike Eagle III (3.5") [The Good Old Days]
F-15 Strike Eagle III (5.25") [The Good Old Days]
FIFA International Soccer [The Good Old Days]
Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen [The Good Old Days]
Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen [The Good Old Days]
Moonstone [Old-Games]
Panzer General [The Good Old Days]
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods (3.5") [The Good Old Days]
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods (5.25") [The Good Old Days]
Robocop 3 [The Good Old Days]
New working software list additions
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Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 (3.5" 1.44MB) [archive.org]
Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 (3.5" 720KB) [archive.org]
Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 (5.25" 1.2MB) [archive.org]
Caldera OpenDOS Lite 7.01 (3.5" 1.44MB) [archive.org]
Caldera OpenDOS Lite 7.01 (3.5" 720KB) [archive.org]
Caldera OpenDOS Lite 7.01 (5.25" 1.2MB) [archive.org]
DR DOS 6.0 [archive.org]
DR DOS 7.03 [archive.org]
DR DOS Lite 7.03 [archive.org]
OS/2 Black Jack [archive.org]
OS/2 Poker [archive.org]
OS/2 Warp [archive.org]
OS/2 Warp 3 FixPak XR_W040 [archive.org]
OS/2 Warp Connect with Win-OS/2 [archive.org]
OS/2 Warp with Win-OS/2 [archive.org]
Windows NT 3.1 Workstation (3.10.511.1) [WinWorld]
Windows NT 3.1 Workstation (3.10.511.1) [3.5" floppy] [WinWorld]
Windows NT 3.51 Workstation (3.51.1057.1) [WinWorld]
Windows NT 3.5 Workstation (3.50.807) [WinWorld]
Windows NT 3.5 Workstation (3.50.807) [3.5" floppies] [WinWorld]
New working software list additions
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Midwinter II - Flames of Freedom (USA) [The Good Old Days]
SimCity 2000 (Ver 1.00) [The Good Old Days]
SimCity 2000 (Germany, Ver 1.00) [The Good Old Days]
SimCity 2000 (Spain, Ver 1.00) [archive.org]
The Secret of Monkey Island (Germany) [The Good Old Days]
The Secret of Monkey Island (Spain) [archive.org]
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Alone in the Dark (Spain, Top Games/Altaya release) [archive.org]
Heart of China (Spain, MCM release) [archive.org]
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (3.5", Spain, Erbe release) [archive.org]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Graphic Adventure (3.5", EGA version, Spain, Maxi Juegos/Erbe release) [archive.org]
Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom (Spain, Proein release) [The Good Old Games]
Wolfenstein 3-D (shareware, CWI Information Services release) [archive.org]
Darklands (3.5"), Darklands (5.25") [The Good Old Days]
DOOM (v1.666) [The Good Old Days]
DOOM (v1.2, shareware, Titanium Seal release) [Archive.org]
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb [The Good Old Days]
Stronghold [The Good Old Days]
New working software list additions
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Wolfenstein 3-D (shareware, Titanium Seal release) [Archive.org]
Mixed-Up Fairy Tales [The Good Old Days]
- ibm5170.xml: marked epdeepsea as bad dump (Modified root and OEM ID) [ArcadeShadow]
Added: [descswa] Descent (shareware, v1.1)
Added: [kingqst5a] King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (3.5"DD, v0.000.055, EGA release)
Added: [kingqst5a_525] King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (5.25", v0.000.051, VGA release)
Added: [kingqst5b_525] King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (5.25", v0.000.062, EGA release)
Added: [raptorswa] Raptor - Call of the Shadows (shareware, v1.0, Titanium Seal release)
Added: [tubworld] Turbular Worlds
Added: [warlords2] Warlords II
Added: [warlords2sb] Warlords II - Scenario Builder
* ibm5170 - New working software list additions
Added: [legrobin] The Legend of Robin Hood - Conquests of the Longbow
Added: [pirates] Pirates! Gold (Euro)
Added: [piratesa] Pirates! Gold (older)
* Fix file validation
Co-authored-by: Angelo Salese <angelosa@users.noreply.github.com>
Added: Dogfight: 80 Years of Dogfighting (Euro), DragonSphere, Dune (3.5"), Dune II - The Bulding Of A Dynasty (USA), EcoQuest: The Search For Cetus, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (3.5", Germany), Star Trek - 25th Anniversary (3.5" DD, v1.0), Star Trek - 25th Anniversary (USA, 3.5" DD, v1.00) (include 'Out Of This World' demo)
Renamed: [dune2] Dune II - The Battle for Arrakis -> [dune2] Dune II - The Battle for Arrakis (Euro)
Renamed: [dune] Dune (3.5") -> [dunea] Dune (3.5", alt)
Added: Legends of Valour, Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (3.5"), Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (5.25"), Special Forces (5.25")
Dump Status: [lionkingd] Disney's The Lion King (Playable Demo) -> Marked as bad dump (cause: Modified OEM ID)
Removed: [monkey2] Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (3.5") -> cause: the files in the floppy disk are exactly the same of the [monkey2a] Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (3.5", Alt). The CRC and SHA1 are different because the [monkey2] has modified root in the floppies. Changed [monkey2a] to [monkey2]
Added: SimAnt (3.5", v1.08), SimAnt (3.5", v1.06), SimAnt (5.25", v1.08), SimAnt (5.25", v1.06), SimAnt (windows 3.x release)
Redumped: [simant] old set has a modified OEM Id and a modified root
Added: Rise of the Triad: Dark War, The Legacy: Realm of Terror (Euro), The Prophecy (USA), Xargon: Volume 1 - Beyond Reality, Xargon: Volume 2 - The Secret Chamber, Xargon: Volume 3 - Xargon's Fury
Redumped: Alien Legacy (Disk 1 has modified ROOT - now the game is playable)
Added: Fables & Fiends - Book Two: The Hand of Fate
Marked: [hof] Fables & Fiends - Book Two: The Hand of Fate (Germany) -> marked as bad dump (some floppies have the OEM ID and the root modified), [f1gpa] Formula One Grand Prix (Euro, v1.03) -> Marked as bad dump (modified root)
Added: Fables & Fiends - Book One: The Legend of Kyrandia (v1.0, 5.25"), NASCAR Racing, NASCAR: Track Pack, SSN-21 SeaWolf
Renamed [kyrandia] Fables & Fiends - Book One: The Legend of Kyrandia -> Fables & Fiends - Book One: The Legend of Kyrandia(v1.3, 3.5")
Renamed [kyrandiafr] Fables & Fiends - Book One: The Legend of Kyrandia (France) -> Fables & Fiends - Book One: The Legend of Kyrandia (v1.7, 3.5", France)
Corrected [mkg] Mortal Kombat (Germany) to clone of [mk] Mortal Kombat
Added: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Graphic Adventure (3.5", VGA version, re-release), Innocent Until Caught
Redumped: [micromac] Micro Machines (the old set has a modified OEM ID and a modified root)
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ibm5170: GayBlade [Ryan Best]
New not working software list additions
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mac_hdflop: GayBlade [Ryan Best]
* Consistent use of leading article in The Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle across Apple II software lists.
* Missing space in ibm5170.xml and stray right angle bracket in sgi_mips.xml.
* Lowercase disambiguators and ISO 843 Greek transliteration in funworld.cpp.
* Removed not working flag inadvertently left on a machine in mpu4vid.cpp.
ibm5170: Alien Carnage (set 2, older), Alien Carnage (FormGen release), Bloodstone: An Epic Dwarven Tale, Formula One Grand Prix (Euro, v1.05), Little Big Adventure (Euro), Soccer Kid (Euro)
Renamed set [aliencrn]: Alien Carnage --> Alien Carnage (set 1)
Renamed set [f1gp] Formula One Grand Prix --> [f1gpa] Formula One Grand Prix (Euro, v1.03)
New working software list additions
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ibm5170: Alone in the Dark 2 (USA), Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (3.5", VGA release, v2.0), Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (5.25", VGA release, v2.1)
Fury of the Furries (Euro), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Graphic Adventure (VGA version), Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - The Action Game, Mortal Kombat (Germany)
Corridor 7: Alien Invasion (demo), Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle (France), Out of this World (USA, 3.5" DD), Out of this World (USA, 5.25" HD), Sam & Max Hit the Road (Germany)
All working and dumped by me from the original disks.
Gravis UltraSound (GUS) Installation - V2.05
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (Gravis Ultrasound version)
Dune (3.5")
Frontier - Elite II
ibm5170: New working software list additions
Roberta Williams' Laura Bow in "The Dagger of Amon Ra", Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (VGA release), Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (EGA release)
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ibm5150: 3-D FloorPlan Designer V2.0, Ad Lib Instrument Maker V1.51, Ad Lib Juke Box V1.5, Ad Lib Juke Box V1.6, Ad Lib Juke Box V1.64, Ad Lib Juke Box Registration Bonus Disk V1.51, Ad Lib Juke Box Registration Bonus Disk V1.62, Ad Lib Visual Composer V1.51, SYSGRATION Mouse Driver 7.03 (5.25"), SYSGRATION Mouse Driver 8.00 (5.25"), SYSGRATION Mouse Driver 8.00 (3.5") [Justin Kerk]
New not working software list additions
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ibm5150: Mouse Software Test/Demo [Justin Kerk]
(nw) moved some compatible mouse drivers to ibm5150.xml from ibm5170.xml, mark sicmouse as a bad dump, make 5.25" version the parent for indycrus to match the rest of the ibm5150 softlist
The free-for-all on labels in software lists is not working. There's no
consistency, labels are getting excessively long, people are starting to
use non-ASCII characters in labels making it harder for others to type
them when manipulating files on the command line, and there's too much
markup being put in labels.
The length limit is 127 characters, same as for labels in MAME itself.
This should be long enough to be descriptive. Remember that the Win32
path limit is 260 characters, and many applications and frameworks have
issues with longer paths, including Windows Explorer and the .NET
framework. Labels are used as filenames, so concessions need to be
made for this.
I have not abbreviated excessively long labels myself - they're
currently causing 135 validity errors. Someone else can fix them.
Printable ASCII characters are allowed, with a few exceptions. The
exceptions are limited to characters most likely to cause issues for
interactive shells and scripts:
* ! - csh event substitution (very difficult to escape properly)
* $ - sh varibale expansion
* % - csh job control, cmd variable expansion
* / - UNIX directory separator
* : - sh path separator, Windows drive qualifier
* \ - sh escape, Windows directory separator
Most of the labels that had to be edited were using ! for markup, or
using ! and % for titles in labels. Strangely, titles in labels are
often forced to lower case, despite this never being enforced for
software lists. There are also various other edits to titles used for
labels, such as moving articles to the end (with or without a comma),
or replacing spaces with underscores. As I already said, there's no
consistency at all.
There is far too much markup in labels. They're even being used for
notes in some cases (e.g. at least one case where a dumper's name is in
the label). The XML schema supports metadata - use it. For example,
you can use part_id for an unrestricted display name for a software
part. You can also use XML comments for notes.
And while on the topic of metadata, vgmplay.xml is putting the same
thing in the part_id as well as the label. The part_id should have
the actual title, not the title mangled to make it more suitable for
use as a filename. Addressing this would be a lot of work, given how
large the file is.
For now, empty data areas in software lists cause a verbose message
rather than a validation warning. There are thousands of software
lists using empty data areas to indicate the size/width of cartridge
RAM/EEPROM/etc.
Did a small update to reflect the origin of the affected dumps. They are all winimage made. The whole Ggem* set is wininmage made, will update them later, to reflect their baddump status
Get rid of a couple of copies of the CC0 text. Add header comment to
CC0 files to remind people editing them what the terms are. Also add
some missing XML headers. The header comments in layouts won't bloat
the binary - they get stripped out before compressing, same as any other
comments.
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ibm5150: Crystal Caves (1.0) [Justin Kerk]
ibm5170: CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive IDE/ATAPI interface V2.2 [Justin Kerk]
New not working software list additions
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ibm5170: ASUS DVD / CD-ROM Drive Installation Disk Rev 1.5, CD-ROM Device Driver Version 2.00 [Justin Kerk]
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ibm5170: CD-ROM God Boot Disk Version 5.5, MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions With Device Driver - Installation Disk Ver 1.25 [Justin Kerk]
(nw) mark other CD-ROM drivers as non-working
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ibm5150: Apogee Software Bonus Disk (Jumpman Lives!, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons)
(nw) re-alphabetize files
