* Implemented missing DIP switch for Eggs Playing Chicken, promote to working. Press "S" to skip the CMOS error, "S" or wait to skip the emm386.exe error (not an emulation issue), use "Coin 2" to
coin-up and start the game, and "1 Player Start" to brake.
calchase.c, gamecstl.c, midqslvr.c, queen.c, savquest.c, taitowlf.c,
voyager.c, xtom3d.c: [Peter Ferrie]
* Intel component is not MXTC, it's MTXC.
* Added support for AMD 29F400T, AMD 29F800T and FUJITSU 29F160T.
ti85.c: [Joe Sturm]
* Improved support of TI83 Plus, TI83 Plus Silver Edition, and TI84 Plus, and TI84 Plus Silver Edition by switching over to bankdev and adding proper flash chips. They should be working now (press Q to power on).
Out of whatsnew:
ti84p was not added to mess.lst becuase rom is not available yet. Current romload is same CRC as ti84pse but at a smaller size. Once corrected and obtained it should work.
-hector: creates a machine fragment for the sound components which are shared among hector and interact to avoid duplicate code
-specialist : makes static the specimx palette because it is not used outside video/specimx,c
-pce: fixed MT5734 by adding support for 192k images
Renamed rom_ptr_finder to region_ptr_finder after discussion with Aaron.
First round of memory_region_finder to region_ptr_finder conversions.
rf5c400: use a region_ptr_finder to find our sound ROM instead of looking up
the region by hand in device_start(). Will probably start converting other
sound devices to this pattern (other than the ones that use the memory system)
if there are no problems or objections.
except it finds a ROM region instead of a memory share.
Unlike the old memory_region_finder, these can be accessed without
any overhead (since it's a pointer directly to the data and not
to the memory_region object), can be whatever data type you want
(no casting needed) and are strictly type-checked--if you have a
required_rom_ptr<UINT32> the region has to be a ROM_REGION32
(or an implicitly 32-bit region due to belonging to a CPU) or
the finder won't find it and will tell you why.
Basically, rom_ptr_finders are strictly better than
memory_region_finders and all drivers using the latter should be
converted over. I've done megasys1.c and twin16.c as examples.
megasys1: Use a device address map for the peekaboo oki instead
of memcpy().
twin16: Convert the scrolling layers to tilemaps (the fixed text
layer was already one). Miscellaneous cleanups/modernizations.
(nw)
Notice that rom_ptr_finder has a length() method which returns the
length in whatever size unit the pointer is, instead of a bytes()
method. Yes, I'm going to convert shared_ptr_finder to match, since
this way makes a lot more sense (in particular, mask() is useless
for shared_ptrs that are anything other than INT8/UINT8)
- Fixed some incorrect info about the SF2 bootlegs and got them running better.
- Dumped 8571 MCU from a bootleg Top Secret/Bionic Commando PCB. All other ROMs on the board matched the 'topsecrt' set.
