* New working software list additions
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Mission Pilote (France) [DisizDream]
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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DreamWorks Monstres contre Aliens (France) [DisizDream]
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Disney Manny et ses outils (France) [DisizDream]
Disney La Princesse Et La Grenouille - Le grand rêve de Tiana (France) [DisizDream]
Shrek 4 - Il était une fin (France) [DisizDream]
* polepo: It was me
* polepo/spaceattack: Why not my full name
* polepo/megapede: They should run on 16K / move to games section / add '/' to start
Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
* Merged CDs that came on the same bundle and add features with metadata on all entries (nw)
* Replaced some images with cleaner ones (Plextor, without C2 errors) (nw)
* new WORKING machines
Millennium M505 Arcade Neo Portable Spielkonsole (Family Sport 100-in-1) [TeamEurope]
* new NOT WORKING software list entries
tvgogo.xml : Baseball (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
tvgogo.xml : What-A-Mole (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
* added internal NAND dump to didj [Sean Riddle, Clawgrip]
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Hot Mix 18 - Explore Tools and Technologies for Silicon Graphics [ClawGrip, Rampa]
SupportFolio 5/96 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
(nw) Also (somehow) sorted the list, merged the two "Freeware May 2000" CDs on the same entry and unified the entries name scheme.
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Desktop Special Edition 1.0 for Support Customers [ClawGrip, Rampa]
Insignia SoftWindows 95 4.0 for IRIX 6.3 and 6.4 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
European Languaje Module 1.3 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
Freeware 2.0 - Unsupported Software compatible with IRIX 6.2 and later [ClawGrip, Rampa]
O2 Demos 1.1.1 for IRIX 6.3 including R10000 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
ONC3/NFS Version 2, for IRIX 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
O2 IRIX 6.3 Recommended/Required Patches August 1997 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
Network File System 5.3 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
IRIX 6.3 and 6.4 Recommended/Required Patches October 1997 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
IRIX 6.3 Applications August_1997 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
Patch SG0000466 [ClawGrip, Rampa]
(nw) I also replaced the IRIX 5.3 image with a cleaner one (Plextor, without C2 errors)
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_clcracked: North Dakota Cities with Population Under 500 (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Cities With Population 500 and Above (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Counties (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Explorers (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Indian Tribes (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked) [Frank Cifaldi, 4am, Firehawke]
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_clcracked: Notable People of North Dakota (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Parks and Historical Sites (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Plants (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Pride (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Symbols (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota U.S. Senators and Representatives (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), North Dakota Wildlife (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), Minerals of North Dakota (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked) [Frank Cifaldi, 4am, Firehawke]
apple2_flop_clcracked: The Wreck of the BSM Pandora (cleanly cracked), The Sea Voyagers (cleanly cracked) [4am, Firehawke]
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_orig: Lady Tut, Will O The Wisp, Super Huey, John Madden Football [4am, Firehawke]
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_orig: Who Stole Cinderella's Slipper? (Version 2.0), Mines of Titan [4am, Firehawke]
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_orig: Hobgoblin's Revenge, Typhoon of Steel (Version 1.0), Alien Munchies [4am, Firehawke]
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_orig: Crosscountry California, Merlin's Castle, Kampfgruppe (Version 1.0), Meteoroids in Space [4am, Firehawke]
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_orig: The Latin Hangman (Revision 1004), 816/Paint (Version 3.1), Aliens, The Bard's Tale III: The Thief of Fate, Terrapin Logo Plus (Version 1.1), ABM, Tink!Tonk! Tonk in the Land of the Buddy-Bots [4am, Firehawke]
apple2_flop_clcracked: The Latin Hangman (Revision 1004) (cleanly cracked) [4am, Firehawke]
* 4AM released fixed image of ABM (nw)
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_orig: Microbe [4am, Firehawke]
* New working software list additions
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apple2_flop_orig: Wild West Math Level 4 [4am, Firehawke]
- Added known serial numbers for all entries.
- Re-classified some of my old dumps as being from Redump, since I submitted them anyway.
- Added floppy dump for Angel and promoted to working.
- New dumps from redump.org (working):
Ed Bogas' Music Machine
HomeStudio V1.2L10
Kid Pix Jr.
New Horizon CD Learning System II - English Course 1 (FM Towns Marty version)
Sargon V - World Class Chess
- New dumps from redump.org (not working):
Ms. Detective File #1 - Iwami Ginzan Satsujin Jiken (FM Towns Marty version)
- Replaced entries with dumps from redump.org:
A Ressha de Ikou III
Appare CD Vol. 1 - Hiryuu no Maki
ElFish Lite
Muscle Bomber - The Body Explosion
Metal Eye 2
Nihon no Rekishi - Kodai-hen
The Secret of Monkey Island
- Reordered some entries
* New working software list additions
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Avventura nel Parco Alfabeto (Italy) [tag2015]
V.Smile Football Club (Italy) [tag2015]
Spider-Man & Friends - La Sfida del Dottor Ock (Italy) [tag2015]
Nickelodeon Spongebob - Un giorno da Spugna (Italy) [tag2015]
Disney/Pixar Toy Story 2 - Operazione: Salvataggio di Woody! (Italy) [tag2015]
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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Disney Cenerentola - I desideri magici di Cenerentola (Italy, rev. 1) [tag2015]
Disney/Pixar Toy Story 3 (Italy) [tag2015]
Disney/Pixar Wall-E (Italy) [tag2015]
* Marked "toystor3i" as baddump (nw)
* new NOT WORKING software list entry
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tvgogo.xml : 4-in-1 (Flashcard Fishing, Break a Brick, Balloon Juggling, Penguin Maze) (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood, anonymous]
(confirmed the US cartridges contain different code, lacking the language selection screen)
* new NOT WORKING Software List entries
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pi_storyreader_cart:101dal 101 Dalmatiner (Germany) [Team Europe]
pi_storyreader_cart:arielle Arielle - Die Meerjungfrau (Germany) [Team Europe]
pi_storyreader_cart:bambi Bambi (Germany) [Team Europe]
pi_storyreader_cart:cinder Cinderella (Germany) [Team Europe]
pi_storyreader_cart:pino Pinocchio (Germany) [Team Europe]
pi_storyreader_cart:scheewtn Schneewittchen und die Sieben Zwerge (Germany) [Team Europe]
pi_storyreader_cart:susistro Susi und STROLCH (Germany) [Team Europe]
pi_storyreader_cart:schone Die Schone und das Biest (GER) (Germany) [Team Europe]
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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
* Created softlist for Timex cassettes (timex_cass)
Timex computer emulation is currently using the Spectrum softlist for cassettes, but many of those entries are actually incompatible unless the "Spectrum Emulator" cartridge is being used.
So I've created their own compatible (depending on the model) softlist, with every actual Timex dump I could find in World of Spectrum and Spectrum Computing.
These should work with the Timex "equivalents" to the Spectrum 48K and their clones:
-TS2068
-UK2086
-TC2068 (not currently emulated, or is it exactly the same as the UK2086?)
-Komputer 2086 (not currently emulated)
And some of them should work with the Timex equivalents of the Spectrum 16K:
-TC2048
-TC2048 (NTSC) (not currently emulated)
-TS2048 (prototype) (not currently preserved)
I've noticed that many of the TZX dumps were fake ones made from TAP files (so the real pauses between blocks were lost), so I just added the TAPs for those while any real TZXs are created.
Also, there were a few bad dumps of which I could only fix one at the moment, but they seem to load in Fuse anyway so I've left them in the softlist, labeled as such.
Also included some initial notes on the cassette dumps at the beginning of it, based on the spectrum_cass softlist but more to the point.
* Hooked up timex_cass to the TS2064 and TC2048
Now the TS2064 and TC2048 systems use both the spectrum_cass and timex_cass softlists.
Also, small fixes.
* Fixed interface types
* new WORKING clones
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Guitar Super Star (red 'Gibson Flying V' style) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood, Peter Wilhelmsen, anonymous]
* typo fixes (nw)
* updating notes (nw)
* wrlshunt missing tilemap notes (nw)
* fix Operation Wolf palette format based on schematics (+ verified on PCB) [Bryan McPhail]
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leapfrog_didj_cart.xml: Nicktoon Android Invasion (US, 500-13290-B) [Team Europe]
there's a skeleton driver too, but it's really nothing but a holder for the Software List as the BIOS isn't yet dumped.
* new WORKING machine
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Guitar Super Star: You Take The Stage [David Haywood, Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, anonymous]
new NOT WORKING software list entry
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tvgogo.xml:
Dodgeball (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood, Peter Wilhelmsen, anonymous]
- marked the existing tvgogo dumps as 'EU' as they contain language selection menus, while this Dodgeball cart which was sourced in the US does not.
(anonymous = money raised from fundraiser)
* new WORKING machine
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Spider-Man Super TV Air Jet (Lexibook Junior, JG6000SP) [Team Europe]
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.
