slot device, moved FDD expansion to be a slot card, added
emulation of the VDP expansion as another slot card. This
makes Gun Fright, TwinBee and Zanac playable if you launch
them with "-ext1 vdp" option. If you want to emulate a
SPC-1000 with floppy drive, you have to add "-ext1 fdd"
instead. [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: disk emulation still does not work (unless we use
Meeso Kim's patched BIOS), but emulation is now closer to the real
functionality and we needed the changes for the VDP unit emulation.
we were emulating) and added support for the bankswitch mechanism used
by the final revision. nw.
(some work is still needed before promoting the two carts to working state)
which allows to launch SMS games in the gamegear driver, with video chip
in SMS mode. You can try this by launching
mess.exe gamegear -cart mgear -cart2 your_sms_game
(the -cart2 switch becomes available when you mount "mgear" in the main
gamegear cart slot) [Fabio Priuli]
out of the whatsnew: for the moment only fullpath loading is supported, and it is not
ensured to work 100%. thanks to Enik Land for pointing me to the necessary info.
cartridges and implemented the IntelliVoice expansion and
the Entertainment Computer System expansion as passthru
devices. The official syntax to launch games requiring the
speech expansion is now
mess intv -cart voice -cart2 gamename
which corresponds to mounting the IntelliVoice and plugging
the game cart in its subslot. The official syntax to launch games
requiring the ECS expansion is now instead
mess intv -cart ecs -cart2 gamename
and
mess intv -cart ecs -cart2 voice -cart3 gamename
if the game requires both expansions at once. For additional user
friendliness, we also offer intvecs (which emulates an Intellivision
unit with both expansions added) and intvoice (which emulates
an Intellivision with Intellivoice expansion added) drivers, where
games can simply be mounted with the -cart media switch. [Fabio
Priuli]
