Updated instructions for building subsets of MAME using the SOURCES
option.
Added descriptions for several more "useful" settings.
Bumped documentation version as the build system changes are not in
0.245.
The keyboard and mouse device mapping options did nothing at all, mostly
because of lack of support for separating inputs from multiple devices.
The joystick options were useless when you have two of the same kind of
controller, and you can achieve the same thing with controller
configuration files.
* Got rid of the special-casing for the "mess" subtarget name.
* Got rid of the MESS-specific Windows resources, emuator info source
and man page.
* Added subtarget name to the internal name and original name in Windows
resources.
-ui: Put the system-specific items on the input settings menu together,
and fixed the crosshair visibility settings.
Added menus for controlling toggle inputs, and showing recognised input
devices and control state. Moved input menu options off main menu to a
submenu, as there are a lot of them now.
Moved menu heading drawing into base class, added headings to more
menus, and made headings more consistent with the menu items used to
reach them. Also made terminology more consistent.
Changed the default names for buttons and hat switches/D-pads to use
1-based numbering. DirectInput still returns 0-based button numbers for
some devices.
Removed local copy of MinGW xaudio2.h as it’s now included in the MSYS2
package. Also fixed building the DirectSound sound output module with
the SDL OSD on Windows - the Windows headers are sensitive to include
order.
Started adding documentation for menus, to hopefully help people find
menus they remember seeing but can't recall how to access.
For translators, this makes terminology more consistent. In particular:
* "Settings" is preferred over "configuration" in a number of places, as
the latter can be construed as referring specifically to settings
stored in .cfg files in the cfg_directory folder. Also, references to
saving machine configuration could be interpreted as relating to the
settings on the "Machine Configuration" menu.
* The controls on host input devices (e.g. keys, buttons, joystick axes)
are referred to as "controls", while emulated inputs are referred to
as "inputs".
* The menus for assigning host controls to emulated inputs are called
"input assignments" menus to distinguish them from other input
settings menus.
* Combinations of controls that can be assigned to emulated inputs are
referred to as "combinations" rather than "sequences".
* The potentially confusing term "ROM set" has been removed altogether.
Use "short name" to refer to a device or system's identifier.
* "System" is used in almost places to refer to a complete, runnable
system rather than "Machine".
* "Driver" is now only used to refer to source files where systems or
devices are defined - it is no longer used to refer to individual
systems.
* A few more menus have message context for the messages. This makes it
a bit easier to guess where the messages are used. It also means you
can use different translations in different places if necessary (e.g.
if the same English text should be translated differently as an item
in one menu and as a heading in another).
machine/z80scc.cpp: Fixed a cast-to-bool that broke detection of changes
to one register bit.
formats/fsmeta.cpp: Use visitors with variants where it makes sense.
docs: Updated minimum required SDL version to 2.0.6 for all targets,
added note that Python 3 is included with Xcode and updated instructions
for downloading stand-alone Python 3 for macOS.
ksys573.cpp: Don't create an insane number of textures for fghtmn and
pnchman internal artwork.
Tidied another batch of slot machine layouts.
Made the debugger memory view not depend on isprint which is affected by
the global locale. Assume the OSD will display as ISO-8869-1 and
replace problematic printable characters.
Started changing Lua function bindings to use set_function to avoid
potential issues related to ThePhD/sol2#608, and worked out what was
causing problems with symbol table read_memory/write_memory. (They
aren't really essential - you can do the same thing with the address
space object itself, but they're easier to parameterise.)
Also made error messages for missing CHDs and missing files for software
parts using the image file loader show search paths, and changed the
(poorly named) bitbanger device to use the image file loader rather than
the ROM loader for software items.
Exposed minimum/maximum values for analog fields. together with defvalue, they can be used to check range of values and neutral position.
Previously you had to send a normalised value between -65535 and 65535 which would be scaled depending on machine specifics. You could read the scaled value from the port, but you couldn't send scaled values in. This allows scripts to set scaled values as seen by the machine.
* bus/nes/multigame.cpp: Got rid of a device type comparison.
* Fixed a couple of errors in debugger documentation.
* Reduced redundancy in more slot machine layouts.
Addressed pure virtual function call crash on end of emulation session
if you haven't explicitly removed all address space taps, memory
corruption on end of emulation session if you haven't explicitly removed
all address space change notifiers, and symbol being garbage-collected
out from under you while you have parsed expressions or other symbol
tables that depend on them.
Removed the copy constructor for parsed expressions as the underlying
C++ copy constructor appears to be broken, and simplified symbol table
constructors. Also made symbol table add methods return the new entry
to avoid the need for an extra lookup.
Fixed breakpoint/watchpoint objects being inappropriately copied into
the tables returned by bplist() and wplist(), allowing the enabled
property to be modifiable for breakpoint and watchpoint objects in Lua.
Fixed drivers and devices causing a new memory pass-through handler to
be allocated on each soft reset, and fixed multiple instances of taps
being installed in the event the machine is reset before the tap is
removed.
Added classes for managing broadcast subscriptions, and adapted address
spaces to use this for change notifications.
frontend: Exposed debug symbol tables and parsed expressions to Lua
(these can be used when the debugger is not active). Also made it
simpler to walk input types.
imagedev/bitbngr.cpp: Added software list loader support (used by
sitcom).
sitcom.cpp: Replaced bankdev with a memory view. Also added a bar graph
for the timer DAC output, and made the DL1414 displays squarer in the
layout like they are in real life. They still don't look right because
the internal segment drawing code doen't draw the segments the right
width.
docs: Fixed broken links and added missing links in command line options
index. Also removed documentation for an option that no longer exists
and fixed some inconsistent terminology.
Separated includes by module in various drivers.
them, which can them be picked up on access with the
{read,write}_*_flags variants of the accessors. Example use with the
i960 and its burstable rom/ram.
* Made it possible to add digital controls to axis settings as enables.
* Mix multiple analog controls assigned to an axis setting.
* Added a "reverse" modifier for analog controls (useful with mixing).
* Fixed an issue assigning mouse axes using multiple mouse-like devices
with -nomultimouse.
-frontend: More cleanup:
* Got rid of some abuse of "special main menus".
* Added a helper class for auto-pause menus that don't spawn submenus.
* Got rid of the fake menu that schedules an exit on the first frame.
* Turned the confirm quit prompt into a menu, eliminated one more
special-cased event loop.
* Fixed the confirm quit prompt resuming if you return to emulation if
you weren't paused to begin with.
-bus/centronics: Fixed conflicting DIP locations, reversed order and
inverted polarity for Epson printers.
* Also added the LX-810 (without L suffix) DIP switches for reference -
we don't have a device for this printer yet.
Added emulated time recording as well as wall clock time.
Fixed recording time for multiple software items per system. An
incorrect constraint on the database table meant that time was only
being recorded for a single software item per system.
Detect the "empty" driver so the time spent at the selection menu isn't
recorded (you'd get multiple entries for this due to the way options
leak when returning to the system selection menu).
Included schema migration code to update existing timer plugin
databases. Also replaced some unnecessary floating point code with
integer maths, added log messages, and made the plugin unload unload its
database access code during emulation.
Changed other plugins' use of paths with trailing slashes as this causes
stat to fail on Windows.
* Issues were unlikely to actually manifest unless you use controller
configuration files to change specific system input defaults.
-src/emu/output.h: Added size accessor to multi-element output finder.
* std::size will work on the top rank of an outut finder now. Sorry for
hitting emu.h again so soon.
-lua: Exposed a couple more input related things.
* Exposed constructor and a few methods on input_seq required for
scripts to properly clear assignments or restore default settings.
* Exposed ioport_manager::set_type_seq which is required to configure
general input assignments properly.
* Removed unnecessary use of sol::overload in favour of optional
parameters.
* Updated documentation and also fixed a few errors.
-docs: Added description for axis setting assignments.
* If an input is configured to some combination of controls that are not
present at all, ignore the setting altogether for the session.
* Fixed relative axes with PORT_RESET not responding to absolute
controls (MT07685).
* Fixed relative axes not responding to an absolute control if the value
doesn’t change every frame (eg. holding a stick against the stop).
* Changed the scaling for absolute controls assigned to relative axes to
make defaults more sane (e.g. arkanoid or spdheat with a joystick).
-frontend: Fixed some localisation issues in Analog Controls menu.
-docs: Added documentation on assigning inputs.
