- Added Slogger Plus 2 Expansion, Acorn Tube Interface and P.R.E.S. Advanced Plus 5 cartridge devices.
- Use derived 16Mhz clock on expansion bus and cartridge slots.
- Removed MCFG and added devcb3 in expansion and cartridge devices.
Start replacing special device macros with additional constructors,
starting with ISA, INTELLEC 4 and RS-232 buses.
Allow an object finder to take on the target of another object finder.
(For a combination of the previous two things in action, see either the
INTELLEC 4 driver, or the Apple 2 PC Exporter card. Also check out
looping over a device finder array to instantiate devices in some
places. Lots of things no longer need to pass tags around.)
Start supplying default clocks for things that have a standard clock or
have all clocks internal.
Eliminate the separate DEV versions of the DEVCB_ macros. Previously,
the plain versions were a shortcut for DEVICE_SELF as the target. You
can now supply a string tag (relative to current device being
configured), an object finder (takes on the base and relative tag), or
a reference to a device/interface (only do this if you know the device
won't be replaced out from under it, but that's a safe assumption for
your subdevices). In almost all cases, you can get the effect you want
by supplying *this as the target.
Eliminate sound and CPU versions of macros. They serve no useful
purpose, provide no extra checks, make error messages longer, add
indirection, and mislead newbies into thinking there's a difference.
Remove a lot of now-unnecessary ":" prefixes binding things relative to
machine root.
Clean up some miscellaneous rot.
Examples of new functionality in use in (some more subtle than others):
* src/mame/drivers/intellec4.cpp
* src/mame/drivers/tranz330.cpp
* src/mame/drivers/osboren1.cpp
* src/mame/drivers/zorba.cpp
* src/mame/devices/smioc.cpp
* src/devices/bus/a2bus/pc_xporter.cpp
* src/devices/bus/isa/isa.h
* src/devices/bus/isa/isa.h
* src/devices/bus/intellec4/intellec4.h
- P.R.E.S. Advanced Plus 3/4
- Advanced Quarter Meg Ram
- Cumana Floppy Disk System
- Sound Expansion
- Sound Expansion v3
- Stop Press 64
- Solidisk EFS
New working software list additions
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electron_cart: Solidisk EFS 2.1E
New NOT_WORKING software list additions
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electron_cart: Stop Press 64
Software list items promoted to working
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electron_cart: Advanced Plus 3, Advanced Quarter Meg RAM, Slogger Electron Disk System, Sound Expansion v3
