macro from the source code. All MAME builds now include
the debugger, and it is enabled/disabled exclusively by
the runtime command-line/ini settings. This is a minor
speed hit for now, but will be further optimized going
forward.
Changed the 'd' suffix in the makefile to apply to DEBUG
builds (versus DEBUGGER builds as it did before).
Changed machine->debug_mode to machine->debug_flags.
These flags now indicate several things, such as whether
debugging is enabled, whether CPU cores should call the
debugger on each instruction, and whether there are live
watchpoints on each address space.
Redesigned a significant portion of debugcpu.c around
the concept of maintaining these flags globally and a
similar, more complete set of flags internally for each
CPU. All previous functionality should work as designed
but should be more robust and faster to work with.
Added new debugger hooks for starting/stopping CPU
execution. This allows the debugger to decide whether
or not a given CPU needs to call the debugger on each
instruction during the coming timeslice.
Added new debugger hook for reporting exceptions.
Proper exception breakpoints are not yet implemented.
Added new module debugger.c which is where global
debugger functions live.
Enabled by default for snapshots and movie rendering.
Added new option: -snapsize, which lets you specify the target
resolution for snapshots and movies. The existing behavior is still
the default: create snapshots and movies at native pixel
resolutions.
Added new option: -snapview, which lets you specify a particular
view to use for rendering snapshots and movies. The existing
behavior is still the default: use a special internal view and
render each screen to its own snapshot in its own file. When using
this option to specify a view other than 'internal', only a single
snapshot file will be produced regardless of how many screens the
game has.
Improved AVI and MNG recording to properly duplicate/skip frames
as appropriate to keep the correct framerate.
names are generated.
Added new astring functions astring_del, astring_replace, and astring_replacec
to help perform simple search/replace substitution.
to write RGB bitmaps. Unfortunately, the only option is fully
uncompressed, which means the resulting AVIs are *HUGE* and
may not play correctly in realtime due to high data rate. The
intention is that these uncompressed AVIs are post-processed
by other utilities to compress the video and produce a
realtime playable result.
Added new command-line option -aviwrite which works just like
-mngwrite, except it produces AVIs and streams sound to them.
Updated documentation accordingly.
Shift+F12 still produces MNGs for now, though this might change
in the future.
Modified fileio.c to retain the full pathname to the file so
that it can be queried while the file is open.
Subject: [patch] Fix 00149: No error report for invalid BIOS setting.
Hi mamedev,
This small patch makes specifying an invalid bios a fatalerror and
removes the need to expose system_bios to the drivers by reworking the
code in playch10.c to determine its bios more directly (in other
words, it removes an ugly hack). This should resolve bug 00149,
although I did not implement the popmessage as suggested.
~aa
a new compile-time define (ENABLE_DEBUGGER). This means that MAME_DEBUG no longer means
"enable debugger", it simply enables debugging features such as assertions and debug code
in drivers.
Also removed the various levels of opbase protection in memory.h and always just turned
on full bounds checking.
Fixed build break due to missing ampoker.lay -> ampoker2.lay renaming.
- removed years from copyright notices
- removed redundant (c) from copyright notices
- updated "the MAME Team" to be "Nicola Salmoria and the MAME Team"
