their carts. this allows to remove on-cart RAM from the driver class (since it
does not belong there). also added (partial) support for Channel F multicart.
nw.
slot options. you now mount these with the -cart media switch,
i.e. for instance
mess.exe saturn -cdrm ddsom -cart ram32
or
mess.exe saturn -cdrm draculax -cart bram16
and not anymore using the -exp option. [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: this prevents users from passing conflicting setups like
"-exp ram32 -cart kof95", etc. these would have lead to unpredictable effects,
depending on the order of the option (and whether they were set at command
line or inside ini files)
cart slot, added correct keyboard to cpc+ machines (with Fn keys
in place of the keypad number keys), added cpc+ system carts to
the softlist and converted driver to use io_port array for keyboard
input reads. nw.
fix CIA interrupts getting lost in certain situations. This fixes the
EmuTOS keyboard and potentially more. Also fix a possible issue with
blitter delays.
a general workbench list and an application list for testing. Images in
those lists are either verified good or best available currently. Many
images are still missing.
homebrew. Also allowed bankswitch writes to get to the TIA for this and
mapper 3F. Finally, included a couple of demos in the softlist so to be
able to test the code in future. nw.
in the softlist. The official syntax to launch disk games is now
mess famicom -cart disksys -flop gamename
which corresponds to inserting the RAM expansion cart with
connected the disk drive into the cartslot and the desired disk
in the disk drive (exactly like you would have done with the
real thing). In this way, you cannot mount anymore both a cart and
a disk in the Family Computer (as in a real unit).
Users that cannot cope with this limitation and/or with the new
syntax can still use the famitwin driver (which offers both cart and
disk options) or the newly added driver fds which emulates a
famicom with the expansion always inserted: in both latter cases
the old syntax
mess famitwin -flop gamename
will launch the game, as previously. [Fabio Priuli]
(MESS) famicom: fixed disk system IRQ latch clear in Kaettekita
Mario Bros. based on investigations by FHorse. [Fabio Priuli]
Out of whatsnew: For the moment I gave up the original plan to
also modernize the floppy drive and the disk format. If anyone
wants to look into these, be my guest :-)
