out of whatsnew
1. summing up, you can now load roms through softwarelists from: listname/romset, listname/parent + now also romset & parent (like MAME)
2. there is a lot of repeated code, but I still haven't found a satisfactory way to handle the both loading processes in a single function. I'll keep looking into it!
out of whatsnew: to avoid too much duplicate code, I implemented this as follow:
for parent, we pass a location tag "list/parentname" to search for the roms (no
changes in this case); for clones, we pass a composed location tag
"list/clonename%list/parentname" (notice the '%' separator) and then it is
open_rom_file to split it, if it finds a %, before searching for the rom.
out of whatsnew, 2: I also added the same support for cassettes and floppies (in
devimage.c), but it is still commented out because I had only a few files for testing.
as soon as I'm sure nothing gets broken, I'll enable it.
- Default for writeconfig is now 0 for MESS since it is not needed anymore
- Fixed handling of mounted devices on hard reset
- Unified some emuopts code, and removed ifdefs
running_machine definition and implementation.
Moved global machine-level operations and accessors into methods on the
running_machine class. For the most part, this doesn't affect drivers
except for a few occasional bits:
mame_get_phase() == machine->phase()
add_reset_callback() == machine->add_notifier(MACHINE_NOTIFY_RESET, ...)
add_exit_callback() == machine->add_notifier(MACHINE_NOTIFY_EXIT, ...)
mame_get_base_datetime() == machine->base_datetime()
mame_get_current_datetime() == machine->current_datetime()
Cleaned up the region_info class, removing most global region accessors
except for memory_region() and memory_region_length(). Again, this doesn't
generally affect drivers.
this object which can be called multiple times to append new devices
after the initial machine configuration is set up. Updated member
variables to match new naming convention.
Changed the running_machine to take a constructed machine_config
object in the constructor, instead of creating one itself, for
consistency. Also added machine->total_colors() as a shortcut to
machine->config->m_total_colors.
- moved image legacy device implementation to devimage.c
- created image.c implementation with initialization of devices/configuration for image devices, used those calls from mame.c
- some minor cleanup of legacy device and initial implementation of some calls
(no whatsnew for now, this is just for log,will put more info on final commit)
