- Create device_palette_interface, which takes over most functionality from palette_device except for the initialization/decoding routines and RAM interface.
- Update screen_device and device_gfx_interface to use a device_palette_interface object rather than a palette_device. This necessitates slight alterations to a few drivers and devices.
- Modify v9938 and v9958 to use the new device_palette_interface rather than a subdevice. This entails breaking a cyclic dependency between device_video_interface and screen_device for this case.
Prior to this change, options for images and slots were stored in the emu_options collection. Anything that might restart the emulation (such as slot changes and images that reset on load) had to manipulate the emu_options structure directly. The dynamic nature of images and slots meant that some elaborate conventions for setting up this collection had to be understood by clients.
After this change, emu_options has two new members (image_options and slot_options) that expose image and slot selections via an std::map. Anything that changes images or slots in a fashion that needs to persist across sessions needs to modify these data structures. Additionally, some of the hairly logic (e.g. - get_default_card_software) now records its data here rather than trying to subvert the core_options system.
This is how MT#6531 was fixed; now when diimage.cpp sees an image that resets on load, it just modifies the image_options structure and forces a reset. This allowed some further cleanups to happen within diimage.
This should be considered a very risky change, and scrutiny/feedback is welcome. In particular, there seems to be functionality surrounding device bioses that I'm not 100% sure how it works; the syntax seems to imply that it only works on slot devices.
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Gaelco Championship Tuning Race [Mark F., Smitdogg, The Dumping Union]
Also renamed the driver from tokyocop.cpp to gaelcopc.cpp. Other game on this hardware is Ring Riders. (nw)
pstring:
- added support for UTF16LE to pstring.
- renamed size() to mem_t_size()
- renmaed len() to length()
- added size() == length()
- added empty()
- added simple compare()
pfmtlog:
- Simplified pfmtlog, added more c++
pdynlib:
- add a dynproc type to dynlib to wrap dynamic library calls.
various:
- fix two coverty scan issue.
- various clang warnings fixed.
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