- MAME will now save an HLSL INI file on the first run of a game that doesn't already have an INI file.
- HLSL INI files must have their parameters left in the order in which they are saved out.
- Fixed a diagonal 'crease' visible on the screen in HLSL mode.
- Fixed set_vector functionality and simplified shaders as a result
- Fixed HLSL presets, 0 to 3, in increasing level of terribleness
- Reduced options footprint from RGB triplets
Next plan: Separate INI writing.
out of whatsnew
remark 1- this is for MESS only to my knowledge, let me know if I should credit the change in MESS instead
remark 2 (mainly for Arbee) - sorry if I touched the SDL side of the source, but mizapf was eager to fix the ti99 issues
and since tlinder approved the change and you did not object on the MESS list, I think it was time to commit it ;)
- Reworked default shadow mask settings, eliminating rainbow banding and matching reference shots more closely
- Moved color power to occur after shadow mask, as it is intended to simulate nonlinear phosphor response
- Added a variable-width notch filter to the Y channel in NTSC post-processing, eliminating luma banding on e.g. CoCo 2 and Apple II
Attempting to fix the HLSL 'blurriness' reported by a few people. Now HLSL will auto-prescale to the nearest texture size that is greater than the target screen size on both axes and is also an even multiple of the raw bitmap's size.
- Added the ability to render screenshots at arbitrary resolutions.
- Added the ability to record AVI videos (albeit with no audio) at arbitrary resolutions.
- Added a 43-tap-wide FIR-based NTSC filter with tunable Y, I and Q frequency response.
- Updated scanlines to have a user-tunable pixel-height ratio in addition to the current screen-height ratio.
- Fixed a VRAM leak that was causing many dynamic-resolution drivers to run out of memory mid-run.
Low-level input upgrade. Classes now exist for input_codes, input_items,
input_devices, and input_seqs. Also created an input_manager class to
hold machine-global state and made it accessible via machine.input().
Expanded the device index range (0-255, up from 0-16), and the OSD can
now specify the device index explicitly if they can better keep the
indexes from varying run-to-run. [Aaron Giles]
Note that I've built and run SDL on Windows, but not all the code paths
were exercised. If you use mice/joysticks extensively double-check them
to be sure it all still works as expected.
This is mainly an OSD and core change. The only thing impacting drivers
is if they query for specific keys for debugging. The following S&Rs
took care of most of that:
S: input_code_pressed( *)\(( *)([^, ]+) *, *
R: \3\.input\(\)\.code_pressed\1\(\2
S: input_code_pressed_once( *)\(( *)([^, ]+) *, *
R: \3\.input\(\)\.code_pressed_once\1\(\2
- Created a new OSD function, osd_get_slider_list, which allows OS-specific slider controls.
- Plumbed new OSD-specific slider controls for HLSL parameters on Direct3D 9 targets. And there was much rejoicing.
