them more flexible and simpler to use. Got rid of the proto_delegates
altogether in favor of supporting delegates that are bound to NULL
objects. Added a front-end template that supports "natural" syntax
favored by libraries like boost. Added support for static functions
that take reference parameters instead of pointer parameters for the
object type. Updated all delegate users in the system to the new
syntax. [Aaron Giles]
Changed the DIRECT_UPDATE_HANDLER to take a machine reference like
everything else in the system. Updated all users. [Aaron Giles]
Changed the FUNC() macro to automatically put an & in front of the
item passed. In general this works transparently, however it does have
the nice side-effect of catching situations where a variable is passed
instead of a function name. Fixed those cases to push the naming
upstream so that the name is now provided properly. Also added a
FUNC_NULL macro since FUNC(NULL) no longer works. [Aaron Giles]
mpu4.c: Documented MOD 4 OKI program card ROM banking and improved the BwB characteriser emulation. [James Wallace]
New games added as GAME_NOT_WORKING:
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MPU3 Unit Test (Program 5)
Hyper Viper
loader rewrite, which is still in progress....)
Replaced mamedriv.c with a new driver list mechanism that is generated
by the build tools. The emulator core now expects the presence of a
file called src/$(TARGET)/$(SUBTARGET).lst which is just a raw list of
driver names, one per line. C and C++ comments are still permitted.
This file is parsed by a new build tool makelist which extracts the
driver names, sorts them, and generates a file called drivlist.c, which
is consumed by the core. [Aaron Giles]
Added new osdcore function osd_malloc_array() which is identical to
osd_malloc() but obviously hints that the underlying allocation is for
an array. Updated all callers to use the appropriate form. Modified the
Windows allocator to only use guard pages for array-style allocations,
allowing us to enable them once again in debug builds. [Aaron Giles]
Created new static class driver_list to wrap accesses to the list of
available drivers. Improved speed of driver lookups by relying on the
presorting done by makelist. [Aaron Giles]
Created helper class driver_enumerator as a helper for iterating through
the list of drivers. This class supports basic filtering and iteration,
and also serves as a temporary cache of machine_configs. [Aaron Giles]
Created cli_frontend object to wrap all the CLI handling code in
clifront.c. Updated/simplified all the code to take advantage of the
driver_enumerator. [Aaron Giles]
Created media_auditor object to wrap all the auditing functions in
audit.c. Updated all users to the new interface. Note that the new
auditing mechanism is slightly out of sync with the romload code in
terms of finding ROMs owned by devices, so it may mis-report some
issues until the new ROM loading code is in. [Aaron Giles]
Added concept of a per-device searchpath. For most devices, their
searchpath is just the short name of the device. For driver_devices, the
searchpath is driver[;parent[;bios]]. This searchpath will eventually be
used by the rom loader to find ROMs. For now it is used by the media
auditor only. [Aaron Giles]
Created info_xml_creator object to wrap all the info generation functions
in info.c. Converted the file to C++ and cleaned up the input processing
code. [Aaron Giles]
(not for whatsnew ... Known issues: auditing of CHDs appears busted, and
debug builds report unfreed memory if you use the built-in game picker)
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Home Run Classic [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Country Club Classic [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
Trap Shoot Classic [Mariusz Wojcieszek]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Water-Nymph (Ver. 1.4) [Team Europe, Luca Elia]
- exidy440/m72/segasnd are converted to legacy devices.
- cage/dcs/williams variables are restructured internally to
resemble a device, simplifying a future device conversion. Some
AM_BASE macros are eliminated as well.
- taito_en has minor changes to eliminate an AM_BASE macro.
and adapted the char input code to match shortnames or descriptions accordingly [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: hats off to whoever created the menu code! I thought implementing this would have been much harder, but it was not at all!
* Added Street Fighter III: New Generation
Hispanic BIOS rom CD version
* Added a detailed table of all known releases until now
with usefull notes to identify new Cart Regions/CD Revisions
* Renamed some CHDs to use the new Catalog # standard
New clones added
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Street Fighter III: New Generation (Hispanic 970204) [Bill D., The Dumping Union]
this (and the previous commit) adds some duplicate code among file selector menu and softlist menu. I hope to find a clean way to unify the common functions at a later stage.
- Complete support for Witch Royal, from Video Klein.
- Reworked the button-lamps layout to get the hold
buttons more centered.
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Witch Royal (Export version 2.1) [Roberto Fresca, Team Europe]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Major Poker (v2.0) [Roberto Fresca, Tomasz Slanina, Rob Ragon]
driver_device classes have an m_ prefix on them. When we
eventually move functions using these into member functions,
we will be able to remove the state-> pointers, and having
the member variables prefixed will allow them to be
distinguished from local variables.
Some regex'es used (plus manually fixing the remaining stuff):
In src/mame/...
state->([a-zA-Z_][^_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)
state->m_\1
state->([^m]_[a-zA-Z0-9_]*)
state->m_\1
state->m_save_item
state->save_item
state->m_save_pointer
state->save_pointer
(AM_BASE_MEMBER *\( *[a-zA-Z0-9_]+ *, *)([a-zA-Z_][^_])
\1m_\2
(AM_BASE_SIZE_MEMBER *\( *[a-zA-Z0-9_]+ *, *)([a-zA-Z_][^_][a-zA-Z0-9_]* *, *)([a-zA-Z_][^_])
\1m_\2m_\3
(AM_SIZE_MEMBER *\( *[a-zA-Z0-9_]+ *, *)([a-zA-Z_][^_])
\1m_\2
m__
m_
In src/mame/includes/...
(\t[a-zA-Z0-9_<>]+[ \t]+[&*]*[ \t]*)([a-zA-Z_][^_][][a-zA-Z0-9_]*;)$
\1m_\2
(\t[a-zA-Z0-9_<>]+[ \t]*[&*]*[ \t]+)([a-zA-Z_][^_][][a-zA-Z0-9_]*;)$
\1m_\2
Comment:
This is a simple replace of:
ADDRESS_MAP_UNMAP_HIGH
to
AM_RANGE(0x0000, 0xffff) AM_NOP (or ffffff for 16-bit cpus)
Until the pinball drivers begin to be worked on and considering how slowly most of these drivers run while essentially doing nothing but displaying a picture, this change greatly increases the performance allowing for quicker regression checks.
Use a named memory area instead of either generic spriteram or
a state-specific spriteram to allow sei_crtc.c to find the
spriteram for games that use it.
Added new macro MACHINE_CONFIG_DERIVED_CLASS() which works just like
MACHINE_CONFIG_DERIVED() except you can specify an alternate driver_device
class. Used this in the 8080bw.c games which require an _8080bw_state, but
derive from mw8080bw_root which has the base class mw8080bw_state.
