exploit slot devices: [Fabio Priuli]
- moved cart-specific components to the carts itself removing
the fake protection devices from the main system, since they
never belonged there
- removed hacky rom region destruction/construction when a
new cart is inserted, replacing it with proper bank pointers to
the carts (except for ymsnd and ymsnd.deltat region which
will require modernization of the ym devices)
- started re-organization of bootleg boards emulation, so to
reduce the need of collapsing everything into a single cart
type with multiple protection devices, more work is needed
neopcb.cpp: moved to a separate source file the emulation for
JAMMA PCB versions of a few neogeo games, since they don't
have a cartslot. [Fabio Priuli]
neogeo.xml: added information about Japanese titles and
release dates to the software list and aligned the list to the
driver. [Fabio Priuli]
cleaning up the related code. [Fabio Priuli]
saturn.cpp: added emulation of the SegaTap adapter (4 controllers)
and Sega Multitap adapter (6 controllers). Saturn Bomberman
can now be played as intended. [Fabio Priuli]
through slot devices. If you want to launch janshin in the
multislot driver (neogeo) you shall now prescribe
-edge "" -ctrl1 mahjong
and set accordingly the dipswitch. The janshin driver already
comes pre-configured in the proper way, instead. [Fabio Priuli]
you can now configure the controllers available in the multicart
driver (neogeo) with the -crtl1 and -ctrl2 options. when you run single
game drivers (e.g. mslug, or kof94, etc.), instead, a unique controller
is available and cannot be modified. [Fabio Priuli]
intvecs: Converted hand controllers, keyboard and synth to be slot devices,
by using a temporary hack to workaround the impossibility to plug the same
device into 2 different slots as these keyboard require. [Fabio Priuli]
out of whatsnew: in the long term we need to come up with a core solution
for these devices that occupy multiple slot devices at once (another one is
the VCS Compumate which plugs into both VCS control ports), because the
hack I used (a "fake" control port which acts as a passthru for the two real
control ports) is not really satisfactory. However, current solution is better
than the selectable controllers we had, which were (ab)using
PORT_CONDITIONs...
- Remove custom 6845 emulation and use our standard core
- Use the slot system for the parallel interface, fix and implement the
joystick as a slot device and create a printer slot device
- Add support for the RS-232 port
- Add support for the Break key (causes NMI)
make TARGET=mess -j19
will generate all needed files and build MESS, while developing you can use
make TARGET=mess COMPILE=1 -j19
to prevent rebuilding of make files.
Build system have automatic generate of dependencies so will do incremental builds fine.
make clean
will remove all generated files/projects and obj files
