* added basic support for the system bus variously referred to as SR, SR bus, SRX and CBUS
* added an initial GT graphics card implementation, only supports the video ram and ramdac for now, but sufficient to boot the diagnostic monitor in graphics mode
* added a high-level emulation of the InterPro keyboard
protection handled etc. written from scratch based on notes from Kevtris and Peter
banking in the slot system seems somewhat archaic compared to proper modern banking, but this is how all other drivers I saw using slot roms did it.
* Emulate LC7535 based volume control for Dragon Gun board based games
* Add DSW3 and DIP locations to Captain Avenger
* Reorganize driver and start cleaning it up (in progress)
Specifically, this creates a call osd_get_command_line() that returns UTF-8 command line arguments as std::vector<std::string>. On non-Windows platforms, this does nothing more than build the vector. On Windows, this invokes GetCommandLineW() and CommandLineToArgvW(). This also attempts to unwind usage of wmain()/_tmain() on Windows, which is not standard.
Related to this, this fixes a bug in Imgtool; specifically, non-7 bit ASCII was not being handled correctly in Windows.
This is really an admission that the way that Windows handles Unicode and command line arguments sucks, and it is my belief that having a wmain() or _tmain() declaration specific for Windows is a worse solution. C'est la vie.
I'm very open to the idea that src/osd/osdcore.[cpp|h] is not the best place to do this. Let me know if I should move it.
* hp85: added support for optional ROM cartridges. Started optional ROM
sw list (not finished).
* hp85: refactored mapping of opt. ROMs according to cuavas' comments
* initial skelethon: ControlID X628 fingerprint reader
* first draft of an implementation of the NT7534 device (LCD controller)
* fix emulation of ControlID x628 + NT7534 LCD controller
* cidx628: fix LCD color palette on Control ID x628 driver
* Adding a header with details of the hardware. This is the first MAME driver with an LCD controlled by a NT7534 chip, so I wrote an initial implementation of that new device.
These humble 16-pin logic devices were commonly used in 8-bit arcade games to control coin counters/lockouts, IRQ flipflops, graphics banking, slave CPU reset lines, discrete audio triggers, screen flipping, serial EEPROMs and much else. Over 100 drivers and a few bus devices have been updated to use the new implementation, and a great deal of research has gone into documenting the physical location of these devices on actual PCBs in the source. Write handlers have been provided for both orthodox and somewhat less conventional memory mappings.
Incidental to this update, coin counters and/or lockouts have been added to Atari System 1 games, Basketball, Gauntlet, Gyruss, Hana Yayoi, Hole Land, Jr. Pac-Man, Mahjong Sisters, Pooyan, Roc'n Rope, Squash, Thunder Hoop, Time Limit, Time Pilot '84 and many others. This also cleans up coin counter behavior in Sauro and Rally Bike.
(nw) The purpose of committing this change, which has been several months in the making, early in the 0.189GIT cycle will be to allow time for fixing potential regressions; I've fixed a number of drivers that lost sound from this for various reasons (hnayayoi.cpp having missing or garbage ADPCM was particularly painful, since the three games in that driver all work slightly differently), but I can't test all affected drivers exhaustively. @Tafoid, don't bother running automated screen capture comparison tests on this, as many drivers are now expected to have the screen flipped for the first few seconds after reset.
* Fix save/load states in Emscripten build
* Simplified Emscripten integration points
* Moved standalone JS functions to be static member functions of running_machine
* Improved Emscripten main loop
* Use convenience functions for cleaner code
As an added bonus, this now allows for proper shutdown of the running machine when running in the Emscripten environment - previously, attempts to exit the program were just being ignored.
