or ENDIANNESS_BIG based on the LSB_FIRST definition. Unlink LSB_FIRST,
ENDIANNESS_NATIVE always exists and can be used in expressions without
invoking the preprocessor.
Added macro ENDIAN_VALUE_LE_BE() which selects one of two values based
on the endianness passed in. Also added NATIVE_ENDIAN_VALUE_LE_BE()
which calls ENDIAN_VALUE_LE_BE with ENDIANNESS_NATIVE.
Updated a number of drivers and call sites to use these macros in favor
of #ifdef LSB_FIRST.
* Merged Sengoku Mahjong & Good e Jong video HWs
* Added correct scrolling functions for Sengoku Mahjong
* Removed some positioning kludges in both drivers
Fixed Sengoku Mahjong hopper error after first winning match [Angelo Salese]
Removed deprecat dependancy from Good e Jong,one irq wasn't needed at all (points to a reti) [Angelo Salese]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:20 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: megasys1 Big input Clean
Hi Folk
I returned wit a tough work (for me!), i've maed a big input clean up
in the drive (they were a lot messy), now all looks more tidy ;-)
- Delete input port definition in "includes/megasys1.h"
- Added generic input in megasys1.c
- General input clean
Bye Sonikos
* Graphics decoded, video improved, inputs mapped.
Intel i860 CPU core added. [Jason Eckhardt]
(The CPU core doesn't have accurate cycle counts for each opcode yet, but it'll have them soon. I believe that is the main culprit behind the sync of the two i860s and the 68k being outta' whack. You can still see the i860s do their thing and rasterize a voxel? groundplane and some simple polygon bad guys).
-----------------
Hit the Ice (Japan) [Phil Bennett]
Added IC locations and PAL dumps to hitice. Flagged both sets with GAME_IMPERFECT_GRAPHICS as the bitmap layer implementation is incorrect.
* Fixed gfx banking in goodejan/totmejan;
* Fixed vertical scrolling in Sengoku Mahjong (check title screen);
* Made some clean-ups in either drivers;
==================================================
The (likely) custom Seibu CRTC is used at least in the following games:
Raiden (probably the first game to use it)
Sengoku Mahjong
Good e Jong
Tottemo de Jong
Blood Bros.
Sky Smasher
D-Con
SD Gundam Psycho Salamander no Kyoui
(all games in legionna.c)
(all games in raiden2.c)
All of these games have 4 layers with 2048 (0x800) bytes of ram each,a palette ram with xRRRRRGGGGGBBBBB format and (at least) 72 (0x48) video registers.
The idea here is to merge everything in a single file and to understand the issues with some of them,namely the "bitmap_fill" color (goodejan/totmejan
needs a black pen on the service mode and a white-to-black fade out effect at start-up?),some kludges with the tilemaps/sprites positioning (in both
sd gundams,sdgndmsp and sdgndmrb for example) plus obviously anything that isn't yet understood from these regs.
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:52 AM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: unreachable code cleanup
This patch cleans up the usage of unreachable code (mostly
unnecessary breaks after returns in switch - case). A few case of
really unused code were also discovered. I marked thos with FIXME
comments.
I based this cleanup on teh output of cppcheck. It does still missing
a few cases of unreachable code, so there might be future patches to
address more cases.
isn't complete?
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: David Haywood [mailto:neohaze@nildram.co.uk]
Inviato: venerdi 9 gennaio 2009 9.42
A: Angelo Salese
Oggetto: tarzan
I don't think the decryption is complete.. the graphics are also
encrypted.. so don't decode properly.
i guess sar might need to take a 2nd look at it.
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:14 AM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: Patch to remove useless INLINE defines
Hello,
this patch removes several occurrences of "#define INLINE" in CPU and
sound cores, which I assume are useless since the makefile already
defines this.
--Dirk
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:39 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Cc: atariace@hotmail.com
Subject: [patch] Remove sndindex from SND_START
Hi mamedev,
This is a baby step towards making the sound cores proper devices. It
removes the sndindex parameter from SND_START. Cores should use the
device pointer or tag as appropriate. I also removed a few
address_space hacks taking advantage of the existing fake sound
device.
~aa
After adding these, I also added DIP LOCATIONS for all sets in the driver.
There was an issue where a manual setting was different than what MAME
expected (Demo_Sound in the manual listed OFF, but MAME likes them ON).
Kale helped me a bit with some pointers about PORT_BIT reassignment which
helped clear up the duplicate Service Mode assignments. I'm sure I made
errors, but it's a start :)
This .DIFF is based on 0.128u7 sources and resolves MAMETesters Bug #02787.
Tafoid
tafoid@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:20 AM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Cc: atariace@hotmail.com
Subject: [patch] static/const/include fixes
Hi mamedev,
Here's my aperiodic code cleanup patch for MAME, adding static/const
and adjusting header files. In a few places I went a bit further.
1. arm7core.[ch],segas24.[ch]: Rewrote some abuses of the HANDLER
macros to use _func types instead.
2. m37710: Removed some long dead state save functions.
3. spc700: Removed the interface declarations and functions. Most of
it is handled by CPU_GET_INFO, some of it was no longer implemented,
and since pointerization it wasn't possible to call it externally
anyhow.
4. segac2: I removed the palette variables aliasing the megadrive ones
and just used the megadrive ones directly.
5. snes: All the obc1_, DSP1_, DSP2_ exports were made static. I'd
avoided doing this previously for fear it might break MESS, but after
auditing I'm fairly certain this shouldn't cause problems.
~aa
gfx_element. Updated the drivers that did this to use the new function, fixing
random crashes.
Fixed a couple of other minor regressions with recent drawgfx changes.
- Hooked all the PPI 8255 devices.
- Reworked the inputs based on them.
- Fixed the reels visible area.
- Reorganized and cleaned-up the driver.
(only remains to split in driver + video)
memory table to find its ranges, and caches them for fast access in
the future. It invalidates intersecting regions when new ones are
installed, and now properly handles mirrored ranges.
Also changed the disassembly view to call the decrypted read routines
for each opcode byte/word instead of fetching from a pointer, which
prevented opcodes that crossed range boundaries from working correctly,
even though they would execute correctly.
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 3:00 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Cc: atariace@hotmail.com
Subject: [patch] Make SOUND_xxx pointers to SND_GET_INFO functions
Hi mamedev,
This patch probably should wait till after 0.129 goes out, but may be
of interest regardless. It makes the treatment of SOUND_xxx the same
as that of CPU_xxx. That is, they are function pointers to the
SND_GET_INFO routine for the sound.
The first patch just adds some missing include files and modifies a
few cases where a sound_type was used as an integer. This could go in
now. The second patch then adds the needed #defines to all the sound
headers (it assumes the previous patch I sent to add the SND_GET_INFO
declarations was applied), and modifies the sound code accordingly. It
also moves the sound clock to the device object. Note that the dummy
sound core is removed entirely. I cheated a bit and made VERIFY_SNDTI
also declare and fill in the sndnum, making this an INLINE function
would probably be more appropriate, but all of this code's days are
numbered.
There may be some performance loss in drivers that expect sndti_xxx
routines to be fast, since sound_matrix has been removed. The
performance however should be similar to looking up items in a
devicelist, so those drivers will have to adjust eventually.
~aa
