-Updated LUA engine to run in machine_manager instead of being initialized per machine
-Added "-console" option so emulator can be started with LUA enabled console
-Update LUA to version 5.2.3
-Enabled SQLite3 to be compiled and added LUA module for it
Moved graphics decoding to a new device interface class: device_gfx_interface.
The gfxdecode device is now a device that simply inherits this interface and
does nothing else. Devices that draw tilemaps or sprites using gfx_elements
should in time be updated to use this interface rather than connect to a
machine-global gfxdecode device. Updated toaplan_scu.c as an example (also
fixed off-by-one sprite alignment in twincobr and rallybik while I was at it).
gfx_elements are normally created in interface_post_start(), making it
possible to dynamically create or modify the graphics decoding info during
device_start() if you need to. On the other hand, if you need the gfx_elements
during device_start(), you can directly call decode_gfx() to create them early.
This interface also provides a standard and init-order-safe way to connect to
a palette device (similarly to how device_video_interface helps devices
connect to a screen), so it's handy for any device that does palettized
drawing even if it doesn't use gfx_elements. Updated k053250.c as an example
of this usage.
gfxdecode info entries can now reference shared RAM regions by tag as well as
ROM regions, automatically handle endianness, and have some other new
capabilities. Updated nemesis.c and pgm.c to showcase the new features.
Removed validate_display() (it was just a commented out stub already) since
its only function, checking that drivers don't have an ind16 screen without
a palette, is now done by screen_device::device_validity_check().
Updated obsolete comments about GFXLAYOUT_RAW (cps1.c hasn't used raw gfx for
years, and "to save memory" is no longer a good reason to use it)
more generally useful than just in tilemaps. Code is now in memarray.*
Converted the Atari RLE motion objects device from a half-assed
device into a full-assed device, leveraging the memory_array class.
house a screen tag and to find the screen at startup, providing an m_screen
object that can be used. One nice feature is that if there is only one
screen and no screen has been specified, it will auto configure to that
screen. This removes the need to explicitly specify a screen in the
configuration for a large chunk of drivers (though doing so never hurts).
A new macro MCFG_VIDEO_SET_SCREEN is provided, though devices are
encouraged to define their own that maps there so it is obvious which
device is being targeted. The device_video_interface's validation
function will error if an invalid screen is specified or if no screen
is provided but there are multiple screens present.
Updated all devices that currently had an m_screen in them to use the
device_video_interface instead. This also has the nice benefit of flagging
video-related devices for categorization purposes. It also means all
these devices inherit the same screen-finding behaviors. For devices
that had interfaces that specified a screen tag, those have been removed
and all existing structs updated.
Added an optional_device<screen_device> m_screen to the base driver_device.
If you name your screen "screen" (as most drivers do), you will have free
access to your screen this way.
Future updates include:
* Updating all devices referencing machine.primary_screen to use the
device_video_interface instead
* Updating all drivers referencing machine.primary_screen to use the
m_screen instead
* Removing machine.primary_screen entirely
Tilemap system: numerous changes:
* Moved remaining legacy macros and typedefs to tilelgcy.h. This revealed
a few drivers mixing and matching modern & legcy, which have now been
fixed.
* Changed get info callback signature to no longer pass the user_data
pointer, but instead pass a reference to the tilemap object itself.
Updated those few drivers using user_data to pull it out of the
tilemap object with the new user_data() getter method.
* Changed get info and mapping callbacks to be device_delegates so that
they can be described at config time.
* Added tilemap_memory object that is used internally for reading/
writing to memory that backs a tilemap. This object is used to track
a memory pointer that backs tilemap memory, and also is designed to
transparently handle all bus width and endianness associated with
reading and writing data in a tilemap.
* Incorporated two tilemap_memory objects (basemem and extmem) into the
tilemap object and added accessors to them, as well as read/write
handlers for reading/writing to entries stored in the memory. This
means that tilemap get info callbacks can now easily read data out of
the tilemap in a generic way.
* Rejiggered the initialization sequence for tilemap objects so that
the tilemap_manager is not required to be present at instantiation.
* Created a new tilemap_device, which can be used to declare a tilemap
in the machine config, and which also is a tilemap object itself.
The tilemap device will look for shared memory regions called
"<tag>" and "<tag>_ext" and automatically plug them into the tilemap.
The device also provides write handlers that can be used to write
to the tilemap memory and mark tiles dirty, saving the need for each
driver to write their own.
Device system: moved required/optional device finders to a new header
devfind.h.
Atari drivers: removed all playfield and alpha memory and tilemap
variables, apart from those needed by atarivc-using games (this will
become a device in a future update). Updated all Atari 16-bit drivers to
use the new tilemap_device instead, which provides all the needed
functionality in a more generic way.
types. Created a binding_type_exception which is thrown when
a bind attempt fails due to mismatched types.
Added helper templates to driver_device to wrap legacy
device read/write handlers into driver_device member functions.
This should help move some things forward until more common
code is converted into proper devices.
Introduce new module devcb2 which contains modernized
versions of devcb. Compared to previous implementation
this one is simpler overall, trampolining calls through
a single internal set of adapter functions. The new
versions are also designed to be specified in the
machine_config rather than in structures, so they are
no longer simple POD types. Additional new/changed
features:
* reads and writes can map to delegates for line or 8/16/32/64-bit
* reads and writes can map to an I/O port
* reads can be mapped to a constant value, with or without logging
* writes can be mapped to a device's input line
* all reads/writes can have a shift, mask, and/or xor applied
* devices can opt to make the functions safe-if-NULL when resolving
* only member function types are supported
Rewrote the YM2151 interface to be fully modernized, and
removed the ym2151_interface struct in favor of inline configs
using the new devcb2 mechanism. In many cases, removed
no longer needed trampolines, instead taking advantage of
direct support for input line writes.
non-templatized helper class so that the code can live
co-located, rather than invading device.h.
Changed the read/write delegates to derive from
device_delegate. Updated the address map macros to create
these properly.
Removed remnants of the old AM_BASE/SIZE macros from the
memory system.
intended differences from previous behavior. For drivers,
the main change is that input_port_read() no longer exists.
Instead, the port must be fetched from the appropriate device,
and then read() is called.
For member functions, this is actually simpler/cleaner:
value = ioport("tag")->read()
For legacy functions which have a driver_data state, it goes:
value = state->ioport("tag")->read()
For other legacy functions, they need to fetch the root device:
value = machine.root_device().ioport("tag")->read()
The other big change for drivers is that IPT_VBLANK is gone.
Instead, it has been replaced by a device line callback on the
screen device. There's a new macro PORT_VBLANK("tag") which
automatically points things to the right spot.
Here's a set of imperfect search & replace strings to convert
the input_port_read calls and fix up IPT_VBLANK:
input_port_read( *\( *)(machine\(\)) *, *([^)]+ *\))
ioport\1\3->read\(\)
input_port_read( *\( *)(.*machine[()]*) *, *([^)]+ *\))
\2\.root_device\(\)\.ioport\1\3->read\(\)
(state = .*driver_data[^}]+)space->machine\(\)\.root_device\(\)\.
\1state->
(state = .*driver_data[^}]+)device->machine\(\)\.root_device\(\)\.
\1state->
input_port_read_safe( *\( *)(machine\(\)) *, *([^,]+), *([^)]+\))
ioport\1\3->read_safe\(\4\)
IPT_VBLANK( *\))
IPT_CUSTOM\1 PORT_VBLANK("screen")
Renamed driver overrides to MCFG_MACHINE/SOUND/VIDEO_START_OVERRIDE to
explicitly indicate they are overriding the default behavior.
Put liberatr back the way it used to be.
Normalized soundlatch helper function names.
Created delegates for machine/sound/video_start/reset callbacks and
added necessary infrastructure to use them going forward.
reading is now done using the FLAC wrapper. There is now a
samples_iterator class to centralize the logic for handling
the sample list walking.
Also redid the cheesy half-baked votrax device since it relied
on some old samples-based handling. Until we have a real
implementation, it would be good to route the various clients
through the current one to at least wire it up properly, even
if it just plays samples in the end. Will look into that
shortly.
from 4 to 5. This means any diff CHDs will no longer work. If you
absolutely need to keep the data for any existing ones you have,
find both the diff CHD and the original CHD for the game in question
and upgrade using these commands:
rename diff\game.dif diff\game-old.dif
chdman copy -i diff\game-old.dif -ip roms\game.chd -o diff\game.dif -op roms\game.chd -c none
Specifics regarding this change:
Defined a new CHD version 5. New features/behaviors of this version:
- support for up to 4 codecs; each block can use 1 of the 4
- new LZMA codec, which tends to do better than zlib overall
- new FLAC codec, primarily used for CDs (but can be applied anywhere)
- upgraded AVHuff codec now uses FLAC for encoding audio
- new Huffman codec, used to catch more nearly-uncompressable blocks
- compressed CHDs now use a compressed map for significant savings
- CHDs now are aware of a "unit" size; each hunk holds 1 or more units
(in general units map to sectors for hard disks/CDs)
- diff'ing against a parent now diffs at the unit level, greatly
improving compression
Rewrote and modernized chd.c. CHD versions prior to 3 are unsupported,
and version 3/4 CHDs are only supported for reading. Creating a new
CHD now leaves the file open. Added methods to read and write at the
unit and byte level, removing the need to handle this manually. Added
metadata access methods that pass astrings and dynamic_buffers to
simplify the interfaces. A companion class chd_compressor now
implements full multithreaded compression, analyzing and compressing
multiple hunks independently in parallel. Split the codec
implementations out into a separate file chdcodec.*
Updated harddisk.c and cdrom.c to rely on the caching/byte-level read/
write capabilities of the chd_file class. cdrom.c (and chdman) now also
pad CDs to 4-frame boundaries instead of hunk boundaries, ensuring that
the same SHA1 hashes are produced regardless of the hunk size.
Rewrote chdman.exe entirely, switching from positional parameters to
proper options. Use "chdman help" to get a list of commands, and
"chdman help <command>" to get help for any particular command. Many
redundant commands were removed now that additional flexibility is
available. Some basic mappings:
Old: chdman -createblankhd <out.chd> <cyls> <heads> <secs>
New: chdman createhd -o <out.chd> -chs <cyls>,<heads>,<secs>
Old: chdman -createuncomphd <in.raw> <out.chd> ....
New: chdman createhd -i <in.raw> -o <out.chd> -c none ....
Old: chdman -verifyfix <in.chd>
New: chdman verify -i <in.chd> -f
Old: chdman -merge <parent.chd> <diff.chd> <out.chd>
New: chdman copy -i <diff.chd> -ip <parent.chd> -o <out.chd>
Old: chdman -diff <parent.chd> <compare.chd> <diff.chd>
New: chdman copy -i <compare.chd> -o <diff.chd> -op <parent.chd>
Old: chdman -update <in.chd> <out.chd>
New: chdman copy -i <in.chd> -o <out.chd>
Added new core file coretmpl.h to hold core template classes. For now
just one class, dynamic_array<> is defined, which acts like an array
of a given object but which can be appended to and/or resized. Also
defines dynamic_buffer as dynamic_array<UINT8> for holding an
arbitrary buffer of bytes. Expect to see these used a lot.
Added new core helper hashing.c/.h which defines classes for each of
the common hashing methods and creator classes to wrap the
computation of these hashes. A future work item is to reimplement
the core emulator hashing code using these.
Split bit buffer helpers out into C++ classes and into their own
public header in bitstream.h.
Updated huffman.c/.h to C++, and changed the interface to make it
more flexible to use in nonstandard ways. Also added huffman compression
of the static tree for slightly better compression rates.
Created flac.c/.h as simplified C++ wrappers around the FLAC interface.
A future work item is to convert the samples sound device to a modern
device and leverage this for reading FLAC files.
Renamed avcomp.* to avhuff.*, updated to C++, and added support for
FLAC as the audio encoding mechanism. The old huffman audio is still
supported for decode only.
Added a variant of core_fload that loads to a dynamic_buffer.
Tweaked winwork.c a bit to not limit the maximum number of processors
unless the work queue was created with the WORK_QUEUE_FLAG_HIGH_FREQ
option. Further adjustments here are likely going to be necessary.
Fixed bug in aviio.c which caused errors when reading some AVI files.
macros with bitmap->pix* functions, and moved bitmap_fill() to bitmap->fill()
among other similar changes. Bitmap fields now only available via accessors.
Replaced sect_rect with &= and union_rect with |= operators for rectangle
classes. Some general cleanup as a result of these changes. [Aaron Giles]
- It is used by MESS side i8251 and 6551 are using it now
- Also created simple serial source devices (used by some cassette interface)
This will be optimized and rechecked after new chips are converted to use it
No whatsnew for now, but there will be info for the release.
using one cothread for each executable device. This functionality is
strictly internal and should result in no changes in scheduling
behavior. However, it now becomes possible to exit out of a device's
execution in the midst of an instruction by calling
machine().scheduler().make_active(). Note that this is somewhat dangerous
for cores that have logic at the start of their execute loop to check for
interrupts or other conditions, as those checks will be skipped upon
resume, so consider this sort of early exiting to be highly experimental
for now. [Aaron Giles, Miodrag Milanovic, byuu]
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
Remove the old tokenizing helpers. Add basic classes for ports, fields,
settings, and dip locations as a first step. These will be fully cleaned
up later. Added machine() method to field to hide all the necessary
indirection. Changed custom/changed handlers into generic read/write
handlers, and added wrappers to convert them to device read/write
lines. [Aaron Giles]
existing modern devices and the legacy wrappers to work in this
environment. This in general greatly simplifies writing a modern
device. [Aaron Giles]
General notes:
* some more cleanup probably needs to happen behind this change,
but I needed to get it in before the next device modernization
or import from MESS :)
* new template function device_creator which automatically defines
the static function that creates the device; use this instead of
creating a static_alloc_device_config function
* added device_stop() method which is called at around the time
the previous device_t's destructor was called; if you auto_free
anything, do it here because the machine is gone when the
destructor is called
* changed the static_set_* calls to pass a device_t & instead of
a device_config *
* for many devices, the static config structure member names over-
lapped the device's names for devcb_* functions; in these cases
the members in the interface were renamed to have a _cb suffix
* changed the driver_enumerator to only cache 100 machine_configs
because caching them all took a ton of memory; fortunately this
implementation detail is completely hidden behind the
driver_enumerator interface
* got rid of the macros for creating derived classes; doing it
manually is now clean enough that it isn't worth hiding the
details in a macro
and manages a collection of hashes, and can be built from an internal
format string which is stored with each ROM. All core instances are
cleaned up to use the new interfaces, but it's likely that hashfile
code in MESS will need an update.
Also compacted the form of the hash strings used for ROMs, and fixed
verification/hashing of non-ZIPped files.
are still intact. The new state_manager class has templatized methods
for saving the various types, and through template specialization can
save more complex system types cleanly (like bitmaps and attotimes).
Added new mechanism to detect proper state save types. This is much
more strict and there will likely be some games/devices that fatalerror
at startup until they are remedied. Spot checking has caught the more
common situations.
The new state_manager is embedded directly in the running_machine,
allowing objects to register state saving in their constructors now.
Added NAME() macro which is a generalization of FUNC() and can be
used to wrap variables that are registered when directly using the
new methods as opposed to the previous macros. For example:
machine->state().save_item(NAME(global_item))
Added methods in the device_t class that implicitly register state
against the current device, making for a cleaner interface.
Just a couple of required regexes for now:
state_save_register_postload( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *
\3->state().register_postload\1\(\2
state_save_register_presave( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *
\3->state().register_presave\1\(\2
timers into the scheduler. Retain TIMER devices as a separate wrapper
in timer.c/.h. Inline wrappers are currently provided for all timer
operations; a future update will bulk clean these up.
Rather than using macros which hide generation of a string-ified name
for callback functions, the new methods require passing both a function
pointer plus a name string. A new macro FUNC() can be used to output
both, and another macro MFUNC() can be used to output a stub-wrapped
class member as a callback.
Also added a time() method on the machine, so that machine->time() gives
the current emulated time. A wrapper for timer_get_time is currently
provided but will be bulk replaced in the future.
For this update, convert all classic timer_alloc, timer_set,
timer_pulse, and timer_call_after_resynch calls into method calls on
the scheduler.
For new device timers, added methods to the device_t class that make
creating and managing these much simpler. Modern devices were updated
to use these.
Here are the regexes used; some manual cleanup (compiler-caught) will
be needed since regex doesn't handle nested parentheses cleanly
1. Convert timer_call_after_resynch calls
timer_call_after_resynch( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^);]+)\)
\3->scheduler().synchronize\1\(\2FUNC(\6), \5, \4\)
2. Clean up trailing 0, NULL parameters
(synchronize[^;]+), 0, NULL\)
\1)
3. Clean up trailing NULL parameters
(synchronize[^;]+), NULL\)
\1)
4. Clean up completely empty parameter lists
synchronize\(FUNC\(NULL\)\)
synchronize()
5. Convert timer_set calls
timer_set( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^);]+)\)
\3->scheduler().timer_set\1\(\2\4, FUNC(\7), \6, \5\)
6. Clean up trailing 0, NULL parameters
(timer_set[^;]+), 0, NULL\)
\1)
7. Clean up trailing NULL parameters
(timer_set[^;]+), NULL\)
\1)
8. Convert timer_set calls
timer_pulse( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^);]+)\)
\3->scheduler().timer_pulse\1\(\2\4, FUNC(\7), \6, \5\)
9. Clean up trailing 0, NULL parameters
(timer_pulse[^;]+), 0, NULL\)
\1)
10. Clean up trailing NULL parameters
(timer_pulse[^;]+), NULL\)
\1)
11. Convert timer_alloc calls
timer_alloc( *)\(( *)([^,;]+), *([^,;]+), *([^);]+)\)
\3->scheduler().timer_alloc\1\(\2FUNC(\4), \5\)
12. Clean up trailing NULL parameters
(timer_alloc[^;]+), NULL\)
\1)
13. Clean up trailing 0 parameters
(timer_alloc[^;]+), 0\)
\1)
14. Fix oddities introduced
\&m_machine->scheduler()
m_machine.scheduler()
into one file, and separated the speaker device into its own file.
Generalized the concept of dynamically assigned inputs and re-wired the
speaker to work this way, so it is now treated just like any other
sound device. Added methods to the device_sound_interface for controlling
output gain and mapping device inputs/outputs to stream inputs/outputs.
Also made the sound_stream_update() method pure virtual, so all modern
sound devices must use the new mechanism for stream updates.
Primary changes outside of the core are:
stream_update(stream) == stream->update()
stream_create(device,...) == machine->sound().stream_alloc(*device,...)
sound_global_enable(machine,enable) == machine->sound().system_enable(enable)
Beyond this, the patterns are relatively obvious for the remaining calls.
for the common case where these are done outside the context of a read
or write handler (it was annoying to pass in the fake address space
for these cases).
Added DEVCB_DEVICE_MEMBER() macros which allow you to specify a
READ8_MEMBER or WRITE8_MEMBER in a device callback (via dynamically
generated trampolines).
Replaced all remaining calls to okim6295_r/okim6295_w with calls to
the new methods, and removed the static functions.
class with a new driver_device class, which is the base class for all
driver_data objects now. The new driver devices are added as the
first device in the device list, with a tag of "root"; all other
devices are now owned by the driver device.
Moved core callbacks (machine_start/_reset, sound_start/_reset,
video_start/_reset/_eof/_update, and palette_init) into device
configuration parameters on these new devices. The driver_device
base class overrides device_start(), ensures all other devices have
been started, and then calls, in order, the following overridable
methods:
find_devices() - new, used to locate devices prior to DRIVER_INIT
DRIVER_INIT function from the game driver
palette_init() - by default calls the MDRV_PALETTE_INIT function
driver_start() - new
machine_start() - by default calls the MDRV_MACHINE_START function
sound_start() - by default calls the MDRV_SOUND_START function
video_start() - by default calls the MDRV_VIDEO_START function
Similarly, the driver_device class overrides device_reset() and then
calls these methods in order:
driver_reset() - new
machine_reset() - by default calls the MDRV_MACHINE_RESET function
sound_reset() - by default calls the MDRV_SOUND_RESET function
video_reset() - by default calls the MDRV_VIDEO_RESET function
To accommodate these changes, initialization order is slightly
altered from before. The tilemap, video, sound, and debug systems
are now initialized prior to the devices' start. And the user
callbacks for DRIVER_INIT, PALETTE_INIT, MACHINE_START, SOUND_START,
and VIDEO_START are all called back-to-back. The net effect should
be similar, however.
Added methods (optional_device and required_device) to the new
driver_device class to find devices, intended to be used from the
find_devices() callback. See harddriv.h and beathead.h for examples
of usage.
Changed device_t::subtag to only prepend a prefix if the device is
not the 'root' device, in order to keep compatibility with existing
tag searching.
Changed device startup to actively reorder devices when they report
missing dependencies. This ensures that the reset functions get
called in the same order that the start functions did.
Bulk updated drivers as follows:
First removed the old static alloc function from the driver_data_t:
S: [ \t]*static driver_device \*alloc *\( *running_machine *\&machine *\) *\{ *return auto_alloc_clear *\( *\&machine *, *[a-zA-Z0-9_]+_state *\( *machine *\) *\); *\}[\r\n]*
R:
Then switched from driver_data_t to driver_device:
S: driver_data_t
R: driver_device
Then changed the constructors to pass the correct parameters:
S: ([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)_state *\( *running_machine *\&machine *\)([\r\n\t ]+): *driver_device *\( *machine *\)
R: \1_state\(running_machine \&machine, const driver_device_config_base \&config\)\2: driver_device\(machine, config\)
