Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:16 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Subject: stepstag.c
-added custom 3-screen layout;
-added recently dumpped game "Stepping 3 Surperior"(incomplete ROM/CHD set);
The game name of "stepstag" romset is actually "Stepping Stage Special", not the original "Stepping Stage".
/current/s/sothello.zip
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Super Othello [Tomasz Slanina]
- Renamed csk driver to igspoker. This includes Champion Poker, Champion Skill,
New Champion Skill
- Converted drivers to tilemap system and unified video section
- Unified memory maps and checked all input ports
- Removed obsolete palette handlers and made use of generic handlers
- Added layout for lamps handling
- Added hopper simulation
- Added New Champion Skill (different set, maybe original international release)
and renamed current igs_ncs to igs_ncs2 (2000 version for italian market)
- Promoted igs_ncs2 to working state, but set GAME_IMPERFECT_GRAPHICS (missing
initial notice screen)
- Moved Jackie to a separate driver (it's a slot machine game)
- Made some progress on Jackie which now boots (toggle mode to play, but work
still needs to be done)
* 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]
* 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).
- Added built-in dirty tile tracking to the gfx_element. This removes
the need for all drivers that had dynamically populated graphics
to do their own dirty tracking. Tiles are marked dirty via the
new function gfx_element_mark_dirty(). Any driver that needs access
to the decoded data must call gfx_element_get_data() in order to
ensure that the referenced tile is clean before proceeding.
- In order to support dirty tracking, the gfx_element was enhanced to
keep track of the original source pointer, so that it can go back
and regenerate tiles on demand. For systems that set NULL for the
region in the gfxdecode, they must use gfx_element_set_source()
to specify a pointer to the raw data before drawing anything.
- Changed allocgfx() to gfx_element_alloc(), and added parameters to
specify the source data pointer, base color index, and total colors.
Many drivers had to whack these values in after the fact, so this
allowed for some minor additional cleanup.
- Added a dirtyseq member to the gfx_element struct. This is
incremented on each tile dirty, and can be used to sniff if
something has changed.
- Added logic in the tilemap engine to track which gfx_elements are
used for a given tilemap, and automatically detect changes to the
tiles so that drivers no longer have to explicitly invalidate the
tilemap when tiles change. In the future, this may grow smarter to
only invalidate the affected tiles, but for now it invalidates the
entire tilemap.
- Updated a number of drivers to remove their own dirty handling and
leverage the new internal dirty marking.
- Because the source data must always be present, updated the atarigen
zwackery and mystwarr graphics handing code to support this.
- Thanks to the dirty tracking, this actually allows all gfx decoding
to happen on the fly instead of all at once up front. Since there
was some concern that this would cause undesirable behavior due to
decoding lots of tiles on the fly, it is controlled with a compile-
time constant in mame.h (PREDECODE_GFX). Set this to 1 to get the
old behavior back.
- Moved decodechar() and decodegfx() to deprecat.h. All drivers in MAME
have been updated to simply mark tiles dirty and let the rendering
system decode them as needed, so these functions may go away in the
future.
- Rewrote entirely the rendering code in drawgfx. This code previously
used extensive recursive #includes and tricks to build, and was
very difficult to understand. The new code is based off of a set of
macros defined in drawgfxm.h. These new macros separate the core
rendering logic from the per-pixel operation, allowing the operation
to be easily "plugged" into any of the renderers. These macros are
also available to any driver that wants custom rendering behavior
that is similar to existing core behavior, without needing to
populate the core with esoteric one-off rendering behaviors.
- Added a set of new functions for [p]drawgfx[zoom], one for each
transparency type. The old [p]drawgfx[zoom] functions are still
present, but now switch off the transparency type and call through
to one of these new transparency-specific functions. The old
functions are also now reduced to only supporting TRANSPARENCY_NONE,
TRANSPARENCY_PEN, and TRANSPARENCY_PENS. All other rendering types
must use the new functions.
- All new rendering functions have extensive asserts to catch improper
clipping rectangles and other common errors.
- All new rendering functions automatically downgrade to optimized
versions where appropriate. For example, calling drawgfx_transpen
with an out-of-range pen automatically falls back to drawgfx_opaque.
And drawgfxzoom_* with xscale=yscale=1.0 automatically falls back
to drawgfx_*. And many other examples. In general, this relieves
drivers from needing to make these sorts of decisions.
- All new rendering functions have a consistent parameter order that
is a bit different from the existing functions. The cliprect
parameter is now specified immediately after the destination bitmap,
to match the convention used throughout the rest of the system.
The core parameters are followed by the scale parameters (for the
zoom functions), and then followed by the priority parameters (for
the pdrawgfx* functions), finally followed by any PIXEL_OP*-specific
parameters (such as transparent pen, alpha, drawing tables, etc.)
- Removed drawgfx_alpha_cache, alpha_set_level(), and the inline
functions alpha_blend16() and alpha_blend32(). To render graphics
with alpha, use the new [p]drawgfx[zoom]_alpha functions, which
take an explicit alpha value. To render tilemaps with alpha, the
TILEMAP_DRAW_ALPHA option now takes an explicit alpha parameter.
And to do you own alpha blending, use the alpha_blend_r16() and
alpha_blend_r32() functions, which take an explicit alpha.
- Updated a number of drivers as a result of removing the implicit
alpha in the drawgfx_alpha_cache.
- Removed drawgfx_pen_table and TRANSPARENCY_PEN_TABLE. To achieve
the same effect, build your own table and pass it to
[p]drawgfx[zoom]_transtable, along with a pointer to the
machine->shadow_table to use for shadows. Eventually
machine->shadow_table is likely to go away, and drivers will need
to fetch the shadow table from the palette directly.
- Updated a number of drivers to remove use of drawgfx_pen_table.
- Removed TRANSPARENCY_ALPHARANGE; it was only used by the psikyosh
driver, so it is now moved locally into that driver and built
using the macros in drawgfxm.h.
- Removed TRANSPARENCY_PEN_RAW; to achieve the same effect, call the
new [p]drawgfx[zoom]_transpen_raw() functions. Updated drivers to
make this change.
- Removed the unused mdrawgfx* functions entirely.
- Added new function gfx_element_set_source_clip() to specify a
source clipping rectangle for any element. This replaces the nasty
hacks that were being used in bnstars, ms32, namcos86, and namcos1
to achieve similar behaviors.
- Simplified the copyrozbitmap() functions to match the copybitmap()
functions in having separate opaque and transparent versions. Also
removed the 'priority' parameter which was only used by one driver,
and moved that logic into a custom renderer built using macros in
drawgfxm.h. Updated copyrozbitmap* to use the destbitmap, cliprect
parameter ordering convention as well.
- Simplified the draw_scanline*() functions to always render opaque.
Only one driver was doing otherwise, and it now does its work
internally (draw_scanline is dead-simple ever since we moved
rotation to the OSD code; I almost just removed it entirely).
Other changes:
- Added a cliprect to the bitmap_t type, which describes the full
bitmap.
- Removed tilemap_set_pen_data_offset; unfortunately, this adds a
random tile offset behind the scenes and goes against the dirty
tile detection and invalidation. Updated the mainsnk, snk, and
snk68 drivers to use old fashioned tile banking. (Sorry Nicola.)
- Changed zac2650 gfxdecode to use scale factors.
- Added function video_assert_out_of_range_pixels() to help find
the source of invalid pixels (generally out-of-range palette
entries due to invalid data or sloppy calculations). Place this
after each step in your rendering in a debug build to discover
which code is generating improper pixels.
* At the moment only the ADPCM part is implemented, while it's missing the BEEP
generator and the 2nd channel handling, used mainly for echoing or continuous
speech.
Added OKIM6376 sound emulation to High Video games [Mirko Buffoni]
* Removed GAME_NO_SOUND from newmcard, brasil and fashion
* Sound frequency may be incorrect
* Although the manual says OKIM6376 is straight ADPCM, generated sound is
distorted (over-clamped?)
* Merged tetriunk.c and filetto.c,and renamed tetriunk set to tetriskr;
* Fixed inputs & gameplay quirks in tetriskr,so it's now playable;
* Added preliminary external graphics emulation hook-up for the backgrounds in tetriskr;
* Rearranged & cleaned up the palette initialization,now 0x000-0x1ff offsets are for the char modes and 0x200-0x2ff are for the bitmap modes;
* Fixed color attributes bits;
* Cleaned up and fixed colors in CGA bitmap mode for Filetto;
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Tetris (bootleg of Mirrorsoft PC-XT Tetris version) [Angelo Salese]
The driver is quite complete, but need some work to get proper colors and reels support.
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Slot Carnival [David Haywood, Roberto Fresca]
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Magic Card [Roberto Fresca,David Haywood,Angelo Salese]
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This thing is pretty Amiga-ish...How much similar is this one to the Amiga HW?
Added new sets, created new machine drivers, fixed colors, added PPI devices, created new 8255 and ay8910 interfaces, worked out inputs and DIP switches from the scratch, fixed memory maps, merged the cherrym2.c driver with goldstar.c and much more...
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Cherry Master (Corsica, ver.8.01) [Roberto Fresca]
Cherry Master (ver.4) [Roberto Fresca, David Haywood]
Cherry Master I (ver.1.01) [Roberto Fresca, David Haywood]
(this works thanks to recent changes from Nathan; in fact, any input can
affect the state of an artwork element). Removed debug build hack to popmessage
the shifter state.
* all code now lives in mcs48.c
* rewrote disassembler as unified MCS-48/UPI-41 disassembler
* changed UPI-41 interfaces to match MCS-48
* added new master read/write interfaces for external access
* unified interface to 8243 expander chip
* converted tnzs and decocass to the new interfaces
DECO Cassette fixes/cleanups:
* converted tape handling to a device
* changed tape handling to use a timer callback
* updated to work with new UPI-41 core
* corrected clock speeds for all chips (esp. the 8041)
* fixed very wrong CRC implementation (how did it ever work?)
* corrected sound IRQ rate
* corrected video timing
Burger Time hardware fixes:
* corrected sound IRQ rate and handling
* removed lnc audio reset hack
* full audio memory maps based on schematics
* corrected video timing
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:04 AM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Cc: atariace@hotmail.com
Subject: [patch] Update sound core header files
Hi mamedev,
This patch updates all the sound core header files to declare their
SND_GET_INFO functions, which will be needed once the sound cores
become proper devices. It also makes a handful of other header
declaration fixes in emu/sound, and makes one SND_RESET routine
static. Note: votrax.h is a new include file altogether.
~aa
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Night Bunny / Royal Night [David Haywood,Angelo Salese]
Night Gal [David Haywood,Angelo Salese]
Night Gal Summer [David Haywood,Angelo Salese]
Sexy Gal / Sweet Gal [David Haywood,Angelo Salese]
describes the interface, but does not contain any implementation.
All remaining bits of implementation have been migrated either to
cpuexec.c or to debugcpu.c. Specifically, cpu_dasm() is now
debug_cpu_disassemble(), and cpu_set_dasm_override() is now
debug_cpu_set_dasm_override(). Also moved memory_address_physical()
to debug_cpu_translate(), since it was only ever used for
debugging.
Changed all CPU and sound cores to use memory_find_address_space()
instead of cpu_get_address_space(). The former is reliable even
during early initialization when the CPU cores generally need it.
Removed the dummy CPU core and cpuintrf.c.
Changed the core execution loop to directly call the execute
function instead of using the inline helper (which has been removed).
necessary to remove 12 of the final 14 references to the global
Machine. The remaining 2 are in fatalerror() and logerror(), which
are both local to mame.c, so Machine is now fully static.
--
From: Atari Ace [mailto:atari_ace@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:47 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Cc: atariace@hotmail.com
Subject: [patch] Make Machine static followup
Hi mamedev,
This incremental patch to my last patch undoes the change that caches
the ppu2c0x videorom. I changed the code back to how it behaved
originally, using an existing machine on the chip struct to eliminate
the one troublesome Machine reference.
~aa
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From: Atari Ace [mailto:atari_ace@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:54 PM
To: submit@mamedev.org
Cc: atariace@hotmail.com
Subject: [patch] Make Machine static!
Hi mamedev,
This large patch completes the removal of the use of Machine
throughout MAME. It does so primarily by adding machine, device or
space to various apis and modifying the callers, but for some
remaining cases it adds a new api, mame_get_running_machine(), which
will be called instead. There are only 14 uses of this api currently,
and that number should drop over time.
There are a few changes of note:
1. 6821pia.c. I attached machine to the 'device' structure. I'm
working on converting this to a proper device, but that change isn't
ready.
2. fddebug.c. I added a proper header so that the apis won't get
accidentally converted to static again.
3. scsi.c. I added a machine to SCSIInstance.
4. system16.c. I modified sys16_patch_code to take an array of
patches.
4. custom.h. I added the owning sound device to the reset/stop
routines as well as the token. Note that passing only the device
would require exposing the internals of custom_sound, as the token
passed is not the device token, but the token returned from the
CUSTOM_START routine. Better ideas here are welcome.
4. ppc2c0x.c. To avoid changing more interfaces, the init routine
saves the videorom location rather than looks it up each time.
I tried to choose what I felt was the natural parameter for an api,
rather than always pass machine, but in some cases I used machine to
limit the number of additional changes. Some additional cleanup here
is probably warranted, I'll look into that later once I'm recovered
from this two-week project.
~aa
interfaces when handling strings. Namely, the generic
get_info functions allocate a temporary string and the
device in question copies its string to the target,
instead of assigning a const char *. Updated all device
and sound cores to operate this way.
Added the concept of a cpu_state_table, which is
supplied by the CPU cores and which describes all the
register state accessible to the debugger and other
subsystems. The format of the table is such that most
data can be simply fetched from memory without the
further involvement of the CPU core, including the
display of common formats. Extensibility points are
available for custom display and for importing/exporting
the data to intermediate variables for more complicated
scenarios. Updated the ADSP21xx, TMS340x0, and i86 cores
to use this.
Removed the old debugger register list, which was never
used. Replaced it with using ordering from the
cpu_state_table.
Renamed REG_PC -> REG_GENPC, REG_SP -> REG_GENSP, and
REG_PREVIOUSPC -> REG_GENPCBASE. Updated a few spots
that were using these directly. Moved these definitions
into the end of the register area rather than leaving
them outside which put them in a weird range.
i86/i286/i386/nec/v30mz:
* renamed i86.h -> i86priv.h
* renamed i86intrf.h -> i86.h
* consolidated i88intrf.h, i186intf.h, i188intf.h, etc into i86.h
m6805:
* moved memory read/write macros out of public header
m37710:
* moved memory read/write macros out of public header
spc700:
* moved many structs/functions/macros out of public header
tms32010:
* moved memory read/write macros out of public header
sm8500:
* pointer-ified the core (apparently never had get/set context!)
g65816:
* moved memory read/write macros out of public header
pic16c5x:
* moved memory read/write macros out of public header
t11:
* moved memory read/write macros out of public header
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: David Haywood [mailto:neohaze@nildram.co.uk]
Inviato: domenica 14 dicembre 2008 23.56
A: Angelo Salese
Oggetto: Gridiron update
Changed it from using a hack using the gfx rom to display the 'play
number' to using the LEDs in the artwork system.
