Friday, January 31st 2003 - Last updated @ 23:07 EST
Raine v0.37.3 - Raine has seen an update again. I'd download this release as it seems the authors are calling the previous release (0.37.2) as being "the most unstable version we ever made." Changes in version 0.37.3 are;
Rewrote the low level sound functions. Now sound quality should be much higher than ever (0.37.2 sound was rather bad, especially in windows at 22050 Hz. Now the synchronization method of the sound has completely changed). Also the stereo effect in windows in now much better (just try something like Kingdom Grand Prix with enhanced stereo turned on !).
Fixed and rewrote the triple buffer code. Windows users who have colors flickering in 8bpp are strongly encouraged to use triple buffer now. It's not working in every video mode though (and it might crash in dos).
Fixed lots of crashes in 0.37.2 (playing a few games in a certain order just crashed raine). Fixed crash in mazinger and kicknrun too.
Fixed bad colors in rygar, and fixed memory map in gemini king.
Fixed bad background in 3wonders, and fixed last cps1 clones to match mame conventions (yeah, mame does not support clones of clones...).
armedf, crazy climber 2 and terraf now support any color depth.
Switched to allegro for the sound for all versions of raine, and added "Max mixer volume" in the sound options. It can produce saturation or improve your sound. Just test. Windows users should now preferably use the AllegMix sound driver in the options.
nlx_doom added a key to reset the current game without calling the gui F1).
0.37.2 was too easy to crash, but this one should be much harder, it might even be the most stable version in the 0.30 series until now!
MackDaddy Mario - See Mario as you've never seen him before, shaking his thang and making the ladies (ok, just one ;) go crazy! Here's Mackdaddy Mario! Thanks to Xray1 for the link.
- atila
Thursday, January 30th 2003 - Last updated @ 21:08 EST
Getting closer - The official site for the PS2 emulator PCSX2 has been updated. Don't ask. Just go. Here's a hint, before you go E-Mailing the guy, no it's not running the GAME yet, apparently just gets to that screen. Thanks to NGEmu for the news.
- dhalamar
BeOS MAME porters needed - BeEmulated has an update asking if anyone would be interested in doing the ports of MAME for BeOS. Click here for more info.
- dhalamar
Rise of the Triad has been ported to BeOS using SDL. You can download the first version that has the shareware data files bundled with it right here.
- dhalamar
Potato Updates - There's been a few updates over at Potato Emulation. First of all, there has been some progress made and pictures posted of PCE-CD, a new Java based PC Engine CD emulator. There's also been a few progress updates for Virtual Jaguar including a few WIP videos. Lastly, the Virtual Jaguar team is looking for a few undumed Jaguar games to increase Virtual Jaguar's compatibility. If you have any of them anre are willing to make a donation then contact the team at Potato Emulation
- Griking
Tuesday, January 28th 2003 - Last updated @ 14:34 EST
Mars Matrix - Razoola has released Mars Matrix XORs! Many thanks go to willpower and Mito for the donations. Thanks to Corvus for the news.
- chris
Monday, January 27th 2003 - Last updated @ 22:31 EST
Magic Engine News - There's been a small news update on the Magic Engine website. Megami Paradise II is now fully emulated (Pictures are available). There's also been some recent progress on increased emulation speed. They say that a 1 ghz processor should allow you to enjoy the emulator.
- Griking
Mame32 v0.64 - Mame32 version 0.64 has been released to keep in line with yesterday's Mame release.
- Griking
xmame 0.64 rc1 - Lawrence has released a release candidate for xmame 0.64. The source code is here.
- chris
Raine Update - Raine, the arcade game emulator has been updated to version 0.37.2 yesterday. Changes include some new games, new clones and a ton of bug fixes. Read the entire here.
- Griking
Sunday, January 26th 2003 - Last updated @ 18:25 EST
RockNES v2.61 - There's been another update to RockNES, the multi-platform NES emulator. Changes are;
Changed WRAM dummy data to $FFs instead of $00s (Low G Man works
Sound changed to 16-bit output, plus volume decay;
Small fix in the pulse channels frequency;
Small fix in the triangle/noise channels volume;
Small improvement to Konami's VRC6 sound driver emulation;
Fixed a bug on RIFF wave header saving, now 16-bit signed;
Fixed filename for dumping $8000-$FFFF data;
Fixed emulator shutdown (whoooops!);
NMI/RESET/IRQ vectors (values) are now dumped correctly;
V.I.C.E. v1.11 - Vice, the Versatile Commodore Emulator has seen an update today. The many changes in version 1.11 can be read in the change.log.
- Griking
Mame WIP - Yeah I know that Atila already announced that Mame v0.64 is out but nobody mentioned the new Mame W.I.P. update.
- Griking
U.G.V.M #4 - A new issue of The uk.games.video.misc Magazine (U.G.V.M) has been released. UGVM is a free downloadable magazine in Adobe pdf format which covers videogames from the early Atari days to present day gaming. Check them out, they do a good job. Also, if you enjoy their work please consider donating a buck or two to help them pay for the bandwidth it takes to supply the free downloads.
- Griking
MAME 0.64 RELEASED! - The MAME Team have released the source code for a new version of "this here MAME thingamajigg" ;) The binaries are not available yet, but I'm assuming that Gridle is currently compiling them. You can read the changes here, stay put for more info.
- atila
Friday, January 24th 2003 - Last updated @ 22:49 EST
Pinball Reviews - K M E's pinball review site has undergone a facelift, reorganization and now has it's own domain.. check it out over at http://www.pinballreviews.com/. They have entertaining reviews for just about every game since 1990 and many classics as well.
- metallik
Retrogaming Times #65 - Another excellent issue of the online Retrogaming newsletter, The Retrogaming Times has been released.
- Griking
Spectaculator 4.0 - Spectaculator is a Spectrum 16K/48K/128/+2/+2A emulator for all Windows based computers. Version 4.0 has recently been released and there are TONS of changes.
- Griking
KiGB v1.20 - KiGB, a multi-platform Gameboy emulator has been updated today. Multi player LAN games are now possible as the Game Link Cable has been emulated. Other changes include;
Remove the experimental apply-once for GameShark cheats.
Add the support of the apply-once GS digits (D0).
Apply GameGenie cheat codes to all bank of addresses.
Redraw mouse pointer - no more "mouse droppings".
Fix the joypad interrupt bug. Support Double Dragon 3.
The full ist of changes and bug fixes can be viewed in the read.me
Mame32 v0.63.1 - A new version of Mame32 has been released today. No new games have been added in this release, just some treaks have been made. Changes are;
Fixed analogue dead-zone not being maintained, and pre-0.63 timing not being maintained.
Added folder view for hard drive based games.
Addressed missing/blank custom icon display indexing issue on F5/refresh.
Sped up Mame32 launch / folder reading routine.
Fixed screenshot area decimation when resizing images larger than the viewable area.
Mame WIP - There's been yet another update at the Mame WIP site.
- Griking
Virtual Jaguar WIP - Virtual Jaguar has seen two WIP updates in the past day or two. Changes / updates include;
Added preliminary sound support (samples are available)
Fixed branch objects (Object processor)
Fixed i2s interrupt frequency
Update: Virtual Jaguar Compatibility List. 25 games are fully playable, 13 are working but not playable yet and 7 are not working at all. Looks like great progress is being made.
- Griking
Wednesday, January 22nd 2003 - Last updated @ 22:31 EST
Tuesday, January 21st 2003 - Last updated @ 20:41 EST
ClrMamePro v2.88 - ClrMamePro has been updated again. Changes are;
Added: Profiler->create subfolder, profiler->move datfile which also moves/creates the belonging datfile/fastscan/scans files (both options are available via popup menu)
Added: Warningswindow message for obsolete CRC32 integrity checks
Added: (readded by request) 'mark useless zipfolderstructs as unneeded' option
Added: Several new messages for corrupt/shared/skipped diskimages (instead of showing just a 'missing diskimage')
Fixed "hide / show bad dump" options
Fixed: Miss-list includes fake clones (natodefa) & counts the files correctly
Misc: Profiler->delete can also remove folders
Misc: Profiler->create can put an exe-based datfile in a selectable subfolder
Misc: Recompress option moved back to rebuilder main window
Misc: Revised cancel checks for "fix missing scans all sets"
CastCE - CastCE is an AtariST emulator that runs on Pocket PCs. Features include;
Very compatible - runs loads and loads of games and utilities!
Runs many games at 100% speed on a 206mhz IPAQ
Very good PSG sound emulation
Not quite so good ST-sample emulation
Low res & Medium Res graphics mode
Emulates raster effects correctly
Can read .st .msa disk images, supports zipped disk images
Mouse emulation using the stylus
Joystick emulation using the keypad or on screen joystick
Keyboard emulation using the on screen keyboard
Save state function to store your half finished games :-)
Programmable hardware buttons
Supports different TOS ROM versions: 1.00, 1.02, 1.04, KaosTOS
Autofire option
Visible SpeedBar
Patch-Function
CastCE is "donateware". Donations are not required but much appreciated. Word has it that his next project may be an Amiga emulator for Pocket PCs if there's enough interest.
- Griking
PotatoPCE WIP - There's been more progress on PotatoPCE.
The sound emulation totaly rewritten, (a MP3 is available for download)
Graphics Emulation improved
Massive speed increase
Major memory handling bug fixed (now PC Genjin and all other splitted roms work)
HUGO WIP - After a long dry spell there's been an update at the Hugo homepage. Apparantly an update of Hugo, a multi platform PC Engine emulator is coming soon. New features are said to include a long awaited gui for Linux and windows as well as netplay.
- Griking
Haze's System 32 WIP - Haze recently posted more WIP screenshots of the MAME Sega System 32 driver! Fading and lighting effects are now working due to implementation of RGB brightness controls.
- prophet
SNEeSe v0.75 - SNEeSe the DOS based SNES emulator has seen an update. Changes in the recently released v0.75 are;
65c816: Corrected address wrapping in direct and stack addressing modes
65c816: Altered register allocation
SPC700: Altered register allocation
SPC700: Fixed a bug in the timers which caused them to be reset to random values when turned on
Source: Removed some obsolete code and dependencies
Source: Started cleaning up many of the C label references in the asm code
Render: Added support for dual window clipping with XOR or XNOR logic modes of 8x8-tile backgrounds with no offset change or mosaic
Render: Fixed a bug where window clipping was not updated correctly when changing layering order
Render: Added support for dual window clipping with all logic modes of 16x16-tile backgrounds with no offset change or mosaic in modes 0-4
Render: Added support for dual window clipping with all logic modes of 8x8-tile backgrounds with mosaic and no offset change
Render: Added support for dual window clipping with all logic modes of 16x16-tile backgrounds with mosaic and no offset change in modes 0-4
Monday, January 20th 2003 - Last updated @ 21:23 EST
Speed Buggy! - Aaron Giles has added Speed Buggy to his MAME TODO list. I have also been on vacation the past few days, I am not sure when I will be back to posting full time, as I am in need of some time to get away.
- chris
Haze & Prophet ZTnet Board Accounts - Since email hasn't resulted in anything, I'll try a news page broadcast instead. Can someone at ZTnet PLEASE fix the board accounts for usernames "Prophet" and "[Haze]" so we can moderate our boards again? I'll delete this post once I get some response from the management - apologies to our visitors.
- prophet
Sunday, January 19th 2003 - Last updated @ 20:29 EST
JNES v0.50 - Jabo has released a new version of JNES in this post at EmuTalk. Go and check it out. :)
- dhalamar
JoseQ's Rumor Mill is back. Check it out here. Good to see it again. :)
- dhalamar
Friday, January 17th 2003 - Last updated @ 20:47 EST
PocketMSX v0.001xx - PocketMSX is another new emulator for Pocket PCs. This one allows you to play your favorite MSX games while on the go. Changes are;
Atari800DC v0.75 - Atari800DC is an Atari800 emulator for the Dreamcast. Changes in version 0.75 are;
Uses Atari800 cvs code base as of Jan-11-2003.
Reverted the sound changes which were introduced in the 0.72 version - the sound should be similar to 0.71.
Saved states on the VMU now show a Atari icon. Due to a change in the layout of the state save file, saved states of previous versions aren't recognized.
Changing video mode of emulated Atari now doesn't change the video mode used to drive the screen. These 2 video mode settings (what the emulated Atari thinks the video mode is, and the video mode used by the DC) can now be changed independently. Setting them to different values will disable double buffering, so best results are achieved if both settings are the same.
Buttons B, X, Y on the 1st DC controller can now be redefined to generate simulated key presses on the keyboard. If they are redefined, the Start, Select, and Option keys can be entered in the keyboard emulation screen.
FrotzDC v0.6 - FrotzDC is an Interactive Fiction interpreter for the Sega Dreamcast which can play v1 through v5 Z-Machine games. Changes in version 0.6 are;
CD swapping works. You can press Y on the file selector to re-read the cd.
Added support for 40 column mode for people who have trouble reading the smaller text of 80 column mode.
Fixed a bug with the arrow keys, so you can navigate the menus in Adventure's help screen and other areas that rely on the arrow keys.
Files with the the "dat" extension are now listed on the file selector.
Thursday, January 16th 2003 - Last updated @ 21:48 EST
PCSX2 WIP - Here's a little WIP update for this PS2 emulator. It seems to be going along quite nicely.
1) Recompiler now supports 3D NOW fpu instructions for the fpu. Soon probably SSE too
2) Many parts of HLE have been rewritten and improved
3) Many cpu cores bugs fixed and improved.
4) IPU is in progress
5) Well no more. Don't wanna spoil all the fun eh?
NeoPop 0.68.1mmx for BeOS has been updated, and for those of you who don't know, this is a NeoGeo Pocket emulator for BeOS. This should be a whole lot faster than the previous released now that it uses MMX in DirectWindow, as well as the sound getting an update, among other things. You can leech it right here. Thanks to the guys over at BeEmulated for the news.
- dhalamar
Wednesday, January 15th 2003 - Last updated @ 15:20 EST
WineX Status Update - Transgaming Technologies has posted their monthy status report for January. In summary, their focus is currently on getting WineX 3.0 ready for release.
- chris
Tuesday, January 14th 2003 - Last updated @ 22:40 EST
Dapple v1.25 - Dapple has been updated to version 1.25 Updates are; (From the change.log)
"From outside: some internal changes to improve the 80-column text support (although right now it is fudged, it is still relatively readable, and if you really want, you can run AppleWorks 2.x with it). Also, a little tweak to cgafnt2h to make a cleaner font.h (changes the type from char to unsigned char)."
- Griking
Atari800MacX v1.2.0 - Atari800MacX is the Macintosh OSX Port of David Firth's Atari 800 Emulator. Changes in version 1.2.0 are;
Added ability to program keys used for keyboard emulation of joysticks.
Completed subdirectory support for DOS functions for the hard drives. This support works best with Spartdos and BWDos, as it works with the command line in them, but will be supported by XIO functions with any DOS.
Added support for AlphaOmega Software's Extended Software Updater, to allow user to find out about new versions of program.
Fixed Folder Icons in Application Folder.
Fixed issues with special key assignments on gamepads (Select, Option, Reset, Shift, Ctrl).
Fixed issue with "Boot From Casette" preference change not taking after Prefs panel closed.
Fixed issue where if Boot Disk was not found, application would quit.
Monday, January 13th 2003 - Last updated @ 20:26 EST
ScummVM 3.0b for Dreamcast - Version 3.0b of ScummVM the cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. is now available for the Dreamcast console.
- Griking
Atari++ v1.14 - "The Atari++ Emulator is a Unix based emulator of the Atari eight bit computers, namely the Atari 400 and 800, the Atari 400XL, 800XL and 130XE, and the Atari 5200 game console. The emulator is auto-configurable and will compile on a variety of systems (Linux, Solaris, Irix)." Features are;
Cycle precise emulation; this includes correct emulation of horizontal kernels and programs that modify chip registers within a horizontal line. In a less technical language, software making use of advanced displaying techniques will be emulated correctly.
Emulation of an advanced 1050 disk drive including single, double and enhanced density. The emulator not only understands .atr and .xfd files, but comes with a mini-boot loader that allows you to boot from binary load files (.exe and .com).
Precise emulation of ANTIC and GTIA graphics, including undocumented scrolling features, undocumented GTIA player/missile priorities and collision detection, and some other less known GTIA features. Color artifacting is also available.
Precise emulaton of POKEY sound, including "Software Speech", high-pass filters, POKEY hardware timer interrupts and serial input/output communications. An emulation of the console speaker is also included.
Emulates graphics output either thru X11, or the SDL library, including a screen snapshot feature.
Sound output is either emulated by the Open Sound System (OSS), the SDL library, or by recording the sound samples into a WAV file.
Cylce-precise 6502 emulation, including "extra-instructions" that are not documented in the 6502-manual, and also including all known hardware-bugs of the 6502.
Printer emulation thru standard LPR printer user interface.
Joystick, paddle and lightpen emulation by keyboard or mouse, or by standard analogue PC joysticks. A special home-made interface allows the connection of Atari digital joysticks by an additional joystick driver. Hence, you'll be able to play all your old games even with your digital joysticks.
Saves and loads machine states to save games in the middle of the game play, and allows to resume from that point later on.
Includes emulation of a variety of cartridge types, including 5200 games cartridges and Oss supercarts.
Effective emulation of 800XL/XE and cartridge bank-switching mechanisms.
Includes a Dos 2.xx compatible interface to the filing system of the emulator.
Easy to use graphical user front-end for simple setup and configuration, includes saving and loading of (human-readable) configuration files. The user front-end also allows to setup details like the player/missile collision setup to build "game-trainers" on demand.
Includes a built-in monitor allowing experts to debug Atari software easily.
Sunday, January 12th 2003 - Last updated @ 19:08 EST
xmame/xmess-0.62.1 - Not delaying 0.62.1 any longer; xmame / xmess-062.1 is out. Faster blit-time rotation and other changes will just have to wait. Changes since 0.61.1 include:
Almost everything from MAME 0.62 and MESS 0.62.1.
The game window should no longer open twice on startup in most cases. One known exception is Pac-Man with artwork enabled.
Replaced fileio.c with a slightly modified version from the Win32 codebase. Be aware that several command line switches have changed as a result!
Applied the Xv cleanup patch required for the VIDIX patch. (Alastair Robinson)
The number of games is no longer hard-coded to 3000 in datafile.c. This should fix problems with history.dat and -listinfo. (Rene Single)
Rotation is now handled by the OSD code. The method used is hardly optimal, but it should work for all display targets. Moving the rotation to the blit core is planned for a future release.
The Xv target now uses the game driver's aspect ratio unless the -nokeepaspect or -noka switch is specified. Inspired by Paul Sajecki's patch.
Simplified/unified the FPS on-screen display. This is now only overridden when the Barath frameskipper is in debug mode.
The DGA, GGI, and SVGALIB targets now use the game aspect ratio provided by the core rather than a hard-coded 4:3.
Using -x11-mode or -x11 to activate DGA fullscreen mode now disables Xv. Likewise, switching to DGA fullscreen mode via - is now disabled while Xv is active.
All path and directory options in fileio.c now support expansion of environment variables such as $HOME.
Fixed a warning about snprintf() when building for Mac OS X.
Fixed the XInput handling so that spinners no longer show an inertial effect. (David Mitchell)
Updated the documentation to include a section about the Xv extension. (Frank Cox)
Fixed problems in memory.c that could lead to crashes and default.cfg corruption. (smf)
Fixed a bunch of ANSI/ISO warnings reported by Stefano Priore.
Aspect and mode switches are now available for the Xv driver even if DGA isn't enabled.
Fixed a couple of files so that they #include <alsa/asoundlib.h> instead of the deprecated #include <sys/asoundlib.h>. (Nico)
Changed a net_active() call in src/mame.c to the osd_net_active(). I must have messed up my all-in-one core patch at some point.
The rc and hi directories are now created on startup if they're missing. (Gerd Sussner)
Merged NetMAME 0.6rc1, which should allow games to be playable over medium-latency connections, DSL, and cable. It also adds configurable ports and NVRAM sync. (Steve Freeland)
FPocketNES v8U8 - Flubba released a new unofficial build of Loopy's PocketNES, an NES emulator for the Gameboy Advance. This release adds support for "Mr Gimmick," fixed support for "Low G Man" and improved sprite scaling.
- prophet
Saturday, January 11th 2003 - Last updated @ 22:38 EST
Space Instigators - Christopher Tumber and Atari Age have made the binary for Space Instigators available for download. Space Instigators is a version of the popular arcade game Space Invaders that is more faithful to the original than Atari's 2600 port. You can view manuals, screen shots and download the binary here
- RocLobsta
Friday, January 10th 2003 - Last updated @ 23:06 EST
AdvanceCD 1.0.0 - Advance CD is a bootable ISO image of a minimal Linux distribution containing the AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMESS emulators and the AdvanceMENU frontend. Changes: First public release.
- chris
KnoppiXMAME 0.4-4 - KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically on all modern and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and joysticks. Changes: This version includes a custom -ck kernel which includes preemptible scheduling, low-latency, and compressed caching. All gameports and joysticks that have been tested work automatically, including dual sound-card joystick configurations.
- chris
Bochs-Tools 1.0.0 - Bochs-Tools is a collection of scripts and programs to be used together with the Bochs emulator. The main goal is to provide a more Unix-like interface to the emulator and to enable access to Bochs disk images from outside of Bochs. This project makes it very simple to copy an existing OS installation to a Bochs image.
- chris
SMS+SDL 0.9.4a - SMS+SDL is an attempt to 'port' the SMS Plus emulator to SDL supported platforms such as Linux and Mac OSX. Changes:
- updated core with latest version (0.9.4a)
- compiled using SDL-1.2.5
- rewritten the SDL sound code
- added TV2x filter
- can switch between filters at run-time
- chris
RascalBoy Advance - There's a new Gameboy Advance emulator out called RascalBoy Advance. I can't make out its features because the homepage is not in English.
- Griking
FreeDO Progress - There seems to have been some progress made on FreeDO as well. FreeDO is a work in progress 3DO emulator.
- Griking
Icarus Update - The Irarus Homepage has been updated with some new pictures to get you by until the emulator itself is released.
- Griking
ClrMamePro v2.87 - ClrMamePro was updated to version 2.87 yesterday. Changes are;
Fixed: no-recompress-rebuild creates wrong files when using unzipped AND zipped sourcefiles.
Fixed: "remove-rebuilt-sourcefile" doesn't remove a file when having 2 (or more) roms with equal CRC but different sizes.
Fixed: statistic shows wrong number of missing roms when using split or full merge mode.
Added: profiler->hide green/red/grey profiles (right-click in profile tree to access the options)
Misc: '\' or '/' path separators in rom/sample/diskimage-names won't be filtered anymore but replaced with '`' ...until a real full setsubfolder support is added
Misc: added a space as separator to several scan messages
Misc: compiled with updated ziparchive package
Misc: missing diskimage also shows chd-md5 information
Misc: replaced the hyperlinks in 'ABOUT' with buttons and changed the url routines for better mozilla support
Misc: rewrote recursive profiler-treebuild function (old worked....but wasn't as stack-friendly as the new)
New Visual Pinball forums - Many folks (including the founder of alt.games.mame) who are upset with the over-moderation and censorship of vpforums have set up a new forum for Visual Pinball and PinMame development. The forum is over at http://www.vpfreeforums.com. Check this thread on rec.games.pinball for the reasons behind this new forum. Also don't forget our own pinball forums right here on Retrogames. Feel free to discuss anything pinball related there... Stern's new Simpsons machine will be hitting distributors soon!
- metallik
Thursday, January 9th 2003 - Last updated @ 22:49 EST
Games - More games:
dcopter 0.2.9 is an unrealistic SDL/OpenGL helicopter simulator.
Game Watch 0.3 is a game server browser, that allows to retrieve server list, search servers, ping them, look for buddies, and all the classical stuff of this kind of program.
FreeDroid RPG 0.9.2 is a free clone of the classic C64 game "Paradroid" by Andrew Braybrook, but also contains a Diablo-style extension into an action RPG.
WideLands build-4 is inspired by Bluebyte's Settlers II and will someday be the logical extension of this game although you do not need the original game.
Super Mario Clone v0.23 is a super mario clone with a leveleditor and an online database for levels, based on SDL, written in C++.
atrogue 0.1.3 is a "Rogue-like game" for computers with Unix-like operating systems.
KartingRace 1.02b1 is a fast paced gokart racing game, featuring detailed 3D graphics.
MameInfo v4.26 - Mash has released another update to his Mameinfo.dat. Added in this version are the latest bugs, newest WIP, added 'Recommended Games' and an expanded hardware.txt
- Griking
Tas' Link o' the day - here is an interesting link. Thanks to Tas_2012 for the news.
- chris
Wednesday, January 8th 2003 - Last updated @ 23:38 EST
Retrogaming Radio - The January 2003 edition of the show is now available - featuring a review of the X-Arcade Solo and even better; an interview with Matt Ownby of the wicked Daphne Laserdisc Emulator! There's more of course, grab your copy now!
- chris
Games - S.M.A.D. Soft is all in spanish, but they make a lot of free games. GlHack is a port of the game NetHack, using hardware acceleration via OpenGL® to render the 2D tile graphics.
- chris
GXMame-0.31 - GXMame is a frontend for XMame using the GTK library, the goal is to provide the same GUI as mame32. Changes:
- Translations updated.
- Debian directory updated.
- Diffdir options added.
- vidix option added.
- User can now set additionnal options string.
- Support new switches of XMame 0.62.1
- Added icons suport (xpm and ico if zipped, ico only if not zipped).
- Fixed an error message if a support zipfile was not found.
- Change default input and Hiscore path to user directory.
- Fixed a bug preventing to run the network.
- Added option for Netmame 0.6 rc1
- Added a new indented view where clones are shifted below their parent.
- Reorganize directory options into several tabs.
- User can now changes to color of the clones games.
- User can now changes the font of the folders and game list.
- Fixed a timout problem with the folder selection.
- Properties window display the game icon.
- Icons look better when scalled.
- chris
XZX-Pro 4.2 - XZX-Pro is a portable emulator of ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 (8-bit home computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair), and Spectrum clones for machines running UNIX and the X Window system. Changes: Audio and joystick support on FreeBSD have been added. Audio emulation has been improved. Snapshots can now be taken in Didaktik mode.
- chris
Aaron Giles Update - There's been a small update at the Aaron Giles homepage. He reports on the status of games such as Super Rider, Cheese Chase, Ultimate Tennis, Stone Ball and the Art & Magic games.
- Griking
SMS Plus v0.9.4a - SMS Plus is a portable, open source Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator. Changes in this version are;
A few cleanups so SMS Plus compiles with no errors or warnings.
Use of MMX code is now automatic but can still be disabled manually.
Replaced FM sound emulation with Mitsutaka Okazaki's EMU2413 library.
P.E.Op.S. Soft GPU and Sound SPU 1.3 - Pete and Linuzappz have updated the P.E.Op.S. Soft GPU and Sound SPU. Changes: can be read here and here.
- chris
XWine 0.3 - XWine is a graphical user interface for the WINE emulator. It provides an interface for configuring and running MS-Windows applications (MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, or Win32). Changes: The Graphical Configuration of Wine has been stabilized. It is now possible to restore the defeult wine config file. Some bugs were fixed.
- chris
Monday, January 6th 2003 - Last updated @ 20:37 EST
Dapple Update - Dapple has been updated to version 1.24. "Left Alt/Right Alt is working properly now !!!"
- Griking
Arcade Flyer Archives - There's been another update at the Arcade Flyer Archive. 88 new flyers have been added this update bringing them past the 3,300 mark.
- Griking
ClrMamePro v2.86.1 - There's a new version of ClrMamePro out. Changes are;
Added: A full-chd-integrity-check fix (MAME WIP -> kinst issue) (2.86.1)
Fixed: Another little diskimage related crash
Fixed: Rebuilder forgets to remove some empty subfolders
Fixed: A rebuilder crash/datfile import issue for some biossets
Fixed: Rare wrong/empty tree entry while doing set casefixes
Misc: Automatic fastscan after drag&drop is now optional
Misc: Don't skip a possible equally named 2nd archive if 1st has unfixable corrupt zipstructure
Added: Logfile-/fastscan removebuttons
Added: Warning if you use rompaths which match setnames
Added: More rebuilder options and pathvalues are accessable Via scan results popupmenu
Added: Year tags will be read, dir2dat can match/create and setinfo shows them
Daily Games Update - Here are today's games updates:
GTetrinet 0.5.0 is a client program for the popular Tetrinet game, a multiplayer tetris game that is played over the internet.
King of the Hill 0.7.7 is an artillery game in the grand old tradition of little tanks with ridiculously powerful weapons trying to blow each other up while trying to avoid getting blown up themselves.
T2002 is a DirectX version of Turrican with original graphics and the original music of Chris Hülsbeck to revive the glorious past on a modern Windows-PC and to remind of the achievements at that time.
GoBoy 1.1 - GoBoy is Gameboy Emulator for the Nokia 7650 based off GnuBoy. Changes: Fixed problems with non-Color GameBoy roms. Thanks to Chris F. for the news.
- chris
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 0.73 - UADE plays old Amiga music formats by UAE Amiga emulation. It supports at least 150 different formats. Changes: ahx1/2 and (octa)med support have been added. Many players have been updated. Song database access was noticeably optimized. There is better support for package distributors, better song end detection, better file info support, and code cleanups.
- chris
RockNES v2.51 - Less than 12 hrs. later and RockNES has seen yet another update. Changes in RockNES v2.51 are;
Changed insert coin key to F8 (argh!);
Fixed another memory leak, now in the FDS driver;
Disabled FDS disk flipping if no FDS data is loaded (ugly);
Bochs 2.0.1 - Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS's, all on your workstation. Changes:
- fix corrupt saved configuration files (Christophe Bothamy)
- fix missing break statements in apic (Shai Fultheim)
- fix compiling sb16 under FreeBSD (Volker Ruppert)
- updates to the documentation (Volker)
- fix text mode colors 8 to 15 (Volker)
- fix FPU integer load bug (Volker)
- stop pasting on hardware reset (Volker)
- chris
uCON64 1.9.8beta7 - uCON64 is a tool to backup all kind of video game media (Cartridges and CD's) It supports most available backup units for cartridge-based consoles and uses cdrdao as burn engine for CD-based consoles like Dreamcast or Playstation. Changes: can be read here.
- chris
Color Computer OS-9 Source Project - The Color Computer OS-9 Source Project is a central repository for the documenting and commenting of components of the OS-9 operating system for the Tandy Color Computers. Changes: OS-9 documentation.
- chris
Daily Games Update - Lots of free games out there folks, here is a partial list of ones updated yesterday which I thought you'd be interested in:
Vega Strike 0.3.0 is a 3D OpenGL Action RPG space sim for Windows/Linux/Mac that allows a player to trade and bounty hunt in the spirit of Elite.
Dungeon Craft 0.904 is an adventure creator that emulates the AD&D Gold Box RPG's released by SSI.
Thud 1.2 is a Java client designed to connect to Battletech MUXes (btech.sourceforge.net) and display combat data in a easy-to-read tactical display.
Phavon 0.0.30 aims at the creation of a 2D vertical scrolling progressive-weapon shoot 'em up (following in some way the style of the old-time classic Amiga game Xenon II).
MAME WIP - Nearly every game from the 80s in today's MAME WIP update!
- chris
Misfit Mame - Misfit Mame has been updated today. "Misfit mame is a version a mame (based on mame .62 which contains games which are not included in the regular release of mame. Currently included in this release are arcade rom hacks, gambling and simulations,the multipac games and digger man." Changes in this version are;
Corrected 2 of Twisty's hacks(temptwst and tmptwst2)and the sf2m7 Street Fighter 2-M7 rom load
Saturday, January 4th 2003 - Last updated @ 16:00 EST
PocketWS v0.0022b - PocketWS is a Wonderswan emulator for WinCE devices though it's only been tested on the Compaq iPAQ. The only update that I can see in this version is that it will save the SRAM automatically.
- Griking
VirtuaNES v0.73b - VirtuaNES has been updated to version 0.73b. Changes are;
Correct behavior of special NMI.
Correct that is strange when shows a choice screen at a Gemini man stage of Rockman3(Megaman3).(patched)
MAME Targets - Mr. Goodwraith has updated the MAME Targets page. Details on what's new can be found here. There is also some news there of some long sought after boards which have been obtained.
- chris
Daily Games Wrapup - Here are a few games announced yesterday:
SDL Invaders 0.7.5 is a simple clone of the famous game Space Invaders using SDL.
UgLy Game Search Engine rc 8 quickly searches the network for game servers, and then lists them in a qstat-formatted file and html for use by other programs, such as Server Query and Gametrakker.
Friday, January 3rd 2003 - Last updated @ 22:57 EST
ztnet Forums Hacked - It seems someone has managed to find a bug in our five year old forum software (imagine that) and is changing people's passwords. Hopefully our administrators will either upgrade the forums (very badly needed IMO) or fix the bug.
- chris
Guru Update - There was another Guru update yesterday. Newly dumped games are;
FBA K6 Build - For those of you still using AMD K6 processors, there's a new build of Final Burn Alpha v2.94 released and optimized just for you.
- Griking
MAME WIP - The MAME Status page has just got its first update for 2003.
- chris
Daily Games Update - Here is a partial list of some free games which were released yesterday:
Epiar 0.2.0 is a space adventure/combat game where you begin as a shuttle pilot in a galaxy generally ruled by anarchy, with few stable governments and numerous rebel factions.
glTron 0.62 is a tron-like lightcycle game with a nice 3D perspective.
Kwirk 0.2.2 is an RPG in development that uses ClanLib.
HLPSD-0.01 - HLPSD (HLE PSX DisASM) is the disassember for a new HLE PSX emulator.
- chris
neutrinoSX2 - nSX2 is an attempt at emulating the PSX2 hardware. Changes: With this version, you can use the GS pluggins.
- chris
Thursday, January 2nd 2003 - Last updated @ 21:38 EST
UAE-X v0.6 - UAE-X is an Xbox port of UAE the Amiga emulator. UAE-X emulates an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 at full framerate, offers keyboard support, and PAL60 support. Changes in this release are;
Cool Games and Stuff - Here are some cool free games and stuff that have been released so far this year:
FreeDroid RPG 0.9.1, a free clone of the classic C64 game "Paradroid" by Andrew Braybrook, but also contains a Diablo-style extension into an action RPG.
BombIt 0.01 is a dynablaster/bomberman style game written in C using OpenGL and SDL.
decopter 0.2.8 is an unrealistic SDL/OpenGL helicopter simulator.
RAEdit 1.0 is a comprehensive Command & Conquer editing suite.
Please send me some feedback and let me know if you would like to see more of this type of news here on retrogames.
- chris
xbox linux reward status - To sum it up, it was Michael Robertson of Lindows.com who ponied up the money. The $100,000 for part A has been awarded, and the deadline for part B has been extended for another year. The full details can be read here.
- chris
Wednesday, January 1st 2003 - Last updated @ 19:38 EST
New Simpsons Pinball on test - Stern has just put out a "Simpsons" pinball machine on test location in Chicago. PinballRebel has put up a few pictures of the game here. This is not the same game as the 1990 Data East Simpsons machine. Initial reports on rec.games.pinball are very favorable. Look for one of these in an arcade near you in the next few months.
- metallik
New Handheld Sim - MADrigal has just released his 34th handheld game simulator: "Monkey Jump" (VTech, Arcade Time & Fun Series). He states that "It's a VTech version of Nintendo's classic "Donkey Kong", and it's really worth a try!" Check it out over at madrigal.retrogames.com.
- metallik
