Monday, March 31st 2003 - Last updated @ 21:05 EST
PinMame v1.21 - PinMame, PinMame32 and Visual PinMame have been updated to version 1.21. More information and downloads available at Pinmame.com.
Bugs Fixed;
Fixed crashes in some DCS games.
Removed flipper switches 5 & 7 from Dungeon & Dragons
Changed Mousin' around display to one row
Some small fixes in Bally cheap-squeek sound (Black pyramid is still strange)
Corrected 6809 core bug involving CC register
Greatly improved lamps in Baby Pacman, although there are still some issues.
Gottlieb System 3 music and speech FINALLY working!! (Requires hefty system to work perfectly unfortunately)
Robocop sound working 100%
Improved Gottlieb System 80B sound
Added comma segments to GTS80A games
Increased CPU speed for Midway's Rotation VIII
Finally, truly, sincerely, Caveman is really working!
New Features
Added GameOn solenoid for WPC games (Sol 31). Only used in games that don't use Fliptronics flippers (before TAF) but it seems like many later games still activates the signal. Can be used to disable bumpers/slingshots in VPM
Added GameOn and Tilt solenoid for GTS80 games (Sol 10 & 11) GameOn is adjusted to mean "game in progress and not tilted"
Solenoid display now shows 4 last activated solenoids
Added rom support for The Getaway: High Speed II (L-2)
Added rom support for Stern Simpsons Party Machine
Some sound working on Zaccaria Games, but still much work to be done
Added skewed, anti-aliased LED digits for greater authenticity
Added support for alphanumeric digit display on Hyperball
Added lots of romsets for bowlers, shuffle alleys, prototypes, some bootlegs too.
2003-03-31: - Luca Elia sent in a driver for Maya. Paul Priest integrated the drawgfx updates and Acho's shadows/highlights updates. Brad Oliver fixed several minor bugs that affected big-endian systems.
2003-03-30: - R. Belmont enabled the shadows in Konami System GX driver and tilemap alpha blending in the Mystic Warriors driver. David Haywood fixed flickering sprites in Metamorphic Force, graphics layer offsets in several games in both the Mystic Warriors and Konami System GX drivers. Acho A. Tang added the infrastructure support for 3 independent colored shadows/highlights as required by the Konami games, and he cracked the protection in Violent Storm. The improvements also allow Twinbee Yahhoo to be fully playable now. Phil Stroffolino sent in a beta version of drawgfx with z-buffer support.
Emilia Pinball 0.2/PinEdit 0.0.4 - Emilia Pinball is a pinball simulator for Linux and other Unix systems. There is only one level to play with, but it is very addictive. Changes: New minor version released. Changes include: key bindings, tilt, plunger, additions to professor level and a stupid fire effect.
- chris
dosbox 0.58 - DOSBox emulates a full x86 pc with sound and dos. It's main use is to run old dosgames on platforms which don't have DOS (win2K/XP/linux/FreeBSD) Changes: can be read here.
- chris
Sunday, March 30th 2003 - Last updated @ 19:49 EST
Adventure Plus - Adventure Plus is a hack of the original Atari 2600 classic Adventure but with many many changes such as;
Title Screen Added ("Adventure+").
The Left and right border walls have been removed in the main corridor (underneath the original location of the yellow castle), allowing you to warp from one side to the other.
Game 1: Red Dragon added, one new (semi-hidden, accessible only with the bridge) room added to blue maze, many item locations changed.
Game 2: Many items are in new locations, including the Chalice. If you have trouble finding the Chalice, drop us a line and we'll give you a hint.
Dragons changed to look more like dragons and less like ducks.
Chalice, magnet, castle gates, sword, level select numbers, and bridge graphics all changed.
Castles made wider at the top, for no particular reason.
A Plus("+") sign was added in the castle gate graphic.
Barrier Obstacles added to the corridor rooms.
All-New Blue Maze
All-New Invisible Maze
All-New White Castle Maze
Revised (very slightly modified) Black Castle Maze
Yellow Castle changed to a dark orange color
Yellow Key changed to orange to match new yellow castle color
Blue Maze changed to a darker blue
Startup screen changed from purple to a tan color
Level select numbers changed to dark blue
Main Corridor colors changed to dark blue and dark purple from the previous shades of green.
Yellow Castle and Black Castle moved to different locations.
The two "top entry rooms" near the white castle were moved, and the original entrances to them were closed off.
This game is now available in cartridge format and can be played on your own Atari 2600 console.
- Griking
z26 v2.07 - Z26 the Atari 2600 emulator has been updated. Changes are;
Made mouse capture in windowed modes optional. It is controlled with the -MN command line switch. N=0 is off, N=1 is on. It is on by default.
We now make a distinction between upper case and lower case letters in command line switches. There are now many more possibilities.
Many more games automatically run with phosphorescence turned on when running in a window.
R. Belmont's WIP Emporium - Electric Boogaloo. Violent Storm is now playable, and Metamorphic Force learned some new tricks. In unreported-there news Xexex finally loses the "Game should use VIDEO_HAS_SHADOWS" and gains proper backdrop color emulation, and Bucky O'Hare has correct shadows (instead of blue circles) and alpha blending.
- chris
FCE Ultra Final - FCE Ultra version .94 has been released. I can't seem to find what's new in this release but unfortunately it seems to be the final release of the popular NES emulator.
- Griking
Zinc WIP - The Guru has posted some work-in-progress screenshots of Namco System 12 emulation in Zinc.
- chris
Saturday, March 29th 2003 - Last updated @ 23:56 EST
R. Belmont's WIP Emporium - Fans of weird Japanese shooters, let's hear it for Twinbee Yahhoo!
- chris
MAME WIP - Updated again with news of new dynamically recompiled RISC CPU cores submitted to MAME by Aaron Giles. Some have reported a 100% increase in speed in games like Killer Instinct 2, your milage may vary.
- chris
Friday, March 28th 2003 - Last updated @ 21:54 EST
Thursday, March 27th 2003 - Last updated @ 21:32 EST
Alter-Ego - Alter Ego, the old Apple II & C64 text only life simulation has been ported to a free online game. Basically there are different catagories that you can have life experiences in. The game will describe a situation and then give you choices of how you would react to them. A personality profile is built for you based on how you respond to these experiences. The game spans your entire life from birth until death. I know that this is old news to some but I really enjoy this game and didn't know if it's been mentioned here before.
- Griking
Philly Classic - Just a reminder to all that Philly Classic 4 is this weekend. Philly Classic an excellent classic videogame convention which is open to the general public. Even though its called Philly "Classic" everything from Atari to Xbox will be on hand. Features include free play classic arcade games, arcade game tournaments, newly released Atari videogames as well as non-stop buying, selling and trading of every kind of videogame imaginable. Thanks to The Informer for the reminder.
- Griking
2003-03-27: Luca Elia added Puckman Pockimon to the Sega C2 driver.
2003-03-26: David Haywood resubmitted the alternate BIOS support for Neo Geo, this time using a compile time switch. Brian A. Troha improved the screen size in Krazy Bowl.
2003-03-25: Stefan Jokisch sent in further updates to the old Capcom drivers, fixing minor graphics glitches in Son Son and Higemaru. David Haywood fixed the sounds in Tattoo Assassins and he fixed the incorrect graphics in Namco Classics Vol.2 but it still crashes when trying to start a game. Barry Rodewald fixed Rotary Fighter so that it is now playable. Jarek Burczynski sent in a preliminary Shougi driver that isn't playable because of a custom MCU. Bryan McPhail fixed the sound board reset in Tattoo Assassins. Acho A. Tang added support for 32bpp shadows and highlights in the core, improving the quality of some graphical effects in Mystic Warriors.
EmuTOS 0.6 - EmuTOS is a single-user single-tasking operating system for 32 bit Atari computer emulators, like Aranym, STonX, or Hatari. It aims at being a replacement for the TOS images usually needed today for using emulators, but can also run on real hardware, like the Atari Mega STE.
- chris
Wednesday, March 26th 2003 - Last updated @ 15:03 EST
DarkMazda - DarkMazda's Domain has returned at http://www.darkmazda.com. He's looking for folks to help with game translations at the moment.. head on over and check out the new site.
- metallik
Atari Running on Any Machine 0.8.0beta1 - ARAnyM is a virtual machine that allows you to run existing and develop new Atari ST/TT/Falcon applications on your computer. Changes: This release features host filesystem access, MiNT-Net networking, XHDI direct disk access, an improved fVDI driver, and much more.
- chris
GBA Emulation Update - A new Gameboy Advance emulator for PC's has appeared called RascalBoy Advance, now at version 1.0! It's reportedly quite good. Next, Flubba released PCEAdvance v1.1, a PC-Engine emulator for Gameboy Advance! It's MUCH faster now - many games I tried seemed full speed or close to it! Flubba also has the PCEAdvance source code posted for curious developers. (Thanks GBAEmu)
- prophet
Tuesday, March 25th 2003 - Last updated @ 20:15 EST
RetroBase - 16 new online games were added to RetroBase, the videogame preservation site! (Thanks Chris)
- prophet
Nebula Model 2 WIP - Emu-France.com posted some new WIP pics of El Semi's Nebula Model 2 emulator! (Thanks IceMan)
- prophet
ClrMAME Pro 2.88.4 - Roman Scherzer updated ClrMAME Pro, his comprehensive ROM utility, as follows:
fixed: scanner's 'stay on top' doesn't work after reentering.
fixed: romnames in quotes with only 1 character aren't parsed correctly.
fixed: profiler 'datfile & executable type' comboboxes still show the old type if you changed them before loading a datfile.
misc: optimized unzip/md5 calculation of huge files. No more virtual memory problems.
misc: full zipintegrity errors are also shown in the scanresults tree.
misc: minor updates to the setinformation window.
- prophet
GameBase v0.93 - James Burrows released a new version of his universal emulator frontend, GameBase! New stuff:
- Added game-rezipping support
- Can now import a RomCenter v2.0 dat-file into an existing GB database
- Added an expand window for game notes
- prophet
HUGE GBA emulation update - GBAEmu.com announced the winners of the 2003 GBAX coding competition yesterday, and several new emulators were submitted! You can read about and download all the submissions here. Of particular interest are Flubba's incredible (AKA thought to be impossible) PCEAdvance (PC-Engine), Reesy's DrSMS (Sega Master System), JustBurn's PocketGB (GameBoy mono), and TheHiVe's superb ZXAdvance (Spectrum). Lastly, I'll just make a VERY late mention of PocketNES, which was updated to v9.1 a long while ago, but in case you mised it... :)
- prophet
Nemu V.8.0 - After a long wait, a new version of Lemmy & LaC's Nemu, a Nintendo64 emulator for Windows was released! New features include netplay and improved audio support. (Thanks Mark)
- prophet
Monday, March 24th 2003 - Last updated @ 19:07 EST
gxmame 0.32 - gxmame is a frontend for XMame using the GTK library, the goal is to provide the same GUI than mame32. Changes:
- Change some options to works with Xmame-0.66.x (but I kept a backward compatibility so you shouldn't have problems with older version of xmame).
- Added skip disclaimer and gameinfo options.
- Add a support for different keyboard layout.
- Added support for catver.ini file from www.catver.com.
- Unzipped icons are working now.
- Bug fixes and code cleanup: see the Changelog.
- chris
Sunday, March 23rd 2003 - Last updated @ 23:38 EST
R. Belmont Pre-WIP - R. Belmont updated his pre-WIP page with Dadandarn (AKA Monster Maulers) screenshots! Quote from R. Belmont: "Big thanks to Acho and Nicola for helping get everything sorted. (And yeah, there's improvements in the other games too)."
- prophet
Saturday, March 22nd 2003 - Last updated @ 21:02 EST
BeS9x v1.39 - Caz has released the BeOS port of this excellent SNES emulator. Check out the features for this thing.
16 bit mmx DirectWindow Support
2x scaling modes, scanlines, 2xsai and so on.
Controller configuration.
FullScreen
Sound
Load/Save State
Multiplayer
Mouse
SuperScope
Automatic Hires support in scanlines, lcd and double modes for Chrono Trigger and so on.
Mess Update - The Windows version of Mess has been updated to version 0.66. Changes are;
Support for .SAV snapshots. Joystick support.
[SNES] Added support for fullgraphic VRAM transfers. Fixed VRAM reads. Fixed a rare clip window bug.
[T1000HX] Modified to use character data from the actual BIOS.
[APPLE2] Implemented floating bus emulation.
[COCO3] Fixed a performance bug that could slow things down in simple cases where not much screen IO is being made.
[TI99/4] Driver is now enabled. Some bugfixes and support for IR remote handlers.
The core is based on MAME 0.66. This incorporates all features of the update to this core.
Major change to device handling; all devices now have separate init/exit and load/unload handlers. The former are called on startup/shutdown, and the latter are called when images are loaded and unloaded.
Moved CRC handling to use the core fileio functions.
Added a osd_image_load_status_changed() call, so that front ends can get notified when the load status of an image changes.
Introduced a cartslot_load_generic() call, to make simple cartridge image loading a bit simpler.
[Win32 GUI] Fixed a bug where screenshots with periods in them would not be loaded properly.
[Win32 GUI] Now uses INI files rather than the registry to store settings.
Friday, March 21st 2003 - Last updated @ 21:31 EST
Sega Doing Emulation? - "Sega held a public demonstration event today in the Akihabara section of Tokyo to celebrate the recent launch of their B-Club broadband game-rental service in Japan. Sega's B-Club service allows broadband users in Japan to download Genesis, Sega CD and Saturn for a fee, then play them on their PC via Sega's own console-emulator technology. Depending on which ISP you're on, you can "rent" downloaded games for anywhere from a week to a month; fees range from 300 to 500 yen ($2.47-$4.10) per game."
Retrogaming Times #67 - Retrogaming Times #67 has been released. Features include reviews of classic Atari 7800 & 8-bit computer games, more classic commercials, the many faces of Space Shuttle and more...
- Griking
Thursday, March 20th 2003 - Last updated @ 17:04 EST
MAME: Analog+ 0.66.1 - A DOS build of MAME: Analog+, the compile of MAME which has better analog control support, has been released today.
- MetaFox
NEZulator .0040 - NEZulator, an NES emulator, has been updated, fixing scrolling and speed among other things, and adding some more features.
- MetaFox
NesterJ4u 1.02 - The build of NesterJ for WinCE PocketPCs, NesterJ4u, has been updated again for ARM processors.
- MetaFox
NesterJ4u 1.01 - NesterJ4u, the build of the NES emulator NesterJ for WinCE PocketPCs has been updated in both MIPS and ARM builds.
- MetaFox
EmuLoader 3.6.2 - Ciro updated his popular MAME frontend EmuLoader again, fixing ZIP related issues, adding more robust icon support and according to Ciro, yielding "the most stable version" ever. It's also now 3 years old, so Happy Birthday Emuloader!
- prophet
Wednesday, March 19th 2003 - Last updated @ 21:59 EST
Top Skater Emulated - Emulatronia has news that ElSemi has managed to emulate the arcade game Top Skater. Thanks to pacmanfreak for the news.
- MetaFox
VirtuaNES 0.75a - VirtuaNES has been updated again with a bugfix to 0.75a.
- MetaFox
ShiRiRu's mame066-0319pp builds - ShiRiRu has updated hcmame066-0319pp, hcmamef066-0319pp, and dhcmamef066-0319pp, Japanese varients of the Multiple Arcade Emulator, MAME. They are based on the sources for MAME 0.66.
- MetaFox
Gemuboy 0.00 - Gemuboy is a new japanese Gameboy emulator programmed by Kiku.
- MetaFox
gnuboy CE 1.0.3-0.3 - Gnuboy CE, the Windows CE version of the gameboy emulator, Gnuboy, has been updated. Speed should be better, but autoframeskipping is erattic, so use a set frameskip instead.
- MetaFox
ZX-Emul 0.16b - ZX-Emul, the Sinclair Spectrum emulator for Windows, has been updated with many fixes and changes.
- MetaFox
VirtuaNES 0.75 - VirtuaNES, the japanese NES emulator for Windows, has been updated to 0.75 today.
- MetaFox
I'm Back - The place where I work was sold, and my good for nothing new boss cut my hours down to 5-10 hours a week, so I quit my job. $25 and $50 dollars a week doesn't pay the bills. I'm getting my life back on track again, so I've decided to start posting at Retrogames again.
- MetaFox
Wine 20030318 - Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix. Changes: can be read here.
- chris
Ultimate Stunts 0.3.1 - UltimateStunts will be a remake of the famous DOS-game "stunts". The remake won't become a DOS game: it will work on UNIX-compatible systems (like Linux), and on windows. It will also provide more modern features, like openGL graphics, 3D sound and internet multiplaying.
- chris
Turaco CL 0.4 - Turaco CL is a tool for extracting PNM image files out of arcade game ROMs. It also can regenerate arcade game ROMs from PNM image files. Once the image files have been extracted, you can edit them in your favorite paint program. They can then be encoded back into game ROMs to be played in an emulator or real arcade hardware. Changes: This release now imports and exports ROM and PNM files properly. All designed functionality is now supported. The commandline options have been simplified and re-organized.
- chris
Cygwin 1.3.22-1 - Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. Changes: This release fixes some problems with operation on Windows 9x, adds /proc/cpuinfo, fixes some problems with files receiving incorrect permissions by default, and allows setsid() to work correctly on Windows consoles.
- chris
Tuesday, March 18th 2003 - Last updated @ 18:18 EST
Swirly - Swirly is a largely incomplete emulator of the Sega Dreamcast that runs on PCs. It doesn't play games but it does run a homebrew demo or two.
- chris
Icarus plays Shenmue intro - The Dreamcast emulator Icarus is now capable of playing the entire introduction to the game Shenmue, with only minor polygon glitches and decent speed. Check the homepage linked above for video files and screenshots demonstrating this ability.
- metallik
OpenBeOS - There has been a talented group of programmers that have been putting together a totally free and open source implentation of the vastly underrated operating system BeOS (read more about it here). They are asking for some help with the networking for it, as it only consists of one person right now.
Our networking team is, right now, a team of one.
We need some serious help. If you are "into" the whole
low level coding lifestyle, especially if you have kernel
experience, and want to do some serious work with the BSD Network stack and the kernel of OBOS, this is the perfect opportunity for you. See the Networking Team page for more details and contact info.
Check out the OpenBeOS site for details and to check out what they've done so far.
- dhalamar
TROGDOR Arcade - A new arcade game has been added to my favorite web cartoon, homestar runner. I had to run IE (in a virtual machine), to get it to run though. See if you can find the secret room with the gold! Get some burninating action in while you are doing your taxes! :)
- chris
xmame/xmess 0.66.1 - xmame/xmess-0.66.1 is now available for download. There are several caveats for this version:
Special effects, activated via -effect/-ef, are broken unless rotation is disabled. A fix is in the works, but it increased build time and executable size too much, so it needs more work.
Xv's YUV mode doesn't work correctly unless rotation is disabled.
Several games, such as Ms. Pac-Man with artwork enabled, won't work with the new OpenGL code. Sven is aware of this, and will no doubt come up with a solution.
As usual, thanks for the many contributions and suggestions. You can grab a patch for 0.65.1 from here, or the full source tarball from here. Changes since 0.65.1:
Amost everything from MAME 0.66 and MESS CVS.
Enabling X11_DGA in the makefile causes make install to set the suid bit on the executable. (Christopher Stone)
The Barath frameskipper is now enabled by default. (suggested by Christopher Stone)
Fixed the use of sdl-config in src/unix/unix.mak on platforms such as FreeBSD. (Stijn Hoop)
Rotation has been moved to the blit core and should be a lot faster. (Shyouzou Sugitani)
Updated the GLmame driver to 0.94, which supports hardware bitmap rotation and should fix the OpenGL problems that have affected recent releases. (Sven Goethel)
Analog controls work again, and the analog code is now synced up with the Windows code. (Sebastien Devaux)
The -joydev switch now allows a full device name, such as /dev/input/js0, to be specified.
Added makecd_mame2.pl to contrib tools; this script aids with burning CDs with ROMs, flyers, and cabinets. (Luc Saillard)
Renamed -gamma-correction to -gamma to be consistent with the Win32 version. It should also work now.
An Xv-enabled build should no longer report 0 bits per pixel and stop on a display that doesn't support the Xv extension. (Alexander Miller)
The -brightness switch now works as in Windows. Removed obsolete brightness and gamma code from sysdep_palette.
Idle sleeping is now disabled while the onscreen configuration menu is displayed. This works around a problem with key and button presses not registering when setting input preferences.
The -record and -playback switches now work as in the Win32 version. Also, the inp/ directory is now created on startup if it is missing.
MAME's disassemblers are no longer built by default. This avoids having to make some ugly little patches to the core. (Christopher Stone)
Removed the obsolete 8bpp update functions from most of the targets. This should speed compilation and produce a smaller binary.
Building on IRIX should again work "out of the box".
Monday, March 17th 2003 - Last updated @ 13:28 EST
AdvanceMAME 0.66 - AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for Arcade Monitors and TVs but also for normal PC Monitors. Changes:
* The display_scanlines option is now off as default. The `generate-scanline' video modes are now created only if display_scanlines is active at the startup.
* Minor changes at the video menu.
* Fixed the `-playback' command.
* Fixed the slowdown problem reading .dat files.
* Added automatic detection of Linux Frame Buffer capabilities.
- chris
mamory 0.2.0 - Mamory is a library that allows easy roms management for any emulation related project. It also contains a command line application as an example of the existing functionalities. Changes: support for SPLIT, MERGE and FULL storage mode. migration to automake/autoconf/libtool. start to formalize library printed informations. memory allocation improvements. bugfix: memory leaks suppression. documentation update.
- chris
Sunday, March 16th 2003 - Last updated @ 21:18 EST
nSX2 v0.07 - nSX2 is an open source PS2 emulator for Windows. Changes in this release can be viewed here.
- Griking
Stunt Cycle - Stunt Cycle is another newly released game for the Atari 2600. It was originally completed back in 1980 by author Bob Polaro but until now it's never been released. A binary of the game that can be played on Atari 2600 emulators is also available.
- Griking
R. Belmont's WIP Emporium - Updated! Thanks to Tas_2012 for the link.
- chris
AppleCommander 1.2.2 - AppleCommander is a tool that manipulates Apple ][ disk images. Files may be imported or exported with various file filters. Changes: can be read here.
- chris
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 0.80-pre4 - UADE plays old Amiga music formats by UAE Amiga emulation. It supports at least 150 different formats. Changes: The Solaris sound target was improved. The Scott Johnston, Hippel-COSO, and Tim Follin players were updated. improved The filetype detection code was improved. Better AmigaOS/MorphOS support was added, and code cleanups were made.
- chris
Romeo 0.1a - Romeo is a Java frontend for xmame with a lot of features. It uses a library by l2fprod to be skinnable and the Java Mail API for an enclosed mail module. Romeo can automatically download ROMs, screenshots, flyers etc. and can use a different config file for each game. Changes: A new ability to skin the GUI was added. Romeo shows screenshots, flyers, marquees, and cabinet photos, and can retrieve information from the Internet.
- chris
Saturday, March 15th 2003 - Last updated @ 23:05 EST
BGB v0.87b - BGB is a Windows based Gameboy emulator. This seems to only be a bugfix. "Linkspeed was not initialized, causing problems when not linked, such as breaking alleyway"
- Griking
z26 2.06 - The Windows version of the Atari 2600 emulator z26 has been updated. Changes in version 2.06 can be viewed here.
- Griking
FreeDOS Kernel 2.0.29 - FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system. Changes: can be read here.
- chris
Friday, March 14th 2003 - Last updated @ 18:24 EST
Thursday, March 13th 2003 - Last updated @ 14:11 EST
FreeCOM 082pl1 - FreeCOM is a Command Line Interface, (user) shell and/or COMMAND.COM replacement for DOS. Changes: can be read here.
- chris
ZXSpectr-3.1-beta3 - ZXSpectr is a ZX Spectrum emulator written entirely in Assembler. Changes: Fixed bug in screen updating on Inves mode.
- chris
WIP Work-In-Progress - Belmont has added some screenshots of his latest work on his emulation work-in-progress page.
- chris
Hatari v.0.30 - Hatari is an Atari ST emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and other systems that are supported by the SDL library. Good for running old ST games! Changes: The problems with the MFP interrupts have been fixed and the CPU core has been resynced with UAE 0.8.22.
- chris
Wednesday, March 12th 2003 - Last updated @ 21:29 EST
FooBillard 2.5 - FooBillard is a really nice pool game in 3D. It has an SDL build, so it will probably work with any platform that supports SDL.
- chris
FCE Ultra 0.93 - FCE Ultra is an NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator for various platforms. It is based upon Bero's original FCE source code.
Features: Good PPU, CPU, pAPU, expansion chip, and joystick, and authentic Game Genie emulation. Save states and snapshot features also have been implemented, and the VS Unisystem is emulated as well. FCE Ultra supports iNES format ROM images, iNES- and FWNES-style FDS disk images, and NSF files.
Changes for this release: This is a minor release, fixing some FDS IRQ emulation bugs(and thus fixing the game "Lutter"), reducing the volume of the FDS sound channel, and fixing two obscure null-pointer dereferencing bugs.
Downloads: supported platforms are available by downloading the source code here. Binaries for windows users who don't have compilers can be downloaded here.
- chris
News Release for GoodSMS v0.999.5 (BETA):
GoodSMS is a Sega Master System/SG/SC ROM renamer by Cowering.
Hardware accelerated Vertex Shaders have been implemented. These are only supported on OpenGL drivers which implement the NV_vertex_program extension. The ARB extension will be supported in future releases (post 3.0 final)
Render to Texture and Cube Mapping support implemented for cool texturing effects.
Many installer related issues have been resolved; starting installs with autorun.exe should now work in many cases, multi disc installs should now have fewer issues with disc changing, and large installers are now supported. Additionally, significant effort has gone into making InstallShield 6 graphics update correctly.
Better handling of X11 Window Manager idiosyncracies - WineX 3.0 does a much better job of going into 'full-screen' mode.
Many texturing robustness fixes.
SecuRom copy protection speed has been improved by up to 50% in some instances.
A combination of optimizations should provide faster game play for some games.
A new ALSA sound driver backend has been provided although it is untested at this point.
Tuesday, March 11th 2003 - Last updated @ 19:13 EST
iNES 2.3 - iNES is a free NES emulator for unix systems, a Windows version is also available for purchase. Changes: This is a maintenance version of iNES that fixes joystick problems in iNES-Windows and adds joystick configuration. The infamous space-in-the-directory-name problem is finally fixed!
- chris
Quickplay 3.3.2 - QuickPlay is an emulator frontend, which supports many emulators and many systems. Changes: you can now use MAMu_'s icons, and a couple of bug fixes.
- chris
dapple2 0.26 - Dapple ][ aims for a 128K //e. Changes: can be read here.
- chris
mol 0.9.68 - Mac-on-Linux is a virtual machine which runs Mac OS (inlucluding Mac OS X) on top of Linux/ppc. Changes: This release significantly improves performance when running Mac OS X. Among the new features are CD support, audio support under OS X, and a XDGA fullscreen video driver. Quite a few minor enhancements and bugfixes have also made it into this release.
- chris
Bochs-Tools 1.4.0 - Bochs-Tools is a collection of scripts and programs to be used together with the Bochs emulator. Changes: bxtlilo, which installs lilo on the hard disk image, has been added. Various other tools have been improved. There are minor bugfixes and code cleanups.
- chris
Mame WIP - I usually leave these for other people to report, but seeing as how R.Belmont finally submitted the Konami GX driver ... mmmm.. Parodius... There are still glitches present, but the driver oughta make the next scheduled release of MAME... (unless Nicola wants to make a special Mame 0.666 tonight just for the Konami stuff.. :)
- metallik
Monday, March 10th 2003 - Last updated @ 23:25 EST
Multiple Arcade Mahjong Emulator - Is MAME more than just mahjong? Haze has written a nice review on some of the recent additions to MAME. Check it out, it's worth the read.
- chris
Pac-Man Movie - According to this article, Crystal Sky has purchased the film rights for '80s video game Pac-Man. Thanks to WindDrake for the news.
- chris
Contiki OS - The Contiki desktop environment is a highly portable, modern, open source, Internet-enabled operating system and desktop environment for very small systems written by Adam Dunkels.
- chris
FCE Ultra - A Major update to FCE Ultra, a DOS/Windows based NES emulator has been released. Among new features is a brand new sound core and re-written network play. A complete list of changes can be viewed here.
- Griking
Sunday, March 9th 2003 - Last updated @ 19:26 EST
Simpsons pinball rulesheet - The Simpsons Pinball Party is now shipping and is showing up on locations around the country. Bowen Kerins has made up a preliminary rulesheet for it which can be seen here. What is notable about this particular game's rules is the complexity.. this may very well be the most complex pinball ever made, surpassing even Twilight Zone in depth and breadth of rules. A refreshing change from the more basic games that have come out recently. Check it out!
- metallik
Gens - Gens is now open source. Thanks to Logomancer, Fakestar, and Haze for the news.
- chris
066 - It's here. You can read the whatsnew file while you download.
- chris
Saturday, March 8th 2003 - Last updated @ 20:21 EST
Grand Theft Auto - Hey, check it out. The original Grand Theft Auto is free now. It's a hell of a download at 328MB, but who cares. :) Click here.
- dhalamar
Ultima 4 - I'm sure you remember that. And I'm sure you know it's freeware. And I'm also sure you know you can play it on damn near every operating system out there. Well, there's a new version of XU4 which brings it up to v0.5 for BeOS to play this little gem at sane speeds. You can see what's new and pick it up from the great guys over at BeEmulated.
- dhalamar
P.E.Op.S. Sound SPU 1.5 - updated, changes can be read here.
- chris
Thursday, March 6th 2003 - Last updated @ 16:19 EST
Uh-Eemaaails - You know, how Homestar says it...Okay, anyway...here are some emails I've received in the past week:
Roope writes, GP32 port of Frodo (Commodore 64 -emulator) got its third release and now with a sound support and crashing fixed.
KillerBee writes, Killer Bee Software's "Empire Deluxe Internet Edition" Enters Beta Test Phase.
leniad writes, Hi! I've released a new emulator called DSP. It's open source writed in Delphi and supports Spectrum 48k, Spectrum 128K, Phoenix and BombJack. Have sound, supports SNA, SP, Z80,TAP, TZX and ZIP...and many other things.
Kim Lemon writes, I'd just like to let you know that a C64 shop has opened where you can buy t-shirts, caps, mugs and other C64 stuff.
Mamu_ writes, i've just added on my homepage a new link/button to a "retrogaming" wallpaper i made a long time ago, using the arcade cab and PC i had drawn plus a gamer, someone asked me the image on my Flash site, so i added this.
MADrigal writes, I just released my 35th handheld simulator and updated a previously released game too. This time it's about:
1. "Monkey Jump" tabletop (VTech, Electronic Tini-Arcade Series) version S3/1.00 (final)
it's a colour LCD-screen tabletop game, clone of the classic Donkey Kong. It was also released with the names: "Hop Man", "Wild Man Jump", "Jungle Rescue" and "Il Folle Innamorato".
2. "Monkey Jump" handheld (VTech, Arcade Time & Fun Series) version S3/1.01 (bug-fix)
jmame 0.6.3 - jmame is a Java-based frontend to XMAME. It uses the Swing toolkit and uses XML to store all settings. Changes: This version is updated to JSX2.0.3.0 and fixes an annoying bug using JSX to save the jmame data object, where a file not closed correctly caused an incomplete object.
- chris
Wednesday, March 5th 2003 - Last updated @ 14:05 EST
Professor Pacman - Frank Palazzolo has posted some screenshots of his recent work on getting Professor Pacman working under MAME!
- chris
Retrogaming Radio, March 2003 - This month, RGR discusses the difference and merits of Interactive Movies versus Video Games, interviews former Activision Co-Founder and Atari VCS coder Alan Miller, discusses various goodies in our Bits & Bytes section, plus take an in-depth Flashback on Prince of Persia for a number of classic game systems, and more!
- chris
Tuesday, March 4th 2003 - Last updated @ 17:41 EST
Hu-Go 2.10 - Hu-Go! a Turbografx-16/PC-Engine/CD emulator for DOS, Win32, and Linux, has seen its latest update to 2.10. Quite a bit new, with zooming, a new fullscreen engine, less crashing, and rewritten CD code for the Win32 port and SDL joypad support under *Nix. You can grab it here.
- david
Emu 5kb - Emu 5kb is an cross platform "enhancing" chip8 emulator in Javascript in exactly 5Kb (including ROM image of Brix). Enhancements include;
Colour graphics (ball, paddle, bricks and a background image).
Bricks fade out when you hit them.
Things don't flicker when they move (play Brix in any other emulator to get a seizure).
Emu 5kb runs best in the latest version of Mozilla, use A to go left, D to go right. The code is a bit untidy in places, and not as fast as it could be.
- Griking
Virtual Jaguar - A beta of Virtual Jaguar has been released over at Potato Emulation. This is an unoptimized binary release of the emulator and the sound as well as cdrom support has been disabled. (???)
- Griking
Nebula 2.23a - Nebula has been updated twice since last reported here. Changes in the last two version are;
CPS2 - Added 1944: The loop master (US 000620)
GENERAL - Improved the winamp jukebox feature, check the sample.trk file in TRACKLST for an explanation
GENERAL - Fixed the NOREPEAT flag not working in winamp jukebox lists.
OC ReMix Shirts - Just wanted to mention that OC ReMix shirts and jerseys are now available as well, in sizes medium to double XL, here. Both MAME and OCR do a boatload of bandwidth, and could use the support :)
- david
Sunday, March 2nd 2003 - Last updated @ 21:00 EST
AppleCommander 1.2.1 - AppleCommander is a little project whose main purpose is to provide a tool to move data between Apple ][ disk images and a native filesystem. As with all good projects, this one is a little out of hand, and it is becoming a general utility to manipulate Apple ][ emulator images. Changes: can be read here.
- chris
VMWare 4.0 beta - VMWare 4 beta is out. I've tried it out myself, and it looks nice (runs on Phoebe too.)
- chris
Saturday, March 1st 2003 - Last updated @ 16:39 EST
Haze WIP - Haze has an update on his MAME development page.
- chris
SNEeSe 0.776 - SNEeSe is a Super NintEndo Entertainment System Emulator for PC's running DOS, with at least a 486 CPU. Changes:
Render: Added support for dual window clipping with all logic modes of backgrounds in modes 5 and 6
Render: Added full mosaic effect to modes 5 and 6
Render: Added support for offset change in mode 6
Render: Fixed an offset map addressing bug in all offset-change renderers
SPC700: Improved CPU cycle count conversion accuracy in PAL emulation
Configuration: Removed support for old (pre-0.60) format .cfg files to help simplify the code and solve a few bugs
