MAME 0.210 Released!

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MAME 0.210

It’s time for the delayed release of MAME 0.210, marking the end of May.  This month, we’ve got lots of fixes for issues with supported systems, as well as some interesting additions.  Newly added hand-held and tabletop games include Tronica’s Shuttle Voyage and Space Rescue, Mattel’s Computer Chess, and Parker Brothers’ Talking Baseball and Talking Football.  On the arcade side, we’ve added high-level emulation of Gradius on Bubble System hardware and a prototype of the Neo Geo game Viewpoint.  For this release, Jack Li has contributed an auto-fire plugin, providing additional functionality over the built-in auto-fire feature.

A number of systems have had been promoted to working, or had critical issues fixed, including the Heathkit H8, Lola 8A, COSMAC Microkit, the Soviet PC clone EC-1840, Zorba, and COMX 35.  MMU issues affecting Apollo and Mac operating systems have been addressed.  Other notable improvements include star field emulation in Tutankham, further progress on SGI emulation, Sega Saturn video improvements, write support for the CoCo OS-9 disk image format, and preliminary emulation for MP3 audio on Konami System 573 games.

There are lots of software list additions this month.  Possibly most notable is the first dump of a Hanimex Pencil II cartridge, thanks to the silicium.org team.  Another batch of cleanly cracked and original Apple II software has been added, along with more ZX Spectrum +3 software, and a number of Colour Genie cassette titles.

That’s all we’ve got space for here, but there are lots more bug fixes, alternate versions of supported arcade games, and general code quality improvements.  As always, you can get the source and Windows binary packages from the download page.