Mame .74 out!

[SirPoonga]

Go HowardC!


0.74

Basically a cleaned up version of .73 now my machine is working again.

General Source Changes
----------------------

Misc source changes mainly to Improve compatibility with MESS [Nathan Woods]
   src/driver.h:
   - Minor changes within #ifdef MESS

   src/inptport.c:
   - Minor change to recognize MESS IPT_CONFIG input ports

   src/legacy.h:
   - Changed some of the prototypes to use 'mame_file *' instead of
   'void *'

   src/mame.h:
   - Added APPNAME and APPLONGNAME macros to define the name of the
   program (MAME/M.A.M.E. vs MESS/M.E.S.S.)

   src/vidhrdw/jaguar.c:
   - Adds some MESS specific templated blitters within #ifdef MESS

   src/vidhrdw/ppu2c03b.c:
   src/vidhrdw/ppu2c03b.h:
   src/vidhrdw/playch10.c:
   src/vidhrdw/vsnes.c:
   - Small speedups (eliminated some usage of plot_pixel())
   - Added support for scanline counts other than 262
   - Interrupt changes by Brad Oliver
   - Requisite changes to playch10 and vsnes to support Brad's
   interrupt changes

   src/windows/input.c:
   src/windows/video.c:
   src/windows/window.c:
   src/windows/window.h:
   src/windows/winmain.c:
   - Misc changes to support MESS's menu bar (should not affect
   MAME)
   - Misc changes to use APPNAME and APPLONGNAME

Improved Loading of .72 cfg Files (prevents Mixer settings corruption) [Stefan Jokisch]
   src/sound/mixer.c

Fixed User-Interface bug which was causing problems setting controls for some of the
players [Stefan Jokisch]
   src/usrintrf.c

Support for 8 Controllers [Robin Merrill]
   src/input.h
   src/windows/input.c
   src/inptport.c

Workaround for a v60 crash causing ultra-x not to run on some systems [Tomasz Slanina]
   src/cpu/v60/op12.c

Support upd7759 Silence Compression [Olivier Galibert]
   src/sound/upd7759.c

SegaPCM cleanups / fixes [Olivier Galibert]
   src/sound/segapcm.c
   src/sound/segapcm.h
   src/sndintrf.c

Changed Afterburner Inputs to use z-axis for throttle [Howard Casto]
   src/drivers/aburner.c

Some Improvements to Chequered Flag protection + Sound [Angelo Salese]
   src/drivers/chqflag.c
   src/vidhrdw/konamiic.c

More ST-V Improvements [Angelo Salese, David Haywood]
   src/drivers/stv.c
   src/vidhrdw/stvvdp1.c
   src/vidhrdw/stvvdp2.c

New games supported:
--------------------

Miyasu Nonki no Quiz 18-Kin (Japan) [Takahiro Nogi]
   src/drivers/welltris.c
   src/vidhrdw/welltris.c

Ojanko Club (Japan) [Takahiro Nogi, Uki]
   src/drivers/ojankohs.c

Quiz & Variety Sukusuku Inufuku (Japan) [Takahiro Nogi]
   src/drivers/inufuku.c
   src/vidhrdw/inufuku.c

Dancing Eyes (DC1/VER.A) [smf]
Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3 (KQT1/VER.A) [smf]
   src/drivers/namcos11.c
   + most psx files

Super-X [David Haywood]
   src/drivers/dooyong.c

A Few new Megatech sets (mostly SMS based, not yet working)
   src/drivers/segac2.c

New Clones supported:
---------------------

Natsuiro Mahjong (Mahjong Summer Story) (Japan) (clone of mjnatsu) [Takahiro Nogi]
   src/drivers/fromance.c

Bang (Japan) [Manuel Abadia]
   src/drivers/gaelco2.c

Hangly Man (set 3) [Manuel Abadia]
   src/drivers/pacman.c
Apocaljpse Now (bootleg of Rescue) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
   src/drivers/scobra.c
Explorer (bootleg of Scramble) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
   src/drivers/scramble.c
   todo : check these 3 bootlegs are worth supporting, if not remove them

[jakejake28]

Dancing Eyes (DC1/VER.A) [smf]
Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3 (KQT1/VER.A) [smf]

[Minwah]

Anyone know why Sengoku 3 & KOF2001 were removed? Too new?  

[arcadecab]

Yeh, how does that work.  If I upgrade to MAME 0.74, I wont be able to play those games (which are pretty good games) and if I dont, I wont be able to play the new releases.  Do these dropped games eventually get picked back up again?  Do you need to save the 0.73 version of MAME in case these games are not put back again inorder to play them?  Does this always happen--will these games be back again?  Will one need several versions of MAME at some point to play different roms that have been dropped along the way?

[SirPoonga]

You guys need to read the mame.net board!  Your questions are answered there.

[CitznFish]

You guys need to read the mame.net board!  Your questions are answered there.

how about just a short answer in the meantime?

[SirPoonga]

Short answer, somone one complained.

[Minwah]

You guys need to read the mame.net board!  Your questions are answered there.

Should've checked there first