Emulation News 206: Updates for 11-15-11

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DeSmuME SVN r4127

"r4127
someone decides to check for null before deleting. someone else thinks its an error to do that. removing them to make ticket #3413784 go away."

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MESS v0.144

"0.144

New System Drivers Supported:
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- Sanyo MBC-200 [Matt Dawson,Angelo Salese,Miodrag Milanovic]

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:
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- Juicebox [Tim Schuerewegen]
- Avigo [Sandro Ronco]

Skeleton drivers:
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- BK-8T Terminal [DATAsoft]

System Driver Changes:
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- ti99: Fixed GROM address counter handling and GRAMKracker's
wrong RAM pointer [Michael Zapf]
- ti99: Fixed GRAMKracker's write protection [Michael Zapf]
- pc1512: Added a dump of the WD1015 MCU. [John Elliott]
- mac: Further improvements to Quadra 700; System 7.5.0 (and probably 7.1)
will boot, but system remains NOT_WORKING due to many known flaws.
Fixed slot interrupts on IIci so 4-head operation is possible. [R. Belmont]
- iq151: Added slot interface and moved video32/video64/disc2
emulation into slots. [Sandro Ronco]
- iq151: Added emulation of Grafik module. [Sandro Ronco]
- amiga: a number of games seem to get confused when there's two drives
(they wait for a index pulse on the second) [O. Galibert]
- mac: Fixed name of Asante MC3NB card, added Apple NuBus Ethernet Card
which the Asante is a perfect clone of, fixed 24-bit mirroring so
ethernet cards work in all slots [R. Belmont]
- amstrad: Added support for ROMbox, SSA-1 speech synth and DK'Tronics speech
synth to be used in a daisy-chain of expansion devices. [Barry Rodewald]
- samcoupe: Hook up the new wd1772, format support incomplete though [O. Galibert]
- abc1600: Added portrait/landscape layouts. [Curt Coder]
- abc800: Refactored the ABC bus to single-slot (as it really is). [Curt Coder]
- aes: cleanup of code, and made aes use neogeo softlist from MAME [David Haywood]
- mac: fix SCC so AppleTalk check fails gracefully instead of locking up;
removed ROM patch on II/IIx/IIcx since it's no longer necessary [R. Belmont]

Software Lists:
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- snes.xml: new dump added, NHL '97 Revision A [badinsults]
- snes.xml: redumped and profiled arround 100 cartridges [MESSfan]
- lynx.xml: stripped headers of dumps, removed bad dumps, added auto-rotate code [Huygens]
- astrocde.xml: fix errors and add several new or previously missing dumps [ranger_lennier]

Source Changes:
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- amigafdc: Upgrade and fixes [O. Galibert]
- wd1772: Adapt the pll to a 8MHz frequency [O. Galibert]
- ipf: Describe the remaining fields [O. Galibert, SPS]
- floppy,wd1772: First stab at write support, in-memory only for now [O. Galibert]
- ipf: weak bits are usually badly-written/not written zones [O. Galibert]
- floppy: Slot-ize the floppies so that you can choose
how many are connected [O. Galibert, R. Belmont]
- ami_dsk: ADF write support [O. Galibert]
- refactored the Commodore IEC bus to use slots. You can now connect up
to 4 IEC floppy drives of your choice (1540/1541/1571/1581) to
a VIC-20, C64, C128, C16, Plus-4, or C65. [Curt Coder]
- refactored the IEEE-488 bus to use slots. You can now connect up
to 4 IEEE-488 floppy drives of your choice (C2040/C3040/C4040/
C8050/C8250/SFD1001) to a Commodore PET or CBMB. [Curt Coder]"

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MESS SVN r13253

"r13250
Fix svn:eol-style
r13251
Update docs from wiki (nw)
r13252
Remove leftover MESSUI files (nw)
r13253
ti99: Improved recent fix for grom response on different banks (no whatsnew)"

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Jpcsp SVN r2382

"r2379
Small optimizations in the compilation of several instructions: e.g. checking for $zr register or special values.
r2380
Small fix in sceKernelCancelSema
r2381
Improved SAVEDATA handling in crypto mode:
- Fixed and improved the PSF file struct;
- Properly implemented SAVEDATA hash generation functions;
- Fixed several chnnlsv.prx crypto functions in the CryptoEngine.

Fixed several bugs and added new EDATA related findings to the CryptoEngine.
r2382
Removed unnecessary debugging code."

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Qaop 1.4

"Emulates Speccy 48K.
Good Z80 and screen emulation.
Sound: speaker and AY.
Loads SNA and Z80 snaps.
Loads TAP tapes.
Supports Gzip and ZIP compression.
2x zoom."

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WinVZ300 (2011/11/15)

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Nintendulator 0.975 beta (2011/11/14)

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