Emulation News 256: Updates for 1-7-12

Here are today's updates! Have a great weekend!

MESS SVN r13908

"r13905
Some notes
r13906
megadriv.xml: new pirate dump, courtesy of Azathoth. no whatsnew.
r13907
GCC 4.6.x compile fixes (nw)
r13908
[PET] Added skeleton for SSE SoftBox IEEE-488 peripheral. [Curt Coder]"

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Bochs v2.5.1

"Changes in 2.5.1 (January 6, 2012):

- CPU / CPUDB
! Added Athlon64 (Venice) configuration to the CPUDB
- BMI: fixed EFLAGS after BMI instructions
- MSR: access to AMD extended MSR space was impossible due to a bug in RDMSR/WRMSR
- VMX: fixed VMFUNC instruction behavior to align with Intel SDM revision 041
- VMX: fixed Bochs PANIC when doing I/O access crossing VMX I/O permission bitmaps
- VMX: fixed VirtualBox VMX guest Guru Meditation - FS.BASE got corrupted after
saving/restoring unusable FS selector
- VMX: fixed VirtualBox failures with VMX+EPT enabled
- Better report of supported CPUID features when not using pre-defined CPUID profile

- Debugger / Instrumentation
- fixed typo - closing SF bug [3461405] step all command fails in SMP mode
- instrumentation: added special indication for indirect call/jump

- Configure and compile
- fixed compilation err in instrumentation call (tasking.cc)
- fixed compilation err with x86 hw breakpoint enabled and CPU_LEVEL < 6
- fixed compilation issue under win32 --with-nogui
- added missing dependencies for cdrom_osx.o
- removed very old deprecated configure options from configure script

- I/O Devices
- fixed possible failures of PCI DMA transfers
- VVFAT: several fixes in the optional write support (passes test with XP)
- USB UHCI: some fixes to make it work in XP guest
- removed devices 'acpi', 'ioapic' and 'pci_ide' from optional plugin control
to avoid trouble

- Config interface / GUI and display libraries
- added VMX .bochsrc option to control VMX support on runtime
- fix for x86-64 .bochsrc option parsing (patch from @SF)
- fix for @SF bug: Crash on WIN2K - ID: 3454214
- added 'nokeyrepeat' option for the SDL and win32 gui"

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DeSmuME SVN r4148

"r4148
Cocoa Port:
- Another file handling code update that I missed.
- Integrate DeSmuME's directory structure into this port."

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Atari800Win Plus 4.1

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QMC2 SVN r3432

"r3428
fix: Windows embedder: monitor the window-rect (not the client-rect)
r3429
fix: Windows embedder: allow full screen again
r3430
fix: corrected restoration of main-widget's layout when the front-end
was showing a maximized embedded emulator during clean up on the
previous run
r3431
fix: X11: release embedded emulators before exiting
r3432
doc: TODO update"

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Dolphin Git 3.0-368

"* D3D9/11: Degrade a PanicAlert related to EFB format changes to an ERROR_LOG"

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1964 SVN r104

"r104
1964 Core:
Ability to overclock N64 to get higher framerates or to underclock to get better performance. (1964Ultrafast by RetroRalph)"

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NesDS v1.0 Final

"rom patch database added, which can select a PAL/NTSC timing or fix the header of rom.
Nifi fixed.
'About' flicking fixed.
Better flicker when PALTIMING is enabled.
dswifix(which is for nifi) src is added."

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EMU v1.01 (2012/01/06)

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Micro64 v1.00.2012.01.07 Build 660

"- Added Alt+F1 as alias for F9 + menu-key
- Added experimental 64-bit Mac OS X build"

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