Emulation News 266: Updates for 1-17-12

Here are today's updates!

Arcan v0.1.2.1

"Features:
- Video playback
- LED Controller support
- Basic 2D features (animations, transformations, picking)
- Detailed event-model
- Scriptable (in LUA currently)
- Able to hijack rendering / input from launched targets and expose as scriptable entities
- OGG music / WAV sample playback
- Database backend
- Highly tunable performance characteristics"

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MESS v0.144u6

"0.144u6

New System Drivers Supported:
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(none)

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:
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-MMD2 [Robbbert]

Skeleton drivers:
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(none)

System Driver Changes:
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-rm380z: Added support for switching between 40- and 80-column modes. [Gabriele D'Antona]
-a5200: added workaround for a13 mirroring when loading from softlist. Now the software
list behavior matches 100% the fullpath loading. [Fabio Priuli]
-rm380z: More video fixes and improvements. [Gabriele D'Antona]
- rm380z: Fixed keybaord inputs. Improved scrolling and partial
implementation of grpahics characters. [Gabriele D'Antona]
- N64: Various changes: [MooglyGuy, Happy]
- Converted AI / VI / MI / RI / SI / PI into a modernized device
- PI DMA now takes place after an appropriate delay to simulate transfer time
- SP DMA no longer rejects transfers of 0 bytes (should transfer one 8-byte word)
- Jupiter3: Hooked up screen and keyboard [Robbbert]

Software Lists:
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-rainbow.xml: updated software list [Kaylee]
-sage2.xml: Added floppy software list. [Curt Coder]

Source Changes:
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- enabling load of multi part softlist items on all available device [Fabio Priuli]
- floppy: DiskCopy 4.2 support [O. Galibert]
- i8279 improvements. Hooked up to sdk85, sdk86, selz80. [Robbbert]
- i386: Bit more progress towards getting 386 enhanced mode Windows running. [Carl]
- upd765: Added INT/DMA read handlers. [Curt Coder]
- Added support for 2 drives on IDE controller [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Connected ISA slot devices for 32bit PC machines [Miodrag Milanovic]
- i386: Beginning to implement page faults. [Carl]
- ipf: Fix a stupid memory leak, thanks Firewave [O. Galibert]
- i386: Added I/O permissions. Windows 3.0 can now start up in 386 enhanced mode. [Carl]
- SoundBlaster: E2 protection check fixed. test-sbc.exe now passes initial tests. [R. Belmont]
- SoundBlaster: recognize command 0x10 for Inertia Player [R. Belmont]"

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WinDS PRO 2012.2

"- DeSmuME r4153 x86 & x64
- Kega Fusion Plugins 2012/01/05
- VBA-M r1066
- USRCheat.dat 2012/01/15
- MSVC++2010 SP1"

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MESS SVN r14070

"r14070
MESS equivalent of MAME r15060.
Bulk converted most of the tilemap_* calls into method calls.
Only thing left is tilemap_create."

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WinVZ300 (2012/01/17)

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