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eMAME 0.95. for N-Gage and S60 Smartphones

This year, Santa Claus, got me a brand new N-Gage for present. I simply love this cute machine. It's an Mp3 player/recorder, a cell phone, a radio, AND a USB disk! It plays Tomb Raider, Sonic; it even plays MAME! Yes it does! I have some more pictures here for all of you (sorry about the bad quality - pics were taken with my old 'n' trusty 3650 with less than worse light conditions).

Now... the news are that a new eMAME is out (version 0.95 that is) and the best part of it, is this (cut n' pasting from the official website):

"... There is now an (experimental) version of EMame, micro-EMame60, which might run on older Series 60 devices with limited memory (Nokia 7650 and Nokia 3650). Please send me a comment if you tried this on a 3650 or 7650 so that I know if it works! ..."

I don't know about you, but I find it quite amazing to be able to play MAME games onto my cellphone. Be a part of it by clicking here and download the .SIS Binaries for your cellphone!

Whacker

December 26, 2003

Xmas MAME and MAME32 0.78!

Christmas presents 'under the tree'. Yes, the new MAME is here for each and every one of you fellow MAMErs!

New games supported:

Bonanza Bros [Olivier Galibert]
Quiz Rouka Ni Tattenasai [Olivier Galibert, David Haywood]
Dynamic Country Club [Olivier Galibert]
Biofreaks (Prototype) [Aaron Giles]
California Speed [Aaron Giles]
Crypt Killer [R.Belmont, smf]
Tekken 3 [smf]
Ehrgeiz
Fighting Layer
Mr Driller
Aquarush
Super Tank [Norbert Kehrer]
Ashita no Joe [David Haywood, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Mahjong Campus Hunting [Luca Elia]
7jigen no Youseitachi [Luca Elia]
Mahjong Yarunara [Luca Elia]
Mahjong Angels [Luca Elia]
Quiz TV Gassyuukoku [Luca Elia]
Borderline (bootleg) [David Haywood]
Cross Pang [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Funny Bubble [David Haywood]
Gundam Ex Revue [Pierpaolo Prazzoli, David Haywood]
Runaway (prototype) [Stefan Jokisch]
NFL Blitz [Aaron Giles]
NFL Blitz 2000 [Aaron Giles]
Kyuukyoku no Striker / Last Striker [Luca Elia]
MegaTech : Tournament Golf [David Haywood]
Nettoh Quiz Champion [Luca Elia]
Capitol (clone of pleiads) [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Thunder ceptor [BUT]
Angel Kiss [David Haywood]
Grand Striker 2 [David Haywood]
Hatch Catch [David Haywood]
Cookie & Bibi 2 [David Haywood]
Quiz Panicuru Fantasy [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
Video Pinball [Stefan Jokisch]

You can read the complete update details by clicking here and download the Binaries and sources from here. MAME32 has also been updated and can be downloaded from here.

Whacker

December 23, 2003

More Presents!

Christmas presents from Aaron Giles part II:

"Well, add another lost prototype to the list. This is a screenshot from Midway's Biofreaks. I guess this was actually released as a console game at some point, but this is the original arcade version running on Seattle hardware..."

Click here to read all about it.

CD-ROM support finally here?

R. Belmond does it again and adds support for CD-Rom image files to MAME:

"MAME: [UPDATED] Added CD-ROM support to the CHD format and CHDMAN utility. (For the curious, CDRDAO rips are used as input, and CDRWIN bin/cue could be added easily)..."

Click here to view the screenshots and read the complete news update.

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's almost Christmas and even here (in Greece) the weather conditions turned polar! We, members of gameland.gr would like to wish to you and your beloved, anywhere in the world, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Whacker

December 20, 2003

Seattle Games galore!

Christmas comes early and Santa Aaron brings us a present:

"...However, the glitches in most of the Seattle games are now gone as a result. I also fixed the W-buffering on the 3dfx emulation to be closer to what I think is correct. This fixes some minor glitches in a few of the Seattle games..."

Click here to view the screenshot and read all about it.

MameInfo dat 0.77u3

M.A.S.H. seems to be the place to be if you want an updated dat file for almost every game in your MAME dir. Click here to download it.

Whacker

ClrMAME Pro v.3.10

One of the most trusted rom managers out there has got another update reaching now version 3.10.  Here's what's new:

3.10.1 (12/15/2003)

• misc: scanner warns about new chdformat when old is required
• misc: rebuilder doesn't show unzip error prompts (but lists them in warningswindow)
• misc: some minor rebuilder optimizations
• fixed: statistics counts missing biossets as missing sets
• fixed: no-profiler-startup shows the datfile-info-window (when enabled)

Click here to download it.

Crypt Killer anyone?

Yes, it's true. R. Belmond has managed to emulate the GPU of this great arcade. Click here to view the screenshots.

Whacker

December 15, 2003

Haze is back! (read: v.0.77u3 is out!)

I am pretty busy with several stuff at the moment, so I can't keep up so fast with the source updates. Anyway, get your compilers ready and go here to get the latest diff update for MAME 0.77u3.  Here's what's new:

 0.77u3

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

Added SHA1 Information to remaining drivers

Seattle (and related) Improvements [Aaron Giles]
* added ADSP2104 variant to the ADSP2100 core
* fixed ROM loading code in the ADSP2100 core
* fixed several minor bugs that affected Biofreaks and California Speed
* included several DIP switch fixes from Brian Troha
* fixed input ports for California Speed and SF Rush
* increased default visible area to handle Biofreaks
* added speedups to Blitz and Blitz 2000
* made sure the IDE controller waits a minimum amount of time before
generating an interrupt
* the IDE controller features buffer is now filled in completely
* fixed code that reads the bus master status register from a word offset
* tweaked the Midway PIC handling so that Biofreaks can read its serial
number
* changed the mechanism for DCS to report buffer full/empty states
* added IOASIC support for buffer full/buffer empty interrupts from DCS
* added preliminary DCS support for ADSP-2104-based sound
* added code to clip the Voodoo vertexes to 1/16th of a pixel increments
* fixed writes to the palette RAM on the Voodoo
* fixed small errors in the Voodoo rendering when bilinear filtering
* fixed handling of local alpha blending on the Voodoo

Click here to download it and view the latest WiP he posted online today.

Whacker

December 13, 2003

WinUAE 0.8.23

Almost missed that one. It has been released 3 days ago and just read about it! WinUAE is by far the best Amiga emulator to date. Here's what's new:

 Bugs fixed:

- mousebutton getting stuck randomly when WinUAE lost focus
- floppy drives' state was not restored fully
- fixed crash when switching from 68000 to JIT-mode
- bsdsocket browser freezes/slowdowns
- SPTI CDROM media change detection
- parallel port joystick adapter works properly again
- saving state in ce-mode with blitter active created broken state files
- serial port/MIDI randomly lost received characters

New features:

- maprom emulation (BlizKick support)
- first CDROM is always uaescsi.device unit zero, second is zero etc.. and then
  other non-CDROM SCSI devices.
- improved priority settings
- improved filter options
- compatibility improvements
- bsdsocket emulation improved (Jabberwocky)
- faster Picasso96 solid window moves
- improved AHI emulation
- IRQ level 7 shortcut in input-tab
- percentage of CPU in use -meter added next to FPS-counter
- immediate state save (no need to exit the GUI anymore)
- dropped release numbers :)

Click here to download it.

Whacker

December 12, 2003

Happy birthday Aaron

Aaron has a birthday party today and you're all invited! Click here to take a pick and don't forget to bring your birthday presents for him (hint: I hear that he wants a Voodoo2 card...)

Official MAME WiP

Gridle has been lost for sometime now, but if I judge from the mass of the pictures he posted online, he must have been really busy testing the new MAME drivers. So, here's another huge MAME WiP demonstrating what's coming up next on a monitor near you. Enjoy!

Whacker

December 8, 2003

Haze WiP & Aaron's Blues pt II...

Haze has a few pictures online for you here demonstrating the WiP of a game which will probably be playable within the next MAME update, while Aaron makes progress on several subjects (some among others, CD emulation support). Click here to see what's new and let's hope for a release before Christmas! :)

ClrMAME Pro v.3.10

Our rom manager of choice has got another update reaching version 3.10. Here's what's new:

-misc: some profiler redesign resizeable
moved options, exebased dats creation to new tool windows
moved dat information to toggleable window
-misc: rebuilder cleanup, memory usage reduction, speedup, etc..
-misc: several updates to chd routines:
unneeded check handles chd diff files as unneeded
some better chd unneeded checks
unrecognized chds won't slowdown the unneeded check
synced chd routines with 77u2
showing sha1 information for missing chds
-misc: profile is shown as green when only nodumps are missing
-misc: don't save windowpos on CANCEL messages (ESC button)
-misc: disabled xml support...will reenabled it when it's really needed
-fixed: setinfo windowpos won't be saved when toggling infobutton

Click here to download it.

Whacker

December 3, 2003

Aaron's Blues...

The chd reconstruction proved itself pretty efficient as far as it concerns the Hard Disk space that saves you. 1Gb+ down for the CHD dir is truly amazing in my way of thinking. On the other hand, those new CHD games seem to demand something like a P4 @ 30GHz for the full speed gaming pleasure... Thank God, Aaron hasn't gave up (yet) trying to make them playable on our mere 2.8Ghz CPUs. More on the subject (plus some pretty good screenshots) can be found here. At least, it's something that worth waiting for...

MAME32 Plus 0.77u2 binaries

If you're from those that can't/don't want to compile the mid-updates of MAME, there's always MAME32 Plus that offers you all the latest changes into a neat binary. Don't hesitate. Click here to download.

Whacker

December 2, 2003

New MAME updates!

Haze is back on business and released not one, but TWO MAME source updates! These are v. 0.77u1 and v. 0.77u2 diff -updates:

"...Here are the Mame 0.77u1 and 0.77u2 diff updates, 0.77u1 was originally a private update for testing purposes, don't use it alone, please apply both patches in order (u1 then u2)..."

Both, are available for download here. Get your compilers ready and let's see what's new with the CHD file handling!
Enjoy!

Whacker

December 1, 2003

New Greek Site!

Arxeiorama is the new site of our former host simhost. This is a site to serve you with all the latest cool software (freeware and shareware). I think that you should pay a visit sometime soon; you might find something interesting there (Note: Site is in Greek language).

Happy Winter Everybody!

Greece is not the country to enjoy winter really (we had a 21C here today and sunshine) but the idea of bad weather, snow, Christmas, is just great to change your mood :) Anyway. We're expecting a new MAME release sooner than the 1st snow (let's hope so) ;-)

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