NeoPop 0.41

[Omega]

There's a new version of this free NG Pocket Color emulator for Windows and here are the changes in this latest version:

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What's New
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Version 0.41 / 30 JUN 2002
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- Added support for sound emulation today.
Since compatiblility has been raised significantly I decided it was about time to add sound. I was expecting it to be very difficult, instead it was relatively painless. I must point out that I cannot take credit for most of the core sound emulation, it was borrowed from the MAME source code, file "sn76496.c". I did write the DirectSound interface and buffering code though! I've never written manual sound generation before, and it would have taken a lot longer without it. Thanks to everyone involved in writing this driver.

- Now for the bad news :-) The sound output is quite choppy - I don't think the timing is 100% accurate. Well, at least it's a start!

- DAC sample playing is not supported as of yet, that means that the intro to "Faselei!" is silent, along with a few other missing sounds in other games.

- I've added menu options for muting the sound (if the choppiness is too much) and for switching between stereo and mono. The output frequency is currently fixed at 44100hz, the option to change that will appear at a later stage.

- The state of the sound chips is saved, requiring a change of version for states - rendering old ones unusable. I have added this early so that it causes a minimal disruption to people using saved states.

- No changes have been made to the emulation core. Compatibility remains the same as version 0.40. A few minor bug fixes have been made though,

Debugger
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I've improved sound code debugging by distinguishing the left and right
Channels in the output messages.

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