MESS 1.21 released!

[RockmanForte]

MESS is an acronym for Multiple Emulator Super System. MESS is an emulator for many game consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core.

0.121

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
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- Acorn System 1 [Dirk Best] (not working)
- Atari STBook [Curt Coder] (not working)
- BBC Bridge Companion [Phil Bennet, incog] (not working)
- HKT-0120 Sega Dreamcast Development Box [incog] (not working)
- Osborne-1 [Wilbert Pol, Cowering]
- Spectravideo SVI-318 (NTSC) [Tomas Karlsson]
- Spectravideo SVI-328 (NTSC) [Tomas Karlsson]
- Synertec Systems Corp. SYM-1 [Dirk Best] (not working)
- VG-8020 [incog]


System Driver Changes:
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- [ADAM] Input ports cleanup, natural keyboard support. [Stefano Priore]

- [ATARIST] Implemented iKBD<->68000 communications, so the keyboard is working now. [Curt Coder]

- [BEBOX] Fixed VGA regression introduced in 0.119. [Tomas Karlsson]

- [COCO] Updated to use MAME's 6242 RTC implementation. [tim lindner]

- [COCO] Modified the CoCo's keyboard handler to pass along the tri-state buffer from port B to port A. [tim lindner]

- [GAMEGEAR] Fixed graphics issues in Ax Battler. (bug #1332) [Wilbert Pol]

- [GAMEGEAR/SMS] Allow the VDP status bits to be read before an interrupt is triggered and handled. Fixes hang in first level of Zool. (bug #1419) [Wilbert Pol]

- [GAMEGEAR/SMS] The internal video data buffer should hold the data written to the data port. (bug #1378 and bug #1418) [Wilbert Pol]

- [MEPHISTO] Implemented artwork/code for real chess board usage. [Ralf Schfer, Cowering]

- [ORIC] Fixed floppy interface detection. [Dirk Best]

- [PET] Updated to use MAME's CRTC6548 implementation. [Wilbert Pol]

- [PET] Fixed keyboard regression introduced in 0.116. (bug #1405) [Wilbert Pol]

- [QL] The system is now usable, except that microdrives don't work yet. [Curt Coder]

- [SVI318] Fixed borders. Added selectable bioses for all models. Added serial port support. Added support for NTSC models. [Tomas Karlsson]

- [SVI318] Fixed a bug in banking for SVI-328 with 64KB RAM. Added SVI806 80 column card support. [Wilbert Pol]

- [SVI328] Fixed numeric pad input ports. [Tomas Karlsson]

- [SYM1] Rewrote, still many issues and doesn't fully work. [Dirk Best]

- [TI99] Fixed TI99 border regression. [Michael Zapf]

- [X68000] Raster effects, DMA and vblank improvements. [Barry Rodewald]


Source Changes:
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- The core is based on MAME 0.121. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

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