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MAME WiP

Another MAME WiP is online with the latest additions/fixes to the Souledge and ST-V drivers. Did I mention ST-V ? Click here to see Haze's progress!

ClrMame Pro

Everyone's favorite rom-manager utility has got another update, reaching now v. 3.07. Click here to download the latest version.

Linux In A box part 2

I finally installed into my notebook's HDD the Greek Knoppix version. I must say I am very impressed. Almost everything is in Greek and you can do everything you could imagine in no time!. The man behind it, Nikos Nyktaris reported a debian installation file that adds Greek support to Mozilla Browser. Read all about it here.

Whacker

October 24, 2003

MAME WiP

A *HUGE* MAME WiP is online demonstrating what's coming up next. Curious or not it's something you MUST see (Hint: call me Yoshimitsu) ;-) Click here for a fast warp.

Linux In A box

I have started some time now, messing up a bit with a great Greek effort. Nikos Nyktaris has done a great job so far on translating a pretty good distribution of Live Linux (Linux running off a bootable CD that is), called 'Greek Knoppix CD'. More variations of Knoppix, are available here. Great job Nick! Keep up the good work (We are expecting a Greek version of Knoppix 3.3 soon!) ;-)

Whacker

October 19, 2003

Timer is ticking!

Just minutes past midnight we have a New MAME release. Some bad people say that Aaron has something to do with some 'bad clocked timers' and similar stuff... don't listen to them, they're just jealous ;-) :

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MAME 0.76 "Aaron needs food, badly!" released! Windows binaries and sources available.
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Run Forest, Run, for the latest binaries and source files over at the official MAME webpage. Enjoy... and happy (rom)hunting.

Whacker

October 18, 2003

Happy Birthday Gameland!

Yesterday www.gameland.gr has turned five years old. :) We'd like to thank all you emulation fans for your presence here and your great support.

This page is going to serve the emulation community for the years to come even though the emulation itself, turned from history to present. (I'm sure most of you know what I mean) ;-)

Welp, news are that contact info is updated at the column on the left of this page, a couple of emails (including mine) are changed, so be sure you fill properly the rest of the automated script at the 'to:' line of your email client if you want to make sure that we are going to receive what you just sent.

Whacker

October 14, 2003

MAME 0.75u1 source released!

Haze has updated (again) his page with a quick source update that brings the latest MAME sources to version 0.75u1. This release is for 'testing the timer issues':

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Tue 14/10/2003
here is a diff update for 0.75 to upgrade to 0.75u1, whatsnew is in the zip, PLEASE TEST this, I'd like to see if there are any more timer bugs or if we've actually got rid of them all now
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The MAME32 source and binaries have been updated to ver. 0.75 too so feel free to leec... errr, I mean 'Get' the sources/binaries and the Art packs from here.

MAME 0.75 released!

Haze has updated his page with the latest info concerning MAME v.0.75. Here's a pick of the most important stuff going on there:

General Source Changes
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TESTDRIVERS still enabled (see note for 0.74u2)
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New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:
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Lady Frog [Tomasz Slanina]
old 'ladyfrog' set (not working) renamed to 'roldfrog' (Return Of Lady Frog)
src/drivers/ladyfrog.c
src/vidhrdw/ladyfrog.c

Sundance [Stefan Jokisch]
controls now emulated
src/drivers/cinemat.c

Dodgem [Mike Coates, Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
no sound, the video hardware emulation was also rewritten for this driver, its
quite slow now but more accurate.
src/drivers/zac2650.c
src/vidhrdw/zac2650.c

Main Event (SNK) [Tomasz Slanina]
controls probably need work
src/drivers/mainsnk.c
src/vidhrdw/mainsnk.c
 
Here's something to celebrate then you emu-fans :) Keep an eye @ www.mame.net for the latest sources and binaries...

Back to basics.

FandeMame updated the Mame history.dat file as well to version 0.74a adding even more info. Get it at FandeMame place here

Mameinfo.dat updated by MASH to version 0.74u2 adding info from the latest Mame sources. Grab it here

Mame32 Plus updated to the latest Mame sources. Get version 0.74u2 right from the Mame32 Plus homepage here

Whacker

October 6,  2003  

Haze released the second official update to Mame source and it's now called Mame 0.74u2 ;). Get it and read whatsnew for this release at his page here

October 5,  2003  

In the next version of Mame the CHDs will become smaller so here is the tool to convert your current CHDs to the new standards. Backup your old CHDs first before running this utility. 

October 4,  2003  

Reminder :) Gridle is on fire these days so check frequently the Official Mame wip page for updates here

PinMame had a bugfix release and it's now at level 1.30.001. Get the new version here

Happy Birthday to ClrMame Pro project witch turns 6 today :). For that reason go and grab our ;) present ClrMame Pro 3.07 here

October 1,  2003  

After long time, PinMAME, PinaMAME32 and Visual PinMAME updated to version 1.30 adding the following news:

- This update pretty much includes *all major* pinball manufacturers in a more or less playable state!
- With Alvin G. and Capcom games now working, we've reached a major milestone!!
- Of course a lot of games are still unaccounted for, especially some of those little-known Italian or Spanish manufacturers, or Universal of Japan, or LTD from Brazil, or ... you get the point, right? ;)
- Unfortunately, Gottlieb's System80A game series are now broken; the games are booting up OK, but will stall upon game start. We're working on a solution right now, yet we decided to go ahead with the release and leave this as a "known issue" for now.
- Sorry for the inconvenience, but we're sure you will love this latest release!

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