I'm pleased to announce the release of xmame/xmess 0.87. As usual, many
thanks to the people who make these releases possible.
You can download a patch against 0.86 from
http://x.mame.net/download/0.86-0.87.diff.bz2
or the full sources from
http://x.mame.net/download/xmame-0.87.tar.bz2
Changes since 0.86:
- Everything from MAME 0.87 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mame.html) and
MESS 0.87 (http://x.mame.net/changes-mess.html). Christopher Stone's
makefile support for MAGE has been added, but MAGE is not yet
included.
- Setting the display method to SDL again implies JOY_SDL. It now also
implies SOUND_SDL.
- Reworked the video mode functions (Hans de Goede):
* Unified and moved the aspect ratio calculations from xgl, fx, and
x11_window to mode.c since all display targets that support
arbitrary scaling through hardware make use of this.
* Modified the code to use the aspect ratio supplied by the game
driver instead of doing all kinds of magic. This corrects, for
example, the aspect ratio of 1942.
* Added a new option, "-perfectaspect (-pa)", which automatically
sets yarbsize to honor the aspect ratio provided by the game
driver. This is disabled by default because it can cause scaling
artifacts.
* When video modes are matched, the aspect ratio is now taken into
account.
- Made changes to the OpenGL target (Hans de Goede):
* Fixed a double-free bug that caused a segfault on exit.
* Disabled the hotkey for switching between fullscreen and windowed
mode, since this is broken.
* Fixed the resizing code to always detect resizes: The old code
sometimes missed a resize event, which caused the display and the
window size to mismatch.
* Modified to use the unified aspect ratio code: Keep the correct
aspect ratio when "-glres" or "-fullscreen" is used; honor
"-keepaspect" and "-displayaspectratio"; calculate the correct
aspect ratio for games with non-square pixels.
* When Mesa is used on a Voodoo 1 or 2, '-glres "640x480"' is
automatically added to the command line.
* The mouse can be grabbed when it is requested by the user or when
fullscreen mode is used.
* The keyboard can now be grabbed.
* The mouse and keyboard are always grabbed when OpenGL on GLIDE is
used.
- Made changes to the X11 targets (Hans de Goede):
* Restored widthscale == 2 yuy2 code for perfect yuy2 blitting.
* Fixed a bug introduced by the aspect ratio patches which caused the
Xv fallback code to not detect an error case and crash later on
instead of falling back to MITSHM.
* The Xv window is now resized with the correct aspect ratio after a
user resize; this prevents black borders from appearing.
* Renamed "-perfect-yv12" to "-perfect-yuv".
* Enabled perfect blitting by default for yuy2, since it fixes the
ugly color bleeding in, for example, pacman.
* Removed unused SGI pause map/unmap code.
* Don't resize the window when testing Xv during image creation.
* Unified keyboard and mouse grabbing and cursor setup.
* Fixed colors being way off in Xv for 15bpp direct games, e.g.,
vector games with artwork disabled.
* Current mouse values are now initialized in xinput_open, which
should fix the problem of the visor going to the lower right corner
in starwars when the video mode is switched from windowed X11 to
DGA fullscreen while the mouse is grabbed.
* Undid a change from 0.86 that caused the display to be closed twice
when there was a creation failure.
* Fixed the display of a 32bpp source on a 24bpp packed pixel window.
* Fixed a bug in the DGA2 target which caused it to throw an XError
when it failed to find a suitable mode, causing xmame to abort.
* XInput now maps controls to mice 2 - 5 and leaves mouse 1 free for
the default mouse. (Hans de Goede)
* Moved the XInput code from joystick-drivers/XInputDevices.[ch] to
video-drivers/xinput.c. (Hans de Goede)
* Unified window creation and window hints code.
* Did a major cleanup of the xfx target, which now uses the unified
window code.
* The xfx target now also always grabs the mouse and keyboard, since
losing focus when the Voodoo is controlling the monitor is not
good.
* Fixed a bug which caused the window to disappear with Xv windowed
mode under KDE.
- Fixed a crash in the svgalib and svgafx targets that occurred when
the mouse couldn't be opened. (Hans de Goede)
- Arbitrary Y scaling is now disabled when the debugger is used. (Hans
de Goede)
- Added a missing "Rapid Fire" string to the configuration menu. This
fixes problems with the configuration of player controls. (Sylvain
Trosset)
- The two aRts sound plugins can now co-exist; their names for the
"-dsp_plugin (-dp)" option are "arts_smotek" and "arts_teira". Fixes
Bugzilla bug 591.
- Added a flag (LIGHTGUN_DEFINE_INPUT_ABSINFO) to the makefile to
determine whether struct input_absinfo needs to be defined, since we
can't seem to decide this based on the version of the Linux headers.
- Cleaned up the sound code (Hans de Goede):
* Cleaned up the ALSA driver.
* The ALSA driver now reports the actual sample rate to the caller
rather than the requested one.
* Removed the "-alsa-pcm" command line option; the ALSA driver now
supports "-auviodevice (-ad)". (Hans de Goede)
* Removed "-fakesound (-fsnd)". Now sound is always faked since
certain games won't run without it.
* Changed the default sample rate to 44100, moving us into the
Third Millennium.
* Removed the "-[no]sound" option; if you really want to disable
sound, specify a bogus device with "-audiodevice".
- Cleaned up some of the rc-parsing code. (Hans de Goede)
- Removed the "-[no]mouse" option. (Hans de Goede)
- Fixed problems with building when GLIDE2 is enabled in the makefile.
(Mark Nipper)
- When fullscreen mode is enabled, the event queue is first emptied.
(Hans de Goede)
- Added support for setting the keyboard LEDs. For this to work, you
need to edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compat/basic and change the
value of indicator.allowExplicit from False to True and then restart
your X server. Note that apps can only force the LEDs on, not off,
so make sure all the LEDs are off before you run xmame. (Hans de
Goede)
- Remember if the grabbed mouse or keyboard state was changed with
hotkeys so that it can be restored when switching to fullscreen mode
and back. (Hans de Goede)
- Removed a lot of cruft from the palette code, which now also
creates the yuyv lookup table when necessary. (Hans de Goede)
- Catch fatal signals (abort, segfault, etc.) in the xfx and svgafx
targets and restore the Voodoo passthrough display before crashing.
(Hans de Goede)
- The GGI target builds again.
- Cleaned up and otherwise modified the blit and effect code (Hans de
Goede):
* Removed a lot of 8bpp cruft.
* Cleaned up and pared down the effects code.
* Fixed a bug in blit_effect.h where each third line of 3x effects
never got drawn when double buffering was not being used.
* When double buffering is used and the destination screen is wider
than the scaled game (DGA), only render and copy the visible part,
not the black areas.
* Fixed a bug in effect 5 which showed up in palettized games.
* Fixed effects with SVGAlib.
* The effects code should compile more easily on machines with low
memory.
* The effects now support 15bpp for X11 and SVGAlib.
* Added YUY2 support to the 6-tap effect.
* Trying to use an effect that isn't supported on a particular
display now reports a message and disabled the effect.
* The effects now check for failed mallocs.
* Switched off double buffering for effects, since this was just a
source of slowdown.
- The X11 target builds again when X11_XV isn't set in the makefile.
Fixes Bugzilla bug 598. (alito)
- The OpenGL target's "-glaa" option is now disabled by default since
it's terribly slow when it's not supported in hardware. (Hans de
Goede)
- Split aspect and mode settings so that all targets can use the
aspect settings. (Hans de Goede)
- Ported the following change from Windows MAME: 'Added the ability for
analog axes to return "invalid" as a value from the OSD layer,
allowing them to dynamically disable themselves. Using this feature,
the Windows version now autodetects analog versus digital axes and
dynamically disables the analog values if it thinks you are using a
digital axis. Note that this even works if you have a "switchable"
gamepad. [Aaron Giles]'
- Fixed the mapping of analog sticks' min..max ranges to the core's
range. This fixes games that use analog controls, such as Out Run,
as well as the jittery movement of the mouse cursor in games such as
Missile Command.
- Audio should work much better on Mac OS X. (anonymous)
- The MMX assembly language version of the 6-tap filter now works for
16 and 32bpp source and destination bitmaps; previously, only the
32bpp screen depth was accelerated. (Richard Goedeken)
- Corrected some of the out-of-date information in the documentation.
Fixes Bugzilla bug 604.
- Light guns should work again. Also added support for the triggers on
an ACT LABS USB PC Monitor model that didn't work previously.
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