But possibly most interesting is preliminary emulation of the Magnet arcade system, a prototype floppy disk-based system from Spain.
ShouTime has worked his magic again, allowing the masses to see the rare Alpha Denshi title Splendor Blast II. We've also emulated Ocean to Ocean, an early video slots game on the DECO Cassette system. With that out of the way, what surprises does MAME have in store for you all this month? We're pretty confident that we have something for everyone! First of all, we're proud to present the Soviet arcade game Istrebiteli ("Fighters", as in aircraft). In short, we don't see a use case where someone would be better off with the debug build if they aren't compiling MAME themselves anyway. The main difference is that debug builds have assertions enabled which is mainly useful if you're working on the source. The debug build was still optimised, so stack traces were no more precise. The release packages are built with symbols that will give a meaningful stack trace.
We've dropped the debug binaries as they don't seem to have a target demographic. MAME 0.179Īre you getting fidgety waiting for Halloween to arrive? Well now you can take your mind off the wait by giving the brand-new MAME release a spin! We've changed the release slightly this month: the whatsnew file is formatted differently, the 32-bit Windows binary package has "32bit" in its filename, and we're no longer providing a pre-built debug binary package for Windows. De uitgebreide lijst met veranderingen staat hier, de release notes kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
Ook wordt de software nu als opensource aangeboden. Met ingang van versie 0.162 worden MAME en MESS niet meer los aangeboden, maar zijn ze samengevoegd. MESS staat voor Multi Emulator Super System en emuleert een groot aantal oude computers, zoals de Commodore 64, Atari 2600, Gameboy en ZX Spectrum. MAME staat voor Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator en is een programma waarmee het mogelijk is om een grote hoeveelheid klassieke arcadespellen te spelen. Versie 0.179 van MAME en MESS is uitgekomen.