Log Message:
Update to mess-0.144.
All changes from mame-0.144, and:

0.144

New System Drivers Supported:
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- Sanyo MBC-200 [Matt Dawson,Angelo Salese,Miodrag Milanovic]

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:
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- Juicebox [Tim Schuerewegen]
- Avigo [Sandro Ronco]

Skeleton drivers:
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- BK-8T Terminal [DATAsoft]

System Driver Changes:
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- ti99: Fixed GROM address counter handling and GRAMKracker's
	wrong RAM pointer [Michael Zapf]
- ti99: Fixed GRAMKracker's write protection [Michael Zapf]
- pc1512: Added a dump of the WD1015 MCU. [John Elliott]
- mac: Further improvements to Quadra 700; System 7.5.0 (and probably 7.1)
	will boot, but system remains NOT_WORKING due to many known flaws.
	Fixed slot interrupts on IIci so 4-head operation is possible. [R. Belmont]
- iq151: Added slot interface and moved video32/video64/disc2
	emulation into slots. [Sandro Ronco]
- iq151: Added emulation of Grafik module. [Sandro Ronco]
- amiga: a number of games seem to get confused when there's two drives
	(they wait for a index pulse on the second) [O. Galibert]
- mac: Fixed name of Asante MC3NB card, added Apple NuBus Ethernet Card
	which the Asante is a perfect clone of, fixed 24-bit mirroring so
	ethernet cards work in all slots [R. Belmont]
- amstrad: Added support for ROMbox, SSA-1 speech synth and DK'Tronics speech
  synth to be used in a daisy-chain of expansion devices.  [Barry Rodewald]
- samcoupe: Hook up the new wd1772, format support incomplete though [O. Galibert]
- abc1600: Added portrait/landscape layouts. [Curt Coder]
- abc800: Refactored the ABC bus to single-slot (as it really is). [Curt Coder]
- aes: cleanup of code, and made aes use neogeo softlist from MAME [David Haywood]
- mac: fix SCC so AppleTalk check fails gracefully instead of locking up;
	removed ROM patch on II/IIx/IIcx since it's no longer necessary [R. Belmont]

Source Changes:
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- amigafdc: Upgrade and fixes [O. Galibert]
- wd1772: Adapt the pll to a 8MHz frequency [O. Galibert]
- ipf: Describe the remaining fields [O. Galibert, SPS]
- floppy,wd1772: First stab at write support, in-memory only for now [O. Galibert]
- ipf: weak bits are usually badly-written/not written zones [O. Galibert]
- floppy: Slot-ize the floppies so that you can choose
	how many are connected [O. Galibert, R. Belmont]
- ami_dsk: ADF write support [O. Galibert]
- refactored the Commodore IEC bus to use slots. You can now connect up
	to 4 IEC floppy drives of your choice (1540/1541/1571/1581) to
	a VIC-20, C64, C128, C16, Plus-4, or C65. [Curt Coder]
- refactored the IEEE-488 bus to use slots. You can now connect up
	to 4 IEEE-488 floppy drives of your choice (C2040/C3040/C4040/
	C8050/C8250/SFD1001) to a Commodore PET or CBMB. [Curt Coder]

0.143u9

New System Drivers Supported:
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- Juicebox [Tim Schuerewegen]

Source Changes:
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- Made smartmed device capable of handling softlist items [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Added 3com Etherlink II 3c503 card emulation [Carl]
- Unified paste facility for trainer computers [Robbbert]

0.143u8

New System Drivers Supported:
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- Babbage-2nd [Robbbert]
- Tomy Pyuuta Jr. [Anonymous source, Robbbert]
- CVICNY (Practice-z80) [Robbbert]
- Novag Super Forte A/B/C Chess Computer [Cowering]
- Novag Expert B Chess Computer [Cowering]
- Novag Super Expert C Chess Computer [Cowering]
- Novag Diablo 68000 Chess Computer [Cowering]
- Mephisto Almeria 68000/68020 [Cowering]
- Mephisto Academy Schachcomputer [Cowering]
- Mephisto Mega IV Schachcomputer [Cowering]
- Mephisto Milano Schachcomputer [Cowering]
- Mephisto Lyon 68000/68020 [Cowering]
- Mephisto Monte Carlo IV LE Schachcomputer [Cowering]
- Mephisto Vancouver 68000/68020 [Cowering]
- Mephisto Genius030 [Cowering]
- Mephisto Berlin Pro 68020 [Cowering]
- Mephisto Berlin Pro London Upgrade V5.00 [Cowering]
- Mephisto London 68020 32 Bit [Cowering]
- Mephisto Genius030 London Upgrade V5.00 [Cowering]

Skeleton drivers:
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- CIDCO MailStation [Sandro Ronco]
- Epson PC-486MU [Anonymous source]

System Driver Changes:
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- avigo: Added NVRAM and warm start. [Sandro Ronco]
- supracan: added INT3 [ElBarto]
- hx20: New rom dumps provided [Pontus "Frigolit" Rodling,F.J. Kraan]
- qx10: Added proper rom dumps [F.J. Kraan]
- alice90: proper rom dump [Daniel Coulom]
- geneve: Improved emulation of wait states; timing is now accurate (with only \ 
few exceptions) [Michael Zapf]

0.143u7

New System Drivers Supported:
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- SITCOM [Robbbert]

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:
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- Unior [Robbbert]
- Avigo [Sandro Ronco]
- Savia84 [Robbbert]

System Driver Changes:
----------------------
- atarist: Palette registers then to show the unused bits as 1,
  causing line-f exceptions when you run on them [O. Galibert]
- atarist: Add some bus errors in appropriate places
  (there are still a bunch of them missing though) [O. Galibert]
- Fix the Intellivision II memory map so the second chunk of
  executive rom actually appears in the cpu address space. oops.
  Should fix a bunch of games which are supposed to work on intv2
  not working. [Lord Nightmare]
- atarist: Be even more brutal with the resync [O. Galibert]
- atarist: Hook up the joystick correctly [O. Galibert]
- atarist: If the 6850 and the 6301 are not in perfect sync,
  there is going to be byte loss [O. Galibert]
- vii - modernised; BATMANTV connected X key, game is
  now playable; WALLE added details of alternate dump. [Robbbert]
- walle - fixed graphics problem, game now playable [Robbbert]
- atarist, wd1772: Finish implementing read ids, correct
  DMA byte counting, Chase HQ works [O. Galibert]
- Fix incorrect masking of register writes on ay-3-8914,
  fixes wrong envelope amplitude on games which use hardware
  enveloping on Intellivision/2 (Thunder Castle, etc) [Huygens]
- intv: Changed driver to use modern memory map [Huygens]
  Added cart ram support (used in Chess, Triple Challenge,
  Land Battle, Game Factory)
  Added ECS and ECS controller support (extra hand
  controllers, keyboard, piano)
- intv: turned down ay-8914 volume to inprove
  intellivoice / console volume balance [Huygens]
- iskr3104: Added roms of EGA graphics card [temaperm]
- mac: Preliminary (not bootable) Quadra 700 support, i
  ncluding on-board video. [R. Belmont]
- mac: Add Macintosh II Portrait Video Card
  (640x870 b&w) [Breiztiger, R. Belmont]
- abc1600: System now boots into ABCenix, but there is
  no support for hard disk yet so it's unusable. [Curt Coder]

Source Changes:
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- wd1772: Add read track support and some misc fixes [O. Galibert]
- Fix for cursor handling in dl1416 [Lord Nightmare]
- wd1772: Add read ids support [O. Galibert]
- Store the character codes and cursor states in ram and use
  the lookup rom to decode on display (as the real chip does
  according to the datasheet) rather than storing the segment
  contents in ram. This makes the DL1416 device act more like
  the real chip, where on power-up you see random but
  recognizable characters, rather than random gibberish.
  Note there's a lot of code duplication to check cursor
  state and invalid/blank crap which can probably either go
  behind a define or be its own function, or into the display
  wrapper function itself. [Lord Nightmare]
- To see mouse pointer in games with clickable artwork use
  -nohc option from command line (windows only) [Robbbert,hap]
- ipf_dsk: Reverse engineering, it's what we do [O. Galibert]

0.143u6

New System Drivers Supported:
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- SVI-738 Poland [Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt]
- Intellivision II [Kevtris]

System Driver Changes:
----------------------
- mac: add NuBus Radius Two-Page Display (1152x880 monochrome) card [R. Belmont]
- Start to duct-tape some organs to the Tandberg skeleton driver and fix some
  memory maps (fdccpu in particular). It still doesn't do very much now but
  does more than it did before. [Lord Nightmare]
- Some updated tandberg notes, nothing truly earth-shattering. [Lord Nightmare]
- x68k: added basic expansion slot, and support for the Neptune-X NIC as
      a slot device. [Barry Rodewald]
- atarist: Until the video emulation is *much* better, reset the shifter every \ 
frame [O. Galibert]
- nakajies.c: Implemented banking.  [Wilbert Pol]
- Add keyboard 8035 rom from tandberg as NO_DUMP for now. [JonteP, Lord Nightmare]
- pc1640: Fixed ROM labels. [John Elliot]
- abc1600: Fixed floppy, system now tries to boot from the mount disk. [Curt Coder]
- kc: Implemented high resolution mode, fixes intro in SOKOBAN4. [Sandro Ronco]
- d6809 - modernised, connected to terminal, added notes. [Robbbert]

Source Changes:
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- Added DP8390 Network Interface Controller emulation [Carl]
- Implemented ISA devices for NE1000 and NE2000 network cards [Carl]
- Created OSD network layer and added Windows implementation [Carl]
- nubus: new read and write-only device support, support for ROMs
	with the address lines inverted (e.g. radiustpd) [R. Belmont]
- wd1772: First prototype of a next-gen fdc implementation [O. Galibert]
- Added AY8914 support [Huygens]
- Fixed bitorder for SP0256 dumps[Huygens]
- wd1772: Enhance, document, etc [O. Galibert]
- wd1772: Add the frequency tracking to the dpll [O. Galibert]
- wd1772: Fixes around the status register, einstein works now [O. Galibert]
- floppy: Move the useful formats at the top [O. Galibert]
- wd1772: Fix livelock when there no floppy in the reader [O. Galibert]
- wd17xx: Connected Side Select Output for variants that support it. [Curt Coder]
- floppy: Add save support to mfi/st/msa and convert support to floptool [O. \ 
Galibert]
- m68k: Activate trace emulation and fix it [O. Galibert]
- Documentation improvements for intellivision, renamed a few roms to
	match the actual ic labels and locations. [Kevtris, Lord Nightmare]
- mfm: Add write support [O. Galibert]
- atarist: Bus error on rom writes makes the Cuddly demos boot [O. Galibert]

0.143u5

System Driver Changes:
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- kc: Added emulation of D002 BUS Driver expansion. [Sandro Ronco]
- kc: Added emulation of D004 Floppy Disk Interface. [Sandro Ronco]
- fmtowns: Added interval timer 2, and 6-button controller support.  [Barry Rodewald]
- amigafdc: Modernize, but don't change a thing (yet) [O. Galibert]
- nc: Added NC150 Italian bios.  [Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt]
- ti99: Fixed various glitches in TMS9902, improved documentation [Michael Zapf]

Source Changes:
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- floppy: Refactor slightly.  Name, descrition, etc are now an
	intrinsic property of converters. [O. Galibert]

- floppy: Add brand-new MFI (MESS floppy image) support. [O. Galibert]

- floppy: Change the internal format to use magnetic cells.  Temporarily
        move the full-track pll bit extraction in the amiga fdc. [O. Galibert]

- st_dsk: Add the easy ST formats [O. Galibert]

0.143u4

Skeleton drivers:
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- Sun 2/50
- Sun 2/120

- Sun 3/50
- Sun 3/60
- Sun 3/110
- Sun 3/75/140/150/160/180
- Sun 3/260/280
- Sun 3/E

- Sun 3x/80
- Sun 3x/460/470/480

System Driver Changes:
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- pet: Added support for D80/D82 disk images with error information. [Curt Coder]
- NES: Attached emulated keyboards (Famicom and Subor) directly to famicom driver now
 that keyboard emulation does not affect the emulation if only gamepad are \ 
attached to the
 system. Removed accordingly the fami_key driver, which became redundant. [Fabio \ 
Priuli]
- pc1640: Added another BIOS version. [philippe]
- next: Add the keyboard [O. Galibert]
- st: Make it better [O. Galibert]

Source Changes:
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- floppy: Add generic track data descriptors [O. Galibert]
- Removed support for PORT_CATEGORY from the core. If you want to choose
  the controller type (for systems which support multiple controllers),
  you now have to enter the 'Driver Configurations' menu and not the
  'Categories' menu anymore. [Fabio Priuli]

0.143u3

New System Drivers Supported:
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- Olympia PHC-2 [Kaylee Smith]
- Sanyo MPC-64 [Kaylee Smith]
- Yeno MX64  [Kaylee Smith]

Systems Promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING:
---------------------------------------
- tk80: added LED display, i8255, keyboard, marked as working. [Robbbert]
- pc1512: Rewrote the VDU, driver is now fully working. [Curt Coder]
- cybiko: Promoted Cybiko V1/V2/Xtreme from GAME_NOT_WORKING. [Tim Schuerewegen]

Skeleton drivers:
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- Digelec/Wavetek model 804/EP804 [balrog, Lord Nightmare]
- Iskra-3104 [temaperm,anasana]
- Uzebox [Miodrag Milanovic]

System Driver Changes:
----------------------
- cybiko: systems now start up and look for flash image [Tim Schuerewegen, R. \ 
Belmont]
- ti99: RS232 connection working with hardware handshaking, up to 38400 baud in
        both directions. Added configuration option for different cable layouts.
        [Michael Zapf]
- msx.c: Fixed loading of regular cartridges.  [Wilbert Pol]
- digel804: fix rom loading to pass verify; add a note about the beeper.
  mask i/o address area to 8 bits. [Lord Nightmare, smf]
- mac: Working NuBus.  2 working cards are available initially:
	the existing RasterOps board is now a proper NuBus device,
	and the Apple 4*8 Graphics Card is available for faster booting. [R. Belmont]
- ep804/digel804: fixed clock (was at double speed), hooked up speaker,
	figured out most of what reading i/o 0x43 does. [Lord Nightmare]
- digel804: Figured out LED outputs, figured out keypad inputs [Lord Nightmare]
- mac: added emulation of Moniterm Viking 1024x758 monochrome video card [R. Belmont]
- digel804: Hook up ACIA; add proper mirrors to i/o areas; hook up ram banking
	(still has some issues needing to be worked out); document what a whole
	lot more of the i/o bits do. [Lord Nightmare]
- kc: Updated bankswitch to allow the kc85_5 to boot. [Sandro Ronco]
- pc1512: Fixed keyboard interface, pc1512v2 boots now. [Curt Coder]
- amstrad.c: Refactored Multiface II support to be an expansion device. [Barry \ 
Rodewald]
- msx.c: Added support for software lists.  [Wilbert Pol]
- mac: add 824gc NuBus video card (Apple 8*24 unaccelerated) [R. Belmont]
- mac: Fixed constructor weirdness for 48gc/824gc, gave video cards \ 
human-readable names [R. Belmont]
- sorcerer: Added floppy-disk support. CP/M works. [Robbbert]
- mac: WIP on accelerated SuperMac Spectrum PDQ video card.
	This card works fine in B&W and 16 color modes (where it is not accelerated).
	256 colors w/ acceleration partially works but the blitter is not all figured \ 
out yet. [R. Belmont]
- mac: added VRAM mirror to fix the vikbw card under System 7 [R. Belmont]
- mac: Added full emulation of Apple Hi-Resolution video card [R. Belmont]
- mac: Preliminary emulation of SuperMac Spectrum 8 Series III video card \ 
[Jonathan Gevaryahu, R. Belmont]
- intv : Added stic background buffering [Huygens]
        Added bus hiding during active display
- mac: m2hires and vikbw ignore the top 4 address bits and thus are compatible \ 
with macii -bios 1 [R. Belmont]
- mac: Preliminary work on Asante MC3B Ethernet card and DP8390x chip [R. Belmont]
- intv: Minor timing changes [Huygens]
        Hooked up the Intellivoice module

Source Changes:
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- Fix for the hlsl scanline jitter effect [nimitz]
- Fix hlsl phosphor decay [nimitz]
- H8: many more "S" opcodes, Lost in Labyrinth now runs [R. Belmont]
- Add preliminary hookup of 10937 VFD controller chip, which very badly needs to \ 
be rewritten
  as a proper device. Add notes about i/o map. [Lord Nightmare]
- h8: rewrote H8S/2xxx 8-bit and 16-bit timers. [Tim Schuerewegen]
- hashfile.h: fixed parent .hsi files not being used by clones [Fabio Priuli]

0.143u2

New System Drivers Supported:
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- Macintosh IIvx/IIvi [R. Belmont]

Skeleton drivers:
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- Zenith Z-100 [Minataku, Miodrag Milanovic]
- Sharp PC-7000 [Minataku, Miodrag Milanovic]
- Vegas 6809. [Frédéric Le Duigou]
- Tandberg TDV 2324. [Tuxie, JonasP, ElBarto]
- SLC1 [Robbbert]
- Apricot Qi 300 (Rev D,E & F Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot Qi 600 (Neptune Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot Qi 900 (Scorpion Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN-S (Venus I Motherboard 286) [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN-S (Venus I Motherboard 386) [Kaylee]
- Apricot FTs (Scorpion) [Kaylee]
- Apricot LANstation (Krypton Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot LANstation (Novell Remote Boot) [Kaylee]
- Apricot VX FT server [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN-LS (Venus IV Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN-S (Venus II Motherboard 286) [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN-S (Venus II Motherboard 386) [Kaylee]
- Apricot LS Pro (Caracal Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot LS Pro (Bonsai Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN-LS II (Samurai Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN-i 386 (Leopard Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN PC (A1 Motherboard) [Kaylee]
- Apricot XEN PC (P2 Motherboard) [Kaylee]

System Driver Changes:
----------------------
- saturn: Implemented IRQ pending and SCU IRQ enable register mechanism,
	allowing Choice Cuts to boot up to the title screen [Angelo Salese]

- saturn: Added cycle remainder for FRC in SH-2, fixes a tight loop in Astal \ 
[Angelo Salese]

- mac: LC2, LC3 now start up [R. Belmont]

- mac: LC now starts up, original Mac II switched to HMMU, preliminary IIfx \ 
support [R. Belmont]

- mac: Upgraded maciihmu to working, lots of preliminary-ish PowerMac 6100 work.
	Boot chime + blank screen is all you get so far. [R. Belmont]

- mac: rewrote RBV-and-descendants interrupt handling in fake VIA2; solves occasional
	interrupt storms.  Implemented another PMU command so PowerBook 140/170 can \ 
boot 7.5.5. [R. Belmont]

- mac: preliminary NuBus interface, not being used yet [R. Belmont]

- mac: iici and iisi can handle 128MB of RAM, added as an option. [R. Belmont]

- lisa: add Twiggy I/O board ROM [Bushing]

- amstrad: added ROM box expansion device.  [Barry Rodewald]

- pc1512: Rewrote most of the Amstrad PC1512 driver, except for the VDU which still
	crashes most software. Keyboard is now working and runs the MCU.
	Added a floppy software list. [Curt Coder]

- v6809: Added preliminary video, colour, keyboard. Added notes [Robbbert]

Source Changes:
----------------
- Fixed for rom auditing in core and winui [smf, Robbbert]

0.143u1

New System Drivers Supported:
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- Tandy 1000 TL/2 [Kaylee]
- Macintosh PowerBook 140, 145, 145B, 170 [R. Belmont]
- Macintosh Color Classic [R. Belmont]

Skeleton drivers:
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- Poly1 [Robbbert]

System Driver Changes:
----------------------
- cp1610: maskable interrupts do not latch [H@P]
	* maskable interrupts that trigger while interrupts are disabled are not latched.
	* fixes Activision's Dreadnaught Factor.

- abc800: Used default input ports, ABC830 is now the default drive for ABC800 \ 
again. [Curt Coder]

- abc800: Refactored UNI-800 and Slutprov to ABC bus slot devices. [Curt Coder]

- c64: Added expansion port slot interface. [Curt Coder]

- ti99: Added real RS232 connection capability [Michael Zapf]
        Input/Output OK so far, hardware handshaking still not perfect yet
        For the meantime, TMS9902 output to a file is disabled
- mac: Improved PMU simulation for PowerBooks.  Replaced Egret simulation with \ 
emulation of
      the dumped 6805 code.  Improved interrupt handling for RBV/V8 machines \ 
(fixes IIci
      sound).  [R. Belmont]

Source Changes:
----------------
- asc: minor cleanup; use device timer instead of stand-alone [R. Belmont]

- ti99: Replaced TRUE/FALSE for line states with ASSERT/CLEAR (which helped to
        find an inconsistency in the implementation) [Michael Zapf]