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Monday 1st July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [Avigo] Added Avigo Artwork.  [Videomap] Added ability for videomap to use buffered video (so to do partial refreshes transparently.)  Converted numerous drivers to use generic_bitmapped video calls.  [Atari 2600] Converted video code to use draw_scanline() rather than plot_pixel().  [VTech1] Switched back to using generic M6847 video code.

Lawrence Gold:  [xmess] Added mouse cursor patch by Craig Servin to hide the cursor when in OpenGL fullscreen mode.  Added a FreeBSD patch by Stijn Hoop.  Applied the latest NetMAME patch by Steve Freeland.

Tuesday 2nd July, 2002

Raphael Nabet:  [MESS] Updated several drivers for the 0.60 core.  [TMS9901] Added support for hard reset, and moved various static variables to a single structure (This should enable to support multiple tms9901 in the future.)

Nathan Woods:  [Videomap] Fixed a bug that could severely slow down videomap.  [M6809] Fixed some subtle timing bugs in the m6809 core.

Wednesday 3rd July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [MESS] Ported some more testdrivers to new MAME core.

Thursday 4th July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [MESS] More testdriver porting work.

Friday 5th July, 2002

Raphael Nabet:  [MacMESS] Synchronized the CVS with the latest MacMAME 0.60 code.

Nathan Woods:  [MESS] Ported yet even more drivers over to the new core.

Saturday 6th July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [MESS] Added MAME 0.61 core to the MESS CVS repository.

Sunday 7th July, 2002

David Robertson:  [Spectrum] Fixed Spectrum borders.

Tuesday 9th July, 2002

Raphael Nabet:  [TI99 Tape] Fixed huge bugs in tape format.

Wednesday 10th July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [MESS] Ported some more testdrivers to the new core.

Sunday 14th July, 2002

Raphael Nabet:  [Imgtool/TI99] Added a few comments and fixed a bug which could trash existing files when creating a file on an image whose catalog is full.  [MacMESS] Added latest MacMAME code and hacked code to compile with .61 core.

Stephen Anthony:  [xmess] Fixed a problem with setting the sample rate for the ALSA sound driver.

Monday 15th July, 2002

Krzysztof Strzecha:  [PMD-85] Added a PMD-85 testdriver.

Tuesday 16th July, 2002

Anthony Kruize:  [g65816] Updated to work with new MAME core.  [SNES] Complete re-write of the SNES driver (still preliminary.)

Wednesday 17th July, 2002

Anthony Kruize:  [SNES] Allocate correct amount of memory for color RAM.

Satuday 20th July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [Street Fighter Zero Changer] Ported SFZCH testdriver to new core.

Sunday 21st July, 2002

Krzysztof Strzecha:  [LVIV] Fixed 'Reset' key.  [8080] SBB r instructions should affect parity flag.  JPO nnnn and JPE nnnn opcodes in disassembler were misplaced.  Undocumented i8080 opcodes added.

Raphael Nabet:  [MacMESS] Synchronized CVS with latest MacMAME 0.60a code.

Monday 22nd July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [MESS] Fixed a bug in the file manager introduced early in the development cycle.

Wednesday 24th July, 2002

Lawrence Gold:  [xmess] Now setting up the palette correctly for 15bpp RGB direct drivers. This fixes the dark colors problem for the SMS driver, as well as the mslug2 and mslug3 drivers in xmame.

Thursday 25th July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [Vetrex] Some Vectrex work; driver still doesn't fully compile.

Friday 26th July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [Vetrex] More Vectrex work.

Saturday 27th July, 2002

Nathan Woods:  [Vetrex] Fixed some bugs in the 6522via for Vectrex; Vectrex files are now compiled.

Sunday 28th July, 2002

Raphael Nabet:  [PDP-1] Fixed PDP-1 again.

Monday 29th July, 2002

Raphael Nabet:  [Intellivision Keyboard Component] Enabled the intvkbd driver.

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