Slothrop's Hawaiian Shirt by Zak Smith (2006).
I just want to begin by thanking u/Bloomsdayclock for coordinating this endeavor, for all of the previous posts thus far, and for the enthusiastic interaction and scholarship that’s been happening in the comments for each post. This group read has rekindled my love for this book and is helping me understand it in so many different ways and in such greater depth that it's honestly like I’m reading a different book at this point. Also, kudos to each previous poster for creating a coherent post! The book is complex enough on its own but once you start going down the rabbit hole, sussing out the references, reading through some of the scholarship, etc., I almost found myself paralyzed by information overload (kinda feeling a bit like Charlie Kelly trying to figure out who “Pepe Silvia” is :) ). When this reading group started, I was like, “damn, I’m trying to read this insanely complex novel and the group posts are just as long, dense, and complex” and now I’ve gone and written some super long and dense post, too. To paraphrase either Blaise Pascal or Mark Twain (or Woodrow Wilson or apparently a rather large number of dead white guys from history): I would have written a shorter post if I’d had the time! Apologies in advance!
Anyways, this post will (attempt to) cover the start of the second section of the novel, Un Perm’ au Casino Hermann Goering. The events that transpire are zany and sinister, titillating and deeply sad. There is a mix of images both gorgeous and disgusting and much of the planning and plotting that took place at “The White Visitation” during the first section are starting to come to fruition in part deux. For each “Episode”, I will provide a general summary of the “action” and then some commentary and we’ll finish this post up with a few discussion questions. Let’s begin!
Episode 22
Summary
Slothrop is on furlough/leave at a casino in Monaco (from what I’ve read...I thought it was France before, still not completely sure) that’s been renamed in honor of the big fat slob that led Hitler’s air force during the war. He’s in paradise but wakes up “...[waiting] for a sudden noise to begin his day, a first rocket” (p. 181). His friend Tantivy Mucker-Maffick and a somewhat suspicious friend of his, Teddy Bloat (“[there’s] something about the way he talks to Slothrop, patronizing? Maybe nervous…” (p. 182)), are staying down the hall. They’re talking about meeting some girls but, as the first song of the section reminds us, Englishmen can be very shy. Slothrop is happy to help his “buddies” out, but tells them not to “expect [him] to put it in for [them]” (p. 183). Classic Slothrop!
Slothrop decides to wear a hideous (or amazing, depending on your sensibilities) genuine Hawaiian shirt that he received from his brother Hogan in the Pacific. The shirt seems to emit a glow (once he steps into the sun, it “blazes into a refulgent life of its own” (!) (p. 184), so Tantivy, “friend” that he is, tries to convince Slothrop to cover it up with scratchy Savile Row coat.
The trio hit the beach and the ladies are on them already. They’ve got food and booze and are ready for a nice day on the beach. The morning seems too good even for a bit of the “early paranoia”. And then Bloat ruins everything by drawing Slothrop’s attention to the woman down the beach being attacked by “the biggest fucking octopus Slothrop has ever seen outside of the movies”. Slothrop rushes off to intervene and, left without recourse, starts trying to bash the cephalopod on the head with a wine bottle to no avail. Thankfully, Bloat just happens to have a big, tasty crab on his person, which he tosses to Slothrop with the advice, “It’s hungry, it’ll go for the crab. Don’t kill it, Slothrop.” Slothrop uses the crab to bait away the animal from its current prey, noticing that it does not seem to be in good mental health. He eventually tosses the crab, like a discus, into the sea, and the octopus follows. The damsel has been saved, Slothrop is championed as a brave hero and his first thought is where in the fuck did that crab come from.
The exchange:
“Tantivy smiles and flips a small salute. “Good show!” cheers Teddy Bloat. “I wouldn’t have wanted to try that myself!”
“Why not? You had that crab. Saaay-where’d you get that crab?”
“Found it,” replies Bloat with a straight face. Slothrop stares at this bird but can’t get eye contact. What th’ fuck is going on?” (p. 187).
The damsel thanks Slothrop. Her ID bracelet identifies her as Katje Borgesius. Slothrop feels like he knows her and “...voices begin to take on a touch of metal, each word a hard-edged clap, and the light, though as bright as before, is less able to illuminate….it’s a Puritan reflex of seeking other orders behind the visible, also known as paranoia, filtering in…” (p. 188). How does Slothrop deal with this? By dividing up his present company into a dichotomy: the increasingly drunk Tantivy, “a messenger from Slothrop’s innocent, pre-octopus past” flirting with the girls and Bloat, “perfectly sober, mustache unruffled, regulation uniform [on the fucking beach!], watching [him] closely” (p. 188). And then there’s Katje, who, with her glance, makes Slothrop think she knows something (what?), asking him “Did you know all the time about the octopus? I thought so because it was so like a dance-all of you” (p. 188). Well, fuck me! Katje then tells “Little Tyrone” to be “very careful” and that “Perhaps, after all, we were meant to meet…” (p. 189). Now that’s a “meet cute” for ya!
Commentary/Questions

1. Is the casino fully owned and controlled by Them at this point (is César Flebótomo (Spanish for “sandfly”) a(n) (un)willing patsy in Their employ?). Is it the “lab” for this “phase” of the Slothrop experiment. Or is it just secured enough to ensure the results of the experiment aren’t tainted by some unforeseen variable/interference?
2. Teddy Bloat seems like a purposeful pun in reference to the bureaucracy of government/intel agencies
3. Tantivy Mucker-Maffick’s name is also filled with meaning
4. Songs are one way that Pynchon fills his book with “the language of the preterite”, a term from Weisenburger used to describe the “slang, underworld cant, songs, games, folk-genres, and material culture” used by Pynchon to pit “open, unsanctioned, and “low” languages” against the “closed, orthodox, privileged language of a culture”. This idea is expanded on by literary critic/philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin who notes that the “heteroglossic” aspect of novels allows them to be radical, open-ended artworks filled with a variety of voices that each embody a particular time and place (his term for this idea is a “chronotope”).
5. The whole episode is just soaked in paranoia, from beginning to end. Whatever Slothrop thought he thought he was feeling in Section 1 has been taken up a notch. He senses a plot but keeps playing along.
6. Is “Borgesius” a tribute to J.L. Borges?
7. “Little Tyrone” echoes “Baby Tyrone” from Jamf’s experiments and maybe is supposed to make us realize that while the antics in this episode could possibly be construed as a “loss” of Slothrop’s “innocence” that was actually taken from him as a baby.

Episode 23
Summary
Dr. Porkyevitch (“Porky the pig”?) and “Grisha” (“[frisking] happily in his special enclosure”) stare back at the “blazing bijou” of the Casino from their ship, contemplating their future now that they may no longer be of use to Pointsman, yearning for traces of the Russia they’ve been exiled from.
To the casino: Katje is a vision in shades of green and is escorted by a two-star general and a brigadier. Is it Pudding? RHIP :) Slothrop and Tantivy in the dining room. Slothrop raises the “The Ballad of Tantivy Mucker-Maffic” to get the room singing of his friend’s drunken exploits so that he can speak to Katje who uses the cacophony to invite him to her room after midnight!
Slothrop then probes his buddy to see if he notices anything funny going on. Tantivy brushes him off a bit (“there’s always, you know, an element of Slothropian paranoia to contend with…”(p. 192)) but then concedes that the bastard Bloat is receiving coded messages. Ha! And it turns out Bloat has become a bit of a different man over the last few years, something more than being “Blitz rattled”. He’s also warned Tantivy away from Katje (“I’d stay clear of that one if I were you” (p. 193)) and Tantivy feels used by Bloat (“being tolerated for as long as he can use me” (p. 193)). The encounter ends with Tantivy telling Slothrop to be careful and, should he need help, he’ll be there for him.
At midnight, Slothrop leaves for his rendezvous with Ms. Borgesius, “ascending flights of red-carpeted stairway (Welcome Mister Slothrop Welcome To Our Structure We Hope You Will Enjoy Your Visit Here)” (p. 194). Arriving, he teases her about her date at dinner and then about their slightly sinister “meet cute” while examining her closet which is absolutely filled to the brim with a variety of outfits. The “Too Soon To Know (Fox-Trot)” before they get down to it. As he is undressing her, he notices “...the moonlight only whitens her back, and there is a still a dark side, her ventral side, her face, than he can no longer see, a terrible beastlike change coming over muzzle and lower jaw, black pupils growing to cover the entire eye space till whites are gone and there’s only the red animal reflection when the light comes to strike no telling when the light-” (p. 196). Yikes! As they fuck, she wonders if his “careful technique” is for her or “wired into the Slothropian Run-together they briefed her on”. Either way, “she will move him, she will not be mounted by a plastic shell” (p. 196-197).
Then, a slapstick fight with a seltzer bottle (planted by Them?) that has Slothrop looking for a banana cream pie to toss (classic!) after which they fall asleep, lying like two Ss. In the morning, their post-coital bliss is interrupted as Little Tyrone is rudely awakened by the sound of someone robbing his pants in the room next door. He chases after the thief, first naked, then dressed in a purple satin bedsheet. As he’s chasing, from way down the hallway, “a tiny head appears around a corner, a tiny hand comes out and gives Slothrop the tiny finger” (p. 199). Haha! He chases the thief up a tree only to have the tree cut down while he’s in it. The thief escapes and Bloat and some general find Slothrop a mess.
Bloat takes Slothrop to his room where, “every stitch of clothing he owns is gone, including his Hawaiian shirt. What the fuck. Groaning, he rummages in the desk. Empty. Closets empty. Leave papers, ID, everything, taken… Hogan’s shirt bothers him most of all” (p. 201). Nobody knows where Tantivy’s gone off to. Bloat gives Slothrop a uniform (“a piece of Whitehall on the Riviera” (p. 201)) which doesn’t fit but the book advises, “Live wi’ the way it feels mate, you’ll be in it for a while” (p. 201). Slothrop ponders the meaning of the architecture and design of his surrounds, but “shortly, unpleasantly so, it will come to him that everything in this room [The Himmer-Spielsaal, no less] is being used from something different. Meaning things to Them it has never meant to us. Never. Two orders of being, looking identical….but, but….” (p. 202). THE WORLD OVER THERE. Against this realization Slothrop issues the only spell he knows, a defiant “Fuck You”. Walking, rainstorm, entertainment at the casino, no one has seen the dancing girls from the drunken breakfast, Slothrop is “finding only strangers where he looks” before freaking out in the casino, then getting wet in the rain, then returning to Katje, the only place he knew to come.
Commentary

1. I love “The Ballad of Tantivy Mucker-Maffic” and would like to write a similar tune about the inebriated shenanigans committed by my best friend and I during college.
2. The bit about Oxford and Harvard not really existing to educate was a nice touch (p. 193)
3. “Snazzy” is an “Americanism” in the 40s! (p. 195).
4. Slothrop ponders an impending loss of innocence (but, again, it seems like that has already happened). He has nothing and no one in a foreign country and the sensation that his life is being purposefully, possibly nefariously influenced by forces he can vaguely perceive. “It’s here that saturation hits him, it’s all this playing games, too much of it, too many games: the nasal, obsessive voice of a croupier he can’t see...is suddenly speaking out of the Forbidden Wing directly to him, and about what Slothrop has been playing against the invisible House, perhaps after all for his soul, all day - terrified, he turns, turns out into the rain again where the electric lights of the Casino, in full holocaust, are glaring off the glazed cobbles.” And then, “How did this all turn against him so fast? His friends old and new, every last bit of paper and clothing connecting him to what he’s been, have just, fucking, vanished. How can he meet this with any kind of grace?” (p. 205)
5. The word “holocaust” is used quite a bit in this story
6. Setting this all in the casino is a nice touch: there is the illusion of chance and luck in a casino but the house always wins.
7. The juxtaposition of the comic (seltzer fight) with the tragic (Slothrop alone, trying to understand what’s happening) heightens both effects.

Episode 24
Summary
They wake up with Katje calling slothrop a pig, which responds to by oinking. At breakfast, he is taking a refresher course in technical German and learning about The Rocket. His tutor, Sir Stephen Dodson-Truck (who speaks 33 languages!) aiding his understanding of German circuit schematics by way of ancient German runes. Slothrop understands immediately that Dodson-Truck is in on the plot but not sure how (“There are times when Slothrop can actually find a clutch mechanism between him and Their iron-cased engine far away up a power train whose shape and design he has to guess at, a clutch he can disengage, feeling then all his inertia of motion, his real helplessness… it is not exactly unpleasant, either. Odd thing. He is almost sure that whatever They want, it won’t mean risking his life, or even too much of his comfort. But he can’t fit any of it into a pattern, there’s no way to connect somebody like Dodson-Truck with somebody like Katje…. The real enemy’s somewhere back in that London anyways” (p. 207).
Back in the Himmler-Spielsaal: “in the twisted gilt playing-room his secret motions clarify for him, some. The odds They played here belonged to the past, the past only. Their odds were never probabilities, but frequencies already observed. It’s the past that makes demands here. It whispers, and reaches after, and sneering disagreeably, gooses its victims.
When they choose numbers, red, black, odd, even, what did They mean it? What Wheel did They set in motion?
Back in a room, early in Slothrop’s life, a room forbidden to him now, is something very bad. Something was done to him and it may be that Katje knows what. Hasn’t he, in her “futureless look,” found some link to his own past, something that connects them closely as lovers?” (p. 208-209). “It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola.”
No more news from London or Achtung. Bloat is gone now, too. Sir Stephen and Katje with their identical Corporate Smiles to dazzle him while they rob his identity. But! “He lets it happen” (p. 210).
Slothrop is getting hardons after his rocket study sessions and then goes looking for relief with Katje. Sir Stephen appears to be timing these erections! So, Slothrop gets the smart idea to get him drunk via a drinking game and many, many people end up getting sloshed on some high class bubbly. Half the room is singing the “Vulgar Song”. Slothrop and Sir Steve get pretty hammered and start walking through a nice sunset, where Slothrop sees robed figures, hundreds of miles tall, on the horizon. Sir Stephen informs Slothrop that he’s got “potency issues” (which makes him the perfect observer for Slothrop’s sexual misadventures… “no nasty jissom getting all over their reports, you know” (p. 216)). He’s about to tell Slothrop the secret of “The Penis He Thought Was His Own”...
...but then starts waxing nostalgic about Sir Stephen’s son and his wife, Nora and her “Ideology of the Zero”. An interlude with Eventyr, Sachsa, Leni… “but where will Leni be now? Either we didn’t mean to lose her - either it was an ellipsis in our care, in what some of us even swear is our love, or someone has taken her, deliberately, for reasons being kept secret, and Sachsa’s death is part of it too” (p. 218). More on Sachsa’s death.
Then, Sir Stephen vanishes (“but not before telling Slothrop that his erections of high interest to Fitzmaurice House”). Katje is pissed that Slothy got Sir Steve drunk enough to dish on the plot. They fight and then fuck. More rocket study sessions. The rocket taking off looks like a peacock, def pfau. Slothrop pressing for more information, Katje rebuffing, warning/advising“Oh, Slothrop… You don’t want me. What they’re after may, but you don’t. No more than A4 wants London. But I don’t think they know...about other selves...yours or the Rocket’s. No more than you do. If you can’t understand it now, at least remember. That’s all I can do for you” (p. 224).
Then, “They go back up to her room again: cock, cunt, the Monday rain at the windows” (p. 224) (Oh, Tom, you romantic!). And finally, a bit of kazoo music, a final night together, and Katje disappears, too.
Commentary

1. Slothrop makes an important connection to his childhood and wonders if Katje knows about it/whether she’s with him because of it (ol’ Pynch even manages to work in the rocket, too!): “You were in London while they were coming down. I was in ‘s Gravenhage while they were going up. Between you and me is not only a rocket trajectory but also a life. You will come to understand that between the two points, in the five minutes, it lives an entire life. You haven’t even learned the data on our side of the flight profile, the visible or trackable. Beyond them there’s so much more, so much none of us know” (p. 209).
2. More on the import of setting the action in the Casino: “The Forbidden Wing. Oh, the hand of a terrible croupier is that touch on the sleeves of his dreams: all his life of what has looked free or random, is discovered to’ve been under some Control, all the time, the same as a fixed roulette wheel-where only destinations are important, attention is to long-term statistics, not individuals: and where the House does, of course, keep turning a profit…” (p. 209).
3. A beautiful passage: “‘Holy shit.” This is the kind of sunset you hardly see any more, a 19th-century wilderness sunset...this anachronism in primal red, in yellow purer than can be found anywhere today, a purity begging to be polluted...of course Empire took its way westward, what other way was there but into those virgin sunsets to penetrate and to foul” (p. 214). Always dualities in this book.
4. “A pornography of blueprints” (p. 224). is a nice turn of phrase.
5. Foreshadowing: “She has her hair combed high today in a pompadour, her fair eyebrows, plucked to wings, darkened, eyes rimmed in black, only the outboard few lashes missed and left blond.
6. Connection to Nabokov: I really do think “Signs and Symbols” influenced this novel. Lines like this, “Here it is again, that identical-looking Other World - is he gonna have this to worry about, now? What th’ - lookit these trees - each long frond hanging, stuny, dizzying, in laborious dry point against the sky, each so perfectly placed…” (p. 225) remind me so much of the atmosphere in the story (itself about paranoia (“referential mania”)). This is a key excerpt from the Nabokov ditty: “In these very rare cases the patient imagines that everything happening around him is a veiled reference to his personality and existence. He excludes real people from the conspiracy - because he considers himself to be so much more intelligent than other men. Phenomenal nature shadows him wherever he goes. Clouds in the staring sky transmit to one another, by means of slow signs, incredibly detailed information regarding him. His inmost thoughts are discussed at nightfall, in manual alphabet, by darkly gesticulating trees. Pebbles or stains or sun flecks form patterns representing in some awful way messages which he must intercept. Everything is a cipher and of everything he is the theme.” Obviously this guy is, uh, slightly more clinical, but I still think the atmosphere/tone is similar between the two.

Episode 25
Summary
We begin this episode with a Pavlov lecture about the physiological symptoms of hysteria and one of Pointsman’s poems (which he never shows to anyone). Then to the “White Visitation” chaps (Pointsman, Grunton, Throwster, Groast) rumor-mongering about their future. Things are looking bleak. Pudding might cut off funding, “Slothrop’s knocked out Dodson-Truck and the girl in one day” (p. 227), and Sir Steven’s got the P.M.’s son-in-law making embarrassing inquiries. But Pointsman is calm. Very calm. In fact, “[b]y facing squarely the extinction of his program, he has gained a great bit of Wisdom: that if there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in bureaucracy. Nothing so mystical. It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too, of course, bless their empty little heads. But survival depends on having strong enough desires - on knowing the System better than the other chap, and how to use it. It’s work, that’s all it is, and there’s no room for any extrahuman activities - they only weaken, effeminize the will: a man either indulges them, or fights to win, und so weiter” (p. 230). And then we find out that Pointman’s figured out how to play Pudding to keep his support (more on that in a bit…) as he’s figured out Treacle, Groast, and Throwster, how to use them and manipulate them to get what he wants. What a fucking devious guy!
Webley Silvernail sticks around after the meeting and imagines the lab animals putting on a beguine performance of a song called “Pavlovia” (right after this realization by Silvernail: “From overhead, from a German camera-angle, it occurs to Webley Silvernail, this lab here is also a maze...but who watches from above, who notes their reponses?” (p. 229)). And it’s all song and dance for a bit but since it’s Pynchon, it’s followed by an incredible poignant/tragic moment of clarity: “They have had their moment of freedom. Webley has only been a guest start. Now it’s back to the cages and the rationalized forms of death-death in the service of the one species cursed with the knowledge that it will die…. “I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn’t free out here. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. I can’t even give you hope that it will be different someday - that They’ll come out, and forget death, and lose Their technology’s elaborate terror, and stop using every other form of life without mercy to keep what haunts men down to a tolerable level - and be like you instead, simply here, simply alive….” The guest star retires down the corridors” (p. 230). What a soliloquy. [Tangent: almost 50 years later, how prescient is this passage?! This little monologue filled me with so many conflicting emotions: hope (because humans like Pynchon exist to dream this stuff up) and also dread because this paragraph describes a fundamental aspect and egregious flaw (or flaws) in human nature. Reading and re-reading this passage depresses me a little (hence my question about mental health below).
Now Pudding is sneaking about the bowels of “The White Visitation”. He heads past the cells of loonies on his way to a secret rendezvous. It seems like Pointsman may have drugged him at some point to get at hidden desires. We watch as our dear old Brigadier putters from room-to-room, finding items left for him by Pointsman that mock him and describe his descent into a personal hell (for info on the symbolism, the Weisenburger book is quite helpful).
In the final room, Pudding drops to his knees at the feet of his Domina Nocturna (with “her blond hair...tucked and pinned beneath a thick black wig”... “naked except for a long sable cape and black boots with court heels” (p. 233)). Pudding is thinking of the night they first met. He saw “her” “...through the periscope, underneath a star shell that hung in the sky, he saw her….and though he was hidden, she saw Pudding. Her face was pale, she was dressed all in black, she stood in No-man’s Land, the machine guns raked their patterns all around her, but she needed no protection. “They knew you, Mistress. They were your own.
And so were you” (p. 233).
And then he offers her a “nice” memory of a legion of Franco’s troops killing and getting killed at a massacre at Badajoz for which he is “rewarded” with her beating and then pissing and shitting in his mouth… … … …
However off-putting this may be for some (most), it does something for Pudding. He needs pain. “They have stuffed paper illusions and military euphemisms between him and this truth, this rare decency, this moment at her scrupulous feet….no it’s not guilt here, not so much as amazement - that he could have listened to so many years of ministers, scientists, doctors each with his specialized lies to tell, when she was here all the time, sure in her ownership of his failing body, his true body: undisguised by uniform, uncluttered by drugs to keep from him her communiqués of vertigo, nausea and pain. Above all, pain. The clearest poetry, the endearment of greatest worth…” (p. 234-235).
Munching down on a hot turd makes Pudding think of the horrible smells of his service during WWI: putrid mud, rot, death, “...the sovereign smell of their first meeting, and her emblem” (p. 235). After eating her shit, he jerks off (his release), in a style that Domina Nocturna has learned from watching Captain Blicero and Gottfriend (at this point, it is safe to say, Domina Nocturna is Katje. Will we ever be able to look at her the same?).
Pudding is then dismissed to “...a late-night cup of broth, routine papers to sign, a dose of penicillin that Pointsman has ordered him to take, to combat the effects of E. Coli” (p. 236). So thoughtful, that Pointsman...
Commentary

1. The Silvernail hallucination/phantasmagoria seems like something straight out of “The Big Lebowski” had Jodorowsky had a bit of influence over the Coen Bros. art direction. Many of the songs in this section feel “Lebowski-esque” but this one especially so to me. Maybe its the detailed choreographic notes: “They dance in flowing skeins. The rats and mice form circles, curl their tails in and out to make chrysanthemum and sunburst patterns, eventually all form into the shape of a single giant mouse, at whole eye Silvernail poses with a smile” (p. 230).
2. The Franco bit is a nice way of linking facism and death worship
3. Pudding eating Domina Nocturna’s shit really, to quote an earlier passage, gave “de wrinkles in mah brain a process!”. There is so much symbolism there! Instead of ascending to heaven, Pudding heads down to hell. We have so many dualities linked in the act: between young and old, sacred and profane, pleasure and pain, pleasure through pain, WWI and WW2, man and woman, life and death, the general as a slave, even the food transformed through Katje into waste, all linked through the act of eating shit. For a moment they are linked so intimately, so delicately. No parabolas, a circle. And, of course, there’s also the diabolical Pointsman in the background, pulling the strings and manipulating to keep Pudding in line. I remember reading this for the first time and just being shocked and confused and now reading it again and finding so much meaning. That ol’ Pynchon is a devious bastard, hiding such loaded symbolism in such an obscene encounter. The Pulitzer committee had no idea what was coming for them!

So, if you’ve reached this point, congratulations and I am sorry! Here are my discussion questions. Looking forward to future posts!
Discussion Questions Both On Topic and Tangential

1. Why is paranoia described as a “Puritan reflex” in Episode 22?
2. In Episode 23, as Slothrop peruses Katje’s extensive wardrobe, what is the significance of the line, “Aha! wait a minute, the operational scent in here is carbon tet, Jackson, and this wardrobe here’s mostly props” (p. 195)?
3. In Episode 24, what’s the significance of “the watchmen of world’s edge”? Is this an intrusion of the spirit world? Is Slothrop just hallucinating?
4. In Episode 24, when Peter Sachsa gets the blow to the temple from Schutzmann Jöche, why is his last thought, “How beautiful!” (p. 220)
5. In Episode 25, there’s a line in the part where Pudding is sneaking around: “A voice from some cell too distant for us to locate intones:...” (p. 231). Why us here? Why the change in perspective?
6. How’s this book affecting everyone’s mental health (you know, given that we’re in the end times right now)? Seriously, though, there are times when this book makes me so happy to be alive and proud of humanity and also times where it depresses the everloving shit out of me and makes me think that, as a species, we’re doomed to continue making the same mistakes, over and over again, until we end up destroying ourselves.
7. In a similar vein, do you think people as prodigiously talented and brilliant as Pynchon have any responsibility to counter the evil they see in the world? Is writing books enough or should they do more (lead, teach, etc.) to fight against the awful things they are able to see before the rest of us do?

Resources

• GR Wiki & Annotations - here
• Some Things That “Happen” (More or less) in “Gravity’s Rainbow” - here
• Larry Daw’s reading notes - here
• Weisenberger’s Book at the Internet Archive - here; Zak Smith’s book - here (gotta “rent”/ “borrow” both).
• Notes from a class on GR at Swathmore College - here
• How Pynchon Avoids Cultural Appropriation - here
• “History & Fiction: The Narrative Voices of Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” (2004) by Paul A. Bové
• “A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon’s Berlin” (2010) by Eric Bulson

MAME 0.218

It’s time for MAME 0.218, the first MAME release of 2020! We’ve added a couple of very interesting alternate versions of systems this month. One is a location test version of NMK’s GunNail, with different stage order, wider player shot patterns, a larger player hitbox, and lots of other differences from the final release. The other is The Last Apostle Puppetshow, an incredibly rare export version of Home Data’s Reikai Doushi. Also significant is a newer version Valadon Automation’s Super Bagman. There’s been enough progress made on Konami’s medal games for a number of them to be considered working, including Buttobi Striker, Dam Dam Boy, Korokoro Pensuke, Shuriken Boy and Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Capsule. Don’t expect too much in terms of gameplay though — they’re essentially gambling games for children.
There are several major computer emulation advances in this release, in completely different areas. Possibly most exciting is the ability to install and run Windows NT on the MIPS Magnum R4000 “Jazz” workstation, with working networking. With the assistance of Ash Wolf, MAME now emulates the Psion Series 5mx PDA. Psion’s EPOC32 operating system is the direct ancestor of the Symbian operating system, that powered a generation of smartphones. IDE and SCSI hard disk support for Acorn 8-bit systems has been added, the latter being one of the components of the BBC Domesday Project system. In PC emulation, Windows 3.1 is now usable with S3 ViRGE accelerated 2D video drivers. F.Ulivi has contributed microcode-level emulation of the iSBC-202 floppy controller for the Intel Intellec MDS-II system, adding 8" floppy disk support.
Of course there are plenty of other improvements and additions, including re-dumps of all the incorrectly dumped GameKing cartridges, disassemblers for PACE, WE32100 and “RipFire” 88000, better Geneve 9640 emulation, and plenty of working software list additions. You can get the source and 64-bit Windows binary packages from the download page (note that 32-bit Windows binaries and “zip-in-zip” source code are no longer supplied).

MAME Testers Bugs Fixed

• 04300: [DIP/Input] (cliffhgr.cpp) cliffhgr, cliffhnga: DIP switch values are reversed for “Short Scenes”. (italiandoh)
• 06897: [Graphics] (stfight.cpp) empcity: Red screen during scene transitions. (sasuke)
• 07336: [Sound] (intv.cpp) intv, intvoice [b17bomb]: No speech in Mattel Intellivision games. [iwilliamson]
• 07516: [Crash/Freeze] (twins.cpp) twins, twinsed2: Games lock up or reset after level 1-5. (Angelo Salese)
• 07530: [Crash/Freeze] (apollo.cpp) dn3000, dn3500, dn5500: Resetting via typing RE crashes the emulator. (Ivan Vangelista)
• 07531: [Crash/Freeze] (pong.cpp) breakout: MAME crashes with exception with -video bgfx. (Couriersud)
• 07533: [Graphics] (bnstars.cpp) bnstars1: Broken sprites and missing graphics. (cam900)
• 07534: [Timing] (apple2e.cpp) apple2ee: Time advances too quickly when using Thunderclock. (R. Belmont)
• 07554: [Graphics] (m68705prg.cpp) All machines in m68705prg.cpp no longer show LED values (default 000) when booting. (hap)

New working machines

• The Apprentice (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Big Bonus Slots (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sead Riddle, David Haywood]
• Conny PDC100 - Pocket Dream Console [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Cosmo Girl (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Dance Dance Revolution Kids (GQAN4 JAA) [iMp, MetalliC]
• Excite Sports Wireless Interactive TV Game - 48-in-1 (set 1, NTSC) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Game & Watch: Mario's Cement Factory (Table Top) [algestam]
• Jungle's Soft / Ultimate Products (HK) Ltd Zone 100 [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Lexibook / Sit Up Limited Seal 50-in-1 [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Mario Roulette [ShouTime, MetalliC, R. Belmont]
• MiWi2 7-in-1 Sports [David Shah]
• Muscle Ranking Kinniku Banzuke Spray Hitter [Darksoft, MetalliC, rtw]
• The Perfect Mate (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Psion Series 5mx [Ash Wolf, Ryan Holtz]
• Pop'n Stage EX (ver JB-A) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Sega Genesis Nomad (USA Genesis handheld) [cam900]
• Senario Deluxe TV Poker - Texas Hold'em, Blackjack & Video Poker (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Trump Grand PowerJoy (PJ001, NES based plug & play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Senario, Plug and Play, US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Zone 7-in-1 Sports (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]

New working clones

• Denjin Makai (set 1) [caius, The Dumping Union]
• Enduro Racer (YM2151, FD1089B 317-0013A) [Brian Troha, Phil Bennett, The Dumping Union]
• Excite Sports Wireless Interactive TV Game - 48-in-1 (set 2, PAL) [TeamEurope]
• Fidelity Electronics Excel 68000 Mach IV 68020 Master 2325 [hap, Berger]
• GunNail (location test) [cpsystem3, trap15]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Lyon 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Portorose 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Berlin (prototype) [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Lyon [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Vancouver [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Vancouver 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• The Last Apostle Puppetshow [Smitdogg, David Haywood, The Dumping Union]
• Match'em Up (German) [TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
• Minky Monkey (Japan) [ShouTime]
• New Cherry '96 (v3.1, B PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Cherry '96 (v3.1C, G PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Cherry '96 Special Edition (v3.55, C1 PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Fruit Bonus '96 (v3.1, A PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• PC with V20 CPU [rfka01]
• Pop'n Music 1 (ver JA-A, HDD 1.00) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Pop'n Music 1 (ver KA-A, HDD 1.01) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Saitek Mephisto London 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Saitek Mephisto TM London [hap, anonymous]
• Sega Mega Jet (Japan Mega Drive handheld) [cam900]
• Super Bagman (version 5) [Michel BLANCO]
• V.Smile Baby (Spain, with Aventuras en el Bosque de los Cien Acres) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]

Machines promoted to working

• Buttobi Striker [MetalliC, TeamEurope]
• Dam Dam Boy (on dedicated PCB) [MetalliC]
• Digital Equipment Corporation VT52 Video Display Terminal (M4) [AJR]
• Fuusen Pentai [MetalliC]
• Kattobase Power Pro Kun [MetalliC]
• Korokoro Pensuke [MetalliC]
• Lucky Girl (Wing) [Ivan Vangelista]
• MIPS Magnum R4000 (le) [Patrick Mackinlay]
• Pittanko Zaurus [MetalliC]
• Rushing Beat Shura (SNES bootleg) [dox]
• Shuriken Boy [MetalliC]
• Tsukande Toru Chicchi [MetalliC]
• Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Capsule [MetalliC]

Clones promoted to working

• Dam Dam Boy (on Tsukande Toru Chicchi PCB) [MetalliC]
• Senario / Play Vision Vs Maxx Texas Hold'em TV Poker - 6 Player Edition (UK) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Senario Vs Maxx Texas Hold'em TV Poker - 6 Player Edition (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Toki (Modular System) [Angelo Salese]

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

• Advance Bright Ltd 4 Player System - 10 in 1 [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Advance Bright Ltd / V-Tac Technology Co Ltd. Wireless Tennis (WT2000, ABL TV Game) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• AT&T 3B2/300 [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 3B2/600 [Seth Morabito]
• AT&T 610 Business Communication Terminal [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 730X [Bitsavers]
• Bandai Design Master Denshi Mangajuku [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• Bandai Karaoke Ranking Party (Japan) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• Challenge Girl (Falcon bootleg) [ShouTime]
• Diana Elite [Juan Romero, ClawGrip]
• Digital Equipment Corporation VT62 DECscope [balrog, Lord Nightmare]
• Dinoking Battle [SpinalFeyd, Porchy]
• Dinoking Kids [SpinalFeyd, Porchy]
• Dragon Dance (V1.02J) [ShouTime]
• Eldorado (4.2) [English Amiga Board]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD Excite Bowling (Japan) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD Excite Stadium DX (Japan) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, ShouTime]
• Excalibur Electronics Inc Carl Edwards' Chase For Glory [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• Flashman [PinMAME]
• Generations (Retro-Bit) [Porchy]
• Hamy System WiWi 18-in-1 Sports Game [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Intec InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games & 42 Songs (G5410) [TeamEurope]
• JAKKS Pacific Inc / Toymax Telestory [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• JAKKS Pacific Inc DC Super Heroes The Watchtower Hero Portal [Sean Riddle]
• Jungle Soft / Ultimate Products (HK) Ltd Zone 32-bit Gaming Console System (Family Sport 41-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Knock Down 2001 (Japan, KD11 Ver. B) [Porchy, SpinalFeyd]
• Laser Quiz Greece [English Amiga Board]
• LeapFrog Little Touch LeapPad [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• Lear Siegler ADM 12 Video Display Terminal [Bitsavers]
• Let's Play! Game Machine 240 in 1 [TeamEurope]
• Lexibook Compact Cyber Arcade - 250-in-1 (JL2375) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Lexibook Compact Cyber Arcade - Frozen [TeamEurope]
• Majesco Golden Nugget Casino [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• Marcel van Kervinck Gigatron TTL Microcomputer [Sterophonick, AJR]
• Mirage World (satellite) [WX JF]
• Mostek AID-80F Development System [Maggi9295]
• My Wico Deluxe (Family Sport 85-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• National Semiconductor unknown INS8900 Multibus card (980305652) [Bitsavers]
• Network Computing Devices NCD19c [Don Maslin Archive]
• Novag Supremo [hap, Berger]
• Odeon Twister (v1.4) [English Amiga Board]
• Plug and Play Sudoku (VT based?) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Publications International Ltd Story Reader [ClawGrip]
• Publications International Ltd Story Reader 2.0 [ClawGrip]
• Retro FC Plus 168 in 1 Handheld [PeterVanSilie]
• Scorpion (Jun 15, 1999) [ClawGrip, Rampa]
• Senario / All in 1 Products Ltd Ultimate Sudoku TV Edition 3-in-1 [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Simba / V-Tac Technology Co Ltd. TV Sports 10-in-1 / Decathlon Atlhetic Sport Games [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Smart Planet Sudoku Plug & Play TV Game '6 Intelligent Games' [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom 500 (JAKKS Pacific TV Motion Game) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• TaiKee Mini Arcade Games Console (Family Sport 220-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Takara / SSD Company LTD Jara-Ja Land (Japan, home version) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, ShouTime]
• TeleVideo Systems TeleVideo 924 Video Display Terminal [Bitsavers]
• Texas Reels (Ver. 2.00) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Tomy / SSD Company LTD Tomica Carnavi Drive (Japan) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• TV Virtual Fighter / Free Fight Kung Fu (Conny / Big Ben) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• unknown Namco System 10 medal game (MTL1 SPR0B) [SpinalFeyd TeamEurope]
• War III Cherry Best [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Wow Wireless Gaming [TeamEurope, David Haywood]

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

• 286 motherboards with 6-chip SUNTAC chipset [rfka01]
• 3SIUD-1.1 [rfka01]
• 486 motherboards using the SiS 85C496/85C497 chipset [rfka01]
• 486 motherboards using the UNI4800 chipset [rfka01]
• 486IG-B-2-1 [rfka01]
• A-Trend ATC-1415 [rfka01]
• A-Trend ATC-1425A [rfka01]
• Abit AB-PM4 [rfka01]
• Abit AB-PV4 [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-III [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-II [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-IV [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager PCI-II [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB-II [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB-III [rfka01]
• Aopen AP43 [rfka01]
• Aopen VI15G [rfka01]
• AT&T 3B2/310 [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 3B2/400 [Bitsavers]
• Atari ABC-286/30 [rfka01]
• Atari PC4 [rfka01]
• Atari PC5 [rfka01]
• Biostar MB-1433UIV [rfka01]
• Chaintech 486SPM [rfka01]
• Chicony CH-486-33C [rfka01]
• Datavan Book-Size LAN station [rfka01]
• Driving Force (Galaxian conversion, Seatongrove UK, E-0237) [Juan Romero, ClawGrip]
• Edom 486VL3H [rfka01]
• Edom MV035F [rfka01]
• EFA 486 APIO [rfka01]
• EFA 4DMS HL3G-L4-VI [rfka01]
• EFA 4DMU HL3S [rfka01]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD / Sonokong Real Ping Pong (Korea) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• ExpertChip EXP4044 [rfka01]
• Fantasy Story (set 2) [ShouTime]
• Fighting Fantasy (Modular System) [ArcadeHacker, Recreativas.org, ClawGrip]
• Highscreen Colani Blue Note [rfka01]
• Klax (version 5, bootleg set 3) [f205v]
• The Lord Of The Rings (3.00) [PinMAME]
• Mintek BAY-1000C V1.01 [rfka01]
• MSI MS-4134 [rfka01]
• MSI MS-4145 [rfka01]
• Multitech Microprofessor II [Marc CAPDEVILLE]
• New Fruit Machine (Ming-Yang Electronic, vFB02-01A) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Octek Jaguar II [rfka01]
• Profex PC 33 [rfka01]
• Quizard 3 (v3.4, German, i8751 DE 132 A1) [TeamEurope]
• Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.2, Czech, i8751 TS142 CZ1) [Caps0ff, TeamEurope]
• Scorpion (Oct 01, 1997) [ClawGrip, Rampa]
• Seibu Cup Soccer :Selection: (bootleg, set 4) [f205v]
• Siemens-Nixdorf PCD-3Nsl Notebook Computer [rfka01]
• SOYO 025R2 [rfka01]
• SOYO 30H [rfka01]
• Takara / SSD Company LTD / newgent e-kara (Spain, includes 3 songs) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• TD-4IP-UMC-AIO [rfka01]
• VS Computer Mahjong [ShouTime]
• Wild Cat 3 (CMV4 hardware) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• ZIDA 4DVS [rfka01]

New working software list additions

• apple2_flop_clcracked:
  • Air Navigation Trainer (cleanly cracked), Barron's Computer SAT Study Program (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), The Boy Jesus (cleanly cracked), Diascriptive Reading I (cleanly cracked), Green Globs and Graphing Equations (cleanly cracked), In Search of the Most Amazing Thing (First Revision) (cleanly cracked), Instant Recall (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), Magic Mailer (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), MicroChess (Version 2.0) (cleanly cracked), Mind Over Minors (cleanly cracked), The Spy's Adventures in North America (Version 1987-10-31) (cleanly cracked), Temple of Apshai (cleanly cracked), What's My Logic? (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), Wiziprint (Version 2.01) (cleanly cracked) [4am, Firehawke]
  • Adventure Creator (cleanly cracked), Construct-A-Word II (cleanly cracked), Life Science (cleanly cracked), MIDI/4 (Revision 5) (cleanly cracked), The Quarter Mile (Version 4.0) (800K 3.5") (cleanly cracked) [4am, san, Firehawke]
• apple2_flop_orig: The Abyssal Zone, Adventure, Adventure Construction Set, Alien Typhoon, The Alpine Encounter, Amazon, Amnesia, The Ancient Art of War, Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, The Bard's Tale, Borg, The Breckenridge Caper of 1798, Chess (Odesta) (Version 7.0), Crown of Arthain, Cuban Fantasy, The Dark Heart of Uukrul, Dave Winfield's Batter Up!, Diamond Mine, Dinosaur Days Plus!, Drug Alert!, Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 1), Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 2), Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 3), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 1), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 2), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 3), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 4), Earth Orbit Stations, Ecology Simulations II, Galactic Attack, Gears, Gold Rush! (Version 1.0M), Green Globs and Graphing Equations, Horizon V, The Hunt for Red October, In Search of the Most Amazing Thing, Interpreting Graphs, Into The Eagle's Nest, Journey (version 16), King's Bounty, Koronis Rift, Lords of Karma, Neuromancer, New World, Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It (Release 19 / 870722), Now You See It, Now You Don't - Was it there? Was it missing?, Portal, Quest for the Scarlet Letter, Questprobe featuring The Hulk (Version 2.3/127), Rambo: First Blood Part II, Shogun, Southern Command, Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter, Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator, SwordThrust, Tangled Tales, Thrilogy, Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds (Version PV3S2V1/10-MAR-82), Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Version 2.1), Wiziprint (Version 2.1), Xyphus, Zork Zero [4am, Firehawke]
• bbc_rom: Acorn ADFS 1.33 (IDE), Acorn ADFS 1.53 (IDE), Acorn ADFS 1.57 (MMC), Harston ADFS 6.00, Harston ADFS 6.10, RetroClinic RamFS 1.00, RetroClinic RamFS 1.04 [Nigel Barnes]
• bbcb_flop: AMX Stop Press, BBC-Z88 Transfer Link, Beeb OPL: AdLib Christmas Carols, Beeb OPL: AdLib Classical Favourites #1, Beeb OPL: AdLib Jukebox, Beeb OPL: AdLib Jukebox Bonus Disc, Beeb OPL: AdLib Pop/Rock Grooves, Beeb OPL: Brix, Beeb OPL: Droplay, Beeb OPL: DynaBlaster, Beeb OPL: Jill of the Jungle, Beeb OPL: KiloBlaster, Beeb OPL: Solar Winds, Beeb OPL: Wacky Wheels, Beeb OPL: Xargon, Beeb OPL: Zone 66, BeebSID 19 - Classical, Chauffeur, Christmas Crackers, Enigma, EV1 Camera Interface, Harston ADFS System Disk 6.10, Icon Art Master, The Krystal Connection, MagScan - The Beebug Bibliography Disc v1.31, MEDL Tracker Ball Utilities, Mountain Panic, MR4200 32K RAM Board, Paranoid, UTILRAM: The Utility RAM, Video Camera Interface, VideoNuLA Support Disc, The Wapping Editor Utilities 1.21, The Wapping Editor Utilities 1.30, White Light, Zap! [Nigel Barnes]
• c64_cass:
  • BMX Racers (set 4, Visiload loaders), The CF Power Pack Tape 5, Hero of the Golden Talisman, Match Point (set 2), Mermaid Madness, On Court Tennis, On Field Football, Outlaws, Rad Ramp Racer, Run the Gauntlet, Short Circuit, Skate Rock Simulator, Space Hunter, Spellbound, Sweep, Talladega, Yogi's Great Escape (set 2) [FakeShemp]
  • Hole In One [FakeShemp, c64tapes.org]
• fmtowns_cd:
  • Emit Vol. 3 - Watashi ni Sayonara o, The New Zealand Story (HMA-213) [redump.org, r09]
  • Shooting Towns [rockleevk, r09]
• gameking: 4 in 1 - SeaGuard + Whirlybird + Spectask + Captain (set 2), 4 in 1 - Three Battles + Light Sword + Risker + Metal Deform (1MB cartridge), 4 in 1 Vol. 10 - Soldier + Seatercel + General + Seafight (1MB cartridge), [TeamEurope, SSJ]
• gmaster: Finite Zone [SSJ, Maxime Cohin, PeT]
• ibm5150:
  • UCSD p-System [Davide Cavalca]
  • Apogee Software Bonus Disk (Jumpman Lives!, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons) [Justin Kerk]
• ibm5170: Goal!, Street Fighter II [ArcadeShadow]
• jupace_cass: Forth Surround, Superchess II [Robbbert]
• jupace_snap: Casse Briques, Champs De Mines, Millipede, Pacman, Valkyr [Robbbert]
• megadriv: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (World, prototype 19920821), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (World, prototype 19920914) [drx, FakeShemp]
• n64: 007 - The World Is Not Enough (prototype, version 21) [Paulweeze71, FakeShemp]
• snes:
  • Missile Command (prototype 19970210) [Baker64, FakeShemp]
  • Earthworm Jim (USA, prototype 19940819) [Radar, FakeShemp]
  • Arcana (USA, prototype), Super Nova (prototype) [Togemet2, FakeShemp]
• svision: Cross High (Euro, USA) [anonymous]

Software list items promoted to working

• gameking: 4 in 1 - AirWar + DeadShot + Challenge + Speedboat, 4 in 1 - CS-I + Soldier + Sea War + Thunderbird, 4 in 1 - Elfin + Chariot + Searcher + Peace Havass, 4 in 1 - Farer + Sortie + PhantomFighter + SeaBed War, 4 in 1 - Manhunt + Bobby + Tantivy + Racing Car, 4 in 1 - Nagual + Revenger + Terminator + Black Jack, 4 in 1 - Nobody + Bad Boy + Air Wrestle + MotherLove, 4 in 1 - TrojanLegend (Trojan) + HappyBall + Supermotor (Motor) + Lanneret (Hawk), 4 in 1 - Warrior + Cleverhawk + Valiant + MetalDeform (1MB cartridge), 4 in 1 Vol. 9 - Duckman + Ares + HappyKiller + Cycloneact [TeamEurope, SSJ]
• jupace_cass: 3D Maze, Ace Avoider, Ace Invaders (Forth Dimension), Ace Invaders (Hi-Tech Microsoft), Ace Manual Code Examples - Chapter 11 (mice), Ace Mines, Ace Star, Acevaders, Adventure A - Planet of Death, Alien Defender, Amazing Maze, Astrian Descent (Prototype), Atic Raid, Black Island Adventure, Bomber, Breakout, Callisto, Cavern Attack, Centipede, Chase, Chess, Dodge the Munch (Prototype), Duckshoot, Firebird, Frogger (Boldfield Computing), Fungle Monsters (Prototype), Gobbledegook, Green X Frog, Guessing Game, Krazy Kong (Prototype), Light Racer (Prototype), Memory Stars, Meteor, Meteor Racer, Meteors (Prototype), Micro Maze, Minefield, Othello, Owler, Quick-Draw (Prototype), Quick-Draw Practice (Prototype), Robohench (Prototype), Robohunt (Prototype), Sallors' Hornpipe, Sam and the Time Bombs (Prototype), SokoACE, SokoACE Map Editor, Space Battle, Star Trek, Sudoku, Tank Battle (Prototype), Tetris, Towers of Hanoi, Turbo (Prototype), Zapem, Zombies and Potholes [Robbbert]

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

• a800_cass: Serpentine, Zaxxon (set 1), Zaxxon (set 2) [AtariMania, FakeShemp]
• bbc_rom: Advanced Ram Operating System 1.00, Digistore Streamer 0.05, Digistore Streamer 0.07, Digistore Streamer 0.09, EPROM 1.03, RAMagic! 2.0B, RAMagic! 2.1M, Smart SPI, Turbo MMC 0.A3, UPURS 3.0R, UPURS 3.1R, UPURS 3.2R, UPURS 3.3R, UPURS 4.0R, UPURS 4.1R, UPURS 5.0R, UPURS 5.1R [Nigel Barnes]
• bdesignm_design_cart: Dragon Ball Z (design), Super Street Fighter 2 (design) [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• bdesignm_game_cart: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SS Illustration Club (game), Dragon Ball Z Taisen-gata Search Battle (game) [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• bkrankp_cart: J-Pop Rose, Vocaloid [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• casloopy: Little Romance, Video Seal Wordprocessor [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• gmaster: Space Warrior [SSJ, Maxime Cohin, PeT]
• iqunlim_cart: Englisch für Anfänger [TeamEurope]
• pi_storyreader_cart: Toy Story 2 [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• pi_storyreader_v2_cart: Toy Story 2 [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• sega_beena_cart: Kazoku Minna no Nouryoku Trainer, Meet Bub-Bub to Eigo Tanken, Oshare Majo Love and Berry-Cute ni Oshare, Oshare ni Henshin HeartCatch PreCure!, Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! Chinou Ikusei Pokémon Daiundoukai [TeamEurope]
• telestory_cart: La Cenicienta - Bellezas en Flor / Cinderella - Beauties in Bloom (Spain), El Rey León II - El orgullo de Simba / The Lion King II - Simba's Pride (Spain), Winnie the Pooh - Salta, Tigger, Salta / Winnie the Pooh - Bounce, Tigger, Bounce (Spain) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• vbaby_cart: El Jardín de los Sueños... (Spain) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]

Source Changes

• bus/ss50/dc5.cpp: Added configuration option to force ready when motor is enabled. [68bit]
  
  • Allows SWTBUG to boot without patching the ROM to ignore the ready status.
• formats/ap2_dsk.cpp: Don’t use symbolic names in the options specification, as the values are used as preprocessor tokens. [68bit]
  
• cpu/t11: Changed disassembler and register display to use octal number format, and fixed disassembly of SOB instruction. [AJR]
  
• cpu/v60: Sign-extend displacements for various addressing modes and DB/TB instructions. [AJR, Tahg]
  
• Added disassembler and preliminary emulation for National Semiconductor PACE CPU architecture. [AJR]
  
• Added disassembler AT&T WE32100 CPU architecture. [AJR]
  
• rendebgfx: Fixed incorrect swapping of red and blue components of screen tint. [AJR]
  
• machine/mc68901.cpp: Re-wrote USART emulation. [AJR]
  
  • Added support for 16× clock pre-scaler and data transition synchronization.
  • Implemented break generation and detection, internal loop-back, and synchronous mode.
  • Adjusted clocks in harriet.cpp and machine/x68k_kbd.cpp to to match MFP-generated Baud rates.
  • Serial terminal for tti (tti.cpp) actually works now.
• indiana.cpp: Replaced ASCII keyboard with AT-style keyboard (doesn’t completely work). [AJR]
  
  • Also documented some clocks and interrupts.
• vt100.cpp: Merged video emulation with DEC Rainbow, implementing AVO attributes. [AJR]
  
• cpu/rx01: Added disassembler and preliminary CPU device for DEC RX01 custom firmware architecture. [AJR]
  
• cpu/vt50: Implemented character drawing, and added notes about processor architecture. [AJR]
  
• input_sdl.cpp: Process control characters so the natural keyboard can see them (SDL normally strips these out). [AJR]
  
• natkeyboard.cpp: Don’t strip linefeed characters (Ctrl-J) from natural keyboard input except when pasting strings. [AJR]
  
• tv912.cpp.cpp input updates: [AJR]
  
  • Improved natural keyboard bindings for backspace and forward delete on tv912b.
  • Made Ctrl-K and Ctrl-L work with natural keyboard on tv912b tv912c.
• Add preliminary DEC VT61/VT62 microcode disassembler and skeleton CPU device. [AJR]
  
• s2650: Changed to big-endian. [AJR]
  
• gigatron.cpp: Hooked up ROM and skeleton CPU device. [AJR]
  
• cpu/gigatron: Added disassembler. [AJR]
  
• unidasm: Handle word endianness for address-shifted architectures correctly and safely. [AJR]
  
• Added disassemblers for Motorola MC88100 and MC88110 RISC CPUs. [AJR]
  
• alpha68k.cpp: Improved dash event timings for Gold Medalist, relaxing gameplay qualification requirements. [Angelo Salese]
  
• toki_ms.cpp: Added some meat, confirming it’s similar to tokib. [Angelo Salese]
  
• twins.cpp updates: [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Refactored driver code and split into multiple state classes.
  • Added default non-volatile RAM contents for all games.
  • Worked around crash after stages 1-5 in twins and twinsed2.
• psion5.cpp: Added Psion Series 5mx personal digital assistant driver. [Ash Wolf, Ryan Holtz]
  
  • Added logging for system-on-a-chip peripheral accesses based on WindEmu.
  • Added support for timers, keyboard, touch screen and buzzeticker.
  • Implemented HALT register, improving performance.
• bus/isa/s3virge.cpp: Started implementing bit-blit operations, making Windows 3.1 usable with ViRGE drivers. [Barry Rodewald]
  
• pgm.cpp: Corrected ROM region widths, corrected sprite pixel extraction algorithm, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
• taitogn.cpp: Reduced redundant code by refactoring to share base class with Capcom ZN2. [cam900]
  
• c6280.cpp: Updated to more closely emulate behavior described in manual, cleaned up code, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• machine/vrender0.cpp: Improved sound emulation, updated notes, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
  • Fixed sample start position, partially implemented envelopes and interrupts, and made wave memory access use an address map.
  • Improved sample rate calculation and support for dynamic sample rate changes.
• fmtowns.cpp: Updated notes on sound chips used. [cam900]
  
• model2.cpp: Changed manufacturer for Dead or Alive to the developer Tecmo. [cam900]
  
• system1.cpp: Fixed Sega System 1 color handling, improved ROM region names, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
  • Converted PROM-based palette handling to use indirect entries, fixed bitmap clear behavior, and reduced runtime tag map lookups.
• sound/2612intf.cpp: Added YMF276 variant, and fixed output resolution. [cam900]
  
• sound/fm2612.cpp: Added support for different output resolutions. [cam900]
  
• megadriv.cpp: Added handheld variants, and added machine configuration for variants with YM3438 integrated in ASIC. [cam900]
  
• kaneko_spr.cpp: Fixed priorities when sprite persistence is enabled, and split sprite drawing from mixing. [cam900]
  
• kaneko16.cpp: Fixed sprite delay, corrected explbrkr sound ROM banking, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• sound/huc6230.cpp: Fixed ADPCM playback rate, reduced ADPCM volume, cleaned up code, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• sound/huc6272.cpp: Fixed ADPCM playback rate and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• Netlist library updates: [Couriersud]
  
  • Added netlist library version number to code, and used it to invalidate save states if library version changes.
  • Ensure diodes step by enough to alter the matrix.
  • Increased time resolution to 100 picoseconds and improved synchronization with MAME icount.
  • Added CD4006, CD4070 and TL084 devices.
  • Added proxy support for clock.
• video/fixfreq.cpp: Added adjusters to aid in development and debugging. [Couriersud]
  
• netlist: Worked around MSVC bug in expansion of variadic macro arguments. [Couriersud, Firewave]
  
• atarittl.cpp: Hooked up fixed-frequency monitor for stuntcyc. [Couriersud]
  
• galaxian.cpp: Converted Konami audio filters to use netlist. [Couriersud]
  
• segas16b.cpp: Added analog audio filters to systems with YM2151 and µPD7759. [Couriersud]
  
• sunplus_gcm394.cpp updates: [David Haywood]
  
  • Show startup screens and respond to inputs in jak_gtg and jak_car2.
  • Fixed jak_car2 bitmap test display in service mode.
• xavix.cpp: Converted to direct RGB video output to allow support mid-screen palette changes. [David Haywood]
  
• pockchalw.xml: Changed chukkesr to use correct dump (previously used a duplicate from a different set). [David Haywood]
  
• vii.cpp: Added hacks to zon32bit and mywicodx to select correct banks for all games. [David Haywood]
  
• Split up the unwieldy vii.cpp into multiple source files. [David Haywood]
  
• plugins/hiscore: Made read_config function more robust. [eadmaster]
  
• imds2.cpp: Added Multibus slot and implemented iSBC-202 floppy controller card. [F.Ulivi]
  
• luaengine: Added read_range function to addr_space, allowing scripts to directly read blocks of data. [feos]
  
• Fixed crash when using -aviwrite or -mngwrite with system that lack screens. [Firewave, hap]
  
• atarisy1.cpp: Don’t generate interrupt 3 on systems that don’t support it. [GadgetFreak]
  
• mephisto_modular.cpp: Added Bavaria piece recognition chessboard. [hap]
  
• video/psx.cpp: Changed NTSC refresh rates to 59.82 Hz for 240-line mode and 59.94 Hz for 480-line mode. [hoholee12]
  
  • Works around synchronization issues in beatmania IIDX games.
• gaelco2.cpp: Restored perfect quantum device configuration that was omitted from some machines after refactoring. [mc68k]
  
• machine/s3520cf.cpp: Improved emulation, and added RTC-4553 variant. [MetalliC]
  
• cpu/sh: Implemented SH-3 INTEVT register. [MetalliC]
  
• konmedal.cpp updates: [MetalliC]
  
  • Added hopper, non-volatile RAM and timing/interrupt controller.
  • Decoded graphics tiles for GX-based games and added per-game palette offsets.
  • Added µPD7759 sound output.
  • Added hack to fix mariourou scrolling, and documented observed row/column scroll issues for K052109 tilemaps.
• geneve.cpp: Implemented lower-level emulation of the Geneve architecture (Gate Array, PAL and Genmod daughterboard). [Michael Zapf]
  
  • Also added RESET line to I/O port and peripheral box, and made Genmod card modifications a configuration option.
• ti99_2.cpp, ti99_8.cpp: Improved Hexbus handling, and fixed instability when loading from/saving to Hexbus floppies. [Michael Zapf]
  
• ti99: Block invalid accesses to VDP like writing on read address – fixes Ambulance game. [Michael Zapf]
  
• rended3d: Allow -attach_window to work with non-root windows. [Nathan Woods]
  
• formats/acorn_dsk.cpp: Added support for HADFS floppy images. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• bus/bbc/1mhzbus updates: [Nigel Barnes]
  
  • Added BeebOPL FM Synthesiser.
  • Added Sprow BeebIDE 16-bit and RetroClinic BBC 8-bit IDE interfaces.
  • Added Acorn Winchester Disc.
• bbc.cpp: Added bbcm FinMOS 3.29 BIOS option (pre-release of MOS 3.50). [Nigel Barnes]
  
• bbc.cpp: Added bbcmaiv internal modem port, with Acorn AIV SCSI Host Adaptor card device. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• video/ims_cvc.cpp: Implemented cursor, simplified handlers, and reduced logging noise. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• cpu/mips/r4000.cpp: Fixed bad virtual address for [ls][dw][lr] exceptions, and fixed CP0 status on soft reset. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
  • Also improved logging and cleaned up code.
• machine/dp83932c.cpp: Implemented networking. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• jazz.cpp: Implemented soft reset, and hooked up sonic DMA. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• machine/mct_adr.cpp: Added crude sonic DMA bus master support, and fixed reset handling. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• cpu/v60: Fixed XOR instruction to not alter the carry flag, and improved debugger flags display. [R. Belmont, Tahg]
  
• konmedal.cpp: Improved colors for shuriboy, fuusenpn and mariorou. [R. Belmont]
  
• konendev.cpp: Hooked up correct real-time clock, and hooked up DPRAM. [R. Belmont, Heihachi_73]
  
• machine/spg2xx.cpp: Fixed a subtle interrupt bug that prevented clikstrt from booting. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/v60: Fixed carry flag handling for AND, OR and NEG instructions. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7: Added ARM710T variant. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• plugins/cheat: Ignore leading colon on tags, as all tags must be absolute in cheats (GitHub #6114). [Ryan Holtz, DjDiabolik]
  
• romload: Increased width of total ROM size members to 64 bits (fixes loading percentage display for hapyfsh2). [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7/arm7.cpp, machine/s3c2400.cpp, machine/s3c2410.cpp, machine/s3c2440.cpp: Converted logging to use logmacro.h. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• hapyfish.cpp: Added preliminary FS8806 I²C hookup, and expanded notes. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7: Added support for printing hapyfsh2 diagnostic messages. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• ut88.cpp, v6809.cpp: Removed use of deprecated machine configuration macros. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• naomi.cpp: Added preliminary 315-6154 system manager chip device used in DIMM board. [Samuele Zannoli]
  
• hapyfish.cpp: Added preliminary inputs. [Tahg, Ryan Holtz]
  
• apple2_flop_clcracked.xml: Replaced Music Construction Set (cleanly cracked) dump to fix damaged sector. [4am, Firehawke]
  
• apple2_flop_clcracked.xml: Corrected several titles. [Anoid]
  
• mephisto_modena.cpp: Added an older version of modena as a BIOS option. [Berger]
  
• mephisto_montec.cpp: Added another megaiv version as a BIOS option. [Berger]
  
• vsmile.cpp: Removed regional V.Smile variants and turned alternate ROMs into BIOS options with version numbers. [bmx]
  
• igs011.cpp: Added DIP switch locations to the Virtua Bowling sets. [Brian Troha]
  
• splash.cpp: Added DIP switch locations to Funny Strip. [Brian Troha]
  
• cdi.cpp: Decapped and dumped an i8751 microcontroller for German-language Quizard 2 sets. [Caps0ff, TeamEurope]
  
• Added MicroTouch touch screen controller ROM dumps (not hooked up). [ClawGrip, Kevin Eshbach, ArcadeHacker]
  
• ninjakd2.cpp: Re-dumped the ROMs for jt104 and corrected labels. [coolmod, The Dumping Union]
  
• snes.xml: Re-dumped Mr Tuff. [drx, FakeShemp]
  
• snes.xml: Documented Earthworm Jim - GamesMaster Special Edition PCB. [FakeShemp]
  
• megadriv.cpp Added Mega-CD Japan BIOS version 1.11. [Fredrik Nyqvist]
  
• namcona1.cpp: Updated chip types and ROM locations. [hammy]
  
• ddragon.cpp: Updated notes. [Jose Tejada]
  
• gunsmoke.cpp: Removed watchdog that isn’t present in hardware, corrected frequencies, and updated notes. [Jose Tejada]
  
• cpu/rx01: Dumped firmware PROMs. [Lord Nightmare]
  
• fmtowns_cd.xml: Changed aburner, aburner3 and lastsurv to used dumps with proper track indexes and offset correction. [redump.org, r09]
  
• at.cpp: Updated notes and added BIOS options. [rfka01]
  
  • atturbo: Added cl286 BIOS option.
  • epsax: Added 3vim002 and zz1343 BIOS options.
  • ecs38632: Added 092588 BIOS option.
  • op386wb: Added d41107 BIOS option.
  • 386sc2c: Added s1b BIOS option.
  • at486: Added 486upio, acer48622, 4alo001, 4alp001, zz1130, optimus, umc486a, a9c11f1f and 109k BIOS options.
  • a486sp3: Added v301, v10101, v10102, v205 and v305 BIOS options.
  • so4saw2: Added iob1, 0730, wa53, wa3, 0911 and 0911b BIOS options.
  • ls486e: Added ls486eb BIOS option.
  • pkm0038s: Added p20302 and p2020 BIOS options.
  • um8498f: Added v14 and um849801 BIOS options.
  • mb8433uud: Added 8881d and 08a BIOS options.
  • mb1433ucv: Added ucvg BIOS option.
• genpc.cpp: Added arc123 and pac BIOS options to PC, and updated notes. [rfka01]
  
• xavix.cpp: Dumped internal ROM for Gachinko Contest! Slot machine TV (Japan). [Sean Riddle]
  
• atetris.cpp: Added UM3482 internal ROM data to atetb3482. [Sean Riddle]
  
• o2.cpp: Add added ip32prom_4_3 BIOS option to o2 (IP32 PROM V4.3). [Sean Riddle, Rampa, ClawGrip]
  
• fmtowns_cd.xml: Added the missing floppy disk dump for Fujitsu Habitat V2.1L10 [StuBlad, r09]
  
• vgmplay.xml: Updated seven items to match the latest vgmrips release. [Tafoid]
  
  • Updated chelnov, fortzone_gb, fray_msx2, illcity_msxr, raiden, spirou_gb and sml2_gb.
• konmedal.cpp: Dumped color PROMs for buttobi. [TeamEurope, The Dumping Union]
  
• gameking.xml: Re-dumped all bad dumps (mc_4v01, mc_4v04, mc_4v07, mc_4v09, mc_4v14, mc_4v15, mc_4v16, mc_4v17, mc_4v18, mc_4v19a). [TeamEurope, SSJ]
  
• ms32.cpp: Confirmed ROM labels for p47aces. [trap15]
  
• segasp.cpp: Added network firmware version 1.21. [WX JF]
  

MAME 0.218

It’s time for MAME 0.218, the first MAME release of 2020! We’ve added a couple of very interesting alternate versions of systems this month. One is a location test version of NMK’s GunNail, with different stage order, wider player shot patterns, a larger player hitbox, and lots of other differences from the final release. The other is The Last Apostle Puppetshow, an incredibly rare export version of Home Data’s Reikai Doushi. Also significant is a newer version Valadon Automation’s Super Bagman. There’s been enough progress made on Konami’s medal games for a number of them to be considered working, including Buttobi Striker, Dam Dam Boy, Korokoro Pensuke, Shuriken Boy and Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Capsule. Don’t expect too much in terms of gameplay though — they’re essentially gambling games for children.
There are several major computer emulation advances in this release, in completely different areas. Possibly most exciting is the ability to install and run Windows NT on the MIPS Magnum R4000 “Jazz” workstation, with working networking. With the assistance of Ash Wolf, MAME now emulates the Psion Series 5mx PDA. Psion’s EPOC32 operating system is the direct ancestor of the Symbian operating system, that powered a generation of smartphones. IDE and SCSI hard disk support for Acorn 8-bit systems has been added, the latter being one of the components of the BBC Domesday Project system. In PC emulation, Windows 3.1 is now usable with S3 ViRGE accelerated 2D video drivers. F.Ulivi has contributed microcode-level emulation of the iSBC-202 floppy controller for the Intel Intellec MDS-II system, adding 8" floppy disk support.
Of course there are plenty of other improvements and additions, including re-dumps of all the incorrectly dumped GameKing cartridges, disassemblers for PACE, WE32100 and “RipFire” 88000, better Geneve 9640 emulation, and plenty of working software list additions. You can get the source and 64-bit Windows binary packages from the download page (note that 32-bit Windows binaries and “zip-in-zip” source code are no longer supplied).

MAME Testers Bugs Fixed

• 04300: [DIP/Input] (cliffhgr.cpp) cliffhgr, cliffhnga: DIP switch values are reversed for “Short Scenes”. (italiandoh)
• 06897: [Graphics] (stfight.cpp) empcity: Red screen during scene transitions. (sasuke)
• 07336: [Sound] (intv.cpp) intv, intvoice [b17bomb]: No speech in Mattel Intellivision games. [iwilliamson]
• 07516: [Crash/Freeze] (twins.cpp) twins, twinsed2: Games lock up or reset after level 1-5. (Angelo Salese)
• 07530: [Crash/Freeze] (apollo.cpp) dn3000, dn3500, dn5500: Resetting via typing RE crashes the emulator. (Ivan Vangelista)
• 07531: [Crash/Freeze] (pong.cpp) breakout: MAME crashes with exception with -video bgfx. (Couriersud)
• 07533: [Graphics] (bnstars.cpp) bnstars1: Broken sprites and missing graphics. (cam900)
• 07534: [Timing] (apple2e.cpp) apple2ee: Time advances too quickly when using Thunderclock. (R. Belmont)
• 07554: [Graphics] (m68705prg.cpp) All machines in m68705prg.cpp no longer show LED values (default 000) when booting. (hap)

New working machines

• The Apprentice (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Big Bonus Slots (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sead Riddle, David Haywood]
• Conny PDC100 - Pocket Dream Console [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Cosmo Girl (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Dance Dance Revolution Kids (GQAN4 JAA) [iMp, MetalliC]
• Excite Sports Wireless Interactive TV Game - 48-in-1 (set 1, NTSC) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Game & Watch: Mario's Cement Factory (Table Top) [algestam]
• Jungle's Soft / Ultimate Products (HK) Ltd Zone 100 [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Lexibook / Sit Up Limited Seal 50-in-1 [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Mario Roulette [ShouTime, MetalliC, R. Belmont]
• MiWi2 7-in-1 Sports [David Shah]
• Muscle Ranking Kinniku Banzuke Spray Hitter [Darksoft, MetalliC, rtw]
• The Perfect Mate (Senario, Plug and Play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Psion Series 5mx [Ash Wolf, Ryan Holtz]
• Pop'n Stage EX (ver JB-A) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Sega Genesis Nomad (USA Genesis handheld) [cam900]
• Senario Deluxe TV Poker - Texas Hold'em, Blackjack & Video Poker (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Trump Grand PowerJoy (PJ001, NES based plug & play) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Senario, Plug and Play, US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Zone 7-in-1 Sports (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]

New working clones

• Denjin Makai (set 1) [caius, The Dumping Union]
• Enduro Racer (YM2151, FD1089B 317-0013A) [Brian Troha, Phil Bennett, The Dumping Union]
• Excite Sports Wireless Interactive TV Game - 48-in-1 (set 2, PAL) [TeamEurope]
• Fidelity Electronics Excel 68000 Mach IV 68020 Master 2325 [hap, Berger]
• GunNail (location test) [cpsystem3, trap15]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Lyon 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Portorose 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Berlin (prototype) [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Lyon [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto TM Vancouver [hap, anonymous]
• Hegener + Glaser Mephisto Vancouver 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• The Last Apostle Puppetshow [Smitdogg, David Haywood, The Dumping Union]
• Match'em Up (German) [TeamEurope, Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]
• Minky Monkey (Japan) [ShouTime]
• New Cherry '96 (v3.1, B PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Cherry '96 (v3.1C, G PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Cherry '96 Special Edition (v3.55, C1 PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• New Fruit Bonus '96 (v3.1, A PCB) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• PC with V20 CPU [rfka01]
• Pop'n Music 1 (ver JA-A, HDD 1.00) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Pop'n Music 1 (ver KA-A, HDD 1.01) [Jennifer Taylor]
• Saitek Mephisto London 68030 [hap, anonymous]
• Saitek Mephisto TM London [hap, anonymous]
• Sega Mega Jet (Japan Mega Drive handheld) [cam900]
• Super Bagman (version 5) [Michel BLANCO]
• V.Smile Baby (Spain, with Aventuras en el Bosque de los Cien Acres) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]

Machines promoted to working

• Buttobi Striker [MetalliC, TeamEurope]
• Dam Dam Boy (on dedicated PCB) [MetalliC]
• Digital Equipment Corporation VT52 Video Display Terminal (M4) [AJR]
• Fuusen Pentai [MetalliC]
• Kattobase Power Pro Kun [MetalliC]
• Korokoro Pensuke [MetalliC]
• Lucky Girl (Wing) [Ivan Vangelista]
• MIPS Magnum R4000 (le) [Patrick Mackinlay]
• Pittanko Zaurus [MetalliC]
• Rushing Beat Shura (SNES bootleg) [dox]
• Shuriken Boy [MetalliC]
• Tsukande Toru Chicchi [MetalliC]
• Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Capsule [MetalliC]

Clones promoted to working

• Dam Dam Boy (on Tsukande Toru Chicchi PCB) [MetalliC]
• Senario / Play Vision Vs Maxx Texas Hold'em TV Poker - 6 Player Edition (UK) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Senario Vs Maxx Texas Hold'em TV Poker - 6 Player Edition (US) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Toki (Modular System) [Angelo Salese]

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

• Advance Bright Ltd 4 Player System - 10 in 1 [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Advance Bright Ltd / V-Tac Technology Co Ltd. Wireless Tennis (WT2000, ABL TV Game) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• AT&T 3B2/300 [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 3B2/600 [Seth Morabito]
• AT&T 610 Business Communication Terminal [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 730X [Bitsavers]
• Bandai Design Master Denshi Mangajuku [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• Bandai Karaoke Ranking Party (Japan) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• Challenge Girl (Falcon bootleg) [ShouTime]
• Diana Elite [Juan Romero, ClawGrip]
• Digital Equipment Corporation VT62 DECscope [balrog, Lord Nightmare]
• Dinoking Battle [SpinalFeyd, Porchy]
• Dinoking Kids [SpinalFeyd, Porchy]
• Dragon Dance (V1.02J) [ShouTime]
• Eldorado (4.2) [English Amiga Board]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD Excite Bowling (Japan) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD Excite Stadium DX (Japan) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, ShouTime]
• Excalibur Electronics Inc Carl Edwards' Chase For Glory [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• Flashman [PinMAME]
• Generations (Retro-Bit) [Porchy]
• Hamy System WiWi 18-in-1 Sports Game [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Intec InterAct Complete Video Game - 111 Games & 42 Songs (G5410) [TeamEurope]
• JAKKS Pacific Inc / Toymax Telestory [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• JAKKS Pacific Inc DC Super Heroes The Watchtower Hero Portal [Sean Riddle]
• Jungle Soft / Ultimate Products (HK) Ltd Zone 32-bit Gaming Console System (Family Sport 41-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Knock Down 2001 (Japan, KD11 Ver. B) [Porchy, SpinalFeyd]
• Laser Quiz Greece [English Amiga Board]
• LeapFrog Little Touch LeapPad [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• Lear Siegler ADM 12 Video Display Terminal [Bitsavers]
• Let's Play! Game Machine 240 in 1 [TeamEurope]
• Lexibook Compact Cyber Arcade - 250-in-1 (JL2375) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Lexibook Compact Cyber Arcade - Frozen [TeamEurope]
• Majesco Golden Nugget Casino [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• Marcel van Kervinck Gigatron TTL Microcomputer [Sterophonick, AJR]
• Mirage World (satellite) [WX JF]
• Mostek AID-80F Development System [Maggi9295]
• My Wico Deluxe (Family Sport 85-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• National Semiconductor unknown INS8900 Multibus card (980305652) [Bitsavers]
• Network Computing Devices NCD19c [Don Maslin Archive]
• Novag Supremo [hap, Berger]
• Odeon Twister (v1.4) [English Amiga Board]
• Plug and Play Sudoku (VT based?) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Publications International Ltd Story Reader [ClawGrip]
• Publications International Ltd Story Reader 2.0 [ClawGrip]
• Retro FC Plus 168 in 1 Handheld [PeterVanSilie]
• Scorpion (Jun 15, 1999) [ClawGrip, Rampa]
• Senario / All in 1 Products Ltd Ultimate Sudoku TV Edition 3-in-1 [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• Simba / V-Tac Technology Co Ltd. TV Sports 10-in-1 / Decathlon Atlhetic Sport Games [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Smart Planet Sudoku Plug & Play TV Game '6 Intelligent Games' [Sean Riddle, GameHistory.org]
• SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom 500 (JAKKS Pacific TV Motion Game) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• TaiKee Mini Arcade Games Console (Family Sport 220-in-1) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• Takara / SSD Company LTD Jara-Ja Land (Japan, home version) [Sean Riddle, Peter Wilhelmsen, ShouTime]
• TeleVideo Systems TeleVideo 924 Video Display Terminal [Bitsavers]
• Texas Reels (Ver. 2.00) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Tomy / SSD Company LTD Tomica Carnavi Drive (Japan) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• TV Virtual Fighter / Free Fight Kung Fu (Conny / Big Ben) [TeamEurope, David Haywood]
• unknown Namco System 10 medal game (MTL1 SPR0B) [SpinalFeyd TeamEurope]
• War III Cherry Best [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Wow Wireless Gaming [TeamEurope, David Haywood]

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

• 286 motherboards with 6-chip SUNTAC chipset [rfka01]
• 3SIUD-1.1 [rfka01]
• 486 motherboards using the SiS 85C496/85C497 chipset [rfka01]
• 486 motherboards using the UNI4800 chipset [rfka01]
• 486IG-B-2-1 [rfka01]
• A-Trend ATC-1415 [rfka01]
• A-Trend ATC-1425A [rfka01]
• Abit AB-PM4 [rfka01]
• Abit AB-PV4 [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-III [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-II [rfka01]
• AMI EISA Enterprise-IV [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager PCI-II [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB-II [rfka01]
• AMI Super Voyager VLB-III [rfka01]
• Aopen AP43 [rfka01]
• Aopen VI15G [rfka01]
• AT&T 3B2/310 [Bitsavers]
• AT&T 3B2/400 [Bitsavers]
• Atari ABC-286/30 [rfka01]
• Atari PC4 [rfka01]
• Atari PC5 [rfka01]
• Biostar MB-1433UIV [rfka01]
• Chaintech 486SPM [rfka01]
• Chicony CH-486-33C [rfka01]
• Datavan Book-Size LAN station [rfka01]
• Driving Force (Galaxian conversion, Seatongrove UK, E-0237) [Juan Romero, ClawGrip]
• Edom 486VL3H [rfka01]
• Edom MV035F [rfka01]
• EFA 486 APIO [rfka01]
• EFA 4DMS HL3G-L4-VI [rfka01]
• EFA 4DMU HL3S [rfka01]
• Epoch / SSD Company LTD / Sonokong Real Ping Pong (Korea) [Sean Riddle, David Haywood]
• ExpertChip EXP4044 [rfka01]
• Fantasy Story (set 2) [ShouTime]
• Fighting Fantasy (Modular System) [ArcadeHacker, Recreativas.org, ClawGrip]
• Highscreen Colani Blue Note [rfka01]
• Klax (version 5, bootleg set 3) [f205v]
• The Lord Of The Rings (3.00) [PinMAME]
• Mintek BAY-1000C V1.01 [rfka01]
• MSI MS-4134 [rfka01]
• MSI MS-4145 [rfka01]
• Multitech Microprofessor II [Marc CAPDEVILLE]
• New Fruit Machine (Ming-Yang Electronic, vFB02-01A) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• Octek Jaguar II [rfka01]
• Profex PC 33 [rfka01]
• Quizard 3 (v3.4, German, i8751 DE 132 A1) [TeamEurope]
• Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.2, Czech, i8751 TS142 CZ1) [Caps0ff, TeamEurope]
• Scorpion (Oct 01, 1997) [ClawGrip, Rampa]
• Seibu Cup Soccer :Selection: (bootleg, set 4) [f205v]
• Siemens-Nixdorf PCD-3Nsl Notebook Computer [rfka01]
• SOYO 025R2 [rfka01]
• SOYO 30H [rfka01]
• Takara / SSD Company LTD / newgent e-kara (Spain, includes 3 songs) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• TD-4IP-UMC-AIO [rfka01]
• VS Computer Mahjong [ShouTime]
• Wild Cat 3 (CMV4 hardware) [Ioannis Bampoulas]
• ZIDA 4DVS [rfka01]

New working software list additions

• apple2_flop_clcracked:
  • Air Navigation Trainer (cleanly cracked), Barron's Computer SAT Study Program (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), The Boy Jesus (cleanly cracked), Diascriptive Reading I (cleanly cracked), Green Globs and Graphing Equations (cleanly cracked), In Search of the Most Amazing Thing (First Revision) (cleanly cracked), Instant Recall (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), Magic Mailer (Version 1.1) (cleanly cracked), MicroChess (Version 2.0) (cleanly cracked), Mind Over Minors (cleanly cracked), The Spy's Adventures in North America (Version 1987-10-31) (cleanly cracked), Temple of Apshai (cleanly cracked), What's My Logic? (Version 1.0) (cleanly cracked), Wiziprint (Version 2.01) (cleanly cracked) [4am, Firehawke]
  • Adventure Creator (cleanly cracked), Construct-A-Word II (cleanly cracked), Life Science (cleanly cracked), MIDI/4 (Revision 5) (cleanly cracked), The Quarter Mile (Version 4.0) (800K 3.5") (cleanly cracked) [4am, san, Firehawke]
• apple2_flop_orig: The Abyssal Zone, Adventure, Adventure Construction Set, Alien Typhoon, The Alpine Encounter, Amazon, Amnesia, The Ancient Art of War, Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, The Bard's Tale, Borg, The Breckenridge Caper of 1798, Chess (Odesta) (Version 7.0), Crown of Arthain, Cuban Fantasy, The Dark Heart of Uukrul, Dave Winfield's Batter Up!, Diamond Mine, Dinosaur Days Plus!, Drug Alert!, Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 1), Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 2), Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (Version 3), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 1), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 2), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 3), Dunjonquest: The Temple of Apshai (Revision 4), Earth Orbit Stations, Ecology Simulations II, Galactic Attack, Gears, Gold Rush! (Version 1.0M), Green Globs and Graphing Equations, Horizon V, The Hunt for Red October, In Search of the Most Amazing Thing, Interpreting Graphs, Into The Eagle's Nest, Journey (version 16), King's Bounty, Koronis Rift, Lords of Karma, Neuromancer, New World, Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It (Release 19 / 870722), Now You See It, Now You Don't - Was it there? Was it missing?, Portal, Quest for the Scarlet Letter, Questprobe featuring The Hulk (Version 2.3/127), Rambo: First Blood Part II, Shogun, Southern Command, Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter, Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator, SwordThrust, Tangled Tales, Thrilogy, Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds (Version PV3S2V1/10-MAR-82), Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Version 2.1), Wiziprint (Version 2.1), Xyphus, Zork Zero [4am, Firehawke]
• bbc_rom: Acorn ADFS 1.33 (IDE), Acorn ADFS 1.53 (IDE), Acorn ADFS 1.57 (MMC), Harston ADFS 6.00, Harston ADFS 6.10, RetroClinic RamFS 1.00, RetroClinic RamFS 1.04 [Nigel Barnes]
• bbcb_flop: AMX Stop Press, BBC-Z88 Transfer Link, Beeb OPL: AdLib Christmas Carols, Beeb OPL: AdLib Classical Favourites #1, Beeb OPL: AdLib Jukebox, Beeb OPL: AdLib Jukebox Bonus Disc, Beeb OPL: AdLib Pop/Rock Grooves, Beeb OPL: Brix, Beeb OPL: Droplay, Beeb OPL: DynaBlaster, Beeb OPL: Jill of the Jungle, Beeb OPL: KiloBlaster, Beeb OPL: Solar Winds, Beeb OPL: Wacky Wheels, Beeb OPL: Xargon, Beeb OPL: Zone 66, BeebSID 19 - Classical, Chauffeur, Christmas Crackers, Enigma, EV1 Camera Interface, Harston ADFS System Disk 6.10, Icon Art Master, The Krystal Connection, MagScan - The Beebug Bibliography Disc v1.31, MEDL Tracker Ball Utilities, Mountain Panic, MR4200 32K RAM Board, Paranoid, UTILRAM: The Utility RAM, Video Camera Interface, VideoNuLA Support Disc, The Wapping Editor Utilities 1.21, The Wapping Editor Utilities 1.30, White Light, Zap! [Nigel Barnes]
• c64_cass:
  • BMX Racers (set 4, Visiload loaders), The CF Power Pack Tape 5, Hero of the Golden Talisman, Match Point (set 2), Mermaid Madness, On Court Tennis, On Field Football, Outlaws, Rad Ramp Racer, Run the Gauntlet, Short Circuit, Skate Rock Simulator, Space Hunter, Spellbound, Sweep, Talladega, Yogi's Great Escape (set 2) [FakeShemp]
  • Hole In One [FakeShemp, c64tapes.org]
• fmtowns_cd:
  • Emit Vol. 3 - Watashi ni Sayonara o, The New Zealand Story (HMA-213) [redump.org, r09]
  • Shooting Towns [rockleevk, r09]
• gameking: 4 in 1 - SeaGuard + Whirlybird + Spectask + Captain (set 2), 4 in 1 - Three Battles + Light Sword + Risker + Metal Deform (1MB cartridge), 4 in 1 Vol. 10 - Soldier + Seatercel + General + Seafight (1MB cartridge), [TeamEurope, SSJ]
• gmaster: Finite Zone [SSJ, Maxime Cohin, PeT]
• ibm5150:
  • UCSD p-System [Davide Cavalca]
  • Apogee Software Bonus Disk (Jumpman Lives!, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons) [Justin Kerk]
• ibm5170: Goal!, Street Fighter II [ArcadeShadow]
• jupace_cass: Forth Surround, Superchess II [Robbbert]
• jupace_snap: Casse Briques, Champs De Mines, Millipede, Pacman, Valkyr [Robbbert]
• megadriv: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (World, prototype 19920821), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (World, prototype 19920914) [drx, FakeShemp]
• n64: 007 - The World Is Not Enough (prototype, version 21) [Paulweeze71, FakeShemp]
• snes:
  • Missile Command (prototype 19970210) [Baker64, FakeShemp]
  • Earthworm Jim (USA, prototype 19940819) [Radar, FakeShemp]
  • Arcana (USA, prototype), Super Nova (prototype) [Togemet2, FakeShemp]
• svision: Cross High (Euro, USA) [anonymous]

Software list items promoted to working

• gameking: 4 in 1 - AirWar + DeadShot + Challenge + Speedboat, 4 in 1 - CS-I + Soldier + Sea War + Thunderbird, 4 in 1 - Elfin + Chariot + Searcher + Peace Havass, 4 in 1 - Farer + Sortie + PhantomFighter + SeaBed War, 4 in 1 - Manhunt + Bobby + Tantivy + Racing Car, 4 in 1 - Nagual + Revenger + Terminator + Black Jack, 4 in 1 - Nobody + Bad Boy + Air Wrestle + MotherLove, 4 in 1 - TrojanLegend (Trojan) + HappyBall + Supermotor (Motor) + Lanneret (Hawk), 4 in 1 - Warrior + Cleverhawk + Valiant + MetalDeform (1MB cartridge), 4 in 1 Vol. 9 - Duckman + Ares + HappyKiller + Cycloneact [TeamEurope, SSJ]
• jupace_cass: 3D Maze, Ace Avoider, Ace Invaders (Forth Dimension), Ace Invaders (Hi-Tech Microsoft), Ace Manual Code Examples - Chapter 11 (mice), Ace Mines, Ace Star, Acevaders, Adventure A - Planet of Death, Alien Defender, Amazing Maze, Astrian Descent (Prototype), Atic Raid, Black Island Adventure, Bomber, Breakout, Callisto, Cavern Attack, Centipede, Chase, Chess, Dodge the Munch (Prototype), Duckshoot, Firebird, Frogger (Boldfield Computing), Fungle Monsters (Prototype), Gobbledegook, Green X Frog, Guessing Game, Krazy Kong (Prototype), Light Racer (Prototype), Memory Stars, Meteor, Meteor Racer, Meteors (Prototype), Micro Maze, Minefield, Othello, Owler, Quick-Draw (Prototype), Quick-Draw Practice (Prototype), Robohench (Prototype), Robohunt (Prototype), Sallors' Hornpipe, Sam and the Time Bombs (Prototype), SokoACE, SokoACE Map Editor, Space Battle, Star Trek, Sudoku, Tank Battle (Prototype), Tetris, Towers of Hanoi, Turbo (Prototype), Zapem, Zombies and Potholes [Robbbert]

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

• a800_cass: Serpentine, Zaxxon (set 1), Zaxxon (set 2) [AtariMania, FakeShemp]
• bbc_rom: Advanced Ram Operating System 1.00, Digistore Streamer 0.05, Digistore Streamer 0.07, Digistore Streamer 0.09, EPROM 1.03, RAMagic! 2.0B, RAMagic! 2.1M, Smart SPI, Turbo MMC 0.A3, UPURS 3.0R, UPURS 3.1R, UPURS 3.2R, UPURS 3.3R, UPURS 4.0R, UPURS 4.1R, UPURS 5.0R, UPURS 5.1R [Nigel Barnes]
• bdesignm_design_cart: Dragon Ball Z (design), Super Street Fighter 2 (design) [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• bdesignm_game_cart: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SS Illustration Club (game), Dragon Ball Z Taisen-gata Search Battle (game) [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• bkrankp_cart: J-Pop Rose, Vocaloid [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• casloopy: Little Romance, Video Seal Wordprocessor [SSJ, TeamEurope]
• gmaster: Space Warrior [SSJ, Maxime Cohin, PeT]
• iqunlim_cart: Englisch für Anfänger [TeamEurope]
• pi_storyreader_cart: Toy Story 2 [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• pi_storyreader_v2_cart: Toy Story 2 [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• sega_beena_cart: Kazoku Minna no Nouryoku Trainer, Meet Bub-Bub to Eigo Tanken, Oshare Majo Love and Berry-Cute ni Oshare, Oshare ni Henshin HeartCatch PreCure!, Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! Chinou Ikusei Pokémon Daiundoukai [TeamEurope]
• telestory_cart: La Cenicienta - Bellezas en Flor / Cinderella - Beauties in Bloom (Spain), El Rey León II - El orgullo de Simba / The Lion King II - Simba's Pride (Spain), Winnie the Pooh - Salta, Tigger, Salta / Winnie the Pooh - Bounce, Tigger, Bounce (Spain) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]
• vbaby_cart: El Jardín de los Sueños... (Spain) [Sean Riddle, ClawGrip]

Source Changes

• bus/ss50/dc5.cpp: Added configuration option to force ready when motor is enabled. [68bit]
  
  • Allows SWTBUG to boot without patching the ROM to ignore the ready status.
• formats/ap2_dsk.cpp: Don’t use symbolic names in the options specification, as the values are used as preprocessor tokens. [68bit]
  
• cpu/t11: Changed disassembler and register display to use octal number format, and fixed disassembly of SOB instruction. [AJR]
  
• cpu/v60: Sign-extend displacements for various addressing modes and DB/TB instructions. [AJR, Tahg]
  
• Added disassembler and preliminary emulation for National Semiconductor PACE CPU architecture. [AJR]
  
• Added disassembler AT&T WE32100 CPU architecture. [AJR]
  
• rendebgfx: Fixed incorrect swapping of red and blue components of screen tint. [AJR]
  
• machine/mc68901.cpp: Re-wrote USART emulation. [AJR]
  
  • Added support for 16× clock pre-scaler and data transition synchronization.
  • Implemented break generation and detection, internal loop-back, and synchronous mode.
  • Adjusted clocks in harriet.cpp and machine/x68k_kbd.cpp to to match MFP-generated Baud rates.
  • Serial terminal for tti (tti.cpp) actually works now.
• indiana.cpp: Replaced ASCII keyboard with AT-style keyboard (doesn’t completely work). [AJR]
  
  • Also documented some clocks and interrupts.
• vt100.cpp: Merged video emulation with DEC Rainbow, implementing AVO attributes. [AJR]
  
• cpu/rx01: Added disassembler and preliminary CPU device for DEC RX01 custom firmware architecture. [AJR]
  
• cpu/vt50: Implemented character drawing, and added notes about processor architecture. [AJR]
  
• input_sdl.cpp: Process control characters so the natural keyboard can see them (SDL normally strips these out). [AJR]
  
• natkeyboard.cpp: Don’t strip linefeed characters (Ctrl-J) from natural keyboard input except when pasting strings. [AJR]
  
• tv912.cpp.cpp input updates: [AJR]
  
  • Improved natural keyboard bindings for backspace and forward delete on tv912b.
  • Made Ctrl-K and Ctrl-L work with natural keyboard on tv912b tv912c.
• Add preliminary DEC VT61/VT62 microcode disassembler and skeleton CPU device. [AJR]
  
• s2650: Changed to big-endian. [AJR]
  
• gigatron.cpp: Hooked up ROM and skeleton CPU device. [AJR]
  
• cpu/gigatron: Added disassembler. [AJR]
  
• unidasm: Handle word endianness for address-shifted architectures correctly and safely. [AJR]
  
• Added disassemblers for Motorola MC88100 and MC88110 RISC CPUs. [AJR]
  
• alpha68k.cpp: Improved dash event timings for Gold Medalist, relaxing gameplay qualification requirements. [Angelo Salese]
  
• toki_ms.cpp: Added some meat, confirming it’s similar to tokib. [Angelo Salese]
  
• twins.cpp updates: [Angelo Salese]
  
  • Refactored driver code and split into multiple state classes.
  • Added default non-volatile RAM contents for all games.
  • Worked around crash after stages 1-5 in twins and twinsed2.
• psion5.cpp: Added Psion Series 5mx personal digital assistant driver. [Ash Wolf, Ryan Holtz]
  
  • Added logging for system-on-a-chip peripheral accesses based on WindEmu.
  • Added support for timers, keyboard, touch screen and buzzeticker.
  • Implemented HALT register, improving performance.
• bus/isa/s3virge.cpp: Started implementing bit-blit operations, making Windows 3.1 usable with ViRGE drivers. [Barry Rodewald]
  
• pgm.cpp: Corrected ROM region widths, corrected sprite pixel extraction algorithm, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
• taitogn.cpp: Reduced redundant code by refactoring to share base class with Capcom ZN2. [cam900]
  
• c6280.cpp: Updated to more closely emulate behavior described in manual, cleaned up code, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• machine/vrender0.cpp: Improved sound emulation, updated notes, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
  • Fixed sample start position, partially implemented envelopes and interrupts, and made wave memory access use an address map.
  • Improved sample rate calculation and support for dynamic sample rate changes.
• fmtowns.cpp: Updated notes on sound chips used. [cam900]
  
• model2.cpp: Changed manufacturer for Dead or Alive to the developer Tecmo. [cam900]
  
• system1.cpp: Fixed Sega System 1 color handling, improved ROM region names, and cleaned up code. [cam900]
  
  • Converted PROM-based palette handling to use indirect entries, fixed bitmap clear behavior, and reduced runtime tag map lookups.
• sound/2612intf.cpp: Added YMF276 variant, and fixed output resolution. [cam900]
  
• sound/fm2612.cpp: Added support for different output resolutions. [cam900]
  
• megadriv.cpp: Added handheld variants, and added machine configuration for variants with YM3438 integrated in ASIC. [cam900]
  
• kaneko_spr.cpp: Fixed priorities when sprite persistence is enabled, and split sprite drawing from mixing. [cam900]
  
• kaneko16.cpp: Fixed sprite delay, corrected explbrkr sound ROM banking, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• sound/huc6230.cpp: Fixed ADPCM playback rate, reduced ADPCM volume, cleaned up code, and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• sound/huc6272.cpp: Fixed ADPCM playback rate and updated notes. [cam900]
  
• Netlist library updates: [Couriersud]
  
  • Added netlist library version number to code, and used it to invalidate save states if library version changes.
  • Ensure diodes step by enough to alter the matrix.
  • Increased time resolution to 100 picoseconds and improved synchronization with MAME icount.
  • Added CD4006, CD4070 and TL084 devices.
  • Added proxy support for clock.
• video/fixfreq.cpp: Added adjusters to aid in development and debugging. [Couriersud]
  
• netlist: Worked around MSVC bug in expansion of variadic macro arguments. [Couriersud, Firewave]
  
• atarittl.cpp: Hooked up fixed-frequency monitor for stuntcyc. [Couriersud]
  
• galaxian.cpp: Converted Konami audio filters to use netlist. [Couriersud]
  
• segas16b.cpp: Added analog audio filters to systems with YM2151 and µPD7759. [Couriersud]
  
• sunplus_gcm394.cpp updates: [David Haywood]
  
  • Show startup screens and respond to inputs in jak_gtg and jak_car2.
  • Fixed jak_car2 bitmap test display in service mode.
• xavix.cpp: Converted to direct RGB video output to allow support mid-screen palette changes. [David Haywood]
  
• pockchalw.xml: Changed chukkesr to use correct dump (previously used a duplicate from a different set). [David Haywood]
  
• vii.cpp: Added hacks to zon32bit and mywicodx to select correct banks for all games. [David Haywood]
  
• Split up the unwieldy vii.cpp into multiple source files. [David Haywood]
  
• plugins/hiscore: Made read_config function more robust. [eadmaster]
  
• imds2.cpp: Added Multibus slot and implemented iSBC-202 floppy controller card. [F.Ulivi]
  
• luaengine: Added read_range function to addr_space, allowing scripts to directly read blocks of data. [feos]
  
• Fixed crash when using -aviwrite or -mngwrite with system that lack screens. [Firewave, hap]
  
• atarisy1.cpp: Don’t generate interrupt 3 on systems that don’t support it. [GadgetFreak]
  
• mephisto_modular.cpp: Added Bavaria piece recognition chessboard. [hap]
  
• video/psx.cpp: Changed NTSC refresh rates to 59.82 Hz for 240-line mode and 59.94 Hz for 480-line mode. [hoholee12]
  
  • Works around synchronization issues in beatmania IIDX games.
• gaelco2.cpp: Restored perfect quantum device configuration that was omitted from some machines after refactoring. [mc68k]
  
• machine/s3520cf.cpp: Improved emulation, and added RTC-4553 variant. [MetalliC]
  
• cpu/sh: Implemented SH-3 INTEVT register. [MetalliC]
  
• konmedal.cpp updates: [MetalliC]
  
  • Added hopper, non-volatile RAM and timing/interrupt controller.
  • Decoded graphics tiles for GX-based games and added per-game palette offsets.
  • Added µPD7759 sound output.
  • Added hack to fix mariourou scrolling, and documented observed row/column scroll issues for K052109 tilemaps.
• geneve.cpp: Implemented lower-level emulation of the Geneve architecture (Gate Array, PAL and Genmod daughterboard). [Michael Zapf]
  
  • Also added RESET line to I/O port and peripheral box, and made Genmod card modifications a configuration option.
• ti99_2.cpp, ti99_8.cpp: Improved Hexbus handling, and fixed instability when loading from/saving to Hexbus floppies. [Michael Zapf]
  
• ti99: Block invalid accesses to VDP like writing on read address – fixes Ambulance game. [Michael Zapf]
  
• rended3d: Allow -attach_window to work with non-root windows. [Nathan Woods]
  
• formats/acorn_dsk.cpp: Added support for HADFS floppy images. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• bus/bbc/1mhzbus updates: [Nigel Barnes]
  
  • Added BeebOPL FM Synthesiser.
  • Added Sprow BeebIDE 16-bit and RetroClinic BBC 8-bit IDE interfaces.
  • Added Acorn Winchester Disc.
• bbc.cpp: Added bbcm FinMOS 3.29 BIOS option (pre-release of MOS 3.50). [Nigel Barnes]
  
• bbc.cpp: Added bbcmaiv internal modem port, with Acorn AIV SCSI Host Adaptor card device. [Nigel Barnes]
  
• video/ims_cvc.cpp: Implemented cursor, simplified handlers, and reduced logging noise. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• cpu/mips/r4000.cpp: Fixed bad virtual address for [ls][dw][lr] exceptions, and fixed CP0 status on soft reset. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
  • Also improved logging and cleaned up code.
• machine/dp83932c.cpp: Implemented networking. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• jazz.cpp: Implemented soft reset, and hooked up sonic DMA. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• machine/mct_adr.cpp: Added crude sonic DMA bus master support, and fixed reset handling. [Patrick Mackinlay]
  
• cpu/v60: Fixed XOR instruction to not alter the carry flag, and improved debugger flags display. [R. Belmont, Tahg]
  
• konmedal.cpp: Improved colors for shuriboy, fuusenpn and mariorou. [R. Belmont]
  
• konendev.cpp: Hooked up correct real-time clock, and hooked up DPRAM. [R. Belmont, Heihachi_73]
  
• machine/spg2xx.cpp: Fixed a subtle interrupt bug that prevented clikstrt from booting. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/v60: Fixed carry flag handling for AND, OR and NEG instructions. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7: Added ARM710T variant. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• plugins/cheat: Ignore leading colon on tags, as all tags must be absolute in cheats (GitHub #6114). [Ryan Holtz, DjDiabolik]
  
• romload: Increased width of total ROM size members to 64 bits (fixes loading percentage display for hapyfsh2). [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7/arm7.cpp, machine/s3c2400.cpp, machine/s3c2410.cpp, machine/s3c2440.cpp: Converted logging to use logmacro.h. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• hapyfish.cpp: Added preliminary FS8806 I²C hookup, and expanded notes. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• cpu/arm7: Added support for printing hapyfsh2 diagnostic messages. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• ut88.cpp, v6809.cpp: Removed use of deprecated machine configuration macros. [Ryan Holtz]
  
• naomi.cpp: Added preliminary 315-6154 system manager chip device used in DIMM board. [Samuele Zannoli]
  
• hapyfish.cpp: Added preliminary inputs. [Tahg, Ryan Holtz]
  
• apple2_flop_clcracked.xml: Replaced Music Construction Set (cleanly cracked) dump to fix damaged sector. [4am, Firehawke]
  
• apple2_flop_clcracked.xml: Corrected several titles. [Anoid]
  
• mephisto_modena.cpp: Added an older version of modena as a BIOS option. [Berger]
  
• mephisto_montec.cpp: Added another megaiv version as a BIOS option. [Berger]
  
• vsmile.cpp: Removed regional V.Smile variants and turned alternate ROMs into BIOS options with version numbers. [bmx]
  
• igs011.cpp: Added DIP switch locations to the Virtua Bowling sets. [Brian Troha]
  
• splash.cpp: Added DIP switch locations to Funny Strip. [Brian Troha]
  
• cdi.cpp: Decapped and dumped an i8751 microcontroller for German-language Quizard 2 sets. [Caps0ff, TeamEurope]
  
• Added MicroTouch touch screen controller ROM dumps (not hooked up). [ClawGrip, Kevin Eshbach, ArcadeHacker]
  
• ninjakd2.cpp: Re-dumped the ROMs for jt104 and corrected labels. [coolmod, The Dumping Union]
  
• snes.xml: Re-dumped Mr Tuff. [drx, FakeShemp]
  
• snes.xml: Documented Earthworm Jim - GamesMaster Special Edition PCB. [FakeShemp]
  
• megadriv.cpp Added Mega-CD Japan BIOS version 1.11. [Fredrik Nyqvist]
  
• namcona1.cpp: Updated chip types and ROM locations. [hammy]
  
• ddragon.cpp: Updated notes. [Jose Tejada]
  
• gunsmoke.cpp: Removed watchdog that isn’t present in hardware, corrected frequencies, and updated notes. [Jose Tejada]
  
• cpu/rx01: Dumped firmware PROMs. [Lord Nightmare]
  
• fmtowns_cd.xml: Changed aburner, aburner3 and lastsurv to used dumps with proper track indexes and offset correction. [redump.org, r09]
  
• at.cpp: Updated notes and added BIOS options. [rfka01]
  
  • atturbo: Added cl286 BIOS option.
  • epsax: Added 3vim002 and zz1343 BIOS options.
  • ecs38632: Added 092588 BIOS option.
  • op386wb: Added d41107 BIOS option.
  • 386sc2c: Added s1b BIOS option.
  • at486: Added 486upio, acer48622, 4alo001, 4alp001, zz1130, optimus, umc486a, a9c11f1f and 109k BIOS options.
  • a486sp3: Added v301, v10101, v10102, v205 and v305 BIOS options.
  • so4saw2: Added iob1, 0730, wa53, wa3, 0911 and 0911b BIOS options.
  • ls486e: Added ls486eb BIOS option.
  • pkm0038s: Added p20302 and p2020 BIOS options.
  • um8498f: Added v14 and um849801 BIOS options.
  • mb8433uud: Added 8881d and 08a BIOS options.
  • mb1433ucv: Added ucvg BIOS option.
• genpc.cpp: Added arc123 and pac BIOS options to PC, and updated notes. [rfka01]
  
• xavix.cpp: Dumped internal ROM for Gachinko Contest! Slot machine TV (Japan). [Sean Riddle]
  
• atetris.cpp: Added UM3482 internal ROM data to atetb3482. [Sean Riddle]
  
• o2.cpp: Add added ip32prom_4_3 BIOS option to o2 (IP32 PROM V4.3). [Sean Riddle, Rampa, ClawGrip]
  
• fmtowns_cd.xml: Added the missing floppy disk dump for Fujitsu Habitat V2.1L10 [StuBlad, r09]
  
• vgmplay.xml: Updated seven items to match the latest vgmrips release. [Tafoid]
  
  • Updated chelnov, fortzone_gb, fray_msx2, illcity_msxr, raiden, spirou_gb and sml2_gb.
• konmedal.cpp: Dumped color PROMs for buttobi. [TeamEurope, The Dumping Union]
  
• gameking.xml: Re-dumped all bad dumps (mc_4v01, mc_4v04, mc_4v07, mc_4v09, mc_4v14, mc_4v15, mc_4v16, mc_4v17, mc_4v18, mc_4v19a). [TeamEurope, SSJ]
  
• ms32.cpp: Confirmed ROM labels for p47aces. [trap15]
  
• segasp.cpp: Added network firmware version 1.21. [WX JF]