16/08/2001

Some new games working thanks to Charles McDonald and Jason Starr. No release planned thought

Pascal

Spiderman Return of Sinister Six (SMS)	Drop Zone (GG)
Micro Machines (SMS)	Rozzeta no Syouzou (SC-3000)

21/06/2001

Past-O-Rama turn one year since first public release !!!! :D

I think that i can not choose better day to give some news of what's going on.
Well i don't have a special present for that event, but i 've done some progress , it's not worthing a release so the current work will stay on my hd.
These last time , i've been working on the Dreamcast port of the SG-1000 driver ( available here ) but i don't forget Past-O-Rama.
I've recently acquired a Sega SC-3000 , so i'll surely work on this driver too (btw if you sold cards for sg1000 , sc3000 as i only got basic level 3 and it's not too funny :) )

thanks for all your support

Pascal

21/03/2001

As Dave from VG-Network was wondering : "i won't be surprised if the author add others sega 8bits systems"
Past-O-Rama v0.05 is now out !! and nobody'd be surprised that it has support for the MasterSystem and Game Gear now :)

Alex kidd in Miracle World (MasterSystem)

Shining force 2 (GameGear)

What's new after months of dev and plays with virtua tennis:

SG1000:
- improved the SG1000 support (can run now 99,99% of the games)
- rewrite the TMS9918 code and implementation of a tile caching engine ( great speed gain )
- changed the saves states format (for the use of the new comment feature)
  old saves states done with v0.02 won't work anymore
- games fixed : Rock'n Bolt, Safari Hunt

MasterSystem / Mark3 / GameGear
- Add MasterSystem support
- Add GameGear support
- SMSVDP support for Mode 4, Mode 5 and Mode 2 using a tile caching engine
  i've followed the great docs from Charles MacDonald (F16 fighter is working)
- 3D glasses support
- FM chip support
- Voices support (thanks to Stef)
- country selection for SMS and GG

Emu / User interface
- Total recoding with a implementation of a driver way architecture
- Inputs fully redifinable using a cool joypad picture done by Alexandre Dumur (Tohtori Paha)
- Add resolution selection for fullscreen mode
- add a feature allowing to add comments to the save states and displaying then in the UI
- change the Sizex1,Sizex2,.. to Size + and Size - so can scale the window to your needs.
- add frame skip support
- add the possibility to use the video memory , it can be speedier on most video card
- can choose at the same time vsync and speed throttle
- 50/60hz selection
- can disabling sprites or background
- Sprites limit
- Hardware pause and reset
- Remove the roms path options replaced by the last directory of the last opened roms
- Zip files support
- Saving the directory of the SRAM and STATES path
- 15,16,32 bpp support
- can swith to full screen mode using the ESC key
- possibility to switch fullscreen after a rom load
- possibility to load a rom in fullscreen mode
- remove the sound rate selection as it was not useful
that's all :)

comment , bugs report, and ideas are welcome , so why not using the message board , i feel lonely there :)

Finaly, i'd like to thanks all people who have submited logo and icons Tohtori Paha,MRahal,Steven Tillman,Michael,.. i don't have already choosen, so feel free to submit your work :)

have fun

Pascal

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