New MAME 0.250 package available for CoCo-Pi
The latest version of MAME is ready for your CoCo-Pi and what a milestone it is! 0.250! Tim Lindner has been busy and there are many updates from him for this release:
Elanco AgVision [Tim Lindner]
Tandy Radio Shack Videotex [Tim Lindner]
-Add FDC Write Protect Delay (#10538) [tim lindner]
-wd_fdc: adjust wp detection delay to better match real hardware (#10547) [tim lindner]
-Added Elanco AgVision and fixed TRS VideoTex drivers. (#10520) [tim lindner]
08258: Crash/Freeze coco2b: OS-9 fails to boot from a write-protected disk image. (Tim Lindner)
10520: trs/agvision.cpp: Added Elanco AgVision driver, and fixed TRS VideoTex. [Tim Lindner]
10538: machine/wd_fdc.cpp: Delay interrupt on attempting to write to a write-protected disk (fixes MT08258). [Tim Lindner]
10547: machine/wd_fdc.cpp: Reduced delay from attempting to write to write-protected disk to interrupt. [Tim Lindner]
When updating your CoCo-Pi, please make sure to select “Update CoCo-Pi from git repo” and “Run CoCo-Pi fix script” in order for all the changes to be applied. Install the latest MAME package (from the same menu). Select mame-0.250-1 as the default version.
New ROMs are required for the new machines Tim added to MAME, so make sure to select “Download ROM images” from the Downloads menu.