0.77u3 [Barry Rodewald]
TEST MODE:
- Test mode in Malzak II should be enabled by setting a POT to position '4' and pressing button 1 three times. Then the POT is set to position '1' to go back to the game.
WIP:
- 0.168: Nigel Barnes fixed SAA5050 graphic issues in Malzak.
- 0.167: Nigel Barnes fixed SAA5050 character rounding. Added new SAA5050 video rom.
- 0.153: Converted SAA5050 to DEVCB2 [Curt Coder].
- 0.148u2: Oliver Stoeneberg fixed uninitialized variables and member in video\saa5050.c.
- 0.147: Rewrote the SAA5050 Teletext character generator. Refactored Malzak driver to use the new implementation [Curt Coder].
- 0.146u5: Curt Coder fixed SAA5050 double high character mode, and forced character data to 7-bit.
- 0.139u2: Mariusz Wojcieszek added sound support to Signetics S2636 (by using VC4000 sound support from MESS). Hooked up sound to Malzak.
- 0.139u1: Miodrag Milanovic updated SAA5050 to form 12x20 chars as noted in documentation. Updated malzak driver to support SAA5050 changes. Changed visible area to 480x480.
- 0.135u4: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct and save states to Malzak, imported SAA5050 emulation from MESS and made it a device. Updated Malzak to use it, removing the almost identical implementation in the driver. Fabio Priuli fixed also all sets in drivers using S2636 video chip.
- 0.135u3: Fabio Priuli converted Signetics 2636 video chip to be a MAME device and updated drivers using it accordingly.
- 0.126u5: Guru added README for Malzak.
- 0.124: Zsolt Vasvari fixed clone Malzak II from crashing.
- 0.121u1: Changed palettesize from 16 to 128 colors.
- 0.97u1: Barry Rodewald added clone Malzak II, improved SAA 5050 emulation and fixed S2636 port. Changed cpu1 rom ($c00) to user2 (screen data).
- 0.89u6: Changed S2650 CPU1 clock speed to 950000 Hz.
- 0.77u3: Barry Rodewald added Malzak (Kitronix 19??). TODO: I/O ports (0x00 for sprite->background collisions), sound (2x SN76477), playfield graphics may be banked, tiles above 0x1f are incorrect and sprite->sprite collision aren't quite perfect (you can often fly through flying missiles).
- 4th December 2003: Barry Rodewald - Getting there... The sprite to playfield collision detection still needs to be figured out. And I think the playfield is a little bit more colourful too.
- 1st December 2003: Barry Rodewald - Now it can run the game. But there is no playfield. Don't know, as yet, how or where it reads level data and displays the playfield.
- 28th November 2003: Barry Rodewald - Got Malzak running a bit - still some graphics unimplemented, but this is enough to get a few inputs mapped too. It would seem that there may be some form of ROM banking going on. Background colours are disabled for now, as I'm pretty sure that it was causing incorrect displays.
Recommended Games (Defender):
Defender
Stargate
Williams Multigame (Defender & Stargate)
Malzak
Mayday
Cosmic Avenger
Mars
The Percussor
Scramble
Konami 80's AC Special (Scramble)
4 Fun in 1 (Scramble)
Space Odyssey
Vanguard
Scorpion
A. D. 2083
Markham
SF-X
Brain
Darius
Darius II
Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk
Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk Extra Version
Terra Force
Alpha One
Back Fire
Thunder Cross
Thunder Cross II
Barunba (Tourvision PCE bootleg)
Gigandes
Mega Blast
Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit
Aero Blasters (Tourvision PCE bootleg)
Arrow Flash (Mega-Tech)
Bio-ship Paladin
Down Load (Tourvision PCE bootleg)
Paranoia
Thunder Force AC
Thunder Force II MD (Mega-Tech)
Cosmic Cop
Dead Moon (Tourvision PCE bootleg)
E.D.F. : Earth Defense Force
Metal Black
Strike Force
Xexex
Last Resort
Blazing Star
