The Mac 128/512/Plus drivers have been modernised, and serial port support has been added to the Apple IIgs driver. Barry Rodewald has added support for IC Card (PCMCIA SRAM) storage on the FM Towns, and substantially improved LSI Octopus emulation. There are some other notable improvements in computer emulation, too. David Haywood also fixed some graphical issues in Altered Beast, and Angelo Salese fixed graphical issues in The Lost Castle in Darkmist. There are substantial improvements to the Magnet System emulation (added in last month’s release) making these rare prototype bootlegs playable. In another improvement that’s been a long time coming, The Acclaim RAX sound board is now emulated, bringing sound to Batman Forever and NBA Jam Extreme. This is an interesting space combat game for one or two players, where the second player takes on the role of the gunner/co-pilot. On the arcade front, protection on Atari Space Lords has finally been reverse-engineered making the game playable. There are still some issues to iron out, but things have definitely improved enormously. The same bug fixes allow a number of Aristocrat Mark 5 gambling machines to boot and run in demonstration mode. First and foremost, a number of ARM CPU core fixes mean you can now boot to the RISC OS desktop on an emulated Acorn Archimedes, and try some of the included applications. Are you ready for the November MAME release? It’s definitely ready for you, and there are lots of reasons to get excited this time around.
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