etabeta's playground

DISCLAIMER: some of the items below may require years before being looked at… don’t hold your breath!

short term items

• Add more Dip Locations to MAME drivers
• Complete the MESS User Manual and upload it on MESS Wiki
• Improve sysinfo.dat for MESS:
  1. add missing systems
  2. update old entries for RAM sizes, BIOS and devices
  3. add more keyboard layouts
  4. add Configs / DIPs / Categories with explaination (v3.0)
  5. add instructions to load images to each device of each system (v4.0)
  6. add more usage instructions to each system (v5.0)
• Add support for natural keyboard emulation to MESS drivers which do not have it (ongoing)
• Add Kyotronic 85 (and clones) to MESS
• Convince Atari 800XL to correctly boot in MESS (and support for other XL/XE systems) (ongoing)
• Understand why LEDs do not work anymore in Mephisto Glasgow and modify the chessboard code to be something more than a hacky feature (not really in the spirit of MESS 😉 ) (ongoing)
• Fix remaining C16 tape issues in MESS
• Add cassettes to PET drivers in MESS (not even VICE emulates two tapes for these systems 😛 )

long term items

• Improve Kyotronic 85 (and clones) emulation in MESS(Thanks Curt)
• Add proper floppy drive support to C64 in MESS and optimize the code so that it can work on nowadays PC
• Add support for C64 cart types not currently supported in MESS
• Better understand Atari Lynx video emulation and fix current issues (not easy, since I’m not expert in the way video emulation is handled by MAME/MESS)
• Fix current MegaDrive SRAM issues in MESS
• Add support in MESS for more SNES special chips (to at least match other emulators)
• Add support in MESS for more NES mappers
• Study if it’s possible move abstract floppy handling to the core (like cassette handling)
• Merge CPS Changer drivers in MESS and create the xml cart layout to emulate correctly this
• Add Neo Geo AES to MESS by using xml cart layout
• Add more skeleton drivers to MESS for dumped machines(ongoing)

May 8th, 2009