M1 0.7.6 is now available. I figured if MAME could use numbers up like popcorn I may as well too 🙂 Get the Windows version here and the Linux version here. Plus I’ve built a 64-bit Linux version. It passes a few smoke tests but I still consider it “experimental”. If you’re not scared, get it here.

This version contains all of the goodness of 0.7.5, with these changes:

• Fixed broken “reset normalization per song” setting
• Added ability to ignore the CRC of certain ROMs – this is necessary because MAME includes the current time and date in the .nv files for Seibu SPI
• Added Raiden Fighters 2 and Viper Phase 1
• Fixed ROM parenting issues with dynwarj and wof
• Fixed Contra to play in stereo
• Fixed the year shown for raiden2, megaman, spf2t, cotton, and cototnj
• Changed display name of “GP500” to “500GP”. Sixtoe assures me this is correct 😉
• Rebalanced Space Harrier voices. The SegaPCM now is much more prominent in the mix vs. the FM and PSG
• Fixed pitch for Sunset Riders, TMNT2, and Bells and Whistles

Binaries for Windows and Linux are available here on this site (EmuHype, like anything, rusts from disuse and it broke when I tried to do my yearly update and post this. ivilded will hopefully be able to fix it soon though). The existing version of BridgeM1 will continue to work with this new DLL for those of you who like that frontend.

Major changes in this version include:

• All ROM sets up to date with the latest MAME and PinMAME
• Nearly 100 new games supported
• Many bugfixes and other internal work

Finally, this release is in honor of Bob Moog. It’s no stretch to say that almost everyone has heard a Moog synthesizer at one time or another, thanks to their use by artists ranging from Wendy Carlos in the 1960s and 70s to the Black Eyed Peas today. Many of the sound chips M1 emulates are based on operating principles first widely seen in Moog synthesizers and all forms of electronic music owe him a tremendous debt. He passed away yesterday afternoon (August 21) of brain cancer, at the age of 71.

Here’s a preliminary list of new games supported in the upcoming M1 0.7.5.

The NCR5380’s now good enough that you can format the CHD, install MacOS onto it, and boot the emulated Mac Plus off of it. The speed’s good too – it boots off CHD in about 3 seconds vs over a minute from floppy. Applications launch very snappily as well.

Incidentally, this makes MESS the first and only Mac emulator (to my knowledge) that has proper hardware-level SCSI emulation. vMac doesn’t do it, Basilisk doesn’t do it, SheepShaver doesn’t do it, PearPC doesn’t do it, etc, etc. I guess that MAME philosophy does have some benefits 😉