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Laser 0.20a Win32
Laser 0.20a Win32 Source
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Fixed Lupin 3 (ss_teven)
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Laser 0.20 Win32
Laser 0.20 Win32 Source
Laser 0.20 DOS
Laser 0.20 DOS Source
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  • First Release of Win32 (MingW) version of Laser (ss_teven)
    • Thanks very much to Atani for the previous Win32 version of Laser.
  • Added discrete logic games! (MetaFox):
    • Pong (pong) - Keys are:
      • 1 to start
      • Player 1 (Up: W, Down: S)
      • Player 2 (Up: 8 on the NumPad, Down: 2 on the Numpad)
    • Pong Doubles (pongdbls) - a really fun game. :D Keys are:
      • 1 to start
      • Player 1 (Up: W, Down: S)
      • Player 2 (Up: Y, Down: H)
      • Player 3 (Up: P, Down: ;)
      • Player 4 (Up: 8 on the NumPad, Down: 2 on the Numpad)
    • Thanks to Syngori for the button layout. :P
  • Most everything from the pre-releases (MetaFox, ss_teven)
  • Cleaned up roms.c (more efficient) (ss_teven)
  • Fixed 'Game Not Supported' crash (ss_teven)
  • Made speed throttler more 'porter' friendly [3/04] (ss_teven)
  • Rearranged roms.c and driver.c more accordingly [3/04] (ss_teven)
  • Killed the scramble driver for undisclosed reasons [4/03] (ss_teven)
  • Pause now restores original background gfx (ss_teven)

Laser blah - Binary + Source
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Last release had many problems. I just quickly went through the MAME source and added all the 8080 games in. Some games might work that didn't, others are definately broken. I'll go through and test it later, unless someone wants to correct the problems for me. We could always use more people working on the source. :)

Laser 0.19 Pre-Release
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Added Space Laser (ss_teven)
Cleaned up roms.c (more efficient) (ss_teven)
Fixed colours in Space Invaders Deluxe and Space Invaders Part II (ss_teven)
Added horizontal tester rom (romset name 'tester') (ss_teven)
Fixed 'Game Not Supported' crash (ss_teven)
Fixed a number of romsets (ss_teven)
Made speed throttler more 'porter' friendly (ss_teven)
Rearranged roms.c and driver.c more accordingly (ss_teven)
Added Rolling Crash / Moon Base with my normal sloppy Invaders hack-in to stop screen flickering. (MetaFox)
Fixed Yosaku to Donbee - it was accidently set to load the cosmic monsters roms (MetaFox)
Added Jatre Specter (MetaFox)
Added Jatre Specter (set 2) (MetaFox)
added sisv - Space Invaders (SI version) (MetaFox)
added sisv2 - Space Invaders (SI version set 2) (MetaFox)
added sitv - Space Invaders (TV version) (MetaFox)
added invrvnga - Invaders Revenge (Dutchford) (MetaFox)
added galxwar2 - Galaxy Wars (Universal set 2) (MetaFox)
Renamed galxwars to galxwart to go with MAME conventions (Galaxy Wars (Taito)) (MetaFox)
Added Galaxy Rescue (grescue) (MetaFox)
Renamed destinat to desterth to go with MAME conventions (Destination Earth) (MetaFox)
Killed the scramble driver (ss_teven)
Renamed invaders driver to 8080bw, makes sense (ss_teven)
added Space Chaser (CV Version) (MetaFox)
added Galaxy Wars (Universal) (MetaFox)
added Galaxy Wars (Universal Set 2) (MetaFox)
added Balloon Bomber (MetaFox)
added Space King (MetaFox)
added Space Wars (MetaFox)
added Space War Part 3 (MetaFox)
added Space Invaders (Logitec) (MetaFox)
fixed Cosmic Monsters - wasn't linked in driver.c (MetaFox)
added Moon Base (MetaFox)
added Space War (Leijac) (MetaFox)
added Space Phantoms (MetaFox)
added Solar Fight (MetaFox)
commented out several games that are not playable (MetaFox)

Laser 0.18a
Laser 0.18a Source
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Speed throttler for those of us with a system faster than a Pentium I :P (MetaFox)
Sound back in for the 8080 games - enable with -sound as always :) (MetaFox)

Laser 0.18
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Rewrite of Laser to use a driver system (ss_teven)
Added a Scramble driver (ss_teven)
The End (Stern) is now playable (ss_teven)
Preliminary The End - The Ship does not move (ss_teven)
Preliminary Frogger - bootleg on Scramble hardware. Coin Inputs are not working properly (MetaFox)
Preliminary Atlantis. Coin Inputs are not working properly (MetaFox)
Polaris is now playable (ss_teven)
Added most of the 8080 games back in to work in Laser 0.18 (ss_teven, MetaFox)

Laser 0.17
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Yosaku To Donbee is now playable
2 Player Support
Preliminary Save State Support thanks to ss_teven.

Laser 0.16
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Space Invaders (TV Version) is now playable using a sloppy hack with invaders roms
Test menu can be accessed by running with Laser -test
Changed spaceatt romset to match MAME's

  • Added Space Attack II
  • Added Super Invaders (once again a sloppy hack using Invaders roms)
  • Added Super Invaders (Zenitone-Microsec)
  • Added Super Invaders (EMAG)
  • Added Alien Invasion Part II
  • Added Ozma Wars (Set 2)

    Laser SE
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    Works with the frontend called Hiryu, which is included.
    These games are now supported:

  • Ozma Wars
  • Solar Fight
  • Space Phantoms
  • Star Wars Space Chaser is now fully playable
    Lupin III is now fully playable
    Sound is now enabled by default, use -nosound to turn it off
    Joystick is also enabled by default, use -nojoy to turn it off

    Laser 0.10
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    It now has sound support via samples. And this time it actually works. :)
    Implemented a volume control feature - use the + and - by the number keys to control it

    Laser 0.9
    Laser32 0.9
    Laser 0.9 Linux
    Laser 0.9 Linux Source
    Laser 0.9 BeOS
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    Added a 'Paused' feature
    Implemented screen flipping for horizontal games
    joystick can now be chosen with -joy at the command line
    Now has Color/Black and white graphics drivers - the B/W only games no longer have three toned striped to them.

    These games are now supported:

  • Cosmic Monster
  • Laser
  • Space King
  • Space War 3

    Preliminary, not playable:

  • Space Invaders (TV Version)
  • Checkmate

    Laser 0.8
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    Fixed the graphics errors, and made a speed increase thanks to Spaders by Tony Toole

    These games are now supported:

  • Lunar Rescue
  • Galaxy Wars
  • Destination Earth
  • Invaders Revenge

    Laser 0.7
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    Finally got colors to work in Space Invaders
    Boot Hill and Space Invaders Deluxe are added, but do not work currently -
    I'll work on this for the next release

    Laser 0.21 Beta 1
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    Special release in celebration of David Lloyd of OverClocked's birthday.
    Cleaned up the source code
    Added Space Attack II

    Laser 0.6
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    I began porting the Z80 core over to Richard Mitten's excellent RAZE Z80 emulator.

    Laser 0.5
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    Thanks to Bart Trzynadlowski again [I borrowed some code from Genital :)]
    Laser now uses the standard Laser gamename -option command line.
    Laser 0.4
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    Beginning of Multi Game Support
    Now supports Space Invaders and its clones Super Earth Invasion, and Space Invaders (Taito) - Removed the sound code because it was too buggy

    Laser 0.3
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    Beginning of Sound Support - Crude, not very accurate, and not complete

    Laser 0.2a
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    Fixed a bug where the joystick button stayed down, preventing keyboard usage.

    Laser 0.2
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    Minor Source Code Changes. Bart Trzynadlowski e-mailed me about a more efficient way to display the sprites, which resulted in a smaller file size and possibly a minor speed increase.

    Laser 0.1
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    First Release of Laser