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i cannot see the diagnostics video here.
actually i can but youtube says i can't watch it because reasons.
the second video shows up just fine.

JD accidentally disabled embedding on other sites and then embedded it on another site. If you click "Watch on YouTube" in the error message it works fine.

The Casio RZ-1 has now gained MIDI support:

First it shows playback of a pattern using the built-in instruments. You can see the instruments played on the virtual MIDI keyboard. The volume in MAME is then muted, and the virtual keyboard is setup to playback the notes using the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth.

MIDI input from outside to the emulated RZ-1 is then shown. Keys pressed on the virtual keyboard are played back in MAME.

Unfortunately the volume in the video is a bit low.

Bounty Bob Strikes Back is not exactly the most exciting game that Atari 800/Atari 5200 has to offer but hey it now works

I've made some forward movement on getting font stamping up and running in MAME's DPB-7001 driver.

It's still not quite correct, and I'm going to have to do a pass on the alphanumeric keyboard to get the key mapping a bit less wonky, but it's starting to come together.

Funny enough, one of the biggest issues was just that the fonts were being installed onto the hard disk incorrectly. It's apparently possible to write a track out to the disk with the Disk Data Buffer Card's address set to something other than 0, and it'll happily write out a partial track with the data being sourced from that address.

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Doing that thing I do, again. Featuring a crappy attempt at a layout this time.

Demo recordings from MAME:
https://revenant1.net/casio/ctk530_demo0.ogg
https://revenant1.net/casio/ctk530_demo1.ogg
https://revenant1.net/casio/ctk530_demo2.ogg

@Duke

Finally I got around recording (and upload) the beep (and keyclick) of the Facit 4431.

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Perhaps not the bast photo of the setup screen, but it is hard to get good photos of CRTs.

WIP Atari 8-bit cart refactoring, starting off with Williams and children (Express,Turbo, Diamond et al.).
This allows almost every mega*, prisma* and turbo** game entries to actually boot instead of just going black screen or hardlock MAME.

Flak


Green Beret


Attack of the Mutant Camels (Europe) (*)


Hardball (**)


(*) not to be confused with the US release otherwise known as Matrix 2: Gridrunner
(**) only working in a800xlp, and I think all these bootleg carts are from Chile -> NTSC?

@MattisLind

Thank you, that confirms that the current sound in MAME is correct. The keyclick seems almost inaudible?

Added Atarimax Maxflash cartridges support to Atari 8-bit