v2.0.5 - May 25, 2005 - Added support for the Classic Game Controller (CGC). See http://www.shiny-technologies.com/cgc.php for details on this device. - Added initial support for Atari 5200 games. Nothing playable yet, but graphics are visible for several games. v2.0.4 - May 14, 2005 - Significantly updated the input configuration capabilities to include the following additions, changes, and fixes: - Added the ability to bind a combination of inputs to each emulated input. This allows you to use multi-key or multi-button combinations as an input. - Added the ability to bind more than one set of inputs to each emulated input. This allows more than one key configurations to activate the same emulated input, allowing you to have two joysticks simultaneously mapped to the same hand controller, for example. - Added the ability to clear all input bindings and configure all inputs at once, simplifying the input configuration process. - Added the ability to reset an input binding, leaving it completely unbound if you don't intend to use it. - ECS keyboard inputs are sorted into a more logical order in the input configuration window. - Changed the input configuration dialog to be resizeable. - Fixed a bug with the input configuration dialog where you could not configure the ENTER or SPACE keyboard keys. - In full-screen mode, the mouse cursor now times out and automatically disappears after a few seconds with no mouse movement. - Added the ability to pause the game currently in progress (Alt+P). - Fixed the bug where the Intellivoice would only speak during the title screen of the Intellivoice games, but would not speak the in-game phrases. The Intellivoice emulation now properly speaks all phrases. - Fixed a bug where the ECS keyboard was not being scanned, which prevented use of the keyboard in the games that require it. - Fixed a problem where Bliss wouldn't play nice if you tried to switch to another application while in full-screen mode. You can now switch between apps with no problems while in full-screen mode. - Fixed the icon for the settings dialog. - Made a minor change to graphics rendering to try to fix the graphics glitch of offset pixels running in a line from the lower left to the upper right that occured on some video cards. - Settings dialog now correctly selects the first item in the tree every time the options window is displayed. - Accelerator keys are now shown in the window menus. v2.0.3 - April 25, 2005 - Fixed a bug where I was accidentally requesting a DirectX device with hardware vertex processing, even though it's not required. This prevented DirectX from initializing properly on any systems with video cards that do not support hardware vertex processing. - Fixed a problem where the check for the file extension was case-sensitive, preventing filenames in ALL CAPS from loading correctly. - Changed audio to flush the audio buffers on every video frame, resulting in significantly less jerky video output. The need for this was actually exposed by the fix in 2.0.2 that removed video output as the performance bottleneck. - Name of the game being played is now displayed in the window title. - Added the ability to start up in fullscreen mode using "/fullscreen" or "-fullscreen". Useful for the various emulator front-ends. v2.0.2 - April 25, 2005 - Fixed a major performance bottleneck in the use of the Direct3D Present() function. Turns out there is a big difference between "IMMEDIATE" and "DONOTWAIT" that the Direct3D docs don't exactly make clear. The end result is that the emulation should be MUCH smoother for everyone in this release. - Enabled Electronic Computer System (ECS) support. Games that used the ECS now work correctly, including The Jetsons, Melody Blaster, Mind Strike, Mr. Basic, Scooby Doo's Maze Chase, the Song Players, and World Series Major League Baseball. The input configuration dialog still needs some cleanup work related to the ECS, but at least it's functional for now. - Added support for banked ROMs in cartridges. As a result, World Series Major League Baseball now works correctly. - Fixed several collision detection problems (Space Spartans, Mouse Trap, etc.) - Reworked .bin/.int support to no longer use bin2rip.exe. The database of known cartridges is exposed in the file "knowncarts.cfg". If you update this file to add new cartridges or fix existing mappings, please send me your updates so others can benefit. - Several carts in .bin/.int format that were not loading properly are now working (AD&D Treasure of Tarmin, for example). - Added support for cartridge RAM. Land Battle and USCF Chess are now working. - Added .zip support. Bliss will search for the first .bin or .int file found in the .zip that matches a known configuration in the "knowncarts.cfg" database and attempt to load it. - Reworked .rom support to no longer use rom2rip.exe v2.0.1 - April 10, 2005 - Enabled Intellivoice support. Note that World Series Major League Baseball is still not working, however, due to a lack of support for ROM banking and a lack of ECS support. - Fixed graphical glitches that were occuring in some games - Added the ability to pass a rom filename on the command line for Bliss to run immediately on startup - Changed open dialog to be resizable v2.0.0 - April 8, 2005 - First release