> Halo there!
> My compliments for the new version,and all of your great work,until now!
> A question about Photo-play 2000...
> I read this in the new MAMEINFO.DAT
>
> "Photo Play 2000
> . Added Cirrus Logic GD5446 VGA PCI device (video\clgd542x.cpp), now shows some
> legacy BIOS error (presumably needs PCI support to properly boot).
> . Many fixes and improvements, see driver notes for more info.
> . Preliminary EEPROM hookup. Hack EEPROM timings to make it work."
>
> Is this "good news" to make it work soon?
> Sorry for my English!
Seen from the driver's point of view (photoply.cpp):
TODO:
- DISK BOOT FAILURE after eeprom checking (many unknown IDE cs1 reads/writes)
- partition boot sector is missing from the CHD dump, protection?
- Detects CPU type as "-S 16 MHz"? Sometimes it detects it as 486SX, unknown repro (after fiddling with CMOS settings anyway)
- VGA BIOS reports being a Cirrus Logic GD5436 / 5446, it is unknown what exactly this game uses.
- PCI hookups (no idea about what this uses), and improve/device-ify SiS85C49x
- ISA bus cards are completely guessworked
- EEPROM timings are hacked (writes mostly fail otherwise)
- Eventually needs AudioDrive ES688 / ES1688 / ES1788 & ES1868 devices and serial ports "for linking" before actually booting
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