1997 has been the year of emulation! I never thought about the possibility to see arcade games from the 199x to be emulated so soon, but Callus proved me wrong.
If someone told you one year ago that Super Nintendo emulation with sound would be possible, you would have called him a dreamer...then there was SNES9x ;-)
Emulation of 'classic' systems and computers is nearly perfect and great emulators were released for the '16-bit' console systems (Magic Engine, Sega Genesis/MegaDrive, Super Nintendo) and even the first promising steps at high-end-console emulation were done (PSX, N64)
Last but definetly not least, 1997 will be known as the MAME-year :-) A small, one-man project soon became the emulator of the year (if not the decade)...You can only try to guess what 1998 will bring for MAME... :-)

I'd like to thank all programmers and supporters of the emulation-society for your work and your efforts and for creating some real masterpieces :-)

From what I hear on IRC and see on the various homepages the next MAME will be a true milestone! Rumoured are more than 70 (some even mention more than 80) new supported games (including clones and variants) and major improvements on existing drivers...Release date could be any day now, it seems that the new version was delayed because of broken drivers that were suddenly discovered...

If you own a Mac and would like to contribute with emu-reviews and screenshots, please feel free to contact me!

As much as I like more and more drivers and fixes added, I'd like to see the new MAME right now...Lets hope for a chrismas release now...

The fixes are: Lower memory requirements and Highscore-save for R-Type!

Two new games: Son Son and ...R-TYPE... :)))) Yes...finally someone emulates my alltime favorite shooter! Thank you Anders and Janne!

Chris Hardy put the development of his R-Type I and II emulator on hold to finish the MAME-driver for Track and Field...Judging the R-Type I and II screenshots on his homepage, the emulator looks fine...he mentions a nasty bug though that prevents the emulator from being released...

In addition to the previously announced supported roms the following games will be supported by MAME v0.30!:
Astro Fighter, Circus Charlie, Colony 7, Hyper Sports, Make Trax, Mat Mania and Rock'n Rope...preliminary support also for Quantum! :)

In addition to the Capcom roms, Cabbe and Org dumped a lot of other arcade roms, too. All aspiring arcade-emulator programmers MUST take a look! :)

Some people released a modified MAME version with limited music support for Phoenix and Bubble Bobble... I don't think that Team MAME is going to be pleased about that...Even if it would work 100% they shouldn't have released it, but should have sent it to them to implement it in one of the next versions of MAME...

According to Emu-Xpress, Dave Spicer's Sparcade is still under development and might have support for some 68000-games like Nemesis and the Sega Megadrive/Genesis! :-)

Please keep in mind that this is a unconfirmed rumour!!!

On their page they list hundreds of arcade games that they have access to. While this doesn't mean that all those roms have been dumped yet, it is possible for aspiring emulator programmers to request roms from the list! The arcade emulation future looks real bright! :-)

This time, the news come from Atmospherical Heights and mention the following games supported by MAME v0.30:
005, Astro Blaster, Bump 'n Jump, Circus, Food Fight, Frenzy, Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, Monster Bash, Pinball Action, Radarscope, Robot Bowl, Space Odyssey, Super Zaxxon, Swimmer, Track'n'Field and Traverse USA.
In addition there is preliminary support for: Arkanoid, Exerion, Future Spy and Major Havoc!

This gives us a total of 17 (+4) new and confirmed games amoung them Gauntlet I and II (I love those games!)! Take the usual surprises and the clones/bootlegs and the 300 supported games could really be reached! :-)

While there's still no release date set, according to Dave's Classics, the next version will be a real biggie :-)
The new games should include: Bump N Jump, Food Fight, Frenzy, Super Zaxxon, Track'n'Field (and then I bet the following Konami games, too: Circus Charlie, Hyper Sports, Juno First and Rock'n' Rope) and Traverse USA. It might be that v0.30 emulates more then 300 games!!!
In addition we will get sound- and colorfixes and highscore saving in a lot of already supported games as sound support in Yie Ar Kung Fu and color fixes for GunSmoke!

Save/Load function was added and a bug-fix regarding the AWE32 soundcard!

I have to admit, I like Callus, but I love MAME :-) So, in my opinion, the best thing about Callus (apart from emulating Captain Commando, of course) is the fact, that it created a little diversion from MAME and thus giving 'Team MAME' time to breathe and to spent on the development of MAME v0.30!

I expect MAME v0.30 to be released around christmas :-))

This is a minor update with bug-fixes and a few added games: Son Son, Tutankham and Vulgus.

The following CPS-1 roms have been dumped and might be supported soon: Mercs, Muscle Bomber Duo, Nemo, Warriors of Fate and my alltime favorite: Cadillacs And Dinosaurs - which I just played in my local arcade two weeks ago! :)

The dust over the last version hasn't even settled and yet we get a new release of the great Callus emulator!
This time 7! new games were added: 1941 (jap), Knights of the Round, Magic Sword, MegaTwins, Rockman PowerBattle (jap), Street Fighter II and Willow!
In addition support was added for King of Dragons (jap) and Carrier AirWing (us).

Asteroids, Dig Dug2, Mappy, Missile Command, Pengo and Super PacMan!

Perfect emulation of the Galaga sequel!

Thank you to all visitors for your continued support ! Please feel free to contribute to the growth of SYS2064 and/or send comments and suggestions to me! If you know about new emulators or useful utilities, please let me know!

Wow! Thanks to Bloodlust and those hard-working rom-dumpers, we all can now enjoy the following new additions to Callus:
- 3 all new games: Captain Commando, King of Dragons and Three Wonders
- 4 new japanese versions: Area 88 (jap. UN Squadron), Captain Commando, Final Fight and Strider
- Carrier AirWing is now fixed
- support for tweaked video mode (384x224) and
- of course bugfixes and speed-ups :)

Even more Capcom System One roms have been dumped:
Block Block, Carrier Air Wing (English), Captain Commando, King Of Dragons, Knights Of the Round, Magic Sword, Mega Twins, Street Fighter II, SlamMasters, Varth and Willow!

Please note that none of those games are already supported ! They are just possible games for the next releases of Callus now that the roms are available!

Two new CPU-emulators were added: Multi Z80 and Multi-6809!
A few more games were added too: Phoenix, Pleiades, 1942 and Yie Ar Kung-Fu.

A Multi-Space-Invaders emulator and a new Phoenix-emulator...since all those games are already emulated by some of the featured multigame-emulators here, I am not sure if I will add them to my site...

According to rumors, the following Capcom-Roms have been dumped and could soon be supported by Callus:
Carrier AirWing (us), Captain Commando and King of Dragons!

I just added screenshots from US Navy - the japanese version of Carrier AirWing to the Callus page!

This update fixes some vesa/video mode problems!

Six! new games supported: Strider, UNSquadron, partial Carrier Air Wing (jap), Street Fighter II Turbo (jap) and Street Fighter II Champion Edition (us and jap)!

Support was added for Victory Road and of course a lot of optimizations were done!

There is no release yet, but you can see some screenshots here!