Happy new year zusammen!
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It fails with port16(Portorose 1.01) so I'm reluctant to enable it by default since it would mean this game won't work unless the user changes the board type.

Well, that's the minor problem - the main problem is, that since your last 2 changes yesterday it doesn't compile anymore in MAME 0.215!

It already started with a few error messages for your changed mephisto_modular.cpp, but your last total rewrite of mmboard.cpp/h even returned a whole bunch of errors.

If it's not possible to make this Bavaria board work in MAME 0.215, then I'll definitely stop any further work on CB-Emu (or MessChess), because I'm not interested to switch again (the 4th time!) to a new MAME version with all the necessary changes in lots of my sources.

BTW, I saw in your updated *.lay files, that also all those *.lua scripts would have to be changed again (:board:board should be replaced by :board).
And what about all other Mephisto devices (not in mmodular) which also use the mmboard? Would they still work with this changed mmboard driver?

Regards,
Franz

I didn't rewrite mmboard, but I did simplify LED handling. This also fixes incorrect led blinking.

In the next update, "board:board" will remain, no need to change plugins.

But it broke MAME 0.215 compatibility.

I develop on the latest version of MAME. Literally 1:1 copying over any new changes to an older version is not guaranteed to work. I don't think it should be that difficult though, 0.215 is only 2 months ago and there's not many changes to the core systems.

Well, certainly no problem for you, but I'm not a MAME developer like you.

I've now added your latest changes (from today), but I still get the same error for mephisto_modular.cpp.
I've attached the compiler error messages, maybe you have any idea what I would have to change?

Try

TIMER(config, "bav_busy").configure_generic(nullptr);
change to:
TIMER(config, "bav_busy").configure_generic(timer_device::expired_delegate ());

Yep, that worked - now all other new drivers are compiling without any problems, too!

Many thanks!

hap, in the modular driver you write:
"TODO:
- add the missing very rare 'TM' Tournament Machines"

IIRC I've sent you all these TM-ROMs (Berlin/London/Lyon/Portorose/Vancouver) a few months ago, didn't I?
Which further informations would you need to implement these devices, too?

I haven't received any.

I think they're all 'simply' 2MB RAM and 36MHz 68030, right? PCB photos would be nice of course, the only one on the wiki is from a WM 60MHz version.