Here's the what's new;

• Added a driver for games on Galaxian hardware, 177 new sets [Barry]
• Added support for insane sample Galaxian sound sample hardware and the various AY8910 interfaces in the Galaxian driver [Barry]
• Moved PPI8255 module to the burn folder so it can be accessed by all drivers [Barry]
• Added support for a third PPI8255 [Barry]
• Added driver for Aquarium [iq_132]
• Added driver for Dark Seal [iq_132]
• Added driver for games on Deniam hardware [iq_132]
• Added driver for games on Midas hardware [iq_132]
• Changed the left and right sound channels in the CPS-3 driver [Barry]
• Fixed the speed-up hacks for Jojo's Venture [Barry]
• Improved analog controls in the Sega drivers when used with analog devices [Captain CPS-X]
• Added some clones to the Toaplan2 driver [Barry]
• Added some new Phoenix sets to the CPS-2 driver (provided by bonky0013) [Barry]
• Some renames of roms in Neo-Geo decrypted sets as reported by pmc2 [Barry]
• Fixed the aspect ratio in the Arkanoid driver [Captain CPS-X]
• Added support to the Game Information dialog for Select, Versus, How To, Scores, Bosses and Game over previews [Barry]
• Added configurable path support for the above new previews [Barry]
• Fixed issue with selection dialog when clicking filters too fast [Captain CPS-X]
• Added buttons to the selection dialog for tasks in the context-sensitive menu [Captain CPS-X]
• Moved the options in the selection dialog to their own tab [Captain CPS-X]
• Tidied the selection dialog [Captain CPS-X]
• Tidied the rom and support path dialogs and made them less cumbersome [Captain CPS-X]
• Changed the PNG load functions to use PNGlib [Captain CPS-X]
• Added support for loading support files from zips [Captain CPS-X]
• Added filter for Galaxian hardware to the selection dialog [Barry]
• Matched all set to MAME 0.129u3 [Barry]
• nb, the source is now doule-zipped similar to MAME for better compression

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I have been rewriting the Galaxian driver I wrote years ago, which never made it into the official FBA, over the last few months. I now have most things up and running. The current number of games added in this new driver is 131!

Everything works well, with the exception of anything that uses the Galaxian sound hardware, which I haven't looked at implementing yet. Other games have sound though, including all the Konami ones like Frogger, Scramble, Turtles, etc. and a few others like Checkman, Jump Bug, Moon Shuttle, Zig Zag and some more. This one should make it into the next release when ready and I'm glad I've finally redone it as it was my very first FBA driver and to do it "properly" now is quite pleasing.

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