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Windows NT 3.x/4.0/2000 pristine images
MAME had a completely broken warez version of Windows NT 3.1, that was replaced with a known-good unmodified copy. Language variants of Windows NT 3.1 were also added (I don't have the non-English copies of future versions, can't do those at this time). Advanced Server is added to the list.
Windows NT 3.5 was added new.
Windows NT 3.51's CD-ROM image was not the original copy, and likewise updated to a known-good unmodified copy. Server was added to the list.
Windows NT 4.0 was added new, all known-good copies and editions of such.
It started to bother me that Windows 2000 was alone without these kind of additions and fixups (ignoring the non-NT Windowses, at least for now... those are an even bigger mess to unravel). Being that Windows 2000 is NT 5.0, it seems to fit the theme of the pull request. I swear it's my last change here. :-)
I'd like to note also that NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0 are all multi-architecture disc images. All of them run on IA-32 (ibm5170_cdrom here) and MIPS (mmr4000le); NT 3.1 build 528 and all the rest also support Alpha (afaik no MAME driver supports it); and PowerPC was added in 3.51 (likewise no MAME driver supporting it). Maybe the images should be duplicated to other software lists. The floppy images are exclusive to IA-32, but the other architectures have firmware that allow direct CD installation.
Windows 2000 is the only single-architecture (IA-32) version here. Actually it's the only version of NT ever that got released only for a single architecture. :)
This looks OK, except that it needs a commit message properly describing all the additions.
Need a brief message in a commit or in the PR body about what has been added here:
New working software list items
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ibm5170_cdrom: Windows NT 3.1 (3.10.528.1, MSDN, en-US), ... [whoever is to be credited for the addition]
Need a brief message in a commit or in the PR body about what has been added here:
New working software list items --------------------------------------- ibm5170_cdrom: Windows NT 3.1 (3.10.528.1, MSDN, en-US), ... [whoever is to be credited for the addition]
Thanks, I've done this.