Changelog:
Version 1.6.1 (2012-01-13):
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This version is mainly a bugfix for 1.6.0, where monochrome mode
gave a black screen and was not usable.
Emulation:
- Fixes to bootup issues in monocrome mode
- Better left border removal timings
- DSP external memory access cycles taken into account
Other changes:
- Fix to allow build with Xcode 3.1.3/OS X 10.5.8 PPC
- Several fixes & updates needed to Hatari UI & hconsole
for them to work correctly with Hatari v1.6.x
- Test programs added for testing TOS booting with different
HW configurations and for finding out values needed in
Hatari keymaps
- Remove a potential segfault in the debugger
Fixed Demos :
Vodka Demo - Kill The Beast 2 (left border removal)
* Update MASTER_SITES and HOMEPAGE.
* Remove c++ from USE_LANGUAGES.
* Set LICENSE.
Changelog:
Version 1.6.0 (2012-01-01):
---------------------------
The Hatari project has been moved from hatari.berlios.de to
http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/. Please update all bookmarks!
Emulation:
- More accurate FDC emulation (correct status bits and commands' timings,
DMA transfer by blocks of 16 bytes, floppy change detection). This should
fix a lot of non working games
- More accurate microwire clock emulation
- SCSI class 1 (ICD) command support for drives > 1 GB
- Improved color conversion table so that colors are a little bit brighter
- Improve shifter (add another method to do 4 pixel hardware scrolling,
better emulation for 0 byte blank line)
- Some fixes to the IKBD emulation
- Better filters and model for sound emulation
- Correct VBL timings in TT monochrome (double clicking works now)
- More cycle accurate Falcon DSP <-> CPU emulation. All the demos that
needed 32Mhz CPU with the old CPU core in Hatari v1.5, work now at
correct 16Mhz with the WinUAE CPU core
- 030 MMU emulation with the WinAUE CPU core
Emulator:
- Switch to ST mode when using TOS <= 1.04
- Replace "--slowfdc" with "--fastfdc" option and default to fast FDC being OFF
- "--fast-boot" option to initialize "memvalid" system variables to
by-pass the memory test of TOS, so that the system boots faster
- "--force-max" option to force Hatari use specified maximum resolution
to avoid window size changes messing up Hatari video recording
- "--desktop-st" option to keep desktop resolution also for ST/STE modes
(unfortunately without scaling besides the low-res doubling)
- GEMDOS HD emulation:
- Allow drives up to Z: (not Y:)
- Unique name for each partition
- Warn user when using too old TOS version
- Dfree() reports host disk total and free size if they're below
value understood by TOS and unlike earlier, it forwards Dfree()
requests for other (IDE/ACSI image) partitions to TOS
- Debugger improvements:
- "history" command to list instructions executed before entering
debugger
- each trace output line is flushed to avoid it being buffered
- Fixed behavior of the Caps Lock key
Other changes:
- Fixes to Hatari UI Hatari window embedding
- Latest Linux sfdisk is borked so atari-hd-image script creates
HD image partition table now itself (experimental)
- Windows needs also HOMEDRIVE for full home path in case Hatari
isn't installed on C:, bug 18297
- Minor fixes
Fixed Demos :
Overscan Demos and Shforstv.exe by Paulo Simoes (black line at top),
ACF - Just Bugging (FDC), Delirious Demo IV (FDC, shifter),
Overdrive Demos - Snirkel Screen (IKBD), Oxygene - Stniccc2000 (FDC),
Cream - Madness (FDC)
Fixed Games :
Superior 65 - Super Monaco GP, DBug 24 - Knightmare, Pompey Pirates 27 - X-Out,
Fuzion 32 - Pang, Fuzion 108 - The Simpson, Fuzion 40 - Super Grand Prix,
Fuzion 46 - Warlock, Fuzion 51 - Navy Seals, Fuzion 61 - Gods, Fuzion 78 -
Carmen Sandiego, Fuzion 82 - Flight Of The Intruder, Fuzion 83 - RBI Baseball 2,
Fuzion 102 - Exile, PP46 - Yolanda, Medway Boys 15 - Murders In Venice,
Medway Boys 83 - Yogi Bear, BBC 2 - Platoon, BBC 39 - The Deep, Superior 71 - The
Running Man, Adrenaline 24 - Demon Blue, Superior 93 - Alien Storm
Fixed Misc Programs :
Procopy 1.50, Terminators Copy 1.68, maxYMizer (caps lock key)
Version 1.5.0 (2011-07-19):
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Emulation:
- Alternative CPU core based on WinUAE for more accurate future
HW interaction emulation (see readme.txt on how to enable it)
- Use precise clocks values (as described in Atari's official schematics)
for better video/dma audio synchronisation (e.g. More Or Less Zero by DHS)
- DSP:
- Some DSP-timing sensitive Falcon demos that by luck happened to work
with Hatari v1.4, don't work anymore in v1.5 with the default UAE CPU
core. This is because while DSP cycle accuracy has been improved,
the default UAE CPU core isn't fully cycle accurate. The experimental
WinUAE core is needed to run them
- Undocumented 2 bit shift special case for DSP SSI <-> crossbar exchanges
in hanshake mode with 32 Mhz clock (fixes DSP MP2 player used in many
demos & programs, but that requires also using WinUAE core)
- Sound improvements:
- Major rewrite and accuracy improvements in STE DMA sound, including
emulation of the 8 bytes FIFO, giving results nearly identical to
a real STE (e.g. HexTracker by Paulo Simoes)
- Improved precision in sound emulation, with nearly no rounding errors
over successive VBL (correct sound latency on US TOS running at 60 Hz)
- By default mix 3 YM voices using a lookup table of values
measured on real STF to improve digisound (e.g. Flashback demo sound)
- Remove old ST Sound's code used for tone and noise step compute
(some low period values were not correctly emulated)
- Video emulation on STF/STE:
- On STE, correctly shift display 8 pixels to the left when using
224 bytes overscan
- Add support for spec512 mode in med res (fixes 'Best Part Of The
Creation' in 'Punish Your Machine', 'HighRes Mode' demo by Paradox)
- Correctly shift the screen 4 pixels to the left when left border is removed
in med res overscan (Hatari 1.4 handled only low res, fixes 'No Cooper'
by 1984, 'Best Part Of The Creation' by Delta Force)
- Precisely emulate the number of frames per sec (eg 50.053 fps in PAL
instead of the usual 50 Hz)
Emulator:
- Atari program given as argument to Hatari will be automatically
started after TOS boots. GEMDOS hard disk directory can now be
give also as an argument, not just as a (-d) option
- TOS4 or --machine falcon option use enables DSP emulation now
(follow them with --dsp none to disable DSP emulation)
- Memory state saving and restoring fixes, especially for Falcon
- Crossbar state is included -> state file ABI break
- AVI recording options can be set in the new [Video] config file section
- AVI recording supports non integer frame rates.
- Falcon/TT Videl/hostscreen improvements:
- New setting/option for using Desktop resolution & scaling
in fullscreen instead of changing the resolution. On by default
- User's desktop size is used as max limit for Videl zooming.
Requires SDL >= 1.2.10
- Videl resolution change is done immediately, not 3 VBLs late
- Fix issues in switching between same sized VDI & TT resolutions
- SDL GUI improvements:
- DSP can be disabled from the GUI without needing to restart Hatari
- Disk access LED and desktop-resolution options
- AVI video length (mins:secs) is shown in titlebar during recording
- Option for cropping statusbar from videos & screenshots
- Fileselector scrollbar can be used with mouse
- YM mixing method selection
- Debugging improvements:
- New disassembler with more Motorola like syntax
- CPU & DSP "disasm" and "memdump" commands accept register & symbol
names in addition to numeric addresses / address ranges
- Option to disable Falcon mic
("--mic off" is needed for Mudflap debugging)
- "--run-vbls" can be set also at run-time
- "--bios-intercept" can be toggled from debugger (not just enabled)
- BIOS CON: output is converted to ASCII and redirected to host console
with the --bios-intercept option
- Support for tracing DSP, Videl and Crossbar
- Support for tracing AES calls. VDI calls can now be traced
also without using an extended VDI resolution
- BIOS/XBIOS/GEMDOS/VDI/AES/Line-A/Line-F opcode breakpoint support
- TEXT, DATA and BSS variables for addresses of corresponding segments
in currently loaded program
- "aes", "vdi" and "gemdos" subcommands for "info". Without arguments
they will output information about corresponding OS part state,
with (a non-zero) argument, opcode/call name table is shown.
"video" subcommand for showing video related information.
"cookiejar" subcommand for showing cookiejar contents.
- "file" subcommand to "lock" that executes debugger commands from
given file when debugger is entered (or ":lock" breakpoint is hit)
- ":lock" option to breakpoints that will show (without stopping the
emulation) the same output as what's shown on entering the debugger
- ":file" option to breakpoints that executes the commands from
given file when the breakpoint is hit. This can be used to chain
debugger actions
- multiple breakpoints options can be specified per breakpoint
- parenthesis in "evaluate" command are used to indicate memory
accesses (instead of operator precedence like earlier)
- DSP and CPU code profiling functionality. Provides statistics about
profiled code (executed code address ranges, max and total counts
and cycles), lists addresses/instructions taking most cyles and if
symbols are loaded, what were the most used symbol addresses.
- Profiling information is also shown in disassembly output
Other changes:
- hmsa tool can create empty disk images in addition to converting
disks between ST & MSA formats
- Minimal hatari-tos-register.sh Linux init script (example)
to register Hatari as binfmt_misc handler/runner for TOS programs
- hatari-console.py renamed to hconsole.py, documented and made extensible
(hconsole is command line Python interface for Hatari remote API)
- Support for plain Makefiles removed (except for internal tests),
only CMake is used for configuring and building Hatari
- CMake doesn't require anymore working C++, C-compiler is enough
* Remove deprecated CONFIGURE_ARGS.
* For fixing build, --enable-instrumentation is commented out.
Changelog:
* All CPU options are defined in bochsrc, not in build stage.
* Many improvements.
v1.28 <- v1.27
* ROM loader can now use libarchive when available for decompression. This
replaces the previous system()-based implementation.
* "tobin" has been renamed "dgen_tobin" and no longer has dependencies on
SDL and other unnecessary libraries.
* CZ80: fixed emulation bug ("weird sound") introduced just before the 1.27
release.
* Improved CZ80/MZ80 switching.
* Improved save file handling. Z80 context and other important things are now
stored. The format is mostly compatible with Gens v5 and save states can be
exchanged between both emulators. Old save files are still supported.
* YM2612: upgraded from version 0.35f to 1.4b, as found in Final Burn Alpha.
Sound quality has improved as a result.
* Improved sound buffer management again, a single buffer is now used with
both channels instead of two separate buffers.
* Removed 8-bit sound output format since it was useless and annoying to
support with the new buffer.
* Removed superfluous window resizing messages.
* Game Genie codes can now be entered while in stopped mode to avoid crashes
when more than one is needed at once. Also, DGen now supports RAM patching.
* Corrected clock frequencies for YM2612 and SN76496, sound is pitched a bit
higher than before.
* Added region selection command-line option. This option reuses "-R"
(realtime priority). In case this option isn't given, the default region
used by DGen is now the first found in the ROM header. This option has no
effect on PAL (50Hz) mode which needs to be enabled separately.
* OpenGL: a single OpenGL texture (and subtexture) is now used instead of two
smaller ones, thus removing some of the complexity.
* Usual batch of miscellaneous bugfixes.
v1.27 <- v1.26
* Documentation clean-up, sample.dgenrc update.
* Compilation fixes for MZ80.
* When both Musashi and StarScream are available, default to Musashi since
it provides better emulation.
* Imported CZ80 0.91. This Z80 emulator is pure C and works better than the C
version of MZ80. This means that on non-x86/32 bit hardware, games that
previously didn't have sound now work properly (Sonic 2 for instance).
Thanks to DGen PSP which implemented CZ80 first.
* Modified CZ80 to work properly on big-endian machines.
* When both CZ80 and MZ80 are available, CZ80 is now the default.
* DGen can now be compiled without any external modules. MZ80, CZ80, Musashi
and StarScream can all be disabled.
* There's now a toggle key (F10 by default) to switch between MZ80, CZ80 or
neither.
* The Musashi/StarScream toggle key can now disable them both.
* New rc variables for selecting default emulators.
* FPS are now calculated every second for a more accurate message at exit.
* Implemented bool_show_carthead.
* Game Genie codes can now be entered interactively by pressing F9. They can
also be disabled by re-entering them.
* Various other fixes.
v1.26 <- v1.25
* Upgraded Musashi from 2.0 to 3.3.1. This version solves various emulation
problems.
* Reworked autoconf and automake scripts to improve readability and
portability.
* Added support for MinGW. DGen can now run in Windows.
* Fixed messy border again, this time for all video color depths.
* OpenGL: added bool_opengl_aspect to keep the original aspect ratio during
resizing. This option is enabled by default.
* Added support for 24 bpp (3 Bpp) mode.
* Made Crap TV filters available for all architectures, color depths and
OpenGL.
* OpenGL: fixed GL_LINEAR support so it can be used again instead of
GL_NEAREST, one can switch between them with bool_opengl_linear
(enabled by default).
* Refactored the main loop and SDL code for a smooth frame rate with an
improved sound synchronization.
* Made a wrapper to open and create files relative to user's home directory
in a system-independant manner.
* Fixed Z80 speed in NTSC mode, sound effects were abnormally high pitched.
* Improved FPS counter.
* Removed SIGALRM for improved portability.
* OpenGL: now enabled by default when available.
* MZ80: fixed segfault on reset.
* OpenGL: use 16 bpp mode internally instead of 32, allow textures to be 16
(default) or 32 bit with bool_opengl_32bit.
* OpenGL: added bool_opengl_swap to byte-swap colors when the host computer
endianness is not the same as the ouptut (possible with X11 sessions).
* Screenshots are now generated from the internal video buffer as TARGA files
so they are available in all modes (OpenGL or not) and depths (except 8 bpp,
as usual). Their output directory is ~/.dgen/screenshots.
* OpenGL: the message bar now spans both textures.
* Improved stopped mode to be less easily unstopped and to avoid dropping
frames. Also, it now accepts resizes and refreshes.
* Added the -H option to tweak emulation speed. Can be used to run 50Hz games
at 60Hz.
v1.25 <- v1.24
* Added 64 bits targets support, DGen can now run on those.
* Minor fix for joystick/joypad when sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).
* Fixed messy border issue (garbage on the right of the screen).
* OpenGL: worked around the vertical dark line between textures.
* OpenGL: the visible area now takes the entire window (except for the
status line). No more borders.
* OpenGL: the window can now be resized/rescaled at runtime.
* Fixed bug in which SDL-specific fields in dgenrc were not taken into
account when no command-line option was given.
* Replaced dgenrc parser with a better one. It breaks compatibility a
little with the previous version because special characters now need to
be escaped or put between quotation marks.
* Improved configure and Makefiles for proper SDL/OpenGL detection,
better dependencies in parallel builds, NASM's presence on x86 targets
which shouldn't be mandatory and various other things.
* Fixed many crashes.
* Removed many compilation warnings.
v1.24 <- v1.23
* Fixed compilation on GCC 4.
distinction between host and guest addresses and 64-bit host addresses
give it fits.
If anyone wants to try making it work, let me know as I have partial
patches.
support for it. There is ostensibly alpha support so it might be
possible to make it work (although the number of cast warnings I see
makes me dubious) but it certainly isn't going to get fixed anytime
soon.
2011-04-01 Philip Kendall <philip-fuse@shadowmagic.org.uk>
* Fuse 1.0.0.1a released.
* Remove all ROMs for which there isn't explicit permission to
distribute (Philip Kendall).
0.9.10 -> 0.9.11
general:
- Now using CMake as the default build system.
For now, autotools based build and "custom" build systems are still supported.
- New Cocoa port
- Added a dynamic recompiling SH2 core for x86 and ARM
- New SCSP implementation
- Major update of the software renderer from the yabause-rr team
- Added an option to allow to execute from the cache
- Improvements to the OpenGL renderer
carbon port:
- Improvements
gtk port:
- Added command line option to enable/disable frame skipping / limiting.
- Added frame skipping/limiting configuration in settings.
- Added --autoload command line option
- Vdp2 layers can be toggled from the Vdp2 debug window
qt port:
- Added command line support
