Version 4.2.0 (2019/12/28) - released at SILK
New Features:
raw Pokey registers recording by Ivo van Poorten
new platform supported: FireBee
optional hiding of hidden files/folders in the UI file selector
libatari800 (Atari800 as a library) by Rob McMullen
R: device (many years old feature) enabled by default
Fixes:
proper check if SDL joysticks are found (fixes#58)
Portrait mode for Android (related to #41)
RMW for Pokey
Improved BASIC LST file loading (#55)
ROM OS path changes handled better (#15)
improved "Find ROM images" - now Atari800 reboots if necessary (#15)
fixed an old bug which caused freezing in the UI on Falcon
New command line options:
-pokeyrec and its children
-atari_files (#29)
-saved_files (#29)
-kbdjoy0 -kbdjoy1 -nokbdjoy0 -nokbdjoy1 (#29)
Plus many Atari Falcon specific fixes and improvements by Mikro. This should be the most complete and bug-free Atari Falcon release in years, so enjoy! :)
Version 4.1.0:
New Features:
* Atari800 now includes Altirra BIOS-es for all emulated systems: 400/800,
XL/XE, and 5200; as well as Altirra BASIC. It is now possible to use the
emulator without providing any ROM images.
* The Altirra OS-es and Altirra BASIC can now be selected by users in the
"System settings", if they want to use them. Previously Altirra OS was used
automatically only when no other OS ROMs were found.
* joyhat support for all four real joysticks, configurable in CLI/cfg/TUI
Notable changes:
* All documentation specific to building Atari800 on Windows has been moved
from DOC/INSTALL to a new file, DOC/BUILD.windows. This document
has also been expanded with a new chapter covering building Atari800 using
MSYS2.
* Ability to use the built-in EmuOS firmware has been removed. Users wishing
to run Atari800 without providing OS ROMs now have an option of using the
built-in Altirra OS-es, which are compatible with much more Atari software
than EmuOS.
At the same time, it is still possible to compile a version of Atari800
without any OS ROMs built in, by means of the --disable-altirra_bios
configure option.
Port specific improvements:
== Atari Falcon ==
* More Videl/screen handling fixes
* Ability to run Atari800 in an AES-less environment
* Replaced C2P with MMU friendly and faster code
* Atari800 should run on all TOS clones with XBIOS Sound API
== Android ==
* Fixed building of the Android target, broken in the previous release.
* Fixed labels on console keys (unreadable on hi-res displays)
* Fixed console keys press detection
* Fixed "right-handed joystick" trigger press
== Raspberry Pi ==
* updated build documentation
* find proper Broadcom GLes libraries
* fixed bug in GRAPHICS 9 (shifted colors)
== MS Windows ==
* updated build documentation
General Fixes:
* updated build documentation
* it is possible to build atari800 out of source tree
* unconnected host joysticks initialized properly, fixes the MULE game
Version 4.0.0:
This release brings four years of hard work of fellow Atari800 developers
on improvements and bugfixes of our favorite Atari emulator.
Ports to Atari ST/TT/Falcon, Android, Raspberry Pi and Sega Dreamcast
have been improved (some of them greatly).
CPU, SIO, ANTIC, GTIA, POKEY and PIA emulation has been corrected.
Atari800 now includes Altirra BIOS so it is now possible to run *some*
programs even without installing the original ROM files.
The total number of changes is so huge that major version bump was necessary.
Contrary to usual NEWS entries here follows a very incomplete list. It might
be updated in later releases. In the meantime please read DOC/ChangeLog
and the commit history in git for complete list of changes.
This release contains breaking changes in color handling. Users updating from
an earlier version should reset their color settings, or else the display
might be unreadable. To reset the color settings, do one of these:
* Select one of the presets available in the menu option "Display settings"->
"Color preset"; or
* Run atari800 with the -color-preset command-line option, e.g.:
atari800 -colors-preset standard; or
* Delete the emulator's config file (.atari800.cfg). Caution: you'll lose
all Atari800 settings!
New features:
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* Support for loading of CAS images with "fsk" chunks - images of
copy-protected tapes can now be loaded, with SIO patch being disabled.
* Bit3 Full View 80 Column card emulation.
* New cartridge type 68: "Atrax 128 KB cartridge".
Previously existing cartridge type 17: "Atrax 128 KB cartridge" was based
on a misconception - real Atrax cartridges have their address and data
lines intermixed, so type 17 could not be used with actual ROM dumps. So,
type 17 has been renamed to "Decoded Atrax 128 KB cartridge", and new type
68 has been added, whcih now can be used for Atrax ROM chip dumps.
* New cartridge types supported:
- aDawliah 32 KB cartridge
- aDawliah 64 KB cartridge
* new command line switch "-volume" (for 16bit sound output) that can set
the output volume of the Atari 800 emulator with value from 0 to 100.
Changes:
--------
* The Sound Settings option "Fragment size" has been renamed to less cryptic
"Hardware buffer size".
* Total emulator volume is lower now because the output has been shifted
in order to fix a possible annoying humming sound in silence on some
receivers (TV sets).
Fixes:
------
* Fixed computation of gamma adjustment - now it is applied to each of the
three RGB channels separately.
* On systems that support synchronized sound: Fixed the emulator crashing
when Dual POKEY was enabled while High Fidelity POKEY was turned off.
* Improve screen update routines in the Dreamcast port. They don't use
DIRTYRECT anymore but are faster than the old routines when the whole
screen is dirty.
Version 3.1.0:
General new features:
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* More accurate emulation of PAL colours (based on analysis of oscillograms
of real PAL GTIA output)
* Improved PAL blending, working on all grayscale pixels and is accurate now
(can be enabled/disabled in "TV effect" display settings)
* common sound layer implemented (SDL, JavaNVM, OSS, DOS) with synchro sound.
* synchronized sound is now supported by both POKEY sound engines.
* turbo mode (F12) is considerably faster
* Added cartridge mapping used by "Turbo Hit"/"Atari Blizzard Hit".
* Added MegaMax 2 MB cartridge mapping.
* Added read-only support for the 4 MB Flash MegaCart mapping.
* Added minimal support for The!Cart.
General Fixes:
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* fixed possible unnecessary cartridge bank switching
* fixes and clean up in Java port
* fixed diagnostic cartridge cold start (doesn't send Start+Option)
* fixed two old bugs in DOS sound (pitch being wrong and sound missing)
* fixed keyboard not working for ncurses video and OSS sound
are replaced with .include "../../devel/readline/buildlink3.mk", and
USE_GNU_READLINE are removed,
* .include "../../devel/readline/buildlink3.mk" without USE_GNU_READLINE
are replaced with .include "../../mk/readline.buildlink3.mk".
* Option to automatically save configuration on exit
* More settings saved in configuration:
- currently attached tape file
- cartridge settings, including currently attached cartridges
- state of R-Time 8
- system settings, including Mosaic/Axlon RAM size
* New Tape Management menu - can now create blank tape images, switch tape
to read/write in order to save additional data at the end of the current
tape image, rewind/fast forward the tape, and mark it as read-only. See
DOC/USAGE for details.
* Displaying tape position when "Show sector/block counter" is enabled.
* Reworked Cartridge Management menu - now displays filename of the
attached cartridge.
* Option to disable restarting of the machine after cartridge change.
* When attaching a cartridge from the command line, cartridge type can now
be specified using the new -cart-type and -cart2-type options.
* New cartridge types supported:
- OSS 8 KB cartridge
- OSS two chip 16 KB cartridge (043M)
- Blizzard 4 KB cartridge
- AST 32 KB cartridge
- Atrax SDX 64 KB cartridge
- Atrax SDX 128 KB cartridge
- Turbosoft 64 KB cartridge
- Turbosoft 128 KB cartridge
- Ultracart 32 KB cartridge
- Low bank 8 KB cartridge
- SIC! 128 KB cartridge
- SIC! 256 KB cartridge
- SIC! 512 KB cartridge
- Standard 2 KB cartridge
- Standard 4 KB cartridge
- Right slot 4 KB cartridge
* The configure script can now auto-detect some of the available display and
sound interfaces before compiling.
* Option to enable XEP80 added to The Emulator Settings menu.
* Emulation of the 1200XL, including console LEDs, no built-in BASIC, the
F1-F4 keys (mapped to arrow keys in the SDL version) and the on-board
J1 jumper.
* Emulation of the XE Game System, including the built-in game and
detachable keyboard.
* Revamped the Select System menu (now called System Settings). Can now
select many system settings, including RAM expansions, OS and BASIC
revision, and more.
* System ROM settings moved to a separate menu. Now it stores paths to all
known official revisions of the Atari OS, the 5200 BIOS, all BASIC
revisions, and the XEGS built-in game. The OS revision to use is chosen
automatically when selecting a machine type (for example, the 400/800 OS
PAL or NTSC version is chosen depending on the selected TV system).
* 400/800: Emulation of all RAM sizes achievable with different combinations
of the CX852 and CX853 modules - from 8 to 48 KB.
* Emulation of 32/48KB memory sizes in the XL/XE mode, compatible
with memory expansions for the 600XL manufactured by RC Systems.
* Emulation of the MapRAM hardware hack.
* Display settings: "Hue" renamed to "Tint". Tint now configurable also in
PAL mode.
Two years and a little over a month elapsed between the pkgsrc release
and the latest version 2.2.1 (5 May 2011). There were hundreds of
changes, but the vast majority were bug fixes and improvements on
existing functionality.
The only major addition was implementation of IDE.
See changelog in DOC/ChangeLog for details.
* added Axlon and Mosaic RAM expansions for Atari 400/800
* added emulation of 1400XL, 1450XLD, MIO and Black Box
* added support of .PRO copy-protected disk images
* implemented tape loading with variable bitrates
* implemented cassette writing via hardware registers
* added switching between NTSC and PAL color palettes
* added emulation of XEP80 and a prototype 80 column card
for the Atari 1090 (SDL only currently)
* added emulation of CX85 numeric keyboard (Java and SDL only)
* event recording added (-record, -playback): save your game walkthrough
using the "-record mygame.dat" and later impress your friends by
your game skills or highest score using the "-playback mygame.dat"
* NTSC Filter option added to UI
* -directmouse added to SDL and X11 (used for -mouse pad or koala)
* monitor supports arrow keys - e.g. up-arrow for history
* SDL: interpolated scanlines (use -scanlinesnoint to disable)
* SDL: added -mouse, -mousespeed, -grabmouse (also Alt+M)
* SDL: visual configuration of keyboard joysticks layout in the UI
(F1 -> Controller Configuration -> Define layout)
default mapping changed to 4,8,6,5 (joy0) and A,W,D,S (joy1)
* R: device can be serial-only, network-only or both (selectable)
* R: device now supported on MS Windows and Dreamcast as well
* a completely new port to Java using NestedVM, running also as an applet
* Falcon/TT: removed Devpac dependency in asm files (now gcc friendly)
* new style of artifacting
* corrected PMG in bizarre ANTIC/GTIA modes
* added 128 KB SpartaDOS X cartridge type
* added support for QVGA landscape smartphones, added the virtual keyboard
* new command-line option "-win32keys" for keyboard layouts different from US
* MS-Win: run the emulator in a window ("-windowed" on the command line)
* middle button support for ST and Amiga mice in X11 and MS-Win targets
* Blargg's NTSC composite video emulator, based on NewRisingSun's Algorithm.
* small fixes in ANTIC/GTIA emulation
* fixed DCM image handling (broken in 2.0.0)
* added emulation of Atari XL/XE with 192 KB RAM
* integrated SEGA Dreamcast port
* Atari Inverse key mapped also to "`" (backquote) in SDL port
* some minor improvements
* much more DOC/TODO
Just a quick UI bugfixes release.
Changes 2.0.0:
This release brings major source code clean up, numerous bug fixes and
many great new features and important improvements. 98% of changes since
last release have been made by Piotr Fusik - admire his dedication
to Atari800 project while you will be browsing through the impressive list
of changes below.
Run-time configuration (via the .atari800.cfg file) has been improved.
All configuration options are now available in the User Interface.
Remember to use "Save configuration file" when necessary.
If you are new to Atari800, press F1 and select "Emulator Configuration"
to configure the ROM images. This can be easily done with
"Find ROM images in a directory".
DISK_DIR, ROM_DIR, EXE_DIR and STATE_DIR configuration options are no longer
supported in this version. You need to re-select your directories
using "Emulator Configuration" -> "Configure directories".
aalib-x11 and aview-x11.
SDL dependencies change, so bump PKGREVISION (and BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED)
for affected packages.
Addresses PR 32046 by Leonard Schmidt.
* different color palette used by default
* PNG screenshots added
* added sector counter and speedometer
* F6 is Atari HELP key on Curses, Falcon and in X11
* added missing combinations of ANTIC modes with GTIA modes
* keyboard joystick works in more games (doesn't pause the game) in SDL
* mouse joystick emulation works in X11
* cassette loading by hardware registers (Ninja and Elektraglide
are examples of games that load correctly now)
* blank boot ATR disk image can be created in the Disk Management menu
* many small fixes and major source code clean up
* ANTIC mode 2 + GTIA mode 10 - half pixel shift fix
* Amiga port updated
* OS/2 port updated
* DOSVGA port updated - joystick definition read again
* X11 port has improved keyboard support (Ctrl+Pause, left Ctrl for joy button)
* SDL port updated: joysticks emulated on keyboard can be freely edited
now with SDL_JOY_0_<direction> and SDL_TRIG_0 (same for JOY_1/TRIG_1)
config file parameters that expect values from SDL keySyms.
* R: can now be hooked to a real serial port (no runtime config yet)
* various ANTIC and POKEY fixes for perfect software compatibility
* disk and cartridge info saved in the state files
* casette handling greatly improved
* even more cartridges supported (40 now!)
* some rare buffer overflows fixed
Highlights since last 1.2.5 release:
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* new HiFi sound (you may en/disable it in the UI)
* new cycle-exact Antic emulation
* "H:" emulation complete (including subfolders)
* Paged memory implementation (fast XE bank-switching)
* new configuration file name and location ($HOME/.atari800.cfg)
Makefiles simply need to use this value often, for better or for
worse.
(2) Create a new variable FIX_RPATH that lists variables that should
be cleansed of -R or -rpath values if ${_USE_RPATH} is "no". By
default, FIX_RPATH contains LIBS, X11_LDFLAGS, and LDFLAGS, and
additional variables may be appended from package Makefiles.
Summary of changes since 1.2.4 (from ChangeLog):
* DOC/cart.txt: fixed a few typos
* ui.c:
- applied patch from Ed Cogburn that fixes subsequent mounting
of R/W disks in slot that was mounted R/O previously.
- finally implemented the R/W <-> R/O mode switching using the Space Bar.
Please note that this R/W <-> R/O switch is just temporary and does
not change the writeprotect flag of ATR images. Besides, it cannot
override this flag so you actually can't mount a writeprotected ATR
image read/write using this Space Bar toggle.
* atari.c: Ken Ames sent me a very simple patch that is supposed to allow
compiling the Atari800 on OS/2 "using Hob X11, XFree86, or IBM's X11
server".
* cartridge.[ch], ui.c, DOC/cart.txt: five new cartridge types (Nir Dary)
* cartridge.[ch], ui.c, DOC/cart.txt, DOC/README: seven new cartridge types
* pokeysnd.c: a fix for better quality of sound
* antic.c: ANTIC mode E + GTIA mode 9 ("Unconventional 2k", "Ass Kisiel")
* DOC/BUGS: "Numen" soundtrack
* cartridge.[ch], ui.c, DOC/cart.txt: 1 MB XEGS cart
* input.c: Amiga/ST mouse right button ("Bombdown")
* input.h, input.c, pia.c: MultiJoy4 interface (4 joysticks for XL/XE)
foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the
packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar".
A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also
change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
first component is now a package name+version/pattern, no more
executable/patchname/whatnot.
While there, introduce BUILD_USES_MSGFMT as shorthand to pull in
devel/gettext unless /usr/bin/msgfmt exists (i.e. on post-1.5 -current).
Patch by Alistair Crooks <agc@netbsd.org>
