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
* 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)
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".
* 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.
