Emulation:
- IDE improvements:
- Support for second drive (IDE slave)
- WIN_FORMAT command (allows HD Driver to format IDE drives)
- GEMDOS HDD emulation:
- Minor fixes to Fseek(), Fopen(), Fdatime() (e.g. Pure debugger works)
- On TOS v4 Fread() size arg is unsigned, on earlier TOS its signed
(bad code can use -1L to read whole file instead getting fail on TOS4)
- Prevent DTA and read/write functions accessing invalid memory areas
- Programs can now change read-only files to be writable
- Falcon sound emulation:
- Microphone (jack) emulation in Falcon mode (requires portaudio library)
- SSI direct sound entrance ("Audio Fun Machine" and winrec are working)
- DMA sound recording
- Crossbar handshake mode transfers
- Max VDI rez increased to TT-hi size (1280x960)
- 68020+FPU changed to 68EC030+FPU (no MMU 030) for Falcon and TT modes
(Some Falcon programs didn't work with 020)
- Video emulation on STF/STE:
- correctly shift the screen 4 pixels to the left when left border is removed
- add support for STE's 224 bytes overscan line without stabilizer
- when reading $ff8205/07/09 on STE, take into account the value
of horizontal scrolling/prefetch and linewidth
- when writing to $ff8205/07/09 on STE, correctly handle the case
where the write is made while display in ON
- LMC1992 emulation / STE sound filtering
* Fixed HD boot drive when drive C: does not exist. TOS 2.06 was
crashing during the boot process when drive C: did not exist, but
* Fixed drive enumeration of GEMDOS HD emulation. Single partition
GEMDOS HD emulation did not work anymore when an ACSI HD image was
also used, due to some problems with the automatic drive letter detection.
* Fix ConnectedDriveMask with multiple, non-contiguous GEMDOS partitions.
* Fix to incorrect use of DESTDIR in python-ui installation
* more compact debugger output (return to emulation msg)
* update copyright, fix trace settings names
* fix: debugger memdump/disasm show/save/load need now to use '$' for hex
* Improved the CSS of the manual and compatibility list. The "font-
family:Fixed" did not work at all on Windows. Also cleaned up the
CSS in general.
* The hatari icons for the Windows executable must not be put into an
archive for linking.
Emulation:
* Falcon DSP emulation good enough to improve some few games/demos, e.g.
Virtual City. (most still work better with emulation disabled, though)
* New sound engine that fixes all problems with the old one
* 16-bit stereo sound (instead of 8-bit mono)
* Improved blitter emulation (blitter cycles emulation, blitter interrupt)
* Improved STE support for some video registers (hscroll, linewidth, ...)
* Improved printer emulation
* Improved STE microwire emulation
* Improved support for games & demos which are accessing IKBD directly
(including a fake 6301 emulation for the known IKBD programs)
* ACSI emulation fix to get HDDriver working
* Some other minor bugfixes to ST/STe emulation (FDC, MFP, PSG, RS-232)
* Improved MFP emulation
* Improved 68k emulation (move.b Ax,(Ay) and extb.l)
* Fixed bugs in the GEMDOS HD emulation (Pexec() etc.)
Emulator:
* Statusbar and overlay led features
* Screenshots work also in VDI/TT/Falcon mode and are saved as PNGs
* Support for automatic frameskip and pausing emulation
Lots of changes, including
Hatari version 1.0.0
Version 1.0.0 of the Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator Hatari has
been released. A lot of things have been changed this time:
The user's configuration files are now located in the directory ~/.hatari/
[...]
Hatari version 0.95
Hatari version 0.95 has been released. This release brings you basic
Atari TT and Falcon emulation! Please note that both new emulation
modes are still highly experiemental,some few games and demos work,
but most still have more or less big problems. Basic emulation of
Falcon video shifter (Videl), NVRAM and DMA sound is in place. The
biggest drawback: There is no working Falcon DSP emulation yet.
[...]
- Better Spectrum 512 support (60Hz support, improved I/O memory waitstates).
- STE right border opening support (used in Obsession, Pacemaker).
- Blitter Smudge mode support (used in Pacemaker demo).
- Wheel-mouse simulates cursor up and down.
- Work-around to FDC handling, --slow-fdc option is not anymore needed.
- Bugfix to MFP, sound works now in more YMRockerz releases.
- Bugfix to GEMDOS path handling (Hatari SIGSEGV).
- Bugfix to emulated memory initialization (4MB was cleared earlier, now
exactly the amount set up for Hatari. Saves memory on embedded systems
if less than 4MB is specified.)
- Re-written command-line option handling.
- (Again) lots of code const/static, type usage and indentation cleanup.
- Preliminary support for TOS 3.0x and 030 TT software that runs in ST
resolutions and doesn't need PMMU.
- Native GUI for Mac OSX.
- ACSI emulation fixes to get HD formatting to work with AHDI 5. HD emulation
now works quite fine with AHDI 5 (but other HD drivers are currently not
supported).
- Joystick shortcut changed to toggle cursor emulation between ports 0 and 1.
- Keys for all Hatari shortcuts can now be configured from hatari.cfg.
- Added command line option for setting ST keyboard mapping.
- Joystick command line option requires now parameter for a port for which
the joystick cursor emu is enabled.
- Fixed relative mouse event handling in zoomed low-rez.
- Hatari shows now more of the bottom borden (screen size is now 384x276
instead of 384x267).
- Fixed sync delay timings - sound should now be better (e.g. on Mac OS X).
- Support for STE hardware emulation: STE palette, STE shifter (horizontal fine
scrolling, split screen effects), DMA sound and STE joypads.
See the manual for a list of working STE applications/games/demos.
- Hatari can now emulate up to 14 MiB ST RAM instead of only 4 MiB.
- Support for parallel port joysticks.
- Improved GEMDOS HD emulation (added Fattrib() call).
- Adding and removing a GEMDOS or ACSI hard disk should now work correctly.
- Re-factoring of the screen conversion functions.
- Improved manual: Now with screenshots of the options dialogs.
- As always: Code cleanup and bug fixes.
- No more crashes when a program tries to access illegal sector numbers.
- Improved built-in ROM cartridge.
- Rewrote the IO memory emulation code -> Better compatibility.
- Support for TOS 1.06 and TOS 1.62
- Emulated CPU can now also be run at 16 MHz or 32 MHz.
- File selection dialog scrollable with mouse wheel or cursor keys, too.
- Hatari now works on 64-bit host CPUs, too.
- Floppy disk images can now be set writable/write-protected in the GUI.
- Hatari can now also load a global configuration file (e.g. /etc/hatari.cfg).
- Configurable logging functions.
Changes:
- Again some code cleanup and bug fixes.
- The configuration file layout has changed a little bit: You might have to
check your settings in the GUI and to save the new configuration again.
- Window/fullscreen mode is now correctly initialized from the configuration
file.
- Added --window command line option to force a start in window mode.
- Added alert boxes to show warnings, errors and information messages.
- PC mouse pointer is now better in sync with the ST mouse pointer.
- It's now possible to load an alternative cartridge image file.
- A lot of internal code cleanup and bug fixes.
- Added a dialog for creating new blank floppy disk images.
- The source code has been optimized for better emulation speed.
- Added RS232 emulation (still very experimental and not very well tested! It
seems not to work reliable yet. Help for debugging is very appreciated!).
- Some bugs in the 68000 emulation have been fixed.
- The emulator now checks for double bus errors and stops the emulation if
necessary (instead of crashing the emulator).
- Timer-D is now patched correctly again.
- The old font has been replaced by two new fonts so that the GUI now looks
better in high resolutions.
- The fonts are now linked into the executable.
- Added support for DIM floppy disk images.
Changes since 0.30 include (please see the doc/changelog.txt in the hatari
source distribution for full details):
* Speed improvements
* Emulation improvements including:
+ GEMDOS hard disk
+ Mega-ST realtime clock
+ Improved memory mapping
+ Improved bus errors and exception cycles
+ Various games now work
+ Simple printer support
+ Initial MIDI emulation
* General bug fixes including:
+ rtc year fix
+ Fix corruption bug in MSA compression function
* Improvements added for cross-compilation of hatari
Changes:
- Changed output audio sample format back to unsigned again (seems to work
better on some systems).
- Adjusted audio functions so that Hatari's sound should be right again.
- Fixed TOS patching routine - it was only working on big endian machines
(Thanks to Tony Smolar for the hint!).
- IKBD_Cmd_ReadClock() should now work.
- Some parts of the code accessed the SR directly to read the IPL - however
the UAE CPU core only updates the SR when doing a MakeSR() first. So this
is done in the affected code parts now, too.
- The IPL wasn't raised when a MFP interrupt occured - fixed now.
- Full screen resolution for ST-Low can now be selected from the screen
setup dialog.
- The IKBD emulation does not longer duplicate joystick fire buttons when
a game (like Babarian) tries to use both, joystick and mouse => Games like
Lotus Turbo Esprit Challange are now working again!
- Improved audio timer function - the code should now be a little bit faster.
- Resynced Hatari's UAE CPU core with UAE 0.8.22 - this fixes some bugs in
68k instructions like ABCD and SBCD.
- Now only reinitializing the sound subsystem if really needed, this should
fix a problem with Linux ALSA sound driver (Thanks to Tony Smolar for
discovering this problem!).
- Added another patch for TOS 2.05 so that this TOS version should now work
with Hatari, too.
- Rewrote TOS patching routine. It is more flexible now.
- Removed 0xa0ff opcode for VDI resolutions; using GEMDOS_OPCODE now instead.
- Fixed MMU RAM size configuration bug.
- Rewrote some screen conversion functions in C (low320x8.c, low640x8.c,
med640x8.c and spec640x16.c).
- When a bus or address error occurred, the PC was often not set to the
right exception handler routine. This has been fixed now - thanks to
Philippe Gerin for finding the bug and the patch for solving it!
as emulators/hatari.
Hatari is an Atari ST emulator for systems supported by the SDL library.
You need a copy of an Atari ST TOS ROM to use this program. Then run
the program as follows: hatari --tos tos.image
