slight fix.
* Changes in VICE 2.3
======================
** General
----------
- Added x64sc, the accurate C64 emulator:
* VIC-II emulation rewritten from scratch using results from extensive
testing with newly written test programs on real hardware.
* Emulation is done on a cycle by cycle basis combined with pixel exact
dot clock domain handling.
* Accurate handling of all possible in-line splits of VIC-II registers
and graphics data.
* C64 model and even individual chip revisions can be selected for very
detailed emulation of their differences.
* Equally accurate PAL, NTSC and PAL-N emulation.
We believe x64sc is one of the most accurate C64 emulators at the
moment.
- Drive improvements, including weak bit emulation.
- Major reSID overhaul:
* Emulation of all known pipeline delays for full cycle accuracy.
* New shift register model based on revectorized die photograps.
* Accurate DAC models based on revectorized die photograps.
* Emulation of floating waveform DAC input for waveform 0.
* Advanced 6581 transistor level filter model based on revectorized
die photograps, yielding unprecedented accuracy.
- CRT Emulation (former "PAL emulation") is now available regardless of
video mode or -chip and works in all emulators.
NOTE: Color gamma range changed. You may need to set to 2.200 manually.
(ColorGamma=2200)
- Added "True aspect ratio" option.
- Sound buffer overflows reduced and the error replaced with a warning.
- Various monitor improvements (io details, expansion port status ...)
- Removed little used Emulator ID feature.
- VIA wrap handling rewritten to fix problems with timer 2.
- Added autostart option to do LOAD ,8 instead of ,8,1.
- RESTORE key presses are now distributed randomly across a frame.
- Improved accuracy of CIA interrupts. (6526/6526A selectable)
** C64/C128 changes
-------------------
- Cartridge emulation improvements. Many broken cartridges fixed, and the
following ones added:
* Action Replay 2
* Action Replay 3
* Capture
* Diashow Maker
* EXOS
* Final Cartridge Plus
* Freeze Frame
* Freeze Machine
* Game Killer
* MACH 5
* Magic Voice
* MMC Replay
* Prophet 64
* Snapshot 64
* Super Explode V5
* Super Snapshot
- Added emulation of the passthrough port of MMC64, Magic Voice and IEEE488
cartridges.
- CIA TOD 50/60 Hz toggle emulation fixed.
- Improved 1351/paddles port MUX emulation.
** C64 changes
--------------
- Added Drean (PAL-N) emulation.
- Fixed bug with autostart mode Inject-to-RAM. It now writes to RAM under
I/O correctly.
** C128 changes
---------------
- Fixed a bug with autostarting t64 images.
** VIC20 changes
----------------
- Added Vic Flash Plugin cartridge emulation.
- Fixed video cache & reverse bug.
- Fixed bug in attaching 4kB cartridges.
- Fixed autostarting bug, mostly seen with tape images.
** PLUS4 changes
----------------
- Fixed crashes in NTSC mode.
- Added v364 speech emulation.
** PET changes
--------------
- Added DWW emulation.
- Added userport DAC emulation.
** CBM2 changes
---------------
- Split 5x0 and 6x0/7x0 settings in the configuration file.
** Unix changes
---------------
- (Xaw) The menus can now be operated without holding the
mouse button down. Keyboard control is also available
(Shift-Alt-Z for left menu, Shift-Alt-X for right menu).
- (Xaw) Lightpen/gun support added.
- (GTK+) Fixed aspect ratio option added.
** SDL UI changes
-----------------
- Added vsid UI, FFMPEG and printer menus. The UI is complete.
fixes to get png, jpeg, and ffmpeg support.
* Changes in VICE 2.2
======================
** General
----------
- On autostart, do not change true drive emulation (TDE) anymore by
default. The old behaviour can be switched on again by specifiying
-autostart-handle-tde on the command line.
There is one drawback of this behaviour: If TDE is switched on, an
image attached must fit to the drive type set. For example, when you
attach a .D81, you must have the drive type set to 1581, or the
autostart will fail.
- Added automatic Warp mode during autostart. If this resource is enabled then
VICE automatically enables the warp mode and then loads a file. After
loading the warp mode is disabled again and then the program is started.
- Autostarting a PRG file can now be done in three different ways:
* "Virtual FS": This mode mounts the directory where the file resides as a
virtual filesystem on drive #8 and then loads the PRG via virtual drive
traps. This was the only way of autostarting in previous VICE versions
and is still the default.
* "Inject to RAM": The PRG file is loaded from VICE directly into the RAM of
the emulated machine. Then the memory setup of a Basic LOAD is simulated
and the program is run. This is the fastest mode available but may lack
compatibility as no actual load operation was performed in the emulator.
However, no drive setup is altered during the operation.
* "Diskimage": VICE creates a temporary new disk image and copies the
contents of the PRG file onto it. Then this image is mounted in drive #8
and the program is loaded from there. If TDE is enabled then the load
operation is most compatible. The disk image stays attached until a new
image is mounted.
- Improved PAL emulation is now available for Unix/Xaw XVideo mode, and
AmigaOS. Only the YUV packed modes work, the planar modes still use the
old code paths, though.
- Sound core has been reworked to enable lower latency of operation.
Approximately 50 ms latency values are now routinely reached, and some
people have reported that as low as 30 ms still works for them.
- New SDL port. See ReadmeSDL.txt for details.
- New win64 ports, both amd64/x64 and ia64 are supported (msvc compile only).
- New SDL based armle, mipsle, ppcbe and shle QNX 6.x ports.
- New SDL based M68k and sparc SunOS ports.
- New SDL based Syllable port.
- New SDL based Dingoo port.
- Remote monitor (in other words: TCP/IP interface to VICE monitor) added.
- Fixed non-6502/6510 CPU handling in monitor.
** C64/C128 changes
-------------------
- ReSID's resampler has been optimized with MMX assembly. Some long-standing
bugs in resample-interpolate mode were also fixed.
- ReSID-FP has been optimized, too. It clocks the analog parts at half the
rate now, which saves CPU during filter emulation especially for 6581 modes.
- Added SFX Sound Sampler and SFX Sound Expander emulation.
- Added EasyFlash cartridge emulation.
- Added paddle emulation.
- Added lightpen/lightgun emulation, currently only available for the following
ports: SDL, GTK+, cocoa, win32/win64 and msdos.
- Added support for the following userport joystick adapters: CGA/Protovision,
DXS/HIT, PET (normally only used on the PET/CBM2), Hummer (normally only
used on the C64DTV) and OEM (normally only used on the VIC20).
** C128 changes
---------------
- Added RAM banks 2 and 3 support.
- Improved the VDC emulation.
- Stereo SID $D7xx range support.
** VIC20 changes
----------------
- New cycle exact emulation core. Handles accesses to unconnected
address space and in-line graphics data changes correctly.
(fixes "Impossiblator 3" and others)
- Improved VIC emulation (in-line color/reverse mode changes on half-chars).
- Cartridge handling rewritten.
- Added Mega-Cart cartridge emulation.
- Added Final Expansion cartridge emulation.
- Default memory configuration changed from full to unexpanded.
- Added paddle emulation.
- Added lightpen/lightgun emulation, currently only available for the following
ports: SDL, GTK+, cocoa, win32/win64 and msdos.
- Corrected the joystick support, since the VIC20 can only have one joystick
attached on the joystick port.
- Added support for the following userport joystick adapters: CGA/Protovision
(normally only used on the C64/C128), PET (normally only used on the
PET/CBM2), Hummer (normally only used on the C64DTV) and OEM.
** PLUS4 changes
----------------
- Added Digibooster SID Cart add-on emulation.
- Added SID Cart joystick port emulation.
- Fixed bug in tape recording.
- Improved graphics handling.
** C64DTV changes
-----------------
- Replaced old DTVSID emulation with ReSID-DTV.
- Minor bug fixes and emulation improvements.
- Added support for the following userport joystick adapters: CGA/Protovision
(normally only used on the C64/C128), PET (normally only used for the PET),
Hummer and OEM (normally only used on the VIC20).
** PET changes
--------------
- Corrected the joystick support, since the only way a PET can use a joystick
is by a userport joystick adapter, the following userport joystick adapters
are currently supported: CGA/Protovision (normally only used on the
C64/C128), PET, Hummer (normally only used on the C64DTV) and OEM (normally
only used on the VIC20).
** CBM2 changes
---------------
- Corrected the joystick support, since the only way a CBM2 can use a joystick
is by a userport joystick adapter, the following userport joystick adapters
are currently supported: CGA/Protovision (normally only used on the
C64/C128), PET, Hummer (normally only used on the C64DTV) and OEM (normally
only used on the VIC20).
** Unix changes
---------------
- Rudimentary PulseAudio sound driver has been added.
- Added support for dynamic loading of FFMPEG libraries.
- Added support for dynamic loading of OpenCBM and Lame library
* Changes in VICE 2.1
======================
** General
----------
- The VICEplus project has been joined with VICE. Thus, x64dtv is now
part of VICE.
- We can be contacted via IRC: #vice-dev on freenode
- Added a more accurate ReSID engine using floating point math (ReSID-FP).
- Added support for the USB HardSID.
- PAL emulation has been rewritten and optimized.
- Fixed the ACIA 6551 emulation. (x64/x128/xcbm2/xpet/xplus4)
- Monitor commands help text is now translated too
(in ports where translation is available at all)
- Monitor IO command now displays IO area even if it is currently
banked out.
- GCR file handling (.G64) issues an error message if the .G64 does not
have the expected outline. Before, VICE just silently ignored such
files.
- IRQ handling fix
** C64/C128 changes
-------------------
- Fixed the digimax sound generation.
- Added the RR clockport disable functionality at $DF00.0. Allows
to disable the RRnet.
- Improved REU compatibility and timing.
** C64 changes
--------------
- Added isepic cartridge emulation.
- Added Double Quick Brown Box cartridge emulation.
** VIC20 changes
----------------
- Improved the sound emulation.
- Fixed the lowest note bug.
- Improved VIC emulation (exact in-line color/reverse mode changes).
** C64DTV changes
-----------------
- New emulator.
** Unix changes
---------------
- XRandR fullscreen implemented
- Command line option `-fullscreen' is supposed to do something
useful.
- Vsync code imported from win32 (based on openGL extension).
see also doc/openGLsync-howto.txt.
- Vidmode (fullscreen support) is broken and therefore marked as
deprecated. It will be removed in the next release if no-one takes
responsibility to fix the broken code and is willing to maintain the
code.
- PAL Emulation (new implementation, improved speed) should be usable
again (it was broken on certain display depths).
- Log messages are always english.
- Only x11 keymaps will be installed when doing a 'make install'.
- MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic.
* Changes in VICE 2.0
======================
** General
----------
- VICE development has moved to public services:
http://sf.net/projects/vice-emu
You can read the latest development in the Subversion
repository, file bug reports, and similar things.
Check it out!
- New Openserver 5.x, Openserver 6.x and Unixware ports.
- New AROS64 port.
- New QNX 4.x port.
- New HPUX (HPPA and IA64) ports.
- New SkyOS port.
- New Atari Mint port.
- New Solaris Express aka OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11 port.
** C64/C128 changes
-------------------
- Improved $01 behaviour with regards to unused bit fall-off.
- New experimental NEOS and Amiga mouse support.
- Added a working RTC to the emulation of the IDE64 cartridge.
- New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size
and double scan.
- Added support for the Action Replay 4 and StarDos cartridges.
- Improved REU compatibility
- Fixed CPU timing bug introduced in 1.22 (demo "Borderless").
- Fixed bugs in the CIA emulation (demo "So-phisticated",
W. Lorenz testsuite).
- Fixed various bugs in VIC-II emulation: Sprite x-positioning,
Latch X/Y, video mode changes, DEN bit handling, raster IRQ,
NTSC sprites and sprites in full/debugging border mode (list
of fixed demos/games too long to mention here).
- RESTORE key is handled differently now, fixing an NMI bug
because the NMI was asserted too long before.
** VIC20 changes
----------------
- Added unconnected c-bus floating byte support.
- New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size
and double scan.
** PET changes
--------------
- Added support for toggling CB2 sound output line.
** PLUS4 changes
----------------
- New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size
and double scan.
** Drive changes
----------------
- Fixed block allocation and interleave.
** Unix changes
---------------
- Broken DGA1/DGA2 code removed
- XRandR fullscreen implemented for all (but CRTC/VDC) videochips.
- XRandR/Fullscreen can now toggle the Statusbar/Menu
- Fixed unix mouse for single sized display.
- Fixed mouse grab and xaw menu popup.
- After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without
reset.
** Miscellaneous changes
------------------------
- Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat.
- Extended BMP saving to support 24bit.
- Fixed the joystick code of all emulators to handle state changes
on both joysticks at the same time.
- New monitor commands and features.
- New memmap feature which allows tracking of memory accesses,
activated by the configure option --enable-memmap.
- Fixed bug in ffmpeg/FFV1 driver. Should be really lossless now.
* Changes in VICE 1.22
======================
** C128 changes
---------------
- Added 2 MHz mode support (experimental).
- The cursor keys are mapped differently in C64-mode now.
- Fixed C64-mode autostart support.
** VIC20 changes
----------------
- Improved the sound emulation where the 'volume change click' is
concerned, and normalized the audio output level.
** VIC-II
---------
- The VIC-II border mode can be selected now (normal, full, debug).
- Some sprite fixes needed for Krestage 3 demo.
** Drive changes
----------------
- Improved drive LED emulation.
** Unix changes
---------------
- Fixed the "black screen" bug caused by some X11 library security
update.
- Fixed the usb support for bsd based platforms.
- Changed the preferred libdir and docdir for netbsd and freebsd.
- Xaw/XRandR fullscreen mode is supposed to work.
** C1541 changes
----------------
- Fixed some unlynx bugs.
* Changes in VICE 1.21
======================
** General
----------
- Added sound recording support.
- Added aiff, iff, mp3 and wav sound dump drivers.
** C128 changes
---------------
- Added digimax support.
- Fixed some minor VDC graphics bugs.
** C64 changes
--------------
- Added MMC64 support.
- Added digimax support.
- Added Action Replay III support.
- Improved compatibility of TFE emulation.
** PET changes
--------------
- Added SID cartridge support.
- Extended the PET REU emulation to include 512/1024/2048KB.
** PLUS4 changes
----------------
- Added SID cartridge support.
- Fixed some minor TED graphics bug.
** VIC20 changes
----------------
- Added SID cartridge support.
** Drive changes
----------------
- Added support for Dolphin DOS 2 & 3 and Professional DOS 1571.
The GUI is partially missing, command line switches have to be used.
** Unix changes
---------------
- New Hungarian translations.
- Fixed some bug in the XAW file selector.
- New fullscreen mode based on XRandR - although restriced to XVideo
HW scaling. See also BUGS.
- Raster synchronization based on openGL extension
`GLX_SGI_video_sync'. See openGL-sync.txt for details.
- Fixed colormap handling on certain Gnome systems (sporadic black
menus, e.g. reported by some FC users).
- ffmpeg support should work again.
** MS-Windows changes
---------------------
- Added Hungarian translations.
- Added giflib/libungif dll support.
** OS/2 changes
---------------
- Fixed a video resource bug that prevented VICE from running.
** Mac OSX X11 changes
----------------------
- Added Gtk+ Port
- Introduced single "smart" Application Bundle VICE.app
- Added command line launcher for Terminal.app and xterm
- Added build scripts for all external libraries and universal builds
of VICE
** AmigaOS changes
------------------
- Fixed some UI dialog bugs.
- Added Hungarian translations.
- Added more (previously missing) UI elements.
- Added native MorphOS icons.
- Fixed for native AmigaOS4 compile.
- Added VBCC build scripts.
- New experimental ppc-warpos port.
- New experimental ppc-powerup port.
** BeOS changes
---------------
- Fixed to also run on ZETA.
- New ppc-beos port.
- Added (previously missing) UI elements.
** Miscellaneous changes
------------------------
- Fixed the setting of illegal filenames.
* Changes in VICE 1.20
======================
** General
----------
- New GP2X port.
- New AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS (x86/ppc) ports.
- Mac OSX X11 port is included in the main distribution now.
- Fixed some unusual CPU opcodes.
** C64 changes
--------------
- Fixed some longstanding RMW to IO area VIC-II DMA timing bug.
- Added Mikro Assembler, Dela EP7x8, Dela EP256 and Rex EP256
cart support.
- Fixed the KCS cart emulation.
- Added swiftlink and turbo232 support.
- Added +256k memory expansion support.
- Added I/O source read collision detection support, making
simultanious use of multiple expansions possible, like on
the real machine.
- Fixed the RR-net address decoding and REU compatibility.
- Fixed a problem with traps using the SX Kernal ROM.
- Some IDE64 ultimax bug has been fixed.
** PET changes
--------------
- Added 128kb REU memory expansion support.
** PLUS4 changes
----------------
- Added 256k csory memory expansion support.
- Added 256k, 1024k and 4096k hannes memory expansion support.
** Unix changes
---------------
- Gnome1 is no longer supported.
- Gnome2 is now supported - everthing except the Image preview with
CBM font should work.
- Gnome 2 port supports dimmable drive LED now.
- Added experimental ParSID support.
- Added support for minix3.
- Fixed some compile problems with the ffmpeg library.
** MS-Windows changes
---------------------
- Added experimental ParSID support.
** MS-DOS changes
-----------------
- Added experimental ParSID support.
** Mac OSX X11 changes
----------------------
- Added support for Intel build.
- Added USB joystick support.
** Miscellaneous changes
------------------------
- Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat.
- Added a c64/c128 cartridge conversion program (cartconv).
- Added binary distribution (package) creation functionality.
- Fixed a bug in the trap emulation with caused programs probing
devices on the IEC bus to fail.
- Lots of small fixes to the monitor.
Manually patch Makefile.in and configure to avoid dependency on autotools.
- Explicitly disable esd when not requested, it is found and used
with gnome enabled otherwise.
- Fixed "RESTORE key works only once" bug.
- Fixed compilation with GCC4.
- [C64] Fixed an opcode execute problem with the +60k expansion.
- [C64] New c64 256k expansion support.
- [VIC-II] Fixed switch from idle state to display state.
- [VIC-II] Added missing DEN bit scrolling feature.
- The experimental netplay feature has been extended to the Unix
platforms for testing.
- Added IPV6 support to netplay.
- Fixed crash if settings are saved.
- Fixed some Gnome1 annoyances (popup menus in status bar)
- Rework of gnome save media (screenshot) dialog
- Xaw Statusbar fixes and improvements (new buttons for recording).
- Added various new screenshot formats.
- Improved the image content lister to display at least the first part
of a circular directory listing.
- Made the tape routines able to cope with non-standard header sizes.
XXX: should use SUBST framework instead of home-grown code.
Updated during freeze to fix gcc4 compile problems, okayed by wiz.
includes <libintl.h>, then we must ensure that the resulting object
is linked against -lintl. This ensures that the correct *printf()
functions are used across all platforms.
* List the info files directly in the PLIST.
* Leave the HTML documentation where it is originally installed so that
it references image files correctly.
Bump the PKGREVISION to 3.
rely on counting of played samples, which can get out of sync.
This may work on other platforms too, but I cannot test it.
Update to 1.18:
- Fixed a bug that caused the emulator to crash after 72 minutes.
- Added internal zlib and lpng support if no native libraries are
found at compile time.
- Fixed video recording frame rate in NTSC mode.
- [C64] Added Structured Basic, Comal 80 and Ross cart support.
- [C64] Fixed the improper detaching of certain types of carts.
- [C64] The +60K expansion base address is now selectable for
compatibility with the oldest version of the expansion.
- [C128] Improved the VDC emulation.
- Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat.
- Compiling for QNX 6.x works now (binary package is available).
- [C64] Binary packages for Solaris machines are available.
- [C64] Added full GeoRAM memory expansion support with sizes from 64KB to
4MB.
- [C64] Added full RamCart memory expansion support.
- [C64] Added full +60K memory expansion support.
- [C64] Correct REU values after reset.
- [C128] Added full GeoRAM memory expansion support with sizes from 64KB to
4MB.
- [C128] Added RamCart memory expansion support without the read-only option.
- [C128] Fixed some C64 mode bugs.
- [C128] Correct REU values after reset.
- New dutch translation.
- Language support has been extended to include commandline-options.
- BSD platform problems with using the sounduss and soundsun driver
have been fixed.
- Problems compiling with older versions of libpng have been fixed.
- Problems with MAXPATHLEN and PATH_MAX when compiling have been
fixed.
- New ALSA sound driver.
- Fixed some compile errors if GCC4 is used.
- Added support for more analog joysticks.
- Userport RS232 emulation should work as expected now.
** General
- Improved event recording and playback.
** C64 changes
- Fixed some CPU opcodes.
- Added support for Magic Formel cart (preliminary).
- Improved TFE cart emulation.
- Fixed Final Cartridge III freeze bug.
** VIC20 changes
- Four true drives are supported now.
- The sound code has been rewritten.
** PLUS4 changes
- Added cartridge support.
** VIC-II
- Improved IRQ timing during DMA.
** Unix Changes
- Improved ROM set support.
- Added TFE and IDE64 cart support.
- Fixed crash on 64bit archs.
- Added BSD USB joystick support.
- Complete rework of french translation. Credits to Paul (alias Kaddict)!
** Miscellaneous changes
- Made fsdevice emulation to list non-PRG files again.
- Improved REL file handling of the virtual drive emulation.
- Fixed some bugs in the petcat tokenizer.
- enable fullscreen support
- enable PNG screenshots
- only use esound if USE_ESOUND is yes
- add USB joystick support (okayed by kristerw)
PKGREVISION++
Changes since 1.12 include:
** General
- Added new Scale2x render.
- Fixed NMI line emulation bug.
** C64 changes
- Better processor port initialization (some carts depend on this)
- Fixed a bug reading old snapshot files.
- Added SS5 CRT support and fixed the SS5 screen distortion bug.
** C128 changes
- Fixed some fast IEC bus related drive bugs
- Added some opcodes to the Z80 emulation.
** PLUS4 changes
- Many TED fixes.
- User port parallel cable.
** VIC-II
- The character ROM is now displayed in bitmap mode.
- Fixed some minor DMA timing, ECM mode and sprite bugs.
** SID changes
- New HardSID support.
- Catweasel support should work now.
** Unix changes
- ACIA emulation has been fixed.
Changes since 1.11 include:
** General changes
- Added -autoload switch which acts like -autostart but without
actually starting the program.
- It is possible to use the printer emulation without switching off
true drive emulation now.
** C64 changes
- Mouse emulation should work again.
- Improved trap emulation compatibility.
** C128 changes
- Fixed some VDC crashs.
- Added support for national firmware and keyboard mappings.
- Implemented fast IEC bus.
** PLUS4 changes
- New emulator. Currently it contains many bugs and several features
are missing. Do not send any bug reports for now.
** VIC-II
- Fixed some raster interrupt emulation bugs.
- Some minor NTSC fixes.
- Reset should properly reset the VIC-II now.
** SID changes
- The ReSID state is saved in snapshots now.
** Drive changes
- Improved GCR sync detection.
- Added some more jobcodes to the 1581 emulation.
- RAM mirrors are properly emulated now.
Changes since 1.10:
** General
- The memory reset pattern can be configured now.
** C128 changes
- Fixed some MMU issues.
- Fixed color RAM support.
** PET changes
- A crash at startup has been fixed.
** VIC-II
- Improved sprite support.
- Fixed some video cache bugs.
- Fixed some IRQ emulation bugs.
** Drive changes
- Improved byte-ready line emulation.
- The track offset is calculated properly on track change now.
** Unix changes
- Real device access through OpenCBM library via XA1541/XM1541 cable.
- Added support to access 1581 formatted disks with the 3.5" host
drive (Linux only).
- Added event recording & playback (experimental).
** Miscellaneous changes
- The monitor can access disks attached to #8..11 now.
Changes since vice-1.9 include:
** General
- The keyboard handling has been reworked. In most ports the keys can
be assigned by *.vkm files.
- Fixed display bugs during warp mode.
- The autostart function prepares the drive with last accessed track,
sector and buffer data now.
- The opcode fetch of the 65xx CPU emulation is more accurate now.
** C64 changes
- A processor port bug has been fixed, so IWM Diamonds works again.
- Fixed a bug in the Retro Replay emulation.
- Added support for IDE64 interface emulation.
** C128 changes
- Added DIN charset support.
- Added support for second color bank.
** VIC20 changes
- Access to unconnected address space has been fixed.
** VIC-II
- $d016 xsmooth emulation is cycle exact now!
- Many small bugs in the VIC-II emulation have been fixed.
- Accessing unconnected address space returns last phi1 data read by
the VIC-II now.
- Fixed bug loading a snapshot image with sprites enabled.
** Drive changes
- Implemented firmware ROM mirrors.
** Tape changes
- The image content lister lists the contents of TAP images too.
Changes since vice-1.7 include:
** C64 changes
- The REU is emulated cycle exact now.
- Added support for Retro Replay cartridge.
- Fixed a CIA timer emulation bug.
- Frankie goes to Hollywood may work now.
** C128 changes
- VDC has been improved a lot (but not ready for RFO now).
- Fixed a stupid bug in the Z80 emulation.
- Fixed $ff01-$ff04 MMU register access.
- Added support for C64 type cartridges.
** VIC-II
- Fast PAL emulation has been added.
- Added VIC-II reengineered palette.
- Added also command line switches for:
brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma
- New style luminance signals
- Using internal/external palette
- Various fixes to make more demos work.
** Drive changes
- True drive emulation is default now.
- A reset during autostart restores true drive emulation if enabled
before.
- Relaxed disk change timing a bit and fixed the sync bit. More
programs will recognise the disk change now.
- Odd sized d64 images are supported now.
** General
- Real PAL filter emulation.
Changes in VICE 1.7
===================
** C64 changes
- REU support has been rewritten to support different types and
images.
- Fixed a processor emulation bug which caused a crash in Summer
Games II.
- Fixed a snapshot bug causing Castles of Dr. Creep to quit after the
snapshot has been restored.
** C128 changes
- REU support has been rewritten to support different types and
images.
- Added support for internal and external function ROM images.
- Tape emulation has been added.
- Added register 26 support to VDC emulation to make LUnix work.
- Support for the CAPS key has been added.
- There is a limited C64 mode now.
** VIC20 changes
- VIC video emulation now almost cycle exact (try vimm or vvv demos)
NTSC video mode is supported.
** CBM-II changes
- Implemented a C510 (aka P128) emulation, using the existing VIC-II
emulation.
- Fix a couple of bugs in the CBM-II emulation (C610-C720).
** Drive changes
- Implemented experimental DOS1 (670 blocks free) support with CBM
2040 emulation.
- The read-only bit of the 1581 disk drive is emulated now.
** Unix changes
- Added preliminary (beta) DGA2 support.
- French translation; Credits to Eric (meepmeep).
- Datasette control UI.
- Zlib is used for reading compressed images.
** C64 changes
- Fixed REU snapshot bug.
- Added Warpspeed and Dinamic cartridge support.
- Fixed a bug in NTSC sprite timing.
- Pitfall 2 cartridge works again.
- Added a symbol file for the built-in monitor which allows moni-
toring of ROM sections (use 'll "c64mem.sym"' inside the monitor)
** C128 changes
- The Z80 emulation is almost complete now.
** VIC20 changes
- Fixed geometry settings. Games that enlarge the screen work now.
** Drive changes
- The drive emulation can also read error information from a 40 track
D64 image now.
- Fixed a bug in vdrive BAM allocation.
** Unix changes
- ESD and aRts sound support has been added.
** C1541 changes
- Commands to read/write GEOS formatted disks have been added.
** General changes
- Screenshots can be saved now.
- Fixed slowdown bug with flickering drive led.
** C128 changes
- The Z80 emulation has been improved. CP/M will boot now.
- The VDC can display flashing and reverse text attributes now.
** C64 changes
- Fixed crash caused by VIC-II memory corruption.
- Expert cartridge is emulated now.
- Some NTSC fixes. Now the border looks a bit small, but most NTSC
programs should work.
- Fixed CIA TOD initialization.
- Super Snapshot V5 and REX fastload carts are emulated now.
- The REU emulation has been improved.
- Sprites in non-visible parts of the screen should not crash the
emulator anymore.
- A sprite snapshot bug has been fixed.
** VIC20 changes
- Fixed VIC crash.
- Fixed VIC display bug.
** Unix changes
- Palette changes work better now.
- Added support for gettext based national language support.
Initial german translation for Unix based UIs is provided.
- NTSC timing is correct now (100% 60fps).
- The emulator keeps running when menus are used.
- Fixed some crashs and memory leaks in the XAW file selector
widget.
- New GNOME port of VICE. (not activated in package)
- G64 images can be created now.
** Drive changes
- Fixed a bug in the 1581 true drive emulation that prevented the
use as drive #9.
- Fixed a bug in the 8050 vdrive emulaton.
- Fixed a bug that caused drive #8 to be diabled if file system
access for drive #11 is disabled and all disks are detached.
- Fixed IEC initialization bug that broke true drive emulation.
- D71 BAM calculation has been fixed.
- A drive RAM expansion is available now.
- New 2040, 3040 and 4040 disk drive support.
** Tape changes
- Now saving TAPs should work for big endian machines too.
** Miscellaneous changes
- The REU can be used with Super Snapshot 5 or Expert Cartridge.
- The monitor "z" command has been fixed.
- Fixed some tape counter bugs.
- Fixed a crash with ZIP archives.
- Fixed a bug that prevented writing to gzipped disk images.
- Fixed a crash if the image content lister is used on disk images
with many files.
- There is some experimental read only REL file support in the vdrive
emulation now.
of OSS. From the ChangeLog (changes since 1.0):
* Changes in VICE 1.2
=====================
** C64 changes
---------------
- Epyx Fastload and Westermann Learning Cartridges are supported now.
** C128 changes
---------------
- The VDC hardware cursor has been implemented.
- The machine can boot up in Z80 mode now. However CP/M does not work
currently.
** PET changes
---------------
- The CRTC emulation has been made pretty cycle-exact. You can now
use timed raster effects.
** CBM-II changes
---------------
- The CRTC emulation has been made pretty cycle-exact. You can now
use timed raster effects.
** Drive changes
----------------
- D64 images with error codes are supported now.
- The virtual drive emulation can process filenames containing zero
bytes now.- The virtual drive commandline parser has been improved.
- The fsdevice and the virtual drive emulation support memory read
commands now.
- Invalid scratch commands do not crash the fsdevice emulation.
** Unix changes
---------------
- C64/C128 NTSC support (experimental).
** MS-DOS changes
-----------------
- VDC grafic mode does not crash the emulator any more.
** MS-Windows changes
---------------------
- New mouse emulation.
- C64/C128 NTSC support (experimental).
- The datasette status is displayed now.
- Changing the palette works on-the-fly now.
- A new VIC20 settings dialog.
** OS/2 changes
---------------
- Sound, drive and joystick settings are implemented now.
* Changes in VICE 1.1
=====================
** General changes
------------------
- The datasette emulation supports saving to TAP images now.
- Autostarting TAP tape images has been improved.
- A command line option feeding the keyboard buffer on startup has
been added.
** C64 changes
---------------
- Fixed a bug in the REU emulation. GoDot now works.
- Atomic Power cartridge is supported now.
** C128 changes
---------------
- 80 column screen is emulated now. Currently the hardware cursor
is missing, but Infocom adventures and GEOS128 work.
- REU emulation is available now.
- Fixed an IO banking bug.
** VIC20 changes
----------------
- New datasette emulation.
- True 1581 emulation works now.
** PET changes
--------------
- New datasette emulation.
** CBM-II changes
-----------------
- New datasette emulation.
** Drive changes
----------------
- New 8050, 8250 and SFD1001 emulation using D80 and D82 disk images.
- The virtual drive emulation, image contents lister and monitor block
commands fully support G64 disk images.
** C1541 changes
----------------
- G64 disk image format is fully supported now.
** Unix changes
---------------
- A dialog for creating empty disk images has been added.
- The name of currently attached disk images is displayed now.
- The disk image flip list can be maintained by a separate menu by
clicking on the status bar.
** MS-Windows changes
---------------------
- Run/Stop key is also present at ESC key, but it's still present at
CAPS/LOCK, altough the latter doesn't work on Win98 with German and
French keyboard layouts.
- There is a disk/tape image contents lister now.
- The RESTORE key is present now (PAGE UP).
- Browse button in the device manager dialog works now.
** Miscellaneous changes
------------------------
- The `$xx' feature for specifying hexcodes on the command-line now
works correctly.
- Some P00 wildcard bug has been fixed.
- An image content lister crash has been fixed.
* Changes in VICE 1.0a
======================
** MS-DOS changes
-----------------
- x64 does not crash on start-up anymore.
- Calling the emulator from a relative path works again.
- 1541-II firmware is found now.
