Hatari
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Release Notes
Version 1.6.2 (2012-06-24):
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Emulation:
- ST video changes :
- Fixes a rare potential crash when running in color mode and switching
to monochrome mode for more than one VBL (eg : protection code used
in The European Demos and The Transbeauce II Demo)
- add more timings for the 224 bytes overscan detection on STE
- Correct write timing for BCHG/BCLR/BSET when removing borders
- Fix to top/bottom border removal in a rare case
- IKBD/ACIA changes :
- Handle commands 0x12 and 0x14 sent during the IKBD reset
(enable both mouse and joystick reporting at the same time)
- Handle the TX IRQ in the ACIA (bits CR6+CR5=0x01)
- Implemented IKBD set-clock function
- Sound changes :
- Improve YM2149 sound filtering to be closer to a real STF
- Increase output volume for STE DMA sound (compared to the YM2149's volume)
- DSP changes :
- Fix to DSP stack overflow handling
- Fix DSP to be reset on emulation reset
- Old UAE core specific changes :
- Changes in the prefetch code for some instructions
- Correct PC in stack when JMP generates an illegal address exception
- WinUAE core specific changes :
- 68040 MMU emulation fixes
- Fix GEMDOS/VDI emulation (illegal opcode) handling
- Fix WinUAE core to work with ST emulation (boot TOS 1.x)
- Fix FPU to be enabled when switching to TT emulation
- Fixes to FPU register value conversion
- Falcon changes :
- Support for Falcon/Videl screen borders
- Fixes to few Falcon IO registers
- Changed behavior of the Microwire registers in Falcon mode
- Misc changes :
- Ignore FDC commands when no drive is selected
- Fix TT SCSI register reads to return all bits zero instead of set
- Fix for GEMDOS HD emu to direct special CON:/AUX:/PRN: device files
to TOS instead of trying to handle them as normal files
- printer output is single, not double buffered
Emulator:
- RS232 input&output and printer output can be disabled from command
line by specifying an empty path
- Fix loading of memory snapshot from SDL GUI not to leave host cursor
enabled
- Video changes:
- Increase max allowed VDI resolution from 1280x960 to 1920x1200
- Revert preferred Videl resolution max zooming size setting from
host desktop resolution back to 832x576 it was in Hatari v1.4,
so that Falcon/TT emulation window sizes by default are closer
to ST/STE ones on larger resolution monitors
- Fix statusbar assert
- Add --sound-sync option to keep video synchronized with the audio
in case the OS audio's driver has some latency issues
- WinUAE core specific changes:
- Default to Falcon with WinUAE core (old CPU core still defaults to ST)
- Support run-time changing of CPU level, FPU type and machine type
from the GUI (also) with WinUAE CPU core
- Debugging improvements:
- Fix to debugger CPU cycle profiling modifying CPU state
- Profiling info is shown at end of disassembly lines
- Support for tracing all symbols loaded to the debugger,
this can be used to get function traces for both CPU and DSP
- Show args for all Bios and most XBios & Gemdos calls when tracing
- "info" command can output opcode tables for BIOS & XBIOS too
- More info to FDC, IKBD, Videl and Crossbar traces
Other changes:
- Hatari OSX UI updated for Hatari v1.6.1 changes
- Hatari Python UI supports file paths with spaces in them and spaces in
Hatari options given through its control socket can be quoted with '\'.
- Support for alpha-numeric characters in Hconsole "text" command
- Fixes to Hatari UI and hconsole error handling and examples
- Fixed hatari-local-midi-ring.sh & hatari-local-rs232.sh arg handling
- zip2st removes intermediate directories from created floppy
- Fixed hmsa to handle files with multiple "." characters in their names
- TOS tester testing covers more GEMDOS functionality, works with
all Hatari supported TOS versions and HW configurations and it's
fully automated
Fixed Games :
Hammerfist (fire button),
Automation 168 - Operation Clean Streets (prefetch in the CPU emulation)
Impossible Mission II (some versions had the same prefetch issue in the CPU)
Hades Nebula (fire button)
Zombi (IKBD set-clock was missing)
Fixed demos :
Built-in Obsolescence (DSP stack overflow)
Japtro and Rising Force by Holocaust (FDC, buggy loader)
Delirious Demos IV (video, STE detection)
Antiques by Dune/Sector One (224 bytes STE overscan)
The Wave Of the Future by ICE (STE flickering top border)
Electrocution I by Sphere on Stax Menu 66 (STE flickering bottom border)
Musical Wonders 1990 by Offbeat (video, bottom border not removed)
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 monochrome 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
Fixed Demos :
Vodka Demo - Kill The Beast 2 (left border removal)
Version 1.6.0 (2012-01-01):
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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 WinUAE 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
Version 1.4.0 (2010-06-12):
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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
Emulator:
- Host mouse is centered to Hatari window on Falcon resolution changes
(helps in synchronizing host and emulated mouse positions)
- Toggling fullscreen doesn't unpause paused emulation
- Falcon/TT resolution zooming is now controlled by separate options for
monitor aspect ratio correction and maximum zoomed Hatari window size.
This can reduce Hatari window resolution size changes significantly and
makes e.g. FUN's Alive demo viewable in fullscreen mode. Limits for
window size are also checked to see whether ST/STE low rez should be
zoomed and how much of borders can be shown (when borders enabled)
- Split the Screen dialog into two separate dialogs, one for Atari
monitor emulation setup and one for Hatari window setup
- GEMDOS drive emulation:
- support long host directory names and much improved long filename support
- convert host filename chars invalid in TOS to valid ones ('@')
- use TOS filename matching instead of glob() (can match names with [])
- Options for preventing floppy image (--protect-floppy) and GEMDOS
emulated drive directory (--protect-hd) modifications
- AVI file recording:
- video can be stored as BMP or as PNG images
- audio is stored as 16 bits stereo PCM
- Statusbar shows CPU type & speed
- Can create blank 2.88MB (ED) and 1.44MB (HD) floppy images
from the GUI in addition to DD & SD images. After creating
new floppy image, one can directly insert it to A: or B:.
- Tracing for BIOS, XBIOS, GEMDOS and VDI traps gives in addition
to the opcode, also the name of the corresponding OS function
- Major debugger improvements:
- TAB-completion for debugger commands, command arguments and
symbol names. Requires readline library
- "parse" command and --parse Hatari command line option to
execute debugger commands from a file
- "stateload" and "statesave" commands for memory snapshots
- "trace" command for tracing what the emulated code does
- "symbols" command for loading and listing CPU & DSP code & data
symbols/addresses. Code symbols are shown on CPU & DSP disassembly
and code & data symbols can be used in breakpoints
- "evaluate" command for doing calculations. Register and symbol
names in expressions are replaced by their values. '$' will be
TAB-completed to last 'evaluate' command result
- "cd" command to change Hatari work directory
- "exec" command to execute shell commands (ENABLE_SYSTEM_DEBUG_CALL)
- "info" command for showing Atari HW and OS information
- "lock" command for setting what information is shown every time on
entering the debugger, e.g. disassembly or memdump from given address.
"regaddr" argument does that from address pointed by given register
- improved register name handling + fixed DSP reg name matching
- if both sides of conditional breakpoint condition are identical, replace
right side with current value of given expression (e.g. if it's "d0",
use current D0 value). If the comparison is for inequality ("!"),
output the value & break only when the value changes from the previous
value (not original like with other comparisons). Symbols support
- ":trace" option to trace/output breakpoint hits without breaking
- breakpoints count hits and can be optionally removed after first hit
(":once" option) or triggered only on every Nth hit (":<count>" option)
- dsp/address command is a shortcut for conditional breakpoints and its
argument can be an expression (see "evaluate" above)
- Display DSP instructions cycle timings in disasm mode (in cycles)
- Configuration options for how many lines to disasm & memdump
- Fix VBLs/s counting to work also when --run-vbls isn't used
Other changes:
- Considerably expanded debugging and hard disk sections in manual
- CMake build support, this fixes OSX building and adds support
for building Hatari in different directory from the sources
- Removed autotools usage/support, added CMake "configure" script
- Hatari remote control programs updates (see their own release notes
for details)
Version 1.3.1 (2009-09-05):
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This is only a bug fix release:
- GEMDOS HD emulation works together with ACSI HD image again
- Fix incorrect use of DESTDIR in python-ui installation
- Fix memdump/disasm in python-ui
Version 1.3.0 (2009-08-16):
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Emulation:
- Hugely improved DSP emulation:
- Many more DSP using games/demos/apps work now
- Preliminary sound support (e.g. most DSP based .MOD-playback works)
- Better cycle counting / accuracy
- Many speed improvements
- Major rewrite of the internal work/structures of video.c :
- Allow to mix 50/60 Hz lines of 508/512 cycles and to keep correct
video/cpu sync (fixes TCB in SNY, DI in MindBomb, TEX in Syntax Terror).
This also adds support for dynamic calculation of HBL/Timer B positions
when freq/res are changed (fixes SHFORSTV by Paulo Simoes)
- Improved Timer B accuracy when starting it in a rare case
- Handle end of line as well as start of line for Timer B
in event count mode (using MFP's AER) (fixes Seven Gates Of Jambala)
- Add another 'O byte' line method (fixes No Buddies Land)
- Some more color alignment with the shifter when using movem.w/movem.l
(for spectrum512 like images)
- Improved Blitter timings / cycles counting
- GEMDOS emulation can emulate appropriately named host subdirectories
as separate partitions
- Bug fixes for GEMDOS HD emulation Fopen and Fseek calls
Emulator:
- DSP changes:
- DSP state saved to memory snapshots
- Threading support removed from DSP emulation (for better synchronization)
- "keyDebug" configuration file setting was renamed to "keyPause"
- Major debugger improvements:
- Invoked with AltGR+Pause. New "keyDebugger" configuration file setting can
be used to change this
- Show PC/HBL/VBL/cycles when entering debugger
- Support multiple number bases. By default values are expected in
decimals; $-prefix is needed for hexadecimal and %-prefix for binary
values. Default number base can be changed
- Internal debugger can be used to debug also DSP code
- Support for (PC) address breakpoints and conditional breakpoints
(watchpoints), both on CPU and DSP. Watchpoints support multiple
conditions, register & memory values and some internal Hatari
variables like VBL, HBL, LineCycles, FrameCycles
- Support for stepping CPU and DSP code
- Emulated programs can now change Hatari options like --fast-forward,
--trace etc. by giving a suitable Hatari command line string to
XBios call 255. This is enabled when Hatari is started with
the --bios-intercept enabled
- Support Videl horizontal fine scrolling for 16 bpp and 32 bpp host screens
- Process successive motion events before returning from event handler
(to fix analog joystick jitter slowing Hatari input processing)
- FPS measurement shown when emulation is paused & --run-vbls option
- Mouse grab option (--grab)
- Some fixes for building Hatari with MS-VC6 and for the Wii
- Statusbar assert (bug #15512) fixed
- Reworked the main dialog of the GUI and split the disk dialog into two
separate dialogs, one for floppy setup and one for hard disk setup
Utilities:
- New atari-hd-image.sh script for creating HD image files
- External Python GUI and CLI interfaces for Hatari in main repo
Documentation:
- Debugging and performance sections added to manual
Version 1.2.0 (2009-01-24):
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- The Hatari project has been moved from hatari.sourceforge.net to
http://hatari.berlios.de. Please update all bookmarks!
- New zip2st.sh shell script for converting .ZIP files into .ST disk images
- Fixed a bug that could write data to the wrong disk image (resulting
in data loss)
Emulation:
- MIDI input supported in addition to output; --midi option is now
replaced with separate --midi-in and --midi-out options
- Support for STE hardware horizontal scrolling in medium res
- Make the FDC Read Address command always return success, even if
we don't really return the correct bytes for now (fixes a few game loaders)
- Improved shadow register when writing to the YM2149 (fixes X-Out music)
- Cleaner blitter code with improved timings
- Emulation of interrupts jitter for HBL and VBL + improved timing accuracy
- Improve color alignment with the shifter (for spectrum512 like images)
- Fix to the fire button detection reported in some games
- Added IDE hard disk emulation
Emulator:
- Pause/unpause shortcut
Version 1.1.0 (2008-11-29):
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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
- Support for embedding Hatari window (on X11) and control socket
- Improved memory snapshot function
- Improved the "trace" debug function
Version 1.0.1 (2008-03-30):
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- This is just a bug-fix release, without new features.
- Fixed some compile problems on non-unix-like systems (like MingW).
- Fixed crashes in Spec512 emulation code ("Dan Dare 3" and little endian ARM).
- Blitter source address is not incremented anymore in operation mode 0 and 15.
- STE small overscan video effect is now displayed on the left side instead
of the right side (fixes "Just Musix 2" menu for example).
- Hatari now works on 256 color displays right again.
- Fixed PSG mirror register emulation (fixes e.g. sample sound in "Ooh Crikey
Wot A Scorcher" demo).
Version 1.0.0 (2008-03-17):
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- The user's configuration files are now located in the directory ~/.hatari/
instead of the $HOME directory itself.
- Improved VDI resolution mode (resolution can now be change in small steps).
- The 'Frame Skip 8' option can now be correctly selected, too.
- Fixed some bugs/problems in the GEMDOS HD emulation (with Fopen & Fcreate).
- Keyboard shortcuts for saving and restoring memory snapshots.
- Hatari can now be compiled with CeGCC, too.
- Fixed some problems with the FPU emulation. NeoN Grafix renders now right.
- Writing to floppy disk images works now also with TOS 4.0x.
- A lot of source code clean-up and beautification.
- Monochrome mode now runs in 71 Hz, and 60 Hz color mode now also really runs
with 60 Hz refresh rate.
- Fixed memory snapshot files (some important data has not been saved before).
- It is now possible to automatically load/save memory snapshots at start/exit.
- Fixed some bugs in the file selection dialog.
- Some minor improvements in the GUI: Improved text edit fields, "Cancel"
buttons can now be activated by pressing the ESC key, and Hatari asks the
user before resetting and quitting the emulator.
- The Hatari executable is now relocatable (so the RPM can be relocated, too).
- It's now possible to enable special trace output with the "--trace" option.
- The size of the borders can now be specified in the hatari.cfg file.
- Fixed Spec512 screen plotting on big endian machines.
- Native screen conversion functions for 32 bpp host display mode.
- Reworked the command line options.
- Added missing read for "clr" in 68000 CPU mode.
- Cycle correct MULU/MULS/DIVU/DIVS in 68000 CPU mode.
- Support for 68000 instructions pairing
- Better emulation of exception stack frame (bus/address error), used in some
protections.
- Don't change illegal 68000 opcodes $8, $a and $c if no cartridge is inserted.
- Ensure ACIA has consistent values when reset.
- More precise interrupt handling, allowing to mix CPU cycles and MFP cycles
with greater precision.
- Various improvements in MFP emulation (stop/start timer without writing to
data register, reading data register, handle pending cycles when timer
"wraps" (i.e. data register reaches 0), ...). Supports programs using some
very "fast" timers (Overscan Demos, ULM Demos) and requiring nearly cycle
exact synchronisation with the 68000.
- Mostly correct wait states when accessing sound registers (add wait state for
$ff8801/ff8803 when needed).
- Correct values of cycle counters read & write accesses for the most common
cases used for fullscreen/hardscroll.
- Correct values for Video_CalculateAddress, taking into account frequency and
left/right borders' state, needed for correct synchronisation between video
and cpu.
- Improve top/bottom border removal, including 60 Hz bottom border, as well as
"short" 50 Hz screen (171 lines)
- Support for all left/right border removal, including 0 byte lines.
- Support for hardscroll on STF, including the most recent ones using 4/5 lines.
- Support for 4 pixels horizontal hardscroll on STF (ST Connexion in Punish
Your Machine)
- Small adjustements in cycle precise color handling (spec512.c)
Version 0.95 (2007-05-12):
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- 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.
- Screen/Shifter emulation timings have slightly been changed. Some things
now work better, some others work worse...
- Some patches for compiling on RiscOS and AmigaOS have been included.
- Compiling Hatari for Windows now works better.
- Added Hatari icon (hatari-icon.bmp).
- Fixed "movec" bug in 68020 CPU mode.
- Keyboard shortcuts for loading & saving memory snapshots (AltGr+k & AltGr+l).
- The built-in debugger has been slightly improved to be more user-friendly.
- Added "hmsa" tool - a little program for converting .MSA files to .ST and
vice versa.
Version 0.90 (2006-08-22):
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- 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).
- Added basic support for compiling Hatari with MinGW.
Version 0.80 (2005-10-12):
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- 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.
Version 0.70 (2005-06-05):
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- 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.
Version 0.60 (2004-12-19):
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- Again some code cleanup and bug fixes.
- 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.
Version 0.50 (2004-07-26):
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- 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.
Version 0.45 (2003-10-30):
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- This is just a minor release on the way to version 0.50. It is not very
well tested, so be warned!
- New build system (with a "configure" shell script).
- A disk image destroying bug in the MSA compression function has been fixed.
- It is now possible to redirect the printer output into a file.
- Experimental MIDI output support.
- Added the possibility to save memory snap shots.
- Pending HBL and VBL interrupts are now emulated correctly (I hope).
- Some speed improvements.
- GEMDOS HD emulation now also works with EmuTOS.
Version 0.40 (2003-07-11):
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- Support for ZIP and GZIP compressed disk images!
- Configuration file support for loading and saving the emulator settings.
- Hatari now works on machines with Sparc CPUs, too.
- Fixed a problem that slowed down the emulator in monochrome mode when using
TOS 2.06.
- Inverted monochrome mode is now supported, too (some games like Maniac
Mansion use this).
- Added Mega-ST compatible real time clock (RTC) emulation.
- The GEMDOS HD emulation has been improved (it now also works with lower-case
file names) and many bugs have been fixed there.
- Improved keyboard mapping (added mapping via PC keyboard scancode and via
reloadable mapping files).
- The screen rendering routines have been generalized (less differences between
windowed and fullscreen mode).
- Hatari can now be cross-compiled, too. You can even compile it for MiNT now.
However, it does not run very well there yet.
- Support for RAM TOS images.
- Improved memory mapping (the different memory regions should now behave much
more like on a real ST).
- Improved M68k exceptions (bus errors and exception cycle timings).
- Fixed some bugs in the extended VDI resolution mode (now it is working with
EmuTOS, too).
- Some games that poll the write-protection signal of the FDC to check for
disk changes should now be working, too.
Version 0.30 (2003-03-12):
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- 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 tries to use both, joystick and mouse
- 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.
- Added patches for TOS 2.05 so that this TOS version should now work, too.
- Rewrote TOS patching routine. It is much more flexible now.
- Removed 0xa0ff opcode for VDI resolutions; using GEMDOS_OPCODE now instead.
- Fixed MMU RAM size configuration bug.
- Rewrote some more screen conversion functions in 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.
Version 0.25 (2002-12-30):
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- Patches for big endian systems (Spectrum 512 pictures are now working there).
- Hatari now also compiles and runs under Mac OS X.
- Blitter emulation has been added.
- There is now the possibility to save YM or WAV sounds.
- Big VDI resolutions (e.g. 800x600) are now supported, too.
Version 0.20 (2002-02-18):
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- Added graphical user interface for configuration of the emulator settings.
- Real joysticks can now also be used to simulate the ST joysticks.
- Yet another bugfix for BeOS (lseek again...)
- Support for hard disk images.
Version 0.11 (2001-10-10):
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- High level (GEMDOS) harddisk emulation.
- ST-Med/ST-Low mixed mode now works.
Version 0.10 (2001-08-16):
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- Improved CPU cycles emulation.
- Added Spec512 support.
- Some keyboard shortcuts.
- Added the possibility to switch between fullscreen and window mode.
- ST Medium resolution conversion routine.
- Built-in debugger.
- Added possibility to grab screenshots.
- Sound support (not working very well yet).
Version 0.05 (2001-06-01):
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- Joystick emulation via cursor keys.
- ST-LOW resolution conversion routine is now working on big-endian machines.
Version 0.04 (2001-05-27):
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- Added Stefan Berndtsson's patch for big-endian machines.
Hatari now runs also with non-x86 Linux machines! Thanks Stefan!
- Rewrote the ST-LOW resolution conversion routines in C ==> ST-LOW now works!
- Added some of the WinSTon patches Paul Bates recently published
at the WinSTon BBS (Thanks to Ladislav Adamec for the hint).
- Cleaned up the source tree a little bit.
Version 0.03 (2001-04-03):
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- Rewrote some more assembler functions. FDC emulation now works!
- SDL Keyboard code finished and included a SDL-Key -> ST-Scancode table.
- Added mouse support.
Version 0.02 (2001-03-28):
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- Added very simple SDL support.
- Rewrote a lot of assembler functions in C (e.g. intercept.c).
- Adapted the UAE CPU. Now Hatari is able to boot a TOS 1.0x ROM, the
Desktop shows up, but no mouse and keyboard interaction yet.
Version 0.01 (2001-03-21):
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- Made the WinSTon source code compilable with GNU-C.
- Added the UAE CPU sources.
