[Apple IIe] JACE 250111

Przybywa nam ostatnio emulatorów pracujących w środowisku Java, JACE, emulator mikrokomputera APPLE IIe jest właśnie jednym z nich. I łazi całkiem dobrze (mr. do! śmiga - tylko to miałem pod ręką do sprawdzenia).

Nie ma niestety żadnej oficjalnej notki, co pojawiło się w tej pierwszej edycji emulatora, pozostaje więc zerknąć na ostatnie zmiany w kodzie.

JACE SVN136

• Pointless fluff.

JACE SVN135

• Added friendly help message

JACE SVN134

• Placed a hard-limit on how long a temporary speedup lasts.  This is a work-around for an issue that occasionally results in the emulator remaining at max speed for extended periods of time.

JACE SVN133

• Quick hack to move mouse away from screen edges so that joystick emulation is smoother.  Works very well with track nubs (e.g. thinkpad)

JACE SVN132

• Some sort of joystick emulation is working!  Right now it uses the delta of the mouse movement, but no joystick button yet (use the open/closed apple keys for now).  Two joysticks can be enabled also.

JACE SVN131

• And in addition to the previous improvement, the speaker thread can be joined without causing a lurch if the motherboard's timing intervals are reset before the Speaker.join() call is made.  Now sound going active/inactive doesn't change the perceptual speed of the emulator!

JACE SVN130

• Finally tackled the speed lurch problem when speaker thread deactivates.  Now when a temporary emulation speedup is canceled, the internal timer check logic resets to a new period right away, so effectively the next interval doesn't get hung up as much if at all.

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