[VCS] Stella 3.4[3.1] SVN2229/30

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3.3 to 3.4: (May. xx, 2011)

• Many improvements to input handling, particularly with the mouse and paddles:
• The mouse can now be used to emulate a joystick, booster-grip or driving controller.
• The mouse now controls only one device at a time (1 of 4 paddles, 1 of 2 joysticks, etc), instead of devices from both virtual ports.
• The sensitivity for digital and mouse input (for paddles) can now be set separately with the 'dsense' and 'msense' commandline arguments, and from within the Input Settings UI.
• Added support for the 2600-daptor device, which is similar to a Stelladaptor but improves handling of paddles.  Thanks go to XXX for a complimentary test sample of this device.
• Added preliminary support for emulating ARM code to the DPC+ bankswitching scheme (thanks to Batari).
• Updated internal ROM properties database to ROM-Hunter version 6 (thanks go to RomHunter for his tireless research in this area).
• The ROM audit dialog now automatically selects the current directory in the ROM launcher, and reloads the directory after the audit is complete.
• Removed the 'grabmouse' functionality; the mouse is now always grabbed while playing a game, and released otherwise.
• Updated built-in version of the PNG library to the latest version.

Revision: 2230

Author: stephena Date:  Fri May 6 19:58:56 2011 UTC

• Added controller types 'Paddles_IAxis', 'Paddles_IDir' and 'Paddles_IAxDr',which are specialized paddles classes that invert the axis, direction, and axis+direction, respectively. Updated all applicable ROMs in the properties database.
• Cleaned up the menus in the OSX port; some of them weren't even tied to anything. I'm seriously considering removing them all, except for the Help and Quit items.

Revision: 2229

Author: stephena Date:  Fri May 6 14:29:39 2011 UTC

• It seems that the NIB format for the OSX project files has changed.

Revision: 2228

Author: stephena Date:  Fri May 6 14:29:39 2011 UTC

• Huge improvements to paddle and mouse handling:
  • mouse can now emulate joystick, booster-grip and driving controllers digital and mouse sensitivity for paddles can now be tweaked separately, and have a greater range
  • the mouse now correctly honours its controller setting, and only controls a device on one one port (not both at the same time)
• Added support for 2600-daptor device. Credit for creator of device is forthcoming. This device is basically an updated Stelladaptor, with improved handling for paddle data.
• Grabmouse functionality is no longer user-definable; the mouse is always grabbed while playing a game, and released otherwise.

Revision: 2227

Author: stephena Date:  Fri Apr 22 18:57:20 2011 UTC

• Retired the GP2X and WinCE ports. This code has been updated in years, and doesn't currently compile. I don't have the hardware to develop it any further, and no longer have the time in any event. If someone steps up to continue support, it can be added back into the codebase.

Revision: 2220

Author: stephena Date: 14:42:58, 22 kwietnia 2011

• Updated VS 2005 project file for recent PNG changes.

Revision: 2219

Author: stephena Date: 14:36:25, 22 kwietnia 2011

• Updated VS 2010 project file for recent PNG changes.
   

Revision: 2218

Author: stephena Date: 02:04:04, 22 kwietnia 2011

• Updated internal PNG library code to latest released version (1.5.2).

Revision: 2217

Author: stephena Date: 01:54:06, 17 kwietnia 2011

• Updated Win32 project files for Thumb ARM support (it is always enabled, but can be disabled by removing the 'THUMB_SUPPORT' directive from the Visual Studio project file).

Revision: 2216

Author: stephena Date: 01:39:31, 17 kwietnia 2011

• Thumb ARM support can now be enabled/disabled from the configure script for Linux.

Revision: 2215

Author: stephena Date: 18:53:41, 16 kwietnia 2011

• Cleaned up formatting in Thumb ARM emulation code. Wrapped THUMB ARM emulation in a define, so that it can be excluded from builds.  To enable it, the 'THUMB_SUPPORT' directive must be included in the build process.  This has been added to the OSX project files, but is still TODO for Linux and Windows. Removed some obsolete include paths from the OSX project files, dating back about 5 years or so.