Nowa wersja testowej Altirry, emulatora ATARI XE/XL/5200. Ostatnia pełna wersja tego emulatora, jaka publicznie została udostępniona to Alirra 3.00 z 28 grudnia 2017 r.
Altirra 3.1 Beta IX 11/02/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- Serial: Add ed support for emulating modem dialing and handshake sound.
- Serial: Modem registers S8 and S11 are now supported.
- UI: A dded overscan option to reserve bottom margin space on screen for the indicators.
bugs fixed
- Serial: Modem S12 register now controls command sequence guard time.
Author's Comment:
- Modem registers now hooked up: S8 (dial comma delay), S11 (DTMF tone time), S12 (escape sequence guard time). Note that S2 (guard character) is still a better way to disable the escape sequence than S12.
- Modem dialing and handshaking sequences are now emulated including sound. It will use different audio sequences for 300 baud (Bell 103), 1200/2400 baud (Bell 212), and 4800/9600 baud (V.32). For now, you'll all be subjected to phone network sounds from North America. Note that increased delay from the handshaking sequence can cause problems with servers that quickly drop idle connections, in which case the handshake portion might need to be disabled. DTMF tone dialing is implemented but not interpreted, so it will still use the dial proxy address for anything dialed ATDT instead of ATDI. There is not yet handshaking simulation for accepting calls (ATA/ATS0=1).
- Dialing out can now be interrupted.
- Added option to raise the bottom of the display to clear the indicators (View > Overscan > Indicator Margin).
/debug has been in for a long time but the command-line help was pretty ugly -- I only cleaned it up for 3.00.
The Disk Drives dialog was just made modeless in 3.10-test. Making the configuration dialog modeless is a possibility but there are problems with doing so as it'd have to live update to track changes. I had to do some work for Disk Drives to update live, and that's a lot more complicated for the configuration dialog. Menus didn't have this problem because they updated every time you opened them -- which you had to do a lot.
There's already a quick setup wizard on first launch and in Tools, and I don't want to go down that route further -- it's just slapping more putty on top instead of actually fixing the underlying UI problems. Biggest problem is there simply isn't much consistency in the difference between a beginner and a power user. Another way to put it: although everyone only uses 10% of the program, it's never the same 10%.
The list that eccofonic posted is pretty extensive. I've thought about putting in some macro-buttons like "turn off all acceleration," but that only covers some cases. One other thought is possibly putting in a summary page in the configuration dialog that gives a high-level view of the current setup and if particular settings are enabled that have compatibility or accuracy concerns. I had an idea that I could use this to also replace that mediocre emulation crash dialog and put quick fix links in here like "make faster" and "make more accurate."
Profile system does need a little work. One big problem that keeps cropping up is that I keep forgetting which profile is active. Been thinking about adding customizable window caption support to show that.
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXXVI 05/08/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- nw
bugs fixed
- nw
Author's Comment:
- Fixed a few regressions in disk drive debugging: issues with intermittent stepping and not being able to set PC, and 8048 R0/R1 registers being reported incorrectly in history
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXXIV 17/07/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- HLE: Fixed main memory not being completed cleared on startup in some cases with Fast Boot enabled.
bugs fixed
- nw
Author's Comment:
- Fixed a regression that caused a hang when resetting input maps to default.
- Fixed a bug in Fast Boot that sometimes caused a few bytes in memory to not be cleared, breaking a couple of programs.
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXXII 15/07/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- nw
bugs fixed
- nw
Author's Comment:
This is the first build that I've actually published an ARM64 build for, now that I have a physical device to test on. I won't be publishing the ARM64 build all the time, but the final release will have it. The native ARM64 build is about 30% faster than the x86 build running under emulation.
Other changes:
- Fixes and NEON optimizations for ARM64.
- MyIDE v1 no longer shows firmware warnings.
- Reorganized pages in Configure System into categories to make it easier to scan.
- Added support for non-default preset input maps and added a couple of new ones.
- Minor perf optimization to Direct3D 11 path (fixed some redundant calls).
- Added warning when adding a full disk emulator for the first time.
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXXII 04/07/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- nw
bugs fixed
- nw
Author's Comment:
P: I'm not getting any display with 3.10-test31 unless I have VBXE enabled
S: Never mind, found it -- compiler bug. (MSVC team, please fix your constexpr pointer arithmetic....)
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXX 01/07/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- Debugger: Added extended memory bank tracking support to the history window and breakpoint systems.
- Debugger: Add custom symbol (ya) command can now add read-only and write-only symbols.
bugs fixed
- Disk Explorer: Creation timestamp is now preserved when dragging files in and out of an SDFS volume.
- MMU: Fixed another Axlon/PORTB memory aliasing issue.
- Serial: Socket handling rewritten so that hanging up while a connection is still in progress no longer hangs the emulator until the connection attempt times out.
- VBXE: ANTIC hires pixels now always have PF2/PF3 priority except with XCOLOR=1 on FX1.26 core where enabled pixels have PF1 priority.
Author's Comment:
- Adds some support for extended memory debugging. In 6502 mode, the CPU history now tracks which bank the PC is in, and enabling global PC in the history window shows additional info for extended memory banks. The debugger uses a new XX'YYYY syntax for extended memory addresses, e.g. $EF'4800 maps to the byte at $4800 when PORTB=$EF. This makes extended memory a bit easier to deal with than the x:addr syntax, which requires mapping the banks to a linear address space. If you have MADS symbols with the bank values in the symbols, these can also be matched to banked PC addresses. Breakpoints can also be set at PORTB extended memory addresses.
- Fixed another issue of aliasing between PORTB and Axlon extended memory.
- Added US Doubler firmware to autodetection list.
- Custom symbols (debugger 'ya' command) can now be read-only and write-only.
- Fixed VBXE handling of ANTIC hires pixel priority. Priority is now always PF2/PF3 for XCOLOR=0 and <FX1.26 core and PF1/PF2/PF3 for XCOLOR=1 with FX1.26.
- Rewrote modem networking code to make the connection step synchronous so it won't hang the emulator until the connection timeout if interrupted.
- Accepting incoming modem calls now also triggers phone network simulation sounds.
- Fixed broken 65C816 high memory selector in the configuration UI.
- Removed extra file extensions from the file filters on the Save Cartridge UI so the common file dialog auto-switches extensions; both filters had most of the cart extensions to show the files, but this was also allowing the cross-type filenames.
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXX 09/06/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- Debugger: .basic_rebuildvnt now has a -t option for TurboBasic XL support.
- Disk Explorer: Added options to relax filename checking and automatically rename conflicting filenames.
- HLE: Program loader detects conflicts with and offers to disable internal BASIC.
bugs fixed
- nw
Author's Comment:
- The .basic_rebuildvnt command now has a -t switch to enable TurboBasic XL label support. This allows rebuilding the VNT for protected programs that have it wiped and use TBXL labels (which otherwise would be interpreted as Atari BASIC arrays).
- The disk explorer now has options to relax filename rules for DOS 2 compatible volumes, and will attempt to encode the names of files that don't work with the rules when copying in new files.
- Double-clicking on a mapper in the cartridge mapper auto-confirms.
- XEL-CF3 with the swap button is now emulated.
- The emulator now attempts to detect if a binary program being directly loaded overlaps enabled internal BASIC, and if so will prompt to disable it. This is detected if internal BASIC is enabled and the program has a segment loading over $A000-BFFF before the first init segment.
- Build changes: localconfig .props work again, compiler bumped to VS2017 15.7.3.
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXIX 03/06/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- Display: Added option for auto-switching between NTSC and PAL artifacting modes.
bugs fixed
- Display: Fixed bug with PAL high artifacting ignoring odd hires pixels.
- Display: Artifacting phase and saturation are now hooked up for PAL high artifacting.
Author's Comment:
- Fixed bug in PAL high artifacting engine that caused odd hires pixels to be ignored. This was due to an optimization accidentally being turned on too often. When the emulator detects that there is no hires in a scanline, it uses a faster routine that only samples luma at half rate and uses merged pair filter kernels. For PAL high artifacting, it was accidentally running this all the time.
- PAL high artifacting engine no longer has artifacting hue and saturation hardcoded. You may need to reset your PAL artifacting color settings as the default is likely to be pretty blown out.
- There are now combined NTSC/PAL artifacting modes that automatically select the appropriate variation of artifacting for the current video standard. Quick review: NTSC standard artifacting emulates color from even/odd pixel patterns, PAL standard artifacting emulates chroma averaging, and the high artifacting modes do full video signal simulation.
- Added a button to the System page of the configuration dialog to quickly toggle between NTSC and PAL. This command already existed, but you could only get to it by adding a keyboard binding.
- Added auto-detection for 810 revision B firmware. (Thanks Nezgar for tirelessly tracking this down!)
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXVIII 28/05/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- nw
bugs fixed
- POKEY: Improved accuracy of high-pass filter.
Author's Comment:
- Rewrote POKEY rendering back-end -- high-pass now has correct half-cycle timing so PDM works without needing to fudge the cycle offset. Hopefully shouldn't have broken much and might even be a little faster.
- Fixed Blizzard 32K cart type to use 8K banks instead of 16K banks.
- Fixed hang when using AST 32K cart type.
- Rewrote cart mapper dialog. It now has a checkbox to display technical details for each cart type to assist when trying to find something vaguely similar to an unknown cart.
- Minor compiler update from VS2017 15.7.1 to 15.7.2.
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXVI 16/05/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- nw
bugs fixed
- nw
Author's Comment:
- Fix list view double-click crash.
- Improve handling of double-clicks so that double click on checkboxes doesn't activate the item.
- Disable boot sector field when creating disks with 512 byte sectors.
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Altirra 3.1 Beta XXV 13/05/2018
changes
- nw
features added
- Cartridge: Added support for .CAR types 60, 67-70 (Blizzard 32K, XEGS 64K alternate, Atrax 128K raw ordered, aDawliah 32K/64K).
- Cartridge: Added show-all override to cartridge mapper dialog.
- Debugger: Added several new verifier modes.
bugs fixed
- Cartridge: Fixed XEGS banking modes in The!Cart emulation.
Author's Comment:
- Selecting color presets now resets the color matching mode.
- Fix XEGS/SXEGS sub-emulation in The!Cart emulation -- fixed and variable banks were swapped.
- Add some new verifier modes: loads from absolute address 0, disk I/O reads over active display list, OS calling convention violations (calling SIOV with I=1).
- Support for cartridge types: Blizzard 32K (60), XEGS 64K alternate (67), Atrax 128K in raw ordering (68), aDawliah 32K (69), aDawliah 64K (70).
- There is now a checkbox on the mapper dialog to override the detection if you really need to force a mapper that is not showing up (such as if the init vectors are garbage).
- Compiler updated from VS2017 15.4.2 to 15.7.1. (What could possibly go wrong?)