[ATARi] A8E 1.3.0 03/03/2026

A8E v1.3.0 - 2026-03-03

• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js, jsA8E/style.css: fixed assembler panel stability for long sources by removing conflicting editor minimum sizing (.asm-editor-wrap can now flex/shrink), raising panel minimum to 340px, resetting editor scroll/caret to top on source load, and using focus-without-scroll when opening the panel so the assembler toolbar/menu stays visible.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js, jsA8E/style.css: assembler panel now opens taller by default (screen height + extra headroom, clamped to viewport), with a larger minimum panel/editor height (280px panel minimum, 300px editor area minimum) for a bigger editing workspace.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js: assembler panel initial height now matches the emulator display screen (.screenViewport) height, so the editor and screen are visually aligned. Still resizable via the bottom drag handle (min 220px).
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js: assembler panel now auto-loads the first .ASM source file from HostFS when opened with an empty editor; if no source files exist on HostFS the editor stays clear.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/index.html, jsA8E/style.css: HostFS panel toolbar restructured for consistency with assembler panel. Upload/Folder buttons moved from titlebar into toolbar with unified hostfs-btn base class. Toolbar now uses two labeled groups (Add: Upload, Folder | Select: All, None, Download, Delete). Titlebar is now purely informational (icon + title), matching assembler panel conventions. Removed separate titlebar button CSS rules and unused .hostfs-title-path.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/index.html, jsA8E/style.css, jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js: assembler toolbar streamlined to two logical groups (File | Build). Removed the separate output filename input; .XEX name is now auto-derived from the source name. Run now auto-saves source before assembling. Added keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+S save, Ctrl+Shift+B assemble, Ctrl+Enter run.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/style.css UI consistency pass: extracted shared sub-panel CSS custom properties (--sub-panel-*) for border, background, button radius, toolbar, and statusbar colors; normalized button padding/radius (4px radius, 3px 8px padding), toolbar gap (5px) and padding (5px 8px), statusbar padding (4px 10px), disabled opacity (0.35), and separator margin across HostFS and Assembler panels; unified top-bar button border-radius to 6px; added matching WebKit scrollbar styling to the assembler editor and error list.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/version.json runtime build version updated from v1.2.0 to v1.3.0 to prepare the next release.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/index.html, jsA8E/style.css, jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js, and jsA8E/js/app/ui.js now add an assembler Run action next to Assemble: it assembles, writes the .XEX to HostFS, mounts it to D1: through the same loadDiskToDeviceSlot path used by disk loading, and then resets/starts the emulator for a one-click launch. The assembler panel height was also increased (min-height and editor area floor) for a larger editing workspace.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/index.html, jsA8E/style.css, and jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js now provide built-in syntax highlighting in the assembler editor without external dependencies: a mirrored <pre> highlight layer is synchronized with textarea input/scroll, with token coloring for comments, labels, directives, mnemonics, numbers, strings, and register names.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js assembler layout now resolves instruction sizes iteratively (up to convergence) using prior-pass symbol hints, so forward references can correctly select zero-page encodings (ZP/ZPX/ZPY) instead of being locked to absolute mode. The assembler now also returns structured error lists (errors[]) and can recover enough to report multiple line errors in one build attempt. jsA8E/index.html + jsA8E/style.css add an assembler error list panel with clickable line navigation in the editor.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/js/core/hdevice.js H: GET BYTES CIO behavior now reports SUCCESS on short final reads when bytes were transferred, and EOF only when zero bytes are returned. This aligns better with DOS binary loaders that treat immediate EOF on partial reads as an error path.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js assembler now supports constant definitions (NAME=expr, NAME EQU expr, .EQU/.SET name,expr), enabling source like DOSVEC=$000A to assemble successfully and be referenced in instructions/directives.
• 2026-03-03: jsA8E/index.html adds a new assembler editor toolbar icon (btnAssembler) and assemblerPanel; jsA8E/style.css adds matching panel/theme styles; jsA8E/js/app/ui.js now initializes window.A8EAssemblerUI; jsA8E/js/app/assembler_ui.js adds HostFS-integrated source load/save plus a built-in two-pass 6502 assembler that writes DOS-loadable .XEX executables to H: (including RUNAD segment emission).
• 2026-02-23: .github/workflows/build.yml now packages Linux/macOS release artifacts as standalone tar.gz bundles that include SDL runtime libraries (libSDL-1.2.so.0 or libSDL-1.2.0.dylib) and adds packaging-time dependency checks (ldd/otool) to fail on unresolved or Homebrew-linked SDL paths.
• 2026-02-23: jsA8E/version.json runtime build version updated from v1.1.1 to v1.2.0.
• 2026-02-23: HostFS directory behavior is now explicitly documented as a design choice: keep a flat filename namespace (no subdirectory hierarchy) for Atari DOS/FMS-style compatibility in the H: workflow.
• 2026-02-23: jsA8E/js/app/hostfs_ui.js status bar now shows DOS-style FREE SECTORS in the HostFS panel using the same logical model as H: (999 sectors, 128 bytes per sector, per-file sector rounding), alongside total byte size.
• 2026-02-23: jsA8E/js/core/hdevice.js now computes H: FREE SECTORS from file-size math (128-byte sectors) with a 999-sector logical capacity budget instead of subtracting file count, and returns disk full on CLOSE when a write would exceed that budget.
• 2026-02-23: implementation/jsA8E/UI.md documents HostFS flat-namespace behavior for H: workflows: subfolder structure is flattened to basename-only entries, so duplicate filenames across subfolders can collide/overwrite.
• 2026-02-23: jsA8E/index.html renames the H: file-manager visible labels from H: Files/H: files to HostFS; the panel headline now explicitly shows the drive marker as HostFS (H:).
• 2026-02-23: jsA8E/style.css now sizes hostfsPanel to keyboard width (min(100%, 1083px)), centers it in the layout, and uses a reduced panel/list height baseline (clamp(220px, 36vh, 420px) panel, 96 px list floor). jsA8E/js/app/hostfs_ui.js now uses lighter dynamic list minimums (150 px empty, 96 px non-empty) with the original 60 px bottom margin and 60% viewport cap.
• 2026-02-23: .github/workflows/build.yml now includes a dedicated build-macos-arm64 job on macos-14 that builds arm64 binaries and publishes A8E-<tag>-macos-arm64 release artifacts.
• 2026-02-23: A8E/AtariIo.c ANTIC modes 2 and 3 now snapshot IO_PRIOR high bits once per scanline draw call and reuse that value for inversion and mode branching. This aligns C behavior with existing JS/C mode F snapshot semantics.

A8E v1.2.0

A8E v1.1.2 - 2026-02-23

Ciekawe czasy, gdzie wersja przeglądarkowa ma znacznie bardziej rozbudowane GUI i widoczne funkcjonalności, niż wersja dektop;)

Changed

• Native A8E build caption/version is now injected at compile time from jsA8E/version.json (with dev fallback when unavailable).
• Browser jsA8E frame timing now accumulates CPU cycles and runs whole-frame steps with capped catch-up to reduce visible speed jitter.
• Browser rendering now requests desynchronized WebGL contexts and hints canvas transforms for smoother presentation.

Fixed

• Hardened jsA8E SIO disk sector access checks across read/write/verify paths to reject invalid offsets consistently.

A8E v1.1.1 - 2026-02-17

Changed

• XEX boot-loader handling in native A8E and browser jsA8E now chooses a non-overlapping temporary sector buffer and patches loader buffer addresses dynamically.

Fixed

• XEX-to-ATR conversion now rejects images whose segments overlap reserved boot-loader memory, preventing invalid boot media generation.

A8E v1.1.0 - 2026-02-17

Added

• Direct .xex program loading support in both native A8E and browser jsA8E paths.
• XEX-to-ATR conversion with segment normalization to support multi-segment files in both implementations.

Changed

• Embedded XEX boot loader updated to handle INITAD/RUNAD flow more robustly across native and JS builds.
• Documentation updated to describe ATR/XEX loading behavior and usage.

Fixed

• Corrected inclusive segment end-copy behavior (off-by-one) in the XEX boot loader for native and JS.
• Added failure handling for invalid/unsupported XEX conversion paths to avoid mounting bad disk data.

v1.0.1 - 2026-02-13

Added

• Automated release workflow to update jsA8E/version.json from the published Git tag.
• Runtime build version display in jsA8E (version.json + js/app/version.js).
• Help tooltip legend for ROM status and top-menu icons in jsA8E.

Changed

• Improved browser keyboard handling in jsA8E with printable key normalization and side-specific modifier mapping.
• Refined on-screen keyboard typography and responsive key label sizing in jsA8E.

Fixed

• Native A8E event loop now forwards only keyboard events to AtariIoKeyboardEvent, avoiding non-key event forwarding.