[ATARI] Altirra x86 i x64 2.80

Altirra Version 2.80 [September 3, 2016]:

changes

• Devices: MyIDE and KMK/JZ IDE (IDEPlus) have been moved to the Devices tree.
• Input: The preset input maps for 5200 mode and the Xbox 360 Controller been changed.
• Input: Input mapping speeds have been adjusted; mappings in relative mode may need to be fixed up.
• UI: Error message help has been moved from Shift+hover to Alt+click.

features added

• Audio: Added emulation of serial I/O noise with audio channels silent.
• Cartridge: Added support for alternate image layout of 5200 Bounty Bob cartridge.
• Cassette: Added support for recording cassette tapes.
• Cassette: Added option to add slight randomized jitter to tape start position to work around load timing issues with deterministic timing.
• Covox: Variable base address and mono/4ch. settings added.
• Covox: Volume is now adjustable (Audio Options).
• Debugger: All special variables in debugger expressions can now be specified with a @ prefix, i.e. @a. The non-prefixed form is now deprecated due to symbol/number conflicts.
• Debugger: Focus is now automatically switched between the console and the display when starting and stopping execution.
• Debugger: Heat map can now be used to detect accesses to uninitialized memory (hmt command).
• Debugger: Expression parser can now optimize +/-0, *0, and *1 patterns.
• Debugger: .tapedata command now accepts a length option.
• Debugger: .basic_dumpline now has a function to show addresses and byte values for each token (-k).
• Debugger: Added db/dbi -c option to dump mode 1/2 strings.
• Debugger: Added emulation network packet tracing (.netpcap, .netpcapclose).
• Debugger: Added .basic_rebuildvvt command to fix corrupted BASIC variable type/index entries.
• Debugger: PC breakpoints and step execution are now supported for Veronica.
• Debugger: Added eb (enter byte) and ew (enter word) commands.
• Debugger: Fixed disassembly of 65C02 RMBn/SMBn/BBRn/BBSn instructions.
• Debugger: Added .kmkjzide command.
• Devices: Added Corvus Disk Interface emulation.
• Devices: Added Pocket Modem emulation.
• Devices: Added simple joystick dongle emulation.
• Disk: Added VRWSafe write mode (virtual read/write with format prohibited), and added option to set default write mode.
• Disk: Added emulation of Indus GT Synchromesh and SuperSynchromesh firmware modes.
• Disk: Added emulation of full format times when accurate timing is enabled.
• Disk: Added support for formatting and exploring DOS 1.x disks and for DOS 1.x files on DOS 2.0S disks.
• Disk: Partial emulation of built-in Happy drive commands.
• Disk: Added command to expand all .ARC files on a SpartaDOS disk.
• Disk Explorer: File viewer mode and window position is now persisted.
• Disk Explorer: SDFS filesystem handler now validates the full directory tree and allocation bitmap.
• Display: Added /w command line switch to force windowed mode.
• Display: Added DXGI-based windowed vsync support to D3D9 display driver for reduced CPU usage with DWM composition.
• Firmware: Added autodetection of 5200 2-port BIOS, Black Box, and MIO ROMs.
• Firmware: Firmware dialog now supports drag-and-drop.
• HLE: Program loader now warns on init segment behaviors that may not work with DOS.
• HLE: Added PBIDisk device for PBI-based acceleration of disk and serial bus requests.
• IDE: MyIDE, KMK/JZ IDE, and IDE Plus 2.0 now support slave devices.
• IDE: IDE Plus 2.0 SDX, write protect, and partition switch buttons are now supported.
• IDE: IDE Plus 2.0 revision and ID switch are now controllable.
• Input: Improved mouse interrupt timing algorithm.
• Input: Acceleration can now be adjusted independently of speed for digital-to-analog mappings.
• Input: Added driving and keyboard controller support.
• Input: Reset system screensaver timeout when controller input changes.
• MMU: Added support for 256K Rambo configuration, which aliases 64K with main memory.
• Network: Added TCP logging channel for monitoring gateway TCP stack status.
• UI: Added /si and /nosi as synonyms for /singleinstance and /nosingleinstance.
• UI: Added profile system for switching full or partial configurations.
• UI: File associations can now be set user-local as well as system-local.
• UI: Added option to reset all settings.
• UI: Added option to control whether simulation is paused while menus are open.
• UI: Detect files dragged from .zip files in Windows Explorer and use a VFS path to the compressed file if possible.
• VFS: Images mounted within .zip and .gz files are now restored on next load.

bugs fixed

• AltirraOS: Fixed XEGS game cartridge activation.
• AltirraOS: Fixed errors getting dropped in cassette handler.
• AltirraOS: Fixed extra initial block and incorrect partial block problems when writing cassette streams.
• AltirraOS: Fixed CIO read record when line exactly fits in buffer.
• AltirraOS: Fixed broken inverse key.
• AltirraOS: S: clear also clears split-screen area.
• AltirraOS: Optimized C/E->data frame path in SIO for better robustness when DLIs are active.
• AltirraOS: Fixed race condition in SETVBV.
• ANTIC: Fix power-up values for PENH and PENV registers.
• ATBasic: Added workaround for BASIC programs that have a corrupted function open parens.
• ATBasic: Force implicit NEW if LOAD or CLOAD fails.
• ATBasic: Fix crash in INT() with certain ranges of large numbers.
• ATBasic: Remove added variables when parsing error occurs.
• Cartridge: Changed initial bank for XEGS/SXEGS carts to 0.
• Cartridge: Fixed flash indicator not always appearing while programming The!Cart cartridges.
• CPU: Fix D flag not being cleared on interrupt entry in 65C02/65C816 mode and I not being cleared in 65C816 native mode.
• CPU: Fixed second write cycle for read/modify/write instructions in 65C816 emulation mode.
• Debugger: Fixed assembly and disassembly of 65C816 COP instruction from COP #n to COP n.
• Debugger: Fixed issue with Step Over breaking PC breakpoints.
• Debugger: PC breakpoints are now bank sensitive.
• Debugger: Fixed assembler giving branch range errors when assembling above bank 0.
• Debugger: Fixed disassembly of 65C02 RMBn, SMBn, BBRn, and BBSn instructions.
• Display: Fix for intermittent display redraw issues when stopped in debugger with display composition enabled.
• Display: Fixed centering of enhanced text mode after switching modes.
• Display: Enhanced text mode (hardware) now uses correct colors for Gr.1/2.
• Display: Fixed excessive CPU usage with enhanced text mode with debugger open.
• Display: Removed broken fixed function bicubic stretching code paths. They were broken and pre-shader cards don't have the fill rate to do 5+ passes at 60fps anyway.
• Disk: Fixed density detection issue with Set PERCOM Block command in XF551 mode (again).
• Disk: Fixed crash when mounting .ARC file with no decodable files in it.
• Disk: Retuned command ACK timings for 1050-based drives.
• Disk: 850 and 1050 emulation modes now implement proper respective behavior with long sectors.
• Disk: Allow loading of truncated .ATRs with a partial final sector.
• Disk: Fixed handling of sectors with bad address field CRCs.
• Disk: Fixed record type bits in FDC status in 810 mode.
• Disk Explorer: Fixed rename operations on SDFS disks not marking volume changed.
• Flash: Toggle bits are now implemented during the multiple sector erase timeout period.
• HLE: Improved register return state when accelerating ZFR0/ZF1/ZFL calls.
• IDE: Fixed excessive flushing of VHD block bitmap after allocating space.
• IDE: Force power and reset states on MyIDE-II when CF card is removed.
• IDE: Improved compatibility of CHS mapping behavior.
• IDE: IDEPlus 2.0 now supports external cartridge control.
• Input: Fixed mouse being able to escape from capture at high speeds.
• Input: Digital-to-analog mappings no longer change speeds between NTSC and PAL.
• Input: Fixed preset maps sometimes not resetting if they were modified in the same session.
• Input: Fixed 5200 CONSOL bits being inconsistent internally after reset (fixes 5200 Pole Position controller input).
• Input: Fixed 5200 trackball controller behavior when bound to mouse move inputs.
• MMU: Fixed case where MMU was not reset when switching from 400/800 mode to XL/XE mode, causing a power-up crash.
• MMU: Axlon memory no longer aliases with PORTB extended memory.
• Network: Fixed TCP stack checking wrong sequence number against incoming ACK in some cases.
• Network: Improve TCP PSH and ACK handling.
• Network: Fix inability to write some CS8900A control registers through PacketPage ports.
• PCLink: Fixed incorrect return codes from rename command.
• PCLink: Directories are now readable as byte streams.
• POKEY: Improved emulation of fast pot scan mode.
• POKEY: Improved RANDOM emulation when switching in and out of init mode.
• POKEY: Fixed serial output ready IRQ occasionally not triggering when expected.
• SIDE2: Implemented CF change detection.
• SIDE2: The right cart window of the top cartridge half can now be enabled without the left half.
• Simulation: Modified DRAM A randomization pattern in 5200 mode to match 5200's address line mapping.
• UI: Disable Shift+hover help when Shift key is bound to an input map.
• UI: The kernel firmware menu is now filtered to kernels compatible with the current hardware mode.

Altirra Version 2.70 [December 19, 2015]:

changes

• Debugger: Switched BRK back to being a single byte opcode in the disassembler.
• Debugger: Readjusted names of illegal opcodes.
• Devices: SoundBoard has been moved to the Devices tree.
• Input: Because some broken axis mappings have been corrected, hand-edited input maps may need to be fixed up.

features added

• ATBasic: Added LOMEM, ERR(), PMGRAPHICS, PMADR(), PMCLR, PMCOLOR, PMMOVE, MISSILE, and BUMP().
• Audio: Sound output is auto-switched to 48KHz to reduce CPU usage if Windows is mixing at that rate.
• Debugger: Added ~ command (target control).
• Debugger: bx (break on expression) can now create tracepoints (-n).
• Debugger: Added Go To Source from History window.
• Debugger: .basic_dumpline command now has -t option for decoding TurboBasic XL tokens.
• Debugger: Added Go until vertical blank interrupt (gv) command.
• Debugger: Execution history now shows high level emulation events.
• Debugger: Added sw (search words), sa (search ATASCII), and si (search INTERNAL).
• Debugger: Added %%S format to .printf for high byte terminated strings.
• Debugger: Added @frame, @clk, and @cclk expression psuedovariables.
• Devices: Add minimal SDrive raw disk access emulation.
• Devices: Veronica cartridge emulation.
• Devices: R-Verter emulation.
• Disk: Added 1050 drive sounds and added emulation of 1050 reseeking on errors.
• Disk: Added "shift to another drive" option to disk dialog.
• Display: Optimized NTSC high artifacting mode.
• Display: Improved performance of D3D11 vsync code.
• Display: Enhanced text mode now works in full screen mode and supports selection.
• HLE: Added player for some SAP type B/C/R files.
• IDE: Raised VHD creation size limit in UI from 4GB to 2TB.
• IDE: Added support for MyIDE II with updated CPLD firmware.
• Input: Dead zones and curves are now adjustable for game controllers.
• Input: Keyboard mapping is now customizable.
• Profiler: Added Basic block profiling mode.
• Profiler: Added performance counter support.
• Profiler: Instruction-level data is now recorded even in function mode.
• Profiler: Frame triggers can now be set to record multiple frames.
• Recorder: Added support for recording SAP type D files.
• SIO: Merged standard and polled burst I/O into a single mode.
• SIO: Burst I/O is now supported for writes.
• Simulator: Emulation is no longer paused while menus are open.
• UI: Audio monitor now supports dual POKEYs.
• UI: Paste now attempts to translate Unicode characters like curly quotes and dashes to representable characters.
• UI: Raised drag-and-drop limit to 128MB to accommodate The!Cart images.
• UI: Portable mode now stores relative paths for paths above the program directory on the same drive root.

bugs fixed

• 65C02: Added missing BIT abs,X instruction (65C02 mode only).
• 65C816: Stack instructions new to the 65C816 now properly index outside of page one in emulation mode.
• 65C816: Fixed PLY instruction not working outside of page one in X8 mode.
• 65C816: Fixed WAI releasing execution too early on IRQs in high speed mode.
• ANTIC: Fixed blanking of rows 8-9 in IR mode 2.
• ANTIC: Fix incorrect internal state after warm reset during WSYNC wait.
• AltirraOS: Activate self-test ROM after memory test to mimic the XL/XE OS's behavior when doing ROM checksums.
• AltirraOS: Improved compatibility of S: plot/line commands in GR.0.
• AltirraOS: E:/S: open now enables keyboard IRQs.
• AltirraOS: Fixed BOOT? flag being set too early on cassette/disk boots.
• AltirraOS: CIO PUT RECORD with length=0 now outputs A without EOL.
• AltirraOS: XL/XE version now supports KEYREP.
• AltirraOS: Caps Lock now toggles in XL/XE mode.
• ATBasic: Fixed bug with terminating EOLs being left in code if a warm reset happened during a filename-based I/O statement.
• ATBasic: Fixed CLOAD/CSAVE not setting IRG mode consistently.
• Cartridge: Fixed crash with MegaCart 1M (2) mapper.
• Cartridge: Fixed crash problem with RAM access in newly created The!Cart cartridges.
• Cartridge: Newly created AtariMax 8Mbit (bank 0) carts had the wrong power-up bank.
• Cartridge: Fixed random crash with Atrax SDX cartridge types.
• Debugger: Fixed Step Over not working in 65C816 mode.
• Debugger: Fixed B/P/S registers being shown incorrectly in history view in 65C816 mode.
• Debugger: Improved call stack decoding.
• Debugger: Fixed assembly/disassembly of MVP/MVN instructions.
• Debugger: Fixed assembly of [dp],Y addressing modes.
• Debugger: Fixed crash when canceling edit of watch expression.
• Debugger: Fixed disassembly of BIT abs,X instruction in 65C02 mode.
• Debugger: Fixed .readmem command.
• Debugger: Up/down keys now work better in History when navigating search results.
• Debugger: Fixed time wrapping bug in .pokey deferred timer reporting.
• Debugger: Fixed length (Lxxx) arguments not accepting 10000 for $10000 bytes.
• Debugger: Fixed crash with malformed read/write access range checks in breakpoint conditional expressions.
• Debugger: Fixed assembler not accepting PHX, PHY, RTL, TCS, and TXA instructions.
• Debugger: Fixed assembler not assembling some instructions with [dp] and relative long addressing modes.
• Debugger: Assembler no longer uses the debugger's numeric base setting and always assumes decimal unless $ is prefixed before a number.
• Disk: Fixed boot sector not being initialized when precreating formatted DOS 3 disks.
• Disk: Data checksum errors during SIO bus transfers now result in a NAK instead of Error.
• Disk: Improved accurate sector timing values for enhanced density disks.
• Disk Explorer: Fixed crash when activating context menu with no disk image mounted.
• Disk Explorer: Empty filenames are no longer allowed.
• HDevice: Fixed regression in NOTE/POINT commands.
• Input: Fixed right mouse button on mice not working for ports 2/4.
• Input: Fixed inconsistent mappings between analog/digital interpretations of axes and between DirectInput and XInput.
• Network: Fixed protocol handling bugs in emulated ARP and DHCP layers.
• Network: Add support for tunneling over the VXLAN protocol.
• Simulation: Added timeout to logic for holding Option on boot.
• Simulation: Added emulation of floating I/O memory bus on 800 hardware.
• PCLink: Fixed FLEN (code 4) command.
• PIA: Interrupt flags can now be set without having interrupts enabled.
• PIA: Reenabling IRQA1 or IRQB1 with the flags already set now reasserts IRQ.
• PIA: Added emulation of floating inputs on PIA port B on XL/XE systems.
• POKEY: Serial input no longer works while initialization mode is active.
• POKEY: Full keyboard scan emulation is now supported, including phantom key and debounce-off effects.
• Recorder: Video recording failed if scanlines were enabled without VBXE or antialiasing on.
• U1MB: Removed bogus PORTB dependency for register access.
• U1MB: Flash ROM is now reset on cold reset.
• U1MB: Flash writes to OS, BASIC, and Game ROM windows are now supported.
• U1MB: Real-time clock now properly allows both clock polarities.
• U1MB: Fixed value of reserved bits read from RTCIN register.
• U1MB: Internal BASIC now works with 1200XL + U1MB, since the U1MB emulates the XL/XE MMU.
• UI: Fixed /portablealt writing into the current directory instead of starting directory when given a relative path.
• UI: Changed cursor mode to fix drag-and-drop incompatibility with 7-Zip File Manager.
• UI: Audio monitor setting now saves.
• UI: Selecting a 1200XL kernel no longer switches the hardware mode to 800XL.
• UI: Fixed firmware options not refreshing consistently in dialog.
• XEP80: Fixed UART register emulation.
• XEP80: Attributes, split-screen, and vertical scrolling are now supported in pixel graphics mode.