* About this file ================= This file lists the most important user-visible changes for each official release of VICE. For the gory details, please use the subversion history: $ svn log http://svn.code.sf.net/p/vice-emu/code > ChangeLog * Upgrading =========== If you run into trouble please try removing any VICE configuration files left over from previous installs. (vice.ini / .vicerc / vice2.cfg / vice-sdl.ini depending on platform) Before reporting bugs, always try with a clean config: Run the emulator with the "-default" command line argument or use "restore default config" in the UI). * Changes in Vice 3.8 ===================== ** general ---------- - added WIC64 support for C64,C128,SCPU64,VIC20 - virtual device (host directory) fixes (Scratch command correctly returns number of scratched files, Rename command produces "file exists" error if the destination file exists) - added video capture in ZMBV format. This will produce lossless videos at correct emulated FPS. - the old FFMPEG support was deprecated and is disabled by default. New experimental code was added that will work with external ffmpeg executable instead. - reSID: fixed a Noise Init problem - reSID: filter tweaks - reSID: The 6581 saw+pulse waveform was wrong - reSID: tweak shift register reset time for 6581 - reSID: 8580 Filter ringing fix - reSID: 6581 filters: allow negative values for kVg-Vx - made raw printer driver pass through all bytes 1:1 - Tape: changed default zero-gap delay from the rather weird (and way too large) value 20000 to the more sane 2500 which MTAP uses - RS232: handle RI line in IP232 (requires updated tcpser, see ​https://github.com/go4retro/tcpser/pull/24. - Add option to invert the RI line. This should help to make some more obscure BBS programs work - RS232: removed undocumented feature to use unix domain sockets when the first character of a rs232 device is a pipe character, and instead used pipes, like it will be done on windows too - Drives: fixed 1571CR emulation - Drives: allow up to 83 tracks for 3.5inch mechs - Drives: fixed clock rollover in rotation code - REU: fixed DMA access to C64 RAM at $00/$01 - Added PaperclipE, PaperclipSC, and Paperclip2 dongle support. - Added woj userport joystick adapter emulation. - provide fake sid hooks so hardsid can be used when fastsid is disabled - Printer: new reworked emulation handles various CBM Printers: 2022, 4023, 8023, MPS801, MPS801, MPS803 - Printer: tweaked MPS page height, now allows print shop to print a greetings card on a single page. - Printer: do not produce any output for non-printable codes - Printer: when using the graphic output driver, only produce a new file when actually doing a formfeed. - Build the list of available palette files at runtime, scan system path/dirs as needed. Also read extra info from the .vpl files. New palettes can now be just dropped into the data dir and they will appear in the UIs. - allow color controls to be used with external palette and when no crt emulation is active. - Added more realistic vicii color ram init code. - CIA: shiftregister fixes - CIA: fixed ICR timing/behaviour (This fixes the dd0dtest from the testbench) - Support for ISA/PCI devices that were accessed via direct I/O was removed, since this would not work in any sane modern OS anymore. The affected devices are: parsid (windows), ssi2001 (all) - Z80: OUT, OUTD, OUTI, OTIR, OTDR instruction fixes - Fixed -initbreak reset so that the first instruction doesn't run ** Buildsystem -------------- - add configure switch `--enable-experimental-devices` to enable experimental emulation of some devices. - changed configure switch `--with-libcurl` to `--without-libcurl`. - changed configure switch `--enable-lame` to `--with-lame` - changed configure switch `--enable-libieee1284` to `--with-libieee1284` - changed configure switch `--enable-portaudio` to `--with-portaudio` - configure: change `--with-zip-bin` to `--with-unzip-bin` - remove the configure switch --with-readline/--without-readline. - Do not build PDF docs unless --enable-pdf-docs - Fixed macOS bindist. Probably doesn't work without code signing, however an attempt is now made to detect and use a signing identity. - when installing with x64 not enabled, install a symlink x64->x64sc instead - Add unzip.exe and its deps to Gtk3 bindist ** C64 fixes ------------ - Blackbox 9 garbled screen problem was fixed - added 'Hyper-Basic' cartridge support - fixed "MAX-BASIC" cartridge support in "MultiMAX" emulation - more correct memory map for the "Max Machine" - fix attaching 8k ultimax .bin cartridge images ** C128 fixes ------------ - Cartridge system now supports cartridges that work in both C128 and C64 mode - added "RAM-Link" support - added LTK support, as well as other kernal replacements carts - comal-80 (c128) fixed - MMU fixes - Keep currently set c128 bank when changing the c64mode mmu bit. - Fix x128 c64 mode p0/p1 relocation - Added proper z80 mmu control - add a 'SCART' VDC palette, which contains 'dark yellow' instead of the (correct) brown - Fix x128 VDC mirroring - x128 properly starts with Z80 and then transfers control to 8502 - Z80: various I/O mapping fixes - use separate resources for localized chargen and c64 kernal ** VIC20 fixes -------------- - fixed NTSC colors ** PLUS4 fixes -------------- - Map out pio-1 and only handle datasette sense in the fd10-fd1f range when c16/c116/c232 model is selected. Keymaps: - added reference image of native Plus4 keyboard layout - added reference image of Plus4, symbolic, US layout - added reference image of Plus4, symbolic, german layout - added reference image of Plus4, positional, US layout - added reference image of Plus4, positional, german layout ** C64DTV fixes --------------- - loading flash image was broken - use DTV model specific flash ROM content ** SCPU64 fixes --------------- - Do not call dma or clock stretch functions when a dma is already going on, dma is done at 1mhz speeds. ** PET fixes ------------ - Implement some beam-racing timing improvements for models with and without CRTC - Add a PET palette that approximates the slightly blue white of the 2001 model. - Monitor: handle SuperPET 6809 banking correctly ** CBM-II fixes --------------- - CRTC: Esc+U / Esc+S - underscore cursori on / off: now works. - Fix monitor watchpoints on indirect accesses to a zero page. Keymaps: - added reference image of native CBM2 keyboard layout - added reference image of CBM2, symbolic, US layout - added reference image of CBM2, positional, US layout - added reference image of CBM2, symbolic, german layout - added reference image of CBM2, positional, german layout ** Monitor fixes ---------------- - Added indirections to the expression evaluator for breakpoint conditions. - made regular 'load' command never set Kernal pointers - added new 'loadbasic'/'ldb' command that always sets Kernal pointers. - Display correct column count for VICII and TED - Add detailed TED register info for the IO monitor command - added profiler support in the monitor, right now supports only 6502 - add monitor io dump for wd1770 and pc8477 - implement monitor io dump for 6532 (RIOT) - fixed Disassembly of 6809 instructions - make monitor D and M command see the same memory (as set by the monitor's "bank" command), while single step, breakpoints, cpu history and debug cpu trace see the memory as the cpu sees it at that time. - fixed crash when using an invalid DOS command with @, documented limitations of the @ command - fixed crash when accessing a non existent directory ** C1541 fixes -------------- - Fixed chain command to print from the last sector how many bytes are used. - make opencbm available in c1541 by using "opencbm" as the filename ** cartconv fixes ----------------- - better support for VIC20 cartridges ** petcat fixes -------------- - Added new BASIC 65 keywords ** GTK fixes ------------ - Fixed saving monitor position and size and restoring on boot - All numeric values are displayed in proper units - make dropping files on the main window work like it did in winvice - hold shift to just mount a new disk. - VSID: Look up STIL info for file passed on command line - macOS: Use Command+W to close monitor window - Open file manager to view directory containing vice.log, instead of opening vice.log with an editor - Settings: remember directory/filename in load/save dialogs - Speed up RAM init pattern view. - Speed up CRT slider widgets. - Settings dialog: try to keep consistent (slightly smaller) size of the various nodes in the dialog; the dialog should fit on a ~1024x720 display. - Settings dialog: move host GPU rendering options to Display -> Host display. - Settings dialog: rework drive settings to use dialog space more efficiently. - Settings dialog: rework printer settings. - Settings dialog: more consistent cartridge setting layouts. - Rename "soft reset" to "Reset machine CPU". - Rename "hard reset" to "Power cycle machine". - Simplify custom hotkeys saving: using "Save" now saves the hotkeys as "gtk3-hotkeys-$EMU.vhk" in the user's configuration directory. The UI also indicates where the current hotkeys were loaded from (VICE-provided default hotkeys, configuration directory or custom location). - Hotkeys Alt/Command+3-6 added to send formfeed to printers (3 = userport, 4-6 = printer 4, 5 and plotter). - Hotkey actions added to select VIC/VICII/TED border modes, no default hotkeys assigned. - Hotkey action to toggle status bars split into "show-statusbar-toggle" and "show-statusbar-toggle-secondary" (x128 VDC only) actions. - Add status bar LEDs to control SCPU Speed (labeled "turbo"), and JiffyDOS switches (xscpu64 only). - Add default hotkey Alt+T/Command+T to toggle SCPU Turbo mode (xscpu64 only). Keymaps: - Added C128 KeyrahV3, US layout - Added C128 KeyrahV3, german layout - Added CBM2 positional, US layout - Added CBM2 positional, german layout - Added Plus4 Spanish positional - Added Plus4 Positional, german layout - fix C64 danish symbolic - fix C128 Positional, US layout - fix C128 Positional, german layout - fix CBM2 Symbolic, US layout - fix CBM2 Symbolic, german layout - fix PET Positional, US layout - fix PET Positional, german layout - fix PET Symbolic, US layout - fix Plus4 Positional, US layout - fix Plus4 Symbolic, US layout - fix Plus4 Symbolic, DE layout ** SDL Fixes ------------ - Rename "soft reset" to "Reset machine CPU" - Rename "hard reset" to "Power cycle machine" - Show scrollbar-like indicators when not all menu items can be shown on the screen. - Update UI to use the same syntax as the Gtk hotkeys files: old .vhk files generated by VICE 3.7.1 or earlier will not work anymore. - Add default hotkey Alt+T/Command+T to toggle SCPU Turbo mode (xscpu64 only). - Add menu item to toggle patching of the v1 Kernal to make the ieee-488 interface work (xpet only). - Add menu items to load either the normal or the German chargen (xpet only). ** Linux fixes -------------- - change default user directory for `vice.log` and autostart disk images to adhere to $XDG_STATE_HOME (defaults to ~/.local/state/vice). ** macOS fixes -------------- - fix scrolling in the monitor ** Windows fixes ---------------- - Add -no-direct-streams command line option on Windows. With -no-direct-streams the stream direction code that reconnects the standard streams stdin, stdout and stderr to VICE is not called. This will mostly be useful for debugging weird issues on Windows. - fixed issues with mouse warping - fixed loading of the opencbm- and libusb DLLs ** BSD fixes ------------ - Fix nasty buzz on sun/netbsd sound driver * Changes in Vice 3.7.1 ======================= This is a quick bugfix release - Fixed macOS layout incompatibility with GTK 3.24.36 - macOS Ventura fixes * Changes in Vice 3.7 ===================== ** general ---------- - From now on VICE will write its version into the config file and show a warning message when using a config file from a different version. - The binary monitor interface is stable now. Examples of projects using it: - https://github.com/GeorgRottensteiner/C64Studio - https://github.com/MihaMarkic/vice-bridge-net - https://github.com/Sakrac/IceBroLite - https://github.com/empathicqubit/vscode-cc65-debugger - https://github.com/rolandshacks/vs64 - Added Debian packages of development builds of the SDL2 and Gtk3 UIs and the headless build (amd64 only). You can find bleeding edge development builds on github: https://github.com/VICE-Team/svn-mirror/releases Whenever you stumble about a bug, please try with the latest development build first - perhaps we already fixed it :) - Removed all kernal patching and load different ROM files instead. This is easier to handle and more logical anyway :) - Renamed all included ROM files to use a more elaborate naming scheme, for example as in "kernal-901227-01.bin". Unfortunately not all included files could be identified yet - if you have related ROM dumps around yourself, please take your time to compare against the following, and let us know if you can identify one of these files: - C128 ROMs: kernalfi, kernalfr, kernalit, kernalno - Printer ROMs: mps801.bin, mps803.bin, nl10.bin - PET ROMs: chargen.de (Wanted in all cases is what the markings on the actual chip read) - CRT emulation improvements: - uses measured (different) color coordinates for odd/even lines when possible - added option for U-only delay line (1084 style) - More realistic handling of the case when two paddles are selected at the same time. - Keyboard handling was rewritten / fixed - The case when two host keys are mapped to different CBM keys with different modifiers is handled differently (correctly) now, so some old keymap(s) may expose detail errors as a result - please report them! - Fixed Shiftlock/Capslock mapping - All extra keys that are not in the regular matrix are handled in generic code now. - used by C128 40/80 and CAPS keys, Restore - extra keys can operate in "non locking" mode - More realistic behaviour of the virtual drive - always return 'files scratched' (instead of 'file not found'), even if the file does not exist - More realistic behaviour when mounting images: - When attaching a d64 image to a 1571 drive, create an 'unformatted' image for the second side. - Create empty tracks for non existing tracks also when mounting gcr images - SID fixes: - use a few more bits for better accuracy when calculating the 8580 filter DAC values. - fix filter ringing/self oscillating with 6581 and 8580 - CIA fixes: - Improved the CIA shift register. - Fix the case when pb changes value after changing the control bits for pb/pb7 output. Fixes the turn disk space detection of the 'Love' demo. - Add SPT (Stupid Pet Tricks) userport joystick adapter emulation. - Fixed use of SO_REUSEPORT on server sockets - this allowed multiple VICE instances to bind to the same port, with an indeterminant one receiving each incoming connection. Now uses SO_REUSEADDR instead, which allows use of a port that remains in the TIME_WAIT state after a previous process closed, but does not allow use of a port that is still in active use. - Add DragonFly BSD support. - Remove Android support. ** build system --------------- - Rename configure options: --enable-native-gtk3ui => --enable-gtk3ui --enable-sdlui2 => --enable-sdl2ui --enable-sdlui => --enable-sdl1ui --enable-external-ffmpeg => --enable-ffmpeg - Remove jpeg support (--enable-jpeg). - Disable CatWeasel, SSI2001 and ParSID support by default. - Enable CPU history by default. - Add `make bindist` for headless builds on Windows/Msys2. - Don't check for joystick support when configuring for a headless build. - Add configure check for [n]pcap headers on Windows. - Fix --with-sdlsound configuring for SDL2 even when SDL1 was explicitly requested via --enable-sdl1ui. - Fix single target builds. - Fix installing Gtk3-specific files when not configured for Gtk3. ** C64 fixes ------------ - Use measured PAL color vectors (provided by Tobias) - Fix autostarting and smart-attaching tapecart (.tcrt) images - Fix cycle count stored into the cpu history (only x64sc) - Cartridge fixes: - Fix Pagefox RAM allocation - Fixed "Super Explode V5" cap timing - Added support for "Partner 64" cartridge - Fix attaching non "Main Slot" cartridges via .crt file (IEEE488, Ramlink, IEEE-Flash, MMC64, Magic Voice) - Fix REU behaviour on triggering DMA by using a RMW instruction with address $ff00 (only x64sc) - Fixed and document C64 US and german keymaps. - Added keymaps for UK keyboard (nicked from 'mad' on lemon) - Added keymaps for Turkish keyboard (provided by erhan) - Updated swedish keymaps (provided by Jaakko Luoto and Jari Hovatov) - Added pictures of the C64 layout and keymap (symbolic+positional, DE+US) to the docs. ** C128 fixes ------------- - Added foundation of c128 cartridge system. Only attaching c128 exclusive cartridges/crt files works right now. - added support for "Partner 128" cartridge - added support for "Magic Desk 128" cartridge - added support for "GMod2 C128" cartridge - added support for "Comal80 C128" cartridge - added support for "Warpspeed 128" cartridge - Add ram02 and ram03 in the monitor when 'full banks' mode is active. - Fix filling of VDC ram from the monitor. - Fix DMA bank. - Fix autostart in C64 mode - Fixed and document C128 US and german keymaps. - Added pictures of the C128 layout and keymap (symbolic+positional, DE+US) to the docs. ** VIC-20 fixes --------------- - use measured PAL color vectors (provided by Tobias) ** PET fixes ------------ - Improved the sound output by reworking parts of the VIA, in particular as related to the shift register and the CB2 output. - Sound made by "manual" control of the CB2 output now works. - Added an adjustable low-pass filter to the sound output, since different speakers on real hardware behave quite different in how much they "muffle" the sound. - Fixed and document PET layout and US/DE keymaps. - Added pictures of the PET layout and keymap (graphical+business, symbolic+positional, DE+US) to the docs. ** VSID fixes (Gtk3 only) ------------------------- - Properly update the mixer widget with the current SID model when playing a (subt)tune. - Add support for the `HVSC_BASE` environment variable: If the HVSC base directory is left blank in the VSID settings the `HVSC_BASE` will be used to determine the location of the High Voltage SID Collection files. - Add customizable hotkeys. - Add default hotkeys for subtunes #1-#30, Play, Pause, Stop, First, Previous, Next, Last, FFWD, Loop. - Display STIL view and Playlist on top of each other, not next to each other. - Strip HVSC base dir from playlist 'Path' column. - Add playlist loading/saving (in M3U format). - Add autoplaying the next subtune when the current subtune has finished playing (requires HVSC). - Add autplaying the next SID in the playlist when all subtunes of a SID have played. - Fix missing display of the 'NAME' STIL field. ** Monitor fixes ---------------- - Fix && and || in cond_expr in the monitor. Previously, both && and &, and || and |, did the same thing: a logical and/or. Now the && and || do the logical operation. ** SDL fixes ------------ - Correct colors on big endian platforms. - Add clearing of joystick mappings. - Add showing of joystick mappings for menu actions. - Fix setting of tde and virual device traps for xcbm2 and xcbm5x0. - Add CMD HD size elements. - Add PET ROM selection elements. - Add SuperPET CPU selection. ** Gtk3 fixes ------------- - Remove unused -gtkbackend command line option: we no longer support software rendering, so the only option left is accelerated rendering. - Improved statusbar layout. - Various layout fixes in the settings dialog. - More meaningful sliders for CRT settings. - Add -${CHIP}showstatusbar/+${CHIP}showstatusbar command line options to show or hide the status bar. - Add -${CHIP}fullscreen/+${CHIP}fullscreen to enable or disable fullscreen mode. - Hotkeys can be assigned to actions that do not have a corresponding menu item. - Properly show custom hotkeys in popup menus. - Make saving custom hotkeys work. - Correct colors on big endian platforms. - Fixed CBM directory displayer in statusbar popup and file selection dialog. - Installed a crazy, but ugly, hack to create the initial window at its final size, so the window manager will not place it off screen when the emulator was started with -default ** Windows fixes ---------------- - Fix monitor Ctrl+C/V and other Ctrl+.. combinations (Gtk3). - Fix issues with numpad - Fix page up/page down keys - Fix Alt-Gr in the Monitor - Fixed MIDI device list / select ** MacOS fixes -------------- - Fix issues with numpad - Fixed MIDI device dialog - Fixed resize performance when emu fps > host display Hz ** Linux fixes -------------- - Fixed MIDI device dialog ** Haiku fixes -------------- - Fix `make bindist`. * Changes in Vice 3.6.1 ======================= This is a service release which fixes some regressions and annoyances reported by our users after the 3.6 release. ** general ---------- - Fixed sound buffer underrun behaviour, it will now cause a small glitch and no longer disable sound or flood the log with warnings. - Do not write the log to a file instead of stdout when stdout is already redirected to a file or pipe, so we can do just that on the shell. - At exit, put quotes around parameters of the regenerated command line options so eg filenames with spaces in them will not break it. - Suppress warnings about duplicated labels when playing back monitor commands to make mrsid a happy bunny. - For cartridges that contain RAM that can be loaded from (and saved to) a file, do not init RAM on powerup if backed up by a file (mimic battery backup). - Do not clear the keyboard input when a 'reset' hotkey was pressed. this allows to "hold" keys when pressing reset, for example "run/stop" when resetting FC3. Note that this still is limited by various other things, like the keyboard mapping and keys reserved by your window manager. - FFMPEG recordings now default to mp4/h264/AAC instead of some divx avi bullshit. - On smart attach automatically change the drive type also when not autostarting. - In some cases the wrong drive was selected automatically on smart attach. - Fixed sampler file loading. ** build system --------------- - Version x.y.0 builds will now generate a version number of x.y (no .0). Additionally, support for semver style build labels has been added, allowing versions such as 3.6-beta, 3.6.1-beta, etc. - Make configure check for *both* avresample and swresample, prefer swresample. - MacOS bindist support for bundling avresample. ** C64 fixes ------------ - Added belgian/dutch keymap provided by sorex. - Added support for the 21sec backup parallel cable. - Set default ram size for ramlink to 16mb, enable it on ROM attach. - Fix ramlink API calls for slot0, add missing ROM image setting to UIs. ** C128 fixes ------------- - Various MMU mapping fixes. ** GTK3 fixes ------------- - Tracked down and helped fixing an upstream GTK bug that made VICE crash on any keypress under certain conditions, making VICE work again for Jazzcat :) - Fixed default joystick/gamecontroller mappings on Windows/Linux/MacOS. - Fixed mapping logic to handle multiple events and duplicate mappings correctly. - Allow negative coordinates for windows, this should fix restoring the window position that was broken on some multi-monitor setups. - Monitor: remember and restore VTE window size and position. - Make the monitor window "remember" its position and size between invocations. - Allow setting the position and size via command line, using `-monitorxpos`, `-monitorypos`, `-monitorwidth` and `-monitorheight`. - Position and size is saved along with the settings. - Made joystick/control port tabs only show the extra ports when they are available. - Mouse pointer changes shape when hovering over clickable status bar items. - CPU speed / FPS settings added to the main menu. - Correctly use the LED colors for drives > 8. - Fixed drive/tap popup menu labels, only display "#8:0" etc if the drive is a dual drive device in the context menus and directory popup menus. Only show "Directory of tape #1/#2" in xpet, show "Directory of tape" in other emulators. - Added statusbar led for shiftlock. - Added clickable 40/80colums LED to x128. - Added clickable LED for the CAPS aka DIN/ASCII key in x128. - Properly update both keyboard debugging widgets on x128. - Don't grey-out sound setting widgets when sound is disabled, so configuration can be changed before enabling sound again. - Various fixes related to the new hotkeys feature: - Allow for a few more modifiers when setting hotkeys. - Filter certain modifiers that are only getting in the way (eg numlock). - Remove old hotkey from the table when redefining. - Make Return/Enter trigger Accept in the dialog, make Escape trigger Cancel. - Only show actions that have a corresponding menu item. - Use hardware keycodes to figure out the key that was pressed. fixes eg the situation on macOS that hotkeys could not be defined because they produce various symbols. ** SDL fixes ------------ - Fixed mapping logic to handle multiple events and duplicate mappings correctly. ** macOS fixes -------------- - Fixed macOS bindist not working if placed in path with a space in it. Also the runtime cwd will now default to the user’s home directory, unless launched using the CLI scripts in the root bin folder in which case the current cwd will be preserved. - Gtk3: added MacOS specific .vhk (hotkey) files. - FFMPEG recordings now work on Apple Silicon binary distributions - The launcher .app apps no longer require Rosetta on Apple Silicon * Changes in Vice 3.6 ===================== We welcome to the team: - June Tate-Gans who added the dual screen mode (for x128) to the SDL UI. - Pablo Roldan aka durandal, who contributed improvements and fixes to the RS-232 emulation. ** general ---------- - Warp mode status will no longer be saved in config files. - Increased autostart reliability. - Changing host audio settings no longer resets the emulated sound chip. - Added hardware flow control to the userport RS-232 emulation. - Added selection of control lines behaviour for userport RS-232 emulation. - Fixes to ACIA hardware flow control, DCD and DSR lines behaviour, register reset values. - (Re-)added tun/tap support for Ethernet emulation, including support for "capabilites", so it can work without root/Administrator rights - "Device Traps" and "True Drive Emulation" can now be selected per drive/device. - Various fixes related to keyboard mappings. For details please read https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/mailman/message/37380515/ - Fixed problems related to Caps-Lock and Shift-Lock emulation. - Added support for piping printer output and RS232 I/O through an external executable on Windows. - Fliplist (.vfl) support tweaked to be compatible with devices like sd2iec, pi1541 and Turbo Chameleon. Fliplists in the old format can still be loaded, newly created ones will always use the new format (see manual). - Removed pointless "dither" column from palette files and -format. - Some improvements in the 1520 plotter emulation. - Extend images directly from 35 to 40 and then 42 tracks, as other sizes are not used anywhere else in the world - More realistic implementation of tape wobble. - Fixed p64 wraparound. - Added option to write out the raw data produced by reSID (for debugging). - Made 48kHz the default for sound output, since that is what most modern stuff uses natively. - Log the random seed and added a commandline option to set a seed, useful to reproduce things that depend on randomness. - At exit log all resources with non default values, and a reconstructed commandline, which should make it easier for people that are reporting bugs. - when mounting Dxx GCR images, add a reasonable skew per track to make the disk layout a bit more realistic - Remove tearing in screenshots. ** build system --------------- - Remove linking to vice libraries for petcat and cartconv. - All targets can now be built separately (e.g. 'make x64sc'). - Fixed building on cygwin. - removed support for building with embedded ROMs - Made the new 8580 filter implementation the default for configure. ** Joystick fixes ----------------- - New Superpad64 emulation. - New spaceballs joystick adapter emulation. - New MultiJoy joystick adapter emulation. - New Inception joystick adapter emulation. - New Microflyte analog joystick emulation. - New userport SNES pad (Petscii) emulation. - New Trapthem joyport SNES pad emulation. - New Protopad emulation. - New plus4 Synergy 3-port joystick adapter emulation. - Extended Ninja joyport SNES pad adapter to 3 ports. - All SNES pad buttons are supported now. - Joystick adapters with more than 1 port are always mapped to the extra joysticks from now on. - Joystick adapters with only 1 port are mapped to the port they are attached to. - SIDcard joystick of the plus4 is now always mapped to extra joystick #4. - New autofire button support. - New virtual I/O simulation device for the joyport, allows pins to be changed by the user from the monitor. ** Userport fixes ----------------- - Only one userport device can be attached to the userport at a time from now on. - New virtual I/O simulation device for the userport, allows pins to be changed by the user from the monitor. ** Tapeport fixes ----------------- - Only one tapeport device can be attached at a time from now on. ** C64 fixes ------------ - Added REX Ramfloppy loading & saving of the RAM contents. - Added support for "Hucky's EPROM Cartridge", implemented as a variant of the RGCD cartridge. - Added "Turtle Graphics II" cartridge emulation. - Added "IEEE Flash 64" cartridge emulation. - Added "Freeze Frame MK2" cartridge emulation. - Super Snapshot V5 fixes. - WarpSpeed emulation matches the behaviour of the real hardware better. - Renamed "H.E.R.O. Bootleg" cartridge type to "Drean". - Fixed REU floating bus behaviour (256KiB REU). - Removed GEORam sizes smaller than 512KiB - Those never existed. ** C128 fixes ------------- - Added VDC interlaced rendering support - Added Interlaced Sync mode to VDC (Interlaced Sync and Video was already implemented) Both modes now work with the new interlace-aware renderers. - VDC memory mirroring behaviour improved. - VDC busy flag behaviour improved. - Fixed 2Mhz mode unconnected memory space reads. - Added missing SDL symbolic keymap for US keyboard ** VIC20 fixes ------------- - Added VIC interlaced rendering support - Added support for .crt files - Added support for screenshots in native vic20 format - Added "VIC-1001" model - Don’t update VIC potx / poty registers more often than every 512 cycles. ** Plus4 fixes ------------- - Added "jacint1 1MB Cartridge" emulation - Added "c264 magic cart" emulation - Added "Plus4 multi cart" emulation - Added support for .crt files ** PET fixes ------------ - New datasette #2 emulation. - Added support for .t64 files - Monitor IO dump for CRTC improved with internal register dump, interlace status and layout fixes - Overhaul PET CB2 sound output sample generation. ** CBM2 fixes ------------- - Fixed datasette emulation (only with .tap files right now) ** VSID fixes ------------- - Fixed various issues with threading. - Implemented proper STOP of playback. ** C1541 fixes -------------- - Add `bpoke` command: directly write one or more byte into a block. - Make the `chain` command accept a '[@unit:]filename' argument. - Make the `extract` command detect circular track/sector links. ** cartconv fixes ----------------- - Added support for the new extended CRT V2 format, which now supports all other CBM computers (see manual for details). - Added support for C128, VIC20 and Plus4 cartridges. ** petcat fixes ----------------- - correctly align (5 digit) line numbers. - Added support for Mega65 BASIC ** Monitor fixes ---------------- - Make the `device` command switch to computer when not given an argument. - Add `warp [on|off|toggle]` command. - Fix not being able to delete the final character on a line with DEL. - Drive CPU emulation now catches up to main CPU automatically. - Snapshots autostarted from monitor will immediately update the screen (interlaced screens not fully supported). - Fixed various user input performance and consistency problems. - 'chis' command now prints a 12 digit cycle counter. - 'chis' command now works for drives - Fixed execution order of multiple -moncommands arguments. - Fixed single-stepping on "secondary" CPU (eg Z80 in x128). - Fixed Z80 disasssembler, all opcodes are supported now. - Make the CPU bank the default, not RAM. - In x64sc, fixed reading 0/1 when CPU bank is active. - Fixed display of multicolor sprites. - Fixed assembling indirect absolute JMP with zero page argument. ** SDL fixes ------------ - New SDL2 dual window support (VDC in x128). - New automatic SDL2 host joystick hot-plug rescan. - New SDL2 rescan host joysticks menu item. - Removed unneeded items from some SDL menus. - New D67 image creation menu items. - Fixed relative paths in the SDL file/directory selection dialog. - New host joystick axis mapping support for emulated paddles and analog joysticks. - Mapping of host joysticks menu now shows what the pins are already mapped to. - Add application icons to SDL1.2 binaries. - Fixed display corruption and OpenGL detection on some machines ** GTK3 fixes ------------- - Added bicubic rendering, which improves the look of a resized window with the CRT filter enabled. - Remove sandbox mode. - Fixed statusbar recording status widget display issues. - Fixed C128 function ROM settings. - Add setting colors of the monitor. - Add 'Cartridge -> Default cartridge' to settings. This allows the user to see the current default cartridge, unset it and set another cartridge as default. - Fix 'extend image' dialog. - Fix display of joystick names with non-ASCII glyphs. - Improve widgets setting file paths: use the directory of a file's path in dialogs as the default directory. - Media recording dialog: remember previously used audio/video codecs when starting a new recording. - Fix VSID not allowing .MUS files to be added to the playlist. - Allow unlimited host controllers for joysticks - Fix resetting of scroll position in RAM reset pattern view. - Fix loading 'vice.ini' inside a Windows bindist: load from the root directory, not the bin/ subdirectory. - Fix toggling pause mode when taking a quick screenshot. - Fix various layout issues in the settings. - Add 'Add current image to fliplist' and 'Clear fliplist' items to drive widget popup menu. - Remove userport joystick swapping. - Add swapping of controlport joysticks' emulated devices. - Add saving/restoring the 'fullscreen decorations' state. - Add joystick autofire settings. - Simplify userport devices settings. - Simplify tapeport devices settings. - Use checkboxes in menus for toggleable items. - Add 64x64 pixels icons. - Fix tape autostart via a tape's 'directory'. - Status bar: overhaul layout, add small row with LEDs for Pause/Warp. - Status bar: add support for dual-drive units. - Status bar: add support for two datasettes. - Status bar: fix directory popup menus to display the correct directory for dual-drive units and to autostart the correct file. - Status bar: display main/drive CPU JAMs in the messages row, rather than in the CPU/FPS widget, properly remove JAM messages on reset of affected device. - Add customizable keyboard shortcuts ('hotkeys'). Those who were missing the old WinVICE hotkeys can use gtk3-winvice-legacy.vhk - Immediately apply color changes of the monitor. * Changes in Vice 3.5 ===================== This release completes the transition to the new GTK3 based GUI and fixes a bunch of long standing issues (see below). We are looking for someone who can provide stable automatic nightly builds - for this will work best on a Windows machine, or perhaps a Fedora server. We tried our best to come up with a solution for Debian, but that didn't work out as intended. If you think you can help in this area - please get in touch. We welcome to the team: empathicqubit - who wrote the new remote monitor binary interface Roberto Muscedere aka OldWoman37 - who contributed the new Lt.Kernal, CMD-HD and RAMlink emulations (C64 only) ** general ---------- - Remove explicit support for OS/2, AmigaOS. These platforms should be able to use the SDL port. - VICE used to store its ROMs, keymaps etc into $PREFIX/lib[64]/vice, which isn't correct. Now VICE installs its data into $PREFIX/share/vice, which makes a lot more sense. The documentation location has changed as well, now the documentation is installed in $PREFIX/share/doc/vice. On Windows, the binaries and DLLs have been moved into /bin, according to the requirements of GTK/GDK. - Emulator timing is now directly driven by the host system audio device. If sound emulation is disabled, timing is synchronized with the host clock. As part of this change, the choice of sound synchronization method has been removed. - Emulation now occurs in blocks of time directly related to the sound fragment size. Previously, emulation of an entire frame happened as quickly as possible and then the host system would sleep until it is time to emulate the next entire frame. This means that user input is now visible to the emulated software with lower latency than before. - Audio latency is much lower on all platforms, and new lower latency defaults have been set. Users are encouraged to try using smaller fragment sizes and experiment with finding the lowest stable buffer size on their system. - Support for changing the emulator timing to target generating a specific number of video frames per second. Useful for smooth PAL scrolling on a 50Hz CRT, and also fun for playing games at 60fps to match a typical LCD screen refresh. - The default behaviour on CPU JAM was changed to "continue" to better match the behaviour of the real machines. Additionally a "CPU JAM" message will be displayed in the status bar. - A "quit emulator" option was added to the CPU JAM dialog - The CPU JAM dialog now shows the number of the device whose CPU has crashed. - Proper support for dual drives has been added - Relative file support on the filesystem device - Autostarting works from any drive (select the drive in the attach disk dialog) - Added support for 2nd and 3rd joystick button (potx/poty), currently only via keyboard and via unix joystick driver. - Added mapping for the THEC64 joystick - New LT.Kernal emulation - New CMD-HD emulation - New CMD RAM-Link emulation - New D9090/60 emulation - New icons for the applications. - We now use proper binary prefixes for memory sizes. Welcome in the 21st century! - Recalculate the palette parameters when the videochip type changes, now we can actually see the subtle color differences :) - Emulate a switch present on some compatible datasettes (not the Commodore ones). Turning the switch on makes the sound recorded on the tape audible. - Fixed/improved "native" screenshots. It will now work with all videochips and always generate "best effort" results. - The emulators will look for the config file at an alternative location first, before looking at the system wide location. - for windows that is the location of the .exe files - for Linux that is ~/.vicerc - Fixed lightgun/pen emulation - use poty instead of potx for trigger for magnum lightphaser and inkwell lightpen - tweak lightphaser offset against a bunch of games - Handling of settings and resources was improved a bit: - always reset resources to default before loading a settings file - new "-addconfig" option (or "load additional settings") loads additional resources from a file without resetting to defaults before. this can be used to keep custom setups separate from the regular settings. - Fixed sysfile search path order. The order now is $HOME/.local -> path-of-binary -> VICE_DATADIR - Fixed a bug in .tap file handling that caused some .tap files to not work in the preview widget(s) - A bunch of files have been removed from the source tree because they didn't really belong there and/or contained outdated info: - hardware-sids.txt, the old info is now at https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/Hardware_SID_Status - SDL-support.txt, the old info is now at https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/SDL_Status - ffmpeg-support.txt, the old info is now at https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/FFMPEG_Status - Another bunch of files were removed because their content was hopelessly outdated and/or could be moved to other files: - removed ancient CHANGELOG files. Read NEWS for the recent changes. Refer to the SVN log for the gory details. - moved contents from FEEDBACK to README - removed INSTALL, AUTHORS, FEEDBACK - removed the MAN pages. Read the html or pdf manual instead. ** build system --------------- Many changes and simplifications were made in the build system, to make it more reproducible and match the expected standard behaviour: - Add --disable-optimization (default=no) to make the buildsystem use -O0 for debugging. - 'make dist' no longer needs '--enable-static-ffmpeg' to generate a working tarball. - Fixed support for the —disable-silent-rules/—enable-silent-rules configure arguments. - Added --enable-sandbox-mode switch. This switch will tell GTK3 to use 'native dialogs' so we can properly support Flatpak and similar containers. - Added -—enable-cmake to automatically generate cmake CMakelists.txt files for in-tree configured builds. Generating Xcode projects works, and this may allow generation of MSVC project files in the future. - Add --enable-desktop-files for creating and installing .desktop files on Unix. - Added --enable/disable-html-docs - Added --with/without-mpg123 (default=no), makes MP3-decoding support optional - Added --with/without-ogg-vorbis - Added --with/without-flac (default=no) - Update --with[out]-lame, make no default - Make jpeg and gif support default to no - Make using libpng the default, fail unless explicitly disabled - Make ALSA and Pulse default to enabled, make OSS default to disabled - Make MIDI support disabled by default - Make new 8580 filter default - Removed --disable-hwscale, always check for OpenGL with GTK3, error out when --disable-hwscale is used with SDL2 Properly report missing tools to generate docs: - Fail on missing pdftex when PDF docs requested - Checks for makeinfo and texi2dvi (from the texinfo package) and warns in the configure output at the end if they are missing, but will still build VICE. Check presence of other tools instead of silently not using them: - Made dos2unix mandatory to avoid surprises - Fail if building for Windows and `icotool` is missing. It can be obtained by installing the `icoutils` package. Some features have been deprecated and are now disabled by default: - Added --enable-x64-image option to enable X64 image support, which is now disabled by default. - Added --with/without-fastsid switch to enable/disable the fastSID engine (default is off). ** Monitor ---------- - Completely new binary remote protocol for debuggers. The older hack was removed - see the documentation for details. - -moncommands finally work as originally intended and supports all monitor commands now. That means there are subtle differences in how certain things work. one important thing is that by default it will use an initial break point just after "reset". - "-initbreak ready" can be used to place an initial wait for "ready", like autostart does, or "-initbreak reset" to break just after reset. For more details, read the documentation. - ‘stop’ is no more ending up in recorded monitor command playback files - Support `cd ~` to change cwd to $HOME - Added 'mkdir' command - Added 'rmdir' command - Added "verify" and "bverify" commands to compare memory with a file - Added optional address to the `screen` command - `chis` shows the cycle count as well now - Added option to configure the number of lines used for chis - Added option to change the size of the scrollback buffer - Added "dummy" command to enable or disable whether break- and watchpoints trigger at dummy accesses or not. - Check watchpoints in the order they were added, that makes the output in the monitor less confusing when more than one watchpoint triggers at a time - Show rasterline and cycle in both decimal and hex - Add 'q' as a shorthand for 'quit' - Improvements to the char/sprite display - use # over * for more contrast, show the memory value(s) alongside binary view and fix bug showing multiple sprites - "list", "load" and "save" do now work with the filesystem device - Drive numbers are now expected to be decimal - Add monitor dump function to m6821 core - Added info on head position/status to VIA io dump - The display now (optionally) refreshes after each monitor command. this is not cycle exact right now (only per scanline). - Fixed accessing cartridge memory - Improve expansion port mode status output - Fix io command to shows IO space in address order ** vdrive --------- - The filesystem device now uses shortened filenames by default to increase compatibility. - Disallow to silently overwrite existing files (optional, default is "no") - Implemented "save @" to overwrite files (but do not simulate the well known related bugs) - Basic support for REL files in the File System Device. (Using P00 format, or rather R00, is recommended) - Fix some BAM track allocation issues in 8050/8250 disk images - Avoid DISK FULL with 27 blocks free on .D80 / .D82. - For D80/D82 images, when reading the directory, use the correct block to fetch the disk's name from. This corrects a bad disk name in directory listings when using a vdrive. - Added proper creation of d1m, d2m and d4m images, the resulting image has 1 native partition spanning the entire disk. - When formatting or validating an 8050 or 8250 image, the header sector wasn't flagged as allocated. This resulted in VICE hanging when creating more than 80 files on the disk. ** True drive emulation ----------------------- - More realistic modelling of the floppy drive wobble - Changed lower limit for drive RPM to 260 and upper limit to 340 (ie +/- 40). This is slightly more than possible with a real 1541. ** CPU fixes ------------ - Prevent IRQ/NMI from being served by the CPU when it has JAMed - Perform all "dummy" accesses also in the non "sc" core - Changed magic constant for LAX#imm to 0xEE as required(!) by wizball ** VDC fixes ------------ - Emulate VDC's internal buffer, issues with RFOVDC plasma part are fixed - Several fixes for interlace, now vdcmodemania interlace parts all work and soci VDC test #5 works - Improved VDC-FLI handling, 3 byte attribute offset doesn't always apply, fixes vdc-mcm demo and vdcmodemania fli part - Fix issue with wrap around of VDC ram affecting vdcmodemania fli part - Fixed VDC reg #28 bit #4, it sets the addressing mode, it does not actually reflect the amount of ram installed. - Correct aspect ratio for PAL or NTSC - Screen is resized automatically on PAL/NTSC change - Corrected size of saved screenshots or videos - Correct handling of unused bits in some registers - Corrections and enhancements to monitor "io d600" dump ** SID fixes ------------ - Fixed the filter saturation - Noise writeback fixes - Envelope regression fix - Fix the coefficients for the resid external filter - Rough implementation of the shift register and waveform zero bitfade - Added 4 possible additional SID chips for a total of 8 (x64*/xscpu64/x128 only) ** C64 fixes ------------ - Enable/disable datasette/tapecart as needed on autostart - Several new cartridge types added: - The 'ZIPP-CODE 48' cartridge - The polish 'blackbox v8' cartridge - The polish 'Blackbox V3' cartridge - The polish 'Blackbox V4' cartridge - The polish 'Blackbox V9' cartridge - The 'REX RAM-Floppy' cartridge - The czech 'BIS-Plus' cartridges (2,4,8kb variants) - The polish 'SD-BOX' cartridge - The 'MultiMAX' cartridge - The argentinian HERO bootleg cartridge - The "GMod3" cartridge - Action Replay fixes: - When reading from IO1 area when AR5 is enabled, the value currently on the bus will get written to the register, causing the famous bug/crash - Handle the broken mode 0x22 and emit a warning on potentially problematic reads - Retroreplay fixes: - Allow reading back the status of the freeze button - Fix reads from IO1 when the clockport is not active. - Handle the somewhat broken mode 0x22 like on real retro replay - Nordic Power fixes: - Fix writing to cartridge ram in mode 0x22 ** C128 fixes ------------- - FD2000/4000 work again, including burst mode - Several bugs fixed in the MMU IO dump in the monitor. ** VIC20 fixes -------------- - Added handling for 32k cartridge files that contain blocks 1,2,3 and 5. - Fixed megacart nvram addressing - External audio filter fix ** PET fixes ------------ - Teach VICE where BASIC 1 keeps the current screen line address, so that Autostart works. - Made the UK business keyboard the default and moved it to the top of the list of keyboards. This makes the default setup work with the keymaps and editor ROM we have in VICE. - For CRTC-less PETs, use screen setup values that work out to 60 Hz refresh. - Tuned the display timing values for non-CRTC PETs - Renamed PET ROMs to include their part number (in line with Zimmers). This should make it more clear which editor ROMs exist. - The 4032B model used a wrong Editor ROM ** SDL fixes ------------ - Implemented mouse pointer auto-hiding - Remember last position in the main menu - Several Keyboard mapping fixes: - Fix (some) plus4 keymaps - Some pet keymap fixes - Updated/fixed symbolic mapping for italian keyboard - Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (plus4) - Added keymap from/for BMC64 (c64) ** GTK3 fixes ------------- - Almost all causes of stuttering / audio glitches when interacting with the UI have been resolved. - Cairo is completely gone, all major platforms use their native rendering backend - Added hotkey "pause" to generate a screenshot from current canvas using a generated filename in the current working directory - Rearranged cartridge/io settings around a bit. not perfect yet, but probably better than before - Add optional hiding of VDC display - Make double-clicking on the emulated screen switch fullscreen mode - Alt+Enter will now also toggle fullscreen mode - Added option to pause the emulation when settings dialog is open - Remember not only the last directory but also the last file in file dialogs - Show "Use Alt+M to disable mouse grab" in window title if mouse grab is active - Support 'StartMinimized'/-minimized - Added 'restore window geometry' to UI and commandline to allow users to apply/ ignore the last position/size of the window(s) stored in vicerc/vice.ini. - Allow for 8 'analog' controllers on Linux - Added Alt+Shift+F12 VICII to switch border mode in x64sc - Moved the netplay settings from the 'File' menu to the settings dialog - Added 'Host' root node in the settings UI, move Autostart, Monitor, Netplay, Snapshot/Event/Media recording directory and start-mode under that. - Also move Host->Machine settings (CWD and JAM-action) under Host, remove the Host->Machine node. - Use workaround for GTKFileChooser's "Select" button not being active when selecting/creating a directory. - Several Keyboard mapping fixes: - Added keymaps for THE64 keyboard - Updated keymaps for pet graphical keyboard - Fix shift+z/y in german positional mapping (c64) - Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (plus4) - Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (c64) - Fix (some) plus4 keymaps - Added positional keymap for Swedish keyboard - Fix ctrl and cbm mapping (c128) ** macOS fixes -------------- - VICE GTK performance on macOS is now excellent and we finally now recommend the GTK build over the SDL build. - macOS bindist now relies on macports rather than homebrew. With macports it’s possible to build deps from source while targeting an older macOS version, which allows us to continue to support macOS 10.9+. - Re-enabled the bafflingly disabled working macOS joystick code - Actual macOS game controller device names are now listed instead of 6x “Analog joystick n” ** c1541 fixes -------------- - Added some REL file support - support for REL files to the c1541 COPY subcommand - Add subcommand to show dir entry of a file, and all side sectors. - Add support for SEQ and USR files for the -extract command - Renamed `zcreate` command to `unzip`. 'unzip' (dissolve a zipcode archive) sounds more logical than 'zcreate'. When we decide to also support creating zipcode archives, a proper name for that could be 'zip' or 'zipcode'. ** petcat fixes --------------- - Added missing basic v4 tokens for cbmII * Changes in Vice 3.4 ===================== We are still looking for dedicated maintainers for the Windows port, if you want to help improving these and/or want to provide binaries, please get in touch. We also needs support in fixing the various keyboard mappings, please test the keyboard in your favourite OS and port and report any problems. We welcome dqh in the team, who will take care of the macOS port. ** General ---------- - Remove support for Syllable OS, SCO, QNX4, QNX6, SGI, AIX, OpenStep/NextStep/ Rhapsody, Solaris/OpenIndiana and remaining traces of Minix, NeXT, SKYOS, UNIXWARE, Sortix - Remove remaining traces of support for WATCOM, MSVC, OpenWatcom - Remove aRts support - Remove YUV rendering - Remove generation of .chm, .hlp and .info files. Please use the .pdf or .html - skip building x64 unless --enable-x64 is passed to configure - do not use the new/experimental 8580 filters unless --enable-new8580filter is passed to configure - update pattern generator for uninitialized ram. changed defaults so all raminitpattern tests pass. - remove block device disk image (rawdrive) "support". in linux it was never needed (just use the device file) and on windows it was never implemented. - added support for the IP232 protocol that was used by the long lost VICE1.19 hack, and which is supported by tcpser for emulating DTR/DCD (carrier detect) - various userport rs232 fixes - always save gifs as gif89 - added a couple shift flags to keyboard maps to support virtual cbm/ctrl and mandatory pressed host modifiers. not all keymaps have been updated yet. - ACIA IRQ fix - create empty half tracks when mounting d64. fixes skew.d64 - new headless port that can be enabled by passing --enable-headlessui to configure. this can be used to build an emulator without video output, which may be useful for scripting. ** Autostart fixes ------------------ - Implemented autostart for tapecart images (.tcrt) - Automatically change drive type when autostarting disk images that do not work with the currently active drive. - Make AutostartRunWithColon default - fixed autostart when memory hacks are enabled (plus60k, plus256k, plus4) - make auto-starting from tape also respect the 'basicload' option, loading absolute by default - when using a disk image to autostart .prg files, remove the .prg extension from the temporary file name - many detail fixes that make autostart work as expected in all emulators and in all configurations (eg C128 in 80 columns or C64 mode) ** Snapshot fixes ----------------- - More strict checking and more explizit error reporting ** 6510 fixes ------------- - Accurate emulation of ANE#imm and LAX#imm "magic constant" dependency on RDY. All occurrences of unstable use are being logged now. LAX#imm "magic constant" changed to 0xEF, which makes the problem cases "spectipede" and "turrican 3" work. - fix: reset should set the I flag ** VIC-II fixes --------------- - Accurate emulation of the "VSP bug". Warnings about possible VSP related memory corruption are always logged, actual memory corruption is still optional. - Fixed changing more than one colour register via monitor ** VIC fixes ------------ - new noise LFSR as reverse engineered by Lance Ewing. ** SID fixes ------------ - use model dependent floating output ttl values like in residfp ** Monitor ---------- - Support full expressions in the monitor conditional breakpoints. - When deleting checkpoints, reset the index to 1 when there are no more checkpoints left - Added 'RL' for rasterline and 'CY' for cycle in line to list of conditionals that can be used for breakpoints. - in mc/ms commands show asterisk for 1s and dots for 0s, not the other way around - adjust number of disassembled lines so the top line does not scroll out of the window when labels are used. - Added "log" and "logname" commands to control logging to a file ** vdrive --------- - added rudimentary support for CMD-style reading of the RTC - respect error info in disk images (only when reading right now). Should trick some simple protections. - report 65535 blocks free rather than 0 so that applications that query available disk space before saving work as expected, e.g. some BBSs ** C-64 fixes ------------- - added support for MAX Basic cartridge, new CRTID 61 - added clockport device for rrnet mk3 - fixed reading of 'open' clockport, fixed io dump for clockport devices - implemented support for cartridge hardware revision in the crt format - When attaching an Easyflash cartridge image, replace the EAPI driver with the one for the flash chip VICE supports. This way EF images that contain a different driver (for whatever reason) will still work. - various keymaps added and/or fixed/updated. ** C-128 fixes -------------- - added proper C128D model type. - various MMU fixes - fixed broken memory mapping in C64 mode - Completely rewritten VDC vertical handling code. VDC101 demo with it's vdc-split technique is now fully emulated. This rewrite attempts to emulate more how the VDC works internally, and how the video signal/screen react, so the border height etc is now more naturally handled. - Various misc VDC fixes, e.g. show blank lines with certain register combinations ** GTK3 UI ---------- - Implemented "restore display" (Alt+r). Resets the active window to its minimal/natural size. Handy when stretching the window and then not knowing you can make the window smaller again with resizing that same window until it doesn't get smaller. - Change double-clicking images in smart/diskattach dialogs to 'open' instead of autostarting - added options to select rendering backend and filter - fixed opening files with UTF8 encoded filenames - Make the (VTE) monitor display on top of the emulated machine window when in fullscreen - copy only used icons into the distribution, which drastically reduced its size - Added keyboard debugging to the statusbar - Added * (all files) filter to the fliplist attach dialog. This will allow people to use Pi1541 *.lst files at their own peril. - Add proper statusbar messages when using the fliplist. - Add howto about creating a GTK3-Windows cross-compiler on Debian with Fedora packages (aka FrankenVICE) - only show the host keyboard mappings in the list for which we have a valid mapping, grey out symbolic/positional depending on what keymaps are actually available - Move joystick settings to the joystick widget on the statusbar. - Windows: add icons to binaries - allow better control of the filter settings by removing tick marks of the sliders and adding spinboxes (6581+ReSID only) - Fix the 'media recording' dialog to not show empty widgets when FFMPEG support is missing, show hint on compiling in FFMPEG instead. ** SDL fixes ------------ - make hotkeys only check left alt, which makes right alt (alt-gr) work in keyboard mappings. ** macOS fixes -------------- - make open-gl work - binary distributions, font support, GTK3 dock icon - fix missing icon theme, fixed pdf manual generation, improved build instructions - fixed macOS make bindist when building out of tree - Added instructions for building and debugging using Xcode * Changes in VICE 3.3 ===================== This release stabilizes and introduces the GTK3 UI as the primary user interface for all major ports. For "lesser" platforms we still have the SDL1/SDL2 based interface. All other user interfaces have been removed. RIP We are still looking for dedicated maintainers for the Windows- and macOS ports, if you want to help improving these and/or want to provide binaries, please get in touch. ** General ---------- - Old, unmaintained, ports removed: * MacOS Cocoa: use SDL or GTK3 * WinVice: use SDL or GTK3 * BeOS/Haiku: use SDL * AmigaOS: use SDL * Unix Xaw: use SDL or GTK3 * Unix GTK2: use SDL or GTK3 * OS/2: use SDL - Fix building against external ffmpeg >= 4.0 - Fix errors in multi-SID code - added single SNES pad emulation (compatible to Ninjas adapter/TrapThem64) - Make VICE much faster by using -O3 vs -O2 - add a slot number before the literal name of a game-controller, which is less confusing when more than one controller of the same type is used - fix parsing of the commandline with -config first - added dutch to list of keyboard mappings ** Unix fixes ------------- - the sleep function was not handling timer overflows properly, which happens every 4 seconds on a 32bit machine with nanosleep() ** macOS fixes -------------- - Enabled the use of the CoreAudio driver in macOS SDL builds. - Removed the legacy requirement for X11.app when launching VICE.app ** ReSID fixes -------------- - tweak uCox value - correctly emulate filter cutoff transistor both in triode and saturation mode - Split ReSID resource into 6581/8580-specific resources (passthrough/gain/bias) - various envelope generator fixes - use different timing on 6581/8580 for noise register reset when testbit is set - noise shift register is clocked once after reset ** VIC fixes --------------- - corrected green color angle according to colodore website - fix lumas according to 'colodore' ** VIC-II fixes --------------- - corrected green color angle according to colodore website - fix lumas according to 'colodore' - added ChristopherJam palette ** TED fixes --------------- - corrected color angles according to colodore website - fix lumas according to 'colodore' ** VIA fixes ------------ - fixed initial state of the I/O ports ** CIA fixes ------------ - fixed initial state of the I/O ports - revert part of r32790, makes galaxians g64 load again ** Monitor ---------- - io d600 (x128 VDC register dump) expanded - in memory dump limit the number of bytes per line to a power of two. - instead of limiting disassembler output to a number of bytes, limit it to the height of the current terminal ** c1541 -------- - Fix `geosread` command - Add tilde (~) expansion in `write` command (Unix only) - Add P00Save support to `extract` command ** Drive changes ---------------- - Fix WD1770 formatting issues - fix mapping of sfd-1001 ram - Fix trap_rom offset for 2040/4040 ** C64 changes -------------- - support extra 64k eprom on the comal80 cartridge - added symbolic keymaps for dutch keyboard layout ** C128 changes --------------- - Autostart fixes - Stability improvements - VIC mirroring fixed - VDC emulation improvements * Interlace mode is supported in text and graphics modes (renderers still need work to handle the interlace effect properly) * STATUS flag is partially emulated * Rendering unusual character widths and in the inter-character gap * Semi-graphics mode fixes * Alternate character set fixes * Cursor rendering * Smooth scrolling in 40 column (pixel double) mode * vertical positioning (include register 5) - added norwegian c128 chargen ** GTK3 UI ---------- - Remember last used settings "page" in the settings UI - Remember last used directory for various file dialogs - Popup menus for the drive widgets in the status bar: * Show directory of currently attached disk image * Add menu shortcut to the drive settings UI * Add Reset drive #X item - Mixer/CRT widgets: various fixes - Move cpu/fps display to the statusbar from the title bar - Add popup menu to the cpu/fps display widget to control refresh rate, speed, warp and pause/advance frame - Add popup menu to the joystick widget to allow swapping joysticks and userport joysticks, add shortcut menu item to joystick settings UI - Add cartridge content preview to the cart-attach dialog (x64/x64sc/xscpu64/x128) - Dynamically load CBM font - Don't allow the mouse cursor to 'escape' during mouse grab - Unhide mouse pointer in dialogs during mouse grab - Add setting a cartridge as default - Improve model settings UI behaviour - Add "Fullscreen on boot" checkbutton and -fullscreen command line option - x128: Bring either VDC or VICII display to front depending on 40/80 col key - VTE pulled into the sourcetree, which allows using the same monitor window in all ports - Terminal- or GUI based monitor can be selected at runtime in all ports - introduced new VICE logo provided by Bjoern Odendahl (thanks!) - fix assignment of user keymaps - fix Shift+P pausing the emulator, it now properly pauses with Alt+Shift+P ** SDL UI --------- - Add toggle button in x128 for the Go64Mode - ignore 'dotfiles' in the fileselector on *nix - added browsing inside disk and tape images. - added pageup/pagedown/home/end key mappings, and support them in the menus, file-selector and text viewer - Terminal- or UI based monitor can be selected at runtime in all ports - added a hack to get rid of spurious keyup/keydown events after switching from/to fullscreen - generate suitable fonts for the ui at startup, use some custom gfx for the ui. fixes the problem that the ui chars will screw up when the user selects a japanese chargen :) - when changing color- or crt emulation settings, print a color matrix on screen and update the resources in realtime - UI cosmetics: - fix slider length, use custom chars for slider - make screen all black before entering the UI - added basic default window icon - fix display of literal key names for SDL2 - major rework of SDL2 video renderer to work natively with all supported graphics acceleration technologies (OpenGL ES, DX11, Metal, etc). Fullscreen support and resized windows now preserve aspect ratio properly on any screen size. - SDL2 now respects "GL" filter mode. As a bonus it does so even when the renderer is not OpenGL. ** VSID (GTK3) -------------- - Remember last-used-directory for the open file dialog - Add drag'n'drop support - Add HVSC support: * Support SLDB * Support STIL ** VSID (SDL) -------------- - implemented drag'n'drop * Changes in VICE 3.2 ===================== ** General ---------- - New (experimental) GTK3 native port, this and the SDL(2) port will replace all other ports (which will get removed) in VICE 3.3 and onward. - Handling of the `-keybuf` command now works properly for all emulators and RAM sizes. - Fixed handling of LOAD"$$" with virtual devices. - Fixed @CD, @MD and @RD commands for virtual filesystem devices. - Fixed NEOS Mouse emulation. - Call the new CIA "8521" instead of "6526A" (which is wrong) in the UIs. - Added 4sid support. - Fixed tape wobble. - Erase timing fixes in flash core. - Don't allocate sectors on tracks > 70 in the BAM of 1571 images. - Ethernet emulation: fix register mapping in rr-net mode. - reSID: fixed envelope bugs shown by testprogs/SID/env_test/. - Fixed 6509 CPU port issues. - Added support for TAP virtual network interface. - Fixed drive clock overflow. Drive and host went out of sync on clock overflow (every ~4G cycles), which would break loading or custom drive code in the case loader/stuff is not idle during overflow window. Also drive would execute ~4G cycles out of sync, which made the emulator freeze for a while. ** Monitor ---------- - Fix monitor 'm' command buffer overflow. - Added conditional on values in memory to breakpoint handling. ** SDL changes -------------- - Cosmetic overhaul of the SDL UI. - New drag'n'drop support for the SDL2 port(s). - Fixed monitor display of printables with the 'M' (memdump) command. - Fixed drive status display in statusbar. - Added "advance frame". - Disable the mouse pointer unless we really need it. - Change MacOSX SDL menu key to F10 to accommodate old MacBooks etc. - Change default menu key for sdl amiga based platforms to 'F10'. - Added default hotkey files (with hotkeys similar to existing GUIs). - Added various keymaps for use with keyrah in combian/retropie. - Added controller mapping file for PS3 controller. ** Android changes ------------------ - Do not enable mouse emulation by default. ** Mac OS X changes ------------------- - Reinstated the Cocoa UI's Video Settings dialog. Some of the controls don't work properly, but it's better than nothing. - Added a PET model selection menu to the Cocoa UI. - Fixed Cocoa UI's CPU memory window display. It still requires the monitor to be activated before it will show anything, however. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Removed native OS/2 port. The native OS/2 port has been lagging behind severely, and the recently added SDL OS/2 port is up-to-date, making the unmaintained native OS/2 port obsolete. ** C1541 changes ---------------- - Fixed illegal characters in filenames for the read and extract commands. ** C64(SC) changes ------------------ - Fixed enabling/disabling memory expansion hacks. - New tapecart emulation. - Added waasoft dongle emulation. - Fixed initial cpuport data. - Added support for 256k magic desk images, ie DDI Magic Cart. Also allow 512k and 1M magic desk carts (some homebrew variant). - plus60k memory write fix. - Fix plus256k emulation. - Added fmopl (sfx sound expander) timer support. - Fixed saving of GMOD2 cartridge image. ** C128 changes --------------- - New tapecart emulation. - Fixed MMU mirrors. ** CBM2 changes --------------- - Allow+fix loading of 8k chargen. - Fixed ESC-Z/ESC-Y. * Changes in VICE 3.1 ====================== ** General ---------- - New support for double sided 1571 g64 and p64 images. - SID filter improvements. - Video/Audio codec selection when recording now works correctly. - Fixed the monitor 'H' (hunt) command. ** C64(SC)/SCPU64/C64DTV/C128 changes ------------------------------------- - New joyport script64 dongle emulation. - New joyport vizawrite64 dongle emulation. - Fixed joyport paperclip64 dongle emulation. - Fixed StarDOS emulation. ** XVIC ------- - Fixed VIA emulation. ** C1541 -------- - Fixed commands and added new commands. ** BeOS/Haiku changes --------------------- - New drag & drop support: dragging a file from Tracker into the window now autostarts it, and dragging text into the window pastes it. ** Windows changes ------------------ - The ethernet interface is now properly 'remembered'. - Creating a new disk image now properly translates the disk label and ID into PETSCII. SDL changes ----------- - Allow specifying a disk label and ID for newly created disk images. - Add a dialog to allow attaching a newly create disk image to a drive, without having to go through the menu again. - Reorganize the screenshot/sound recording/movie recording submenus and make them accessible through "Save media file" in the main menu. * Changes in VICE 3.0 ====================== ** General ---------- - New SDL based Android port. - New Windows RT port. - New Sortix port. - New SDL2 support. - New SCPU64 emulator (xscpu64). - New KoalaPad emulation. - New high pass filter emulation for DAC based devices (SFX sound sampler, DigiMAX cartridge, DigiMAX shortbus device, userport DAC, userport DigiMAX device, DigiBlaster SIDcart add-on). - New sampler sound input support, used by sfx sound sampler, digiblaster and userport/joyport sampler devices. - New tapeport system supporting the following devices: datasette, tapelog, cp-clockf83, tape-sense dongle, (not yet working) dtl basic dongle. - New Inkwell Systems lightpen emulation. - New scroll wheel support for the Micromys mouse emulation. - New "printer/plotter" Commodore 1520 emulation. - New 1540 drive emulation. - New native (koala/doodle) screenshot support. - new godot screenshot support. - New keyrah keymaps. - Extended the 'RS232 net' support to all platforms that support networking. - RTC offset and RAM contents can now be saved. - Documentation in PDF and TXT format. ** C64(SC)/C128 changes ----------------------- - New IDE64 v4.2 emulation. - New IDE64 USB server emulation. - New IDE64 DigiMAX short bus device emulation. - New IDE64 ETFE short bus device emulation. - New RGCD cartridge emulation. - New Final Cartridge III+ emulation. - New rrnet mk3 cartridge emulation. - New easy calc result cartridge emulation. - New GMod2 cartridge emulation. - New MMC64, MMCReplay, RetroReplay and IDE64 clockport emulation. - New RRNET clockport device emulation. - New MP3@64 clockport device emulation. - New joyport system which currently supports attaching the following devices to the native ports: joystick, paddles, 1351 mouse, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, smartmouse, micromys mouse, koalapad, generic lightpens, datel light pen, magnum light phaser, stack light rifle, inkwell light pen, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, cardco cardkey 1 keypad, atari cx85 keypad, rushware keypad, atari cx21 keypad. And the following devices to the various userport joystick adapters: joystick, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, rushware keypad. - New Userport system which currently supports attaching the following devices: rtc58321a, ds1307 rtc, dac, digimax, 4bit mono sampler, 8bit stereo sampler, cga joystick adapter, pet joystick adapter, hummer joystick adapter, oem joystick adapter, hit joystick adapter, kingsoft joystick adapter, starbyte joystick adapter. ** C128 changes --------------- - New Swiss ROM support. ** C64(SC) changes ------------------ - New Sony CXA2025AS NTSC palette. - New CP/M (Z80) cartridge emulation. ** C64SC changes ---------------- - New VICII VSP-bug emulation. ** C64DTV changes ----------------- - New joyport system which currently supports attaching the following devices to the native ports: joystick, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, rushware keypad. And the following devices to the hummer userport joystick adapter: joystick, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, rushware keypad. - New Userport system which currently supports attaching the following devices: hummer joystick adapter. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - New UltiMem cartridge emulation. - New I/O-2 RAM cartridge emulation. - New I/O-3 RAM cartridge emulation. - New BehrBonz cartridge emulation. - New mike's VFLI modification emulation. - New joyport system which currently supports attaching the following devices to the native port: joystick, paddles, 1351 mouse, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, smartmouse, micromys mouse, koalapad, generic lightpens, datel light pen, magnum light phaser, stack light rifle, inkwell light pen, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, cardco cardkey 1 keypad, atari cx85 keypad, rushware keypad, atari cx21 keypad. And the following devices to the various userport joystick adapters: joystick, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, rushware keypad. - New Userport system which currently supports attaching the following devices: rtc58321a, ds1307 rtc, dac, cga joystick adapter, pet joystick adapter, hummer joystick adapter, oem joystick adapter. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - New userport emulation. - New joyport system which currently supports attaching the following devices to the native port: joystick, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, rushware keypad. The following devices to the various userport joystick adapters: joystick, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, rushware keypad. And the following devices to the sidcart joystick port: joystick, paddles, 1351 mouse, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, smartmouse, micromys mouse, koalapad, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, cardco cardkey 1 keypad, atari cx85 keypad, rushware keypad, atari cx21 keypad. - New Userport system which currently supports attaching the following devices: dac, pet joystick adapter, hummer joystick adapter, oem joystick adapter. ** PET changes -------------- - New PET HRE (High Res Emulator) board emulation. - New 2-chip colour board emulation. - New joyport system which currently supports attaching the following devices to the various userport joystick adapters: joystick, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, rushware keypad. - New Userport system which currently supports attaching the following devices: rtc58321a, ds1307 rtc, dac, cga joystick adapter, pet joystick adapter, hummer joystick adapter, oem joystick adapter. ** CBM6x0/7x0 changes --------------------- - New joyport system which currently supports attaching the following devices to the various userport joystick adapters: joystick, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, rushware keypad. - New Userport system which currently supports attaching the following devices: rtc58321a, ds1307 rtc, dac, digimax, 4bit mono sampler, 8bit stereo sampler, cga joystick adapter, pet joystick adapter, hummer joystick adapter, oem joystick adapter. ** CBM5x0 changes ----------------- - New joyport system which currently supports attaching the following devices to the native port: joystick, paddles, 1351 mouse, neos mouse, amiga mouse, atari cx22 mouse, atari-st mouse, smartmouse, micromys mouse, koalapad, 2bit sampler, 4bit sampler, bbrtc, paperclip64 dongle, coplin keypad, cardco cardkey 1 keypad, atari cx85 keypad, rushware keypad, atari cx21 keypad. ** PETCAT changes ----------------- - New Kipper Basic support. - New Basic on Bails support. - New The Tool 64 support. - New Eve Basic support. ** VSID changes --------------- - New RSID BASIC tunes support. - New Compute Gazette SIDplayer files (mus/str) support. - New psid v4 3sid support. ** Unix changes --------------- - New multi-threaded GUI display. - New joystick status items in the GTK GUI. - New hardware SID I/O access system which allows PCI CW3, ISA/PCI HardSID, ParSID and SSI2001 to work with and without device drivers. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Documentation in CHM and HLP format. - New hardware SID I/O access system which allows PCI CW3, ISA/PCI HardSID, ParSID and SSI2001 to work with and without device drivers. ** AmigaOS changes ------------------ - New hardware SID I/O access system which allows clockport/Zorro/PCI CW3, ISA/PCI HardSID and SSI2001 to work with and without device drivers. - Documentation in AmigaGuide format. ** BeOS/Haiku changes --------------------- - GUI fixes and improvements. - New support for Haiku native x86_gcc2, x86, and x86_64 binaries. - New "bsp" sound driver inspired by SDL (and used by default on Haiku,) which should produce sound on all systems where SDL programs can. This has been tested on Haiku R1 Alpha3 where the old "beos" driver produces only crashes. - New hardware SID I/O access system which allows PCI CW3, ISA/PCI HardSID, ParSID and SSI2001 to work with and without device drivers. - Due to the addition of the hardware SID I/O access system, binaries built for BeOS no longer run under Haiku. Please use Haiku native binaries. ** DOS changes -------------- - New hardware SID I/O access system which allows PCI CW3, ISA/PCI HardSID, ParSID and SSI2001 to work with and without device drivers. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Documentation in INF format. * Changes in VICE 2.4 ====================== ** General ---------- - New SDL based MIPS Windows NT port. - New SDL based native Dingoo port. - New monitor commands: autostart and autoload. - Rewrite of the sound system, output is now mono/stereo selectable. - Split off the 5x0 model from the 6x0/7x0 models in xcbm2, new emulator is called xcbm5x0. - Split off sid player from c64, new program is called vsid. - New maintainer for the polish translations, they are now 100% up2date. - New IEC FD2000/4000 drive support. - New 1541 drive sounds emulation. - 1541 drive emulation has been greatly improved. ** C64/C128 changes ------------------- - ACIA address now selectable. - I/O conflict behaviour now selectable. - Added Pagefox cartridge support. - Added Silverrock cartridge support. - Added Formel64 cartridge support. - IDE64 support extended to be able to handle 4 devices. - IDE64 FD/CD/CF support added. - Added "Kingsoft" ("Business Basic" aka "S'more") cartridge support. - SFX sound sampler, SFX sound expander and digimax extended to output in stereo. - Added Triple SID support. - Added Nordic Replay support to the Retro Replay cartridge emulation. - Added video to audio leak sound support. - Added VICII 'no border' mode support. - Magic Voice cartridge emulation improvements. - Added support for the kingsoft and starbyte userport joystick adapters. - Added MicroMys, SmartMouse, Atari CX-22 trackball, and Atari mouse support. - Added supercard+ support. - Added DS12C887 RTC expansion support. - Added userport RTC (58321a) expansion support. ** C64 changes -------------- - Support for drive burst modification. ** C128 changes --------------- - Improved the z80 cycle emulation. - C128 model can be selected. - Added internal function RAM and RAM+RTC support. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Added I/O conflict checking with selectable behaviour. - Added masC=uerade adapter support, I/O-only C64 carts can now also be used with the VIC20 emulation. - The VIC border mode can be selected now (none, normal, full, debug). - Added DS12C887 RTC expansion support. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - The TED border mode can be selected now (none, normal, full, debug). - PLUS4 model can be selected. ** PET changes -------------- - Added proper SuperPET support, including 6809(/6309) CPU emulation, 6702 (dongle) emulation, and the TPUG MMU board (for Super-OS/9). ** CBM2 changes --------------- - CBM2 model can be selected. ** Cartconv changes ------------------- - Display usage when -f/-t/-i/-o/-n/-l is given without an extra parameter. ** Petcat changes ----------------- - Added Supergrafik support. ** Unix changes --------------- - New Russian, Spanish and Korean translations of the UI elements and command-line options. - Added copy/paste support to the XAW GUI. - Added 'drag and drop' support to the GTK+ GUI. - Added monitor window support using VTE to the GTK+ GUI. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Alot of GUI fixes and improvements. - New Russian, Spanish and Korean translations of the UI elements and command-line options. - Hotkeys are now configurable by editing the win_hotkeys.vhk files. - Source can now be compiled without DX. ** AmigaOS changes ------------------ - New Russian, Spanish and Korean translations of the UI elements and command-line options. - Alot of GUI fixes and improvements. - Improved the library loading system, when 'optional' libraries fail to load, the features needing the library will be disabled. - Added support for the catweasel.device driver. ** DOS changes -------------- - Added PCI Catweasel support. - Added PCI HardSID support. ** Mac OS X changes ------------------- ** SDL UI changes ----------------- - Added OpenCBM support. ** BeOS changes --------------- - Alot of GUI fixes and improvements. - Joystick keysets have been fixed (again.) - "beos" sound driver can now be tested on Haiku (at your own risk) with command-line option: -sounddev beos ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Alot of GUI fixes and improvements. * Changes in VICE 2.3 ====================== ** General ---------- - Added x64sc, the accurate C64 emulator: * VIC-II emulation rewritten from scratch using results from extensive testing with newly written test programs on real hardware. * Emulation is done on a cycle by cycle basis combined with pixel exact dot clock domain handling. * Accurate handling of all possible in-line splits of VIC-II registers and graphics data. * C64 model and even individual chip revisions can be selected for very detailed emulation of their differences. * Equally accurate PAL, NTSC and PAL-N emulation. We believe x64sc is one of the most accurate C64 emulators at the moment. - Drive improvements, including weak bit emulation. - Major reSID overhaul: * Emulation of all known pipeline delays for full cycle accuracy. * New shift register model based on revectorized die photograps. * Accurate DAC models based on revectorized die photograps. * Emulation of floating waveform DAC input for waveform 0. * Advanced 6581 transistor level filter model based on revectorized die photograps, yielding unprecedented accuracy. - CRT Emulation (former "PAL emulation") is now available regardless of video mode or -chip and works in all emulators. NOTE: Color gamma range changed. You may need to set to 2.200 manually. (ColorGamma=2200) - Added "True aspect ratio" option. - Sound buffer overflows reduced and the error replaced with a warning. - Various monitor improvements (io details, expansion port status ...) - Removed little used Emulator ID feature. - VIA wrap handling rewritten to fix problems with timer 2. - Added autostart option to do LOAD ,8 instead of ,8,1. - RESTORE key presses are now distributed randomly across a frame. - Improved accuracy of CIA interrupts. (6526/6526A selectable) ** C64/C128 changes ------------------- - Cartridge emulation improvements. Many broken cartridges fixed, and the following ones added: * Action Replay 2 * Action Replay 3 * Capture * Diashow Maker * EXOS * Final Cartridge Plus * Freeze Frame * Freeze Machine * Game Killer * MACH 5 * Magic Voice * MMC Replay * Prophet 64 * Snapshot 64 * Super Explode V5 * Super Snapshot - Added emulation of the passthrough port of MMC64, Magic Voice and IEEE488 cartridges. - CIA TOD 50/60 Hz toggle emulation fixed. - Improved 1351/paddles port MUX emulation. ** C64 changes -------------- - Added Drean (PAL-N) emulation. - Fixed bug with autostart mode Inject-to-RAM. It now writes to RAM under I/O correctly. ** C128 changes --------------- - Fixed a bug with autostarting t64 images. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Added Vic Flash Plugin cartridge emulation. - Fixed video cache & reverse bug. - Fixed bug in attaching 4kB cartridges. - Fixed autostarting bug, mostly seen with tape images. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - Fixed crashes in NTSC mode. - Added v364 speech emulation. ** PET changes -------------- - Added DWW emulation. - Added userport DAC emulation. ** CBM2 changes --------------- - Split 5x0 and 6x0/7x0 settings in the configuration file. ** Unix changes --------------- - (Xaw) The menus can now be operated without holding the mouse button down. Keyboard control is also available (Shift-Alt-Z for left menu, Shift-Alt-X for right menu). - (Xaw) Lightpen/gun support added. - (GTK+) Fixed aspect ratio option added. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Implemented run time DX9 toggling. ** AmigaOS changes ------------------ - Added support for arm-aros. - Made the UI more complete. ** DOS changes -------------- - Made the UI more complete. ** Mac OS X changes ------------------- - Added IO Tree to display a tree of IO registers and decode their meaning. Currently only the C64 IO registers are supported, but you can extend the IO Tree yourself by editing the "IOTree.plist" file. Please submit your IO Tree extensions! - Added Debugger Windows for Memory, Register and Disassembly Display. These windows assist the monitor mode and display the machine state. A popup window in the disassembly view allows you to set and alter breakpoints. - Joysticks with sliders and hats are now supported. A single joystick can be shared for HID device a and b. Some workarounds for broken USB devices added. - Added "virtual" auto-fire to Joystick settings. - Added True Pixel Aspect Ratio Display. This simulates the behavior that the screen of an emulator is smaller in width if the pixels are not squares. - Fixes in x64 and x128 osx keymaps. - Correctly restore scale, position, and ordering of all emulator windows. - Added 64 Bit compiles using gcc and clang compilers. ** SDL UI changes ----------------- - Added vsid UI, FFMPEG and printer menus. The UI is complete. ** BeOS changes --------------- - Fixed sound hang. - Made the UI more complete. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - The OS/2 port is now compiled using openwatcom. - Made the UI more complete. * Changes in VICE 2.2 ====================== ** General ---------- - On autostart, do not change true drive emulation (TDE) anymore by default. The old behaviour can be switched on again by specifiying -autostart-handle-tde on the command line. There is one drawback of this behaviour: If TDE is switched on, an image attached must fit to the drive type set. For example, when you attach a .D81, you must have the drive type set to 1581, or the autostart will fail. - Added automatic Warp mode during autostart. If this resource is enabled then VICE automatically enables the warp mode and then loads a file. After loading the warp mode is disabled again and then the program is started. - Autostarting a PRG file can now be done in three different ways: * "Virtual FS": This mode mounts the directory where the file resides as a virtual filesystem on drive #8 and then loads the PRG via virtual drive traps. This was the only way of autostarting in previous VICE versions and is still the default. * "Inject to RAM": The PRG file is loaded from VICE directly into the RAM of the emulated machine. Then the memory setup of a Basic LOAD is simulated and the program is run. This is the fastest mode available but may lack compatibility as no actual load operation was performed in the emulator. However, no drive setup is altered during the operation. * "Diskimage": VICE creates a temporary new disk image and copies the contents of the PRG file onto it. Then this image is mounted in drive #8 and the program is loaded from there. If TDE is enabled then the load operation is most compatible. The disk image stays attached until a new image is mounted. - Improved PAL emulation is now available for Unix/Xaw XVideo mode, and AmigaOS. Only the YUV packed modes work, the planar modes still use the old code paths, though. - Sound core has been reworked to enable lower latency of operation. Approximately 50 ms latency values are now routinely reached, and some people have reported that as low as 30 ms still works for them. - New SDL port. See ReadmeSDL.txt for details. - New win64 ports, both amd64/x64 and ia64 are supported (msvc compile only). - New SDL based armle, mipsle, ppcbe and shle QNX 6.x ports. - New SDL based M68k and sparc SunOS ports. - New SDL based Syllable port. - New SDL based Dingoo port. - Remote monitor (in other words: TCP/IP interface to VICE monitor) added. - Fixed non-6502/6510 CPU handling in monitor. ** C64/C128 changes ------------------- - ReSID's resampler has been optimized with MMX assembly. Some long-standing bugs in resample-interpolate mode were also fixed. - ReSID-FP has been optimized, too. It clocks the analog parts at half the rate now, which saves CPU during filter emulation especially for 6581 modes. - Added SFX Sound Sampler and SFX Sound Expander emulation. - Added EasyFlash cartridge emulation. - Added paddle emulation. - Added lightpen/lightgun emulation, currently only available for the following ports: SDL, GTK+, cocoa, win32/win64 and msdos. - Added support for the following userport joystick adapters: CGA/Protovision, DXS/HIT, PET (normally only used on the PET/CBM2), Hummer (normally only used on the C64DTV) and OEM (normally only used on the VIC20). ** C128 changes --------------- - Added RAM banks 2 and 3 support. - Improved the VDC emulation. - Stereo SID $D7xx range support. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - New cycle exact emulation core. Handles accesses to unconnected address space and in-line graphics data changes correctly. (fixes "Impossiblator 3" and others) - Improved VIC emulation (in-line color/reverse mode changes on half-chars). - Cartridge handling rewritten. - Added Mega-Cart cartridge emulation. - Added Final Expansion cartridge emulation. - Default memory configuration changed from full to unexpanded. - Added paddle emulation. - Added lightpen/lightgun emulation, currently only available for the following ports: SDL, GTK+, cocoa, win32/win64 and msdos. - Corrected the joystick support, since the VIC20 can only have one joystick attached on the joystick port. - Added support for the following userport joystick adapters: CGA/Protovision (normally only used on the C64/C128), PET (normally only used on the PET/CBM2), Hummer (normally only used on the C64DTV) and OEM. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - Added Digibooster SID Cart add-on emulation. - Added SID Cart joystick port emulation. - Fixed bug in tape recording. - Improved graphics handling. ** C64DTV changes ----------------- - Replaced old DTVSID emulation with ReSID-DTV. - Minor bug fixes and emulation improvements. - Added support for the following userport joystick adapters: CGA/Protovision (normally only used on the C64/C128), PET (normally only used for the PET), Hummer and OEM (normally only used on the VIC20). ** PET changes -------------- - Corrected the joystick support, since the only way a PET can use a joystick is by a userport joystick adapter, the following userport joystick adapters are currently supported: CGA/Protovision (normally only used on the C64/C128), PET, Hummer (normally only used on the C64DTV) and OEM (normally only used on the VIC20). ** CBM2 changes --------------- - Corrected the joystick support, since the only way a CBM2 can use a joystick is by a userport joystick adapter, the following userport joystick adapters are currently supported: CGA/Protovision (normally only used on the C64/C128), PET, Hummer (normally only used on the C64DTV) and OEM (normally only used on the VIC20). ** Unix changes --------------- - Rudimentary PulseAudio sound driver has been added. - Added support for dynamic loading of FFMPEG libraries. - Added support for dynamic loading of OpenCBM and Lame library ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - New video driver using DirectX9 if possible. This allows free window scaling and fullscreen mode covering the whole screen. Using a fixed aspect ratio is optional. - New Danish and Turkish translations of the UI elements and command-line options. - Added support for dynamic loading of FFMPEG libraries. - Added support for dynamic loading of OpenCBM and Lame library - New Italian kaymap. ** AmigaOS changes ------------------ - New Danish and Turkish translations of the UI elements and command-line options. - Added experimental PCI HardSID and Catweasel support. - Used AROS (x86, ppc, amd64) new lowlevel libraries which should make USB joysticks and joypads usable. ** Mac OS X changes ------------------- - Cocoa port now supports all emulators - Support for Mac OS X versions 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6 and PowerPC, Intel 32, and 64 Bit Support. - Cocoa UI redesign. Emulator window is reduced to emulation display only. Emulator is controlled with the new control window. There disk and tape images can be attached by clicking on the image or dragging files there. Added the tape controls for the datasette and the status bar. Added a master volume slider. - Added SyncDraw display mode that does temporal filtering of the frames generated by the machine (motion blur). This enhances the display quality in moving scenes if the machine frame rate does not match the display refresh rate (e.g. a 50 Hz C64 is shown on a 60 Hz LCD display) - Added FLIcker Fixer to SyncDraw mode that does full frame reconstruction, i.e. two half frames are buffered and displayed as a full frame. This helps to reduce flicker in FLI modes but might introduce too much blur in other modes. - Attach image file dialogs now show the contents of the selected disk/tape image and allow to pick a program to load from there. - Emulator is now paused if Mac OS X goes to sleep. - The CoreAudio sound driver was completely rewritten to support the updated sound APIs found in the new Mac OS X versions. - Added movie recording in QuickTime format (PowerPC and 32 Bit Intel only) - Added support for dynamic loading of FFMPEG libraries installed via MacPorts - Added support for dynamic loading of OpenCBM and Lame library - Improved build scripts to support all current Mac OS X versions, architectures, and compilers (gcc 4.0, gcc 4.2, clang) - Libnet and libpcap updated to current versions - Some keymap fixes in cocoa port * Changes in VICE 2.1 ====================== ** General ---------- - The VICEplus project has been joined with VICE. Thus, x64dtv is now part of VICE. - We can be contacted via IRC: #vice-dev on libera.chat - Added a more accurate ReSID engine using floating point math (ReSID-FP). - Added support for the USB HardSID. - PAL emulation has been rewritten and optimized. - Fixed the ACIA 6551 emulation. (x64/x128/xcbm2/xpet/xplus4) - Monitor commands help text is now translated too (in ports where translation is available at all) - Monitor IO command now displays IO area even if it is currently banked out. - GCR file handling (.G64) issues an error message if the .G64 does not have the expected outline. Before, VICE just silently ignored such files. - IRQ handling fix ** C64/C128 changes ------------------- - Fixed the digimax sound generation. - Added the RR clockport disable functionality at $DF00.0. Allows to disable the RRnet. - Improved REU compatibility and timing. ** C64 changes -------------- - Added isepic cartridge emulation. - Added Double Quick Brown Box cartridge emulation. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Improved the sound emulation. - Fixed the lowest note bug. - Improved VIC emulation (exact in-line color/reverse mode changes). ** C64DTV changes ----------------- - New emulator. ** Unix changes --------------- - XRandR fullscreen implemented - Command line option `-fullscreen' is supposed to do something useful. - Vsync code imported from win32 (based on openGL extension). see also doc/openGLsync-howto.txt. - Vidmode (fullscreen support) is broken and therefore marked as deprecated. It will be removed in the next release if no-one takes responsibility to fix the broken code and is willing to maintain the code. - PAL Emulation (new implementation, improved speed) should be usable again (it was broken on certain display depths). - Log messages are always english. - Only x11 keymaps will be installed when doing a 'make install'. - MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Watcom generated executables are more optimized. - MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. - When specifying the target for the RS232 communication (Menu Settings/RS232 Settings), the target can be specified by name now. Before, you had to use the IP address. - Fixed some minor errors with the RS232 communication via TCP connections. - RS232 can use real devices now, too. To use this feature, you have to specify the COM port used in Settings/RS232 Settings like: \\.\com1: baud=57600 parity=N data=8 stop=1 The characters after the colon can be used to specify additional settings for the COM port. The string must have the same form as the mode command's command-line arguments: [baud=b][parity=p][data=d][stop=s][to={on|off}][xon={on|off}] [odsr={on|off}][octs={on|off}][dtr={on|off|hs}][rts={on|off|hs|tg}] [idsr={on|off}] The above example specifies COM1 with a baud rate of 57600, no parity, 8 data bits and 1 stop bit. Note that the leading \\.\ is used to distinguish between TCP/IP targets and real devices, thus, you have to use it. (Sorry, no fancy UI yet.) - vsid GUI reworked: * infoline appears only by pressing "I" * raises process priority. Otherwise, when in background, looses cpu power and music is not played at correct speed * drag&drop support; window also gets focus back on drop * correct display of emulated sid model (when using -keepenv) * changed colors - fixed copy function from the VICE monitor window. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Fixed 24/32bit display depth problem. ** GP2X changes --------------- - Fixed black screen problem. - Pause emulation while the menu is open. - Added experimental support for USB keyboard and joystick. - Removed vsid. ** Mac OS X changes ------------------- - x64a.app and x64dtv.app (Cocoa) are now feature complete * added flip lists * added netplay dialog * added ROM resources * added video settings dialog * added record snapshot dialog - Introduced new control window that replaces old peripherals drawer * with tape control buttons * attach/eject buttons for each drive * drag & drop of disk/tape images - Introduced Cocoa compile for Mac OS X 10.5 and greater with more features (see extended Resource Inspector) - Completely rewritten joystick driver that supports user-definable buttons for fire and all directions. - Copy & Paste support for emulator and monitor/log window - Added x2, x3, x4 view scaling like in Quicktime Player - Store visibility and size of all windows in user's preferences - Added Keyset Joystick toggle to quickly disable keyboard joysticks - Added MIDI support * Changes in VICE 2.0 ====================== ** General ---------- - VICE development has moved to public services: http://sf.net/projects/vice-emu You can read the latest development in the Subversion repository, file bug reports, and similar things. Check it out! - New Openserver 5.x, Openserver 6.x and Unixware ports. - New AROS64 port. - New QNX 4.x port. - New HPUX (HPPA and IA64) ports. - New SkyOS port. - New Atari Mint port. - New Solaris Express aka OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11 port. ** C64/C128 changes ------------------- - Improved $01 behaviour with regards to unused bit fall-off. - New experimental NEOS and Amiga mouse support. - Added a working RTC to the emulation of the IDE64 cartridge. - New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan. - Added support for the Action Replay 4 and StarDos cartridges. - Improved REU compatibility - Fixed CPU timing bug introduced in 1.22 (demo "Borderless"). - Fixed bugs in the CIA emulation (demo "So-phisticated", W. Lorenz testsuite). - Fixed various bugs in VIC-II emulation: Sprite x-positioning, Latch X/Y, video mode changes, DEN bit handling, raster IRQ, NTSC sprites and sprites in full/debugging border mode (list of fixed demos/games too long to mention here). - RESTORE key is handled differently now, fixing an NMI bug because the NMI was asserted too long before. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Added unconnected c-bus floating byte support. - New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan. ** PET changes -------------- - Added support for toggling CB2 sound output line. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Fixed block allocation and interleave. ** Unix changes --------------- - Broken DGA1/DGA2 code removed - XRandR fullscreen implemented for all (but CRTC/VDC) videochips. - XRandR/Fullscreen can now toggle the Statusbar/Menu - Fixed unix mouse for single sized display. - Fixed mouse grab and xaw menu popup. - After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without reset. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Fixed the reverse logic of the -confirmexit/+confirmexit and -singlecpu/+singlecpu command-line options. - Added the ability to copy and paste text from and to the VICE window. - Added the ability to paste text into the VICE window by right-clicking on the VICE window. - Keyboard shortcuts are definable in the configuration file win_shortscuts.vsc - After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without reset. - Fixed volume slider behaviour when switching fullscreen mode. - Key repeat is eliminated OS-wise. This way, the RESTORE key is not used with autorepeat. ** BeOS changes --------------- - Fixed to also run on Haiku. - Lots of fixes to the dailogs. - Fixed the joystick system. - Added warning dialog when the monitor is accessed without having an open console window. - Added the ability to copy and paste text from and to the VICE window. ** AmigaOS changes ------------------ - Fixed the reverse logic of the -confirmexit/+confirmexit command-line options. - Added the ability to copy and paste text from and to the VICE window. - After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without reset. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without reset. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat. - Extended BMP saving to support 24bit. - Fixed the joystick code of all emulators to handle state changes on both joysticks at the same time. - New monitor commands and features. - New memmap feature which allows tracking of memory accesses, activated by the configure option --enable-memmap. - Fixed bug in ffmpeg/FFV1 driver. Should be really lossless now. * Changes in VICE 1.22 ====================== ** C128 changes --------------- - Added 2 MHz mode support (experimental). - The cursor keys are mapped differently in C64-mode now. - Fixed C64-mode autostart support. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Improved the sound emulation where the 'volume change click' is concerned, and normalized the audio output level. ** VIC-II --------- - The VIC-II border mode can be selected now (normal, full, debug). - Some sprite fixes needed for Krestage 3 demo. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Improved drive LED emulation. ** Unix changes --------------- - Fixed the "black screen" bug caused by some X11 library security update. - Fixed the usb support for bsd based platforms. - Changed the preferred libdir and docdir for netbsd and freebsd. - Xaw/XRandR fullscreen mode is supposed to work. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Positional keyboard mapping is used as default again. - New volume slider control. - The win32 port can now be compiled with openwatcom. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - The os/2 port can now be compiled with openwatcom. ** RiscOS changes ----------------- - Added a build script for the RiscOS port and all needed binary files are now part of the source distribution. ** AmigaOS changes ------------------ - Added netplay support for AmigaOS3 port. - Added netplay support for AROS port. - New VICE Volume control for all ports. ** C1541 changes ---------------- - Fixed some unlynx bugs. * Changes in VICE 1.21 ====================== ** General ---------- - Added sound recording support. - Added aiff, iff, mp3 and wav sound dump drivers. ** C128 changes --------------- - Added digimax support. - Fixed some minor VDC graphics bugs. ** C64 changes -------------- - Added MMC64 support. - Added digimax support. - Added Action Replay III support. - Improved compatibility of TFE emulation. ** PET changes -------------- - Added SID cartridge support. - Extended the PET REU emulation to include 512/1024/2048KB. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - Added SID cartridge support. - Fixed some minor TED graphics bug. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Added SID cartridge support. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Added support for Dolphin DOS 2 & 3 and Professional DOS 1571. The GUI is partially missing, command line switches have to be used. ** Unix changes --------------- - New Hungarian translations. - Fixed some bug in the XAW file selector. - New fullscreen mode based on XRandR - although restriced to XVideo HW scaling. See also BUGS. - Raster synchronization based on openGL extension `GLX_SGI_video_sync'. See openGL-sync.txt for details. - Fixed colormap handling on certain Gnome systems (sporadic black menus, e.g. reported by some FC users). - New fullscreen mode based on XRandR - although restriced to XVideo HW scaling. See also BUGS. - Raster synchronization based on openGL extension `GLX_SGI_video_sync'. See openGL-sync.txt for details. - Fixed colormap handling on certain Gnome systems (sporadic black menus, e.g. reported by some FC users). - ffmpeg support should work again. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added Hungarian translations. - Added giflib/libungif dll support. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Fixed a video resource bug that prevented VICE from running. ** Mac OSX X11 changes ---------------------- - Added GTK+ Port - Introduced single "smart" Application Bundle VICE.app - Added command line launcher for Terminal.app and xterm - Added build scripts for all external libraries and universal builds of VICE ** AmigaOS changes ------------------ - Fixed some UI dialog bugs. - Added Hungarian translations. - Added more (previously missing) UI elements. - Added native MorphOS icons. - Fixed for native AmigaOS4 compile. - Added VBCC build scripts. - New experimental ppc-warpos port. - New experimental ppc-powerup port. ** BeOS changes --------------- - Fixed to also run on ZETA. - New ppc-beos port. - Added (previously missing) UI elements. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Fixed the setting of illegal filenames. * Changes in VICE 1.20 ====================== ** General ---------- - New GP2X port. - New AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS (x86/ppc) ports. - Mac OSX X11 port is included in the main distribution now. - Fixed some unusual CPU opcodes. ** C64 changes -------------- - Fixed some longstanding RMW to IO area VIC-II DMA timing bug. - Added Mikro Assembler, Dela EP7x8, Dela EP256 and Rex EP256 cart support. - Fixed the KCS cart emulation. - Added swiftlink and turbo232 support. - Added +256k memory expansion support. - Added I/O source read collision detection support, making simultanious use of multiple expansions possible, like on the real machine. - Fixed the RR-net address decoding and REU compatibility. - Fixed a problem with traps using the SX Kernal ROM. - Some IDE64 ultimax bug has been fixed. ** PET changes -------------- - Added 128kb REU memory expansion support. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - Added 256k csory memory expansion support. - Added 256k, 1024k and 4096k hannes memory expansion support. ** Unix changes --------------- - Gnome1 is no longer supported. - Gnome2 is now supported - everthing except the Image preview with CBM font should work. - Gnome 2 port supports dimmable drive LED now. - Added experimental ParSID support. - Added support for minix3. - Fixed some compile problems with the ffmpeg library. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added experimental ParSID support. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - Added experimental ParSID support. ** Mac OSX X11 changes ---------------------- - Added support for Intel build. - Added USB joystick support. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat. - Added a c64/c128 cartridge conversion program (cartconv). - Added binary distribution (package) creation functionality. - Fixed a bug in the trap emulation with caused programs probing devices on the IEC bus to fail. - Lots of small fixes to the monitor. * Changes in VICE 1.19 ====================== ** General ---------- - Fixed "RESTORE key works only once" bug. - Fixed compilation with GCC4. ** C64 changes -------------- - Fixed an opcode execute problem with the +60k expansion. - New c64 256k expansion support. ** VIC-II --------- - Fixed switch from idle state to display state. - Added missing DEN bit scrolling feature. ** Unix changes --------------- - The experimental netplay feature has been extended to the Unix platforms for testing. - Added IPV6 support to netplay. - Fixed crash if settings are saved. - Fixed some Gnome1 annoyances (popup menus in status bar) - Rework of gnome save media (screenshot) dialog - Xaw Statusbar fixes and improvements (new buttons for recording). - An experimental patch for Gnome2/GTK2 support is available (See website). Vice-1.19 will be the last Gnome1/GTK1 version officially supported. The Gnome2/GTK2 version is known to work on state-of-the-art Linux distributions (e.g. Fedora Core 4). See also src/arch/unix/x11/gnome/TODO ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added "always on top" option. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - The experimental netplay feature has been extended to MS-DOS for testing. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Added various new screenshot formats. - Improved the image content lister to display at least the first part of a circular directory listing. - Made the tape routines able to cope with non-standard header sizes. * Changes in VICE 1.18 ====================== ** General ---------- - Fixed a bug that caused the emulator to crash after 72 minutes. - Added internal zlib and lpng support if no native libraries are found at compile time. - Fixed video recording frame rate in NTSC mode. ** C64 changes -------------- - Added Structured Basic, Comal 80 and Ross cart support. - Fixed the improper detaching of certain types of carts. - The +60K expansion base address is now selectable for compatibility with the oldest version of the expansion. ** C128 changes --------------- - Improved the VDC emulation. ** Unix changes --------------- - New HardSid support (experimental). ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added internal zlib and lpng support to the MSVC compile. - 'Netplay' option linking two emulators via TCP network (experimental and x64-only for now). ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - Added screenshot support. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - The OS/2 port works again now. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat. * Changes in VICE 1.17 ====================== ** General ---------- - Compiling for QNX 6.x works now (binary package is available). - Binary packages for Solaris machines are available. ** C64 changes -------------- - Added full GeoRAM memory expansion support with sizes from 64KB to 4MB. - Added full RamCart memory expansion support. - Added full +60K memory expansion support. - Correct REU values after reset. ** C128 changes --------------- - Added full GeoRAM memory expansion support with sizes from 64KB to 4MB. - Added RamCart memory expansion support without the read-only option. - Fixed some C64 mode bugs. - Correct REU values after reset. ** Unix changes --------------- - New dutch translation. - Language support has been extended to include commandline-options. - BSD platform problems with using the sounduss and soundsun driver have been fixed. - Problems compiling with older versions of libpng have been fixed. - Problems with MAXPATHLEN and PATH_MAX when compiling have been fixed. - New ALSA sound driver. - Fixed some compile errors if GCC4 is used. - Added support for more analog joysticks. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added international language support (experimental, disabled for now). - The Wine Resource Compiler is now required to compile using gcc for proper international language support. - Added support for recent ffmpeg libraries. - Fixed some directory lister bug. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - Added ethernet support using the wattcp stack and libpcap library. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Compiling without C++ or ReSID works now. - Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat. - Userport RS232 emulation should work as expected now. * Changes in VICE 1.16 ====================== ** General ---------- - Improved accuracy of 65xx processor core emulation. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Added support for idle traps to 1551 emulation. ** C64 changes -------------- - Fixed crash using REU emulation. - A timing problem has been fixed using old NTSC mode. - Some stupid char ROM display bug has been fixed. ** C128 changes --------------- - Fixed crash using REU emulation or CP/M mode. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - Added proper TAP support. ** Unix Changes --------------- - Hardware scaling can be switched at runtime now. - Fixed crash on machines with weird vidmode configurations. - Fixed random crash if settings are saved. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added support for userport or ACIA serial emulation to connect to some TCP/IP port. - It is possible to use the opencbm library from the cbm4win project to access real devices (drives or printer) connected to the host machine. - Improved the keyboard emulation to allow symolic keyboard mappings at least for US-style keyboards. Notice: Many symolic keyboard mapping definitions are still missing at the moment. - The joystick fire button can be selected for hardware joysticks. - It is possible to attach disk/tape images read-only now. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Fixed some crash in the file system emulation. - Improved datasette motor emulation. * Changes in VICE 1.15 ====================== ** General ---------- - Improved event recording and playback. ** C64 changes -------------- - Fixed some CPU opcodes. - Added support for Magic Formel cart (preliminary). - Improved TFE cart emulation. - Fixed Final Cartridge III freeze bug. ** VIC20 changes ----------------- - Four true drives are supported now. - The sound code has been rewritten. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - Added cartridge support. ** VIC-II --------- - Improved IRQ timing during DMA. ** Unix Changes --------------- - Improved ROM set support. - Added TFE and IDE64 cart support. - Fixed crash on 64bit archs. - Added BSD USB joystick support. - Complete rework of french translation. Credits to Paul (alias Kaddict)! ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Improved ROM set support. - Added drive ROM settings. - The joystick status is displayed now. - Fixed some directory lister inconsistencies. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Made fsdevice emulation to list non-PRG files again. - Improved REL file handling of the virtual drive emulation. - Fixed some bugs in the petcat tokenizer. * Changes in VICE 1.14 ====================== ** General ---------- - Audio and video streams can be recorded now. Unix users: Use configure parameter `--enable-ffmpeg'; make sure you have the required libraries installed (package ffmpeg-0.4.8 ori newer). - Added IEC devices which allow to access printer or file system devices even if true drive emulation is enabled. ** VIC-II --------- - Fixed some severe sprite collision detection bugs. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Increased the number of true drives to four. - Support for 1570 and 1571CR drives has been added (1571CR is not fully implemented though). - 1581 emulation is much more accurate now. ** Printer changes ------------------ - Added Star NL10 printer emulation. ** Unix Changes --------------- - Gnome UI: fixed resizing bug when PAL controls are hidden Improved PAL control widget Added Widgets for recording (Event, Audio/Video) Multiple drive widgets are now supported. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added common peripherial devices, firmware ROM and IDE64 settings dialog. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - The source code can be compiled with Allegro 4.0 now. - Added printer settings dialog. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - The standard output of petcat is switched to binary mode which prevents data corruption. * Changes in VICE 1.13 ====================== ** General ---------- - Added new Scale2x render. - Fixed NMI line emulation bug. ** C64 changes -------------- - Better processor port initialization (some carts depend on this) - Fixed a bug reading old snapshot files. - Added SS5 CRT support and fixed the SS5 screen distortion bug. - Added support for the "The Final Ethernet" and the "RR-Net" (Retroreplay-Net) ethernet cartridges for the C64 (MS-Windows port only). ** C128 changes --------------- - Fixed some fast IEC bus related drive bugs - Added some opcodes to the Z80 emulation. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - Many TED fixes. - User port parallel cable. ** VIC-II --------- - The character ROM is now displayed in bitmap mode. - Fixed some minor DMA timing, ECM mode and sprite bugs. ** SID changes -------------- - New HardSID support. - Catweasel support should work now. ** Unix changes --------------- - ACIA emulation has been fixed. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Fixed a keyboard driver bug that mainly affected the cursor keys on some machines. - CBM-II keyboard input should work again. - Added printer settings dialog. - The C128 machine type can be set now. - Drives can be resetted individually. * Changes in VICE 1.12 ====================== ** General ---------- - Added -autoload switch which acts like -autostart but without actually starting the program. - It is possible to use the printer emulation without switching off true drive emulation now. ** C64 changes -------------- - Mouse emulation should work again. - Improved trap emulation compatibility. ** C128 changes --------------- - Fixed some VDC crashs. - Added support for national firmware and keyboard mappings. - Implemented fast IEC bus. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - New emulator. Currently it contains many bugs and several features are missing. Do not send any bug reports for now. ** VIC-II --------- - Fixed some raster interrupt emulation bugs. - Some minor NTSC fixes. - Reset should properly reset the VIC-II now. ** SID changes -------------- - The ReSID state is saved in snapshots now. ** Drive changes ----------------- - Improved GCR sync detection. - Added some more jobcodes to the 1581 emulation. - RAM mirrors are properly emulated now. ** Unix changes --------------- - Added Catweasel MKIII SID support. - The Gnome popup dialogs now have titles again. This now can be used to hook up WM actions. - Key events are passed to a focused Vice window even when the mouse is not inside the emulator window. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added Catweasel MKIII SID support. - Next try to fix synchronization on very fast machines. ** OS/2 ---------- - Added Fullscreen support! ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Each file system drive has a separate error channel now. - Added a command to the monitor to put a string into the keyboard buffer. - The PC of the drive CPU emulation is correctly shown in the monitor prompt now. - The monitor shows the current line and cycle now. - It is possible to switch off reset on cart attach/detach now. * Changes in VICE 1.11 ====================== ** General ---------- - The memory reset pattern can be configured now. ** C128 changes --------------- - Fixed some MMU issues. - Fixed color RAM support. ** PET changes -------------- - A crash at startup has been fixed. ** VIC-II --------- - Improved sprite support. - Fixed some video cache bugs. - Fixed some IRQ emulation bugs. ** Drive changes ----------------- - Improved byte-ready line emulation. - The track offset is calculated properly on track change now. ** Unix changes --------------- - Real device access through OpenCBM library via XA1541/XM1541 cable. - Added support to access 1581 formatted disks with the 3.5" host drive (Linux only). - Added event recording & playback (experimental). ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Added UI for Expert cartridge. - Fixed a monitor cut & paste bug. - Fixed synchronization timing on very fast machines. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - The monitor can access disks attached to #8..11 now. * Changes in VICE 1.10 ====================== ** General ---------- - The keyboard handling has been reworked. In most ports the keys can be assigned by *.vkm files. - Fixed display bugs during warp mode. - The autostart function prepares the drive with last accessed track, sector and buffer data now. - The opcode fetch of the 65xx CPU emulation is more accurate now. ** C64 changes -------------- - A processor port bug has been fixed, so IWM Diamonds works again. - Fixed a bug in the Retro Replay emulation. - Added support for IDE64 interface emulation. ** C128 changes --------------- - Added DIN charset support. - Added support for second color bank. ** VIC20 changes ----------------- - Access to unconnected address space has been fixed. ** VIC-II --------- - $d016 xsmooth emulation is cycle exact now! - Many small bugs in the VIC-II emulation have been fixed. - Accessing unconnected address space returns last phi1 data read by the VIC-II now. - Fixed bug loading a snapshot image with sprites enabled. ** Drive changes ----------------- - Implemented firmware ROM mirrors. ** Tape changes --------------- - The image content lister lists the contents of TAP images too. ** Unix changes --------------- - Reworked fullscreen support. * Changes in VICE 1.9 ===================== ** General ---------- - Real PAL filter emulation. ** C64 changes -------------- - The REU emulation has been improved. ** VIC-II --------- - Various fixes to make more demos work. ** SID changes -------------- - The standard SID had problems with filters if stereo SID was enabled. ** Drive changes ----------------- - True drive emulation is default now. - A reset during autostart restores true drive emulation if enabled before. - Relaxed disk change timing a bit and fixed the sync bit. More programs will recognise the disk change now. ** Unix changes --------------- - New polish translation. Credits to Mariusz M³ynek. - XFree86 fullscreen support is disabled by default. To enable fullscreen support use the `--enable-fullscreen' of configure. - Preliminary support for hardware YUV image scaling via the XVideo extension. - Fliplists can be saved and restored via GUI. - Fliplists are now automatically saved to ${HOME}/.vice/fliplist-{EMU}.vfl when save settings is requested. - Those ^L are gone, readline should compile again. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - A bug in the stereo SID implementation causing a crash has been fixed. - Fixed the monitor close button. ** BeOS changes --------------- - Uses DirectWindow interface to save up to 20% of performance. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - A zipcode bug has been fixed. * Changes in VICE 1.8 ===================== ** General ---------- - Added '-h' as alias for '-?' and '-help' - Made the new emulated VIC-II palette the default (to use the old stylish file palettes switch to external palette). ** C64 changes -------------- - Added support for Retro Replay cartridge. - Fixed a CIA timer emulation bug. - Frankie goes to Hollywood may work now. - The REU is emulated cycle exact now. ** C128 changes --------------- - VDC has been improved a lot (but not ready for RFO now). - Fixed a stupid bug in the Z80 emulation. - Fixed $ff01-$ff04 MMU register access. - Added support for C64 type cartridges. ** VIC-II --------- - Fast PAL emulation has been added. - Added VIC-II reengineered palette. - Added also command line switches for: brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma - New style luminance signals - Using internal/external palette ** SID changes -------------- - Stereo support has been added (not available on all architectures). ** Drive changes ----------------- - Odd sized d64 images are supported now. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - The filter settings of the file selector boxes are persistent now. - Support for drag & drop (dropping an image autostarts it) - Pressing ESC in the monitor interrupts long lasting outputs (e.g., "m 0 ffff") - Disassembly window of monitor now has a context menu for every every disassembled line - Breakpoints can be set and unset by just clicking on the respective line ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Added dialog and menu entries to use a emulated PAL palette (Alt-I) - Implemented drag'n'drop for vsid mode. - fixed a bug in the compilation of c1541 - Renamed c1541 to x1541 - Added stereo support - Added support for 'Fast PAL Emu' - Added a color dialog (like a TV set) - Added support for cartridges in x128 - Changed the video/DIVE support internally (in case of problems please report!) - Added support for Double Size / Double Scan - Fixed a bug which made the emulator crash if you press '1' in the file pop-up menu - Fixed a bug in the asynchronous update of the xvic window ** Unix changes --------------- - New italian translation. Credits to Andrea Musuruane - PAL Control UI in the Gnome port - Triple buffering DGA2 direct-into-fb-rendering support (root privileges needed) DGA2 XImage rendering currently not supported. Fullscreen is still in beta status; x128 fullscreen is broken. - Fixed compilation bug if `allegro.h' is present. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Fixed monitor hang if an unknown opcode is entered. - The monitor can assemble a JSR to a ZP location now. - Added '-h' as alias for '-?' and '-help' - Added a NLS-Howto to guide new translators. Credits to Andrea Musuruane * Changes in VICE 1.7 ===================== ** C64 changes -------------- - REU support has been rewritten to support different types and images. - Fixed a processor emulation bug which caused a crash in Summer Games II. - Fixed a snapshot bug causing Castles of Dr. Creep to quit after the snapshot has been restored. ** C128 changes --------------- - REU support has been rewritten to support different types and images. - Added support for internal and external function ROM images. - Tape emulation has been added. - Added register 26 support to VDC emulation to make LUnix work. - Support for the CAPS key has been added. - There is a limited C64 mode now. ** VIC20 changes ----------------- - VIC video emulation now almost cycle exact (try vimm or vvv demos) NTSC video mode is supported. ** CBM-II changes ----------------- - Implemented a C510 (aka P128) emulation, using the existing VIC-II emulation. - Fix a couple of bugs in the CBM-II emulation (C610-C720). ** Drive changes ----------------- - Implemented experimental DOS1 (670 blocks free) support with CBM 2040 emulation. - The read-only bit of the 1581 disk drive is emulated now. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - DirectX sound driver with less delay; alternative WMM driver by Cadaver. - New joystick autofire feature. - Fixed crash if invoked with invalid command line. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Moved zlib and png APIs to a DLL to decrease the archive size. - Removed the Emulator Dialog, use Alt-+/Alt-- to change the speed. - Added a new file dialog with a contents window. - Dragging a file to the Vice Window now autostarts the file. - Added autostart option to menu. - Added cartridge support to menu. - Added missing resources to menus. - Added popup menu (switch off menu bar, press mouse button 2). - Make menu bar switchable. - Removed hardware dialog. - Removed sound dialog. - Added help system. - Changed hotkeys from scancode to Accelerator Table. - Changed layout of About Dialog. ** BeOS changes --------------- - Sid-player mode (use commandline x64 -vsid). ** Unix changes --------------- - Added preliminary (beta) DGA2 support. - French translation; Credits to Eric (meepmeep). - Datasette control UI. - Zlib is used for reading compressed images. * Changes in VICE 1.6 ===================== ** C64 changes -------------- - Fixed REU snapshot bug. - Added Warpspeed and Dinamic cartridge support. - Fixed a bug in NTSC sprite timing. - Pitfall 2 cartridge works again. - Added a symbol file for the built-in monitor which allows moni- toring of ROM sections (use 'll "c64mem.sym"' inside the monitor) ** C128 changes --------------- - The Z80 emulation is almost complete now. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Fixed geometry settings. Games that enlarge the screen work now. ** Drive changes ---------------- - The drive emulation can also read error information from a 40 track D64 image now. - Fixed a bug in vdrive BAM allocation. ** Unix changes --------------- - ESD and aRts sound support has been added. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Fullscreen support (experimental). - Fixed bug in the drive dialog, now parallel drives can be selected. - Fixed NTSC timing. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - Fixed NTSC timing. ** BeOS changes --------------- - new video engine; about 20% faster now - improved support for hardware joysticks - added 1351 mouse emulation - fixed bug that crashed the emu at shutdown - many more settings dialogs (device, sound, datasette, ...) - display for the joystick state - preview for disk/tape images ** OS/2 changes --------------- - changed x64-icon - made icon visible as 'minimized icons' - added menu bar - changed default border style - now the display is updated in paused or monitor mode, too - added the missing datasette control to the datasette dialog (Alt-C) - added a new dialog for hardware settings (Alt-H) - sounddev "dart2" enabled. necessary for vsid-mode. It has the possibility to adjust emulator speed from sound output. - basic sid-player support (-vsid) added - basic snapshot support added (emulator dialog, ALt-N). - x128: 40/80 col key is now mapped to F11, too - x128: palette of VDC window is now set correctly - CBM Restore Key is now mapped to F12 - readonly option added to drive dialog - directory path added to drive dialog - Video Standard (PAL/NTSC) moved to hardware dialog. - added REU to hardware dialog - added memory extension resource to drive dialog - now only valid drives are displayed for usage in the drive dialog - switched to lpng 1.08 - changed some output spin fields to text fields (eg. emulator speed) - now all keys are available if not pressed together with ALT ** C1541 changes ---------------- - Commands to read/write GEOS formatted disks have been added. * Changes in VICE 1.5 ===================== ** General changes ------------------ - Screenshots can be saved now. ** C128 changes --------------- - The Z80 emulation has been improved. CP/M will boot now. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - fixed the bug in the joystick support of 1.4 - fixed a bug in the monitor - Vice (not x128) should now work on older DIVE DLLs, too - added support for keyboard files (eg os2.vkm) - added screenshot support (see emulator dialog), invoke screenshot with Alt-PrtScr - fixed the awful synchronazation (x64 runs now with 50fps and 100% as it should) - the shutdown should be faster now ** Unix changes --------------- - Palette changes work better now. - Added support for gettext based national language support. Initial german translation for Unix based UIs is provided. - NTSC timing is correct now (100% 60fps). - The emulator keeps running when menus are used. - Fixed some crashs and memory leaks in the XAW file selector widget. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - Better support for compressed images. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Better support for compressed images. - Output from the monitor console can be logged now. - Empty TAP images can be created now. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Fixed a bug in the 1581 true drive emulation that prevented the use as drive #9. - Fixed a bug in the 8050 vdrive emulaton. - Fixed a bug that caused drive #8 to be diabled if file system access for drive #11 is disabled and all disks are detached. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - The REU can be used with Super Snapshot 5 or Expert Cartridge. * Changes in VICE 1.4 ===================== ** General changes ------------------ - Fixed slowdown bug with flickering drive led. ** C64 changes -------------- - Fixed crash caused by VIC-II memory corruption. - Expert cartridge is emulated now. - Some NTSC fixes. Now the border looks a bit small, but most NTSC programs should work. - Fixed CIA TOD initialization. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Fixed VIC crash. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - C128, CBM/2, VIC20 and PET keyboard layout fixed - some smaller bugfixes - mouse support added - window position is now written to the cfg-file - now one than more emulation can run at the same time - the commandline, contents and monitor window is resizable now ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - Fixed crash due to the use of uninitialized variables. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - TAP images should not be corrupted anymore. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Fixed IEC initialization bug that broke true drive emulation. - D71 BAM calculation has been fixed. ** Tape changes --------------- - Now saving TAPs should work for big endian machines too. * Changes in VICE 1.3 ===================== ** C64 changes -------------- - Super Snapshot V5 and REX fastload carts are emulated now. - The REU emulation has been improved. - Sprites in non-visible parts of the screen should not crash the emulator anymore. - A sprite snapshot bug has been fixed. ** C128 changes --------------- - The VDC can display flashing and reverse text attributes now. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Fixed VIC display bug. ** PET changes -------------- ** CBM-II changes ----------------- ** Drive changes ---------------- - A drive RAM expansion is available now. - New 2040, 3040 and 4040 disk drive support. ** Unix changes --------------- - New GNOME port of VICE. - G64 images can be created now. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - A status bar has been implemented. - NTSC support is available now. - A simple printer emulation which dumps the data to some file is available now. - The virtual device resource did not work like shown. - The attach image dialog is case insensitive now. - The x-resolution of the VIC20 is doubled now. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Improved monitor console. - The autostart dialog allows to start some file by clicking on its name in the preview window. - Command line options, contributors, license and no warranty can be listed now. - The attach dialog allows to create and format disk images now. - The snapshot save dialog is much better now. - A simple printer emulation which dumps the data to some file is available now. - Reordered short-cuts to aviod duplicates. - Reset or video mode changes will not change the size of a maximized window anymore. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - C128-, CBM/2-, VIC20- and PET-Emulation added - new menus added (emulator, datasette) - menu support enhanced (see also Vice_for_OS2.txt) - monitor implemented - install script (install.cmd) now available - using of zippes images (eg with gzip) should work correctly now - commandline options for window border type added - Status window removed (information display implemented at dialogs) ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - The monitor "z" command has been fixed. - Fixed some tape counter bugs. - Fixed a crash with ZIP archives. - Fixed a bug that prevented writing to gzipped disk images. - Fixed a crash if the image content lister is used on disk images with many files. - There is some experimental read only REL file support in the vdrive emulation now. * Changes in VICE 1.2 ===================== ** C64 changes -------------- - Epyx Fastload and Westermann Learning Cartridges are supported now. ** C128 changes --------------- - The VDC hardware cursor has been implemented. - The machine can boot up in Z80 mode now. However CP/M does not work currently. ** PET changes -------------- - The CRTC emulation has been made pretty cycle-exact. You can now use timed raster effects. ** CBM-II changes ----------------- - The CRTC emulation has been made pretty cycle-exact. You can now use timed raster effects. ** Drive changes ---------------- - D64 images with error codes are supported now. - The virtual drive emulation can process filenames containing zero bytes now. - The virtual drive commandline parser has been improved. - The fsdevice and the virtual drive emulation support memory read commands now. - Invalid scratch commands do not crash the fsdevice emulation. ** Unix changes --------------- - C64/C128 NTSC support (experimental). ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - VDC grafic mode does not crash the emulator any more. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - New mouse emulation. - C64/C128 NTSC support (experimental). - The datasette status is displayed now. - Changing the palette works on-the-fly now. - A new VIC20 settings dialog. ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Sound, drive and joystick settings are implemented now. * Changes in VICE 1.1 ===================== ** General changes ------------------ - The datasette emulation supports saving to TAP images now. - Autostarting TAP tape images has been improved. - A command line option feeding the keyboard buffer on startup has been added. ** C64 changes --------------- - Fixed a bug in the REU emulation. GoDot now works. - Atomic Power cartridge is supported now. ** C128 changes --------------- - 80 column screen is emulated now. Currently the hardware cursor is missing, but Infocom adventures and GEOS128 work. - REU emulation is available now. - Fixed an IO banking bug. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - New datasette emulation. - True 1581 emulation works now. ** PET changes -------------- - New datasette emulation. ** CBM-II changes ----------------- - New datasette emulation. ** Drive changes ---------------- - New 8050, 8250 and SFD1001 emulation using D80 and D82 disk images. - The virtual drive emulation, image contents lister and monitor block commands fully support G64 disk images. ** C1541 changes ---------------- - G64 disk image format is fully supported now. ** Unix changes --------------- - A dialog for creating empty disk images has been added. - The name of currently attached disk images is displayed now. - The disk image flip list can be maintained by a separate menu by clicking on the status bar. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Run/Stop key is also present at ESC key, but it's still present at CAPS/LOCK, altough the latter doesn't work on Win98 with German and French keyboard layouts. - There is a disk/tape image contents lister now. - The RESTORE key is present now (PAGE UP). - Browse button in the device manager dialog works now. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - The `$xx' feature for specifying hexcodes on the command-line now works correctly. - Some P00 wildcard bug has been fixed. - An image content lister crash has been fixed. * Changes in VICE 1.0a ====================== ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - x64 does not crash on start-up anymore. - Calling the emulator from a relative path works again. - 1541-II firmware is found now. * Changes in VICE 1.0 ===================== ** General changes ------------------ - Attached disk images can be stored into a flip list. Changing disks requires just one keypress. ** C64 changes --------------- - Support for TAP tape images has been added. - The emulation of the processor port has been corrected. - The CIA timer emulation has been further improved. - RAM/ROM banking is done 100% accurate now. - Ocean cartridge crash fixed. - Funplay and Super Games cartridges are supported now. - Doing a snapshot with REU enabled could crash the emulator. This is fixed now. - Fixed huge memory leak. ** C128 changes --------------- - Speed up emulation. ** CBM-II changes ----------------- - Speed up emulation. ** Drive changes ---------------- - New 1541-II emulation. - Disk change detection has been improved. - The virtual drive emulation can be used with G64 images now. ** C1541 changes ---------------- - New function to set the name of the disk. ** Unix changes --------------- - A full screen mode using XFree86 vmode extension has been added. - Support for different ROM sets has been added. - A new joystick driver that is compatible to both old and new Linux joystick API has been added. - Support for the 1351 mouse has been added. - The source can be compiled on IRIX using the native compiler now. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - The monitor is available now. - Added more UI elements for sound settings. - Shortcut keys have been implemented. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - P00 and PRG files can be autostarted from the command line again. - Drive memory can be loaded/saved in the monitor now. - The monitor can read and write blocks from disk. - Attaching a non-existant image via command line does not crash the emulator anymore. - ROM snapshots do not save ROMs with "traps" anymore * Changes in VICE 0.16.1a ========================= ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - The joystick support has been fixed. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Full joystick support has been added. - There are some more UI elements for sound and drive coupling (PAL/NTSC) now. * Changes in VICE 0.16.1 ======================== ** Drive changes ---------------- - The content of 1581 disk images is displayed correctly now. ** Unix changes --------------- - Fixed AIX audio header problem. - The emulator does not crash with "X Error of failed request: BadColor (invalid Colormap parameter)" anymore when a bad or old `.vicerc' file is present. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - The filter of the attach dialog has been fixed to display D64, D71 D81, G64, G41 and X64 disk image names. - Cartridge attach and snapshot write dialogs could crash emulator on certain DOS extender. This bug has been fixed. - The name of currently attached tape images is displayed again. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - Disk images can be attached to drives 9..11 too now. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Some bugs in T64 handling have been fixed. The image lister now displays all files, the first file found is the first in the T64 archive (and not the second), detaching tapes works now and "LOAD ERROR" should be gone. * Changes in VICE 0.16.0 ======================== ** C64 changes --------------- - A couple of bugs in the emulation of 6510 CPU core, VIC-II and REU have been fixed. - Final Cartridge, Ocean Cartridge, Super Snapshot 4 and 16KB CRT image support has been added. - Display modes in Ultimax mode have been corrected. ** C128 changes --------------- - Some memory banking bugs have been fixed (C128 GEOS works). ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - RS232 interface has been added. ** CBM-II changes ----------------- - A new C610 (aka CBM-II) emulator has been added. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Drive 9 can be emulated at hardware level. - The 1571, 1581 and 2031 disk drives are emulated. - Moved drive ROM images into a separate directory. - Emulation of drives has been sped up consuming less host CPU power. ** SID changes -------------- - Dag Lem's enhanched reSID engine is now part of VICE. - A bug in the random number generator has been fixed. ** Unix changes --------------- - The "Custom" joystick mapping is now compatible with the German keyboard layout, and possibly other non-US layouts. - Non-default screen depths should really work on X11 now. - Generation of core dumps can be controlled from command line. - Smart attaching lynx and zipcode images works correctly now. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - The menu system now uses a CBM-lookalike character set borrowed from Star Commander. - You can now browse disk images both with the graphics and business CBM character sets, and you can autostart any file on a disk image. - A file descriptor leak has been fixed. ** C1541 changes ---------------- - C1541 has been restructured; the batch mode syntax has changed, and some commands take different parameters. - You can create D71 and D81 disk images now. - Lynx and zipcode support has been improved. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - It is now possible to save the emulator's state into a file, and load it back at any time. - A new logging system has been added. - The Monitor now handles zero page watch points triggered by memory wrap-around too. - Two new palette entries have been added. * Changes in VICE 0.15.0 ======================== ** C64 changes -------------- - A couple of little but annoying bugs in the VIC-II emulation have been fixed. - CIAs have been sped up considerably in those cases where several consecutive underflows happen. - Cartridge support has been added. - "4064" and "SX" are now valid ROM patch IDs (the same as "100" and "67" respectively). ** C128 changes --------------- - YES! The one and only free C128 emulator (x128) is back into operation! No VDC, though. No, don't ask us to implement it because we are not going to. But of course contributions are (still) welcome. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - The VIA emulation is now cycle-exact. - Autostart is now implemented and works as in the C64 emulator. - Tape support has been added. - Cartridge support has been added. - The memory configurations can be added at runtime. - The RESTORE key works correctly now. ** PET changes -------------- - The VIA emulation is now cycle-exact. - Autostart is now implemented and works as in the C64 emulator. - Tape support has been added. - Several PET models have been added. Moreover, the model type can be changed at runtime, without leaving the emulator. ** 1541 changes --------------- - The VIA emulation is now cycle-exact. - Support for 40-track disk images has been added. - Support for a new GCR-encoded ("G64") disk format has been added. - It is now possible to completely disable the idle trap. - Some little but possibly dangerous bugs have been fixed. ** Monitor changes ------------------ - The old monitor has been replaced by a completely new one, written by Daniel Sladic. Although it is still under construction, it also allows access to the CPU in the 1541 drive, and features watchpoints and breakpoints. ** Unix changes --------------- - Sound and joystick is now supported on NetBSD too (courtesy of Krister Walfridsson ). - Support for multiple keyboard layouts and joystick mappings has been added. A "positional" layout for US keyboards is provided. On the C64, VIC20 and C128 emulators, Ctrl is now mapped to Tab; the CBM key is now mapped to left Ctrl. - The emulators and c1541 now use the real, full-featured GNU readline library if found. Use `./configure --without-readline' for the old behavior. - RS232 and printer support has been added. - The XDebugger has died (R.I.P.). ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - Support for two "hardware" joysticks has been added. - The emulated drive LED has been moved to the CapsLock LED; the ScrollLock LED is turned on when "warp" (maximum speed) mode is enabled. - The menu system has been made a bit more usable. It is now possible to open a submenu directly from the emulator screen by pressing Alt and the corresponding hotkey. - An Allegro-based sound driver has been implemented. It replaces the old MIDAS driver in binary distributions because of licensing incompatibilities. - The video driver can now use triple buffering for much smoother animations (don't use it under Windows). - 1351 mouse emulation has been implemented. Make sure a working mouse driver is installed. - It is now possible to use up to two "real" joysticks and to configure the keyboard settings for both emulated joysticks. As a result, it is now possible for two people to play together with two "real" joysticks or just with the keyboard. - A bug that could corrupt the file descriptor table has been fixed. - The file selector is now much faster when running under plain MS-DOS, as it uses `findfirst()'/`findnext()' instead of DJGPP's Unix-like `opendir()'/`stat()' calls. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - The file system can be accessed from any drive now, and complete support for P00 files has been implemented. - A major cleanup of the code has been done (this is what took most of the time between 0.14.2 and 0.15.0). Porting and adding features or emulators is now much easier. - "On the fly" Lynx and Zipcode support has been added (use with care, though). - A couple of bugs in the fast serial emulation have been fixed (courtesy of Peter Andrew Felvegi ). - Sound output can now be oversampled up to 8 times. - The `Directory' resource is now a list of paths. The separator is `;' on MS-DOS and `:' on Unix. - Serial traps can be enabled/disabled at runtime. - Palette files have been introduced. - Support for Dag Lem's new reSID SID emulation engine has been added. - Automake is now being used. - Color palettes are now completely configurable via system files. * Changes in VICE 0.14.2 ======================== ** C64 changes -------------- - A few VIC-II and CIA timing bugs have been fixed. - The "sprite crunch" effect should now be emulated properly. - Changes to $3FFF/$39FF in the video bank in the middle of one raster line do not affect the whole line anymore. - Color of forced $FF DMA characters is now correct. - The SpeedDOS parallel cable is now emulated. - More accurate SID filter parameters when the sampling frequency is different from 44.1 KHz. - The `TapeName' resource has been removed. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - An annoying bug that prevented BASIC from working has been fixed; - True 1541 emulation works again. - The `TapeName' resource has been removed. ** PET changes -------------- - Emulation of joysticks connected to the user port has been added. ** Unix changes --------------- - The "change working directory" command displays the current working directory as default. - A new status bar on the bottom of the emulation window displays the current speed and frame rate, and the status (i.e. LED + R/W head position) of the disk drive when the true 1541 emulation is turned on. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - A bug that caused sprites to appear near the screen when the 640x480 resolution was used has been fixed. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - A little timing error in the 6510 RMW instructions using absolute indexed addressing has been corrected. - Much improved 1541 emulation: most custom write routines should now work. * Changes in VICE 0.14.1 ======================== ** C64 changes -------------- - A nasty CIA-related bug has been fixed. * Changes in VICE 0.14.0 ======================== ** 6502/6510 changes -------------------- - Several mostly timing-related 6510 bugs have been fixed (thanks to Andreas Boose's test suites). ** C64 changes -------------- - Better SID (audio chip) emulation. Now filters are emulated and waveforms are more accurate. (Many thanks go to Michael Schwendt, author of SIDplay, for helping out with this and for providing the filter code and the SID wave tables.) - Some CIA bugs have been fixed (big thanks to Andreas Boose for reporting them). - The IEC bus recalculation has been made slightly faster (but you will probably not notice this, also because the true 1541 compatibility improvements have made the emulation a bit slower). - Some VIC-II bugs have been fixed (more big thanks to Andreas for his invaluable test suite). - Disk/tape images can be "autostarted" from the command-line (with the new `-autostart' option) or at runtime (i.e. you can attach the image and let the emulator run and execute the first program on it for you). This also works with `P00' and raw CBM binary files. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Fixed a small resizing-related bug. ** PET changes -------------- - Improved/fixed keyboards on X11. - New `PetModel', `VideoWidth' and `KeyboardType' resources. - Added support for 2001, 4032B and 8096 PETs. - Better CRTC emulation: R01 (line width) and R12 (control register) are honoured now. ** Unix changes --------------- - Dispatching of Xt events fixed (there was a very stupid bug that caused event loops to do busy waits--argh!). - Made WindowMaker-compliant (x64, xvic and xpet can now be docked). Now, could anybody please contribute cool NeXTish truecolor icons? :-) - Better handling of window resizing. - `configure' now uses Xaw3d only if `--with-xaw3d' is specified on the command line. - The pop-up menus now work also if NumLock or CapsLock are activated. - A private colormap is automatically used (even if `-install' has not been specified on the command line) if the emulator cannot allocate all the colors at startup. - Increased portability: now compiles successfully on SunOS 4.x. - Improved automatic frame skipping algorithm; it now gives a higher average frame rate. - Different, possibly more usable, menu layout. ** MS-DOS changes ----------------- - The contents of disk and tape images can be inspected before attaching them. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - The 1541 emulation is now more accurate (disk rotation is taken into account, but hardware formatting still does not work although we are not far from it). - Safer handling for 1541 ROMs: a checksum is calculated, and turning full 1541 emulation on when no ROM is available does not make the emulator crash anymore. - BZIP v2 support has been added (from Andreas Boose). - Read-only support for various archiving formats (`.tar.gz', `.zip', `.lzh', `.zoo') has been added. - The character ROMs are no longer built-in. - Removed `.doc' extension from certain files in the documentation, as it confused HTML browsers. - Useless Makefile target that caused problems with newer versions of GNU make removed. - C1541 can now create disk images from Zipcoded files (`zcreate'), import Lynx archives (`unlynx') and execute DOS or UNIX commands (`system'). (`unlynx' and `system' have been contributed by Ricardo Ferreira.) - Wrapping around $FFFF in monitor commands works now (beware: not for all of them, yet!). - New, more usable, version of the `recomment' utility. - Support for Simple DirectMedia Layer has been added. - Character generator ROMs are not built-in anymore. * Changes in VICE 0.13.0 ======================== - Improved (now cycle-exact!) VIC-II emulation (big thanks go to Andreas Boose for helping me to improve it). - More accurate 6510 emulation (emulates extra unused read accesses). - Lower memory requirements. - Complete MS-DOS port. - Several CIA fixes. - The VIC-I chip now emulates the reverse mode. - Loading from tape handles the memory pointers correctly. - Joystick emulation in the VIC20 emulator. - Slightly better source code organization. * Changes in VICE-0.12.1 ======================== - The CIAs have been rewritten and are now more compatible and much faster (most of the games that ran much more slowly than usual with 0.12.0 should now run at normal speed). - VIC-II screen updates are now a little faster and also eat less memory. - Disk images can now be attached in read-only mode. - Gzip-compressed disk and tape images can be attached directly, without uncompressing them. - The hardware-level 1541 emulation now supports writing to the disk through the VIAs, so that write patches to the drive ROM are not needed any longer. [please notice that this might not work with everything, as the emulation is not 100% exact] - VICE can now be compiled also with the standard (0.8.0) joystick module (without digital joystick support, obviously). - A little bug related to the right Shift key has been solved (courtesy of Bernhard Schwall). - The numeric keypad can now be used to emulate diagonal directions too. - The Linux audio driver also works on 8-bit sound cards. - When a CPU jam happens (illegal opcode), the user can now choose between entering the monitor, enabling the XDebugger or resetting the machine. - Implemented the new `skip' button in the XDebugger. - Some little annoying bugs in the SID emulation have been fixed and combined pulse/sawtooth and pulse/triangle waveforms have been implemented. - The automatic refresh rate setting works better when sound is enabled. - The adaptive playback speed in the sound driver can now be disabled. - Sound can now be turned off automatically when buffer overruns happen, and is automatically turned on again after a specified interval. - AIX audio support has been implemented (courtesy of Chris Sharp (sharpc@hursley.ibm.com)). - The sprite collision interrupts are more correctly triggered. - A bad bug related to the sprite expansion register has been fixed. - The video cache now handles sprite-background collisions correctly. - A nasty bug that could cause VICE to hang has been fixed. - Attaching floppy images to drive 9 or 10 no longer makes them appear in drive 8 when full 1541 emulation is enabled. - Solved some problems with systems that do not have regexp.h (at least we hope so). - GNU make is no longer needed to compile the PET and VIC20 emulators. - The documentation has been updated. - The `tounix' and `toiso' utilities have been added. - The problem that made VICE die with an `alarm clock' signal on very slow or overloaded machines should now be gone. - The file selector no longer dies if you type `~' with no `/' in the directory field. - The file selector now has a "contents" button with which you can see the contents of a disk or tape image before attaching it. - The X11 video driver automatically disables usage of the MITSHM extensions if they are not supported by the X11 server (even if the `mitshm' resource is non-zero). - Some annoying REU-related bugs have been fixed. - The MS-DOS version uses the Scroll Lock LED to emulate the drive LED. * Changes in VICE-0.12.0 ======================== Well, almost 90% of the emulation code has been rewritten (that's why it took so long to have this release out), so it would be quite long to list everything here. Anyway, here are the most important new features: - New 6510 emulation, which is much faster and has (hopefully) correct memory fetch timings and exact emulation for all the opcodes. - Completely rewritten video emulations, now much faster and more versatile: the window size can be doubled at run-time and the video cache can be disabled when not necessary. - (Much) better VIC-II (C64 video chip) emulation, mostly rewritten from scratch: it can now handle most $D011 tricks such as VSP (Creatures and Mayhem in Monsterland work) and FLI; [yes, the silly sprite priority problems are gone] - (Slightly) better VIC-I (VIC20 video chip) emulation (still incomplete). - New SID emulator by Teemu Rantanen, with support for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and HP-UX (not all of these are stable, though). - New CIA emulation with correct timing. - Faster interrupt handling. - Xaw-based GUI with popup menus and interactive file selector from the Free Widget Foundation. - Hardware-based 1541 disk-drive emulation, that works with many custom loading routines. - New resource handling that allows saving and loading of settings. - MS-DOS port (no sound yet, UI almost non-existent). - Better T64 handling (still buggy). - Removed C128 emulator and RAM tester (sorry, we had no time to work at them). - Much better Linux joystick support, that works with digital and analog joysticks with auto-calibration (courtesy of Bernhard Kuhn ); [it should compile out of the box now] - Support for all possible VIC20 memory configurations on the command line (courtesy of Alexander Lehmann ). - Added `extract' command to c1541 (courtesy of Gerhard Wesp ). - Added configure script for easier configuration and installation. - Overall better source code organization, that should make porting much easier; [volunteers, you are welcome!] - Better keyboard handling (reverse polling is correct now). - The REU works. - Several other bugs fixes and improvements we have lost track of. * Changes in VICE-0.11.0 ======================== - The CPU in x64, xvic and xpet is now 2 times faster on average; :-> - The VIC-II steals the correct number of cycles for bad lines and sprites, and correctly fetches the video RAM, so that FLD and other effects involving bad lines are now emulated correctly. - The interrupt handling and the CIA/VIA emulations have been almost completely rewritten, thus dramatically increasing compatibility and reliability. - The VIC-II sprite-sprite and sprite-background collision register emulation is (much) faster. - The Read-Modify-Write bug of the CPU is correctly emulated when accessing the VIC-II register $D011. - D64 and T64 can be directly attached (T64 in x64 and x128 only). - A bad bug in the handling of the I/O registers of the 6510 has been fixed. - The ADC and SBC decimal mode has been fixed. - Various bugs in the 1541 error channel emulation have been fixed. - The 1541 emulator and the standalone c1541 program support the Rx: (Rename) command and the Sx: (Scratch, delete) command now handles wildcards correctly. - The infamous keyboard problem which caused key events to be lost when refresh was > 1 has been fixed. - A IEEE-488 interface emulator has been introduced (emulates the original one) in x64, x128 and xvic. - The xdebugger functionality has been improved (this part is still in the experimental stage, though). - The `-8' and `-9' options allow to attach diskimages as drive #9 too. - The Unix FS driver (Unit 11) has been improved, so that it supports the command/error channel and wildcards properly; moreover, new FS-specific commands (mkdir, rmdir, chdir) and errors (`permission denied' and `directory not empty') have been added. - The VDC emulation in x128 supports variable character and screen size and bitmap mode as well (monochrome only and still under development). - Some minor bugs in the VDC emulator have been fixed. - The MMU implementation in x128 is much more complete, with true (not hard-coded) shared RAM and memory configuration support. - A nasty bug which caused x128 to crash when changing speed and enabling/disabling the video emulators at runtime has been fixed. - The Linux joystick has been fixed (it did not work at all in 0.10.0). - The monitor `set' command no longer accepts ambiguous variable names. - A new `hjoyport' variable/resource allows the user to choose the port for the hardware joystick (Linux only). - Sun64 is no longer supported (if you need it, download x64-0.3.1). - One thousand other little bugs have been fixed.