WinUAE 1.4.3 public beta #12

[Demon Cleaner]

This one was very fast, but is a release candidate:


Beta 12 (RC1)

- added quick enable/disable checkboxes to floppy panel
- non-word aligned word writes to custom registers emulated correctly
- byte writes to custom registers emulated properly on a 68060 (perhaps only Blizzard 68060 cards´ feature?)
- 68020 "cycle-exact" does not anymore freeze when switching to RTG mode (but it still should not be used)
- Nordic Power v2.0 support (got another "blue" Nordic Power today, also "cartridge support" credits added to contributors list) rom zoned.

The next final release should be end of July, and will have following features:


Wanted: Non-emulated Freezer Cartridges
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- X-Power Professional 500 (non-v1.2)
- Nordic Power (non-v2.0)
- Bus Stop
- Pro Access
- Action Cartridge loader disks/disk images. (non-v1.3 german)
- Action Replay (non v1.00, v1.50, v2.05, v2.12, v2.14, v3.09, v3.17)

(or cartridge ROM images if you have (EP)ROM reader. Note: ROMs are scrambled.)

WinUAE 1.4.3 WIP #3 (24.07.2007)
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Estimated release date: end of July

New features:

- Built-in lha/lzh and lzx support.
- Mount archives as a harddrive with transparent, recursive
(archives inside archive) decompression. Supported: zip, 7zip,
rar (unrar.dll or archiveaccess.dll required), lha/lzh, lzx.
- A3000 Kickstart ROM and SuperKickstart disk support.
- A590/A2091 SCSI, A3000 SCSI and CDTV SCSI expansion harddrive (HDF)
emulation (WD33C93+DMAC based SCSI hardware).
- Action Cartridge Super IV Professional freezer cartridge emulation.
- X-Power Professional 500 (v1.2) freezer cartridge emulation.
- Nordic Power (v2.0) freezer cartridge emulation.
- Debugger improvements (improved deep trainer, copper memwatch points,
CPU-model specific registers can be modified, process breakpoints etc..)
- Paths-panel default paths selection improved.
- Separate native and Picasso96 vsync setting.
- GUI will "autoscroll" if fullscreen mode is smaller than GUI.
- Improved rtg.library, speeds up Picasso96 in high resolution modes.

Bugs fixed:

- CDTV emulation improved (DOTC2, Xenon2, ChaosInAndromeda CD player)
- CD32 CD emulation improved (Fightin' Spirit, Base Jumpers etc..)
- Ghostscript printing fixed (again).
- Floppy drive sound selection if fdrawcmd.sys was not installed.
- Video recording sound pitch issue.
- -datapath command line parameter fixed (again..)
- uae-configuration JIT on/off switching fixed.
- Sprite attachment fix, fixes "Great Demo" by "The Tremendous Trio" :)
- Some FPU fixes from Aranym.
- Directory filesystem locked files (most commonly s:startup-sequence)
after software reset
- Filesystem emulation not initializing if JIT was enabled and no other
expansions enabled (fast RAM, Z3 fast, etc..)

[Harrison]

You mean we might actually see the final build of this version released! :lol: I thought this was going to continue forever. Definitely must be one of the longest beta phases of a WinUAE build.

[Demon Cleaner]

In my opinion, they release just too many beta's. 3-4/release would be enough.

[Harrison]

I agree. It would be better for them to just develop until they are near release stage, and then release a beta so that any bugs can be discovered. Although if there have been many code changes to the emulator then each of these betas may have been needed in order to test for stability and bugs from the general public.

[AlexJ]

However if you add one feature and a bug is found, you know exactly what caused the bug. Add four or five features at a time and find a bug and it makes finding what caused it much harder.

[Harrison]

Definitely. I always test everything straight after any addition to any code I'm writing to check it works correctly. However you can still not foresee problems happening with other existing code that is not part of the code you edited. I often encounter bugs between different website code that are not directly related.