WinUAE 1.4.4 public beta #3

[Demon Cleaner]

Wow, that was fast

Beta 3:

- do not cause hard reset if PC was in memory area that disappears during reset ("Did something stupid.."-message appeared after soft reset)
- software reset didn´t fully reset all subsystems. Do not use beta 1 or 2 anymore. Can cause random crashes etc..
- added more ACTION_EXAMINE_ALL error codes (from SFS changelog, no space for even one directory entry = ERROR_NO_FREE_STORE, unknown or already finished directory scan = ERROR_OBJECT_WRONG_TYPE)
- "real" removable drives supported, for example USB memory sticks will get removed/mounted properly. (Restriction: new removable drive needs empty drive slot because new Amiga-side drives can´t be created on the fly. Perhaps later but it would need major filesys emulation changes..)
- automatically adds 2 hidden empty drives if one or more directory filesystem drives configured (RDH0: and RDH1:, reserved slots for new removable drives) Testing, this might change in future..
- CD drives can be again mounted easily without uaescsi.device, checkbox added to GUI. (I didn´t really want to do this but now it really works as well as it can ever work.. No audio tracks and some Amiga CDs really need Amiga-side CDFS but it still is much easier to use..) Not really recommended if uaescsi.device is used..
- compiled with MSVS 2005 again, perhaps fixes PC blowing up errors?

[Harrison]

Very fast indeed. As I always say, it is great to see some much work happening still with WinUAE. It must be one of the most updated and developers emulator next to MAME.

[AlexJ]

Beta 3:
- compiled with MSVS 2005 again, perhaps fixes PC blowing up errors?

What?!

[Demon Cleaner]

Beta 3:
- compiled with MSVS 2005 again, perhaps fixes PC blowing up errors?

What?!

Now that you mention it

[Harrison]

Yeah, I would like to know what can blow up my PC too!

[Demon Cleaner]

Perhaps we read this wrongly, meaning that the PC is "showing/popping" up errors, not really blowing the whole PC up.

[Teho]

Is it some resolution thing, blowing things up out of proportion?

[Harrison]

Would be quite worrying to create a bug in code that did actually blow up your PC.

[Demon Cleaner]

Seems that it's only a metaphor between programmers, nothing to worry about.

[Harrison]

Yeah, I gathered as much. Thought it probably would just mean a bug that causes the code to crash and burn.