WinUAE 1.4.0 WIP #1 (28.01.2007)

[Demon Cleaner]

Estimated release date: 2-4 weeks.

Big news in the next release of WinUAE will be the CDTV support. Here is a list of all the new features:

New features:

- CDTV emulation, including CD controller, internal SRAM and 64KB SRAM
expansion memory card support.
- More compatible SPTI CD32/CDTV CD support.
- Advanced Chipset configuration. Miscellaneous model specific
hardware configuration entries like real time clock chip type, CIA-A
TOD clock source, RAMSEY, FAT GARY register emulation etc.)
- Rewritten harddisk configuration system. No more lost hardfile or
virtual directory configuration entries if path was missing etc.
- A3000/A4000 motherboard RAM bank support.
- Added Arcadia bios rom type selection.
- New Windows Vista -style application icon added

Bugs fixed:

- It was not possible to disable keyboard layout C after enabling it.
- Sound panel settings were not always enabled correctly.
- -datapath command line parameter didn't work.
- Disk image drag and drop didn't work.
- Quickstart panel disk swapping is properly delayed again.
- Some Picasso96 display modes were not available.
- bsdsocket freeze fix (Aminetradio)
- Windows driver Catweasel support works again.
- "Faster RTG"-mode lockups fixed.

[LowercaseE]

Sweet! I wouldn't mind checking out the CDTV stuff.

[Demon Cleaner]

Ah, I thought you would jump on this one, but consider the release date, it still needs some time.

[Harrison]

Cool. Is nice to see work finally being done on proper CD32 and CDTV emulation support. Although most titles can still be run on WinUAE anyway via various methods, direct support will make it much easier.

Also interesting to see support for the Arcadia system being added. Has anyone every seen or used a real Arcadia system? I haven't.

[Demon Cleaner]

Has anyone every seen or used a real Arcadia system? I haven't.

Me neither

[Harrison]

Was it a Spanish company that made the Arcadia?

[Demon Cleaner]

Was it a Spanish company that made the Arcadia?

? Arcadia Systems was a subsidiary of Mastertronic.

[Harrison]

That is all the information I can find about the system though, that is was developed by Mastertronic and was a failure. Other than that I cannot find much out about the system other than this entry on the Amiga History site http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/arcadia.html which lists the games released for the system. No pictures of what the actual machine or its controller looked like.

Have you also heard of the CUBO CD32? An arcade version of the CD32.

[Demon Cleaner]

Have you also heard of the CUBO CD32? An arcade version of the CD32.

Never heard of that, was it a flop too?

[Harrison]

As far as I know the CUBO CD32 was only ever released in Italian arcades. It was basically just a CD32 with some custom boards attached and put into an Arcade cabinet.





Not many games were released for it either. From what I can find out only a puzzle game called Candy Puzzle, and Italian Back Jack game and a French photo quiz were released for the system.

More info is at the Big Book of Amiga Hardware