Annotation of hatari/doc/release-notes.txt, revision 1.1.1.6

1.1       root        1: 
                      2:                                     Hatari
                      3:                                    --------
                      4:                                 Release Notes
                      5: 
                      6: 
1.1.1.6 ! root        7:  Version 0.90 (2006-08-22):
        !             8:  --------------------------
        !             9: 
        !            10: - Better Spectrum 512 support (60Hz support, improved I/O memory waitstates).
        !            11: - STE right border opening support (used in Obsession, Pacemaker).
        !            12: - Blitter Smudge mode support (used in Pacemaker demo).
        !            13: - Wheel-mouse simulates cursor up and down.
        !            14: - Work-around to FDC handling, --slow-fdc option is not anymore needed.
        !            15: - Bugfix to MFP, sound works now in more YMRockerz releases.
        !            16: - Bugfix to GEMDOS path handling (Hatari SIGSEGV).
        !            17: - Bugfix to emulated memory initialization (4MB was cleared earlier, now
        !            18:   exactly the amount set up for Hatari.  Saves memory on embedded systems
        !            19:   if less than 4MB is specified.)
        !            20: - Re-written command-line option handling.
        !            21: - (Again) lots of code const/static, type usage and indentation cleanup.
        !            22: - Preliminary support for TOS 3.0x and 030 TT software that runs in ST
        !            23:   resolutions and doesn't need PMMU.
        !            24: - Native GUI for Mac OSX.
        !            25: - ACSI emulation fixes to get HD formatting to work with AHDI 5. HD emulation
        !            26:   now works quite fine with AHDI 5 (but other HD drivers are currently not
        !            27:   supported).
        !            28: - Joystick shortcut changed to toggle cursor emulation between ports 0 and 1.
        !            29: - Keys for all Hatari shortcuts can now be configured from hatari.cfg.
        !            30: - Added command line option for setting ST keyboard mapping.
        !            31: - Joystick command line option requires now parameter for a port for which
        !            32:   the joystick cursor emu is enabled.
        !            33: - Fixed relative mouse event handling in zoomed low-rez.
        !            34: - Hatari shows now more of the bottom borden (screen size is now 384x276
        !            35:   instead of 384x267).
        !            36: - Fixed sync delay timings - sound should now be better (e.g. on Mac OS X).
        !            37: - Added basic support for compiling Hatari with MinGW.
        !            38: 
        !            39: 
1.1.1.5   root       40:  Version 0.80 (2005-10-12):
                     41:  --------------------------
                     42: 
                     43: - Support for STE hardware emulation: STE palette, STE shifter (horizontal fine
                     44:   scrolling, split screen effects), DMA sound and STE joypads.
                     45:   See the manual for a list of working STE applications/games/demos.
                     46: - Hatari can now emulate up to 14 MiB ST RAM instead of only 4 MiB.
                     47: - Support for parallel port joysticks.
                     48: - Improved GEMDOS HD emulation (added Fattrib() call).
                     49: - Adding and removing a GEMDOS or ACSI hard disk should now work correctly.
                     50: - Re-factoring of the screen conversion functions.
                     51: - Improved manual: Now with screenshots of the options dialogs.
                     52: 
1.1       root       53: 
1.1.1.4   root       54:  Version 0.70 (2005-06-05):
                     55:  --------------------------
                     56: 
                     57: - As always: Code cleanup and bug fixes.
                     58: - No more crashes when a program tries to access illegal sector numbers.
                     59: - Improved built-in ROM cartridge.
                     60: - Rewrote the IO memory emulation code -> Better compatibility.
                     61: - Support for TOS 1.06 and TOS 1.62
                     62: - Emulated CPU can now also be run at 16 MHz or 32 MHz.
                     63: - File selection dialog scrollable with mouse wheel or cursor keys, too.
                     64: - Hatari now works on 64-bit host CPUs, too.
                     65: - Floppy disk images can now be set writable/write-protected in the GUI.
                     66: - Hatari can now also load a global configuration file (e.g. /etc/hatari.cfg).
                     67: - Configurable logging functions.
                     68: 
                     69: 
1.1.1.3   root       70:  Version 0.60 (2004-12-19):
                     71:  --------------------------
                     72: 
                     73: - Again some code cleanup and bug fixes.
                     74: - Window/fullscreen mode is now correctly initialized from the configuration
                     75:   file.
                     76: - Added --window command line option to force a start in window mode.
                     77: - Added alert boxes to show warnings, errors and information messages.
                     78: - PC mouse pointer is now better in sync with the ST mouse pointer.
                     79: - It's now possible to load an alternative cartridge image file.
                     80: 
                     81: 
1.1.1.2   root       82:  Version 0.50 (2004-07-26):
                     83:  --------------------------
                     84: 
                     85: - A lot of internal code cleanup and bug fixes.
                     86: - Added a dialog for creating new blank floppy disk images.
                     87: - The source code has been optimized for better emulation speed.
                     88: - Added RS232 emulation (still very experimental and not very well tested! It
                     89:   seems not to work reliable yet. Help for debugging is very appreciated!).
                     90: - Some bugs in the 68000 emulation have been fixed.
                     91: - The emulator now checks for double bus errors and stops the emulation if
                     92:   necessary (instead of crashing the emulator).
                     93: - Timer-D is now patched correctly again.
                     94: - The old font has been replaced by two new fonts so that the GUI now looks
                     95:   better in high resolutions.
                     96: - The fonts are now linked into the executable.
                     97: - Added support for DIM floppy disk images.
                     98: 
                     99: 
                    100:  Version 0.45 (2003-10-30):
                    101:  --------------------------
                    102: 
                    103: - This is just a minor release on the way to version 0.50. It is not very
                    104:   well tested, so be warned!
                    105: - New build system (with a "configure" shell script).
1.1.1.5   root      106: - A disk image destroying bug in the MSA compression function has been fixed.
1.1.1.2   root      107: - It is now possible to redirect the printer output into a file.
                    108: - Experimental MIDI output support.
                    109: - Added the possibility to save memory snap shots.
                    110: - Pending HBL and VBL interrupts are now emulated correctly (I hope).
                    111: - Some speed improvements.
                    112: - GEMDOS HD emulation now also works with EmuTOS.
                    113: 
                    114: 
1.1       root      115:  Version 0.40 (2003-07-11):
                    116:  --------------------------
                    117: 
                    118: - Support for ZIP and GZIP compressed disk images!
                    119: - Configuration file support for loading and saving the emulator settings.
                    120: - Hatari now works on machines with Sparc CPUs, too.
                    121: - Fixed a problem that slowed down the emulator in monochrome mode when using
                    122:   TOS 2.06.
                    123: - Inverted monochrome mode is now supported, too (some games like Maniac
                    124:   Mansion use this).
                    125: - Added Mega-ST compatible real time clock (RTC) emulation.
                    126: - The GEMDOS HD emulation has been improved (it now also works with lower-case
                    127:   file names) and many bugs have been fixed there.
                    128: - Improved keyboard mapping (added mapping via PC keyboard scancode and via
                    129:   reloadable mapping files).
                    130: - The screen rendering routines have been generalized (less differences between
                    131:   windowed and fullscreen mode).
                    132: - Hatari can now be cross-compiled, too. You can even compile it for MiNT now.
                    133:   However, it does not run very well there yet.
                    134: - Support for RAM TOS images.
                    135: - Improved memory mapping (the different memory regions should now behave much
                    136:   more like on a real ST).
                    137: - Improved M68k exceptions (bus errors and exception cycle timings).
                    138: - Fixed some bugs in the extended VDI resolution mode (now it is working with
                    139:   EmuTOS, too).
                    140: - Some games that poll the write-protection signal of the FDC to check for
                    141:   disk changes should now be working, too.
                    142: 
                    143: 
                    144:  Version 0.30 (2003-03-12):
                    145:  --------------------------
                    146: 
                    147: - Some parts of the code accessed the SR directly to read the IPL -
                    148:   however the UAE CPU core only updates the SR when doing a MakeSR() first.
                    149:   So this is done in the affected code parts now, too.
                    150: - The IPL wasn't raised when a MFP interrupt occured - fixed now.
                    151: - Full screen resolution for ST-Low can now be selected from the screen setup
                    152:   dialog.
                    153: - The IKBD emulation does not longer duplicate joystick fire buttons when
                    154:   a game tries to use both, joystick and mouse 
                    155: - Improved audio timer function - the code should now be a little bit faster.
                    156: - Resynced Hatari's UAE CPU core with UAE 0.8.22 - this fixes some bugs in 68k
                    157:   instructions like ABCD and SBCD.
                    158: - Added patches for TOS 2.05 so that this TOS version should now work, too.
                    159: - Rewrote TOS patching routine. It is much more flexible now.
                    160: - Removed 0xa0ff opcode for VDI resolutions; using GEMDOS_OPCODE now instead.
                    161: - Fixed MMU RAM size configuration bug.
                    162: - Rewrote some more screen conversion functions in C.
                    163: - When a bus or address error occurred, the PC was often not set to the
                    164:   right exception handler routine. This has been fixed now.
                    165: 
                    166: 
                    167:  Version 0.25 (2002-12-30):
                    168:  --------------------------
                    169: 
                    170: - Patches for big endian systems (Spectrum 512 pictures are now working there).
                    171: - Hatari now also compiles and runs under Mac OS X.
                    172: - Blitter emulation has been added.
                    173: - There is now the possibility to save YM or WAV sounds.
                    174: - Big VDI resolutions (e.g. 800x600) are now supported, too.
                    175: 
                    176: 
                    177:  Version 0.20 (2002-02-18):
                    178:  --------------------------
                    179: 
                    180: - Added graphical user interface for configuration of the emulator settings.
                    181: - Real joysticks can now also be used to simulate the ST joysticks.
                    182: - Yet another bugfix for BeOS (lseek again...)
                    183: - Support for hard disk images.
                    184: 
                    185: 
                    186:  Version 0.11 (2001-10-10):
                    187:  --------------------------
                    188: 
                    189: - High level (GEMDOS) harddisk emulation.
                    190: - ST-Med/ST-Low mixed mode now works.
                    191: 
                    192: 
                    193:  Version 0.10 (2001-08-16):
                    194:  --------------------------
                    195: 
                    196: - Improved CPU cycles emulation.
                    197: - Added Spec512 support.
                    198: - Some keyboard shortcuts.
                    199: - Added the possibility to switch between fullscreen and window mode.
                    200: - ST Medium resolution conversion routine.
                    201: - Built-in debugger.
                    202: - Added possibility to grab screenshots.
                    203: - Sound support (not working very well yet).
                    204: 
                    205: 
                    206:  Version 0.05 (2001-06-01):
                    207:  --------------------------
                    208: 
                    209: - Joystick emulation via cursor keys.
                    210: - ST-LOW resolution conversion routine is now working on big-endian machines.
                    211: 
                    212: 
                    213:  Version 0.04 (2001-05-27):
                    214:  --------------------------
                    215: 
                    216: - Added Stefan Berndtsson's patch for big-endian machines.
                    217:   Hatari now runs also with non-x86 Linux machines! Thanks Stefan!
                    218: - Rewrote the ST-LOW resolution conversion routines in C ==> ST-LOW now works!
                    219: - Added some of the WinSTon patches Paul Bates recently published
                    220:   at the WinSTon BBS (Thanks to Ladislav Adamec for the hint).
                    221: - Cleaned up the source tree a little bit.
                    222: 
                    223: 
                    224:  Version 0.03 (2001-04-03):
                    225:  --------------------------
                    226: 
                    227: - Rewrote some more assembler functions. FDC emulation now works!
                    228: - SDL Keyboard code finished and included a SDL-Key -> ST-Scancode table.
                    229: - Added mouse support.
                    230: 
                    231: 
                    232:  Version 0.02 (2001-03-28):
                    233:  --------------------------
                    234: 
                    235: - Added very simple SDL support.
                    236: - Rewrote a lot of assembler functions in C (e.g. intercept.c).
                    237: - Adapted the UAE CPU. Now Hatari is able to boot a TOS 1.0x ROM, the
                    238:   Desktop shows up, but no mouse and keyboard interaction yet.
                    239: 
                    240: 
                    241:  Version 0.01 (2001-03-21):
                    242:  --------------------------
                    243: - Made the WinSTon source code compilable with GNU-C.
                    244: - Added the UAE CPU sources.
                    245: 

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