--- uae/docs/README 2018/04/24 16:51:13 1.1.1.12 +++ uae/docs/README 2018/04/24 16:54:26 1.1.1.14 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is version 0.8.12 of UAE, the Un*x Amiga Emulator. +This is version 0.8.14 of UAE, the Un*x Amiga Emulator. Versions numbered 0.8.x are beta versions, to be used for development only. If you are only a user of UAE, you are better off using the latest 0.7.x @@ -169,9 +169,16 @@ kickstart_rom_file=file [default=kick.ro joyport0=mode [default=mouse] Specify how to emulate joystick port 0. You can use "mouse", "joy0", or "joy1" to use the corresponding input devices of your machine, or you can - select several different keyboard replacements for a joystick: "kbd1" for - the numeric pad with '0' as fire button, "kbd2" for the cursor keys with - right control as fire button and c is T/F/H/B with Alt as fire button. + select several different keyboard replacements for a joystick: + "kbd1" for the numeric pad. '0' is the fire button. Three keys on the + numeric pad act as autofire toggle: '.' (or ',' depending on your + keyboard language), Enter and the division key. + "kbd2" for the cursor keys with right control key as fire button and the + right shift key as autofire toggle + "kbd3" for T/F/H/B with the left Alt key as fire button and the left Shift + key as autofire toggle. + The autofire toggle keys will turn on autofire (25 shots per second), it + will stay enabled until you hit the autofire toggle again. joyport1=mode [default=joy0] Like joyport0, but for the Amiga's joystick port 1. use_gui=bool [default=yes] @@ -204,6 +211,10 @@ cpu_compatible=bool [default=no] If enabled, a slower but slightly more accurate variant of the CPU emulation will be used. This is needed for some types of copy protection, among other things. This is only meaningful for a CPU type of "68000". +nr_floppies=n [default=4] + The emulator will emulate this many external floppy drives. Some very old + games apparently have problems if this is larger than 1, but for all normal + programs the default is good enough. Emulating external devices (harddisk, CD-ROM, printer, serial port): filesystem=access,volume:path [default=no filesystems mounted] @@ -575,12 +586,19 @@ added while the emulator is running. Re either for technical reasons. The implementation of the uaescsi.device uses cdrecord's libscg as -interface to the native SCSI system. Many implementations of this -interface exist, although only the Linux implementation has been -incorporated into UAE at the moment. Using threads is strongly -recommended, because some SCSI commands can run for extended periods -of time and would block the whole emulation during this time without -threads. Use --enable-threads when starting configure. +interface to the native SCSI system. The Linux implementation of this +library used to be included into UAE, but now the library as generated +by the cdrecord source package (ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/) +is used. As the library is not distributed seperately, you will have +to get the whole cdrecord sources, compile it and then make several +header and lib files available to the compiler if (and only if) building +UAE with SCSI support. The script "src/install_libscg" copies the files +required for the libscg in cdrecord 1.8.1. + +Using threads is strongly recommended, because some SCSI commands can +run for extended periods of time and would block the whole emulation +during this time without threads. Use --enable-threads when starting +configure. Depending on the hosts capabilities the uaescsi.device may be limited compared to other Amiga SCSI devices. The Linux kernel by default only @@ -783,6 +801,11 @@ pOS port: Available: Not quite sure yet. Sourcecode: Included in the main source. Should compile OK. +OS/2 port: + Pressenna Sockalingasamy + Available: ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/emulator/uae2_0810_a1.zip + Sourcecode: working on including it + XFree86/OS2 port: Krister Bergman Available: http://www.kuai.se/~bellman/html/xfreeapps.html