Amiga Info

UAE 0.8.17 for Windows, Release 2 ============================================================================== - Bernd Schmidt - Bernd "Bernie" Meyer - Toni Wilen - Sam Jordan - Brian King <mailto:support@codepoet.com> - Bernd Roesch - Adil Temel - Andreas Junghans - Mathias Ortmann ______________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT NOTICE: Picasso96 support in (Win)UAE would not be possible without the support and generosity of Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt. Please donate to the Picasso96 team if you use P96 and UAE together, regardless of whether you use UAE with Amiga Forever from Cloanto, or Amiga In A Box (AIAB). Click on the Picasso96 link in the About page of the WinUAE GUI for more information. ______________________________________________________________________________ STILL TO DO: - update/add localization support for GUI - Multi-mouse (Andreas Junghans) - Triple buffering, so that vsync can be reintroduced. ______________________________________________________________________________ KNOWN BUGS: - Snapshot (save-state) support is not 100% yet. - Picasso96 colour-fades are especially slow. - Only Lemmings 3 AGA's playing screen is centered correctly, "Lemming-mode" selection buttons on bottom of screen are still corrupted. (AGA bitplanes do not stole copper's DMA cycles correctly yet) - Also Banshee AGA's scoreboard is still invisible because sprites outside playfields (AGA only feature, not yet implemented) are always hidden. ______________________________________________________________________________ WinUAE 0.8.17 Release 2 ============================================================================== - FIXED: Fixed the center_image() routine which was causing crashes with centering inside of screens less than 800x600. - FIXED: Remove hard dependency on RegisterDeviceNotification API so that WinUAE still works on Win95. - FIXED: Event timing works better now, and shouldn't hang any demos or games. (Bernd Schmidt) - FIXED: Max out at 512-Megs of ZorroIII RAM, since 1-Gig won't work. - FIXED: Merged in some CIA-related save-state changes. (Bernd Schmidt) - FIXED: Banshee AGA and Lemmings3 AGA are now mostly working, thanks to new delay-offset code. See the "KNOWN BUGS" section above for further details. (Toni Wilen) - FIXED: Sound-syncro settings can be changed on-the-fly. (Jose Gil) - ADDED: New version of "uaediskchange" utility. Put this inside your "Amiga" installation, and call it in your startup-sequence like "run >nil: c:uaediskchange cd0:" to watch cd0: for disk-changes. You can watch more than one drive. (Bernd Roesch) - CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-syncro code again. (Jose Gil) - CHANGED: Creating an AmigaDOS .adf file from the GUI will now create a formatted disk. (Toni Wilen) - REMOVED: No restriction on only being able to run one instance of WinUAE. NOTE: USE THIS WITH CAUTION.

UAE 0.8.16 for Windows, Release 1
==============================================================================
- Bernd Schmidt
- Bernd "Bernie" Meyer
- Toni Wilen
- Sam Jordan
- Brian King <mailto:support@codepoet.com>
- Bernd Roesch
- Andreas Junghans
- Mathias Ortmann
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STILL TO DO:
- update/add localization support for GUI
- use of 16-bit RGB overlay surfaces in windowed mode when running on true-
  colour desktops (24-bit or 32-bit).
- Multi-mouse (Andreas Junghans)
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KNOWN BUGS:
- Some systems are experiencing large audio latencies (up to 5-seconds of
  delay before audio is produced)
- BSD-Socket emulation is not currently working
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WinUAE 0.8.16 Release 1
==============================================================================
- FIXED: Better 040 compatibility (Toni, Bernd#3, Gwenole)
- FIXED: Even more 040 and debugger compatibility (Toni, Bernd#3, Gwenole)
- FIXED: Fixed the cleanup_sound() routine to not crash on some systems (Andreas)
- FIXED: AGA support (Toni)
- FIXED: Don't die on CPUs (Cyrix) which don't have rdtsc instruction
- FIXED: Printing from within FinalWriter (Bernd#3)
- FIXED: Graphics printing should work now. (Bernd#3)
- FIXED: Translated GUI libraries are only loaded if their version number is
         0.8.16.1 now, so that the GUI is consistent across languages for a
         given WinUAE version.
- FIXED: Horizontal/vertical lines are 2x faster in Picasso96 (Bernd#3)
- FIXED: Floppy disk emulation tweaks (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Auto-activation of WinUAE window is smarter now.
- FIXED: Bug with flipping surfaces in DirectDraw.  If the flipping-pair was
         not properly created (say the primary was in video-ram, but the
         secondary was in system-ram) and cannot be flipped, we tried to
         flip anyways.  This would fill up the log with flip-failure reports.
- FIXED: Infinite loops when GetBytesPerPixel fails.  Still looking into why
         GetBytesPerPixel fails in some weird circumstances.
- FIXED: "more compatible" string in CPU page of GUI is no longer too long.
- FIXED: Mouse-pointer reappears when message-boxes pop up.
- FIXED: Mouse-button state isn't kept across screen-mode changes (Bernd#3)
- FIXED: Clear the write-protect bit when copying files from read-only media.
         This fixes the icon overwrite problem when installing OS 3.5 and 3.9.
         (Bernd#3)
- FIXED: Added a hack for volume-names of "AmigaOS3.5" and "AmigaOS3.9" to be
         used even though Windows shows "AmigaOS35" and "AmigaOS39". (Bernd#3)
- FIXED: Make sure that the Windows mouse-pointer is not active on an Amiga
         screen-mode switch. (Bernd#3)
- FIXED: Fixed timing problems on SpeedStep mobile processors, due to their
         strange RDTSC implementation being variable.  Instead, use the OS
         provided QueryPerformanceCounter(), which actually works but
         has much lower resolution.
- FIXED: Framerate reporting. (Toni)
- FIXED: Maximum number of Picasso96 screen-modes is increased.
- FIXED: Screen refresh bug when minimizing/maximizing full-screen Amiga gfx.
- FIXED: Now use gzip.dll for .adz/.roz handling.
- FIXED: Floppy disks can be written/formatted again.
- FIXED: Disk-select logic for certain demos (Toni)
- FIXED: Bogus printer loading when printer is "none" in GUI.
- FIXED: Incorrect block-size reporting for HardDiskFiles (.hdf) in GUI
- FIXED: Keyboard stickiness during screen-switches, and/or F12 GUI. (Bernd#3)
- ADDED: JIT support for massive speed increase (Bernd#2)
- ADDED: "mixed stereo" setting in the Sound page of the GUI.
- ADDED: "CTRL-F11 to quit" setting in Misc page of the GUI.  ALT-F4 can then
         be used by the Amiga properly, and CTRL-F11 will quit WinUAE.
- ADDED: Virtual screens in Picasso96 (Bernd Roesch)
- ADDED: MIDI-In support (Bernd Roesch)
- CHANGED: Slightly different compile flags, resulting code may be faster (?)
- CHANGED: Moved the Immediate Blit option from Misc to Display page of GUI
- CHANGED: Use some of WinFellow's fsdb code in WinUAE.
- CHANGED: Picasso96 rendering/display engine (Larry, Curly, me)
- CHANGED: AIAB web-link in About page of GUI.
- REMOVED: 32-bit Blitter option is gone now (no longer applies)
- REMOVED: 24-bit display-mode support.
- REMOVED: Enforcer-logging option in Misc page of GUI
- REMOVED: DirectDraw6 option in Misc page of GUI (now the default)
- REMOVED: NT4 support.

______________________________________________________________________________ WinUAE 0.8.14 Release 3 (the Stupid release) ============================================================================== - FIXED: Stupid bug with GUI (F12) when in full-screen mode. - FIXED: Stupid Picasso96 slow-down in Release 2 - FIXED: Stupid Picasso96 bug with menu painting in Release 2 - ADDED: French GUI DLL to installer ______________________________________________________________________________ WinUAE 0.8.14 Release 2 ============================================================================== - FIXED: Picasso96 screen-modes weren't being drawn/updated correctly. - FIXED: Sound-buffer slider gets disabled when no audio output is selected. - FIXED: German GUI DLL is accurate now. (Thanks Georg) - ADDED: Flicker-free Amiga screen updates when full-screen. Doesn't affect Picasso96 screens, though. - CHANGED: Sound output tweaked again, should be "slightly" better. ______________________________________________________________________________ WinUAE 0.8.14 Release 1 ============================================================================== - FIXED: When WinUAE is full-screen, the Message dialog-box no longer "hides" and locks up WinUAE. Instead, WinUAE will automatically minimize itself and display the dialog-box on the Windows Desktop. - FIXED: log-file no longer fills up with blit failure reports. - FIXED: Some resources (critical-sections, threads) weren't being cleaned-up. - FIXED: [Load From...] button now works properly. - FIXED: .uae config-files with spaces in them are now supported when double- clicked. - FIXED: Increased compatability (Bernd, Sam, Toni) - FIXED: Copper emulation state machine (Sam) - FIXED: Floppy emulation and DMA (Sam, Toni) - FIXED: CPU+FPU emulation bugs (Sam, Christian Bauer, Toni, me) - FIXED: Only allow a single instance of WinUAE to be running. - FIXED: Joystick support under Win2K. - FIXED: Scroll-Lock to pause screen-refreshes works. - FIXED: About-page URL link handling. - FIXED: File-system code, including preservation of mode-bits on a rename (Brian Gontowski, David Varley, me) - FIXED: File-system code can handle more than 500-files per directory now. - ADDED: File-system now supports and persists file-notes (comments), and the Script, Pure, and Delete bits. - ADDED: Floppy disk DMA slider for control of disk DMA speed (Toni) - ADDED: Ability to disable specific floppy disk drives (Bernd) - ADDED: "Custom" floppy creation, for use in game-saves (Toni) - ADDED: DirectInput support for USB and other joystick devices. - ADDED: Sound interpolation support code (Bernd), and relevent GUI changes. - ADDED: [Info] section on Configurations page of GUI, for linking external text, html, or screen-shots to a particular configuration. - ADDED: German localization of the GUI. (Georg Veichtlbauer) - ADDED: "Back To The Roots" link in About page of GUI. (Bobic) - CHANGED: All audio goes through WaveOut octal-buffering now. - CHANGED: Hard-disk to local filesystem translation-layer. MAY BE BUGGY NOW! - CHANGED: Native CD-ROM drives are mounted as CDx: instead of DHx: - CHANGED: Frames-per-second are only displayed in Amiga screen-modes now. - CHANGED: Blitter, copper, and floppy emulation (from Bernd, Sam and Toni)