VICE 3.5 has been released

dqh_ · 24. Dezember 2020

Code

This release completes the transition to the new GTK3 based GUI and fixes a
bunch of long standing issues (see below).
We welcome to the team:
empathicqubit - who wrote the new remote monitor binary interface
Roberto Muscedere aka OldWoman37 - who contributed the new Lt.Kernal, CMD-HD and
RAMlink emulations (C64 only)
** general
----------
- Remove explicit support for OS/2, AmigaOS. These platforms should be able to
use the SDL port.
- VICE used to store its ROMs, keymaps etc into $PREFIX/lib[64]/vice, which
isn't correct. Now VICE installs its data into $PREFIX/share/vice, which
makes a lot more sense. The documentation location has changed as well, now
the documentation is installed in $PREFIX/share/doc/vice.
On Windows, the binaries and DLLs have been moved into /bin, according to the
requirements of GTK/GDK.
- Emulator timing is now directly driven by the host system audio device.
If sound emulation is disabled, timing is synchronized with the host clock.
As part of this change, the choice of sound synchronization method has been
removed.
- Emulation now occurs in blocks of time directly related to the sound fragment
size. Previously, emulation of an entire frame happened as quickly as possible
and then the host system would sleep until it is time to emulate the next
entire frame. This means that user input is now visible to the emulated
software with lower latency than before.
- Audio latency is much lower on all platforms, and new lower latency defaults
have been set. Users are encouraged to try using smaller fragment sizes and
experiment with finding the lowest stable buffer size on their system.
- Support for changing the emulator timing to target generating a specific number
of video frames per second. Useful for smooth PAL scrolling on a 50Hz CRT, and
also fun for playing games at 60fps to match a typical LCD screen refresh.
- The default behaviour on CPU JAM was changed to "continue" to better match
the behaviour of the real machines. Additionally a "CPU JAM" message will
be displayed in the status bar.
- A "quit emulator" option was added to the CPU JAM dialog
- The CPU JAM dialog now shows the number of the device whose CPU has crashed.
- Proper support for dual drives has been added
- Relative file support on the filesystem device
- Autostarting works from any drive (select the drive in the attach disk dialog)
- Added support for 2nd and 3rd joystick button (potx/poty), currently only via
keyboard and via unix joystick driver.
- Added mapping for the THEC64 joystick
- New LT.Kernal emulation
- New CMD-HD emulation
- New CMD RAM-Link emulation
- New D9090/60 emulation
- New icons for the applications.
- We now use proper binary prefixes for memory sizes.
Welcome in the 21st century!
- Recalculate the palette parameters when the videochip type changes, now we can
actually see the subtle color differences :)
- Emulate a switch present on some compatible datasettes (not the Commodore
ones). Turning the switch on makes the sound recorded on the tape audible.
- Fixed/improved "native" screenshots. It will now work with all videochips and
always generate "best effort" results.
- The emulators will look for the config file at an alternative location first,
before looking at the system wide location.
- for windows that is the location of the .exe files
- for Linux that is ~/.vicerc
- Fixed lightgun/pen emulation
- use poty instead of potx for trigger for magnum lightphaser and inkwell
lightpen
- tweak lightphaser offset against a bunch of games
- Handling of settings and resources was improved a bit:
- always reset resources to default before loading a settings file
- new "-addconfig" option (or "load additional settings") loads additional
resources from a file without resetting to defaults before. this can be used
to keep custom setups separate from the regular settings.
- Fixed sysfile search path order.
The order now is $HOME/.local -> path-of-binary -> VICE_DATADIR
- Fixed a bug in .tap file handling that caused some .tap files to not work in
the preview widget(s)
- A bunch of files have been removed from the source tree because they didn't
really belong there and/or contained outdated info:
- hardware-sids.txt, the old info is now at
https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/Hardware_SID_Status
- SDL-support.txt, the old info is now at
https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/SDL_Status
- ffmpeg-support.txt, the old info is now at
https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/FFMPEG_Status
- Another bunch of files were removed because their content was hopelessly
outdated and/or could be moved to other files:
- removed ancient CHANGELOG files. Read NEWS for the recent changes. Refer to
the SVN log for the gory details.
- moved contents from FEEDBACK to README
- removed INSTALL, AUTHORS, FEEDBACK
- removed the MAN pages. Read the html or pdf manual instead.
** build system
---------------
Many changes and simplifications were made in the build system, to make
it more reproducible and match the expected standard behaviour:
- Add --disable-optimization (default=no) to make the buildsystem use -O0 for
debugging.
- 'make dist' no longer needs '--enable-static-ffmpeg' to generate a working
tarball.
- Fixed support for the —disable-silent-rules/—enable-silent-rules configure
arguments.
- Added --enable-sandbox-mode switch. This switch will tell GTK3 to use
'native dialogs' so we can properly support Flatpak and similar containers.
- Added -—enable-cmake to automatically generate cmake CMakelists.txt files for
in-tree configured builds. Generating Xcode projects works, and this may
allow generation of MSVC project files in the future.
- Add --enable-desktop-files for creating and installing .desktop files on Unix.
- Added --enable/disable-html-docs
- Added --with/without-mpg123 (default=yes), makes MP3-decoding support optional
- Added --with/without-ogg-vorbis
- Added --with/without-flac (default=yes)
- Update --with[out]-lame, make no default
- Make jpeg and gif support default to no
- Make using libpng the default, fail unless explicitly disabled
- Make ALSA and Pulse default to enabled, make OSS default to disabled
- Make MIDI support disabled by default
- Make new 8580 filter default
- Removed --disable-hwscale, always check for OpenGL with GTK3, error out when
--disable-hwscale is used with SDL2
Properly report missing tools to generate docs:
- Fail on missing pdftex when PDF docs requested
- Checks for makeinfo and texi2dvi (from the texinfo package) and warns in the
configure output at the end if they are missing, but will still build VICE.
Check presence of other tools instead of silently not using them:
- Made dos2unix mandatory to avoid surprises
- Fail if building for Windows and `icotool` is missing. It can be obtained by
installing the `icoutils` package.
Some features have been deprecated and are now disabled by default:
- Added --enable-x64-image option to enable X64 image support, which is now
disabled by default.
- Added --with/without-fastsid switch to enable/disable the fastSID engine
(default is off).
** Monitor
----------
- Completely new binary remote protocol for debuggers. The older hack was
removed - see the documentation for details.
- -moncommands finally work as originally intended and supports all monitor
commands now. That means there are subtle differences in how certain things
work. one important thing is that by default it will use an initial break
point just after "reset".
- "-initbreak ready" can be used to place an initial wait for "ready", like
autostart does, or "-initbreak reset" to break just after reset.
For more details, read the documentation.
- ‘stop’ is no more ending up in recorded monitor command playback files
- Support `cd ~` to change cwd to $HOME
- Added 'mkdir' command
- Aadded 'rmdir' command
- Aadded "verify" and "bverify" commands to compare memory with a file
- Aadded optional address to the `screen` command
- `chis` shows the cycle count as well now
- Aadded option to configure the number of lines used for chis
- Aadded option to change the size of the scrollback buffer
- Added "dummy" command to enable or disable whether break- and watchpoints
trigger at dummy accesses or not.
- Check watchpoints in the order they were added, that makes the output in the
monitor less confusing when more than one watchpoint triggers at a time
- Show rasterline and cycle in both decimal and hex
- Add 'q' as a shorthand for 'quit'
- Improvements to the char/sprite display - use # over * for more contrast,
show the memory value(s) alongside binary view and fix bug showing multiple
sprites
- "list", "load" and "save" do now work with the filesystem device
- Drive numbers are now expected to be decimal
- Add monitor dump function to m6821 core
- Added info on head position/status to VIA io dump
- The display now (optionally) refreshes after each monitor command. this is not
cycle exact right now (only per scanline).
- Fixed accessing cartridge memory
- Improve expansion port mode status output
- Fix io command to shows IO space in address order
** vdrive
---------
- The filesystem device now uses shortened filenames by default to increase
compatibility.
- Disallow to silently overwrite existing files (optional, default is "no")
- Implemented "save @" to overwrite files (but do not simulate the well known
related bugs)
- Basic support for REL files in the File System Device. (Using P00 format, or
rather R00, is recommended)
- Fix some BAM track allocation issues in 8050/8250 disk images
- Avoid DISK FULL with 27 blocks free on .D80 / .D82.
- For D80/D82 images, when reading the directory, use the correct block to fetch
the disk's name from. This corrects a bad disk name in directory listings when
using a vdrive.
- Added proper creation of d1m, d2m and d4m images, the resulting image has 1
native partition spanning the entire disk.
- When formatting or validating an 8050 or 8250 image, the header sector wasn't
flagged as allocated. This resulted in VICE hanging when creating more than 80
files on the disk.
** True drive emulation
-----------------------
- More realistic modelling of the floppy drive wobble
- Changed lower limit for drive RPM to 260 and upper limit to 340 (ie +/- 40).
This is slightly more than possible with a real 1541.
** CPU fixes
------------
- Prevent IRQ/NMI from being served by the CPU when it has JAMed
- Perform all "dummy" accesses also in the non "sc" core
- Changed magic constant for LAX#imm to 0xEE as required(!) by wizball
** VDC fixes
------------
- Emulate VDC's internal buffer, issues with RFOVDC plasma part are fixed
- Several fixes for interlace, now vdcmodemania interlace parts all work and
soci VDC test #5 works
- Improved VDC-FLI handling, 3 byte attribute offset doesn't always apply,
fixes vdc-mcm demo and vdcmodemania fli part
- Fix issue with wrap around of VDC ram affecting vdcmodemania fli part
- Fixed VDC reg #28 bit #4, it sets the addressing mode, it does not actually
reflect the amount of ram installed.
- Correct aspect ratio for PAL or NTSC
- Screen is resized automatically on PAL/NTSC change
- Corrected size of saved screenshots or videos
- Correct handling of unused bits in some registers
- Corrections and enhancements to monitor "io d600" dump
** SID fixes
------------
- Fixed the filter saturation
- Noise writeback fixes
- Envelope regression fix
- Fix the coefficients for the resid external filter
- Rough implementation of the shift register and waveform zero bitfade
- Added 4 possible additional SID chips for a total of 8 (x64*/xscpu64/x128 only)
** C64 fixes
------------
- Enable/disable datasette/tapecart as needed on autostart
- Several new cartridge types added:
- The 'ZIPP-CODE 48' cartridge
- The polish 'blackbox v8' cartridge
- The polish 'Blackbox V3' cartridge
- The polish 'Blackbox V4' cartridge
- The polish 'Blackbox V9' cartridge
- The 'REX RAM-Floppy' cartridge
- The czech 'BIS-Plus' cartridges (2,4,8kb variants)
- The polish 'SD-BOX' cartridge
- The 'MultiMAX' cartridge
- The argentinian HERO bootleg cartridge
- The "GMod3" cartridge
- Action Replay fixes:
- When reading from IO1 area when AR5 is enabled, the value currently on the
bus will get written to the register, causing the famous bug/crash
- Handle the broken mode 0x22 and emit a warning on potentially problematic
reads
- Retroreplay fixes:
- Allow reading back the status of the freeze button
- Fix reads from IO1 when the clockport is not active.
- Handle the somewhat broken mode 0x22 like on real retro replay
- Nordic Power fixes:
- Fix writing to cartridge ram in mode 0x22
** C128 fixes
-------------
- FD2000/4000 work again, including burst mode
** VIC20 fixes
--------------
- Added handling for 32k cartridge files that contain blocks 1,2,3 and 5.
- Fixed megacart nvram addressing
- External audio filter fix
** PET fixes
------------
- Teach VICE where BASIC 1 keeps the current screen line address, so that
Autostart works.
- Made the UK business keyboard the default and moved it to the top of the list
of keyboards. This makes the default setup work with the keymaps and editor
ROM we have in VICE.
- For CRTC-less PETs, use screen setup values that work out to 60 Hz refresh.
- Tuned the display timing values for non-CRTC PETs
- Renamed PET ROMs to include their part number (in line with Zimmers). This
should make it more clear which editor ROMs exist.
- The 4032B model used a wrong Editor ROM
** SDL fixes
------------
- Implemented mouse pointer auto-hiding
- Remember last position in the main menu
- Several Keyboard mapping fixes:
- Fix (some) plus4 keymaps
- Some pet keymap fixes
- Updated/fixed symbolic mapping for italian keyboard
- Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (plus4)
- Added keymap from/for BMC64 (c64)
** GTK3 fixes
-------------
- Almost all causes of stuttering / audio glitches when interacting with the UI
have been resolved.
- Cairo is completely gone, all major platforms use their native rendering
backend
- Added hotkey "pause" to generate a screenshot from current canvas using a
generated filename in the current working directory
- Rearranged cartridge/io settings around a bit. not perfect yet, but probably
better than before
- Add optional hiding of VDC display
- Make double-clicking on the emulated screen switch fullscreen mode
- Alt+Enter will now also toggle fullscreen mode
- Added option to pause the emulation when settings dialog is open
- Remember not only the last directory but also the last file in file dialogs
- Show "Use Alt+M to disable mouse grab" in window title if mouse grab is
active
- Support 'StartMinimized'/-minimized
- Added 'restore window geometry' to UI and commandline to allow users to apply/
ignore the last position/size of the window(s) stored in vicerc/vice.ini.
- Allow for 8 'analog' controllers on Linux
- Added Alt+Shift+F12 VICII to switch border mode in x64sc
- Moved the netplay settings from the 'File' menu to the settings dialog
- Added 'Host' root node in the settings UI, move Autostart, Monitor, Netplay,
Snapshot/Event/Media recording directory and start-mode under that.
- Also move Host->Machine settings (CWD and JAM-action) under Host, remove the
Host->Machine node.
- Use workaround for GTKFileChooser's "Select" button not being active when
selecting/creating a directory.
- Several Keyboard mapping fixes:
- Added keymaps for THE64 keyboard
- Updated keymaps for pet graphical keyboard
- Fix shift+z/y in german positional mapping (c64)
- Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (plus4)
- Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (c64)
- Fix (some) plus4 keymaps
- Added positional keymap for Swedish keyboard
- Fix ctrl and cbm mapping (c128)
** macOS fixes
--------------
- VICE GTK performance on macOS is now excellent and we finally now recommend
the GTK build over the SDL build.
- macOS bindist now relies on macports rather than homebrew. With macports it’s
possible to build deps from source while targeting an older macOS version,
which allows us to continue to support macOS 10.9+.
- Re-enabled the bafflingly disabled working macOS joystick code
- Actual macOS game controller device names are now listed instead of 6x “Analog
joystick n”
** c1541 fixes
--------------
- Added some REL file support
- support for REL files to the c1541 COPY subcommand
- Add subcommand to show dir entry of a file, and all side sectors.
- Add support for SEQ and USR files for the -extract command
- Renamed `zcreate` command to `unzip`. 'unzip' (dissolve a zipcode archive)
sounds more logical than 'zcreate'. When we decide to also support creating
zipcode archives, a proper name for that could be 'zip' or 'zipcode'.
** petcat fixes
---------------
- Added missing basic v4 tokens for cbmII

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Stephan Scheuer · 24. Dezember 2020

Schick gemacht und auch mit RAM-Link und CMD-HD Emulation.

Aber mal eine Frage:

Wo ist der Monitor, siehe Bild, hin? Das einzige was sich öffnet, ist ein Terminal Fenster.

dqh_ · 24. Dezember 2020

Zitat von Stephan Scheuer

Schick gemacht und auch mit RAM-Link und CMD-HD Emulation.

Aber mal eine Frage:
Wo ist der Monitor, siehe Bild, hin? Das einzige was sich öffnet, ist ein Terminal Fenster.

The terminal that opens, is the monitor. VICE Manual - Monitor

Retro-Nerd · 24. Dezember 2020

Any chance that you guys add integer scaling for fullscreen? The CRT effect with scanlines still looks uneven.

Stephan Scheuer · 24. Dezember 2020

Thanks for the info. The command line interface is just too inflexible and creates too much typing work. I will continue to use Winvice 3.2 for debugging.

dqh_ · 24. Dezember 2020

Zitat von Retro-Nerd

Any chance that you guys add integer scaling for fullscreen? The CRT effect with scanlines still looks uneven.

What screen resolution are you using on the host machine? Looks fine on my machines but I use fairly high resolutions screens.

Claus · 24. Dezember 2020

Oooh, nice Christmas present! Thanks a lot and keep up the great work!

HOL2001 · 24. Dezember 2020

Ich habe schon seit Ewigkeiten das Problem, dass die GTK Version meinen Joystickadapter nicht erkennt.

In der Auswahl werden mir bei den beiden Joysticks nur je ein "?" angezeigt.
Ich kann die zwar anwählen, aber die Auswahl wird nicht gepeichert.
Mit der SDL Version klappt das ohne Probleme.

detlef · 24. Dezember 2020

Zitat von Stephan Scheuer

Thanks for the info. The command line interface is just too inflexible and creates too much typing work. I will continue to use Winvice 3.2 for debugging.

The older WinVice had a real debugger where you could step thru the assembler code. That's completely gone in the GTK version. Now it's just what the name means - a simple monitor.

But no problem. I'll also use an older version for real debugging and the new GTK versions for everything else.

And the new version looks great. For example, I see support for CBM dual drives. I've been waiting for this for a long time.

dqh_ · 24. Dezember 2020

Zitat von detlef

That's completely gone in the GTK version. Now it's just what the name means - a simple monitor.

This is simply not true. VICE Manual - Monitor

Retro-Nerd · 24. Dezember 2020

Zitat von dqh_

Zitat von Retro-Nerd

Any chance that you guys add integer scaling for fullscreen? The CRT effect with scanlines still looks uneven.

What screen resolution are you using on the host machine? Looks fine on my machines but I use fairly high resolutions screens.

1440p, but it doesn't look good on 1080p neither. 1440p should look better imo, it's 288p*5 = 1440p.

Bagitman · 24. Dezember 2020

Warum kann man beim x128 und auch beim xvic als Host-Keyboard nicht deutsch einstellen? Ich hab keine Lust, zweigleisig zu fahren.

compyx · 24. Dezember 2020

We don't have those keymaps. We would appreciate people creating those keymaps. There should be instructions and "Settings -> Input devices -> Keyboard -> Enable keyboard debugging on statusbar" will certainly help.

Bagitman · 24. Dezember 2020

Can't you just use the keymap for x128 from x64?

compyx · 24. Dezember 2020

No, you can't. Just look at the keyboard layouts of a c64 vs c128.

muellerarmack · 24. Dezember 2020

Zitat von dqh_

Code

This release completes the transition to the new GTK3 based GUI and fixes a

bunch of long standing issues (see below).

We welcome to the team:

empathicqubit - who wrote the new remote monitor binary interface

Roberto Muscedere aka OldWoman37 - who contributed the new Lt.Kernal, CMD-HD and

RAMlink emulations (C64 only)

** general

----------

- Remove explicit support for OS/2, AmigaOS. These platforms should be able to

use the SDL port.

- VICE used to store its ROMs, keymaps etc into $PREFIX/lib[64]/vice, which

isn't correct. Now VICE installs its data into $PREFIX/share/vice, which

makes a lot more sense. The documentation location has changed as well, now

the documentation is installed in $PREFIX/share/doc/vice.

On Windows, the binaries and DLLs have been moved into /bin, according to the

requirements of GTK/GDK.

- Emulator timing is now directly driven by the host system audio device.

If sound emulation is disabled, timing is synchronized with the host clock.

As part of this change, the choice of sound synchronization method has been

removed.

- Emulation now occurs in blocks of time directly related to the sound fragment

size. Previously, emulation of an entire frame happened as quickly as possible

and then the host system would sleep until it is time to emulate the next

entire frame. This means that user input is now visible to the emulated

software with lower latency than before.

- Audio latency is much lower on all platforms, and new lower latency defaults

have been set. Users are encouraged to try using smaller fragment sizes and

experiment with finding the lowest stable buffer size on their system.

- Support for changing the emulator timing to target generating a specific number

of video frames per second. Useful for smooth PAL scrolling on a 50Hz CRT, and

also fun for playing games at 60fps to match a typical LCD screen refresh.

- The default behaviour on CPU JAM was changed to "continue" to better match

the behaviour of the real machines. Additionally a "CPU JAM" message will

be displayed in the status bar.

- A "quit emulator" option was added to the CPU JAM dialog

- The CPU JAM dialog now shows the number of the device whose CPU has crashed.

- Proper support for dual drives has been added

- Relative file support on the filesystem device

- Autostarting works from any drive (select the drive in the attach disk dialog)

- Added support for 2nd and 3rd joystick button (potx/poty), currently only via

keyboard and via unix joystick driver.

- Added mapping for the THEC64 joystick

- New LT.Kernal emulation

- New CMD-HD emulation

- New CMD RAM-Link emulation

- New D9090/60 emulation

- New icons for the applications.

- We now use proper binary prefixes for memory sizes.

Welcome in the 21st century!

- Recalculate the palette parameters when the videochip type changes, now we can

actually see the subtle color differences :)

- Emulate a switch present on some compatible datasettes (not the Commodore

ones). Turning the switch on makes the sound recorded on the tape audible.

- Fixed/improved "native" screenshots. It will now work with all videochips and

always generate "best effort" results.

- The emulators will look for the config file at an alternative location first,

before looking at the system wide location.

- for windows that is the location of the .exe files

- for Linux that is ~/.vicerc

- Fixed lightgun/pen emulation

- use poty instead of potx for trigger for magnum lightphaser and inkwell

lightpen

- tweak lightphaser offset against a bunch of games

- Handling of settings and resources was improved a bit:

- always reset resources to default before loading a settings file

- new "-addconfig" option (or "load additional settings") loads additional

resources from a file without resetting to defaults before. this can be used

to keep custom setups separate from the regular settings.

- Fixed sysfile search path order.

The order now is $HOME/.local -> path-of-binary -> VICE_DATADIR

- Fixed a bug in .tap file handling that caused some .tap files to not work in

the preview widget(s)

- A bunch of files have been removed from the source tree because they didn't

really belong there and/or contained outdated info:

- hardware-sids.txt, the old info is now at

https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/Hardware_SID_Status

- SDL-support.txt, the old info is now at

https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/SDL_Status

- ffmpeg-support.txt, the old info is now at

https://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/index.php/FFMPEG_Status

- Another bunch of files were removed because their content was hopelessly

outdated and/or could be moved to other files:

- removed ancient CHANGELOG files. Read NEWS for the recent changes. Refer to

the SVN log for the gory details.

- moved contents from FEEDBACK to README

- removed INSTALL, AUTHORS, FEEDBACK

- removed the MAN pages. Read the html or pdf manual instead.

** build system

---------------

Many changes and simplifications were made in the build system, to make

it more reproducible and match the expected standard behaviour:

- Add --disable-optimization (default=no) to make the buildsystem use -O0 for

debugging.

- 'make dist' no longer needs '--enable-static-ffmpeg' to generate a working

tarball.

- Fixed support for the —disable-silent-rules/—enable-silent-rules configure

arguments.

- Added --enable-sandbox-mode switch. This switch will tell GTK3 to use

'native dialogs' so we can properly support Flatpak and similar containers.

- Added -—enable-cmake to automatically generate cmake CMakelists.txt files for

in-tree configured builds. Generating Xcode projects works, and this may

allow generation of MSVC project files in the future.

- Add --enable-desktop-files for creating and installing .desktop files on Unix.

- Added --enable/disable-html-docs

- Added --with/without-mpg123 (default=yes), makes MP3-decoding support optional

- Added --with/without-ogg-vorbis

- Added --with/without-flac (default=yes)

- Update --with[out]-lame, make no default

- Make jpeg and gif support default to no

- Make using libpng the default, fail unless explicitly disabled

- Make ALSA and Pulse default to enabled, make OSS default to disabled

- Make MIDI support disabled by default

- Make new 8580 filter default

- Removed --disable-hwscale, always check for OpenGL with GTK3, error out when

--disable-hwscale is used with SDL2

Properly report missing tools to generate docs:

- Fail on missing pdftex when PDF docs requested

- Checks for makeinfo and texi2dvi (from the texinfo package) and warns in the

configure output at the end if they are missing, but will still build VICE.

Check presence of other tools instead of silently not using them:

- Made dos2unix mandatory to avoid surprises

- Fail if building for Windows and `icotool` is missing. It can be obtained by

installing the `icoutils` package.

Some features have been deprecated and are now disabled by default:

- Added --enable-x64-image option to enable X64 image support, which is now

disabled by default.

- Added --with/without-fastsid switch to enable/disable the fastSID engine

(default is off).

** Monitor

----------

- Completely new binary remote protocol for debuggers. The older hack was

removed - see the documentation for details.

- -moncommands finally work as originally intended and supports all monitor

commands now. That means there are subtle differences in how certain things

work. one important thing is that by default it will use an initial break

point just after "reset".

- "-initbreak ready" can be used to place an initial wait for "ready", like

autostart does, or "-initbreak reset" to break just after reset.

For more details, read the documentation.

- ‘stop’ is no more ending up in recorded monitor command playback files

- Support `cd ~` to change cwd to $HOME

- Added 'mkdir' command

- Aadded 'rmdir' command

- Aadded "verify" and "bverify" commands to compare memory with a file

- Aadded optional address to the `screen` command

- `chis` shows the cycle count as well now

- Aadded option to configure the number of lines used for chis

- Aadded option to change the size of the scrollback buffer

- Added "dummy" command to enable or disable whether break- and watchpoints

trigger at dummy accesses or not.

- Check watchpoints in the order they were added, that makes the output in the

monitor less confusing when more than one watchpoint triggers at a time

- Show rasterline and cycle in both decimal and hex

- Add 'q' as a shorthand for 'quit'

- Improvements to the char/sprite display - use # over * for more contrast,

show the memory value(s) alongside binary view and fix bug showing multiple

sprites

- "list", "load" and "save" do now work with the filesystem device

- Drive numbers are now expected to be decimal

- Add monitor dump function to m6821 core

- Added info on head position/status to VIA io dump

- The display now (optionally) refreshes after each monitor command. this is not

cycle exact right now (only per scanline).

- Fixed accessing cartridge memory

- Improve expansion port mode status output

- Fix io command to shows IO space in address order

** vdrive

---------

- The filesystem device now uses shortened filenames by default to increase

compatibility.

- Disallow to silently overwrite existing files (optional, default is "no")

- Implemented "save @" to overwrite files (but do not simulate the well known

related bugs)

- Basic support for REL files in the File System Device. (Using P00 format, or

rather R00, is recommended)

- Fix some BAM track allocation issues in 8050/8250 disk images

- Avoid DISK FULL with 27 blocks free on .D80 / .D82.

- For D80/D82 images, when reading the directory, use the correct block to fetch

the disk's name from. This corrects a bad disk name in directory listings when

using a vdrive.

- Added proper creation of d1m, d2m and d4m images, the resulting image has 1

native partition spanning the entire disk.

- When formatting or validating an 8050 or 8250 image, the header sector wasn't

flagged as allocated. This resulted in VICE hanging when creating more than 80

files on the disk.

** True drive emulation

-----------------------

- More realistic modelling of the floppy drive wobble

- Changed lower limit for drive RPM to 260 and upper limit to 340 (ie +/- 40).

This is slightly more than possible with a real 1541.

** CPU fixes

------------

- Prevent IRQ/NMI from being served by the CPU when it has JAMed

- Perform all "dummy" accesses also in the non "sc" core

- Changed magic constant for LAX#imm to 0xEE as required(!) by wizball

** VDC fixes

------------

- Emulate VDC's internal buffer, issues with RFOVDC plasma part are fixed

- Several fixes for interlace, now vdcmodemania interlace parts all work and

soci VDC test #5 works

- Improved VDC-FLI handling, 3 byte attribute offset doesn't always apply,

fixes vdc-mcm demo and vdcmodemania fli part

- Fix issue with wrap around of VDC ram affecting vdcmodemania fli part

- Fixed VDC reg #28 bit #4, it sets the addressing mode, it does not actually

reflect the amount of ram installed.

- Correct aspect ratio for PAL or NTSC

- Screen is resized automatically on PAL/NTSC change

- Corrected size of saved screenshots or videos

- Correct handling of unused bits in some registers

- Corrections and enhancements to monitor "io d600" dump

** SID fixes

------------

- Fixed the filter saturation

- Noise writeback fixes

- Envelope regression fix

- Fix the coefficients for the resid external filter

- Rough implementation of the shift register and waveform zero bitfade

- Added 4 possible additional SID chips for a total of 8 (x64*/xscpu64/x128 only)

** C64 fixes

------------

- Enable/disable datasette/tapecart as needed on autostart

- Several new cartridge types added:

- The 'ZIPP-CODE 48' cartridge

- The polish 'blackbox v8' cartridge

- The polish 'Blackbox V3' cartridge

- The polish 'Blackbox V4' cartridge

- The polish 'Blackbox V9' cartridge

- The 'REX RAM-Floppy' cartridge

- The czech 'BIS-Plus' cartridges (2,4,8kb variants)

- The polish 'SD-BOX' cartridge

- The 'MultiMAX' cartridge

- The argentinian HERO bootleg cartridge

- The "GMod3" cartridge

- Action Replay fixes:

- When reading from IO1 area when AR5 is enabled, the value currently on the

bus will get written to the register, causing the famous bug/crash

- Handle the broken mode 0x22 and emit a warning on potentially problematic

reads

- Retroreplay fixes:

- Allow reading back the status of the freeze button

- Fix reads from IO1 when the clockport is not active.

- Handle the somewhat broken mode 0x22 like on real retro replay

- Nordic Power fixes:

- Fix writing to cartridge ram in mode 0x22

** C128 fixes

-------------

- FD2000/4000 work again, including burst mode

** VIC20 fixes

--------------

- Added handling for 32k cartridge files that contain blocks 1,2,3 and 5.

- Fixed megacart nvram addressing

- External audio filter fix

** PET fixes

------------

- Teach VICE where BASIC 1 keeps the current screen line address, so that

Autostart works.

- Made the UK business keyboard the default and moved it to the top of the list

of keyboards. This makes the default setup work with the keymaps and editor

ROM we have in VICE.

- For CRTC-less PETs, use screen setup values that work out to 60 Hz refresh.

- Tuned the display timing values for non-CRTC PETs

- Renamed PET ROMs to include their part number (in line with Zimmers). This

should make it more clear which editor ROMs exist.

- The 4032B model used a wrong Editor ROM

** SDL fixes

------------

- Implemented mouse pointer auto-hiding

- Remember last position in the main menu

- Several Keyboard mapping fixes:

- Fix (some) plus4 keymaps

- Some pet keymap fixes

- Updated/fixed symbolic mapping for italian keyboard

- Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (plus4)

- Added keymap from/for BMC64 (c64)

** GTK3 fixes

-------------

- Almost all causes of stuttering / audio glitches when interacting with the UI

have been resolved.

- Cairo is completely gone, all major platforms use their native rendering

backend

- Added hotkey "pause" to generate a screenshot from current canvas using a

generated filename in the current working directory

- Rearranged cartridge/io settings around a bit. not perfect yet, but probably

better than before

- Add optional hiding of VDC display

- Make double-clicking on the emulated screen switch fullscreen mode

- Alt+Enter will now also toggle fullscreen mode

- Added option to pause the emulation when settings dialog is open

- Remember not only the last directory but also the last file in file dialogs

- Show "Use Alt+M to disable mouse grab" in window title if mouse grab is

active

- Support 'StartMinimized'/-minimized

- Added 'restore window geometry' to UI and commandline to allow users to apply/

ignore the last position/size of the window(s) stored in vicerc/vice.ini.

- Allow for 8 'analog' controllers on Linux

- Added Alt+Shift+F12 VICII to switch border mode in x64sc

- Moved the netplay settings from the 'File' menu to the settings dialog

- Added 'Host' root node in the settings UI, move Autostart, Monitor, Netplay,

Snapshot/Event/Media recording directory and start-mode under that.

- Also move Host->Machine settings (CWD and JAM-action) under Host, remove the

Host->Machine node.

- Use workaround for GTKFileChooser's "Select" button not being active when

selecting/creating a directory.

- Several Keyboard mapping fixes:

- Added keymaps for THE64 keyboard

- Updated keymaps for pet graphical keyboard

- Fix shift+z/y in german positional mapping (c64)

- Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (plus4)

- Some tweaks to symbolic keymap for german layout (c64)

- Fix (some) plus4 keymaps

- Added positional keymap for Swedish keyboard

- Fix ctrl and cbm mapping (c128)

** macOS fixes

--------------

- VICE GTK performance on macOS is now excellent and we finally now recommend

the GTK build over the SDL build.

- macOS bindist now relies on macports rather than homebrew. With macports it’s

possible to build deps from source while targeting an older macOS version,

which allows us to continue to support macOS 10.9+.

- Re-enabled the bafflingly disabled working macOS joystick code

- Actual macOS game controller device names are now listed instead of 6x “Analog

joystick n”

** c1541 fixes

--------------

- Added some REL file support

- support for REL files to the c1541 COPY subcommand

- Add subcommand to show dir entry of a file, and all side sectors.

- Add support for SEQ and USR files for the -extract command

- Renamed `zcreate` command to `unzip`. 'unzip' (dissolve a zipcode archive)

sounds more logical than 'zcreate'. When we decide to also support creating

zipcode archives, a proper name for that could be 'zip' or 'zipcode'.

** petcat fixes

---------------

- Added missing basic v4 tokens for cbmII

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Thanks for the info. I can't see any changes on the serial port functions. With 3.4 I have still problems to address an external modem, sometimes RS232 is running pretty well with C64 terminal programs like ccgem but not stable enough. So I would like to test 3.5. Are there any improvements ?

And thanks for the great job. VICE is an excellent project.

dqh_ · 24. Dezember 2020

I don't know, so much was changed this year. Test and let us know! If there's a problem that you can write detailed steps to reproduce for, lodge a bug here and I will spend time on it.

muellerarmack · 24. Dezember 2020

Zitat von dqh_

I don't know, so much was changed this year. Test and let us know! If there's a problem that you can write detailed steps to reproduce for, lodge a bug here and I will spend time on it.

Great I'll test it the next days and make a detailed description in case of problems.

Merry Christmas

dqh_ · 24. Dezember 2020

Zitat von Retro-Nerd

Zitat von dqh_

Zitat von Retro-Nerd

Any chance that you guys add integer scaling for fullscreen? The CRT effect with scanlines still looks uneven.

What screen resolution are you using on the host machine? Looks fine on my machines but I use fairly high resolutions screens.

1440p, but it doesn't look good on 1080p neither. 1440p should look better imo, it's 288p*5 = 1440p.

You're not using Nearest neighbor filtering are you? It should be using bilinear filtering (the default)

Retro-Nerd · 24. Dezember 2020

It has nothing to do with filtering.The output image just isn't integer scaled. Hence the uneven scanlines look. Integer would be an exact multiple of the original C64 image (which leaves a small black border then, but it's "fixable" via a slightly border crop). Please check the Denise emulator, maybe then you unterstand what i mean. Integrer also means it would be a pixel perfect scaling

Look at the attached screenshots. Denise looks fine in 1440p, integer scaled. Even with a cropped border (to achieve mostly full screen without black border) it looks fine. GTKVice is slighly distorted (some lines seems darker due to the scaling).

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