Since it's (almost) Christmas, we are releasing a new official version of VICE: 3.6.
The NEWS file has a list of fixes and additions:
Code
- * Changes in Vice 3.6
- =====================
- We welcome to the team:
- - June Tate-Gans who added the dual screen mode (for x128) to the SDL UI.
- - Pablo Roldan aka durandal, who contributed improvements and fixes to the
- RS-232 emulation.
- ** general
- ----------
- - Warp mode status will no longer be saved in config files.
- - Increased autostart reliability.
- - Changing host audio settings no longer resets the emulated sound chip.
- - Added hardware flow control to the userport RS-232 emulation.
- - Added selection of control lines behaviour for userport RS-232 emulation.
- - Fixes to ACIA hardware flow control, DCD and DSR lines behaviour, register
- reset values.
- - (Re-)added tun/tap support for Ethernet emulation, including support for
- "capabilites", so it can work without root/Administrator rights
- - "Device Traps" and "True Drive Emulation" can now be selected per
- drive/device.
- - Various fixes related to keyboard mappings. For details please read
- https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/mailman/message/37380515/
- - Fixed problems related to Caps-Lock and Shift-Lock emulation
- - Added support for piping printer output and RS232 I/O through an external
- executable on Windows.
- - Fliplist (.vfl) support tweaked to be compatible with devices like sd2iec,
- pi1541 and Turbo Chameleon. Fliplists in the old format can still be loaded,
- newly created ones will always use the new format (see manual).
- - Removed pointless "dither" column from palette files and -format.
- - Some improvements in the 1520 plotter emulation.
- - Extend images directly from 35 to 40 and then 42 tracks, as other sizes are
- not used anywhere else in the world
- - More realistic implementation of tape wobble.
- - Fixed p64 wraparound.
- - Added option to write out the raw data produced by reSID (for debugging).
- - Made 48kHz the default for sound output, since that is what most modern stuff
- uses natively.
- - Log the random seed and added a commandline option to set a seed, useful to
- reproduce things that depend on randomness.
- - At exit log all resources with non default values, and a reconstructed
- commandline, which should make it easier for people that are reporting bugs.
- - when mounting Dxx GCR images, add a reasonable skew per track to make the
- disk layout a bit more realistic
- - Remove tearing in screenshots.
- ** build system
- ---------------
- - Remove linking to vice libraries for petcat and cartconv.
- - All targets can now be built separately (e.g. 'make x64sc').
- - Fixed building on cygwin.
- - removed support for building with embedded ROMs
- - Made the new 8580 filter implementation the default for configure.
- ** Joystick fixes
- -----------------
- - New Superpad64 emulation.
- - New spaceballs joystick adapter emulation.
- - New MultiJoy joystick adapter emulation.
- - New Inception joystick adapter emulation.
- - New Microflyte analog joystick emulation.
- - New userport SNES pad (Petscii) emulation.
- - New Trapthem joyport SNES pad emulation.
- - New Protopad emulation.
- - New plus4 Synergy 3-port joystick adapter emulation.
- - Extended Ninja joyport SNES pad adapter to 3 ports.
- - All SNES pad buttons are supported now.
- - Joystick adapters with more than 1 port are always mapped to the extra
- joysticks from now on.
- - Joystick adapters with only 1 port are mapped to the port they are attached
- to.
- - SIDcard joystick of the plus4 is now always mapped to extra joystick #4.
- - New autofire button support.
- - New virtual I/O simulation device for the joyport, allows pins to be changed
- by the user from the monitor.
- ** Userport fixes
- -----------------
- - Only one userport device can be attached to the userport at a time from now
- on.
- - New virtual I/O simulation device for the userport, allows pins to be changed
- by the user from the monitor.
- ** Tapeport fixes
- -----------------
- - Only one tapeport device can be attached at a time from now on.
- ** C64 fixes
- ------------
- - Added REX Ramfloppy loading & saving of the RAM contents.
- - Added support for "Hucky's EPROM Cartridge", implemented as a variant of the
- RGCD cartridge.
- - Added "Turtle Graphics II" cartridge emulation.
- - Added "IEEE Flash 64" cartridge emulation.
- - Added "Freeze Frame MK2" cartridge emulation.
- - Super Snapshot V5 fixes.
- - WarpSpeed emulation matches the behaviour of the real hardware better.
- - Renamed "H.E.R.O. Bootleg" cartridge type to "Drean".
- - Fixed REU floating bus behaviour (256KiB REU).
- - Removed GEORam sizes smaller than 512KiB - Those never existed.
- ** C128 fixes
- -------------
- - Added VDC interlaced rendering support
- - Added Interlaced Sync mode to VDC (Interlaced Sync and Video was already
- implemented) Both modes now work with the new interlace-aware renderers.
- - VDC memory mirroring behaviour improved.
- - VDC busy flag behaviour improved.
- - Fixed 2Mhz mode unconnected memory space reads.
- - Added missing SDL symbolic keymap for US keyboard
- ** VIC20 fixes
- -------------
- - Added VIC interlaced rendering support
- - Added support for .crt files
- - Added support for screenshots in native vic20 format
- - Added "VIC-1001" model
- - Don’t update VIC potx / poty registers more often than every 512 cycles.
- ** Plus4 fixes
- -------------
- - Added "jacint1 1MB Cartridge" emulation
- - Added "c264 magic cart" emulation
- - Added "Plus4 multi cart" emulation
- - Added support for .crt files
- ** PET fixes
- ------------
- - New datasette #2 emulation.
- - Added support for .t64 files
- - Monitor IO dump for CRTC improved with internal register dump, interlace
- status and layout fixes
- - Overhaul PET CB2 sound output sample generation.
- ** CBM2 fixes
- -------------
- - Fixed datasette emulation (only with .tap files right now)
- ** VSID fixes
- -------------
- - Fixed various issues with threading.
- - Implemented proper STOP of playback.
- ** C1541 fixes
- --------------
- - Add `bpoke` command: directly write one or more byte into a block.
- - Make the `chain` command accept a '[@unit:]filename' argument.
- - Make the `extract` command detect circular track/sector links.
- ** cartconv fixes
- -----------------
- - Added support for the new extended CRT V2 format, which now supports all
- other CBM computers (see manual for details).
- - Added support for C128, VIC20 and Plus4 cartridges.
- ** petcat fixes
- -----------------
- - correctly align (5 digit) line numbers.
- - Added support for Mega65 BASIC
- ** Monitor fixes
- ----------------
- - Make the `device` command switch to computer when not given an argument.
- - Add `warp [on|off|toggle]` command.
- - Fix not being able to delete the final character on a line with DEL.
- - Drive CPU emulation now catches up to main CPU automatically.
- - Snapshots autostarted from monitor will immediately update the screen
- (interlaced screens not fully supported).
- - Fixed various user input performance and consistency problems.
- - 'chis' command now prints a 12 digit cycle counter.
- - 'chis' command now works for drives
- - Fixed execution order of multiple -moncommands arguments.
- - Fixed single-stepping on "secondary" CPU (eg Z80 in x128).
- - Fixed Z80 disasssembler, all opcodes are supported now.
- - Make the CPU bank the default, not RAM.
- - In x64sc, fixed reading 0/1 when CPU bank is active.
- - Fixed display of multicolor sprites.
- - Fixed assembling indirect absolute JMP with zero page argument.
- ** SDL fixes
- ------------
- - New SDL2 dual window support (VDC in x128).
- - New automatic SDL2 host joystick hot-plug rescan.
- - New SDL2 rescan host joysticks menu item.
- - Removed unneeded items from some SDL menus.
- - New D67 image creation menu items.
- - Fixed relative paths in the SDL file/directory selection dialog.
- - New host joystick axis mapping support for emulated paddles and analog
- joysticks.
- - Mapping of host joysticks menu now shows what the pins are already mapped to.
- - Add application icons to SDL1.2 binaries.
- - Fixed display corruption and OpenGL detection on some machines
- ** GTK3 fixes
- -------------
- - Added bicubic rendering, which improves the look of a resized window with the
- CRT filter enabled.
- - Remove sandbox mode.
- - Fixed statusbar recording status widget display issues.
- - Fixed C128 function ROM settings.
- - Add setting colors of the monitor.
- - Add 'Cartridge -> Default cartridge' to settings. This allows the user to
- see the current default cartridge, unset it and set another cartridge as
- default.
- - Fix 'extend image' dialog.
- - Fix display of joystick names with non-ASCII glyphs.
- - Improve widgets setting file paths: use the directory of a file's path in
- dialogs as the default directory.
- - Media recording dialog: remember previously used audio/video codecs when
- starting a new recording.
- - Fix VSID not allowing .MUS files to be added to the playlist.
- - Allow unlimited host controllers for joysticks
- - Fix resetting of scroll position in RAM reset pattern view.
- - Fix loading 'vice.ini' inside a Windows bindist: load from the root directory,
- not the bin/ subdirectory.
- - Fix toggling pause mode when taking a quick screenshot.
- - Fix various layout issues in the settings.
- - Add 'Add current image to fliplist' and 'Clear fliplist' items to drive widget
- popup menu.
- - Remove userport joystick swapping.
- - Add swapping of controlport joysticks' emulated devices.
- - Add saving/restoring the 'fullscreen decorations' state.
- - Add joystick autofire settings.
- - Simplify userport devices settings.
- - Simplify tapeport devices settings.
- - Use checkboxes in menus for toggleable items.
- - Add 64x64 pixels icons.
- - Fix tape autostart via a tape's 'directory'.
- - Status bar: overhaul layout, add small row with LEDs for Pause/Warp.
- - Status bar: add support for dual-drive units.
- - Status bar: add support for two datasettes.
- - Status bar: fix directory popup menus to display the correct directory for
- dual-drive units and to autostart the correct file.
- - Status bar: display main/drive CPU JAMs in the messages row, rather than in
- the CPU/FPS widget, properly remove JAM messages on reset of
- affected device.
- - Add customizable keyboard shortcuts ('hotkeys'). Those who were missing the
- old WinVICE hotkeys can use gtk3-winvice-legacy.vhk
- - Immediately apply color changes of the monitor.
Downloads can be obtained from: https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/, MacOS binaries will follow soon, probably within 24 hours.
Merry Christmas and enjoy!