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cibomatto2002
March 30th, 2009, 16:27
Atari 400, 800, 600 XL, 800XL, 130XE, 5200 emulator for Windows, Dos, WinCE, BeOS and Linux has been updated recently. Changes:
New features:
- added Axlon and Mosaic RAM expansions for Atari 400/800;
- added emulation of 1400XL, 1450XLD, MIO and Black Box;
- added support of .PRO copy-protected disk images;
- implemented tape loading with variable bitrates;
- implemented cassette writing via hardware registers;
- added switching between NTSC and PAL color palettes;
- added emulation of XEP80 and a prototype 80 column card for the Atari 1090 (SDL only currently);
- added emulation of CX85 numeric keyboard (Java and SDL only);
- event recording added (-record, -playback): save your game walkthrough using the "-record mygame.dat" and later impress your friends by your game skills or highest score using the "-playback mygame.dat";
- NTSC Filter option added to UI;
- -directmouse added to SDL and X11 (used for -mouse pad or koala);
- monitor supports arrow keys - e.g. up-arrow for history;
- SDL: interpolated scanlines (use -scanlinesnoint to disable);
- SDL: added -mouse, -mousespeed, -grabmouse (also Alt+M);
- SDL: visual configuration of keyboard joysticks layout in the UI (F1 -> Controller Configuration -> Define layout) default mapping changed to 4,8,6,5 (joy0) and A,W,D,S (joy1);
- R: device can be serial-only, network-only or both (selectable);
- R: device now supported on MS Windows and Dreamcast as well;
- a completely new port to Java using NestedVM, running also as an applet;
- Falcon/TT: removed Devpac dependency in asm files (now gcc friendly).
Fixes:
- fix for "Ilusia" demo;
- better GTIA bug mode emulation;
- POKEY sound: nonlinear mixing (not enabled by default), two-tone filter;
- fixed POKEY registers: ALLPOT, IRQEN and STIMER;
- various Atari5200 fixes;
- fixed Atrax cartridge bank switching;
- fixed sound recording to WAV;
- -showspeed fixed, now shows speed <= 100% correctly;
- major source code cleanup, compiles with -pedantic etc.
- Save State: added support for Axlon and Mosaic (version increased to 5), fixed PBIM12 restoring, fixed PAGED_MEM error with POKEY, color palette restoring fixed;
- SDL: using DirectX driver on MS Windows (much faster), fixed stdout.txt on MS Windows, fixed broken Caps Lock key handling, -audio16 fixed.
- Dreamcast recognizes the TAB key;
- MS-Windows: Shift+Control fixes;
- dropped SVGAlib target - use SDL instead.

http://atari800.sourceforge.net/