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Comprehensive Commodore Emulator update (v4.2.1) [message #142124] Sat, 01 April 2006 11:58 Go to previous message
Cameron Kaiser is currently offline  Cameron Kaiser
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The next version of the Comprehensive Commodore Emulator has been released,
which seeks to add emulator compatibility with vast numbers of Commodore
machines based on on-going research into their history, with regular version
announcements given at constant intervals.

* The TVGame 2000/3000 emulation has been improved with support for 7601
undocumented opcodes. This allows greater compatibility with onboard
software and corrects a bug with the lightgun aim where the emulated
console could crash.

* The DTV emulation core has been rewritten into a modular format allowing
"a la carte" updates for testing. In particular, the SID module now
supports linking with reSID (a separate project) to improve the sound, and
the colours are now adjustable for DTV2 users with a control panel. For
greatest fidelity, the "resistors" are now accessible as sliders for precise
manipulation. Please note that programs developed under unsupported modes
may no longer be operational on original hardware.

* IEC is now mappable to FireWire for external devices, allowing emulated
machines to access FireWire drives as disk drives. This is only supported
for solid-state drives and hard disks; burners may have timeouts during
data transfer and DV is not supported in this mode as it does not allow
LISTEN. In addition, USB drives (if they are named according to manual
convention) will be seen by the emulated disk system as individual floppies
and may be mounted on the fly. Reformatting may be needed depending on
true 1541 emulation settings.

* The HHC-4 emulator had problems driving CRT displays, or resolutions less
than the original unit's maximum display width. This has been corrected.
Display scaling is used where appropriate; OpenGL is required.

* The DOS version has been updated to allow direct REC access to appear as
calls to XMS. This allows an REU size theoretically as large as addressible
memory, but you should not have DOS loaded high or unpredictable
interactions may occur.

* SMP-capable ports will enable the CPU for disk drives to run on the other
CPUs if available. Due to limitations in the emulator scheduler, each CPU
must be dedicated per device.

* The Ultimax core is still unable to load or save in MiniBASIC. We have
eliminated interactions with the emulated cassette port output or the
direct DMA driver as causes on most ports. Please report any additional
suggestions you have for repairing this problem, as this bug is
longstanding. There is rudimentary support for adding an emulated serial
bus as a first-pass solution.

* The 6509 module now adds support for banks 32-47 where available.

* Universal binaries are now available for Intel Mac users.

This version has been tested on the following architectures. Binaries may
not be available for all systems.

- Microsoft Windows 98SE and higher, under Cygwin
- MS-DOS djgpp 32-bit
- Solaris
- AIX 4.1 or better
- HP/UX 10.20 or better
- Mac OS 9, under MPW
- Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher
- Coherent UNIX

The official download site is

http://www.floodgap.com/ccemu/

Please report all bugs and deficiencies. Thank you.

--
Cameron Kaiser * ckaiser@floodgap.com * posting with a Commodore 128
personal page: http://www.armory.com/%7Espectre/
** Computer Workshops: games, productivity software and more for C64/128! **
** http://www.armory.com/%7Espectre/cwi/ **
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