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Hatari
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Release Notes
Following features are deprecated and will be removed in a future release:
- SDL 2.x "bUseSdlRenderer" config and "GPU scaling" GUI options
(after HW support for SDL2 is available widely enough)
- Hatari XBios(255) API enabled with the "--bios-intercept" option
(i.e. use "--natfeats" & "--cmd-fifo" options and "hconsole" instead)
- The old ~/.hatari configuration file location (use ~/.config/hatari instead)
- Less flexible command FIFO / remote socket API command variants:
- "hatari-shortcut screenshot" (use "hatari-debug screenshot <file>")
- "hatari-shortcut coldreset" (use "hatari-debug reset soft")
- "hatari-shortcut warmreset" (use "hatari-debug reset hard")
- "hatari-shortcut savemem" (use "hatari-debug statesave <file>")
- "hatari-shortcut quit" (use "hatari-debug quit [exit value]")
Development version
-------------------
API changes:
- "--avirecord" option requires now bool argument to enable AVI
recording. This is to support skipping recording of the TOS boot
(using option <event> prefix to enable it later)
- Config file "nExceptionDebugMask" option values for "dsp" and "autostart"
items has changed (one should use <event> prefix for latter instead)
- Configuration file "Debugger" section "bSymbolsAutoLoad" (boolean)
option changed to a "nSymbolsAutoLoad" (integer) one. Default is
the same (program symbols loaded on debugger invocation)
- Debugger accepts only single quotes ('') as expression (e.g. symbol
or register name) markers, due to double quotes ("") being used
now as string argument markers
Build / dependency changes:
- Support for building Hatari with SDL3 in addition to SDL2
- Support for building Hatari as Retroarch / libretro core
- Libarchive to support more archive formats than Zlib
- CMake outputs status for all "configure" (helper script) options
- More fine-grained build debug options
Emulation improvements:
- Floppy disks:
- Built-in support for IPF images (based on the decoder code from MAME).
There is no support for CTR images, and the code might have problems
with certain disk images, i.e. it is recommended to still use the
original capslib in case of problems.
Emulator improvements:
- CLI options:
- Fix: delayed --log-level / --trace options effect on Hatari init
- Both "" and "none" can be used to disable devices that are enabled
by providing a <file> or <dir name> (revert v2.6.1 API change)
- "event" prefixes support for a subset of options (listed in manual).
They delay applying specified option until given emulation event.
E.g. to fast-forward until program starts (from GEMDOS HD),
use: "--fast-forward boot:on --fast-forward prg:off"
- New "--symload" option for specifying when program symbols are loaded
- New "--vsync" option to enable screen update vsyncing
- Hatari exits with return value 1 on option errors
- Stricter validation of integer option values
- SDL GUI:
- Fix: host mouse sync when window is left with mouse button pressed
- Fix: allow exit from text edit mode when using just joystick
- Fix: do not show recording in progress, if starting it failed
- Audio + video recording functionality moved to its own dialog
- Number field values can now also be typed in
- GEMDOS HD:
- Fix: "Show parent" items missing from TeraDesk folder windows
- Fix: Curly braces are valid GEMDOS file name characters
- Fix: Incorrect file match when (valid) file name contains '+'
- When Atari file name matches multiple host files, prefer
(potentially) truncated file name matches over ones where
invalid chars have (potentially) been replaced with '+'
- Increase max DTA cache size + warn on larger increases
- Recording:
- Also sound recording shows recording time in Hatari titlebar
- VDI mode:
- Support 8-bit VDI mode (up to 800x600@256) on TT & Falcon
- Allow VDI mode use also with TOS v4, but warn about its stability
- Virtual INF file (used with autostart/TOS-resolution options):
- Fix: resolution setting for EmuTOS with saved Falcon EMUDESK.INF
- Fix: Boot drive window specified in the virtual INF file when
GEMDOS HD has no existing INF file, works now also with EmuTOS
- Support (--tos-res) resolution setting also for Falcon machines,
and new tclow/tcmed/tchigh values for Falcon TC modes
- NatFeats:
- New NF_CYCLES call to retrieve (unsigned) 32-bit cycle counter
- Tracing:
- "event" option for tracing option changes on events
- Debugger:
- Fix: dysfunctional WinUAE CPU core disasm wrapper and
stack overwrites with long symbol names in disassembly
- Fix: separate arguments output by "echo" command with a space
- Fix: breakpoint options missing from Hatari debugger state save
- String arguments (e.g. to echo/struct commands) can be quoted
with double quotes ("")
- Add ':print' option for annotating conditional breakpoints
- Debugger input file commands can be split to multiple lines
by adding '\' to end of line to continue it
- Increase max lenght of accepted debugger file commands to 4k
- Add "--memconv" option to enable locale conversion for non-ASCII
Atari chars in memory output from the debugger commands, and
for "--conout" output
- Profiler skips "profile stats" output when entering debugger,
if it showed (there was data for) a backtrace, and does not
anymore print info on its internal workings
- Symbols:
- Always ignore unnamed symbols (= note instead of warnings)
- Symbol autoloading loads all symbol types, not just TEXT symbols
- Symbol offsets for "symbols prg" are taken from program basepage
(user given values are ignored)
- *.sym files supported also with "symbols prg" command
- Best-effort support for using demangled C++ symbols for
breakpoints and other debugger commands
- Mac:
- AVI recordings & screenshots default to same dir like on other OSes
- Windows:
- Open Windows console automatically for debugger
Tools:
- Profile data includes more detailed Hatari configuration information
- Profile post-processor accepts "fnmatch" patterns for all
options that take symbol names
Testing additions:
- Test for verifying parsing of all Hatari options
- Test for verifying profiling & breakpoint chaining functionality,
and output from the "uae" + "ext" disassembly engines
Documentation:
- (Very) obsolete French manual page removed
Version 2.6.1 (2025-08-15)
--------------------------
Unintended API change:
- GEMDOS HD emulation is disabled from CLI by providing "none" as
<dir> instead of an empty string, same as with device <file> options
Emulation improvements:
- MegaSTE:
- When using cache, only compare 24 lowest bits of address
- Don't update cache after a bus/address error
- Falcon:
- Create a fast ram buffer (_FRB) cookie when running with TT RAM
to fix a problem with floppy disk access
- Video:
- Add support for STE 224 bytes overscan in medium resolution
- Set correct resolution in Shifter when accessing $FF8260 as word
(fix regression in Hatari 2.6.0)
- VME for MegaSTE / TT:
- VME memory regions should return bus error when no VME board is present
Emulator improvements:
- Windows:
- Fix: late locale init messes debugger readline history handling
- GEMDOS HD:
- Fix: caches were not always flushed on writing to emulated memory
- Debugger:
- Fix: show DEL character as non-printable in memdumps
- CPU/FPU settings:
- Disallow 68881/68882 FPU in 040/060 mode
- Config / SDL GUI:
- Default screenshot save directory override option
- SDL GUI asks for file name when starting AVI recording
- Fit Hatari screen dialog to smallest required size and
log errors on invalid dialog sizes
- CLI options:
- GEMDOS HD & screenshot dir options accept only existing directories
Fixed demos:
- A Letter To Sommarhack by Effect (write word at $FF8260)
- Partial fix for Double Rez Trouble by DHS (med res overscan lines)
Fixed programs:
- Spectre 3.0 (Hatari v2.6 regression, MegaSTE cache)
Version 2.6.0 (2025-06-22)
--------------------------
Option changes:
- "--trace" option "vme" item renamed to "scu"
- "--vme none/dummy" option removed as (now) redundant
Emulation improvements:
- 030+MMU:
- Workaround to correct prefetch data after bus errors
- DSP:
- Fix: JMP can also form a long interrupt instruction
- VME/SCU:
- TT / MegaSTE SCU registers and interrupts implemented
- Falcon Videl:
- Refresh rate of monochrome monitor is now correctly detected with 71 Hz
- MegaSTE:
- Add support for CPU Freq / Cache control at $FF8E21 when running
in cycle accurate mode. This gives cycle exact memory accesses
when running at 16 MHz, as well as emulation of the external 16 KB cache
- SCSI:
- Fix REQUEST SENSE for SCSI v2
- Serial Ports:
- Update values of DCD and CTS signals for the RS232 port connected
to the MFP (as reported by the underlying OS)
- Add support for using TCCLK as RTxCB clock for the Atari TT's SCC
- Video:
- Improve support for 4 pixel hardscroll by stopping shifter with
$FF8260=3. Also handle $FF8261.
- MFP:
- Fix counter when timer is stopped/restarted while counting from 1 to 0
Emulator improvements:
- SDL-GUI (and config options):
- Improvements to GUI font characters
- Add separate option for enabling/disabling >=030 CPU data cache
- Fix: file selector exit with keyboard
- Windows:
- Open console window for error and help output, so that Windows
users can actually see them
- Keyboard / TOS localization:
- Symbolic key mapping improved for different TOS language versions
- Made it possible to use a mapping file with fallback to scancode mapping
- New "--fast-forward-key-repeat" option for key repeat
- (EmuTOS v1.4) Catalan country code support
- Memory snapshots:
- Fix: re/store all relevant YM2149 & MMU state variables
- Joysticks:
- Fix: segfault with negative joystick indexes
- GEMDOS HD:
- Fix: Fattrib() call on a directory
- Fix: Return correct attrib for volume labels in FsFirst()
- Fix: Fsnext() calls with DTAs having different attribs,
when DTA is not from preceding Fsfirst() but earlier one
- Fix: Handle additional '*' chars at end of file mask
- Fix: Dfree() total/free on really large disk, free on Mac/BSD
- SCC:
- Fix: invalid channel B file close on uninit
- SCSI:
- Add CLI + config file option for (per ID) SCSI version
- Command FIFO:
- Fix crash when FIFO gets command right at Hatari start
- Debugger:
- Fix: DSP RESET instruction tracing
- Similarly to Atari program symbols override, load TOS symbols on
TOS load, if autoloading is enabled and <tos>.sym file is present
- Add "find" command for searching CPU memory contents
- Add "struct" command to better show contents of program's structures
- Variable & debug symbol names can be given directly also to load,
save, memwrite and register commands in addition to numeric values
- File name completion for commands having optional file name args
- Symbol name completion for "loadbin", "savebin" & "dspsymbols" commands
- Align "memdump" character representation also when line is not full
- Show also non-ASCII Atari chars in debugger memory content output
- Add 'c' (character) argument type support for "memwrite" command
- CPU disassembly shows resulting relative branch addresses
- "dspreg" command shows also stack contents
- When disassembling, translate logical addresses to physical ones if MMU
is enabled
- Tracing:
- GEMDOS Dsetpath() + Frename() calls included to "os_base" traces
- PC value added to more traces
Build changes:
- Get rid of and warn about VLAs (variable length arrays), as
VisualStudio does not support them
- Removed the "--disable-small-mem" configure option (the small mem mode
is stable now, uses less memory and even still seems to be at least as
fast as the other mode, so it is the one and only default mode now)
Tools:
- gst2ascii:
- Fix: ignore configured types also with MINT+ELF symbols
- Fix: weak ELF BSS/DATA symbols were handled as weak TEXT symbols
- Profile data post-processor:
- Fix: first costs assigned wrong when profile does not start on symbol
- tos-tester:
- Improved support for testing Hatari bool options
Fixed demos:
- Little -ME- Demo by Overlanders : when running in MegaSTE mode the 3D parts
will switch to 16 MHz and use the MegaSTE's 16 KB external cache
Fixed programs:
- Voxx, both demo & free full version (DSP JMP instruction)
- Ultimate Virus Killer (GEMDOS HD, "***.***" file mask)
- JAM (stuttering sound with monochrome monitor in Falcon mode)
- Linux, user-space program crashes (prefetch with 030 MMU)
Fixed games:
- Ready Steady Bang! (GEMDOS HD Fattrib())
- STDOOM (MegaSTE 16Mhz cache tag bug)
Version 2.5.0 (2024-04-18)
--------------------------
Removed features:
- The "--bpp" command line option and related code (i.e. the rendering
functions for 16 bits-per-pixel host screens) have been removed
since almost all recent hardware should support 32 bpp nowadays
Configuration changes:
- In hatari.cfg, section [RS232], rename:
- sSccBOutFileName => SccBOutFileName
- bEnableSccB => EnableSccB
Emulation improvements:
- MFP:
- When IRQ is cleared on one of the 2 ACIAs, do not clear IRQ on
the MFP side if the IRQ is still set on the other ACIA
- Blitter:
- Ignore byte accesses to blitter registers defined as word only
- TT/DMA:
- Update sound FIFO on each HBL (like on STE)
- CPU:
- Sync CPU core with WinUAE CPU core 5.2 beta
- Improved 68000 cycle accuracy (IPL, STOP, TRACE)
- Fix IACK timings
- Return vector=24 if a spurious interrupt happens during the IACK sequence
- 68010 DIV overflow undefined flags update
- NMI handling
- MMU/generic CPU mode autovectored interrupt support
- Fix 68060 MMU MOVEM.L (An)+,<regs> if regs contain An
- 68040/060 MMU fault handler bug fix for MOVEM
- Fix FSINCOS and FMOVE.L/FMOVEM.L register in disasm
- Some softfloat fixes
- Fix stacked PC for branch/jump instructions doing a bus error
- DSP:
- Fix: effective address with modifier=modulo
- Add host interface initialisation
- Add host received data interrupt
- Improve bootstrap support
- Video:
- Add support for 4 pixel hardscroll on STF by stopping shifter with
$FF8260=3 (new technique by Troed/Sync)
- In monochrome mode correctly mask the video address to 22 or 24 bit
space depending on the machine type. Prevent crash in some cases when
Hatari is compiled with "small mem" option
- Fix VBLANK location, should be line 308 on 50 Hz (was 307 before)
- SCC 85C30 (for MegaSTE, TT and Falcon)
- Major rewrite of most of the code, should support all modes used by TOS
and EmuTOS or when accessing SCC's registers directly
- Support all serial ports as well as LAN port for MegaSTE and TT
- Joypads:
- STE joypad emulation now supports analog / paddle input, too
- FDC:
- For IPF/CTR support, caps library has a bug that resets FDC's TR and DR
on warm reset (68000's reset command). We keep/restore the value ourselves
- IDE:
- Fixed emulation of the HOB (High Order Byte) of the last LBA48 value
- LBA28 capacity announcement is now correctly limited to 2^28-1
- Falcon:
- DMA sound : fix SNDINT/SOUNDINT values (0=playing, 1=idle) and
interrupts on TAI / GPIP7 for start of frame / end of frame
- Preliminary support for more vertical refresh rates (50,60 or 71 Hz)
based on Videl's registers $FF82C0 (VCO) and $FF82A2 (VFT) (was only 50 Hz before)
Emulator improvements:
- TOS:
- Fix: set TOS country code from CountryCode setting, not Language one
- Add "pl" (Poland) & "ro" (Romania) language options for EmuTOS
- RTC:
- CLI/config option to override NVRAM/RTC year, useful with
applications that do not handle current dates
- Joystick/Joypad support:
- Fix: joystick button 2 space key emulation "autofiring"
- Keyboard emulation support for all STE joypad buttons/keys
- Support for re-mapping joystick buttons
- GEMDOS HD:
- Fix: Fread/Fwrite combination on Windows
- Fix: Frename() should fail when target exists
- Support up to 64 simultaneously open files (earlier limit was 32)
- Similarly to TOS, allow programs to write to a file they have opened
as read-only (by opening all writable files as read/write). As this
could fail with real HW under MiNT/MagiC, show warning about it
- Screen:
- Support for screenshot using .NEO or .XIMG format
- Add option "--screenshot-format <x>" (<x> = png or bmp or neo or ximg)
- Memory Snapshot:
- Add some missing variables to the savestate
- Logging/tracing:
- "os_base" trace option outputs now also dir create/delete + file delete
calls (in addition to earlier pexec/pterm & file create/open calls)
- Separate CPU video cycles under its own "cpu_video_cycles" trace flag
- Suppress repeats of identical log & trace messages by default
(show only their count) and add "--msg-repeat" option to toggle that
- Debug symbol handling:
- Fix: invalid free on freeing loaded GNU debug symbols
- Fix: Do not limit "A" type (constant) symbol values to 24-bit
- Add support for reading symbols from new MINT+ELF binaries
- Add support for demangled C++/a.out symbols (which can be
very long and contain almost any characters)
- "<name>.sym" file beside program file acts as its symbols override
- Add optional argument for "symbols <name|code|data>" commands,
to limit listed symbols to ones with the given substring
- Improved support for weak symbols (important for C++ code)
- Symbols with duplicate addresses are skipped on symbols loading
- Disassembler:
- Fix: CPU core disassembler crashes with longer symbol names
- When entering debugger with 'history' enabled, disassembly address
defaults to an address in history preceding the PC register value
(to give more context than disassembling directly from PC)
- Support for disassembly output options working also for CPU core
disassembler, in addition to external disassember output
- More flags to change the disassembly output for CPU core
(upper/lower case, show memory content, show EA, ...)
- The built-in "external" disassembler has been replaced by a
disassembler provided by the Capstone library (version >= 4.0)
- Debugger:
- Fix: free all debugger allocations before exit
- Fix: memdump command always outputs only requested number of items
- Add address width (addr).[bwl] support to expression evaluation
- History skips address repeats (e.g. with "stop" instruction)
- Breakpoint ":quiet" option inhibits also extra output when
":file" option debugger command file is parsed
- Line-A and line-F exceptions can be caught with "--debug-except"
option (in addition to breakpoints)
- Add "echo" command with escape handling, so that one can e.g.
use "echo \ec" to clear (ANSI) terminal before breakpoint
output from a debugger command file
GUI improvements:
- SDL GUI:
- Fix: mouse not visible in floppy disk dialog when it is invoked
from a keyboard shortcut in fullscreen mode
- Fix: fileselector scrollbar works with mouse also in SDL2
scaled / fullscreen window
- Support for joystick button mapping + space key vs. jump option
- Mac GUI:
- Accept all file names as Mac file selector does not show
a list of the accepted file name extensions any more
Tools:
- gst2ascii:
- Support for new MINT+ELF symbols
- "-o" option is split to "-f" and "-g" options
- "-s" option to skip symbols with duplicate addresses
- By default filters same symbols out as Hatari debugger
- This can be reverted with new '+' option variants (+l +g +s)
- More concise listing of the duplicate symbols
- Profile data post-processor:
- Does not show (most) of symbol conflict messages any more
(unless '--verbose' option is given)
- When address has multiple symbols which names are thought
as C/C++ symbols, prefer shortest one
- Support for symbol files + Hatari profile data containing
demangled C++ symbols
- Support weak symbols (used for C++ template methods)
- Overtly long C++ symbol names are shortened in callgraphs
(unless '--full-symbols' option is given)
- Symbols given for "--only", "--ignore" and "--ignore-from"
are interpreted as match patterns (with '*?[]' wildcards)
- Only single arrow shown between callgraph nodes when
"--compact" option is used
- m68k-instructions: (new)
- Tool for printing m68k instruction breakpoints & opcode info
Build improvements:
- Fix: CPU core compile warnings (WinUAE upstream)
- Fix: groff/troff warnings for manual pages
- Use cmake config file provided by the SDL2 library instead of trying
to detect the SDL2 library ourselves (fixes compilation on macOS)
- Removed unused sources for HD6301 emulation
- Hatari can now be compiled with emscripten, too
Fixed demos:
- Chaos A.D. : bad sound (Falcon DMA sound interrupts)
- Little -ME- Demo end part by Overlanders : black screen after a while (IACK timing)
- Monscape : bad sound (TT/DMA FIFO update)
- Time Slice by Defence Force : monochrome demo (crash when Hatari
is compiled with "small mem" option)
- What If by Troed/Sync : 4 pixel hardscroll on STF by stopping shifter
- Oergs, Terrorize your soul, Zero Three Zero demos work now also
when MMU is enabled
Fixed programs:
- FlaySID (DSP host handling)
- AFM sound with equalizer enabled (DSP modulo)
- FreeMiNT (use SCC counter at start to detect the SCC clock freq)
- Spectre 3.0 Macintosh emulator (stacked PC in case of bus error)
- m68k-Linux works (again) with 040/060 emulation (MMU)
- m68k-NetBSD does not crash on boot any more (MMU)
Fixed games:
- F29 Retaliator using CTR/IPF format (handle FDC's TR reset bug in caps library)
- MIDI (MFP IRQ clear) handling:
- Bad Mood
- Midi Maze
- Midi Maze II
- Oxyd 2
- Work now also when MMU is enabled:
- Gravon (demo)
- Killing Impact
- Moongame
Version 2.4.1 (2022-08-03)
--------------------------
Emulation improvements:
- Sound:
- Much more precise function to convert CPU clocks to YM2149 clocks
in the case where YM2149 doesn't use the same source clock as the CPU
(fixes e.g. some STE sound glitches in BLSPLAY.TTP)
- Video:
- Fix regression in TT mode: Update video counter again on each HBL
(fixes e.g. Hextracker when run in TT mode)
Emulator improvements:
- DSP:
- Avoid small extra overhead on non-Falcon machines when DSP config
option is set
- Misc:
- Fix memory leaks on PNG save and GEMDOS HD program load
- All Hatari output (outside of debugger) uses now appropriate
logging and trace functions so that they can be controlled
- VDI mode:
- Fix: VDI width needs to be aligned to (at least) 16-pixels
- Fix: a possible crash with (default) SMALL_MEM build config
(when ST program sets a bad video base address)
- Statusbar:
- Show "Linux" when running Linux directly with --lilo
- Debugger:
- Fix: to duplicate symbol name removal
- Fix: all IDE trace output did not go to trace file
- Like with rest of debugger, profiler responses go
now to stderr (not stdout)
Documentation:
- Document Hatari outputs and their controls in debugger manual
Version 2.4.0 (2022-07-09)
--------------------------
Removed features (that were marked as deprecated in earlier releases):
- Support for the SDL 1.2 library (i.e. SDL 2.x should be used instead)
- Support for building Hatari for Windows CE has been removed, too, since
this was relying on version 1.2 of the SDL library.
- The old UAE CPU core (i.e. the new WinUAE CPU core is now always used)
- Python v2 support in Python scripts (Python 2 was end of life in 2020)
Emulation improvements:
- Internal timers:
- Rewrite the internal timers used to emulate delays/events/mfp timers
(gain ~10% on average, up to 60% in very specific cases)
- CPU:
- Improve FPU emulation (exceptions, unimplemeted instructions, fsincos)
- Improve FPU emulation in softfloat mode
- Improve IPL timing update in various opcodes
- Faster emulation of 68000 in cycle exact mode (gain ~7%)
- MFP:
- Use the new internal timers for MFP timers
- Improve accuracy when reading MFP's Timer Data Register
- More accurate emulation by processing all internal timers first before
reading/writing any MFP register (was previously delayed after processing
the current CPU instruction, which was too late in some cases)
- Video:
- Fix position for detecting when VBLANK should be disabled in 50 Hz and 60 Hz
- DSP:
- Improved interrupts handling and SSI (from Previous NeXT emulator)
- Sound:
- Improve accuracy of YM2149's sample generation by using the main
CPU clock as a reference for all timings (syncsquare effect as used
in recent maxYMiser v1.53)
- Use specific memory functions when doing DMA for STE and Falcon sound
(don't generate bus error when pointed memory is not present)
- Improve value of MFP GPIP bit 7 for DMA sound in the case of STE/TT
(video mono XOR dma sound xsint)
- Use 2 different signals SOUNDINT and SNDINT for Falcon (connected to
MFP GPIP7 and MFP Timer A input)
- FDC:
- Stall the CPU during 32 cycles when DMA FIFO is filled/transferred
- SCSI:
- Improve MODE SENSE, add REPORT LUNS support
- IKBD:
- support deltax/deltay in command $A (set mouse keycode mode)
and threshold x/y in command $B (set mouse threshold)
Emulator improvements:
- TOS support:
- Support 1024k EmuTOS images also on TT & Falcon
- Add country code option to select EmuTOS language, keyboard
layout and screen refresh rate on Mega/ST/STe machines (ones
lacking NVRAM)
- MIDI support:
- Fix: PortMidi rejects Hatari MIDI events
- Fix: MIDI IRQ needs to be re-enabled on MIDI device change
even when there's no reset
- Support for matching PortMidi device name by prefix when
there's no exact full match
- RS232:
- The RS232 receiver code has been rewritten to use polling instead
of using a thread. This should avoid deadlocks on BSD/macOS systems
when shutting down or reconfiguring the RS232 settings.
- TT/Falcon:
- Increase max TT-RAM amount to 1024 MiB
- Separate config + CLI options to override NVRAM language and
keyboard layout settings
- NVRAM language default is taken from the LANG env variable
- Falcon:
- Fix: restore zoom mode correctly when loading snapshots
- Correct also smaller specified memory amounts to valid ones
- Microphone emulation now uses SDL2 instead of PortAudio
- MegaSTE/TT:
- Add VME/SCU registers "--vme <none|dummy>" access option
(Linux needs "none" option and TOS v2 / v3 need "dummy" one
until Hatari implements real VME/SCU register emulation)
- VDI mode:
- Relax VDI mode width alignment from 128/planes to
16/planes, and height alignment from 16 to 8 pixels
- SDL GUI:
- Fix: ignore unrecognized events in file selector
(buttons could be incorrectly shown as selected)
- Fix: avoid key release event from SDL GUI closing leaking to emulation
- Do VDI mode size changes in (faster) 16 pix increments,
and prevent user seeing invalid VDI mode sizes
- Fine-tune CPU dialog texts and keyboard shortcuts
- GEMDOS HD:
- Fix: clear GEMDOS Fread / Fwrite errors
- Fix: Allow GEMDOS tasks to use other tasks' file handles
- Command line:
- Support "off" as alias for "none" when disabling DSP, FPU,
Joysticks and VME, for consistency with HW on/off options
- NatFeats:
- Fix: freeze with NF_STDERR when string is empty or unterminated
- Debugger:
- Fix: profile header so that profile data post-processor knows how
to parse built-in WinAUE CPU core ("uae") disassembly output, not
just "ext" disassembler output
- Repeat CPU & DSP "step" and "next" commands on Enter
- Output PC location in CPU & DSP disassembly
- More readable "variables" command output
- Add "PConSymbol" variable for breaking on symbol addresses
- Add "mmu" and "vme" options for "info" command
- Add "scc" and "vme" (VME/SCU reg access) tracing support
- Setting trace to "none" disables also xconout console output
enabled by "os_base" trace option
- "next subreturn" will run until current function returns,
even if function calls other functions before that
- Symbol loadind code is now shared between debugger "symbols"
command & "gst2ascii" tool, and it can now read also long
symbol names from Pure-C debug information
- Auto-detection for whether section offsets should be used
when loading symbol information
- MIDI trace options are split to "midi" (device & MIDI events)
and "midi_raw" (IRQ and register read/write access). Trace
logging added also for MIDI byte writes, not just reads
- Trace options are listed in alphabetical order
- Show loaded symbols in CPU core disassembly
- Windows:
- Next/prev drive change buttons added to SDL GUI file select dialog
Build/configure:
- SMALL_MEM option is enabled by default
Tools:
- Add (SDL2 specific) "listkeys" key mapping helper back
- TOS boot tester: support 1024k EmuTOS images, misc fixes
Documentation:
- Compatibility updates, especially for 060 programs that need
FPSP060.PRG for missing instructions emulation
Fixed demos:
- Hackabonds Demo (wrong vblank detection)
- We Were @ HD version under GEMDOS HD (file handle access)
Fixed programs:
- maxYMiser FM v1.53 by gwEn (support for syncsquare effect)
Fixed games:
- Chambers of Shaolin : DMA sound was wrong in STE mode with 1 MB RAM
(mfp gpip bit 7)
- Super Hang On : fix flickering raster colors (bclr #0,$fffffa0f sometimes
happened at the same time timer C expired)
Version 2.3.1 (2020-12-27)
--------------------------
Emulation:
- CPU:
- Fix: unneeded extra prefetch for movem in 68020/30 cpu
(regression in v2.3)
- DSP:
- Fix: master clock use for crossbar/DSP Handshake mode
(partial regression in v1.6)
- Fix: hostport PORTB interrupt handling
Emulator:
- ACSI/IDE/SCSI handling:
- Fix: IDE crash when switching to Falcon mode at run-time
(regression in v2.3)
- Fix: No error dialog on IDE image mount errors
- Fix: Duplicate disk image mount failure handling
- TOS support:
- Fix: TOS 2.07 (Sparrow TOS) support
(regression in v2.3)
- Hatari window handling:
- Fix: Hatari window disappearing from Python UI
when Hatari changes its framebuffer size
(SDL2 specific)
- macOS GUI:
- Fix: FPU setting doesn't work when GUI runs in French
Python UI:
- Several fixes (see its own release-notes.txt)
- Requires now Gtk v3.22 or newer
Tools:
- Fix: assert in hatari_profile (profile post-processor)
with relative symbols
Documentation:
- Add PortMidi info to devices dialog section in manual
- Updated compatibility documentation
Fixed Falcon programs:
- Music missing in H2O game, in Running game main screen,
Stocasto demo and Epidemic music disk
(crossbar/DSP handshake mode)
- Lockup demo freezing at startup
(DSP hostport PORTB interrupt handling)
- Several demos (Cruor 96k, Hmmm..., Keff, Payback 2015) and games
(Beats of Rage, Capy, Confusion preview 2, Men at War preview,
Moonspeeder preview 2, Neurobot, Pacmania X68000, Slippery Sam
and Sokoban by Fun) not starting with TOS4 or EmuTOS unless MMU
was enabled (unneeded extra prefetch in movem)
- Built-in Obsolescence demo, Delmpaint app and Sidetracked GFA
musicdisk had other issues also with MMU under TOS4 or EmuTOS
(unneeded extra prefetch in movem)
Version 2.3.0 (2020-11-28)
--------------------------
Emulation:
- FDC / Disk :
- Support for MegaSTE DIP switch register $FF9200
(set floppy drive to HD by default on MegaSTE/TT/Falcon)
- support for DD/HD mode on MegaSTE at $FF860E
(when FDC is set to HD mode, reading DD floppies will fail)
- Support for the 'Disk Change' (DC) signal on TT machines on TT's MFP GPIP4
- Fix: IDE disks with sector size > 512 bytes
- Fix: IDE controller is now always available in Falcon mode, even if
no hard disks have been configured.
- CPU:
- Update CPU core to latest WinUAE 4.4.0 beta : full support for
undocumented fields in 68000 bus/address error stack frames, as well as
CCR flags for most of the 680x0 instructions (using a cpu tester program
on the real hardware that checks all possible opcodes' combinations)
- 68030 MMU hardware bus error support + various fixes
- FPU fixes
- Video:
- Improved timing when setting Vsync signal
(same place where video counter is reloaded)
- Handle screen where vertical DE signal is completely disabled
- Better start/end position for the VBlank signal at 50Hz and 60Hz
- Sound:
- Add a better filter for downsampling the internal 250 kHz signal, should
give better results when the YM2149 outputs high frequency sounds
- Fix microwire mask shifting when CPU runs > 8 MHz
- MFP :
- Rewrite MFP code to handle several MFP objects and add support
for the TT's 2nd MFP (not all TT's MFP signals are emulated yet)
- Improved Falcon's DMA sound interrupt on GPIP7 and AER
- Blitter:
- Large rewrite of the blitter's core, improving cycle accuracy and
handling the complex cases where xcount=1 and nfsr=1. Code is slightly
smaller and closer to the logic of the real hardware
- Handle restart in non HOG mode when the CPU uses a RMW instruction
(eg TAS)
- Improve access to memory regions that would generate a bus error
for the CPU
- Emulate additional RTC/NVRAM registers
- megaSTE should start at 8 MHz, not 16 MHz
Emulator:
- Miscellaneous:
- Fix: freeze at Hatari exit and RS-232 device file changes,
when device file(s) are FIFO(s)
- Fix: when autostarting programs without pre-existing INF file,
enable blitter also with EmuTOS
- Use floppy track's size in bytes to detect DD/HD/ED
(instead of counting sectors)
- Add --lilo debug option for more convenient m68k Linux loading
- Config file handling:
- Support config file values with '=' in them
- Skip reading global config file if HATARI_TEST environment
variable is set
- Memory handling:
- Memory snapshot version increase due to FDC changes
(i.e. old snapshots won't work with new version)
- Accept 10MB as valid ST-RAM amount (max on real MegaSTE/TT machines)
and correct invalid Falcon ST-RAM amounts
- Fix: 24-bit address mode change while emulation is running
(triggered e.g. when TT-RAM is enabled for TT)
- HD images:
- Fix: run-time IDE byte swap change requires IDE re-init
- Fix: TOS booting from A: although SCSI drive was enabled
- Support read-only HD image files, and show error dialogs
for image file open/lock issues
- GEMDOS HD emulation:
- Support FASTLOAD program flag with GEMDOS HD
- GEMDOS HD emulation cartridge assembly functionality is moved almost
completely to emulator side. Fixes Atari side error handling when program
file is not readable, and TOS stack overflows in some rare cases
- Detect DTA re-use to reduce DTA cache usage, grow cache on
demand and give warning if its entries need to be re-cycled
(= cache max size is reached)
- Invalid DTA in Fsnext() return -ENMFIL, like TOS does
- Fix: skip non-existing host files on FSnext() instead
of returning an error (latter broke directory listings)
- Fix: Dsetpath/Dgetpath empty path handling
- Hatari graphics support:
- Low/med-rez line doubling uses less CPU and doubled lines in
"TV" display mode are now drawn at half intensity, not as black
(fixes TV mode being too dark)
- SDL2: "--zoom" option accepts any values between 1.0 - 8.0
- SDL2: "--zoom" option is changed to always enable low resolution
doubling before SDL framebuffer is scaled up (or down) by the zoom
factor. This way Hatari output window is approximately same sized
regardless of emulated Atari resolution, like on a real CRT monitor
- SDL2: scale quality is selected automatically; nearest pixel for sharp
output with integer scaling factors, and linear scaling to smooth out
issues with non-integer scaling and window resizes
- SDL2: Now redundant "nRenderScaleQuality" config option is
removed and "Linear scaling" option in GUI is replaced with
the "GPU scaling" option (=bUseSdlRenderer config option)
- Added new "--screenshot-dir" option to select the folder for screenshots
- Fix: [ffmpeg/video] Invalid PNG signature 0x89504E470D0A1A
- Fix: garbage graphics (by clearing the whole render area)
- Fix: Spec512_StoreCyclePalette when using 16 or 32 MHz
- Input handling:
- Support SDL "Hat" events in addition to "Axes" events
(= support 80's game controllers, also in SDL GUI)
- Map a turbofire button independent of the fire button if the game
controller is capable
- Show mouse grab toggle shortcut key in startup statusbar message
- Center host mouse to Hatari window on Atari resets and resolution
changes only when window is focused and mouse pointer is within it
- Fix: keypad emulation with SDL2
- Fix: simulated (socket API) key input with SDL2
- Profiler:
- Profiler backtrace shows now real caller addresses
and their offsets from the function entry points
(slows profiling of addresses with symbols)
- All profiler outputs have now reasonable limits
(so that they don't flood console)
- Fix: exception in profile post-processor script
(with symbol address aliases)
- Tracing:
- Fix: CPU disassembly trace output doesn't go to specified trace file
- Trace flags can be added and removed instead of needing to
always specify all the relevant ones, both with "--trace"
command line option and debugger "trace" command:
--trace os_base,aes, trace +xbios,bios, trace -bios,-aes
- VDI trace shows names also for NVDI/Speedo/GDOS functions
- VDI & AES trace function numbers are shown in hexadecimals
with 0x prefix like rest of the OS calls
- Debugger:
- New "screenshot" command for saving screen dump to a PNG/BMP file
- "symbols resident" option replaced with "symbols autoload"
option which can be used to completely disable automatic symbol
loading and unloading for programs run through the GEMDOS HD
(helps debugging resident programs started from GEMDOS HD)
- Improvements to UAE and external disassembler disassembly
- UAE disassembler is now default instead of external one
(latter doesn't decode all instructions correctly)
- New "info" subcommands:
"acia", "dmasnd", "ikbd", "mfp", "nvram", "rtc" and "scc"
- Also UAE disassembler can now show the profile info
- "info" command can show AES & VDI information on on their
respective traps without VDI mode/tracing being enabled
- Breakpoint ":info" option to call specified info function
on tracing breakpoint hits (one can now use e.g. ":info vdi"
on VdiOpcode breakpoints)
- Improved symbols info output
- Native features:
- Support for missing NF_SHUTDOWN (reset) sub commands
- Test code for rest of features (except for NF_SCSIDRV)
- When Hatari resets or exits due to emulated program
NF_SHUTDOWN / NF_EXIT call, output user a note about that
Tools and Hatari Python/Gtk UI:
- Python scripts use now "python3" because most current distros don't
anymore install Python v2 by default. To use a script with v2,
change "python3" in its first line to "python2"
Building and unit tests:
- Source repository moved from Mercurial to Git
- Fix: issue with multilib capable cross-compilers
- Only Caps library v5.1 is supported (support for old v4.2 is dropped)
- Obsolete Mudflap option replaced with AddressSanitizer support
- Add tests for GEMDOS HD, fullscreen/overscan display, blitter and Hatari
command FIFO + improve CPU/MMU variant coverage in earlier tests
Documentation:
- Up to date documentation provided at: https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/doc/
- New m68k-linux.txt and m68k-netbsd.txt documents on how to
test m68k Linux and NetBSD under Hatari
- Debugging and profiling information is split from manual.html to
a separate debugger.html file
- Minor improvements
Fixed demos:
- Pacemaker STE demo (end part), when it's run from GEMDOS HD
- Multi scrolls part in Closure by Sync
(regression since Hatari 2.2, vsync in bottom border)
- Fullscreen part in Hard As Ice STE demo by I.C.E.
(screen with no vertical DE signal)
- Fullast Vinner by Troed/Sync
(improved vblank position, partial fix for now)
- Electric Night Falcon demo by Dune
(MFP DMA sound interrupt on timer A using AER)
- Oompa by No Extra (after greetings part)
(blitter access to bus error regions)
- E.K.O System (music should now play in the racing scene)
Fixed programs:
- MS Write (crash), when it's run from GEMDOS HD
- Akaisex program reading AKAI S1000 HD floppies converted to STX
- EmuTos drawing vertical lines with blitter and leaving some trails
(blitter in non HOG mode using TAS instruction to restart)
- Cecile v2.22, now also works if no IDE drive has been configured
- Trans D-Bug Express by PHF (lock when running in megaSTE mode at 16 MHz)
Version 2.2.1 (2019-02-08)
---------------------------
Emulation:
- CPU:
- Fix a bug/regression from Hatari 2.1.0 in the UNPK instruction
Version 2.2.0 (2019-01-31)
---------------------------
Emulation:
- CPU:
- CPU core updated to WinUAE 4.1.0
- Fix 68030 MMU PTEST/FSAVE/FRESTORE
- Improve 68030 bus error handling and retrying faulty instruction
- Fix: only enable cache emulation when relevant
- Improve softfloat FPU emulation
- FPU emulation mode (softfloat or not) can be changed on the fly
- Ensure HW registers region is not cacheable for 68030 without MMU
when write allocate mode is enabled
- DSP:
- Fix DSP ROM tables (sin, mulaw & a-law)
- Some waitstate cycles were not correctly counted when accessing
DSP IO regs in CE mode
- Blitter:
- Fix: a rare case in cycle exact mode when bus is shared between CPU
and blitter : the last word of a transfer could be wrong if bus was
owned by CPU just before processing this last word and a read-modify-write
is made
- State of current blitter operation was sometimes not correctly restored
when CPU temporarily stopped the blitter and resumed it later
- DSP emulation was not updated in parallel when blitter was running
- Video:
- Handle VBlank signal and mask the 2 last lines when bottom border
is removed
- Hard disks:
- Experimental support for the NCR5380 SCSI chip in Falcon and TT mode
- Serial ports:
- Very experimental support for the SCC chip of the Mega-STE, TT and Falcon
(only channel B for now, and output only, use the "--scc-b-out" command
line switch)
- Misc:
- Correctly emulate bus error handling for STE lightpen registers
- Experimental support for TOS 2.07 (the "Sparrow" TOS)
Emulator:
- Misc:
- "patch TOS timer-D" speedup option is now disabled by default
- Allow up to 512MB of TT-RAM (increased from 256 MB)
- Additional ROM patches applied to TOS v4.x for 040 & 060
- Improved info and warning output for Hatari constraints and issues
- Memory snapshot save/restore:
- Fix: Include GEMDOS HD file handles so apps with open files work
- Improve memory snapshot save/restore reliability
(e.g. for pending interrupts)
- Save/restore TT RAM content into memory snapshots
- SDL GUI:
- Show warning dialog when cartridge file is disabled due to conflict
with other features
- Fix halt dialog crash on double bus error before SDL init
- Add FPU softfloat option
- Move joystick info to second statusbar line
- Few additional special keys can be remapped
- Fix: broken CPU dialog with old UAE CPU core
- Display 'SF' in status bar if FPU emulation is using softfloat library
- Display 'CE' or 'PF' in status if using 'cycle exact' or 'prefetch' modes
- It is now possible to configure more than one ACSI hard disk images
- MacOS / GUI:
- Minor GUI updates for v2.1 changes
- Fix: "reset" and "don't reset" UI buttons inverted
- Update MIDI panel for French version
- Save screenshots in user defined location or ~/Desktop
- Windows:
- Fix: buffer overflow in relative Hatari datapath handling
- Disk handling:
- IDE byte-swap option added to config file & GUI
- Fix: NF SCSI driver didn't invalidate cache for changed memory area
- Fix: *.INF file in disk image being overridden even when neither
VDI mode or autostart program wasn't specified (v2.1 regression)
- Fix: GEMDOS HD Fwrite() can be done from ROM area (for ROM saving)
- Media handling:
- Fix: AVI recording with PNG codec could be wrongly limited to 4GB
with some OSes
- Screen handling:
- Fix: TOS <= v2.x crashes when mouse is moved in 16x16 area at
the bottom right corner in VDI mode (Hatari v1.0 regression)
- Fix: "--tos-res high" setting
- Debugging:
- Fix: DSP/CPU profile "addresses" commands output line count when
paging. Tell also when it wraps to start
- Each log message has a log level prefix
- (Almost) all Hatari output goes now through logging framework so
that Hatari verbosity can be controlled
- Output at default log level is reduced significantly
- Add support for ISP & USP and 020+ special registers like VBR
- Add "OsCallParam" variable which gives first (word sized) parameter
for OS calls, for use with OS call "*Opcode" breakpoints
- Add virtual V0..V7 registers to "register" command for calculations
- "memdump" and "memwrite" commands output & input can now be also
word or long sized instead of bytes
- Show arguments in DSP XBios call traces
- FPU and PMMU opcodes are now also disassembled in 68040/060 mode
- Options:
- Fix: "--memsize 0" legacy option
- Disable "--timer-d" option by default. Increases CPU usage
(noticeably for ST/e emulation), but some rare (badly written)
programs need it for correct color raster & sample handling
- The "--bios-intercept" option requires now a boolean parameter
to determine whether the option should be enabled or disabled
- Add "--cmd-fifo" option to control Hatari at run-time just by
echoing commands to a FIFO file (created by Hatari)
- Add "--tos none" option to run test programs without any TOS.
Real Atari programs cannot be run with this, as it doesn't
implement the necessary Atari OS calls
- Halt dialog is skipped if --run-vbls is used (for automation)
- Support hex values for --disasm, increase --slowdown max value to 30
Building:
- Fix: Large File Support detection (64 bits off_t)
- Fix: new compile warnings with GCC v8 (+ code cleanup)
- Fix: building when DSP or tracing is disabled
- Improve CMake library finding for recent macOS
- Change Hatari compilation C standard to gnu99
- Add gitlab continuous integration Yaml file
- Many -fsanitize fixes
Tools:
- Hatari Python UI migrated from PyGtk v2 to Gtk v3
- Add Python v3 support to rest of the scripts
(required by Arch Linux & Clear Linux)
- hatari-prg-args script:
- Installed by default
- Fix program argument setting for recent EmuTOS versions
- Support argument setting also for programs that are run
from disk images
- zip2st: handle also directories with spaces in their names
- Fixes to hatari_profiler Callgrind output symbol handling
- Fix TOS bootup tester test output verification
- Few additional tests for validating Hatari functionality.
Almost all tests are now integrated with CTest framework.
Use e.g. "ctest -j4" command to run them
Documentation:
- Tag commits for Hatari releases before v1 in Mercurial repo
- Add notes about (new default) PortMidi support to MIDI usage
- More details on GEMDOS HD and VDI mode emulation limits
- Large updates to compatibility documents and to performance
section in the manual
- Add release checklist document
Fixed demos:
- B.I.G. Demo screen 2 (regression in Hatari 2.1, vblank in bottom border)
Fixed falcon demos:
- 4musiK by Dune & Sector One (don't cache HW register regions in write
allocate mode)
Fixed games:
- Lethal Xcess in STE mode (stopping/resuming blitter and saving/restoring
memory snapshots)
- Lethal Xcess in STF mode (add jitter to MFP, temporary fix)
Fixed programs:
- Many TT/Falcon programs relying on 68030 MMU / bus error retrying are now
working correctly (eg 'memwatch' by Uwe Seimet)
Version 2.1.0 (2018-02-07)
---------------------------
Emulation:
- Video:
- Fix correct number of displayed lines when removing bottom border
- Improve bottom border removal on 60 Hz screen
- More accurate position for reloading video counter on line 310/260
- Fix STE video counter regression at start of VBL (off by 4 cycles)
- Fix Timer B counting when screen is in Mono mode and video resolution
is set to low/medium
- Fix bug preventing screen to be drawn when video address = 0x0
- Add (dumb) Videl address and vertical frequency counters emulation
- Videl unused bits at $FF820E are read as zero
- Sound:
- New cycle exact emulation of the YM2149, all counters are
incremented using a simulated freq of 250 kHz, giving a 250 kHz audio
stream which is downsampled to the desired output frequency.
Some undocumented cases were also measured on real STF
Result should be much more accurate, clearer and emulate complex effects
(phase cancelling on 2 voices for example)
- Fix bad sound during YM sample playing on Falcon/TT
- CPU:
- Support undocumented behaviour for STOP on 68000 when new SR has bit S=0
- Fix some cases where bus/address error stack had a wrong PC
- Correctly store the 32-bit address in the stack in case of a bus error
- Better memory timings for RAM accesses in 68030 mode (for Falcon)
- Accurate DIV overflow undocumented flags
- Correct V flag for BCD instructions for 68020/30
- 68030 instr cache was not correctly disabled when writing EI=0 in CACR
- Improve caches for 68020/30, add cache support when using MMU
- Add 68040/60 data cache emulation, with optional MMU support
- FPU:
- Large improvements in FPU emulation and related instructions/exceptions
- Support for undocumented 68882/68881 FPU constants
- Support for softfloat FPU emulation (slower but more accurate)
- Memory / MMU / MCU:
- Add full support for STF/STE MMU/MCU at $FF8001 and address translation
(emulate the RAS/CAS signal depending on the size of the memory banks,
TOS memory routines don't need to be patched anymore)
- Better results when reading "void" region between end of RAM and 4MB
(return latest data seen on the bus on STF/STE)
- Add support for more RAM combinations (256 KB and 2.5 MB)
- Blitter:
- Add cycle exact bus handling for the blitter (correct bus count for CPU
and blitter, suspend/resume blitter after any memory access, run part
of next CPU instruction in parallel when starting the blitter)
- When writing busy bit=0, update interrupt line and don't clear hog bit
- Floppy:
- Emulate ripple carry adder "bug" for STF DMA address at $FF8609/0B/0D
- For STX images, add support for the verify bit in Type I commands
- Fix a rare case when looking for the next sector header of an STX image
- IKBD:
- Support for Audio Sculpture's custom IKBD program
Emulator:
- MIDI support for Windows and macOS (with PortMidi library)
- Add support for AVI files > 4GB (up to 256 GB)
- Miscellaneous:
- Initial patching for ST-Book ROM
- Add keyboard shortcut for toggling borders
- Fix: rate-limit DSP illegal instruction warnings output
- Disk handling:
- Add "--gemdos-time <atari/host>" option so that user can specify
whether emulation or host timestamps are used with GEMDOS HD files
- Fix: off-by-one error in ACSI image file name handling
- Memory handling:
- Support memory check skipping also on TOS v3 & v4
- Allow RAM size values in KiB instead of MiB
- SDL UI:
- Add a 'blitter-meter' to the status bar, depending on the blitter's usage
- Add refresh rate in the status bar (50, 60 or 71 Hz)
- Disable alt+F4 under Windows so that it doesn't close Hatari
(in case alt+F4 is also used in the emulated program)
- Display handling:
- Add --resizable option to control whether Hatari SDL2 window
can be resized (= turn it off to prevent accidental resizes)
- Support scaling AVI recording (PNG/BMP) frames
- Extended VDI mode font selected based on VDI height
- Fix: Handle window expose events with SDL 2.0
- Fix: don't switch bitdepth when recording AVI
- Fix: X11 window embedding (to Python GUI) with SDL2
- Fix: TOS v2 & v3 Atari logo display in extended VDI resolutions
- Fix: Limit Videl widths for GLES2 SDL2 backends
- Virtual INF file handling:
- Add "--auto" option to autostart programs also from somewhere
else than C: root, and to enable required GEMDOS interception
without full GEMDOS HD emulation
- Add --tos-res option to specify TOS ST/STE/TT resolution
for color monitors, with or without autostart. Also enables
blitter for machines & TOS versions supporting it
- Uses existing INF file as base, if one exists
- If not, specifies open window for boot drive
- Fix: Use separate INF files for TOS v1 and v2+ autostarting
- Fix: Normal users cannot use tmpfile() directly under Windows
- Debugger improvements:
- Fix: '>>' bit-shift parsing
- Fix: CPU prefetch when changing PC address
- Add "CycleCounter" variable
- Add "info dta [addr]" command
- Add "cpu_regs" trace option to show register values after
each executed instruction
- Add support for reading GNU-style a.out symbol table format
(which is GCC default) in addition to DRI/GST symbols
- Add absolute symbols support in addition to BSS/DATA/TEXT ones
- Use terminal size for paging (disassembly, memdump, symbols)
commands. NOTE: remove old dDisasmLines & nMemdumpLines options
from Hatari config file, or set them to -1, to enable this!
- Add 'nSymbolLines' configuration option to specify how many
lines 'symbols' command pages
- 'symbols resident' command and 'bSymbolsResident' config option
toggle whether program symbols are removed when program
terminates, or only when the next program starts
- 'symbols match" command and 'bMatchAllSymbols' config option
toggle whether TAB completes all symbols or just symbol types
relevant for given command
- 'symbols addr' is split into 'symbols code' & 'symbols data'
- TEXTEnd value is now TEXT+TextSize, instead of TEXT+TextSize-1
- Add "-f" option to 'cd' so that setup scripts can specify
what directory is used after currently invoked script(s)
have finished
- Move exception mask setting from config file "Log" section
to "Debugger" section where it belongs
- Compilation:
- Fix compilation when using ARM 64 target
- Allow compilation on untested host architectures (e.g. MIPS & s390x)
- Search for local headers first, then system's one (eg zip.h)
- Don't redefine bswap_16/_32 macros if they already exist
Other changes:
- Add French keyboard mapping that works also with SDL2
- All symbols output by gst2ascii are now TEXT relative
and it supports also a.out format symbol tables
- Fix: Python GUI updated for Hatari v2.0
- Fix: Python GUI explicitly uses Python v2 (Arch Linux)
- Fix: Python tools made compatible both to Python v2 & v3 (Arch Linux)
- Fix: icon symlink generation (rpmbuild chroot)
- Fix: DESTDIR support for RPM packaging
Fixed Falcon games:
- Ishar 1, 2 & 3, Lasers and Hommes, Moonspeeder preview 2
(Videl video counter)
- Boom preview, Lasers and Hommes, Tank Blaster
(68030 instr-cache)
- Aazohm Krypth, Men at War, Push It, Running, Sky Fall, Sworm
(autostarting)
Fixed Falcon demos:
- Bound 2, E.K.O system (memory access timings)
- Bound 3 (Videl video counter)
- Agony & Chaos A.D. don't freeze anymore (vertical frequency counter)
- Mahabharata (Videl widths with SDL2)
- 2x1287, A Rh positive, Are you experienced, Autowaschen Verboten,
Bound, Bound 42, Codein, Cycedelic knockout, Dan's Lustiges
Kinderfest, Derealization, Dream Dimension, Echos, E.X. Illusion,
Geranium, Hex Pistols, Hmmm, Oergs, Polygon Discount, Terrorize your
soul, Warum, Virtual City (68030 instr-cache)
- Terrorize your soul (DSP warnings 100x slowdown)
- Firestarter, Virtual City, Whirlpool
(autostarting with packed demos)
Fixed TT versions of demos:
- 4getful, Beams (68030 instr-cache, undocumented FPU constants)
Fixed programs for Falcon:
- Hextracker (Videl video counter, when not auto-started)
Fixed games:
- Le Necromancien' STX image (verify bit in type I commands)
Fixed ST/STE demos:
- Sprite32 by Leonard (RESTART_VIDEO_COUNTER on line 310/260)
- Jam-Cols by ICE (STE video counter timings broken in v2.0)
Fixed ST/STE programs:
- Protracker 2.1 and Neochrome Master 2.8 (shifter, bottom border at 60 Hz)
- Audio Sculpture 1.3 and 1.5 beta (timer B in mono mode, bit S=0 in STOP, IKBD)
- True RAM's size detection under TOS/EmuTOS (memory config at $FF8001)
Version 2.0.0 (2016-11-04)
---------------------------
Emulation:
- Machine:
- Support for MegaST & MegaSTE machines added
(this also replaces the Real Time Clock / RTC option, since this chip
is only available on the Mega machines)
- The general purpose registers of the TT SCU are now correctly emulated
(this fixes the problem with AHDI not finding any partitions during boot)
- HD:
- Fix: Disable GEMDOS opcodes after GEMDOS drive is disabled
- Fix: GEMDOS HD can now be initialized multiple times,
e.g. when running EmuTOS RAM image from a normal TOS
- Fix: WORD access to IDE data register at 0xf00002
- Fix: '*.*' pattern with GEMDOS HD should match also files
without extension
- Video:
- Full rewrite of the GLUE state machine, including support for the
4 wakeup states in STF mode, as well as more accurate video timings
(hbl, timer b, top/bottom and left/right removal, mixing 50/60/71 Hz
lines)
- Correctly shows the last 8 pixels for STE 224 byte overscan
- Fix: reading video counter $FF8205/07/09 after modifying it
while display is ON
- Fix: location of the video counter's restart when screen runs at 60 Hz
- TT: sync ST & TT color registers immediately on write, handle
palette bank setting correctly, fix duochrome colors
- Falcon: handle byte access special case for ST color registers
- Falcon: border color support also in HiColor
- better hbl/timer b interrupts when CPU runs at 16/32 MHz
- Sound:
- Special cases for STE DMA sound when start address = end address
- Increase STE DMA volume when compared to the YM2149 volume
- Greatly improve Falcon DMA sound
- CPU:
- use WinUAE CPU for STF/STE mode too, not just Falcon (old CPU core
is considered deprecated)
- improved IACK and simultaneous interrupts
- access IO regs on 2 cycle boundaries when possible
- More accurate 68060 mode (instructions from previous CPU versions
removed in 68060 aren't accepted/emulated anymore)
- Misc bus error / IO mem register handling fixes for TT & Falcon
(e.g. add TT DIP switch register handler)
- Blitter:
- Better bus arbitration when blitter is started
- Don't cause bus error when accessing regions causing CPU bus error
- Fixes to DSP addressing
- Floppy:
- Fix the value of the WPT bit when inserting/ejecting a write protected
floppy
Emulator:
- Generic fixes:
- Autosave to already existing file works first time after v1.4
(dialog for file overwrite got automatically canceled on exit)
- SDL GUI:
- MegaST/MegaSTe support
- Shortcuts can be configured in the keyboard dialog
- User can provide volume label when creating a floppy image
- Show dialog on HD image size issues
- Better SDL2 support:
- SDL2 is now enabled by default
- Resizable windows, including ST/STE screen scaling
- "--desktop" option is used also for ST/STe instead of "--desktop-st"
- Command line:
- Renamed --fpu-type option to --fpu
- Configuration:
- Hatari defaults to ST both with oldUAE & WinUAE CPU core
- Preferred private configuration directory is now ~/.config/hatari
on Linux/Unix (the legacy location ~/.hatari is still used if
the other one does not exist yet)
- Windows config location is now: AppData\Local\Hatari
- Support SDL key names in keymap files in addition to key codes
- Comment characters (#, ;) can also be mapped in keymap file
- Added NatFeats SCSI (NF_SCSI) driver for Linux version of Hatari
- Debugger:
- Fix: close debugger log file only when explicitly requested,
not when continuing emulation from debugger
- Fix: direct DSP register, disasm and memdumps to debugger log
file, similarly to CPU
- Fix: direct CPU and DSP symbol traces to trace file, not stderr
- Fix: ':once' option when there's only one breakpoint (v1.9 regression)
- Fix: NatFeats NF_DEBUGGER command now actually drops to debugger
- 'n' (next) command run until (dbcc backwards branch) loop exits
(in addition to running until subroutine and exception calls return)
- Support Atari debugger XBios(11) / Dbmsg() API
- 'variables' / 'v' command to list Hatari debugger's builtin symbols
- Also trace exception can be caught
- Removed features:
- Support for rendering to 8-bit host screens
- Support for (buggy) RsConf() interception with --bios-intercept
Other:
- Allow building without Zlib
- zip2st tool can convert directories to .st image files,
not just .zip files.
Fixed games:
- Chainz and Jewelz by Paradize (blitter, bus errors)
Fixed demos:
- spec512 image in the Intro of the Place To Be Again (video, restart counter)
- Menu screen in the Place To Be Again (video, writing/reading video
counter during active display)
- A Little Bit Insane by Lazer (no DMA sound during the demo)
- LoSTE and Closure by Sync (video, wakeup states and glue timings)
- Death of the left border by TNT (video, stabilizer)
- Gen4 Demo by Ziggy / Overlanders (video)
- Suretrip 49% by Checkpoint (cpu, exceptions stacking)
- Tymewarp by YM Rockerz (megaste mode, cpu control at $ff8e21)
- overscan plasma in Graphics Sound 2 in Relapse by Cybernetic (blitter)
- RGBeast by Aggression (blitter)
- Drone by DHS, PhotoChrome Viewer by DML (video, last 8 pixels)
Notes:
TOS NF_SCSI driver is available from:
https://www.hddriver.net/en/downloads.html
Version 1.9.0 (2015-09-10):
---------------------------
Emulation:
- STE Joypads:
- Fix: Joypad A Option button
- Fix: Joypad B extended buttons
- ACSI / IDE:
- Fix: image file attribute check when using device files
- Fix: v1.8 ACSI regression with A1=0 case
- GEMDOS HD:
- Fix: matching exactly 8 chars long file names containing '.'
- Better mapping of host errors to GEMDOS error codes
- Support for mapping file names with 8-bit characters
between host and Atari encodings (umlauted chars etc)
- Program header (TT-RAM) allocate flags support
- CPU:
- update WinUAE CPU core version from 2.3 -> 2.8.1 -> 3.0 -> 3.1
- MMU emulation fixed
- instruction/data cache emulation
- better 68020/30 prefetch pipeline
- cycle accuracy, etc.
- in 68000 mode, remove some un-allowed <ea> for CMPI, BTST and TST
- check for address error when new PC is set at the end of RTE, RTS and RTR
- fix "move.b an,<ea>", it's not allowed and should give illegal instruction
- improve stack frame for bus error and address error
- allow bus control only for 030
(i.e. prevent TOS forcing 16Mhz at boot with higher CPU levels)
- Memory:
- TT-RAM / 32-bit addressing support both for TT & Falcon emulation
(when using EmuTOS, this requires version 0.9.4 or later)
- FDC changes:
- for STX disks, fix type I commands with verify bit on tracks with no sector
- for ST/MSA, check read address and read track are not beyond max track
- MFP:
- better emulation of GPIP, AER and DDR
- MIDI:
- some RX/TX interrupt conditions were not correctly handled
- TDRE bit is status register more accurately handled
- Video:
- fix value when reading video counter $FF8205/07/09 in high res
- Blitter:
- when transfer ends, hog bit should be cleared in control register
- DSP:
- better emulation of the HREQ signal
Emulator:
- Support for compiling with libSDL2 (experimental)
- SDL2 supports other than 2x scaling factors for ST/e emulation
- Misc fixes:
- Fix: WinUAE CPU core (FPU) memory state restore
- Fix: crash with VDI extended resolution emulation when
C: isn't GEMDOS HD emulated drive
- Fix: invalid defaults for real joysticks
- Fix: compilation when zlib is missing
- Fix: bugs from Debian bug tracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716536
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716084
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688594
- Additional TOS run-time patching:
- Support fast boot also with TOS v3 & v4
- Support 32-bit addressing also with TOS v4
- Replace TOS v4 instructions unsupported on 060
- HW specific phystop value in VDI mode
- Options:
- Fast boot (warm boot / memory check bypass) is disabled by default
- 68060 CPU level and --ttram support with new WinUAE CPU core
- New --png-level option to decrease AVI compression CPU load
- Mouse warping on reset & resolution change can be controlled
with new --mousewarp option
- Hard drive emulation:
- BUS ID for ACSI drive can be specified with --acsi
- GUI and command line options to enable 8-bit file name
Atari <-> host charset conversion for GEMDOS HD
- GUI and command line options to specify GEMDOS HD emulation drive
(default = C:), or to skip recognized drives used by partitions
on ACSI & IDE images
- Partition count parsed by Hatari might not match count used by
Atari HD driver due to driver differences in interpreting disk MBR
- Refuse to mount same HD image from multiple Hatari instances
(on platforms supporting BSD flock()), to avoid corrupting them
- SDL GUI:
- joystick navigation in options GUI
- keyboard navigation & shortcuts in options GUI
- sort file selector items case-insensitively with folders first
- Partial support for showing Latin1 chars from UTF-8 file names
- AltGr+F<1-4> keyboard shortcuts to switch mode/type for emulated
joysticks and joypads
- User can reset or quit emulation from CPU halt dialog
- Fix: sync joystick changes with statusbar
- Fix: update default max window size for 2-line statusbar
NOTE: size would need to be updated in Hatari config files too!
- Fix: statusbar assert when FPU/MMU/TT-RAM are enabled in WinUAE CPU core
- When cpu enters 'halt' state in case of double bus/address errors,
show a dialog window to reset or call the debugger
- Fix bug in the filesector dialog that could create bug in other
dialogs used in Hatari
- Debugger:
- Fix: crash when GEMDOS tracing is used without GEMDOS HD emulation
- Fix: update external disassembler's CPU mask when CPU type is changed
(it wasn't restricted to opcodes valid for given CPU type)
- Fix: breakpoint addition/removal within chained breakpoints
- Fix: Atari program detection on Windows for "symbols" command
- Profiler support for TT-RAM (uses *ton* of memory)
- Profiler support for (030) data cache and new "profile caches"
command to show i/d-cache hit/miss histograms
- Add trace support for IDE, MIDI and keymaps. ACSI (SCSI) and IDE
trace output shows primary partition tables for ACSI & IDE images
(both Atari and DOS MBRs are supported)
- Add "os_base" trace option to trace Fopen/Fclose/Pexec/Pterm*.
That and "os_all" will now enable also xconout console redirection
- Output from --conout goes now to stdout instead of stderr
- Add "reset <hard|soft>" command
- Add "save" subcommand to "history" command
- Add "basepage" address variable
Other changes:
- Add script to convert long host file names to Atari file names,
use that in atari-hd-image script
- Add hatari-prg-args script for providing arguments to autostarted programs
- Fix Atari program detection on Windows in "gst2ascii" tool
- Hatari & disk image icons in SVG & PNG formats (multiple sizes)
- Remaining Hatari OSX UI changes for Hatari v1.8.0 (localization)
- Add video-recording.txt doc on video recording/uploading best practices
Fixed demos:
- Graphix Sound 2 in Relapse by Cybernetics (blitter+cpu, bus arbitration)
- RGBeast by Aggression (video, writing to video counter during active display)
- My Socks Are Weapons by Legacy (video, reading video counter in high res)
Fixed games:
- Superior 65 - Blood Money (cpu, exception stack and bus error)
(note that this version is bugged and will crash with TOS 1.04 or 1.62)
- Obitus (STX version) (fdc, seek+verify on a track with no sector)
- The Teller (STX/CTR version) (cpu, exception stack and address error)
- War Heli (cpu, exception stack for address error and prefetch)
Fixed programs:
- Realtime and M by Eric Ameres (midi + mfp, toggle bit 0 of AER)
- Notator (midi, more precise TDRE bit in status register)
- Cubase 2 (midi, reported by user)
Known regressions (see compatibility list):
- Suretrip demo by Checkpoint
- Golden Island game demo with WinUAE CPU core
- TT-version of 4getful demo with WinUAE CPU core
Version 1.8.0 (2014-07-30):
---------------------------
Emulation:
- ST video changes :
- Handle 0 byte line by switching freq in STE mode
- Use high res when ff8260 is set to 3
- Randomly return 0 or 1 when reading unused bits 3,7 and 11 of
color registers (except when running from ROM)
- Better detection of bottom border removal on a 60 Hz screen
- support for color change during only 4 cycles
- better bitmap/color alignment for STE med res overscan at 60 Hz
- Set default value of nSpec512Threshold to "1" instead of "16"
- Update the position of the next VBL when 50Hz and 60Hz lines are mixed
- When video address is set into IO region, keep the video pointer on 24 bits
- Videl changes :
- correct masking of the true color palette registers
- CPU changes :
- Fix a case when MFP's interrupt happens during the IACK sequence
for HBL/VBL
- Many prefetch changes required by some game's protection
- Sound changes :
- Fix STE sound mixing using LMC when mixer=0 (DMA sound only)
- Fix some crossbar's sound errors for Falcon
- Fix Microwire's decoding of mask/data (based on official LMC1992's doc)
- FDC changes :
- Add configurable RPM speed for each floppy drive, the possibility
to turn each drive ON/OFF and the choice between single or double
sided drive
- Correct timings, behaviour and status register for all commands
when a drive is OFF or empty.
- Rewrite the index pulse part and all the delays expressed as disk's
revolution
- Add support for the "Force Int on Index Pulse" command
- Rewrite the DMA functions for better accuracy
- Add support for IPF/CTR files by using the capsimage library
- Add open source support for Pasti STX files, including random/fuzzy bits
and variable length bits. Also allow to save writes to a .stx file into
an additional .wd1772 file (store 'write sector' and 'write track' data)
- Don't force drives A and B at $4c2, keep the values detected by TOS
- Many other timing / status register improvements
- GEMDOS HD emulation:
- Fix: clip filenames given through GEMDOS calls to 8+3 length
using first '.'
- Fix: autostarting programs with GEMDOS-illegal host characters
in their names
- ACSI hard disk changes:
- Support multiple ACSI devices
- Fixed/improved READ CAPACITY and INQUIRY commands
- Unsupported commands are now handled correctly
- Now using fseeko() instead of fseek() for supporting large images
- Other changes:
- Don't enable MegaST's real time clock by default, it can cause some
crashes in STF/STE mode
- Improve ACIA's wait state with E clock
- Add support for IKBD commands 0x11 and 0x13 (resume/pause output)
and 0x17 (joystick monitoring)
Emulator:
- SDL GUI:
- Update clock speed in the status bar when changing bus speed
in Falcon mode
- In the floppy dialog, use a checkbox to enable/disable drives A and B
and another checkbox to choose single/double sided drive
- In the screen dialog, add checkbox for --desktop-st option
- Add a 2nd line in the status bar, with infos on FDC, joysticks, monitor
- Fix OSX performance issue caused by statusbar and overlay LED
doing their own SDL_UpdateRects() calls
- New command line options:
- Options --drive-a and --drive-b to enable/disable drives A and B
- Options --drive-a-heads and --drive-b-heads to select single or
double sided drives A and B
- --slowdown option to increase (multiply) VBL wait times
- New Native Features commands:
- NF_EXIT exits emulator with given exit code
- NF_DEBUGGER invokes Hatari debugger from native program
- NF_FASTFORWARD sets fast forward on/off
- Tracing improvements:
- Add option for tracing NatFeats calls
- Fix: Xbios(255) modified the given argument string
- Allow BIOS, XBIOS, GEMDOS, VDI and AES tracing to be enabled without
enabling also X/BIOS interception, GEMDOS HD emulation or extended
VDI mode
- Show PC value for traced Bios/XBios/GemDOS calls
- Debugger:
- Fix: release mouse in all cases where debugger can be invoked
- Fix: DSP disassembler didn't in all cases show illegal opcodes correctly
- Fix: "symbols" command crash when it was used during TOS bootup
- Fix: TOS and cartridge addresses weren't (with all TOS versions)
in address order which asserted in profile data post-processor
- Fix: "next" command didn't work correctly in "hex" number base
- Fix: depending on compiler/linker/assembler, DATA/BSS debug symbol
offsets can in programs be either relative to their own, or to TEXT
section start. If former fails, try latter when loading symbols.
- New "ym" info subcommand to show YM register values
- "quit" command by-passes exit confirmation dialog and takes
an optional Hatari exit code value
- removed limits on breakpoints and their conditions
- when entering debugger, current program's DRI/GST format debug
symbols are automatically read from it, if such are available
- new --debug-except option to specify which exceptions invoke
the debugger, and WinUAE CPU core support for -D toggle option
- "next"/"dspnext" commands work like in other debuggers, they
skip subroutine/exception calls, for all other instructions
they works like "step" command (earlier they always moved to
next instruction in memory)
- "next" and "dspnext" commands support optional "instruction type"
argument, which can be used (for example) to continue emulation
until subroutine returns
- "history" command takes optional parameter specifying how many
instructions of history will be tracked
- CPU & DSP profile commands have now subcommand for profiling loops
- "CpuInstr" and "DspInstr" variables for count of instructions
executed since emulation was last continued from debugger
- In addition to "!" condition, also "<" and ">" conditions can store
the checked value (when both sides of conditions are identical).
With above change, this can be e.g. used to detect and profile
what are worst frames in games and why
- New "rename" command to rename files. Useful for scripted
worst frame and spinloop profiling
- Address space in 'dm' command can be given like in DSP disassembly,
"dm x:$100", in addition to earlier "dm x $100" syntax
- Fix out of bounds memory access that could result in bad disassembly
output when using the external disassembler (only "dc.w" were printed)
Tools:
- Increased max partition size in atari-hd-image script to 512MB.
- New hatari_spinloop.py script for post-processing loop profile data.
It can tell how many times loops were executed, how many times they
spinned at minimum and maximum, at which VBL those happened, and what
was the standard deviation of that.
- gst2ascii supports now both section relative and TEXT section relative
DATA/BSS symbol offsets
- hconsole.Main() takes now Hatari command line options as argument
- AHCC/GCC/VBCC examples on using (all) Native Features APIs
- Improved mingw cross-compilation support
Fixed demos :
- 4-pixel plasma screen by TOS Crew (video, color change during only 4 cycles)
- HighResMode by Paradox (video, color changes in overscan med res at 60 Hz)
- It's A Girl 2 by Paradox (video, bottom border removal on a 60 Hz screen)
- Pacemaker by Paradox (microwire, YM sound was muted)
- Panic by Paulo Simoes (video, was broken since Hatari 1.7)
- Shforstv.exe by Paulo Simoes (video, did not work in STE mode)
- Sommarhack 2011 Invitro by DHS (CPU/MFP, top border not removed)
- Stax Compilation #65 (conflict with Mega ST's RTC)
- The Union Demo (cpu, memory access, ikbd, protection)
- The World Is My Oyster - Convention Report Part by Aura (video, res=3)
- Tymewarp (cpu, bus error)
- UMD 8730 by PHF (video, unused bits in STF color registers)
- IKBD no jitter by Nyh (acia/video, use a VBL of 160240 cycles)
Fixed games :
- Batman The Movie (cpu, exception stack)
- Chart Attack Compilation (cpu, prefetch)
- Darkman (cpu, prefetch)
- Dragon Flight (cpu, illegal instruction)
- International 3D Tennis (cpu, prefetch)
- Leavin' Teramis loader text (video address at $ffe100)
- Lethal Xcess Beta (cpu, bus error, code running at $ff8800)
- Lethal Xcess (mfp, top border not removed sometimes)
- Maze (by Martin Dennett & John Parker)
- Parasol Stars (cpu, prefetch)
- Reeking Rubber (by Nature), Falcon game
- Titan (cpu, prefetch)
- To Be On Top (cpu, memory access, ikbd, protection)
- Warp (ikbd, interrupt used for decoding sectors)
- Xenon 2 (cpu, prefetch)
Version 1.7.0 (2013-06-24):
---------------------------
Emulation:
- TT video emulation :
- Extend the ST palette registers from 9bit to 12bit for ST modes
- Duochrome mode instead of monochrome for ST High
- Implementation of SampleHold in TT Hypermono video mode
- Sound changes :
- Better model of the YM2149 noise generation (no noticeable audible impact)
- Slightly better volume table (measured by Paulo Simoes on a real ST)
- CPU changes :
- Added experimental MMU emulation for the 68030 mode
- Handle the IACK cycles during an exception for HBL/VBL
- ACIA/IKBD changes :
- Full implementation of the MC6850 ACIA, giving much more robust
IKBD emulation
- Better timings for all IKBD commands (measured on a real STF)
- Clock is handled internally in IKBD, host date/time is used
only to initialize RTC at boot. I.e. pausing emulation doesn't
cause time skips when unpausing
- Fix slow mouse when absolute mode is used with scale values
- MFP changes :
- Fixed priority errors when simultaneous interrupts happened
- MFP's IRQ should be delayed by 4 cycles before reaching the CPU
- MFP's IRQ signal was not correctly updated in some cases
- Handle the IACK cycles between CPU and MFP during an exception
- FDC changes :
- Better delays for all the GAPs inside a track
- Emulate the disk's rotation and its angular position to get
accurate delays when accessing a sector header
- Internal timer for FDC was wrong and sometimes slower than expected
- Correct delay for type I commands with "verify" bit=1
- GEMDOS HD emulation changes :
- Support Fforce() for GEMDOS HD emulated files and close at Pterm*()
all internal handles to emulated files program had left open
- Fix: cut file and dir names to 8+3 chars like all TOS versions do
- Fix: GEMDOS HD emulation overwrote last 28 bytes of basepage space
for the started process command line (with the program header)
- Fix: Fwrite() content wasn't flushed to disk on each write, so later
Fopen() + Fread()s calls on such files (if they were not closed
in the meanwhile) could get data that was out of date.
- Fix: Dfree() return value
Emulator:
- Fix: problems with run-time CPU type changing
- Fix: MIDI IRQs were not enabled if MIDI was enabled at run-time.
MIDI toggling will now imply reset
- Much improved console redirection functionality and a separate --conout
option for it (--bios-intercept doesn't anymore imply console redirection)
- Fixed a bug with the axes' mapping in the joystick's detection
- Display handling:
- Fix: max resolution limit wasn't handled properly for ST mode.
- Don't change TOS-calculated font size for VDI mode.
- Setup NVRAM video mode based on VDI mode, when in VDI mode.
This makes VDI mode work with EmuTOS also under Falcon emulation
which is useful as EmuTOS doesn't support native VIDEL expanders
- Limit VDI screen memory usage to 300kB, this allows up to 2048x1200
monochrome and 1024x600/800x768 16-color VDI screens
- GEMDOS HD emulation:
- Fix: to DTA host filename cutting to 8+3 chars when whole filename
was < 12 chars (caused EmuTOS crash)
- Give warning if GEMDOS dir/file path exceeds 8+3 characters
(as those won't work with real TOS)
- New --gemdos-case option to specify whether new dir/filenames
are forced to be created in upper (default) or lower case
- Giving empty string as GEMDOS HD dir disables GEMDOS HD emulation
- SDL GUI:
- Fileselector has "CWD" button for changing to Hatari's work directory
- Fileselector remembers previous position which is nicer with
large directories
- Make the drive leds blink with a brighter green when the FDC is executing
a command
- Profiler:
- Fix: profiler assert on invalid PC register values
- Fix: profiler usage in debugger files invoked by breakpoints
- Fix: profiler CPU & DSP cycles information is for previous instruction
- Fix: WinUAE CPU requires cycles counter usage for getting current
CPU instruction cycles
- Profiler provides timing information, based on used cycles
- Profiler provides CPU instruction cache misses information when using
cycle-exact WinUAE CPU core (which is Falcon emu default)
- Profiler top instruction count/cycles/misses lists show
the related instructions
- For DSP, profiler adds min/max cycle difference info to disassembly
- New "addresses" subcommand can be used to see addresses through which
code passed during profiling (e.g. while program seems frozen, this
gives much better overview of code that is being run, than cpu trace)
- New "callers" subcommand lists all addresses from which loaded
symbols' addresses were "called" from. This way one can e.g. find
in which contexts interrupt handlers were called and it can be
used to construction program execution callgraph
- New "save" subcommand saves profile address and caller information
to given file, with extra information needed for post-processing
- New "stack" subcommand that can be used to get backtraces during
profiling with symbols, for ':noinit' backtraces
- Debugger:
- New ':noinit' and ':quiet' breakpoint options. Quiet option
removes most of breakpoint matching "noise" and ':noinit' breakpoints
can be used with "profile stack" command, to prevent profile data and
related callstack information from being reset on breakpoint match
- "blitter" and "dsp" subcommand added to "info" command, to show
blitter register values and DSP state (e.g. stack content)
- "prg" subcommand added to "symbols" command, for loading debug
symbols from DRI/GST symbol table in last started program
- "step" and "next" commands added for single stepping CPU and DSP code
-> 's' shortcut is now for "step", not "save"
- "--disasm" option for selecting between UAE core and external CPU
code disassembler and setting output option flags for latter
- When -D option is used, also undefined/illegal DSP instructions and
DSP stack under/overflows invoke debugger, not just CPU issues
- Fix: when several breakpoints should have triggered
on the same address, only first was handled
- Fix: after breakpoint, 'c <n>' continues one instruction too little
- Fix: tracking breakpoint values were updated only when all conditions
matched, now they can be also used together with other conditions
- Fix: info command crash (triggered on NetBSD)
- Fix: disassember output bug on NetBSD (unsigned char < -1 test)
- Fix: info osheader and basebase subcommands under MiNT
- Fix: debugger history duplicates removal
- Fix: expression expanding CPU "pc" for DSP shortcut commands
- Fix: expression expansion messing lines in command line history
- Remote API debugger commands can also use expression expansion
- Both single and double quotes can be used to mark expressions
- In addition to text section offset, data and bss section offsets
can be given when loading symbols (useful for Devpac symbols)
- Output what value was set by options if it's not otherwise shown by UI
- New 'cpu' and 'dsp' options to 'history' command for tracing just
one of these processors on Falcon
- Function arguments are shown in traces for all non-MiNT GEMDOS calls
and subset of arguments are now shown also for AES calls (values in
intin array and strings in addrin array)
- Add NVRAM read & write tracing
- Support for the basic Native Features and --natfeats option to control it:
http://wiki.aranym.org/natfeats/proposal
Windows specific changes:
- "-W" option added for opening a console window. Like on all other platforms,
"-D" will now just toggle CPU exception handling
- Fix: console stderr redirection (used invalid "wr" mode)
- Fix Windows localtime() not supporting dates before 1970:
- TOS not being able to access files with such dates, or further files
- causing IKBD emulation crashes (wasn't problem with Cygwin,
just with Mingw builds)
Tool updates:
- New hatari-profiler.py script for post-processing output from
profiler's CPU and DSP profiling "save" commands:
profile save <filename>
dspprofile save <filename>
- With symbol address information it can provide function level
instruction, processor cycle & i-cache miss statistics
- With callers information it can create function call callgraphs
and create callgrind format files for Kcachegrind GUI
- New gst2ascii tool to extract DRI/GST symbol table from Atari program,
for use with the profile data post-processor
- Added scripts for converting symbol tables in Devpac 3 listings and DSP LOD
files to a format understood by Hatari debugger 'symbols' command,
and to clean 'nm' output of GCC & VBCC built a.out binaries for it
Other changes:
- HTML documentation indices generated dynamically with JS
- Debugger tests building fixed
Fixed Games:
Atomix (MFP, flickering bottom of the screen during samples)
BBC 52 Menu (Video/CPU, top border not removed)
Bolo (MFP, couldn't start a game)
Captain Blood (IKBD, fixed problem when setting the clock)
Fokker and Downfall (ACIA/IKBD, had regressed in Hatari v1.6.x)
Fuzion CD 77/78/84 Menu (MFP, random crash with digidrums in STF mode)
James Pond (Fuzion CD 25) (FDC, game stuck during the intro)
Microprose Golf (FDC, crash during the intro)
Spidertronic (Zuul CD 84) (crashed before 50/60 Hz screen)
Super Hang On and Super Monaco GP (MFP, flickering rasters)
The Final Conflict (MFP, locked during the sampled intro music)
The Sentinel (IKBD, mouse much too slow)
Zuul 100/101 Menu (MFP, flickering top border)
Fixed demos :
Anomaly Demo Main Menu by MJJ Prod (MFP, flickering top/bottom borders)
Audio Artistic Demo by Big Alec (MFP, bad sample speed at start)
Decade Demo - Reset (MFP, flickering bottom border)
High Fidelity Dreams by Aura (MFP, flickering left rasters)
ST-NICCC 2000 Demo by Oxygene (FDC, demo ran slower than expected)
Fixed apps :
Monst v1.x
Spectrum 512 (IKBD, mouse too slow)
Cubase (when MIDI was enabled after Hatari startup)
Version 1.6.2 (2012-06-24):
---------------------------
Emulation:
- ST video changes :
- Fixes a rare potential crash when running in color mode and switching
to monochrome mode for more than one VBL (eg : protection code used
in The European Demos and The Transbeauce II Demo)
- add more timings for the 224 bytes overscan detection on STE
- Correct write timing for BCHG/BCLR/BSET when removing borders
- Fix to top/bottom border removal in a rare case
- IKBD/ACIA changes :
- Handle commands 0x12 and 0x14 sent during the IKBD reset
(enable both mouse and joystick reporting at the same time)
- Handle the TX IRQ in the ACIA (bits CR6+CR5=0x01)
- Implemented IKBD set-clock function
- Sound changes :
- Improve YM2149 sound filtering to be closer to a real STF
- Increase output volume for STE DMA sound (compared to the YM2149's volume)
- DSP changes :
- Fix to DSP stack overflow handling
- Fix DSP to be reset on emulation reset
- Old UAE core specific changes :
- Changes in the prefetch code for some instructions
- Correct PC in stack when JMP generates an illegal address exception
- WinUAE core specific changes :
- 68040 MMU emulation fixes
- Fix GEMDOS/VDI emulation (illegal opcode) handling
- Fix WinUAE core to work with ST emulation (boot TOS 1.x)
- Fix FPU to be enabled when switching to TT emulation
- Fixes to FPU register value conversion
- Falcon changes :
- Support for Falcon/Videl screen borders
- Fixes to few Falcon IO registers
- Changed behavior of the Microwire registers in Falcon mode
- Misc changes :
- IO registers can only be read in supervisor mode
- Ignore FDC commands when no drive is selected
- Fix TT SCSI register reads to return all bits zero instead of set
- Fix for GEMDOS HD emu to direct special CON:/AUX:/PRN: device files
to TOS instead of trying to handle them as normal files
- printer output is single, not double buffered
Emulator:
- RS232 input&output and printer output can be disabled from command
line by specifying an empty path
- Fix loading of memory snapshot from SDL GUI not to leave host cursor
enabled
- Video changes:
- Increase max allowed VDI resolution from 1280x960 to 1920x1200
- Revert preferred Videl resolution max zooming size setting from
host desktop resolution back to 832x576 it was in Hatari v1.4,
so that Falcon/TT emulation window sizes by default are closer
to ST/STE ones on larger resolution monitors
- Fix statusbar assert
- Add --sound-sync option to keep video synchronized with the audio
in case the OS audio's driver has some latency issues
- WinUAE core specific changes:
- Default to Falcon with WinUAE core (old CPU core still defaults to ST)
- Support run-time changing of CPU level, FPU type and machine type
from the GUI (also) with WinUAE CPU core
- Debugging improvements:
- Fix to debugger CPU cycle profiling modifying CPU state
- Profiling info is shown at end of disassembly lines
- Support for tracing all symbols loaded to the debugger,
this can be used to get function traces for both CPU and DSP
- Show args for all Bios and most XBios & Gemdos calls when tracing
- "info" command can output opcode tables for BIOS & XBIOS too
- More info to FDC, IKBD, Videl and Crossbar traces
Other changes:
- Hatari OSX UI updated for Hatari v1.6.1 changes
- Hatari Python UI supports file paths with spaces in them and spaces in
Hatari options given through its control socket can be quoted with '\'.
- Support for alphanumeric characters in Hconsole "text" command
- Fixes to Hatari UI and hconsole error handling and examples
- Fixed hatari-local-midi-ring.sh & hatari-local-rs232.sh arg handling
- zip2st removes intermediate directories from created floppy
- Fixed hmsa to handle files with multiple "." characters in their names
- TOS tester testing covers more GEMDOS functionality, works with
all Hatari supported TOS versions and HW configurations and it's
fully automated
Fixed Games :
Hammerfist (fire button),
Automation 168 - Operation Clean Streets (prefetch in the CPU emulation)
Impossible Mission II (some versions had the same prefetch issue in the CPU)
Hades Nebula (fire button)
Zombi (IKBD set-clock was missing)
Fixed demos :
Built-in Obsolescence (DSP stack overflow)
Japtro and Rising Force by Holocaust (FDC, buggy loader)
Delirious Demos IV (video, STE detection)
Antiques by Dune/Sector One (224 bytes STE overscan)
The Wave Of the Future by ICE (STE flickering top border)
Electrocution I by Sphere on Stax Menu 66 (STE flickering bottom border)
Musical Wonders 1990 by Offbeat (video, bottom border not removed)
Version 1.6.1 (2012-01-13):
---------------------------
This version is mainly a bugfix for 1.6.0, where monochrome mode
gave a black screen and was not usable.
Emulation:
- Fixes to bootup issues in monochrome mode
- Better left border removal timings
- DSP external memory access cycles taken into account
Other changes:
- Fix to allow build with Xcode 3.1.3/OS X 10.5.8 PPC
- Several fixes & updates needed to Hatari UI & hconsole
for them to work correctly with Hatari v1.6.x
- Test programs added for testing TOS booting with different
HW configurations and for finding out values needed in
Hatari keymaps
Fixed Demos :
Vodka Demo - Kill The Beast 2 (left border removal)
Version 1.6.0 (2012-01-01):
---------------------------
The Hatari project has been moved from hatari.berlios.de to
http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/. Please update all bookmarks!
Emulation:
- More accurate FDC emulation (correct status bits and commands' timings,
DMA transfer by blocks of 16 bytes, floppy change detection). This should
fix a lot of non working games
- More accurate microwire clock emulation
- SCSI class 1 (ICD) command support for drives > 1 GB
- Improved color conversion table so that colors are a little bit brighter
- Improve shifter (add another method to do 4 pixel hardware scrolling,
better emulation for 0 byte blank line)
- Some fixes to the IKBD emulation
- Better filters and model for sound emulation
- Correct VBL timings in TT monochrome (double clicking works now)
- More cycle accurate Falcon DSP <-> CPU emulation. All the demos that
needed 32Mhz CPU with the old CPU core in Hatari v1.5, work now at
correct 16Mhz with the WinUAE CPU core
- 030 MMU emulation with the WinUAE CPU core
Emulator:
- Switch to ST mode when using TOS <= 1.04
- Replace "--slowfdc" with "--fastfdc" option and default to fast FDC being OFF
- "--fast-boot" option to initialize "memvalid" system variables to
by-pass the memory test of TOS, so that the system boots faster
- "--force-max" option to force Hatari use specified maximum resolution
to avoid window size changes messing up Hatari video recording
- "--desktop-st" option to keep desktop resolution also for ST/STE modes
(unfortunately without scaling besides the low-res doubling)
- GEMDOS HD emulation:
- Allow drives up to Z: (not Y:)
- Unique name for each partition
- Warn user when using too old TOS version
- Dfree() reports host disk total and free size if they're below
value understood by TOS and unlike earlier, it forwards Dfree()
requests for other (IDE/ACSI image) partitions to TOS
- Debugger improvements:
- "history" command to list instructions executed before entering
debugger
- each trace output line is flushed to avoid it being buffered
- Fixed behavior of the Caps Lock key
Other changes:
- Fixes to Hatari UI Hatari window embedding
- Latest Linux sfdisk is borked so atari-hd-image script creates
HD image partition table now itself (experimental)
- Windows needs also HOMEDRIVE for full home path in case Hatari
isn't installed on C:, bug 18297
- Minor fixes
Fixed Demos :
Overscan Demos and Shforstv.exe by Paulo Simoes (black line at top),
ACF - Just Bugging (FDC), Delirious Demo IV (FDC, shifter),
Overdrive Demos - Snirkel Screen (IKBD), Oxygene - Stniccc2000 (FDC),
Cream - Madness (FDC)
Fixed Games :
Superior 65 - Super Monaco GP, DBug 24 - Knightmare, Pompey Pirates 27 - X-Out,
Fuzion 32 - Pang, Fuzion 108 - The Simpson, Fuzion 40 - Super Grand Prix,
Fuzion 46 - Warlock, Fuzion 51 - Navy Seals, Fuzion 61 - Gods, Fuzion 78 -
Carmen Sandiego, Fuzion 82 - Flight Of The Intruder, Fuzion 83 - RBI Baseball 2,
Fuzion 102 - Exile, PP46 - Yolanda, Medway Boys 15 - Murders In Venice,
Medway Boys 83 - Yogi Bear, BBC 2 - Platoon, BBC 39 - The Deep, Superior 71 - The
Running Man, Adrenaline 24 - Demon Blue, Superior 93 - Alien Storm
Fixed Misc Programs :
Procopy 1.50, Terminators Copy 1.68, maxYMizer (caps lock key)
Version 1.5.0 (2011-07-19):
---------------------------
Emulation:
- Alternative CPU core based on WinUAE for more accurate future
HW interaction emulation (see readme.txt on how to enable it)
- Use precise clocks values (as described in Atari's official schematics)
for better video/dma audio synchronisation (e.g. More Or Less Zero by DHS)
- DSP:
- Some DSP-timing sensitive Falcon demos that by luck happened to work
with Hatari v1.4, don't work anymore in v1.5 with the default UAE CPU
core. This is because while DSP cycle accuracy has been improved,
the default UAE CPU core isn't fully cycle accurate. The experimental
WinUAE core is needed to run them
- Undocumented 2 bit shift special case for DSP SSI <-> crossbar exchanges
in handshake mode with 32 Mhz clock (fixes DSP MP2 player used in many
demos & programs, but that requires also using WinUAE core)
- Sound improvements:
- Major rewrite and accuracy improvements in STE DMA sound, including
emulation of the 8 bytes FIFO, giving results nearly identical to
a real STE (e.g. HexTracker by Paulo Simoes)
- Improved precision in sound emulation, with nearly no rounding errors
over successive VBL (correct sound latency on US TOS running at 60 Hz)
- By default mix 3 YM voices using a lookup table of values
measured on real STF to improve digisound (e.g. Flashback demo sound)
- Remove old ST Sound's code used for tone and noise step compute
(some low period values were not correctly emulated)
- Video emulation on STF/STE:
- On STE, correctly shift display 8 pixels to the left when using
224 bytes overscan
- Add support for spec512 mode in med res (fixes 'Best Part Of The
Creation' in 'Punish Your Machine', 'HighRes Mode' demo by Paradox)
- Correctly shift the screen 4 pixels to the left when left border is removed
in med res overscan (Hatari 1.4 handled only low res, fixes 'No Cooper'
by 1984, 'Best Part Of The Creation' by Delta Force)
- Precisely emulate the number of frames per sec (eg 50.053 fps in PAL
instead of the usual 50 Hz)
Emulator:
- Atari program given as argument to Hatari will be automatically
started after TOS boots. GEMDOS hard disk directory can now be
give also as an argument, not just as a (-d) option
- TOS4 or --machine falcon option use enables DSP emulation now
(follow them with --dsp none to disable DSP emulation)
- Memory state saving and restoring fixes, especially for Falcon
- Crossbar state is included -> state file ABI break
- AVI recording options can be set in the new [Video] config file section
- AVI recording supports non integer frame rates.
- Falcon/TT Videl/hostscreen improvements:
- New setting/option for using Desktop resolution & scaling
in fullscreen instead of changing the resolution. On by default
- User's desktop size is used as max limit for Videl zooming.
Requires SDL >= 1.2.10
- Videl resolution change is done immediately, not 3 VBLs late
- Fix issues in switching between same sized VDI & TT resolutions
- SDL GUI improvements:
- DSP can be disabled from the GUI without needing to restart Hatari
- Disk access LED and desktop-resolution options
- AVI video length (mins:secs) is shown in titlebar during recording
- Option for cropping statusbar from videos & screenshots
- Fileselector scrollbar can be used with mouse
- YM mixing method selection
- Debugging improvements:
- New disassembler with more Motorola like syntax
- CPU & DSP "disasm" and "memdump" commands accept register & symbol
names in addition to numeric addresses / address ranges
- Option to disable Falcon mic
("--mic off" is needed for Mudflap debugging)
- "--run-vbls" can be set also at run-time
- "--bios-intercept" can be toggled from debugger (not just enabled)
- BIOS CON: output is converted to ASCII and redirected to host console
with the --bios-intercept option
- Support for tracing DSP, Videl and Crossbar
- Support for tracing AES calls. VDI calls can now be traced
also without using an extended VDI resolution
- BIOS/XBIOS/GEMDOS/VDI/AES/Line-A/Line-F opcode breakpoint support
- TEXT, DATA and BSS variables for addresses of corresponding segments
in currently loaded program
- "aes", "vdi" and "gemdos" subcommands for "info". Without arguments
they will output information about corresponding OS part state,
with (a non-zero) argument, opcode/call name table is shown.
"video" subcommand for showing video related information.
"cookiejar" subcommand for showing cookiejar contents.
- "file" subcommand to "lock" that executes debugger commands from
given file when debugger is entered (or ":lock" breakpoint is hit)
- ":lock" option to breakpoints that will show (without stopping the
emulation) the same output as what's shown on entering the debugger
- ":file" option to breakpoints that executes the commands from
given file when the breakpoint is hit. This can be used to chain
debugger actions
- multiple breakpoints options can be specified per breakpoint
- parenthesis in "evaluate" command are used to indicate memory
accesses (instead of operator precedence like earlier)
- DSP and CPU code profiling functionality. Provides statistics about
profiled code (executed code address ranges, max and total counts
and cycles), lists addresses/instructions taking most cycles and if
symbols are loaded, what were the most used symbol addresses.
- Profiling information is also shown in disassembly output
Other changes:
- hmsa tool can create empty disk images in addition to converting
disks between ST & MSA formats
- Minimal hatari-tos-register.sh Linux init script (example)
to register Hatari as binfmt_misc handler/runner for TOS programs
- hatari-console.py renamed to hconsole.py, documented and made extensible
(hconsole is command line Python interface for Hatari remote API)
- Support for plain Makefiles removed (except for internal tests),
only CMake is used for configuring and building Hatari
- CMake doesn't require anymore working C++, C-compiler is enough
Version 1.4.0 (2010-06-12):
---------------------------
Emulation:
- IDE improvements:
- Support for second drive (IDE slave)
- WIN_FORMAT command (allows HD Driver to format IDE drives)
- GEMDOS HDD emulation:
- Minor fixes to Fseek(), Fopen(), Fdatime() (e.g. Pure debugger works)
- On TOS v4 Fread() size arg is unsigned, on earlier TOS its signed
(bad code can use -1L to read whole file instead getting fail on TOS4)
- Prevent DTA and read/write functions accessing invalid memory areas
- Programs can now change read-only files to be writable
- Falcon sound emulation:
- Microphone (jack) emulation in Falcon mode (requires portaudio library)
- SSI direct sound entrance ("Audio Fun Machine" and winrec are working)
- DMA sound recording
- Crossbar handshake mode transfers
- Max VDI rez increased to TT-hi size (1280x960)
- 68020+FPU changed to 68EC030+FPU (no MMU 030) for Falcon and TT modes
(Some Falcon programs didn't work with 020)
- Video emulation on STF/STE:
- correctly shift the screen 4 pixels to the left when left border is removed
- add support for STE's 224 bytes overscan line without stabilizer
- when reading $ff8205/07/09 on STE, take into account the value
of horizontal scrolling/prefetch and linewidth
- when writing to $ff8205/07/09 on STE, correctly handle the case
where the write is made while display in ON
- LMC1992 emulation / STE sound filtering
Emulator:
- Host mouse is centered to Hatari window on Falcon resolution changes
(helps in synchronizing host and emulated mouse positions)
- Toggling fullscreen doesn't unpause paused emulation
- Falcon/TT resolution zooming is now controlled by separate options for
monitor aspect ratio correction and maximum zoomed Hatari window size.
This can reduce Hatari window resolution size changes significantly and
makes e.g. FUN's Alive demo viewable in fullscreen mode. Limits for
window size are also checked to see whether ST/STE low rez should be
zoomed and how much of borders can be shown (when borders enabled)
- Split the Screen dialog into two separate dialogs, one for Atari
monitor emulation setup and one for Hatari window setup
- GEMDOS drive emulation:
- support long host directory names and much improved long filename support
- convert host filename chars invalid in TOS to valid ones ('@')
- use TOS filename matching instead of glob() (can match names with [])
- Options for preventing floppy image (--protect-floppy) and GEMDOS
emulated drive directory (--protect-hd) modifications
- AVI file recording:
- video can be stored as BMP or as PNG images
- audio is stored as 16 bits stereo PCM
- Statusbar shows CPU type & speed
- Can create blank 2.88MB (ED) and 1.44MB (HD) floppy images
from the GUI in addition to DD & SD images. After creating
new floppy image, one can directly insert it to A: or B:.
- Tracing for BIOS, XBIOS, GEMDOS and VDI traps gives in addition
to the opcode, also the name of the corresponding OS function
- Major debugger improvements:
- TAB-completion for debugger commands, command arguments and
symbol names. Requires readline library
- "parse" command and --parse Hatari command line option to
execute debugger commands from a file
- "stateload" and "statesave" commands for memory snapshots
- "trace" command for tracing what the emulated code does
- "symbols" command for loading and listing CPU & DSP code & data
symbols/addresses. Code symbols are shown on CPU & DSP disassembly
and code & data symbols can be used in breakpoints
- "evaluate" command for doing calculations. Register and symbol
names in expressions are replaced by their values. '$' will be
TAB-completed to last 'evaluate' command result
- "cd" command to change Hatari work directory
- "exec" command to execute shell commands (ENABLE_SYSTEM_DEBUG_CALL)
- "info" command for showing Atari HW and OS information
- "lock" command for setting what information is shown every time on
entering the debugger, e.g. disassembly or memdump from given address.
"regaddr" argument does that from address pointed by given register
- improved register name handling + fixed DSP reg name matching
- if both sides of conditional breakpoint condition are identical, replace
right side with current value of given expression (e.g. if it's "d0",
use current D0 value). If the comparison is for inequality ("!"),
output the value & break only when the value changes from the previous
value (not original like with other comparisons). Symbols support
- ":trace" option to trace/output breakpoint hits without breaking
- breakpoints count hits and can be optionally removed after first hit
(":once" option) or triggered only on every Nth hit (":<count>" option)
- dsp/address command is a shortcut for conditional breakpoints and its
argument can be an expression (see "evaluate" above)
- Display DSP instructions cycle timings in disasm mode (in cycles)
- Configuration options for how many lines to disasm & memdump
- Fix VBLs/s counting to work also when --run-vbls isn't used
Other changes:
- Considerably expanded debugging and hard disk sections in manual
- CMake build support, this fixes OSX building and adds support
for building Hatari in different directory from the sources
- Removed autotools usage/support, added CMake "configure" script
- Hatari remote control programs updates (see their own release notes
for details)
Version 1.3.1 (2009-09-05):
---------------------------
This is only a bug fix release:
- GEMDOS HD emulation works together with ACSI HD image again
- Fix incorrect use of DESTDIR in python-ui installation
- Fix memdump/disasm in python-ui
Version 1.3.0 (2009-08-16):
---------------------------
Emulation:
- Hugely improved DSP emulation:
- Many more DSP using games/demos/apps work now
- Preliminary sound support (e.g. most DSP based .MOD-playback works)
- Better cycle counting / accuracy
- Many speed improvements
- Major rewrite of the internal work/structures of video.c :
- Allow to mix 50/60 Hz lines of 508/512 cycles and to keep correct
video/cpu sync (fixes TCB in SNY, DI in MindBomb, TEX in Syntax Terror).
This also adds support for dynamic calculation of HBL/Timer B positions
when freq/res are changed (fixes SHFORSTV by Paulo Simoes)
- Improved Timer B accuracy when starting it in a rare case
- Handle end of line as well as start of line for Timer B
in event count mode (using MFP's AER) (fixes Seven Gates Of Jambala)
- Add another 'O byte' line method (fixes No Buddies Land)
- Some more color alignment with the shifter when using movem.w/movem.l
(for spectrum512 like images)
- Improved Blitter timings / cycles counting
- GEMDOS emulation can emulate appropriately named host subdirectories
as separate partitions
- Bug fixes for GEMDOS HD emulation Fopen and Fseek calls
Emulator:
- DSP changes:
- DSP state saved to memory snapshots
- Threading support removed from DSP emulation (for better synchronization)
- "keyDebug" configuration file setting was renamed to "keyPause"
- Major debugger improvements:
- Invoked with AltGR+Pause. New "keyDebugger" configuration file setting can
be used to change this
- Show PC/HBL/VBL/cycles when entering debugger
- Support multiple number bases. By default values are expected in
decimals; $-prefix is needed for hexadecimal and %-prefix for binary
values. Default number base can be changed
- Internal debugger can be used to debug also DSP code
- Support for (PC) address breakpoints and conditional breakpoints
(watchpoints), both on CPU and DSP. Watchpoints support multiple
conditions, register & memory values and some internal Hatari
variables like VBL, HBL, LineCycles, FrameCycles
- Support for stepping CPU and DSP code
- Emulated programs can now change Hatari options like --fast-forward,
--trace etc. by giving a suitable Hatari command line string to
XBios call 255. This is enabled when Hatari is started with
the --bios-intercept enabled
- Support Videl horizontal fine scrolling for 16 bpp and 32 bpp host screens
- Process successive motion events before returning from event handler
(to fix analog joystick jitter slowing Hatari input processing)
- FPS measurement shown when emulation is paused & --run-vbls option
- Mouse grab option (--grab)
- Some fixes for building Hatari with MS-VC6 and for the Wii
- Statusbar assert (bug #15512) fixed
- Reworked the main dialog of the GUI and split the disk dialog into two
separate dialogs, one for floppy setup and one for hard disk setup
Utilities:
- New atari-hd-image.sh script for creating HD image files
- External Python GUI and CLI interfaces for Hatari in main repo
Documentation:
- Debugging and performance sections added to manual
Version 1.2.0 (2009-01-24):
---------------------------
- The Hatari project has been moved from hatari.sourceforge.net to
http://hatari.berlios.de. Please update all bookmarks!
- New zip2st.sh shell script for converting .ZIP files into .ST disk images
- Fixed a bug that could write data to the wrong disk image (resulting
in data loss)
Emulation:
- MIDI input supported in addition to output; --midi option is now
replaced with separate --midi-in and --midi-out options
- Support for STE hardware horizontal scrolling in medium res
- Make the FDC Read Address command always return success, even if
we don't really return the correct bytes for now (fixes a few game loaders)
- Improved shadow register when writing to the YM2149 (fixes X-Out music)
- Cleaner blitter code with improved timings
- Emulation of interrupts jitter for HBL and VBL + improved timing accuracy
- Improve color alignment with the shifter (for spectrum512 like images)
- Fix to the fire button detection reported in some games
- Added IDE hard disk emulation
Emulator:
- Pause/unpause shortcut
Version 1.1.0 (2008-11-29):
---------------------------
Emulation:
- Falcon DSP emulation good enough to improve some few games/demos, e.g.
Virtual City. (most still work better with emulation disabled, though)
- New sound engine that fixes all problems with the old one
- 16-bit stereo sound (instead of 8-bit mono)
- Improved blitter emulation (blitter cycles emulation, blitter interrupt)
- Improved STE support for some video registers (hscroll, linewidth, ...)
- Improved printer emulation
- Improved STE microwire emulation
- Improved support for games & demos which are accessing IKBD directly
(including a fake 6301 emulation for the known IKBD programs)
- ACSI emulation fix to get HDDriver working
- Some other minor bugfixes to ST/STe emulation (FDC, MFP, PSG, RS-232)
- Improved MFP emulation
- Improved 68k emulation (move.b Ax,(Ay) and extb.l)
- Fixed bugs in the GEMDOS HD emulation (Pexec() etc.)
Emulator:
- Statusbar and overlay led features
- Screenshots work also in VDI/TT/Falcon mode and are saved as PNGs
- Support for automatic frameskip and pausing emulation
- Support for embedding Hatari window (on X11) and control socket
- Improved memory snapshot function
- Improved the "trace" debug function
Version 1.0.1 (2008-03-30):
---------------------------
- This is just a bug-fix release, without new features.
- Fixed some compile problems on non-unix-like systems (like MingW).
- Fixed crashes in Spec512 emulation code ("Dan Dare 3" and little endian ARM).
- Blitter source address is not incremented anymore in operation mode 0 and 15.
- STE small overscan video effect is now displayed on the left side instead
of the right side (fixes "Just Musix 2" menu for example).
- Hatari now works on 256 color displays right again.
- Fixed PSG mirror register emulation (fixes e.g. sample sound in "Ooh Crikey
Wot A Scorcher" demo).
Version 1.0.0 (2008-03-17):
---------------------------
- The user's configuration files are now located in the directory ~/.hatari/
instead of the $HOME directory itself.
- Improved VDI resolution mode (resolution can now be change in small steps).
- The 'Frame Skip 8' option can now be correctly selected, too.
- Fixed some bugs/problems in the GEMDOS HD emulation (with Fopen & Fcreate).
- Keyboard shortcuts for saving and restoring memory snapshots.
- Hatari can now be compiled with CeGCC, too.
- Fixed some problems with the FPU emulation. NeoN Grafix renders now right.
- Writing to floppy disk images works now also with TOS 4.0x.
- A lot of source code clean-up and beautification.
- Monochrome mode now runs in 71 Hz, and 60 Hz color mode now also really runs
with 60 Hz refresh rate.
- Fixed memory snapshot files (some important data has not been saved before).
- It is now possible to automatically load/save memory snapshots at start/exit.
- Fixed some bugs in the file selection dialog.
- Some minor improvements in the GUI: Improved text edit fields, "Cancel"
buttons can now be activated by pressing the ESC key, and Hatari asks the
user before resetting and quitting the emulator.
- The Hatari executable is now relocatable (so the RPM can be relocated, too).
- It's now possible to enable special trace output with the "--trace" option.
- The size of the borders can now be specified in the hatari.cfg file.
- Fixed Spec512 screen plotting on big endian machines.
- Native screen conversion functions for 32 bpp host display mode.
- Reworked the command line options.
- Added missing read for "clr" in 68000 CPU mode.
- Cycle correct MULU/MULS/DIVU/DIVS in 68000 CPU mode.
- Support for 68000 instructions pairing
- Better emulation of exception stack frame (bus/address error), used in some
protections.
- Don't change illegal 68000 opcodes $8, $a and $c if no cartridge is inserted.
- Ensure ACIA has consistent values when reset.
- More precise interrupt handling, allowing to mix CPU cycles and MFP cycles
with greater precision.
- Various improvements in MFP emulation (stop/start timer without writing to
data register, reading data register, handle pending cycles when timer
"wraps" (i.e. data register reaches 0), ...). Supports programs using some
very "fast" timers (Overscan Demos, ULM Demos) and requiring nearly cycle
exact synchronisation with the 68000.
- Mostly correct wait states when accessing sound registers (add wait state for
$ff8801/ff8803 when needed).
- Correct values of cycle counters read & write accesses for the most common
cases used for fullscreen/hardscroll.
- Correct values for Video_CalculateAddress, taking into account frequency and
left/right borders' state, needed for correct synchronisation between video
and cpu.
- Improve top/bottom border removal, including 60 Hz bottom border, as well as
"short" 50 Hz screen (171 lines)
- Support for all left/right border removal, including 0 byte lines.
- Support for hardscroll on STF, including the most recent ones using 4/5 lines.
- Support for 4 pixels horizontal hardscroll on STF (ST Connexion in Punish
Your Machine)
- Small adjustments in cycle precise color handling (spec512.c)
Version 0.95 (2007-05-12):
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- This release brings you basic Atari TT and Falcon emulation!
Please note that both new emulation modes are still highly experimental,
some few games and demos work, but most still have more or less big
problems.
- Basic emulation of Falcon video shifter (Videl), NVRAM and DMA sound is in
place. The biggest drawback: There is no working Falcon DSP emulation yet.
- Screen/Shifter emulation timings have slightly been changed. Some things
now work better, some others work worse...
- Some patches for compiling on RiscOS and AmigaOS have been included.
- Compiling Hatari for Windows now works better.
- Added Hatari icon (hatari-icon.bmp).
- Fixed "movec" bug in 68020 CPU mode.
- Keyboard shortcuts for loading & saving memory snapshots (AltGr+k & AltGr+l).
- The built-in debugger has been slightly improved to be more user-friendly.
- Added "hmsa" tool - a little program for converting .MSA files to .ST and
vice versa.
Version 0.90 (2006-08-22):
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- Better Spectrum 512 support (60Hz support, improved I/O memory waitstates).
- STE right border opening support (used in Obsession, Pacemaker).
- Blitter Smudge mode support (used in Pacemaker demo).
- Wheel-mouse simulates cursor up and down.
- Work-around to FDC handling, --slow-fdc option is not anymore needed.
- Bugfix to MFP, sound works now in more YMRockerz releases.
- Bugfix to GEMDOS path handling (Hatari SIGSEGV).
- Bugfix to emulated memory initialization (4MB was cleared earlier, now
exactly the amount set up for Hatari. Saves memory on embedded systems
if less than 4MB is specified.)
- Re-written command-line option handling.
- (Again) lots of code const/static, type usage and indentation cleanup.
- Preliminary support for TOS 3.0x and 030 TT software that runs in ST
resolutions and doesn't need PMMU.
- Native GUI for Mac OSX.
- ACSI emulation fixes to get HD formatting to work with AHDI 5. HD emulation
now works quite fine with AHDI 5 (but other HD drivers are currently not
supported).
- Joystick shortcut changed to toggle cursor emulation between ports 0 and 1.
- Keys for all Hatari shortcuts can now be configured from hatari.cfg.
- Added command line option for setting ST keyboard mapping.
- Joystick command line option requires now parameter for a port for which
the joystick cursor emu is enabled.
- Fixed relative mouse event handling in zoomed low-rez.
- Hatari shows now more of the bottom borden (screen size is now 384x276
instead of 384x267).
- Fixed sync delay timings - sound should now be better (e.g. on Mac OS X).
- Added basic support for compiling Hatari with MinGW.
Version 0.80 (2005-10-12):
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- Support for STE hardware emulation: STE palette, STE shifter (horizontal fine
scrolling, split screen effects), DMA sound and STE joypads.
See the manual for a list of working STE applications/games/demos.
- Hatari can now emulate up to 14 MiB ST RAM instead of only 4 MiB.
- Support for parallel port joysticks.
- Improved GEMDOS HD emulation (added Fattrib() call).
- Adding and removing a GEMDOS or ACSI hard disk should now work correctly.
- Re-factoring of the screen conversion functions.
- Improved manual: Now with screenshots of the options dialogs.
Version 0.70 (2005-06-05):
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- As always: Code cleanup and bug fixes.
- No more crashes when a program tries to access illegal sector numbers.
- Improved built-in ROM cartridge.
- Rewrote the IO memory emulation code -> Better compatibility.
- Support for TOS 1.06 and TOS 1.62
- Emulated CPU can now also be run at 16 MHz or 32 MHz.
- File selection dialog scrollable with mouse wheel or cursor keys, too.
- Hatari now works on 64-bit host CPUs, too.
- Floppy disk images can now be set writable/write-protected in the GUI.
- Hatari can now also load a global configuration file (e.g. /etc/hatari.cfg).
- Configurable logging functions.
Version 0.60 (2004-12-19):
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- Again some code cleanup and bug fixes.
- Window/fullscreen mode is now correctly initialized from the configuration
file.
- Added --window command line option to force a start in window mode.
- Added alert boxes to show warnings, errors and information messages.
- PC mouse pointer is now better in sync with the ST mouse pointer.
- It's now possible to load an alternative cartridge image file.
Version 0.50 (2004-07-26):
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- A lot of internal code cleanup and bug fixes.
- Added a dialog for creating new blank floppy disk images.
- The source code has been optimized for better emulation speed.
- Added RS232 emulation (still very experimental and not very well tested! It
seems not to work reliable yet. Help for debugging is very appreciated!).
- Some bugs in the 68000 emulation have been fixed.
- The emulator now checks for double bus errors and stops the emulation if
necessary (instead of crashing the emulator).
- Timer-D is now patched correctly again.
- The old font has been replaced by two new fonts so that the GUI now looks
better in high resolutions.
- The fonts are now linked into the executable.
- Added support for DIM floppy disk images.
Version 0.45 (2003-10-30):
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- This is just a minor release on the way to version 0.50. It is not very
well tested, so be warned!
- New build system (with a "configure" shell script).
- A disk image destroying bug in the MSA compression function has been fixed.
- It is now possible to redirect the printer output into a file.
- Experimental MIDI output support.
- Added the possibility to save memory snap shots.
- Pending HBL and VBL interrupts are now emulated correctly (I hope).
- Some speed improvements.
- GEMDOS HD emulation now also works with EmuTOS.
Version 0.40 (2003-07-11):
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- Support for ZIP and GZIP compressed disk images!
- Configuration file support for loading and saving the emulator settings.
- Hatari now works on machines with Sparc CPUs, too.
- Fixed a problem that slowed down the emulator in monochrome mode when using
TOS 2.06.
- Inverted monochrome mode is now supported, too (some games like Maniac
Mansion use this).
- Added Mega-ST compatible real time clock (RTC) emulation.
- The GEMDOS HD emulation has been improved (it now also works with lower-case
file names) and many bugs have been fixed there.
- Improved keyboard mapping (added mapping via PC keyboard scancode and via
reloadable mapping files).
- The screen rendering routines have been generalized (less differences between
windowed and fullscreen mode).
- Hatari can now be cross-compiled, too. You can even compile it for MiNT now.
However, it does not run very well there yet.
- Support for RAM TOS images.
- Improved memory mapping (the different memory regions should now behave much
more like on a real ST).
- Improved M68k exceptions (bus errors and exception cycle timings).
- Fixed some bugs in the extended VDI resolution mode (now it is working with
EmuTOS, too).
- Some games that poll the write-protection signal of the FDC to check for
disk changes should now be working, too.
Version 0.30 (2003-03-12):
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- Some parts of the code accessed the SR directly to read the IPL -
however the UAE CPU core only updates the SR when doing a MakeSR() first.
So this is done in the affected code parts now, too.
- The IPL wasn't raised when a MFP interrupt occurred - fixed now.
- Full screen resolution for ST-Low can now be selected from the screen setup
dialog.
- The IKBD emulation does not longer duplicate joystick fire buttons when
a game tries to use both, joystick and mouse
- Improved audio timer function - the code should now be a little bit faster.
- Resynced Hatari's UAE CPU core with UAE 0.8.22 - this fixes some bugs in 68k
instructions like ABCD and SBCD.
- Added patches for TOS 2.05 so that this TOS version should now work, too.
- Rewrote TOS patching routine. It is much more flexible now.
- Removed 0xa0ff opcode for VDI resolutions; using GEMDOS_OPCODE now instead.
- Fixed MMU RAM size configuration bug.
- Rewrote some more screen conversion functions in C.
- When a bus or address error occurred, the PC was often not set to the
right exception handler routine. This has been fixed now.
Version 0.25 (2002-12-30):
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- Patches for big endian systems (Spectrum 512 pictures are now working there).
- Hatari now also compiles and runs under Mac OS X.
- Blitter emulation has been added.
- There is now the possibility to save YM or WAV sounds.
- Big VDI resolutions (e.g. 800x600) are now supported, too.
- Mouse grab shortcut (AltGr+M).
- Fixed TOS v1.00 patching.
Version 0.20 (2002-02-18):
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- Added graphical user interface for configuration of the emulator settings.
- Real joysticks can now also be used to simulate the ST joysticks.
- Yet another bugfix for BeOS (lseek again...)
- Support for hard disk images.
Version 0.11 (2001-10-10):
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- High level (GEMDOS) harddisk emulation.
- ST-Med/ST-Low mixed mode now works.
- Add --compatible CPU mode option.
Version 0.10 (2001-08-16):
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- Improved CPU cycles emulation.
- Added Spec512 support.
- Some keyboard shortcuts.
- Added the possibility to switch between fullscreen and window mode.
- ST Medium resolution conversion routine.
- Built-in debugger.
- Added possibility to grab screenshots.
- Sound support (not working very well yet).
Version 0.05 (2001-06-01):
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- Joystick emulation via cursor keys.
- ST-LOW resolution conversion routine is now working on big-endian machines.
Version 0.04 (2001-05-27):
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- Added Stefan Berndtsson's patch for big-endian machines.
Hatari now runs also with non-x86 Linux machines! Thanks Stefan!
- Rewrote the ST-LOW resolution conversion routines in C ==> ST-LOW now works!
- Added some of the WinSTon patches Paul Bates recently published
at the WinSTon BBS (Thanks to Ladislav Adamec for the hint).
- Cleaned up the source tree a little bit.
Version 0.03 (2001-04-03):
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- Rewrote some more assembler functions. FDC emulation now works!
- SDL Keyboard code finished and included a SDL-Key -> ST-Scancode table.
- Added mouse support.
Version 0.02 (2001-03-28):
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- Added very simple SDL support.
- Rewrote a lot of assembler functions in C (e.g. intercept.c).
- Adapted the UAE CPU. Now Hatari is able to boot a TOS 1.0x ROM, the
Desktop shows up, but no mouse and keyboard interaction yet.
Version 0.01 (2001-03-21):
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- Made the WinSTon source code compilable with GNU-C.
- Added the UAE CPU sources.
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