WinArcadia 11.3 (Windows): 4 May 2009

AmiArcadia 11.3 (AmigaOS 3): 4 May 2009

AmiArcadia 8.3 (AmigaOS 4): 29 October 2008

AmiArcadia 4.81 (MorphOS): 6 December 2007

AmiArcadia and WinArcadia are multi-emulators of these Signetics-based

machines:

* the Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson,

Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu,

Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix,

etc.) (1982);

* the Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Fountain, Hanimex,

Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace,

Waddington, etc.) (c. 1978);

* the Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);

* PIPBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board

Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (c. 1977-1978);

* the Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);

* the Central Data 2650 computer (1977);

* the Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1980) (preliminary); and

* the Galaxia and Astro Wars coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1980)

(preliminary).

Features include: ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and full-

screen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics

scaling, automatic load/save of configuration/game, keyboard/joystick/

gamepad/paddle/mouse/trackball support, autofire, turbo mode, gameplay

recording/playback, PAL/NTSC modes, sprite demultiplexing, help windows,

source code, debugger, frame skipping, redefinable keys, save screenshots

(4 supported formats), ARexx port, network play, real-time monitor, locale

support, game selection sidebar, text-to-speech, printer output,

undithering, support for ZIPped games, clipboard support, palette editor,

tone retuning.

Changes since V11.21:

. CD2650: "Settings|Graphics|Green screen?" option.

. CD2650: "Settings|Graphics|Inverse video?" option.

. Improved "Help|Game information..." window.

. Arcadia: improved collision detection.

. Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

Front End

New In This Version

(For M.A.M.E. version 0.131)

 

- Added filters to hide Chihiro, Hikaru, Taito G-Net, & Triforce games.

- Added the option to select a Crosshairs folder.

- The Game Information report now reads the cheat.zip. This file must be in your M.A.M.E directory.

>> Get it HERE.

Multi-system emulator

New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

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- Atari 1200XL (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Atari 600XL (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Atari 65XE (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Atari 65XE Arabic (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Atari 130XE (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Atari 800XE (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Atari XEGS (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Dator 3000 (not working) [Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt, Wilbert Pol]

- Dick Smith Wizzard [Curt Coder]

- Dick Smith VZ 2000 [Curt Coder]

- DEC VT100 (not working) [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Hanimex Rameses [Curt Coder]

- Kaypro II (Model 2/83) (not working) [Robbbert]

- Kaypro 4 (Model 4/83) (not working) [Robbbert]

- Kaypro 2x (Model 2/84) (not working) [Robbbert]

- Kaypro 10 (not working) [Robbbert]

- Kyocera Kyotronic 85 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- LLC1 (not working) [Miodrag Milanovic]

- LLC2 [Miodrag Milanovic]

- NEC PC-8201A (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Nokia MikroMikko 1 M6 (not working) [Curt Coder]

- Nokia MikroMikko 1 M7 (not working) [Curt Coder]

- NTS DreamWriter T400 (not working) [Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt, Wilbert Pol]

- Olivetti M10 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Omni II (not working) [Robbbert]

- Sanyo Creativision MK-II [Curt Coder]

- SNK NeoGeo Pocket [Wilbert Pol]

- SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color [Wilbert Pol]

- Talking Electronics Computer (TEC-1) [Robbbert]

- TRS-80 Model 100 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- TRS-80 Model 102 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- TRS-80 Model 200 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]

- Walther ES-210 (not working) [Roberto Carlos Fernandez erhardt, Wilbert Pol]

- Z1013 (Model with 8x4 and 8x8 keyboard) [Miodrag Milanovic]

- Z80 N.E. [Roberto Lavarone]

 

 

 

System Driver Changes:

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- [A7800] Better NTSC palette. [Robert Tuccitto, Underball, GroovyBee]

 

- [ATARI] Refactored MESS specific code from MAME to MESS source. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [ATARI] Updated keyboard and keypad scan handling to be more accurate. Added natural keyboard support. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [ATARI] Fixed PIA regression. Floppy disks work again. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [ATMOS] Added Basic v1.2x enhanced BIOS [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [COLECO] Converted to use PORT_CATEGORY for controller selection. Look into the Category Menu (after pressing TAB) to enable Extra controllers. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [COLECO] Fixed Super Action Controller emulation (it was missing additional action buttons and P2 slider). [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [CRVISION] Added tape loading. You can now load tapes which have only the left track. Stereo (data+audio) tapes are not supported yet. [Curt Coder]

 

- [ELECTRON] Fixed graphical display modes. [Robbbert]

 

- [MBEE] The pc85 now has the correct bioses (Thanks to Stewart Kay and IanM). The shell multi-rom selector is working. The bad dump of Telcom 3.21 has been replaced. The rom banking feature of Telcom 3.21 is now emulated. [Robbbert]

 

- [sPECTRUM] Removed Spectrum+ keyboard keys from earlier models (and from some clones). Moved Joystick interface selection to the Category Menu. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [sPECTRUM] Added natural keyboard support. [Fabio Priuli]

 

- [sTUDIO2] Fixed .st2 cartridge loading. [Curt Coder]

 

- [TI99 family] Added functionality for multi-cartridge handling. Added support for complex/multi-file cartridge images. [Michael Zapf]

 

- [TI99_8] Fixed the driver and removed the GAME_NOT_WORKING flag. [Michael Zapf]

 

- [TRS80] Various improvements: [Robbbert]

- added centronics printer

- cassette works on all clones

- Model III/4 RTC and cassette hooked up

- UART added

- LNW-80 graphics and colour added

- ht1080z and system-80 extension roms added

 

- [X68000] Added support for 3 and 6 button Megadrive gamepads. [barry Rodewald]

 

- [ZX] Improved natural keyboard support. Removed hacky double mappings for Cursor Keys (and a few others). To access these keys, now you have to either press Shift together with another key, like in the real keyboard, or simply switch to natural keyboard emulation [Fabio Priuli]

 

- Added natural keyboard support to a number of drivers: ac1.c, amiga.c, apogee.c, b2m.c, bk.c, einstein.c, galeb.c, homelab.c, irisha.c, mikro80.c, mikrosha.c, mz80.c, orao.c, partner.c, pecom.c, radio86.c, sapi1.c, special.c, ti99_8.c, tm990189.c, ut88.c [Fabio Priuli]

 

 

Source Changes:

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- The core is based on MAME 0.131. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

 

- New tool added (castool) for cassette to wav conversion [Miodrag Milanovic]

>> Get it HERE.

PC emulator

WHAT IS BOCHS?

 

Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator

written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes

emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom

BIOS. Currently, Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486,

Pentium/PentiumII/PentiumIII/Pentium4 or x86-64 CPU, including optional

MMX, SSEx and 3DNow! instructions. Bochs is capable of running

most Operating Systems inside the emulation, for example Linux, DOS,

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP or Windows Vista.

Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by

the Bochs project at "http://bochs.sourceforge.net".

 

 

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Changes:

Changes in 2.4 (May 3, 2009):

 

Brief summary :

 

- Added graphical Bochs debugger frontend for most of the supported platforms.

- Thanks for Chourdakis Michael and Bruce Ewing.

- Many new CPU features in emulation

- Support for > 32 bit physical address space and configurable MSRs

- VMX, 1G pages in long mode, MOVBE instruction

- Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness, debugger and CPU instrumentation.

- New config interface 'win32config' with start and runtime menu

- USB: added OHCI support, external hub and cdrom

- Added user plugin interface support.

 

Detailed change log :

 

- CPU and internal debugger

- Support for VMX hardware emulation in Bochs CPU, to enable configure with

--enable-vmx option

Nearly complete VMX implementation, with few exceptions:

- Dual-monitor treatment of SMIs and SMM not implemented yet

- NMI virtualization, APIC virtualization not implemented yet

- VMENTER to not-active state not supported yet

- No advanced features like Extended Page Tables or VPID

- Support for configurable MSR registers emulation, to enable configure with

--enable-configurable-msrs option

Look for configuration example in .bochsrc and msrs.def

- Support new Intel Atom® MOVBE instruction, to enable configure with

--enable-movbe option

- Support for 1G pages in long mode, to enable configure with

--enable-1g-pages option

- Support for > 32 bit physical address space in CPU. Up to 36 bit could be seen in legacy mode (PAE) and up to 40 bit in x86-64 mode.

Still support the same amount of the physical memory in the memory object,

so system with > 4Gb of RAM yet cannot be emulated.

To enable configure with --enable-long-phy-address option.

- Implemented modern BIOSes mode limiting max reported CPUID function to 3 using .bochsrc CPU option. The mode is required in order to correctly install and boot WinNT.

- Added ability to configure CPUID vendor/brand strings through .bochsrc (patch from @SF by Doug Reed).

- Many bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (both x86 and x86-64).

- Updated CPU instrumentation callbacks.

- Fixed Bochs internal debugger breakpoints/watchpoints handling.

 

- Configure and compile

- Added ability to choose Bochs log file name and Bochs debugger log file name from Bochs command line (using new -log and -dbglog options)

- Removed Peter Tattam's closed source external debugger interface from the code.

- Removed --enable-guest2host-tlb configure option. The option is always enabled for any Bochs configuration.

- Removed --enable-icache configure option. The option is always enabled for any Bochs configuration. Trace cache support still remains optional and could be configured off.

- Added configure option to compile in GUI frontend for Bochs debugger, to enable configure with --enable-debugger-gui option. The GUI debugger frontend is enabled by default with Bochs debugger.

- Removed --enable-port-e9-hack configure option. The feature now could be configured at runtime through .bochsrc.

- Added configure option to enable/disable A20 pin support. Disabling the A20 pin support slightly speeds up the emulation.

- reduced dependencies between source files for faster code generation

 

- BIOS

- Added S3 (suspend to RAM) ACPI state to BIOS (patch by Gleb Natapov)

- Implemented MTRR support in the bios (patches by Avi Kivity and Alex Williamsion with additions by Sebastian Herbszt)

- Bug fixes

 

- I/O Devices

- Added user plugin support

- remaining devices converted to plugins: pit, ioapic, iodebug

- added 'plugin_ctrl' bochsrc option to control the presence of optional device plugins without a separate option. By default all plugins are enabled.

- added register mechanism for removable mouse and keyboard devices

- Hard drive / cdrom

- PACKET-DMA feature now supported by all ATAPI commands

- ATAPI command 0x1A added (based on the Qemu implementation)

- sb16

- Added ALSA sound support on Linux (PCM/MIDI output)

- FM synthesizer now usable with MIDI output (simple piano only)

- Fixed OPL frequency to MIDI note translation

- Fixed MIDI output command

- keyboard

- added keyboard controller commands 0xCA and 0xCB

- USB

- USB code reorganized to support more HC types and devices

- added USB OHCI support written by Ben Lunt

- added external USB hub support (initial code ported from Qemu)

- added USB cdrom support (SCSI layer ported from Qemu)

- added status bar indicators to show data transfer

- VGA

- VBE video memory increased to 16 MB

- implemented changeable VBE LFB base address (PCI only, requires latest BIOS and VGABIOS images)

- I/O APIC

- implemented I/O APIC device hardware reset

 

- Config interface

- new config interface 'win32config' with start and runtime menu is now the default on Windows ('textconfig' is still available)

- win32 device config dialogs are now created dynamicly from a parameter list (works like the wx ParamDialog)

- changes in textcofig and the wx ParamDialog for compatibility with the new win32 dialog behaviour

- Bochs param tree index keys are case independent now

- some other additions / bugfixes in the simulator interface code

 

- Misc

- updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.6c

- Updated Bochs TESTFORM to version 0.4

>> Get it HERE.