Re: [hatari-devel] Release 1.6.2 in mid May

[Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've launched some programs here and there with the latest changes 
without noticing anything broken (in Falcon mode of course).
I can't say everything is safe, but at least, it seems to work well.

Laurent


Le 15/06/2012 23:16, Nicolas Pomarède a écrit :
> On 15/06/2012 22:20, Eero Tamminen wrote:
>
> > > A bit of testing that the recent changes to WinUAE didn't break
> > > anything for Falcon emulation.
> >
> > I don't have time for this.  Will somebody else check few things
> > to see that they still work with WinUAE?
>
> Unfortunately, I can't test this myself, I barely use falcon mode, so 
> I would be unable to say if some programs are working better, worse or 
> similar to what it was before those recent changes.
>
> Could some people used to Falcon try to run their favorite programs ?
>
> If no one has time to do it, I will have to do the release anyway.
>
>
> > > If I have time, I'd like to test the debugger symbol handling a bit
> > > more and update the TOS tester tests a bit (check whether Vsync() in
> > > tester helps in preventing screenshots to have half updated contents)..
> >
> > Vsync() doesn't help.
> >
> > I guess the issue is that fast forward use implies frameskip which can
> > skip several frames, including the one that I tried to Vsync.
> >
> > This is non-issue without fast forward I guess, but then running
> > TOS tester would be really slow for a large number of TOS version
> > (especially ones supporting many machine types).
>
> Not a blocking issue in that case, more an enhancement that could be 
> postponed to the next release if it can't be changed soon.
>
>
> Nicolas