Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari v1.7 release?

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/05/2013 10:40, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On sunnuntai 19 toukokuu 2013, Matthias Arndt wrote:
> > considering a fresh v1.7 release, I suggest the floppy timing issues
> > found by ljbk on atari-forum should be investigated and fixed first.
>
> http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=25061
>
> Enabling fast FDC access making things slower sounds ... unexpected. :-)
>
>
> > Or should this be a topic for a v1.8?
>
> I guess that depends on how much work / changes fixing it requires.
>
>
> 	- Eero

As paulo warned me ahead of the release, I already gave it a look. 
There's a timing problem somewhere in the FDC that makes sector reading 
faster than a real ST (even in accurate mode). In that case, the demo 
gets confused and slow down (certainly due to the real time loading + 
depacking used that requires specific delays).

I can make it works by tweaking the fdc, but in a way that it fixes only 
this demo and cold break other things. This is a part I didn't rewrite 
in 1.6.0 with the rest of the FDC. I can add it, but it would take time 
to check it doesn't break anything else.

So, unless I have time to fix it in the next days, I think Hatari 1.7 
will have to be released without this :(
This will go in a 1.7.1 version if needed.

Nicolas