Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari 2.1.0 has been released

Nicolas and the whole Hatari team, thanks again! I still remember the times of people claiming that there will "never" be an usable Falcon emulator (same as there "never" had been an usable mp3 player for the Falcon... :)) and you all have proved them wrong!

Also, it's incredible how Hatari has become an actual development platform to ease life for many developers.

Btw, I wouldn't be so shy and packaged your cool intro along with the release, ideally with Hatari preconfigured just to run it. :)

On 8 February 2018 at 21:34, Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello

At last, a new release ! :)

You can get it from http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/ or directly in http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/2.1.0/

Sources are available, as well as prebuilt binaries for Windows (in 32 bit and 64 bit mode) and macOS (thanks to Troed).

Major highlights of this new version :

- Major rewrite of the YM2149 with a new cycle accurate emulation
- Major rewrite of the blitter to allow cycle exact bus accesses and
correct bus sharing with the CPU
- Improved video emulation : bottom border at 60 Hz and number of
displayed lines, video counter reloading, timer B in mono mode
- Add full support for MMU/MCU RAM configuration at $FF8001, support
more RAM combinations (256 KB and 2.5 MB)
- Some STX floppy images were not correctly emulated when verify bit
was set in the FDC
- Support for undocumented STOP behaviour on 68000
- Fix some rare bus accesses order and stack frames
- Fix some flags after DIV and BCD instructions
- Improved memory timing for 68030 depending on RAM type
- 68030 instruction cache was not correctly disabled when EI=0 in
CACR
- Improve caches accuracy for 68020/30/40/60, with optional MMU
support
- Large improvements to FPU emulation, including a new softfloat
method
- MIDI support for Windows and macOS (with PortMidi library)
- Add support for AVI files > 4GB (up to 256 GB)
- SDL UI shows refresh rate and blitter usage
- Several improvements/fixes when using VDI
- Improvements/more options for autostart using virtual INF file
- Many improvements to debugger, especially for symbols handling
- Fix compilation for more targets (ARM64, MIPS, ...)

See release-notes.txt for the full changelog.

Fixed demos : Sprite32 by Leonard, Jam-Cols by ICE, 4getful, Beams, many
Falcon demos should run better

Fixed programs : Hextracker for Falcon, Protracker 2.1 and Neochrome
Master 2.8 at 60 Hz, Audio Sculpture

As a special bonus, I coded a small intro for this release, available here http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/demos/hatari_2.1/ or here http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=74746

Nicolas

MiKRO / Mystic Bytes
http://mikro.atari.org