Re: [hatari-users] Hatari 2.2.0 has been released

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Thank you!! Look forward to playing with it…

John Perry,
Scotland

> On 31 Jan 2019, at 14:00, Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Here's a new release to celebrate 2019 !
> 
> You can get it from http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/ or directly in http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/2.2.0/
> 
> Sources are available, as well as prebuilt binaries for Windows (in 32 bit and 64 bit mode) and macOS (thanks to Troed).
> (note that the Windows binaries don't include PortAudio/PortMidi libraries for now, only macOS version does)
> 
> Major highlights of this new version :
> 
>    - Many improvements/fixes to 68030 CPU regarding MMU, caches, bus error handling
>    - Improve softfloat FPU emulation
>    - Improve blitter bus sharing in some rare cases
>    - Handle VBlank signal and mask the 2 last lines when bottom border is removed
>    - Fix DSP ROM tables (sin, mulaw & a-law)
>    - For DSP, Some  waitstate cycles were not correctly counted when accessing DSP IO regs in CE mode
>    - Experimental support for the NCR5380 SCSI chip in Falcon and TT mode
>    - Very experimental support for the SCC chip of the Mega-STE, TT and Falcon
>    - Experimental support for TOS 2.07 (the "Sparrow" TOS)
>    - Correctly emulate bus error handling for STE lightpen registers
>    - "patch TOS timer-D" speedup option is now disabled by default (to improve default compatibility)
>    - Allow up to 512MB of TT-RAM (increased from 256 MB) and save/restore TT RAM content into memory snapshots
>    - Improve memory snapshot save/restore reliability
>    - Display more infos in the status bar (FPU, cycle exact mode)
>    - IDE byte-swap option added to config file & GUI
>    - AVI recording with PNG codec could be wrongly limited to 4GB with some OSes
>    - Many changes to the debugger
>    - Hatari Python UI migrated from PyGtk v2 to Gtk v3
> 
> 
> See release-notes.txt for the full changelog.
> 
> Fixed demos : B.I.G. Demo screen 2
> 
> Fixed Falcon demos : 4musiK by Dune & Sector One
> 
> Fixed games : Lethal Xcess in STE mode when using blitter, Lethal Xcess in STF mode
> 
> Fixed programs : Many TT/Falcon programs relying on 68030 MMU / bus error retrying are now working correctly
> 
> 
> I also coded a small STF intro for this release, available here http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/demos/hatari_2.2/ or here http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=80048
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 




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