atari++ 1.55 final released

[thorfdbg]

Hi folks,

 

please find the final 1.55 release of the Atari 8-bit emulator "atari++" at its usual location at:

 

http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~thor/atari++/

 

Basically, bug-fixes from the 1.55 beta release announced a couple of days ago. Mainly, a couple of pokey issues have been fixed, one issue in the

disassembler, and a couple of issues in Os++, the built-in freestanding operating system you'll also find on this page in source form.

 

From the history:

 

Atari++ 1.55

- Fixed a couple of bugs in the disk emulation, thanks to

Konrad Kokoszkiewicz for finding them. Specifically,

- Read and write capacity (815 commands) did not check for

all supported disk layout types and hard-disk partitions,

- Speedy commands were recognized and interfered even if

the speedy emulation was turned off,

- Disk status wasn't returned correctly for high-density

drives

- Fixed a parsing/error handling bug if the initial con-

figuration files were incorrect.

- Fixed the implementation of ZFR1 in the mathpack patch.

- Fixed the implementation of FFRAC in mathpack patch.

- Added constants required by BASIC for the patch.

- This release comes with a new release of Os++, the

emulator operating system. For the first time, this

release is complete and includes a math-pack whose

functions should be both faster and more precise than the

original implementation. Thanks to B. Watson for

continuously pushing me - it's done now.

- Minor streamlining in the CIO implementation in Os++.

- This release adds a STDIO interface to atari++, allowing

it to read keyboard or editor input from the command line,

and echo-ing output to stdout. This feature can be used

for batch-processing.

- Compared to the beta release, this version fixes one bug

in the BCDToInt math pack routine (also known as FPI) which

did not handle carry-over correctly.

- Writing 0 to SKCTL now also resets the pokey timers as it

emulates the POKEY soft reset.

- Pokey STIMER also resets the poly-counters now, as it

should.

- Os++ includes minor fixes for the cursor rendering and

interaction of S: with E:. Writing to S: now shields the

cursor correctly.

 

Greetings,

 

Thomas

[Roydea6]

Hi,

I get this when trying to download the win32 binary..

 

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~thor/atari++/download/atari++_win_1.55.zip on this server.

 

 

I will try again later.. Thanks for the update..

[thorfdbg]

Hi,

I get this when trying to download the win32 binary..

 

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~thor/atari++/download/atari++_win_1.55.zip on this server.

 

 

I will try again later.. Thanks for the update..

Oh, sorry, my fault. Should be fixed now, please try again....

 

Thanks for the message,

 

Thomas

[bpj1138]

Thanks for the info on the monitor. Yup, I'm using the non-curses version (hopefully not for long). Lastly, I think I found a bug (this may be old too), but the PAL/NTSC flag doesn't seem to be set correctly.. Cheerio..

 

--Bart

[thorfdbg]

Thanks for the info on the monitor. Yup, I'm using the non-curses version (hopefully not for long). Lastly, I think I found a bug (this may be old too), but the PAL/NTSC flag doesn't seem to be set correctly.. Cheerio..

 

--Bart

If you use the precompiled win32 binary, yup, that's unfortunately without curses support. Problem is that I haven't found a non-broken curses version for windows. Given that, it would take minutes to prepare the full binary including this support. Sorry...

 

So long,

Thomas

[Shannon]

Any plans on adding VAPI support at some point?

[thorfdbg]

Any plans on adding VAPI support at some point?

Well, as soon as there is a documentation available for it, it will be considered. Currently, that's closed source as far as I can tell. I wonder how they do that in first place, with atari800 and its derivatives being GPL'd - it's not licence-conforming. Not my problem, though....

 

So long,

Thomas

[Shannon]

I take it you have not seen this thread.

[thorfdbg]

I take it you have not seen this thread.

 

Ooops, you're right of course. Thanks for the pointer - I downloaded what I found there, but haven't had the time right now to go into it, thanks!

 

Yes, I think I will add support for it at some point. I'm right now busy with a different Atari related project that will become part of the emulator as soon as it is complete, delaying this for a bit, but I will definitely check.

 

Unfortunately, the diskdrive object changed a bit in 1.55 to fix a couple of bugs, so the old patch does no longer apply, and I think I will need to find a way to make it work without the vapi.dll as platform independence is an issue for me. (Yes, you can compile atari++ on win for sure, the project files are part of the source distribution, should work for VS7.1 and 8.0, but I'd prefer to make this working under Linux *and* win.)

 

Thanks,

Thomas