Popular Post phaeron Posted January 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2023 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, I hope everyone is well, warm and dry (-ish, it's been raining pretty hard here!). Version 4.10 of my emulator Altirra is out at the usual place: https://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html Thanks to everyone for comments, feedback, notes, etc. 4.10 final is functionally the same as 4.10-test29, with a new version number and year, and ARM64 build. Full changelog at the site and in the program, but some highlights: Cartridges: CAR types 71-75, XE Multicart, SIC+ added. Cassette: PWM encoded turbo data in CAS files, Turbo Blizzard support, improved C: acceleration, and fixes to the Tape Editor. Debugger: New breakpoint window, editable memory window, and improved source debugging support. Disk: Improved accuracy and support for track buffering in standard disk emulator. Display: Reduced latency, improved HDR display support, and vsync adaptive mode. Emulation: Improved accuracy of POKEY timer and serial port emulation. Input: Improved light pen/gun emulation. UI: Improved dark mode and copy/paste. No 4.20 test release yet, but it'll be here when it spins up (and linked from the Check for Updates command in the menu). 32 37 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuf Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Truly awesome - thanks so much for all the work you do on Altirra. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Nice way to end my late (as always) night. Thanks for all the continued improvements, additions, and fixes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Thank you very much, fantastic work as usual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Thank you... Always appreciated.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Nut Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULS Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Thank You so much for all the updates last year. Some are just genius!! The editable memory window and the updated disassembly are my favorites though. Love the Disassembly where you can follow the program easier with Expand and Contract. This makes my Atari experience so much more fun and better!! Hope You had a Merry Christmas and now a great New Year!, With great respect, Doug 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Thank you, Avery. You are the epitome of everything good about the retro-community and the Atari world in particular. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Thank you, Avery. Hope you have a great new year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Not so serious bug report: Copyright on AltirraOS screen only goes up to 2022! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted January 3, 2023 Author Share Posted January 3, 2023 40 minutes ago, snicklin said: Not so serious bug report: Copyright on AltirraOS screen only goes up to 2022! While I invariably miss a year somewhere, this one's intended -- I didn't rev AltirraOS for the 4.10 final release, so it's still the same version and copyright year as before. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matosimi Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Thumbs up for the Memory editing!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Well, it's that time of the year again and my obligatory question about PowerPad emulation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenames99 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Thanks phaeron, always getting such good stuff from you. I do use Altirra and those new features you listed are quite welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 That's the joy with Altirra, someone who just wants to play a few games can normally get the gist of what to do very quickly (if they use the pre-created profiles, then more or less instantly). For the more adventurous wanting to add devices then its a piece of cake. For the dirty rotten hacker types who like to cheat stuff, I have the simple to use cheat system or I can dive in to the debugger even though I'm used to a simple machine code monitor, I can still hunt around. And then for the programmer types, the debugger opens the heart of the Atari in ways they could not have thought possible back in the day. It's got something for everyone...From playing games, to making the games.. Genius work Avery.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Phaeron, thank you for Altirra, I use it all the time! Great emulation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelen Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Yes, thank you very much... The only reason I have Windows on my Mac is because of this great emulator! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Thank you and Happy New Year to you as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) phaeron, emulator crashes when running Robbo or Robbo 2 games using Altirra OS Edited January 9, 2023 by serj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 it does that for a number of recent offering, just use regular Atari ROMs and it's fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, serj said: phaeron, emulator crashes when running Robbo or Robbo 2 games using Altirra OS Looks like the deferred vblank routine setup at $C28A is incorrect. Redundant 'KIL' instruction? Doesn't need to Push/Restore A and X as this was done but the immediate VB. Calls RTI rather than jumping to XITVBV. [Edit] Ah, so this in the XL OS is the location of the XITVBV routine, so perhaps something has made an assumption about that when setting the Deferred Vector? Edited January 9, 2023 by Wrathchild 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share Posted January 10, 2023 Depends on the exact version, but it looks like some versions just decompress a memory snapshot including all OS variables and stack -- so yeah, breaks on anything that's not precisely vector-exact with XLOSv2. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LessNick Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Hello there o/ Perhaps this has already been implemented or suggested earlier, but I did not find any mentions and I will try to formulate my idea: Often, in the names of files that are opened with Altirra, in addition to the name itself and the mention of the authors, there is additional technical information in the TOSEC format. It would be really cool if Altirra could enable session mode, the parameters of which would be taken from the file name. That is, they were applied only when this file was launched, but did not change the global settings. For example: if [BASIC] is present in the file name, this means that you need to enable it (start without holding OPTION). If [128k] is present in the file name, then this memory mode must be set to 128 Kb. If [OS-B] is encountered, then you need to install the appropriate ROM. Well, and so on, I think the general idea is clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) 6 minutes ago, LessNick said: Hello there o/ Perhaps this has already been implemented or suggested earlier, but I did not find any mentions and I will try to formulate my idea: Often, in the names of files that are opened with Altirra, in addition to the name itself and the mention of the authors, there is additional technical information in the TOSEC format. It would be really cool if Altirra could enable session mode, the parameters of which would be taken from the file name. That is, they were applied only when this file was launched, but did not change the global settings. For example: if [BASIC] is present in the file name, this means that you need to enable it (start without holding OPTION). If [128k] is present in the file name, then this memory mode must be set to 128 Kb. If [OS-B] is encountered, then you need to install the appropriate ROM. Well, and so on, I think the general idea is clear. maybe not part of altirra but rather as an altirra file selector/launcher util that passes all of it to the command line, Not far from best games pack front end, that's not something Phaeron would have to do though, as anyone could make such things if they wanted to. Edited January 13, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LessNick Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said: maybe not part of altirra but rather as an altirra file selector/launcher util that passes all of it to the command line, Not far from best games pack front end, that's not something Phaeron would have to do though, as anyone could make such things if they wanted to. I don't quite understand what utilities are talking about. I click on the icon in Windows and the associated program is launched. The only parameter that can be passed there is the file name, or even more precisely the path to the file that was clicked on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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