WinUAE 0.9.90 (31.07.2004) "WinUAE 1.0 public beta #1"

[StevenJGore]

WinUAE 0.9.90 "WinUAE 1.0 public beta #1" has just been released. Visit the WinUAE Homepage ( www.winuae.net ) to download.

New features:

- New Quickstart-panel. Easy and fast way to run disk-based games or
  demos. Simply select Amiga model, compatibility level, disk image
  and click start! [Screenshot]
- Hardware and host configuration separated. Create and use your own
  custom host configurations instead of build-in host configuration.
  data from standard configuration files.
- Kickstart ROM scanner and autodetection. (only official ROMs supported)
  Old-style ROM selection is still supported. [Screenshot]
- User configurable graphics filter presets.
- Scaling support in all software filters.
- Paths-panel added. User configurable ROM, statefile, screenshot etc.. paths.
- Automatically return back to GUI if Kickstart ROM fails to load.
- Added help-tooltips here and there.
- More compatible paraport direct parallel port support.
- Mapped filesystem P-flag to Windows System-flag, H-flag to Hidden
  and fixed inverted archive-flag.
- Replaced "PC Joystick 0", "PC Joystick 1" and "PC Mouse" with select box
  listing all available input devices. [Screenshot]
- Configurable stereo separation and stereo mixing delay.
- uaehf.device TD_GETGEOMETRY support.
- USB keyboard led support.
- Fullscreen mousehack (Tablet) support.
- Directory filesystem emulation Windows Recycle Bin support.

Bugs fixed:

- Ages old right border horizontal centering graphics bug.
- ECS Agnus was always reported as an OCS Agnus (0.8.26)
- 68000 cycle-exact mode compatibility (0.8.26)
- Floppy emulation writing bug (0.8.26, fixes SWOS disk error when saving).
- Dialogs in fullscreen mode.
- On the fly switching between A1000/CDTV/CD32 modes.
- Swapping disk image sometimes changed another drive's disk image.
- German keyboard #-key.
- Windowed mode DFx,Power,etc.. "leds" are now non-96DPI compatible.
- Minimized WinUAE jumping back to fullscreen by clicking on other program's
  taskbar buttons and other ALT-TAB handling updates.
- CD32 pad emulation.
- AIBB crash in 68020-mode.
- Debugger keyboard freeze on some Windows 2000 systems.

and more..

[StevenJGore]

I just cannot put into words how excellent WinUAE has become over the last year or so, and how much the application has matured. Stability and compatibility are now almost perfect, A500 mode particularly, and the updated GUI is excellent too. I particlarly like the tooltips introduced in this new version. Huge thanks to Toni for all the hard work put into WinUAE!

:banana: :pint:

I'll wait for the zip archive, thank you.

:roll:

WinUAE is a derivative work of UAE, which is licensed under the GPL, so WinUAE can't be commercial in the closed source sense. However, the current maintainer could start charging for binaries as long as the source code is made available. Such a move would be quite atypical for an open source project such as this. Even if that did happen, there's nothing to prevent someone like me from freely distributing binaries.

I'm not too familiar with the GPL license, but if people made their own binaries for WinUAE, would they be able to use Toni's GUI? I know WinUAE is based on UAE, but because the GUI is just a front-end for the UAE code, is it covered by the GPL license? Just curious!

Steve.