WinUAE 0.8.23 Released

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StevenJGore wrote:
I notice that WinUAE 0.8.23 has been released. Not had chance to try it yet though.

Bugs fixed:

- mousebutton getting stuck randomly when WinUAE lost focus
- floppy drives' state was not restored fully
- fixed crash when switching from 68000 to JIT-mode
- bsdsocket browser freezes/slowdowns
- SPTI CDROM media change detection
- parallel port joystick adapter works properly again
- saving state in ce-mode with blitter active created broken state files
- serial port/MIDI randomly lost received characters

New features:

- maprom emulation (BlizKick support)
- first CDROM is always uaescsi.device unit zero, second is zero etc.. and then
  other non-CDROM SCSI devices.
- improved priority settings
- improved filter options
- compatibility improvements
- bsdsocket emulation improved (Jabberwocky)
- faster Picasso96 solid window moves
- improved AHI emulation
- IRQ level 7 shortcut in input-tab
- percentage of CPU in use -meter added next to FPS-counter
- immediate state save (no need to exit the GUI anymore)
- dropped release numbers

This gets better and better with each release (even for such small increments in version number) and it is now extremely stable, at least on my system.

I'm interested to know what else is planned for WinUAE before 1.0 is reached, and also what peoples wish-lists are for WinUAE?

Me? I'd like 060 and PPC emulation, and improved CD32 emulation with FMV cartridge emulation (ie. be able to play Philip's Digital Video CD's and be able to view the Cannon Fodder FMV intro!) Not much to ask really!  :-D

Steve.

PPC emualtion isn't really worth it, but I'd like to see it too.

060 emulation is pointless since the 060 is just a faster 040... and UAE is alreaady a faster than the fastest 060.

You want FMV (MPEG1) emulation on an Emualtor? I don't really understand why!!! You PC will do a much better job/has more software for MPEG play back...


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What I would really like to see in WinUAE is no need for an AmigaROM Kickstart.

That is to say get AROS 68K to the point where it can boot UAE :-D

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Ah... but PC software (PowerDVD, WMP9, WinDVD etc) won't recognise/play non-standard VCD's such as Philips Digital Video discs (which IIRC are yellow-standard and not white-standard, or something like that!) It was supposed to be a format unique to Philips CDI machines, which Commodore "accidentally" provided compatibility for with the FMV module (therefore significantly increasing the number of films available for the CD32)!!! Besides, I want the Cannon Fodder FMV intro to work!
 

IS the PC CD/DVD able to read "yellow" standard then?

I think you might want to look for a CD-i emulator :-D

I'm sure if you can read the CD's then you find the MPEG files and run them.

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Chunder wrote:

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060 emulation is pointless since the 060 is just a faster 040... and UAE is alreaady a faster than the fastest 060.

You want FMV (MPEG1) emulation on an Emualtor? I don't really understand why!!! You PC will do a much better job/has more software for MPEG play back...

Hmm... emulation of these things would - as you state - be pretty pointless.
It would, however, be rather useful if UAE could a) spoof itself to have an 060 CPU (so that any software that version checks to this will work... is there anything? ISTR Freespace is 060 or PPC?) and b) if it could "redirect" the FMV playback to the Windows codecs, or something; being able to watch the CD32 intros properly would be cool :-)

yes an 060 spoof would be VERY good... it would also be cool to have a 68UAE CPU spoof, so that programs have an easy way to check for UAE :-)

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Uuummmm, no ... it's not. 060 is superscalar architecture while 040 is not, 8K caches versus 4K caches, bus snooping, execs 3 instructions/clock, etc......

See these two pages for comparison:
Motorola 68040
Motorola 68060
 

From a software point of view, the 060 is the same as the 040. An emulator deals with sw not hardware.

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Probably will never happen due to legal/copyright issues.

thats why I suggested using AROS :-)