WinUAE 0.8.26 WIP (including new GUI)

[StevenJGore]

The WinUAE Homepage has been updated over the weekend, with news of some excellent new features including a new GUI:

Estimated release date: first half of May

Bugs fixed:

- custom chipset emulation updates (Aunt Arctic Adventure
  collision detection, Warhead music and sound etc..)
- very old FPU emulation bug
- bsdsocket emulation (AmiTradeCenter, CTRL-C signal check)
- interrupt level 7 freeze
- uaescsi.device MODE SENSE/SELECT translation
- Picasso96 WaitForVSync fix (Fake Electronic Lightshow" by
  Ephidrena)
- Picasso96 8-bit mode palette problem (black Workbench
  background color after returning from Windows desktop)

New features:

- new GUI! [Preview]
- improved GUI pages
- systray icon and shortcut menu
- improved drop and drop support
- faster END+PAUSE warp-mode
- 68020/JIT crash prevention
- debugger improvements

and more..

WinUAE Homepage

[cecilia]

oh, that's right! tease me! coming in MAY!!!
looks good! :-P

[Glaucus]

Looks good!  :-)

 - Mike

[CD32Freak]

The question is of course, May of what year? :lol: ;-)

[Hattig]

I bet it will be availabe in another two weeks time.

So 2005 then ...

[Sparky]

Just because it emulates the Amiga doesn't mean they emulate the work practices of Amiga companies as well ;-)

[Waccoon]

Just because it emulates the Amiga doesn't mean they emulate the work practices of Amiga companies as well

Thank goodness.  GUI design isn't the strong point of many Amiga developers, you know.

That GUI is looking pretty nice, and is definately much better than the messy tab-based design.  Is there a way to throttle the emulator, though?  I always wanted to speed up/slow down the emulator, but the VSync hack in older versions seems to be the only way to do it from the GUI, and that doesn't work anymore in the newer versions.

[StevenJGore]

Eh? What's all this about May next year and 2005? Are some of you guys new to WinUAE? :-?

A new version of WinUAE is released every two or three months, and each new version introduces many new features and bug fixes. And it is always released on time! It's not like OS4!! :-)

Steve.

[pjhutch]

Good news. Been quiet on the UAE front.

For those that are interested, the latest Winuae.chm help file is available and FAQs at my web site:
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/uae_faq.html

[baderman]

WinUAE 0.8.25 was slower and less stable than previous releases, so , I'm still using 0.8.23. I hope , that new version will be ok. And biiiiiiiig beer to creators of UAE!  :-D  :-D  :-D

[cecilia]

Eh? What's all this about May next year and 2005? Are some of you guys new to WinUAE?

i think some of the guys are joking.
for myself, i've been using WinUAE since last spring and have always been very happy with it!
now, i don't use it for games, but i can run programs that are completely NEW to Amiga.
namely, ZoneXplorer and PowerIcons.
there's nothing more wonderful than being able to wipe the stink of Windows off one's eyes by running this emulation!
hu-RAH!  :pint:  :banana:

[TheSLASH!]

I agree with that the new GUI looks to be better than the old tab-system (that jump around when you click on them, i hate that :evil: ), but it's a strange icon for the Disk Drive, it looks more like a mix of a old tv-radio.
I may read the doc better, but there some strange things like the speed of the floppy reading, Turbo is to the left and 800% is to the right, is Turbo the fastest or 800%, if Turbo (it sounds like that) is the fastest it may be the last step to the right and not the way the slower is....
About resolution, I usually run 800x600x32, that should be enough for highres-interlace, but it seems that UAE scale down the screen anyway, so some lines are missing and that looks ugly in some scrolling screens or if you read text in highres...

I have to say that I love the new Floppysound emulation..  :-)

[StevenJGore]

WinUAE 0.8.25 was slower and less stable than previous releases

Really? Personally, I found 0.8.25 to be the fastest and most stable release yet, and most importantly... the most compatible yet! That's just from personal experience though.

Can't wait for 0.8.26 and the new GUI!

[baderman]

dunno why, it was just 'worse' than 0.8.23, it crashed on my programs :-), but, they wasn't hitting :/, and they worked perefectly on previous version.

[Magic-Merl]

Here here. 0.25 in my opinion was the best yet.