What's new in Atari800 2.1.0
Mar 27, 2009
- New features:
- added Axlon and Mosaic RAM expansions for Atari 400/800
- added emulation of 1400XL, 1450XLD, MIO and Black Box
- added support of .PRO copy-protected disk images
- implemented tape loading with variable bitrates
- implemented cassette writing via hardware registers
- added switching between NTSC and PAL color palettes
- added emulation of XEP80 and a prototype 80 column card for the Atari 1090 (SDL only currently)
- added emulation of CX85 numeric keyboard (Java and SDL only)
- event recording added (-record, -playback): save your game walkthrough using the "-record mygame.dat" and later impress your friends by your game skills or highest score using the "-playback mygame.dat"
- NTSC Filter option added to UI
- -directmouse added to SDL and X11 (used for -mouse pad or koala)
- monitor supports arrow keys - e.g. up-arrow for history
- SDL: interpolated scanlines (use -scanlinesnoint to disable)
- SDL: added -mouse, -mousespeed, -grabmouse (also Alt+M)
- SDL: visual configuration of keyboard joysticks layout in the UI (F1 -> Controller Configuration -> Define layout) default mapping changed to 4,8,6,5 (joy0) and A,W,D,S (joy1)
- R: device can be serial-only, network-only or both (selectable)
- R: device now supported on MS Windows and Dreamcast as well
- a completely new port to Java using NestedVM, running also as an applet
- Falcon/TT: removed Devpac dependency in asm files (now gcc friendly)
- Fixes:
- fix for "Ilusia" demo
- better GTIA bug mode emulation
- POKEY sound: nonlinear mixing (not enabled by default), two-tone filter
- fixed POKEY registers: ALLPOT, IRQEN and STIMER
- various Atari5200 fixes
- fixed Atrax cartridge bank switching
- fixed sound recording to WAV
- -showspeed fixed, now shows speed