X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: blacky Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: VICE 2.0 has been released Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:48:04 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 127 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.15.184.199 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217022485 10967 127.0.0.1 (25 Jul 2008 21:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: h17g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.15.184.199; posting-account=1rBCEwoAAAD0x9_dBTpTBOAWuahA6sAC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com VICE 2.0 has been released. VICE is the Versatile Commodore Emulator, it emulates the Commodore C64, C128, VIC20, PET , PLUS4 and the CBM-II, and it runs on Win32, Unix, DOS, RiscOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, SkyOS, AmigaOS and GP2X systems. VICE is *free* software released under the GNU General Public License, and as such it comes with full source code. Most important changes since the last version include: * Changes in VICE 2.0 ====================== ** General ---------- - VICE development has moved to public services: http://sf.net/projects/vice-emu You can read the latest development in the Subversion repository, file bug reports, and similar things. Check it out! - New Openserver 5.x, Openserver 6.x and Unixware ports. - New AROS64 port. - New QNX 4.x port. - New HPUX (HPPA and IA64) ports. - New SkyOS port. - New Atari Mint port. - New Solaris Express aka OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11 port. ** C64/C128 changes ------------------- - Improved $01 behaviour with regards to unused bit fall-off. - New experimental NEOS and Amiga mouse support. - Added a working RTC to the emulation of the IDE64 cartridge. - New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan. - Added support for the Action Replay 4 and StarDos cartridges. - Improved REU compatibility - Fixed CPU timing bug introduced in 1.22 (demo "Borderless"). - Fixed bugs in the CIA emulation (demo "So-phisticated", W. Lorenz testsuite). - Fixed various bugs in VIC-II emulation: Sprite x-positioning, Latch X/Y, video mode changes, DEN bit handling, raster IRQ, NTSC sprites and sprites in full/debugging border mode (list of fixed demos/games too long to mention here). - RESTORE key is handled differently now, fixing an NMI bug because the NMI was asserted too long before. ** VIC20 changes ---------------- - Added unconnected c-bus floating byte support. - New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan. ** PET changes -------------- - Added support for toggling CB2 sound output line. ** PLUS4 changes ---------------- - New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan. ** Drive changes ---------------- - Fixed block allocation and interleave. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat. - Extended BMP saving to support 24bit. - Fixed the joystick code of all emulators to handle state changes on both joysticks at the same time. - New monitor commands and features. - New memmap feature which allows tracking of memory accesses, activated by the configure option --enable-memmap. - Fixed bug in ffmpeg/FFV1 driver. Should be really lossless now. The VICE 2.0 source archive is available at: http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/vice-2.0.tar.gz The VICE 2.0 DOS binary archive is available at: http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/vice20.zip For more information check out the VICE home page at: http://www.viceteam.org/ At the time this was written the VICE home page was not updated yet, rest assured that it will be updated soon. Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.