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AppleWin 1.12 history
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This version of AppleWin is based directly on Oliver Schmidt's 1.10.4 source.
In an effort to distinguish any subsequent releases I make from the other
variants of AppleWin, my release numbering system shall be 1.12.xx.
Tom Charlesworth
tomcharlesworth AT blueyonder.co.uk
Restrictions/bugs:
- SSI263 emulation is very basic: there is no attempt to emulate rate, inflection or filters.
- Win98: 'Alt Gr' (Right-Alt) emits a Control key-press before the Right-Alt, so key combinations
involving Closed-Apple (Right-Alt) will probably fail. Use Keypad's 'Del' instead.
- During Mockingboard playback, Speaker emulation isn't precise
- Speech emu is broken under WinXP (and Win98 too?)
Acknowledgements:
- Debugger rewrite by Michael Pohoreski
- TV emulation mode by Thomas Stahl
- SSI263 phoneme samples from Chris Foxwell (still missing phoneme #0!)
- Harddisk card: source module & f/w by Robert Hoem
1.12.9.0 - 25 Feb 2006
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- Moved source to BerliOS & released under GPL
- Debugger v2.4.2.16:
+ Breakpoint on memory address added: BPM address[,length]
1.12.8.0 - 22 Feb 2006
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- *** Major re-write of debugger by Michael Pohoreski ***
. Debugger v2.4.2.15: Improvements & new features abound!
+ Syntax coloring, navigation, execution (eg. step-out), view memory as varying Ascii types
+ Symbol maintenance (main, user, source), source-level debugging, mini-calculator
+ Breakpoints: conditional on register, profiling + much more
. See: http://applewin.berlios.de/Intro_To_New_Debugger.htm
- Fixed speaker volume not being set correctly at start-up
- Fixed emulation speed control (was only running at 1MHz)
- Fixed internal ADC: was flagged as write to memory
- Fixed internal BRK: only pushed PC+1, not PC+2 to stack
- Fixed CPU not getting properly reset (eg. SP) on Ctrl+Reset
- Changed attenuation on AY8910 outputs before mixing: MB: none (was 2/3), Phasor: still 2/3
1.12.7.2 - 25 Jan 2006
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- Fixed crash-bug in C++ 65C02 emu code for opcode $7C : JMP (ABS,X)
- Updated help file (by Brian Broker)
- Added ability to use Shift+Insert to paste from clipboard during emulation
- Added buttons to Config->Sound tab to select Mockingboard (s4 & s5), Phasor (s4) or none
- Removed keyboard buffer from Config->Input (this was redundant from 1.12.7.0)
- Fixed speaker click (eg. when selecting disk image)
- Added check to prevent loading old & incompatible 6502 DLLs (caused random 6502 crashes to monitor)
- Added support for AE's RAMWorks III, which adds up to 8MB (cmd-line switch only):
. -r <#pages> : where #pages = [1..127], each page is 64KB.
. NB. The following aren't saved out to the save-state file yet:
. Phasor card (only the Mockingboards are)
. RAMWorks card
1.12.7.1 - 08 Jan 2006
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- Fixed cmd-line switches -d1/-d1 to work with filenames with spaces
- Reset: Init Phasor back to Mockingboard mode
- Benchmark button acts immediately
- Fixes to speaker emulation introduced in 1.12.7.0
- Adjusted speaker freq to work better with MJ Mahon's RT.SYNTH.dsk
- Fixed Bxx; ABS,X; ABS,Y; (IND),Y opcodes: take variable cycles depending on branch taken & page crossed
1.12.7.0 - 30 Dec 2005
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- Public release
- Fixed Apple][+ ROM (IRQ vector was vectoring to $FF59/OLDRST)
- Added cmd-line switches (-f, -d1, -d2)
. -f : full-screen
. -dn <image> : Load a disk image into a drive. A disk in drive-1 will force a reboot.
- Extended 6502 debugger (M1, M2, P0,...P4)
. Mn <addr> : Memory window 1/2
. Pn <zp-addr> : Display a zero-page pointer
. Extended memory-dump to output SY6522/AY8910 regs with SYn/AYn, eg: M1 AY0
. Added support for ACME symbol files
- Phasor support (defaulting to Mockingboard mode, available in slots 4 & 5)
- Display updated at ~60Hz (instead of 20Hz)
- Emulation broken into 1ms units (instead of video-frame units)
- Uses internal CPU emulator instead of DLLs (DLLs to be phased out)
1.12.6.1 - 23 Apr 2005
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- Added support for Votrax speech: emulated using SSI263 phonemes
- Added joystick x/y trim control to Input property sheet
- Added support for double-lores graphics
- Updated Applewin.chm
- Load state: F12 nows works like Ctrl-F12
1.12.6.0 - 19 Mar 2005
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- Public release
1.12.5.5 - 11 Mar 2005
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- Added support for clipboard paste.
- Fixed slow Disk][ when Mockingboard disabled problem.
- Fixed flickering mouse pointer problem.
1.12.5.4 - 11 Feb 2005
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- Added support for 2 HDDs (HDV images) from slot7
- Fixed Disk-swap bug.
1.12.5.3 - 4 Feb 2005
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- Internal
1.12.5.2 - 4 Feb 2005
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- Moved 'Monochrome Color' from main window to Config dialog
- Changed old 'Monochrome Color' button to 'Disk Swap' button (bitmap provided by The Rink).
1.12.5.1 - 24 Jan 2005
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- Rebuilt with new CHARSET4.bmp from "The Rink"
1.12.5.0 - 11 Dec 2004
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- Added browse dialogs for F11 & Ctrl-F12.
1.12.4.4 - 28 Nov 2004
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- Changed Configuration Dialog to Property Sheet Pages.
- Added Volume control for Speaker & Mockingboard.
- Added control for keyboard buffer.
- Added Save State page.
1.12.4.3 - 13 Nov 2004
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- Fixed problem with jerky graphics when in mixed HGR/TEXT (Olympic Decathlon).
- Fixed sudden burst of 'full speed' after unpausing.
- Fixed joystick emulation problem (Championship Lode Runner & Boulderdash).
- Fixed FLASH problem when nothing changing on TEXT screen.
- Fixed problem with internal 6502 emu's SBC opcode when in BCD mode (Dino Eggs).
- Fixed Pro Mockingboard compatiblity problem (Pro-MB accesses are now ignored).
- Added emulator save-state (Save=F11, Load=Ctrl+F12).
1.12.4.2 - 09 Nov 2004
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- Internal
1.12.4.1 - 14 Sep 2004
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- Fixed "CPU usage 100%" problem.
- Switch MB output from dual-mono to stereo.
- Relaxed TIMER1's max freq from ~62Hz (period=0x4000) to ~83Hz (period=0x3000).
- Fixed FLASH problem when in monochrome mode.
1.12.4.0 - 01 Aug 2004
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- Switched to MAME's AY8910 emulation
- Added support for SSI263 speech chip on Mockingboard
- Ctrl+Reset now resets MB
- Key presses: 2 buffers. Fixes problem where key presses are missed on faster PCs.
- Added FLASH support
- Switched Speaker to use DirectX
- Rebuilt using DirectX 9.0b library
- Removed AppleWin calibration when starting a new version
- Fixed 6502 emulation cycle-count inaccuracies, resulting in:
. Precise analogue joystick support (Rescue Raiders' joystick support now works)
. Precise Apple speaker
- Emulation speed control now works when using Mockingboard
- Full speed (Scroll-lock) mutes all sound (Speaker,Mockingboard)
- Fixed DELREG.INF
- Reset now switches Alternate char set off
- PC's delete key maps to Apple's DEL key
- Fixed characters: '6', '|', '_'
1.12.3 - 04 Jan 2004
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Changes:
- Added Thomas Stahl's TV emulation mode: "Color (TV emulation)".
Tested with Karateka, Mindshadow.
"As you probably know, many of the higher sophisticated Apple ][+
games made use of the blurr-effekt that color TV-monitors had on
patterns consisting of horizontal color stripes. Using this effect it
was possible to produce *solid* mix colors like grey, purple, pink,
yellow and aquamarine even in the 2+ *hi-res mode*."
- Included Thomas Stahl's adjusted hires colors:
He "adjusted the hires colors for a more realistic look -
at least in comparison with an Apple PAL-System."
- Changed wording in Config dialog: from "Color (optimized)" to "Color (text optimized)".
- Fixed Config dialog (speed settings were misplaced in 1.12.2).
- Fixed Joystick 2 for Mario Bros: Now when in dual-joystick mode, 2nd joystick
button controls both switches #1 & #2 as one.
- Fixed Mockingboard IRQ frequency problem (Ultima 4 & 5 tunes now play at correct rate).
- Added Applewin.chm to release zip. (NB. This hasn't changed from 1.10.4)
1.12.2 - 05 Jul 2003
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Changes:
- Added support for 2nd joystick.
If the 2nd Apple joystick is enabled, then the buttons are re-configured:
- Joystick 1 controls only button #0 (ie. not button #1 too)
- Joystick 2 controls only button #1 (ie. not button #2)
This is so that player 1 can't affect player 2's controls.
So there is no way to control button #2 via a joystick. I don't think this will be a problem.
Of course Left Alt, Right Alt and Shift still activate the 3 buttons.
NB. Disable 2nd joystick if playing a 1 player game that requires the use of buttons 0 and 1.
Tested with Archon I, Archon II and One-on-one.
1.12.1 - 24 Nov 2002
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Changes:
- Changed tone waveform from orthodox square-wave to a more logarithm shape,
based on real MB waveform analysis. This is by no means perfect, but in my
opinion gives the tones more musical quality.
- Added MB enable/disable switch to Configuration dialog.
- Added simple logging support. If AppleWin is started from the command line
(DOS box) with the '-l' switch, then a text log file, AppleWin.log, will be
generated. This can hopefully be used to diagnose problems some users are having.
1.12.00 - 17 Nov 2002
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- Initial release.
- Supports 2 Mockingboard cards in slots 4 & 5
- 12 voices and noise supported using DirectX 8.1.
- Tested on Win98, 2000 and XP platforms.