A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.38dev:

• Several new and update joystick and gamepad configs.
• Built-in configs for Xbox 360 / One pads on OS X (requires driver).
• Changed default stereo separation setting to 70%.
• Windows builds are digitally signed again.
• Imported updated translations from crowdin.com.

Known issues:

• When entering the GUI using modifier+F12, the modifier key(s) sticks in the emulated Amiga when you return to the emulation.
• Graphical flickering in Workbench with non-cycle-exact emulation.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.38dev:

• Updated joystick configuration dialog.
• Save SDL 2.0 GUIDs (and more info) in the controller configurations.
• Configuration dialog: load builtin config if no user config exists.
• Imported updated translations from crowdin.com.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.37dev:

• Fixed a joystick issue where SDL_JoystickID was not used properly (*).
• Added new option log_input (replaces environment variable FS_DEBUG_INPUT).
• Also log joystick button and hat events when log_input is enabled.
• Imported updated translations from crowdin.com.

This fixes problems when both XInput and DirectInput devices are present. Thanks to Anata for patiently testing several builds 🙂

Known issues:

• When entering the GUI using modifier+F12, the modifier key(s) sticks in the emulated Amiga when you return to the emulation.
• Graphical flickering in Workbench with non-cycle-exact emulation.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.37dev:

• Fixed bug in login window, added close buttons to login/logout.
• Fixed OAGD.net locker uploader (really, this time).
• Added new logging options panel to settings dialog.
• Imported updated translations from crowdin.com.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.36dev:

• Fixed a crash (floating point exception) if audio device cannot be opened.

Known issues:

• When entering the GUI using modifier+F12, the modifier key(s) sticks in the emulated Amiga when you return to the emulation.
• Graphical flickering in Workbench with non-cycle-exact emulation.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.35dev:

• Fixed bug (lockup) when quitting FS-UAE from Amiga side on some platforms.
• Fixed a potential key repeat issue (could not reproduce original problem).
• Load kickstart replacement from data files instead of embedding in executable.
• Re-enabled serial port (was disabled in 2.5.31dev), fixed AROS Kickstart replacement.
• Share serial port emulation code with WinUAE.

Known issues:

• When entering the GUI using modifier+F12, the modifier key(s) sticks in the emulated Amiga when you return to the emulation.
• Graphical flickering in Workbench with non-cycle-exact emulation.
• When starting FS-UAE from FS-UAE Launcher, accelerator flashs ROM writes are not persistent because the launcher uses a new copy every time.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.35dev:

• Added All Games / All Configurations to drop-down.
• Nicer behavior when kickstart ROM for chosen model is missing.
• Moved more warnings and information to status bar.
• Fixed handling of downloadable games.
• Use Fusion QT style on all platforms by default.
• Default to Fusion Adwaita style variant when running under GNOME 3.
• Show warning icon in settings if option is overriden by configuration.
• Fixed OAGD.net locker uploader.
• New additional configuration page.
• Moved custom configuration (button) to additional config page.
• Removed some “noise” from custom configuration and advanced settings.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.34dev:

• New option floppy_drive_volume_empty.
• Switched default key mapping for host backslash and insert keys.
• Use GLEW instead of GLee for OpenGL extensions.
• When not using FS-UAE Launcher, model A1200 defaulted to kickstart 3.0.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.34dev:

• Changed tab panel appearance on OS X to match other platforms.
• Renamed language prefs to appearance prefs, added launcher theme option.
• Close login dialog before opening database refresh dialog.
• Settings UI for specifying empty floppy drive volume (or disabling it).
• Added keyboard settings to configure equals/insert/backslash/less mapping.
• Added support for WHDLoad 18.1, set as default version.
• Replaced some icons, added new rom/ram icon.
• Fixed an issue with the new CPU selection.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.33dev:

• Blizzard SCSI Kit ROM wasn’t found by (full) path.
• Several new amiga quickstart models for A1200.
• Added several Blizzard boards to accelerator option.
• Added new options motherboard_ram, blizzard_scsi_kit.
• New boolean option window_border to disable window decorations.
• If STEAM_RUNTIME is set, look for “steamos” plugins, not “linux” plugins.
• Plugin search path updated (also changed plugin format slightly).

Important: You also need to download updated plugins from fs-uae.net/plugins (if you use them). Delete the old plugins before extracting the new ones!

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.33dev:

• FS-UAE Launcher / Arcade defaults to require PyQt5 now.
• Minimum OS X version (for official builds) is now 10.7 due to QT 5.5.
• Updated GUI layout.
• More expansion config controls (cpu, accelerator, graphics card, ++).
• Fixed issue with get_real_case usage on case sensitive systems (Linux).
• Login / logout entries in main menu did not update correctly.
• Redesigned model selection GUI (more room for additional models / presets).
• More Amiga model presets added.
• Do not write empty FS-UAE config values (less noise in the logs).
• Do not write known launcher-only settings to temp FS-UAE config file.
• Do not use a temporary kickstart dir, so FS-UAE will find accelerator ROMs.
• hard_drive_x_label and hard_drive_x_priority did not show in custom config.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.32dev:

• Choose which monitor FS-UAE appears on in full-screen mode.
• Added mime type application/x-adf for Linux desktops.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.32dev:

• Added settings GUI control to select full-screen monitor.

Changes in FS-UAE Arcade 2.5.32dev:

• Choose which monitor FS-UAE-Arcade appears on in full-screen mode.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.31dev:

• Fixed a time offset bug in my_utime used by action_set_date.
• Temporarily disabled serial port emulation (need code update).
• Fixed handling of configurations_dir and cache_dir options.
• Imported updated translations from crowdin.com.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b23.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.31dev:

• Imported updated translations from crowdin.com.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.29dev:

• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b11.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.28dev:

• Detect portable dir without help from FS-UAE Launcher.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b8.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.28dev:

• Fixed Windows console appearing when using portable launchers.
• Automatically maximize when desktop height <= 768.
• Support for multiple game databases.
• Remove window border when running under GNOME 3 with desktop height <= 768.

Changes in FS-UAE Arcade 2.5.28dev:

• Improved behavior when running in a default GNOME 3 desktop.
• Fixed problem preventing JPEG covers to load on Windows.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.27dev:

• Implemented prefix expansion for screenshots_output_dir.
• Implemented joystick_port_0_autoswitch = 0 for the relatively new automatic mouse mode switching feature (in order to disable it).
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b6.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.26dev:

• Option sound_card = toccata actually implemented now.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b2.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.25dev:

• New option sound_card = toccata.
• Added several joystick configs [johanpalmqvist].
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3100b1.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.25dev:

• Fixed problem locating translation files in some cases.
• Reverted to preferring QT4 for now.
• Added several joystick configs [johanpalmqvist].

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.24dev:

• None

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.24dev:

• New user interface layout (config list on the left).
• Improved support for lower-resolution displays.
• Preliminary support for new config visualization (config_feature=1).
• Prefer QT5 when running the launcher, QT4 when running the arcade interface.
• Fixed bug preventing Windows version from joining the net play lobby.
• Also look for ../bin/fs-uae on Linux/Unix.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.23dev:

• Fixed loading of Picasso IV ROM when using graphics_card_rom_option.
• Read plugins from [prefix]/lib/fs-uae/plugins too.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3000.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.23dev:

• Fixed joystick configurations, added –add-dummy-joystick arg for testing.
• Require at least Python 3.2 to start, if not, abort with error.
• Code cleanup, removed Python 2.x compatibility code.
• setup.py: reject installation to default python library dir.
• Makefile: Added separate install, install-program and install-data targets.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.22dev:

• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3000b28.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.22dev:

• Add support for WHDLoad 18.0.
• Make WHDLoad 18.0 the default WHDLoad version.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.21dev:

• Added file version information to fs-uae.exe
• Updated Windows build/dist system to work with MSYS2.
• Also check for plugin .dll/.so in executable directory and exedir/../name/name.dll-or-so (useful for development and testing)
• Added microsoft_x_box_one_pad_11_6_1_0_linux.conf.
• Added sony_computer_entertainment_wireless_controller_14_10_1_0_linux.conf.
• Added wireless_controller_14_6_1_0_macosx.conf.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b25.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.21dev:

• Allow clearing preferred joystick(s) via settings UI.
• Can start with path to .fs-uae file as final argument (auto-runs configuration via FS-UAE Launcher).
• Can start with game uuid as final argument (auto-runs preferred variant).
• Can start with variant uuid as final argument (autu-runs specified variant).
• Fixed issue caused by QT normalizing (NFC) paths on OS X.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.19dev:

• Restore kickstart ROM when CSMK3/CSPPC/BPPC maprom is disabled.
• New PPC lock implemented, fixes occasional PPC lockup.
• Fix crash during PPC reset (missing lock when memory regions were updated).
• Stop PPC CPU before resetting Amiga.
• Floating point fixes for PowerPC hosts.
• New options cpu, fpu, mmu, changes to how CPU is configured.
• Defaults for fpu, mmu, cpu speed, cpu accuracy, blitter mode now automatically depends on specified (or implied) cpu option. Example, cpu = 68040 will automatically enable 68040 FPU (and MMU), set fastest possible mode, less compatible CPU and enable waiting blits.
• A3000/A4000 models now use waiting blits by default (was immediate).
• Fix reset problem while PPC CPU is active.
• Workaround for Hexagons Joystick Adapter (name is a single non-ASCII letter).
• Workaround for SDL 2 XInput Controller names with #x in the name.
• Recognize --version and --help arguments.
• The bitmap fonts are also now loaded from fs-uae.dat.
• Don’t add RTC module on stock A600, A1200 (exp) defaults to MSM6242B.
• Fixed loading CD into drive from CD image list (full path wasn’t resolved).
• Added new boolean option uaenative_library.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b19.

Important: if you are using QEMU-UAE for PPC support, you need to update the plugin to version 3.3.0qemu2.1.0.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.19dev:

• Fixed launcher net play GUI (broken in dev versions since the move to QT).

Changes in FS-UAE Arcade 2.5.19dev:

• Fixed bug when using two identical joystick devices.
• Fixed bug preventing joystick hats from being usable for navigation.
• Added quick workaround for configuration of “XInput Controller #x”.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.18dev:

• Disabled / soft-removed PearPC PPC implementation.
• Changed A4000 default floppy drive type to 3.5″ HD.
• New option cdfs (boolean). Can be used to disable builtin CDFS.
• Reduced number of OpenAL buffers to pre-2.5.17dev level.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b18.

Known issues:

• When starting FS-UAE from FS-UAE Launcher, accelerator flashs ROM writes are not persistent because the launcher uses a new copy every time.
• Booting CD32 with CD inserted works, but inserting later, or eject + re-insert does not seem to work right now.
• On OS X, cursor movement is currently not received by FS-UAE when the window is not focused (either something SDL 2 or OS X itself does). This makes mouse integration a bit less useful.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.17dev:

• Initial support for magic mouse / virtual mouse.
• New option mouse_integration (boolean) (Setting it to 1 implies cursor=0, automatic_input_grab=0).
• New option cursor (boolean + auto).
• Removed audio_buffer_target_bytes (use audio_buffer_target_size instead).
• Changes to audio buffer fill logic.
• Measure fps internally with floating point numbers.
• Fixed cyberstormppc.rom lookup when using FS-UAE config file.
• Fixed ISO-8859-1 UTF-8 conversion (broke in 2.5.15dev).
• Renamed testing option workbench -> workbenc_disk.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b17.

Known issues:

• The PearPC fallback may not work properly. Please make sure you are using the qemu-uae plugin (check in fs-uae.log.txt that it is loaded properly) if you’re having problems.
• AmigaOS 4.1 w/Picasso IV => sometimes weird frame rate (~36 FPS).
• When starting FS-UAE from FS-UAE Launcher, accelerator flashs ROM writes are not persistent because the launcher uses a new copy every time.
• Booting CD32 with CD inserted works, but inserting later, or eject + re-insert does not seem to work right now.
• On OS X, cursor movement is currently not received by FS-UAE when the window is not focused (either something SDL 2 or OS X itself does). This makes mouse integration a bit less useful.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.16dev:

• Fixed legacy uaegfx_card option.
• Make sure early configuration warning messages are displayed in GUI.
• Fixed parsing of memory options.
• Fixed infinite loop when more than one HDF/CD was used with UAE controller.
• Fix for A1000 boot issue with full kickstart ROM.
• Fixed patching of Cloanto A500/A4000 roms (broke in an earlier dev ver).
• Specify rpath for OS X executable (so plugins can find libs from fs-uae).

Please note that there was an issue with FS-UAE 2.5.15dev and the QEMU-UAE plugin (for PPC support) on OS X. When updating to 2.5.16dev, this should work, but you also must update the QEMU-UAE plugin to v2.1.0fs020001.

Known issues:

• The PearPC fallback may not work properly. Please make sure you are using the qemu-uae plugin (check in fs-uae.log.txt that it is loaded properly) if you’re having problems.
• AmigaOS 4.1 w/Picasso IV => sometimes weird frame rate (~36 FPS).
• When starting FS-UAE from FS-UAE Launcher, accelerator flashs ROM writes are not persistent because the launcher uses a new copy every time.
• Booting CD32 with CD inserted works, but inserting later, or eject + re-insert does not seem to work right now.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.15dev:

• FS-UAE memory options are more clever, and can take arguments as both KB or MB (with recommended explicit K/M suffix). For example, for memory options which are always in MB, 8M == 8192K == 8192 == 8.
• Flexible value matching for choice-based FS-UAE configuration options (i.e. cyberstorm-ppc == CyberStormPPC)
• New model A4000/PPC (auto-enables CyberStorm PPC).
• New model A4000/OS4 (CyberStorm PPC, Picasso IV, default to onboard SCSI).
• New options graphics_card and graphics_card_memory (supercedes uaegfx_card).
• New options accelerator, accelerator_rom, graphics_card_rom.
• New –workbench option useful for command line testing (automatically inserts an appropriate wb disk in DF0).
• Show GUI warning when floppy_drive_x files are not found.
• Enabled A500/512K model (same as A500 but without slow RAM).
• Enabled A4000 model (68030, 3.1 ROM, 2MB Chip + 8 MB Fast).
• Added .bin extension to internal FS-UAE rom scanner.
• More code cleanup / fixes, reduces compiler warnings.
• Enabled floating point control.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b16.
• Fixed bug when adding 2nd fast memory bank in non-autoconfig mode.
• Allow 1 to be used as true/yes for boolean uae_* options.
• Removed cpu_idle override, added new cpu_idle option (0 – 10).
• Implemented support for growable VHD hard drive images.
• Added proper error message when libcapsimage plugin is missing.
• Use new dlopen plugin interface to load ppc and libcapsimage plugins.

Known issues:

• The PearPC fallback may not work properly. Please make sure you are using the qemu-uae plugin (check in fs-uae.log.txt that it is loaded properly) if you’re having problems.
• AmigaOS 4.1 w/Picasso IV => sometimes weird frame rate (~36 FPS).
• When starting FS-UAE from FS-UAE Launcher, accelerator flashs ROM writes are not persistent because the launcher uses a new copy every time.
• Booting CD32 with CD inserted works, but inserting later, or eject + re-insert does not seem to work right now.
• Booting A1000 to kickstart screen does not work. Broke in FS-UAE 2.5.9dev / WinUAE 2.9.0 beta 9.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.15dev:

• Added awareness of required ROMs for Picasso IV, Cyberstorm PPC.
• Added new models A4000/PPC, A4000/OS4, A4000, A500/512K.
• Added .bin extension to rom scanner (useful for Picasso IV ROM).

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.14dev:

• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b15.
• Updates to Qemu PPC CPU integration.
• New option: cdrom_drive_0_controller (to specify for example ide1)
• Fixed problem when inserting, ejecting and then inserting a CD again.
• Changes to how fastest-possible-mode works and interacts with frame rendering (solves some issues, might introduce new ones…)
• Fixed and activated more recent Picasso96 (uaegfx) code.
• Enabled emulation of GFX hardware boards (Picassso IV, etc).
• A bit more code cleanup and fixes to make code compatible with MSVC.

Known issues:

• Booting CD32 with CD inserted works, but inserting later, or eject + re-insert does not seem to work right now.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.13dev:

• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b14.
• Harmonize CD IOCTL / image initialization with WinUAE.
• Initial version of QEmu PPC CPU integration (not fully working yet).
• Removed –disable-cpuboard option to configure (no longer needed).
• Updated Picasso96 code, but old version is still used (needs more work).
• Add internal HRTMon rom to the rom list on startup.
• Show GUI warning when some config incompatibilities are detected.
• GUI warning when custom uae_ options fails or are not recognized.
• Added more compiler warnings by default.
• More code cleanup, especially in src/od-fs.
• Merged several modules which were similar between FS-UAE and WinUAE.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.12dev:

• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b12.
• FS-UAE on Windows now supports unicode command line arguments.
• Fixed a bug on Windows preventing load of non-ASCII config file paths.
• Another big-endian fix for loading fs-uae.dat.
• Added xinput_controller_15_6_0_0_windows.conf [Kitty].

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.12dev:

• Fixed bugs in ADF and HDF creator.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.11dev:

• Big-endian support for loading of fs-uae.dat.
• Remove message “no configuration file loaded”.
• Re-enable DMS support (missing for a couple of versions).
• Can configure with –disable-cpuboard –disable-ppc.
• Configure script checks if -fno-strict-overflow is recognized.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.10dev:

• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b10.
• Fixed audio initialization (broke in 2.5.9dev).
• New option cpuboard_flash_ext_file (not tested).

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.9dev:

• New option cpuboard_flash_file (path to accelerator “ROM”).
• Bug fixes and source cleanup based on static analysis.
• Code cleanup in some code modules.
• Moved glee, manymouse, lua source to toplevel directories.
• Updated emulation core from WinUAE 2900b9.
• Enabled experimental PearPC PPC emulation from WinUAE.

A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.8dev:

• New option uaem_write_flags to control when .uaem files are created.
• Support NewMouse-compatible mouse wheel events.
• Bundle libmpeg2 with FS-UAE source (missing on many Linux distros).
• Don’t install uaenative.library unless requested.

Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.5.8dev:

• Added settings GUI control for keyboard_input_grab option.