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FS-UAE 2.4 Beta 3

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A new beta version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.3.99beta3 (“FS-UAE 2.4 Beta 3”):

  • FS-UAE can use 256 kB chip RAM (and also 128 if you *really* want to).
  • Updated translations: es [albconde], da [tomse], nb.
  • (Launcher) Fixed multiple file selection when using PyQt.
  • (Launcher) Added 256 kB chip RAM to the chip memory selector.
  • (Launcher) Updated translations: de [jbl007], es [albconde], it [Speedvicio], da [tomse], nb.
  • (Launcher) Fixed bug where the launcher tries to sync with online DB after logging out from OAGD.net.
  • (Arcade) Fixed missing ext rom problem when starting CD32 games.
  • (Arcade) Fixed repeat problem when navigating with joystick hats.

Please see the preliminary release notes for FS-UAE 2.4 for information about what’s new if you are upgrading from FS-UAE 2.2.x.

FS-UAE 2.4 Beta

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A beta version of FS-UAE 2.4 (2.3.99beta1) is now available! Please see the preliminary release notes for FS-UAE 2.4 for information about what’s new – and a couple of useful things to know when you are upgrading. The beta version is stable, and compared to version 2.2.3 it contains new features, many improvements and several bug fixes. Not all translations are complete in the beta version.

FS-UAE 2.2.3 Released

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An update to FS-UAE 2.2 has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.2.3:

  • On windows, read file name (as program parameter) with MBCS encoding (CP_ACP) so paths with non-ASCII characters are handled correctly.
  • Windows executables are digitally signed by “Frode Solheim”.
  • (Launcher) Only add Cloanto “Amiga Files” to search path if directory exists (Windows).
  • (Launcher) Fix slash direction in default search directory on Windows so it does not look weird.
  • (Launcher) Updated translations: it [speedvicio].

New Domain Name

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The FS-UAE project has its own domain name now: fs-uae.net 🙂

http://fengestad.no/fs-uae/ will redirect to http://fs-uae.net/ for the foreseeable future (possibly forever), but if you do have permanent links to the FS-UAE home page / download page on your web site, I would appreciate it if you would update those links (either now, a bit later, or at least eventually :)). Please also let me know if you find an old URL which is not redirected properly.

FS-UAE 2.2.2 Released

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An update to FS-UAE 2.2 has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.2.2:

  • With video_sync = auto, allow some slack when deciding to enable full sync or not (accept host refresh rate 49 instead of just 50, ..).
  • New option: assume_refresh_rate (int) to manually specify host refresh rate when refresh rate detection fails. This option in combination with video_sync = auto effectively replaces video_sync = full.
  • video_sync = full is now an alias for video_sync = auto.
  • Fixed bug causing FS-UAE to hang when pausing with video_sync = off.
  • New model CD32/FMV (includes FMV ROM), CD32 model reverted to original.
  • Fixed compatibility issues in scanline GLSL shaders.

FS-UAE 2.2.1 Released

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An update to FS-UAE 2.2 has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.2.1:

  • Show on-screen warning if OpenAL device cannot be opened, log OpenAL error code.
  • New option save_state_compression can be used to disable save state
    compression.
  • New option “log” which can be used to enable misc types of debug logging.
  • Queued input events are processed in hsync handler.
  • Use CD32 + FMV quickstart for CD32 model, update cd.device in cartridge ROM fixes problem with Pirates Gold intro.
  • Removed a couple of left-over / unnecesary log statements.
  • Support language option to override GUI language.
  • New translations: tr [Decypher].
  • (Launcher) Fixed bug when specifying window_width / window_height in custom settings.
  • (Launcher) Warn when using A1200 model with < 2 MB chip RAM.
  • (Launcher) Fixed a bug where 0-byte screenshot / covers files could be stored if a network error occurs while downloading.
  • (Launcher) Better support for A3000 and A4000 with the game database.
  • (Launcher) Support hiding variants from the database based on _status.
  • (Launcher) Cycle-exact can be disabled from database if abs. necessary.
  • (Launcher) Support language option to override GUI language.
  • (Launcher) New translations: tr [Decypher].

FS-UAE 2.2.0 Released

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Screenshot-FS-UAE Launcher

Screenshot of FS-UAE launcher, which is an optional part of FS-UAE providing many new and convenient features!

I am pleased to announce version 2.2.0 of FS-UAE, the multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and OpenBSD! FS-UAE 2.2 can be downloaded here.

Notable changes since version 2.0 include:

  • Much-improved FS-UAE Launcher UI.
  • Updated emulation code from WinUAE 2.5.1.
  • Better stability, better performance.
  • More keyboard shortcuts.
  • Improved support for directory hard drives.
  • Initial support for the Open Amiga Game Database.
  • More input options.
  • Amiga PAL/NTSC mode switching.
  • Better shader and theme support.
  • Improved WHDLoad support.
  • LHA archive support.
  • Improved support for Amiga Forever.
  • More platforms and more languages supported.
  • And many other improvements and fixes.

Please see the release notes for more information about this release and a detailed list of changes. Also, many thanks to translators, contributors, and everyone who has been testing the development versions and reported bugs and issues!

A list of contributors is available. If you wish to donate to FS-UAE development, I have set up a donation page via PayPal.

FS-UAE 2.0.1 Released

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I am pleased to announce version 2.0.1 of FS-UAE, the multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD! FS-UAE 2.0 can be downloaded here.

Notable changes since version 1.2 include:

  • No need to edit config files any more! A user-friendly configuration frontend, FS-UAE Launcher, is included.
  • Emulation core updated to WinUAE2.4.2beta1.
  • Many bug fixes and performance improvements.
  • Support OpenGL shaders for post-processing special effects.
  • Added theming infrastructure. Downloadable themes are available.
  • GUI translation for several languages (English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, and Serbian).
  • Added keyboard emulation for CD32 gamepad.
  • Support for hard drive images > 4GB.
  • JIT compilation is now available on some platforms.
  • Windows installer is now available, and the Windows version does no longer require any other software packages to be installed.
  • Binaries are created for many more Linux distributions, and download repositories are available.
  • FS-UAE now compiles and runs on Mac OS X 10.5 (both x86 and PPC) and FreeBSD.
  • And many more changes (see the Changelog for details).

Please see the release notes for more information about this release and a detailed list of changes. Also, many thanks to translators, contributors, and everyone who has been testing the development versions and reported bugs and issues!

A list of contributors is available. If you wish to donate to FS-UAE development, I have set up a donation page via PayPal.

Any Demand for a FreeBSD Version?

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FS-UAE is currently only available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. However, it should be relatively easy to get it to compile and run on FreeBSD as well.

If you are a FreeBSD user and want to use and test FS-UAE, please leave a comment! I won’t bother to implement support for FreeBSD unless there is some demand for it.

FS-UAE 1.2.1 and 1.3.x

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A bugfix release (1.2.1) has been made for the stable series, fixing a crash occuring on some platforms (Mac OS X at least) when saving states with mounted directories.

Meanwhile, development continues on the development branch (1.3.x), see this thread for more information.

Highlights in the development versions are support for OpenGL shaders for fancy effects, translatability and translations (currently German, French, Italian, Polish and Serbian) and experimental JIT support for some platforms.

In other news, information about FS-UAE was added to the UAE Wikipedia entry – it wasn’t me 🙂

FS-UAE 1.2.0 Released

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I am pleased to announce version 1.2.0 of FS-UAE, the multi-platform Amiga emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X! FS-UAE 1.2 can be downloaded here.

Notable changes since version 1.0 include:

  • Great rendering performance improvements, especially on slower hardware.
  • OpenGL renderer compatible with older GPUs (only requires OpenGL 1.1 now).
  • Input devices and options can be changed in the menu while running FS-UAE.
  • UAEGFX card (“Picasso 96”) is implemented.
  • Added A4000/040 model, running in fastest possible mode.
  • Support for mounting CD images for all Amiga models (built-in CDFS and CD image switcher in menu).
  • Fullscreen/window mode switching with Alt+Enter, better fullscreen handling.
  • Better net play support (show dialog while connecting, will retry connecting until successful, continue in offline mode if connection to server is broken).
  • A1200 model can be used in net play mode with accuracy < 1.
  • UAE core code updated from WinUAE 2.4.0.
  • Advanced options for tweaking vsync method.
  • Common host options can be specified once in Host.fs-uae config file.
  • Many other fixes and improvements.

Please see the release notes for more information about this release and a detailed list of changes. Also, many thanks to everyone who has been testing the development versions and reported bugs and issues!

Progress Report on FS-UAE

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High-color and high-resolution Workbench screen with Picasso 96 driver installed

Since version 1.0 was released, there has been a couple of bug fix releases and the latest stable version is now 1.0.2. I have been adding more documentation and recently also wrote a getting started guide.

The new development versions (“betas”) have introduced support for Picasso96 and have many other improvements, including performance improvements.

Also, the most recent development versions are compatible with older OpenGL drivers/cards, so if you have problems displaying the menu on your computer, you should try the latest development version!

FS-UAE 1.0.0 Released

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Version 1.0.0, the new stable release of FS-UAE is just published. Changes in this version include:

  • Performance improvements.
  • Ability to change controllers during game play from the GUI.
  • Improved net play support with integrated text chat.
  • Improved handling of relative paths in configuration files.
  • New configuration options

The changelog contains more details about the changes and you can download the new version here.

FS-UAE 0.9.12 Released

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Changes in version 0.9.12:

  • Configuration option to mount hard drive image/folder read only.
  • Fixed bug where emulation after pause ran too fast in non-full-sync-modes.
  • Added wisegroup_ltd/mp_8866_dual_usb_joypad.ini (courtesy of Foul).
  • Fixed a bug where large positive mouse movement became negative.
  • Event information is written to Synchronization.log during net play (this file can be quite large) -cannot be disabled yet.
  • Include slow memory in memory checksumming (chip + slow, now).
  • Replaced a busy-loop in net play with proper condition signal/wait, using significantly less CPU now.
  • Fixed a race condition in the net play server where input events could be sent to some clients out of order (with regard to frames). This would have caused desync when it occurred.
  • Fixed a bug in the net play server where input events could be sent to some clients before all clients were connected.
  • Detect refresh rate properly on Mac OS X.
  • Floppy swapping is performed synchronized in net play mode.
  • GUI Reset action can be used with net play.
  • Save state saving and restoring is now synchronized in net play mode.
  • Parallel port joystick emulation (joystick_port_2, joystick_port_3).
  • Reduced input lag in net play games.
  • Custom gamepad/joystick -> action mapping.
  • Custom keyboard -> action mapping.
  • Support mounting zip files as (read-only) volumes.
  • Read command line arguments earlier (fixes a Configurations dir issue).
  • Renamed “amiga_joystick” config value to “dummy joystick” (more descriptive).
  • Renamed “amiga_mouse” config value to “dummy mouse” (more descriptive).
  • Floppy speed setting was already implemented, but not documented.
  • Finally implemented the volume mute function for OpenAL.
  • Fix execute permissions for directories created on virtual file system.
  • Added support for Xbox 360 cabled controller.
  • Support new path prefixes: $app/ (directory containing executable (Windows) or .app bundle (Mac OS X), $exe/ (directory containing actual executable), and $fsuae/ (the base directory for files – defaults to My Documents/FS-UAE).

FS-UAE 0.9.10 Released

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Changes in version 0.9.10:

  • Scanline effect support (see example.conf).
  • New frame limiting logic in libfsemu.
  • Auto-grab input on mouse click.
  • Click middle-mouse button to release input grab.
  • Xbox 360 Wireless Controller configuration for Mac OS X (from Aequitas).
  • Updated configuration for Logitech Extreme 3D PRO.
  • Fix crash in Linux version caused by g_set_prgname not being called.
  • Log file is now saved to (My) Documents/FS-UAE/Logs/FS-UAE.log
  • Log file directory is configurable.
  • Multiple mice can be used (in net play) -useful for Lemmings.
  • New joystick port values: amiga_mouse, amiga_joystick and nothing.
  • Send protocol version and emulation core version to netplay server.
  • Fixed a bug where data were written to both floppy overlay files and original ADF files.
  • Fix A1200 model with accuracy < 1 (now runs in “fastest possible” mode, but cannot be used with full video sync).
  • Option bsdsocket_library to enable bsdsocket.library emulation (Mac/Linux only for now).
  • A1200/020 model with 0 MB Z3 RAM as default, but allows the option zorro_iii_memory to be used.
  • Serial port (dummy) emulation enabled, allows AROS kickstart to boot.
  • Fix bug related to path expansion and directories.
  • Unified configuration (config file and –key=value parameters). –key=value parameters overrides values from config file.
  • Section names are ignored in config file now (but key/values must still be in a section, for instance [config]). Old config files should still work as before.
  • Old –fullscreen parameter is no longer valid, use –fullscreen=1 instead
  • Support hard disk files in RDB format (same config option as regular HDF files – RDB format is automatically recognized).
  • Grabbing input on startup is optional (see example.conf).
  • Keys are now “positionally” mapped (as much as possible) from host keyboard to amiga keys (some exceptions because of physically different layout: home = lparen, page up = rparen, delete = del, end = help, insert is mapped to the amiga key to the left of backspace, and page down to right amiga key in case the host keyboard has no right windows/apple/menu key).
  • Use only scancodes on Linux, (and almost entirely on Mac too).
  • Use rawinput in Windows for keyboard support.
  • Make caps lock a proper toggle button.
  • Added an application icon.
  • fs-uae.app renamed to FS-UAE.app, fs-uae.exe is now FS-UAE.exe.
  • New config icon for Mac OS X.
  • Associate .fs-uae files with FS-UAE on Mac OS X.
  • Can override controller configurations by placing configs files in new
  • FS-UAE/Controllers directory (+ option to configure this directory).
  • New configuration option: audio/floppy_drive_volume
  • New configuration option: paths/base_dir
  • Ported updated caps code from WinUAE.
  • NTSC mode added (see example.conf) -was really added in 0.9.8, but omitted from changelog.