WinArcadia 18.7 (Windows): 16 September 2012

AmiArcadia 18.7 (AmigaOS 3): 16 September 2012

AmiArcadia 18.7 (MorphOS): 16 September 2012

AmiArcadia 18.62 (AmigaOS 4): 8 September 2012

Super Bug Advance 1.3 (GBA): 11 September 2009

AmiArcadia and WinArcadia are multi-emulators of these machines:

* Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand,

Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy,

Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (1982);

* Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Fountain, Interton,

Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddington, etc.) (c. 1978);

* Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);

* PIPBUG-based machines (Electronics Australia 77up2 and 78up5, Signetics

Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (c. 1977-1978);

* Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);

* Central Data 2650 computer (1977);

* Astro Wars, Cat and Mouse, Galaxia, and Laser Battle coin-ops by

Zaccaria (1979-1982);

* Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1980);

* Chaos 2 computer (1983);

* Dolphin trainer (1977);

* PHUNSY computer (c. 1980); and

* AY-3-8550-based Pong systems (c. 1976).

Features include: ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and full-

screen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics

scaling, automatic load/save of configuration/game, keyboard/joystick/

gamepad/paddle/mouse/trackball support, autofire, turbo mode, gameplay

recording/playback, PAL/NTSC modes, sprite demultiplexing, help windows,

source code, debugger, frame skipping, redefinable keys, save screenshots

(4 supported formats), ARexx port, network play, real-time monitor, locale

support, game selection sidebar, text-to-speech, printer output,

undithering, support for ZIPped games, clipboard support, palette editor,

tone retuning, high score management, force feedback, sprite editor, 3D.

The supported languages are currently English, Dutch, French, German,

Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Changes since V18.62:

* Memory editor: graphical memory map representation.

* Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/

http://amigan.yatho.com/

nGlide is a freeware Glide wrapper for Windows and DOS games. It allows you to play 3Dfx games on modern GeForce/Radeon graphics cards. Some of them are Diablo 2, Need for Speed 2-5, Carmageddon 2, Tomb Raider, Turok. All three API versions are supported, Glide 2.1 (glide.dll), Glide 2.4 (glide2x.dll) and Glide 3.0 (glide3x.dll). Glide wrapper also supports high resolution modes.

nGlide 1.00 changelog:

Glide2:

-added support for Barrage

-added support for S.C.A.R.S.

-fixed Airfix Dogfighter no intro bug

-fixed Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. black background issue

-fixed Carnivores sky issue

-fixed Carnivores 2 sky issue

-fixed Carnivores: Ice Age sky issue

-fixed CART Precision Racing image quality

-fixed Codename: Eagle texturing issue

-fixed Descent: Freespace ship lights

-fixed Excalibur 2555AD text glitch

-fixed F/A-18 Korea garbled debriefing screen

-fixed Lands of Lore 3 Alt+Tab crash

-fixed Monster Truck Madness 2 image quality

-fixed Motorhead lights visible through walls

-fixed Pył (with DOSBox + Gulikoza patch) lights visible through walls

-fixed Starsiege menu buttons glitch

-fixed SWIV 3D platform and shadow glitches

-fixed TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter engine crash with 640x480 and above

Glide3:

-added support for ePSXe, PS1 Emulator (with Lewpy's Glide plugin)

-added support for TEXMIRROR extension

-fixed Arabian Nights complex shadows bug

-fixed Hardwar: The Future is Greedy oblique lines glitch

-fixed Hype: The Time Quest blinking character shadows

-fixed Lander shadow glitch

-fixed realMYST transparency issue in menu

Miscellaneous:

-fixed Resolution: By desktop setting with DOSBox + Gulikoza patch

-improved compatibility with Wine

Glide wrapper download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/

Changes in 2.6 (September 2, 2012):

 

Brief summary :

- More than 10% CPU emulation speedup !

- Support for AMD's SVM hardware emulation (including extended XAPIC support).

- Implemented support for new x86 ISA extensions. Bochs is fully aligned with rev043 of Intel® Architecture Manual.

- Improved emulation accuracy (critical fixes for APIC, VMX and AVX/XOP emulation).

- Bochs internal debugger: new command to show state of a device from the debugger.

- ROM BIOS: improved PCI boot ROM support (for VGA and other devices)

- Networking:

- Ported Intel® 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet adapter emulation from Qemu.

- Added PCI network boot ROM support to all network adapters.

- Added TFTP support to the 'slirp' networking module.

- Harddrive: added support for VirtualPC disk images, fixed sparse disk images.

- Sound:

- implemented PC speaker beep using the lowlevel sound interface.

- SDL audio output support.

- Added ability to set log action per device from .bochsrc.

- Moved disk imaging, networking, sound and USB devices to subdirectories in the iodev folder.

 

Detailed change log :

 

- CPU

- Implemented EPT A/D extensions support. Bochs is fully aligned with rev043 of the of Intel® Architecture Manual.

- Implemented ADX (ADCX/ADOX) instructions support, the feature can be enabled using .bochsrc CPUID option.

- More than 10% CPU emulation speedup with even more optimal lazy flags handling, stack access optimizations and cross branch trace linking.

- Support for AMD's SVM hardware emulation in Bochs CPU, to enable configure with --enable-svm option

- Implemented AMD Extended XAPIC support, to enable set .bochsrc CPU APIC option to 'xapic_ext'

! Added Corei5 750 (Lynnfield) configuration to the CPUDB

! Added Turion64 (Tyler) configuration to the CPUDB

! Added AMD Phenom X3 8650 (Toliman) configuration to the CPUDB

! Added Corei7 3770K (Ivy Bridge) configuration to the CPUDB

- Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness and stability (critical fixes for APIC/X2APIC, VMX and AVX/XOP emulation)

 

- Bochs Debugger and Instrumentation

- Implemented new debugger command 'info device [string]' that shows the state of the device specified in 'string'

- Improved debug dump for ne2k, pci, pic and vga/cirrus devices. Added debug dump for pci2isa, i/o apic, cmos, pit, floppy and dma devices.

- Added TLB to CPU param tree - now it can be browsed from Bochs internal debugger and Bochs debugger GUI through param tree interfaces

- Implemented 'writemem' debugger command to dump virtual memory block starting from selected linear address into a file

- Updated definition of instrumentation callbacks, see description in instrumentation.txt / Fixed instrumentation examples

 

- Configure and compile

- Moved disk imaging, networking, sound and USB devices to subdirectories in the iodev folder.

- pcidev: enable support for Linux kernel 3.x (Debian patch by Guillem Jover)

- debugger: generate parser / lexer files only if all required tools are present

 

- Config interface

- Added support for direct device plugin loading with bochsrc directive for devices which have the same name for the plugin and config option.

- The bochsrc option 'plugin_ctrl' can now be used to load/unload optional plugins directly when parsing the config file or command line. See the bochsrc sample for supported devices.

- Moved bochsrc parsing / writing and config parameter handling for networking,

sound and USB devices to the plugin device code. The options are only available when the corresponding plugin device is loaded.

- Added ability to set log action per device from .bochsrc.

- Added new command line option '-noconsole' to disable the console window on Windows host.

- Renamed PCI Pseudo NIC option to "pcipnic" (for direct plugin loading)

- Moved several related options to the new "keyboard" bochsrc option.

- Added new parameter 'rtc_sync' for the 'clock' option. If this option is enabled together with the realtime synchronization, the RTC runs at realtime speed.

- Moved MWAIT_IS_NOP bochsrc option from CPUID to CPU so it can be set even if cpu was configured using pre-defined CPUDB profile.

- Allow larger CPU 'quantum' values when emulating SMP systems for speed (quantum values up to 32 are allowed now).

 

- I/O Devices

- Networking

- Ported Intel® 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet adapter emulation from Qemu, to enable configure with option --enable-e1000

- Added PCI network boot ROM support to all network adapters

- Added TFTP support to the 'slirp' networking module

- PCI

- added "auto-assign to PCI slot" feature for PCI-only devices

- DMA

- Added the capability to transfer more then one byte / word per ISA DMA cycle

- VGA

- Major rewrite of the vga / cirrus code:

- vgacore (shared standard VGA emulation code)

- vga (Bochs VBE and PCI VGA)

- cirrus (CL-GD 5430 ISA / CL-GD 5446 PCI)

- Added VGA graphics blinking support

- More accurate vertical and horizontal retrace emulation (based on the DOSBox implementation)

- hard drive / hdimage

- added new disk image mode 'vpc' for VirtualPC images

- undoable mode: added coherency check (flat image size and timestamp)

- sparse mode: fixed read support

- Sound

- implemented PC speaker beep using the lowlevel sound interface

- added SDL audio output support

 

- ROM BIOS

- improved PCI boot ROM support (for VGA and other devices)

- added MADT entry for Interrupt Source Override to ACPI tables

 

- GUI and display libraries

- implemented "auto-off" timer for status LEDs indicating a data transfer

- Added support for sending absolute mouse position values from the gui if an absolute pointing device (USB tablet) is active (rfb, sdl, win32, wx, x).

- Gui debugger now supported when using sdl gui on Windows

- Implemented "hideIPS" option in rfb, sdl, win32 and wx libraries

- wx: fixed random freezes with wxGTK and "show ips" feature enabled

- rfb: the "show ips" feature now works on Windows host

 

- Tools

- bxcommit: added support for converting growing to flat mode images

- bxcommit: support command line options and non-interactive (quiet) mode

- bximage: increased maximum disk size to 8 TB

 

- SF patches applied

[3540389] Patch 5 : Change memory reference functions argument order by Yeong-uk Jo

[3539254] Patch 4 : Memory reference optimization 2 by Yeong-uk Jo

[3539251] Patch 3 : Memory reference optimization by Yeong-uk Jo

[3539237] Patch 2 : Some optimization by Yeong-uk Jo

[3539228] Patch 1 : ROM BIOS Compatibility patch by Yeong-uk Jo

[3505209] Fixed combo box size by Konrad Grochowski

[2864391] Gui debugger default regs by Thomas Nilsen

[3486555] Fix critical stack leak in Win32 GUI by Carlo Bramini

 

- these S.F. bugs were closed/fixed

[625877] wx: power button -> thread deadlock

[3534063] Configure does not check for flex presence

[3555237] NE2000 doesn't compile on OS/X

[3553168] X doesn't build in latest code on OS/X

[3550175] Crash when saving snapshot to directory instead of file

[3548109] VMX State Not Restored After Entering SMM on 32-bit Systems

[3548108] VMEXIT Instruction Length Not Always Getting Updated

[3545941] Typo in preprocessor symbol

[3538731] Missing CR8 register

[3538574] Missing XD flag ( Execute Disable ) when showing PTEs

[3537556] Missing initializations

[3537309] Unable to use the debug GUI with SDL and plugins

[3537473] GUI debugger only shows 32-bit CRx registers in x86-64 mode

[3533426] UHCI PCI interrupts

[3459359] svga cirrus initialization

[3535228] info gdt does not show long mode segments

[3531806] Bochs crashes (SIGSEGV) when starting via ssh console

[3531807] Various missing initialization values reported by Valgrind

[635789] mapping mode 0 not supported

[3307201] BOCHS panics when execute HBIOS.COM

[3528809] IO APIC index register width

[3528516] Missing #if in soundmod.h

[3526069] MADT:Interrupt Source Override missed

[3518753] update dump after manual chages to memory contents

[3516859] bug in svn e1000 module

[3516029] stepping not working in debugger GUI in case of smp vm

[3510403] closing config dialog box closes entire simulator

[3459998] Bochs cannot be compiled outside the source tree

[2905969] can't use --enable-gdb-stub on vs2008

[3294001] Bochs GUI doesn't appear properly for 2nd Bochs copy

[3493315] Changing VGA 9/8 dot mode causes screen corruption

 

- these S.F. feature requests were closed/implemented

[3540441] automatically enable devices in plugin control

[1251456] command line method to query bochs for features

[3409396] sdl sound

[3519794] debugger's ability to save physical/linear memory dumps

[1429612] Idea how to speedup simulation - stack direct access

[1703452] Other Network Devices?

[2919376] Disable show the console window

[534271] can't set log action by device (bochsrc)