byuu says:
Changelog:
- processor/upd96050: per manual errata note, SGN always uses SA1;
never SB1 [fixes v104r09 regression]
- processor/upd96050: new OV1/S1 calculation that doesn't require OV0
history buffer [AWJ]
- processor/upd96050: do not update DP in OP if DST=4 [Jonas Quinn]
- processor/upd96050: do not update RP in OP if DST=5 [Jonas Quinn]
- resource: recreated higan+icarus icons, higan logo as 32-bit PNGs
So higan v104r08 and earlier were 930KiB for the source tarball. After
creating new higan and icarus icons, the size jumped to 1090KiB, which
was insane for only adding one additional icon.
After digging into why, I discovered that ImageMagick defaults to
64-bit!! (16-bits per channel) PNG images when converting from SVG.
You know, for all those 16-bit per channel monitors that don't exist.
Sigh. Amazingly, nobody ever noticed this.
The logo went from 78.8KiB to 24.5KiB, which in turn also means the
generated resource.cpp shrank dramatically.
The old higan icon was 32-bit PNG, because it was created before I
installed FreeBSD and switched to ImageMagick. But the new higan icon,
plus the new icarus icon, were both 64-bit as well. And they're now
32-bit.
So the new tarball size, thanks to the logo optimization, dropped to
830KiB.
Cydrak had some really interesting results in converting higan's
resources to 8-bit palletized PNGs with the tRNS extension for alpha
transparency. It reduces the file sizes even more without much visual
fidelity loss. Eg the higan logo uses 778 colors currently, and 256
represents nearly all of it very well to the human eye. It's based off
of only two colors, the rest are all anti-aliasing. Unfortunately,
nall/image doesn't support this yet, and I didn't want to flatten the
higan logo to not have transparency, in case I ever want to change the
about screen background color.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- processor/upd96050: SGN should select between (A,B).S1 flag using
ASL opcode bit
- processor/upd96050: use a temporary to cache new S1, then compute
OV1 using old S1, then assign new S1
- processor/upd96050: add SR.(siack,soack) and connect to relevant
jump instructions (serial not implemented)
- processor/upd96050: initialize SR properly in power() [r08
regression]
- icarus: improve Makefile rules [Screwtape]
- higan: new program icon
- icarus: new program icon
byuu says:
Changelog:
- processor/upd96050: code cleanups
- processor/upd96050: improved emulation of S1/OV1 flags [thanks to
Cydrak, Lord Nightmare]
- tomoko/settings/audio: reduced the size of the frequency/latency
combo boxes to show longer device driver names
Errata: I need to clear regs.sr in uPD96050::power()
Note: the S1/OV1 emulation is likely not 100% correct yet, but it's a
step in the right direction. No SNES games actually use S1/OV1, so this
shouldn't result in any issues, I'd just like to have this part of the
chip emulated correctly.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- added nall/bit-field.hpp
- updated all CPU cores (sans LR35902 due to some complexities) to use
BitFields instead of bools
- updated as many CPU cores as I could to use BitFields instead of union {
struct { uint8_t ... }; }; pairs
The speed changes are mostly a wash for this. In some instances,
I noticed a ~2-3% speedup (eg SNES emulation), and in others a 2-3%
slowdown (eg Famicom emulation.) It's within the margin of error, so
it's safe to say it has no impact.
This does give us a lot of new useful things, however:
- no more manual reconstruction of flag values from lots of left shifts
and ORs
- no more manual deconstruction of flag values from lots of ANDs
- ability to get completely free aliases to flag groups (eg GSU can
provide alt2, alt1 and also alt (which is alt2,alt1 combined)
- removes the need for the nasty order_lsbN macro hack (eventually will
make higan 100% endian independent)
- saves us from insane compilers that try and do nasty things with
alignment on union-structs
- saves us from insane compilers that try to store bit-field bits in
reverse order
- will allow some really novel new use cases (I'm planning an
instant-decode ARM opcode function, for instance.)
- reduces code size (we can serialize flag registers in one line instead
of one for each flag)
However, I probably won't use it for super critical code that's constantly
reading out register values (eg PPU MMIO registers.) I think there we
would end up with a performance penalty.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- restructured the project and removed a whole bunch of old/dead
directives from higan/GNUmakefile
- huge amounts of work on hiro/cocoa (compiles but ~70% of the
functionality is commented out)
- fixed a masking error in my ARM CPU disassembler [Lioncash]
- SFC: decided to change board cic=(411,413) back to board
region=(ntsc,pal) ... the former was too obtuse
If you rename Boolean (it's a problem with an include from ruby, not
from hiro) and disable all the ruby drivers, you can compile an
OS X binary, but obviously it's not going to do anything.
It's a boring WIP, I just wanted to push out the project structure
change now at the start of this WIP cycle.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- added Cocoa target: higan can now be compiled for OS X Lion
[Cydrak, byuu]
- SNES/accuracy profile hires color blending improvements - fixes
Marvelous text [AWJ]
- fixed a slight bug in SNES/SA-1 VBR support caused by a typo
- added support for multi-pass shaders that can load external textures
(requires OpenGL 3.2+)
- added game library path (used by ananke->Import Game) to
Settings->Advanced
- system profiles, shaders and cheats database can be stored in "all
users" shared folders now (eg /usr/share on Linux)
- all configuration files are in BML format now, instead of XML (much
easier to read and edit this way)
- main window supports drag-and-drop of game folders (but not game files
/ ZIP archives)
- audio buffer clears when entering a modal loop on Windows (prevents
audio repetition with DirectSound driver)
- a substantial amount of code clean-up (probably the biggest
refactoring to date)
One highly desired target for this release was to default to the optimal
drivers instead of the safest drivers, but because AMD drivers don't
seem to like my OpenGL 3.2 driver, I've decided to postpone that. AMD
has too big a market share. Hopefully with v093 officially released, we
can get some public input on what AMD doesn't like.
byuu says:
This will be another massive diff from the previous version.
All of higan was updated to use the new foo& bar syntax, and I also
updated switch statements to be consistent as well (but not in the
disassemblers, was starting to get an RSI just from what I already did.)
phoenix/{windows, cocoa, qt} need to be updated to use "string foo"
instead of "const string& foo", and after that, the major diffs should
be finished.
This archive is the first time I'm posting my copy-on-write,
size+capacity nall::string class, so any feedback on that is welcome as
well.
byuu says:
Basically just a project rename, with s/bsnes/higan and the new icon
from lowkee added in.
It won't compile on Windows because I forgot to update the resource.rc
file, and a path transform command isn't working on Windows.
It was really just meant as a starting point, so that v091 WIPs can flow
starting from .00 with the new name (it overshadows bsnes v091, so
publicly speaking this "shouldn't exist" and will probably be deleted
from Google Code when v092 is ready.)
Tim Allen