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Tim Allen 5da4532771 Update to v106r55 release.
byuu says:

Everything *should* be working again, but of course that won't
actually be the case. Here's where things stand:

  - bsnes, higan, icarus, and genius compile and run fine on FreeBSD
    with GTK
  - ruby video and audio drivers are untested on Windows, macOS, and
    Linux
  - hiro is untested on macOS
  - bsnes' status bar is not showing up properly with hiro/qt
  - bsnes and higan's about screen is not showing up properly with
    hiro/qt (1x1 window size)
  - bsnes on Windows crashes often when saving states, and I'm not sure
    why ... it happens inside Encode::RLE
  - bsnes on Windows crashes with ruby.input.windows (unsure why)
  - bsnes on Windows fails to show the verified emblem on the status bar
    properly
  - hiro on Windows flickers when changing tabs

To build the Windows bsnes and higan ports, use

    ruby="video.gdi audio.directsound"

Compilation error logs for Linux will help me fix the inevitable list of
typos there. I can fix the typos on other platforms, I just haven't
gotten to it yet.
2018-08-05 19:00:15 +10:00
Tim Allen 41e127a07c Update to v106r54 release.
byuu says:

Changes to hiro will break all but the GTK target. Not that it matters
much given that the only ruby drivers that function are all on BSD
anyway.

But if you are fortunate enough to be able to run this ... you'll find
lots of polishing improvements to the bsnes GUI. I posted some
screenshots on Twitter, if anyone were interested.
2018-08-04 21:44:00 +10:00
Tim Allen 5d135b556d Update to v106r53 release.
byuu says:

Okay, so the WIPs-within-WIPs thing wasn't achieving its desired effect,
and it ended up causing me to have to redo some work on hiro since my
last local snapshot was of r52. So, heck it. I'll just do mostly
non-functional WIPs for a bit, and worry about the fallout years later
when I'm trying to find an emulation regression and cursing that the
WIPs aren't compiling.

I ported all of the ruby input drivers to the new syntax, as well as the
OpenAL driver. If you patch the ruby drivers for Linux with this in
mind, bsnes should compile and run there again.

Also, the bsnes program icon has returned, now that the new hiro layout
code is mature enough and I can simply add and remove the icon as a
Canvas instead of having to try and render into a viewport. The icon
shows up instantly with the main window.
2018-08-01 19:07:28 +10:00
Tim Allen 2335bb0df8 Update to 20180731 release.
byuu says:

I've completed moving all the class objects from `unique_pointer<T>` to
just T. The one exception is the Emulator::Interface instance. I can
absolutely make that a global object, but only in bsnes where there's
just the one emulation core.

I also moved all the SettingsWindow and ToolsWindow panels out to their
own global objects, and fixed a very difficult bug with GTK TabFrame
controls.

The configuration settings panel is now the emulator settings panel. And
I added some spacing between bold label sections on both the emulator
and driver settings panels.

I gave fixing ComboButtonItem my best shot, given I can't reproduce the
crash. Probably won't work, though.

Also made a very slight consistency improvement to ruby and renamed
driverName() to driver().

...

An important change ... as a result of moving bsnes to global objects,
this means that the constructors for all windows run before the
presentation window is displayed. Before this change, only the
presentation window was constructed first berore displaying it, followed
by the construction of the rest of the GUI windows.

The upside to this is that as soon as you see the main window, the GUI
is ready to go without a period where it's unresponsive.

The downside to this is it takes about 1.5 seconds to show the main
window, compared to around 0.75 seconds before.

I've no intention of changing that back. So if the startup time becomes
a problem, then we'll just have to work on optimizing hiro, so that it
can construct all the global Window objects quicker. The main way to do
that would be to not do calls to the Layout::setGeometry functions for
every widget added, and instead wait until the window is displayed. But
I don't have an easy way to do that, because you want the widget
geometry values to be sane even before the window is visible to help
size certain things.
2018-07-31 20:56:45 +10:00
Tim Allen 212da0a966 Update to 20180730 release.
byuu says:

These WIPs-within-WIPs are getting more and more broken ... this isn't
going the way I wanted.

But ... this time around, I've revamped the entire ruby API again, to
solve a bunch of tough problems that have always made using ruby really
clunky.

But there are *so many* ruby drivers that it's going to take a long
time to work through them all. This WIP is only going to run bsnes, and
only on FreeBSD, and only with some drivers.

hiro's Application::initialize() now calls hiro::initialize(), which you
define inside of your hiro apps. This lets you call
Application::setName(...) before anything else in hiro runs. This is
essential on Xorg to set program icons, for instance.

With the ruby rewrite and the change to hiro, I can get away from the
need to make everything in bsnes/higan pointers to objects, and can now
just declare them as regular objects.
2018-07-31 12:23:12 +10:00
Tim Allen 5deba5cbc1 Update to 20180729 release.
byuu wrote:

Sigh ...

asio.hpp needs #include <nall/windows/registry.hpp>

[Since the last WIP, byuu also posted the following message. -Ed.]

ruby drivers have all been updated (but not tested outside of BSD), and
I redesigned the settings window. The driver functionality all exists on
a new "Drivers" panel, the emulator/hack settings go to a
"Configuration" panel, and the video/audio panels lose driver settings.
As does the settings menu and its synchronize options.

I want to start pushing toward a v107 release. Critically, I will need
DirectSound and ALSA to support dynamic rate control. I'd also like to
eliminate the other system manifest.bml files. I need to update the
cheat code database format, and bundle at least a few quark shaders --
although I still need to default to Direct3D on Windows.

Turbo keys would be nice, if it's not too much effort. Aside from
netplay, it's the last significant feature I'm missing.

I think for v107, higan is going to be a bit rough around the edges
compared to bsnes. And I don't think it's practical to finish the bsnes
localization support.

I'm thinking we probably want another WIP to iron out any critical
issues, but this time there should be a feature freeze with the next
WIP.
2018-07-29 23:24:38 +10:00
Tim Allen 716c95f279 Update to 20180728 release.
byuu says:

Sigh, I seem to be spiraling a bit here ... but the work is very
important. Hopefully I can get a solid WIP together soon. But for now...

I've integrated dynamic rate control into ruby::Audio via
setDynamic(bool) for now. It's very demanding, as you would expect. When
it's not in use, I realized the OSS driver's performance was pretty bad
due to calling write() for every sample for every channel. I implemented
a tiny 256-sample buffer and bsnes went from 290fps to 330fps on my
FreeBSD desktop. It may be possible to do the same buffering with DRC,
but for now, I'm not doing so, and adjusting the audio input frequency
on every sample.

I also added ruby::Video::setFlush(bool), which is available only in the
OpenGL drivers, and this causes glFinish() to be called after swapping
display buffers. I really couldn't think of a good name for this, "hard
GPU sync" sounds kind of silly. In my view, flush is what commits queued
events. Eg fflush(). OpenGL of course treats glFlush differently (I
really don't even know what the point of it is even after reading the
manual ...), and then has glFinish ... meh, whatever. It's
setFlush(bool) until I come up with something better. Also as expected,
this one's a big hit to performance.

To implement the DRC, I started putting helper functions into the ruby
video/audio/input core classes. And then the XVideo driver started
crashing. It took hours and hours and hours to track down the problem:
you have to clear XSetWindowAttributes to zero before calling
XCreateWindow. No amount of `--sync`, `gdb break gdk_x_error`, `-Og`,
etc will make Xlib be even remotely helpful in debugging errors like
this.

The GLX, GLX2, and XVideo drivers basically worked by chance before. If
the stack frame had the right memory cleared, it worked. Otherwise it'd
crash with BadValue, and my changing things broke that condition on the
XVideo driver. So this has been fixed in all three now.

Once XVideo was running again, I realized that non-power of two video
sizes were completely broken for the YUV formats. It took a while, but I
managed to fix all of that as well.

At this point, most of ruby is going to be broken outside of FreeBSD, as
I still need to finish updating all the drivers.
2018-07-28 21:25:42 +10:00
Tim Allen 22bd4b9277 Update to v106r52 release.
byuu says:

I stand corrected, I managed to create and even larger diff than ever.
This one weighs in at 309KiB `>__>`

I'll have to create a changelog later, I'm too tired right now to go
through all of that.
2018-07-25 22:24:03 +10:00
Tim Allen f1a4576ac4 Update to 20180724 release.
byuu says:

I failed to complete a WIP, have five of eight cores updated with some
major changes to Emulator::Interface. I'll just post a quick temporary
WIP in the off chance someone wants to look over the new interface and
comment on it.

Also implemented screen saver suppression into hiro/GTK.

I should also add ... a plan of mine is to develop target-bsnes into a
more generic user interface, with the general idea being that
target-higan is for multiple Emulator::Interface cores at the same time,
and target-bsnes is for just one Emulator::Interface core.

The idea being that if one were to compile target-bsnes with the GBA
core, it'd become bgba, for instance.
I don't plan on releasing single-core emulators like this, but ... I don't see any downsides to being more flexible.
2018-07-24 23:41:41 +10:00
Tim Allen 0aedb3430c Update to v106r51 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - added `Emulator::Interface::connected(uint port) -> uint device;`
  - higan, bsnes: updated emulators to use the new
    Emulator::Interface::connected() function
  - hiro: fixed Object::cast<T> finally

So, Emulator::Interface::connected() solves two annoying problems at the
same time.

First, on first run of the emulator when the settings file is blank, it
will retrieve the default "sane" device ID, which is usually a gamepad
for a controller port, or nothing for an expansion/extension port.

Second, if you were to select a multi-port device, like the NES Four
Score, the core will set the other port to the Four Score device as
well, and the GUIs query connected() right after any call to connect(),
so it gets updated without needing a system for the emulation core to
send messages alerting the GUI of changes.
2018-07-21 21:49:48 +10:00
Tim Allen 35ff15f83e Update to v106r50 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - emulator/video,audio: various cleanups
  - emulator/audio: removed reverb effect (it breaks very badly on
    high-frequency systems)
  - emulator/audio: the Nyquist anti-aliasing lowpass filter is now
    generated automatically instead of set per-core
      - at 44.1KHz output, it's set to 22KHz; at 48KHz, it's set to
        22KHz; at 96KHz, it's set to 25KHz
      - this filter now takes the bsnes emulation speed setting into
        account
  - all system/video.cpp files removed; inlined in System::power() and
    Interface::set() instead
  - sfc/cpu: pre-compute `HTIME` as `HTIME+1<<2` for faster comparisons of
    HIRQs
  - sfc/cpu: re-add check to block IRQs on the last dot of each frame
    (minor speed hit)
  - hiro/gtk3: fixed headers for Linux compilation finally
  - hiro/gtk,qt: fixed settings.cpp logic so initial values are used
    when no settings.bml file exists
  - hiro/gtk: started a minor experiment to specify theming information
    in settings.bml files
  - nall/dsp: allow the precision type (double) to be overridden (to
    float)
  - nall: add some helpers for generating pre-compiled headers
      - it was a failure to try using them for higan, however ...
  - nall: add some helpers for reading fallback values from empty
    `Markup::Node[search]` statements

Todo:

  - CRITICAL: a lot of my IRQ/NMI/HDMA timing tests are failing with the
    fast PPU ... need to figure out why
  - space between Emulator::video functions and Emulator::audio
    functions in gb/system/system.cpp
  - remove Audio/Reverb/Enable from settings.bml in target-bsnes
2018-07-21 21:06:40 +10:00
Tim Allen 393c2395bb Update to v106r48 release.
byuu says:

The problems with the Windows and Qt4 ports have all been resolved,
although there's a fairly gross hack on a few Qt widgets to not destruct
once Application::quit() is called to avoid a double free crash (I'm
unsure where Qt is destructing the widgets internally.) The Cocoa port
compiles again at least, though it's bound to have endless problems. I
improved the Label painting in the GTK ports, which fixes the background
color on labels inside TabFrame widgets.

I've optimized the Makefile system even further.

I added a "redo state" command to bsnes, which is created whenever you
load the undo state. There are also hotkeys for both now, although I
don't think they're really something you want to map hotkeys to.

I moved the nall::Locale object inside hiro::Application, so that it can
be used to translate the BrowserDialog and MessageDialog window strings.

I improved the Super Game Boy emulation of `MLT_REQ`, fixing Pokemon
Yellow's custom border and probably more stuff.

Lots of other small fixes and improvements. Things are finally stable
once again after the harrowing layout redesign catastrophe.

Errata:

  - ICD::joypID should be set to 3 on reset(). joypWrite() may as well
    take uint1 instead of bool.
  - hiro/Qt: remove pWindow::setMaximumSize() comment; found a
    workaround for it
  - nall/GNUmakefile: don't set object.path if it's already set (allow
    overrides before including the file)
2018-07-16 16:16:26 +10:00
Tim Allen 6090c63958 Update to v106r47 release.
byuu says:

This is probably the largest code-change diff I've done in years.

I spent four days working 10-16 hours a day reworking layouts in hiro
completely.

The result is we now have TableLayout, which will allow for better
horizontal+vertical combined alignment.

Windows, GTK2, and now GTK3 are fully supported.

Windows is getting the initial window geometry wrong by a bit.

GTK2 and GTK3 work perfectly. I basically abandoned trying to detect
resize signals, and instead keep a list of all hiro windows that are
allocated, and every time the main loop runs, it will query all of them
to see if they've been resized. I'm disgusted that I have to do this,
but after fighting with GTK for years, I'm about sick of it. GTK was
doing this crazy thing where it would trigger another size-allocate
inside of a previous size-allocate, and so my layouts would be halfway
through resizing all the widgets, and then the size-allocate would kick
off another one. That would end up leaving the rest of the first layout
loop with bad widget sizes. And if I detected a second re-entry and
blocked it, then the entire window would end up with the older geometry.
I started trying to build a message queue system to allow the second
layout resize to occur after the first one completed, but this was just
too much madness, so I went with the simpler solution.

Qt4 has some geometry problems, and doesn't show tab frame layouts
properly yet.

Qt5 causes an ICE error and tanks my entire Xorg display server, so ...
something is seriously wrong there, and it's not hiro's fault. Creating
a dummy Qt5 application without even using hiro, just int main() {
TestObject object; } with object performing a dynamic\_cast to a derived
type segfaults. Memory is getting corrupted where GCC allocates the
vtables for classes, just by linking in Qt. Could be somehow related to
the -fPIC requirement that only Qt5 has ... could just be that FreeBSD
10.1 has a buggy implementation of Qt5. I don't know. It's beyond my
ability to debug, so this one's going to stay broken.

The Cocoa port is busted. I'll fix it up to compile again, but that's
about all I'm going to do.

Many optimizations mean bsnes and higan open faster. GTK2 and GTK3 both
resize windows very quickly now.

higan crashes when you load a game, so that's not good. bsnes works
though.

bsnes also has the start of a localization engine now. Still a long way
to go.

The makefiles received a rather substantial restructuring. Including the
ruby and hiro makefiles will add the necessary compilation rules for
you, which also means that moc will run for the qt4 and qt5 targets, and
windres will run for the Windows targets.
2018-07-14 13:59:29 +10:00
Tim Allen 0c55796060 Update to v106r46 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - bsnes, higan: simplified make output; reordered rules
  - hiro: added Window::set(Minimum,Maximum)Size() [only implemented in
    GTK+ so far]
  - bsnes: only allow the window to be shrunk to the 1x multiplier size
  - bsnes: refactored Integral Scaling checkbox to {Center, Scale,
    Stretch} radio selection
  - nall: call fflush() after nall::print() to stdout or stderr [needed
    for msys2/bash]
  - bsnes, higan: program/interface.cpp renamed to program/platform.cpp
  - bsnes: trim ".shader/" from names in Settings→Shader menu
  - bsnes: Settings→Shader menu updated on video driver changes
  - bsnes: remove missing games from recent files list each time it is
    updated
  - bsnes: video multiplier menu generated dynamically based on largest
    monitor size at program startup
  - bsnes: added shrink window and center window function to video
    multiplier menu
  - bsnes: de-minimize presentation window when exiting fullscreen mode
    or changing video multiplier
  - bsnes: center the load game dialog against the presentation window
    (important for multi-monitor setups)
  - bsnes: screenshots are not immediate instead of delayed one frame
  - bsnes: added frame advance menu option and hotkey
  - bsnes: added enable cheats checkbox and hotkey; can be used to
    quickly enable/disable all active cheats

Errata:

  - hiro/Windows: `SW_MINIMIZED`, `SW_MAXIMIZED `=> `SW_MINIMIZE`,
    `SW_MAXIMIZE`
  - hiro/Windows: add pMonitor::workspace()
  - hiro/Windows: add setMaximized(), setMinimized() in
    pWindow::construct()
  - bsnes: call setCentered() after setMaximized(false)
2018-07-08 14:58:27 +10:00
Tim Allen 372e9ef42b Update to v106r45 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - sfc/ppu-fast: added hires mode 7 option (doubles the sampling rate
    of mode 7 pixels to reduce aliasing)
  - sfc/ppu-fast: fixed mode 7 horizontal screen flip [hex_usr]
  - bsnes: added capture screenshot function and path selection
      - for now, it saves as BMP. I need a deflate implementation that
        won't add an external dependency for PNG
      - the output resolution is from the emulator: (256 or 512)x(240 or
        480 minus overscan cropping if enabled)
      - it captures the NEXT output frame, not the current one ... but
        it may be wise to change this behavior
      - it'd be a problem if the core were to exit and an image was
        captured halfway through frame rendering
  - bsnes: recovery state renamed to undo state
  - bsnes: added manifest viewer tool
  - bsnes: mention if game has been verified or not on the status bar
    message at load time
  - bsnes, nall: fixed a few missing function return values
    [SuperMikeMan]
  - bsnes: guard more strongly against failure to load games to avoid
    crashes
  - hiro, ruby: various fixes for macOS [Sintendo]
  - hiro/Windows: paint on `WM_ERASEBKGND` to prevent status bar
    flickering at startup
  - icarus: SPC7110 heuristics fixes [hex_usr]

Errata:

  - sfc/ppu-fast: remove debug hires mode7 force disable comment from
    PPU::power()

[The `WM_ERASEBKGND` fix was already present in the 106r44 public
beta -Ed.]
2018-07-02 11:57:04 +10:00
Tim Allen 40a5fbe605 Update to v106r44 public beta release:
byuu says (in the public announcement):

I'm releasing a beta version of bsnes, for the purpose of gathering feedback and
ensuring that the first official release of bsnes is as solid as possible.

With the exception of dynamic rate control for automatic audio/video sync, and
no pack-in video shaders or cheat code database, it is mostly feature complete.
However, please do not form a lasting opinion of bsnes based on this beta.
2018-06-28 16:35:49 +10:00
Tim Allen ec960c5172 Update to v106r44 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - hiro/Windows: use `WS_CLIPSIBLINGS` on Label to prevent resize
    drawing issues
  - bsnes: correct viewport resizing
  - bsnes: speed up window resizing a little bit
  - bsnes: fix the cheat editor list enable checkbox
  - bsnes: fix the state manager filename display in game ROM mode
  - bsnes: fix the state manager save/rename/remove functionality in
    game ROM mode
  - bsnes: correct path searching for IPS and BPS patches in game ROM
    mode
  - bsnes: patch BS-X town cartridge to disable play limits
  - bsnes: do not load (program,data,expansion).(rom,flash) from disk in
    game pak mode
      - this is required to support soft-patching and ROM hacks
  - bsnes: added speed mode selection (50%, 75%, 100%, 150%, 200%);
    maintains proper pitch
  - bsnes: added icons to the menubar
      - this is particularly useful to tell game ROMs from game paks in
        the load recent game menu
  - bsnes: added emblem at bottom left of status bar to indicate if a
    game is verified or not
      - verified means it is in the icarus verified game dump database
      - the verified diamond is orange; the unverified diamond is blue
  - bsnes: added an option (which defaults to off) to warn when loading
    unverified games
      - working around a bug in GTK, I have to use the uglier
        MessageWindow instead of MessageDialog
  - bsnes: added (non-functional) link to <https://doc.byuu.org/bsnes/>
    to the help menu
  - bsnes: added GUI setting to toggle memory auto-save feature
  - bsnes: added GUI setting to toggle capturing a backup save state
    when closing the emulator
  - bsnes: made auto-saving states on exit an option
  - bsnes: added an option to auto-load the auto-saved state on load
      - basically, the two combined implements auto-resume
  - bsnes: when firmware is missing, offer to take the user to the
    online help documentation
  - bsnes: added fast PPU option to disable the sprite limit
      - increase from 32 items/line + 34 tiles/line to 128 items/line +
        128 tiles/line
      - technically, 1024 tiles/line are possible with 128 sprites at
        64-width
      - but this is just a waste of cache locality and worst-case
        performance; it'll never happen

Errata:

  - hiro/Windows: fallthrough on Canvas `WM_ERASEBKGND` to prevent
    startup flicker
2018-06-28 16:28:27 +10:00
Tim Allen 5b97fa2415 Update to v106r42 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - emulator: added `Thread::setHandle(cothread_t)`
  - icarus: added special heuristics support for the Tengai Maykou Zero
    fan translation
      - board identifier is: EXSPC7110-RAM-EPSONRTC (match on SPC7110 +
        ROM size=56mbit)
      - board ROM contents are: 8mbit program, 40mbit data, 8mbit
        expansion (sizes are fixed)
  - bsnes: show messages on game load, unload, and reset
  - bsnes: added support for BS Memory and Sufami Turbo games
  - bsnes: added support for region selection (Auto [default], NTSC,
    PAL)
  - bsnes: correct presentation window size from 223/239 to 224/240
  - bsnes: add SA-1 internal RAM on cartridges with BS Memory slot
  - bsnes: fixed recovery state to store inside .bsz archive
  - bsnes: added support for custom manifests in both game pak and game
    ROM modes
  - bsnes: added icarus game database support (manifest → database →
    heuristics)
  - bsnes: added flexible SuperFX overclocking
  - bsnes: added IPS and BPS soft-patching support to all ROM types
    (sfc,smc,gb,gbc,bs,st)
      - can load patches inside of ZIP archives (matches first “.ips” or
        “.bps” file)
  - bsnes/ppu: cache interlace/overscan/vdisp (277 → 291fps with fast
    PPU)
  - hiro/Windows: faster painting of Label widget on expose
  - hiro/Windows: immediately apply LineEdit::setBackgroundColor changes
  - hiro/Qt: inherit Window backgroundColor when one is not assigned to
    Label

Errata:

  - sfc/ppu-fast: remove `renderMode7Hires()` function (the body isn't in
    the codebase)
  - bsnes: advanced note label should probably use a lighter text color
    and/or smaller font size instead of italics

I didn't test the soft-patching at all, as I don't have any patches on
my dev box. If anyone wants to test, that'd be great. The Tengai Makyou
Zero fan translation would be a great test case.
2018-06-26 13:17:26 +10:00
Tim Allen f70a20bc42 Update to v106r41 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - hiro: added Label::set(Background,Foreground)Color (not implemented
    on Cocoa backend)
  - hiro: added (Horizontal,Vertical)Layout::setPadding()
      - setMargin(m) is now an alias to setPadding({m, m, m, m})
  - hiro/Windows: update Label rendering to draw to an offscreen canvas
    to prevent flickering
  - sfc: reverted back to 224/240-line height (from 223/239-line height
    in earlier v106 WIPs)
  - bsnes: new multi-segment status bar added
  - bsnes: exiting fullscreen mode will resize and recenter window
      - this is required; the window geometry gets all scrambled when
        toggling fullscreen mode
  - bsnes: updated to a new logo [Ange Albertini]

Errata:

  - hiro/Windows: try to paint Label backgroundColor quicker to avoid
    startup flicker
      - `WM_ERASEBKGND` fallthrough to `WM_PAINT` seems to work
  - hiro/Qt: use Window backgroundColor for Label when no Label
    backgroundColor set
  - bsnes: update size multipliers in presentation.cpp to 224/240 (main
    window size is off in this WIP)
2018-06-24 14:53:44 +10:00
Tim Allen 5a8c814e25 Update to v106r40 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - hiro: added BrowserDialog::openObject() [match file *or* folder
    by filters]
  - hiro: BrowserDialog accept button is now disabled when it would
    otherwise do nothing
      - eg openFile without a folder to enter or file to open selected
      - eg saveFile without a file name or with a file name that matches
        a folder name
  - bsnes: added support for gamepaks (game folders)
  - bsnes: store all save states inside per-game .bsz (ZIP) archives
    instead of .bst/ folders
      - this reduces the number of state files from 10+ to 1; without
        having folders sort before files
  - hiro: both gtk2 and gtk3 now use cairo to render Canvas; supports
    sx,sy [BearOso]
  - higan, bsnes: fast PPU/DSP are now run-time options instead of
    compile-time options
  - bsnes: disable fast PPU when loading Air Strike Patrol / Desert
    Fighter
  - bsnes: disable fast DSP when loading Koushien 2
  - bsnes: added options to advanced panel to disable fast PPU and/or
    fast DSP
2018-06-11 14:50:18 +10:00
Tim Allen 91bb781b73 Update to v106r39 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - ruby/video: implement onUpdate() callback to signal when redraws are
    necessary
  - ruby/video/GLX,GLX2,XVideo,XShm: implement onUpdate() support
  - bsnes: implement Video::onUpdate() support to redraw Viewport icon
    as needed
  - bsnes: save RAM before ruby driver changes
  - sfc/sa1: clip signed multiplication to 32-bit [Jonas Quinn]
  - sfc/sa1: handle negative dividends in division [Jonas Quinn]
  - hiro/gtk3: a few improvements
  - bsnes: added empty stub video and audio settings panels
  - bsnes: restructured advanced settings panel
  - bsnes: experiment: input/hotkeys name column bolded and colored for
    increased visual distinction
  - bsnes: added save button to state manager
2018-06-10 18:07:19 +10:00
Tim Allen 15b67922b3 Update to v106r38 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - hiro: added Qt5 support
  - hiro: added GTK3 support (currently runs very poorly)
  - bsnes: number of recent games and quick state slots can be changed
    programmatically now
      - I may expose this as a configuration file setting, but probably
        not within the GUI
  - nall: use -Wno-everything when compiling with Clang
      - sorry, Clang's meaningless warning messages are just endless ...
2018-06-10 18:06:02 +10:00
Tim Allen 173a5d67bc Update to v106r37 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - bsnes: cheat code “enabled” option changed to “enable”
  - bsnes: connected “Cancel” action on add/edit cheat code window
  - hiro: improved BrowserDialog::selectFolder() behavior
      - can choose “Select” inside of a target folder when no items are
        selected
  - bsnes: implemented state manager
  - bsnes: save a recovery state before loading a state, quitting, or
    changing drivers
  - bsnes: input settings, hotkey settings, cheat editor, state manager
    entries are now batchable
      - this allows bulk clearing/deleting of entries
  - bsnes: cheat code list now auto-sorts alphabetically instead of
    using up/down move arrows

I know most people will probably prefer to order cheat codes the way
they want, but the issue is that the state manager can't really work
this way. Each state is a file on disk. So yes, we could store a
states-manifest.bml to track the order of the states, or try to insert
numbers into the filenames and do bulk filesystem rename operations on
sorting, but then we would run into oddities when users delete state
files manually. And really, manual sorting is just clumsy. If you really
want a specific ordering, you can prefix cheats/states with numeric
indices instead.
2018-06-07 21:48:41 +10:00
Tim Allen ec9729a9e1 Update to v106r36 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - nall: renamed array to adaptive_array; marked it as deprecated
  - nall: created new array class; which is properly static (ala
    std::array) with optional bounds-checking
  - sfc/ppu-fast: converted unmanaged arrays to use nall/array (no speed
    penalty)
  - bsnes: rewrote the cheat code editor to a new design
  - nall: string class can stringify pointer types directly now, so
    pointer() was removed
  - nall: added array_view and pointer types (still unsure if/how I'll
    use pointer)
2018-06-04 12:44:57 +10:00
Tim Allen 5d29700fa1 Update to v106r33 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - nall/GNUmakefile: added `openmp=(true,false)` option; can be toggled
    when building higan/bsnes
      - defaults to disabled on macOS, because Xcode doesn't stupidly
        doesn't ship with support for it
  - higan/GNUmakefile: forgot to switch target,profile back from
    bsnes,fast to higan,accurate
      - this is just gonna happen from time to time, sorry
  - sfc/dsp: when using the fast profile, the DSP syncs per sample
    instead of per clock
      - should only negatively impact Koushien 2, but is a fairly
        significant speedup otherwise
  - sfc/ppc,ppu-fast: optimized the code a bit (ppu 130fps to 133fps)
  - sfc/ppu-fast: basic vertical mosaic support (not accurate, but
    should look okay hopefully)
  - sfc/ppu-fast: added missing mode7 hflip support
  - sfc/ppu-fast: added support to render at 256-width and/or 240-height
      - gives a decent speed boost, and also allows all of the older
        quark shaders to work nicely again
      - it does violate the contract of Emulator::Interface, but oh
        well, it works fine in the bsnes GUI
  - sfc/ppu-fast: use cached CGRAM values for mode7 and sprites
  - sfc/ppu-fast: use global range/time over flags in object rendering
      - may not actually work as we intended since it's a race condition
        even if it's only ORing the flags
      - really don't want to have to make those variables atomic if I
        don't have to
  - sfc/ppu-fast: should fully support interlace and overscan modes now
  - hiro/cocoa: updated macOS Gatekeeper disable support to work on
    10.13+
  - ruby: forgot to fix macOS input driver, sorry
  - nall/GNUmakefile: if uname is present, then just default to rm
    instead of del (fixes Msys)

Note: blur emulation option will break pretty badly in 256x240 output
mode. I'll fix it later.
2018-05-31 17:06:55 +10:00
Tim Allen 685cec6583 Update to v106r30 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - nall/GNUmakefile: fixed findstring parameter arguments [Screwtape]
  - nall/Windows: always include -mthreads -lpthread for all
    applications
  - nall/memory: code restructuring

I really wanted to work on the new PPU today, but I thought I'd spend a
few minutes making some minor improvements to nall::memory, that was
five and a half hours ago. Now I have a 67KiB diff of changes. Sigh.
2018-05-28 11:16:27 +10:00
Tim Allen 2b8df2e70e Update to v106r27 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - nall: merged Path::config() and Path::local() to Path::userData()
      - ~/.local/share or %appdata or ~/Library/ApplicationSupport
  - higan, bsnes: render main window icon onto viewport instead of
    canvas
      - should hopefully fix a brief flickering glitch that appears on
        Windows
  - icarus: improved Super Famicom heuristics for Starfox / Starwing RAM
  - ruby/Direct3D: handle viewport size changes in lock() instead of
    output()
      - fixes icon disappearing when resizing main window
  - hiro/Windows: remove WS_DISABLED from StatusBar to fix window
    resize grip
      - this is experimental: I initially used WS_DISABLED to work
        around a focus bug
      - yet trying things now, said bug seems(?) to have gone away at
        some point ...
  - bsnes: added advanced settings panel with real-time driver change
    support

I'd like feedback on the real-time driver change, for possible
consideration into adding this to higan as well.

Some drivers just crash, it's a fact of life. The ASIO driver in
particular likes to crash inside the driver itself, without any error
messages ever returned to try and catch.

When you try to change a driver with a game loaded, it gives you a scary
warning, asking if you want to proceed.

When you change a driver, it sets a crash flag, and if the driver
crashes while initializing, then restarting bsnes will disable the
errant driver. If it fails in a recoverable way, then it sets the driver
to “None” and warns you that the driver cannot be used.

What I'm thinking of further adding is to call emulator→save() to
write out the save RAM contents beforehand (although the periodic
auto-saving RAM will handle this anyway when it's enabled), and possibly
it might be wise to capture an emulator save state, although those can't
be taken without advancing the emulator to the next frame, so that might
not be a good idea.

I'm also thinking we should show some kind of message somewhere when a
driver is set to “None”. The status bar can be hidden, so perhaps on the
title bar? Or maybe just a warning on startup that a driver is set to
“None”.
2018-05-25 18:02:38 +10:00
Tim Allen 5961ea9c03 Update to v106r26 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - nall: added -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ to Windows/GCC link
    flags
  - bsnes, higan: added program icons to main window when game isn't
    loaded
  - bsnes: improved recent games menu sorting
  - bsnes: fixed multi-game recent game loading on Windows
  - bsnes: completed path override support
  - bsnes, higan: added screensaver suppression on Windows
  - icarus: add 32K volatile RAM to SuperFX boards that report no RAM
    (fixes Starfox)
  - bsnes, higan: added automatic dependency generation [Talarubi]
  - hiro/GTK: appending actions to menus restores enabled() state
  - higan: use board node inside manifest.bml if it exists
  - bsnes: added blur emulation and color emulation options to view menu
  - ruby: upgraded input.sdl to SDL 2.0 (though it makes no functional
    difference sadly)
  - ruby: removed video.sdl (due to deprecating SDL 1.2)
  - nall, ruby: improvements to HID class (generic vendor and product
    IDs)

Errata:

  - bsnes, higan: on Windows, Application::Windows::onScreenSaver needs
    `[&]` lambda capture, not `[]`
      - find it in presentation/presentation.cpp
2018-05-24 12:14:17 +10:00
Tim Allen 8bbbc5e737 Update to v106r21 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - higan: target-tomoko has been renamed to target-higan
  - Super Famicom: event has been renamed to
    processor(architecture=uPD78214)
  - Super Famicom: SNES-EVENT supported once more; under board IDs
    EVENT-CC92 and EVENT-PF94
  - Super Famicom: SNES-EVENT preliminarily set up to use DIP switch
    settings ala the Nintendo Super System (incomplete)
  - Super Famicom: MCC PSRAM moved inside the MCU, as it is remappable
  - Super Famicom: MCC emulation rewritten from scratch; it is now
    vastly more accurate than before
  - Super Famicom: added BSC-1A5B9P-01 board definition to database;
    corrected BS-MCC-RAM board definition
  - Super Famicom: moved SHVC-LN3B-01 RAM outside of
    processor(identifier=SDD1)
  - higan: when selecting a default game to load for a new system entry,
    it will change the system option to match the media type
  - higan: the load text box on the system entry window is now editable;
    can be used to erase entries
  - icarus: fixed bug in Famicom importing
  - icarus: importing unappended SNES coprocessor firmware will now
    rename the firmware properly
  - hiro/GTK,Qt: WM_CLASS is now set correctly in `argv[0]`, so
    applications should show “higan”, “icarus” instead of “hiro” now

Note: if you wish to run the BS-X town cartridge, the database currently
lists the download RAM as type “PSRAM”. This needs to be changed to
“RAM” in order to load properly. Otherwise, the emulator will bomb
out on the load window, because BSC-1A5B9P-01 expects PSRAM to always be
present, but it won't find it with the wrong memory type. I'll correct
this in the database in a later release. For now, you can copy the game
portion of the manifest to a new manifest.bml file and drop it into the
gamepak folder until I fix the database.
2018-05-17 13:37:29 +10:00
Tim Allen 8023d9cbe8 Update to v106r15 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - main menu renamed again (Library→System→Systems)
  - the 'Hidden' checkbox on system properties was moved to the main
    list as a 'Show' checkbox instead
  - the move up/move down buttons on the systems panel now function
  - added icons to indicate 'system' versus 'game boot' entries in the
    systems list

I still didn't add ComboEdit to the Windows hiro port, so once again
this will be Linux/BSD only.

I polished the browse button for selecting a boot game. It'll use a list
of all bootable media file extensions, so that if you double-click any
supported game, it'll select it instead of going inside the folder. If
you pick a non-bootable folder, like say a Sufami Turbo cartridge, it
will go inside the folder instead, because it will treat it like any
other regular folder.

Having a checkbox next to text in the same cell doesn't work so well on
lists that have an onActivate action. Say you tried to double-click the
“Name” field on the Systems tab, it would toggle the checkbox twice
before popping open the system properties editor window. So because of
this, I made the show checkbox its own column. And for consistency, I
did the same for the slot# on the cheat editor window.

As a bit of really pedantic polish: if there are no systems enabled,
then the main menu won't show the separator before the “Load ROM Image”
option anymore.

I think something is wrong with the Markup::Node::insert syntax, but I
realized I have Markup::Node::swap, and just used that for the up/down
arrows on the systems panel for now. But we should probably fix insert()
at some point ... sigh.
2018-04-17 19:18:14 +10:00
Tim Allen 0ea17abfea Update to v106r15 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Super Game Boy: fixed loading of boot ROM
  - hiro: added ComboEdit::setEditable(bool = true);
  - tomoko: added new systems settings panel

Note!!: this release will not compile on Windows or macOS due to the
missing ComboEdit control! I'll try to merge in hex's implementation
for the Windows release here soon. macOS users will probably be out of
luck for a while, sorry.

The new systems panel is an idea I've been meaning to implement for
quite a while, but finally got around to starting on it. It's still
fairly unpolished, but the basic idea is there for Linux/BSD users to
try out now.

So imagine the Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo, and the
associated BS Memory Pack-slotted SNES cartridges. To play any of those,
you needed to choose Nintendo→Super Famicom, and then select the
relevant cartridge, and then select any slotted cartridges to play with
it.

This was acceptable-ish, if not ideal. But now imagine in the future if
we wanted to support the Famicom Disk System, which is technically a
cartridge that plugs into the Famicom deck. Or the PC Engine CD, which
has one of three special HuCards that must be inserted (ignoring the
Turbo Duo where it's built-in—I'm going to be emulating the Super CD
as if you're using a stock PCE CD.) Or the Mega CD, where there are
probably a half dozen or more BIOS + hardware revisions that are
region-specific, which connect to an expansion port that is identical to
the cartridge port save for the Mega Drive seeing an I/O register bit
toggled here.

In all of these cases, it's going to be a real pain to have to choose
the 'BIOS' every time you want to play a game for them.

I can't distribute these BIOSes with higan due to copyright
restrictions, and trying to ship dummy folders for every possible
combination would become quite odious, and difficult for people to use
(compare to setting up the Game Boy Advance system BIOS.)

And so I've created the new systems settings panel. Here, you can manage
a list of systems that show up under the higan library menu (now renamed
to “System”), where each entry contains name, boot, and hidden
parameters.

The name parameter is what shows up in the system menu. You can call any
system higan emulates whatever you like here. Don't like “Super
Famicom”? Change it to “SNES”, then.

The boot parameter is a combo edit with a dropdown for all of the
systems higan emulates. If you choose one of these, then the higan
system menu option will work exactly like in previous releases, and
prompt you for a cartridge. But if you choose the browse button next to
the combo edit control, you'll get to pick any gamepak from the higan
library of your choosing.

So you could choose the SGB2 BIOS, and name the menu option “Super Game
Boy 2”, and when you choose the menu option, it will load the SFC core,
load the SGB2 BIOS, and only prompt you for the Game Boy game you wish
to play on it. The same deal goes for the FDS, PCE-CD, Mega CD, Mega
Drive Sonic & Knuckles lock-on cartridge, BS-X Satellaview, SD Gundam
G-Next, etc. Whatever you want to be in the menu, you can put in there
by pointing higan at the appropriate 'BIOS' gamepak to load.

Astute readers have probably already noticed, but you can technically
use this on non-slotted games as well, thus creating instant boot
options for your absolute favorite games, if you so wanted. Point it at
Zelda 3, and you can boot it instantly from the main menu, without any
need for file selection.

The hidden option is a way to hide the system entries from the system
menu. Primarily this would be a fast way for users to disable emulation
cores they never use in higan, without having to remove the options.

The major concession with this change is the collapsing of the
per-manufacturer submenus. What this means is you will now have all
twelve higan emulated systems in the main menu by default. This makes
the list rather long, but ... oh well. I may try to offer some form of
grouping in the future, but the grouping defeats the “list order =
display order” design, and I'm not willing to auto-sort the list. I want
people to be able to control the ordering of the system menu, and have
added (as yet non-functional) sorting arrows for that purpose. I also
don't have a combined tree+table view widget in higan to try to and
group things. But ... we'll see how things go in the future.

Another idea is to add a specialty load option that opens up the user's
Emulation library path, and lets you pick a gamepak for any system,
which would boot the same way as when you drop a gamepak onto the higan
executable or main window. So say you almost never play Wonderswan
games, this would be a way to play them without them cluttering your
system menu list.

The “import ROM files” option has been removed. All it does is launch
icarus directly. I would rather users become familiar with using icarus.
The “load ROM file” option remains.

Anyway, this is all still a work in progress, so please give it time and
don't overload me with too many suggested changes right now, thanks :3
2018-04-16 18:58:13 +10:00
Tim Allen 2dd35f984d Update to v106r10 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - manifest: memory/battery now resides under type at
    memory/type/battery
  - genius: volatile option changed to battery; auto-disables when not
    RAM or RTC type
  - higan: added new Emulator::Game class to parse manifests for all
    emulated systems consistently
  - Super Famicom: board manifest appended to manifest viewer now
  - Super Famicom: cartridge class updated to use Emulator::Game objects
  - hiro: improve suppression of userland callbacks once
    Application::quit() is called
      - this fixes a crash in genius when closing the window with a tree
        view item selected

My intention is to remove Emulator::Interface::sha256(), as it's not
really useful. They'll be removed from save states as well. I never
bothered validating the SHA256 within them, because that'd be really
annoying for ROM hackers.

I also intend to rename Emulator::Interface::title() to label() instead.

Most everything is still broken. The SNES still needs all the board
definitions updated, all the other cores need to move to using
Emulator::Game.
2018-03-06 09:42:10 +11:00
Tim Allen e216912ca3 Update to v106r09 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - higan, icarus, genius: new manifest syntax (work in progress)

Pretty much only LoROM and HiROM SNES games will load right now, and RAM
will only work right if the save.ram file already exists to pull its
file size from (a temporary cheap hack was used.)

Basically, I'm just getting this out there for evaluation.

One minor errata is that I switched icarus to using “memory/battery” to
indicate battery-backed RAM, whereas genius still uses “memory/volatile”
to indicate non-battery-backed RAM.

I intend to make it “memory/battery” in genius, and have the field
auto-enable when RAM or RTC is selected for type (obviously allowing it
to be unchecked for volatile memory.)

I need to update all 64 production boards, and 25 of 29 generic boards,
to use the new slot syntax; and I also need to update every single core
in higan to use the new manifest game syntax. I want to build out a
generic manifest game parser that all emulation cores will use.

Once I finish this, I'll also need to write a database converter to
update all of my licensed game dumps to the new database syntax.

I also need to write up something for doc.byuu.org explaining the new
manifest game syntax. The manifest board syntax will still be “internal”
and subject to revisions, but once v107 is out, the gamepak manifest
format will be set in stone sans extensions.
2018-03-05 15:34:07 +11:00
Tim Allen 2f81b5a3e7 Update to v106r2 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Super Famicom: added support for loading manifests without embedded
    mapping information¹
  - genius: initial commit
  - various Makefile cleanups

¹: so the idea here is to try and aim for a stable manifest format,
and to allow direct transposition of icarus/genius database entries into
manifest files. The exact mechanics of how this is going to work is
currently in flux, but we'll get there.

For right now, `Super Famicom.sys` gains `boards.bml`, which is the raw
database from my board-editor tool, and higan itself tries to load
`boards.bml`, match an entry to game/board from the game's `manifest.bml`
file, and then transform it into the format currently used by higan. It
does this only when the game's `manifest.bml` file lacks a board node.
When such a board node exists, it works as previous versions of higan
did.

The only incompatible change right now is information/title is now
located at game/label. I may transition window title display to just use
the filenames instead.

Longer term, some thought is going to need to go into the format of the
`boards.bml` database itself, and at which point in the process I should
be transforming things.

Give it time, we'll refine this into something nicer.
2018-02-01 19:20:37 +11:00
Tim Allen f8e71b50d0 Update to v105 release.
byuu says:

This release provides several major improvements to Mega Drive emulation
which enhances compatibility a good deal. It also includes important
Super Famicom mosaic emulation improvements, plus a much-needed SuperFX
save state issue fix.

Changelog (since v104):

  - higan: many improvements to Emulator::Interface to support
    forks/frontends
  - higan: refreshed program icon
  - icarus: new program icon
  - Game Boy Advance: slight emulation speedup over v104
  - Game Boy Advance: synchronize APU FIFO updates better
  - Mega Drive: added automatic region detection [hex_usr]
  - Mega Drive: support 8-bit SRAM
  - Game Boy Advance: fixed bug when changing to THUMB mode via MSR
    [MerryMage]
  - Master System: fix bug in backdrop color and background 0 priority
    [hex_usr]
  - Mega Drive: backgrounds always update output priority bit [Cydrak]
  - Mega Drive: emulated interlaced video output
  - Mega Drive: emulated shadow/highlight mode [Cydrak]
  - Super Famicom: auto joypad polling clears the shift register when
    starting
  - Super Famicom: added new low-entropy RAM initialization mode to more
    closely match hardware
  - Game Boy Advance: rumble will now time out after being left on for
    500ms
  - ruby: improved rumble support in udev input driver [ma_rysia]
  - M68K: `move.b (a7)[+/-]` adjust a7 by two
  - M68K: illegal/lineA/lineF opcodes do not modify the stack register
  - Mega Drive: emulate VIP status bit
  - uPD7725: improved emulation of OV1/S1 flags [byuu, AWJ, Lord
    Nightmare]
  - uPD7725: improved handling of DP, RP updates [Jonas Quinn]
  - Super Famicom: improved emulation of mosaic effects in hires,
    interlace, and offset-per-tile modes [byuu, Cydrak]
  - ruby: improved Direct3D exclusive mode monitor selection [Cydrak]
  - Super Famicom: fixed save state bug affecting SuperFX games
    [Cydrak]
  - Mega Drive: added workaround for Clang compiler bug; allowing this
    core to work on macOS [Cydrak, Sintendo]
  - higan: hotkeys now also trigger when the main window lacks focus yet
    higan is set to allow input on focus loss
  - higan: fixed an edge case where `int16_t` ↔ `double` audio
    conversion could possibly result in overflows
  - higan: fixed a crash on macOS when choosing quit from the
    application menu [ncbncb]

Changelog (since the previous WIP):

  - higan: restored `make console=true`
  - tomoko: if you allow input when main window focus is lost, hotkeys
    can now be triggered without focus as well
  - hiro/cocoa: fix crash on exit from menu [ncbncb]
  - ruby: smarter `double` → `int16_t` conversion to prevent
    underflow/overflow
2017-10-07 19:49:07 +11:00
Tim Allen 6524a7181d Update to v104r15 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - processor/huc6280,mos6502,wdc65816: replaced abbreviated opcode
    names with descriptive names
  - nall: replaced `PLATFORM_MACOSX` define with `PLATFORM_MACOS`
  - icarus: added `Icarus::missing() -> string_vector` to list missing
    appended firmware files by name
  - ruby, hiro: fix macosx→macos references

The processor instruction renaming was really about consistency with the
other processor cores. I may still need to do this for one or two more
processors.

The icarus change should allow a future release of the icarus
application to import games with external SNES coprocessor firmware once
again. It will also allow this to be possible when used in library mode.
2017-09-29 20:36:35 +10:00
Tim Allen fbc58c70ae Update to v104r14 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Emulator::Interface::videoResolution() -\> VideoResolution renamed
    to videoInformation() -\> VideoInformation
  - added double VideoInformation::refreshRate
  - higan: added `binary := (application|library)` — set this to
    `library` to produce a dynamic link library
  - higan: removed `-march=native` for macOS application builds; and for
    all library builds
  - higan: removed `console` build flag; uncomment  `link += -mwindows`
    instead
  - nall/GNUmakefile: `macosx` platform renamed `macos`
      - still need to do this for nall/intrinsics.hpp
  - Game Gear: return region=NTSC as the only option, so that the system
    frequency is always set correctly
  - hiro/cocoa: fixed typo [Sintendo]
  - hiro/Windows: removed GetDpiForMonitor, as it's Windows 8+ only; DPI
    is no longer per-monitor aware
  - icarus: core Icarus class now has virtual functions for
    directory::create, <file::exists>, <file::copy>, <file::write>
  - icarus: Sufami Turbo can import save RAM files now
  - icarus: setting `ICARUS_LIBRARY` define will compile icarus without
    main(), GUI components
  - ruby/video/Direct3D: choose the current monitor instead of top-left
    monitor for fullscreen exclusive [Cydrak]
  - ruby/video/Direct3D: do not set `WS_EX_TOPMOST` on fullscreen
    exclusive window [Cydrak]
      - this isn't necessary for exclusive mode, and it just makes
        getting out of the application more difficult
2017-09-24 11:01:48 +10:00
Tim Allen 1ff315838e Update to v104r13 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - nall/GNUmakefile: build=release changed to -O2, build=optimize is
    now -O3
  - hiro: added Monitor::dpi(uint index) → Position [returns logical
    DPI for x, y]
      - Position is a bad name, but dpi(monitor).(x,y)() make more sense
        than .(width,height)()
  - hiro: Position, Size, Geometry, Font changed from using signed int
    to float
  - hiro: Alignment changed from using double to float
  - hiro: added skeleton (unused) Application::scale(), setScale()
    functions

Errata:

  - hiro/cocoa's Monitor::dpi() is untested. Probably will cause issues
    with macOS' automatic scaling.
  - hiro/gtk lacks a way to get both per-monitor and per-axis (x,y) DPI
    scaling
  - hiro/qt lacks a way to get per-monitor DPI scaling (Qt 5.x has this,
    but I still use Qt 4.x)
      - and just to get global DPI, hiro/qt's DPI retrieval has to use
        undocumented functions ... fun

The goal with this WIP was basically to prepare hiro for potential
automatic scaling. It'll be extremely difficult, but I'm convinced that
it must be possible if macOS can do it.

By moving from signed integers to floats for coordinates, we can now
scale and unscale without losing precision. That of course isn't the
hard part, though. The hard part is where and how to do the scaling. In
the ideal application, hiro/core and hiro/extension will handle 100% of
this, and the per-platform hiro/(cocoa,gtk,qt,windows) will not be aware
of what's going on, but ... to even make that possible, things will need
to change in every per-platform core, eg the per-platform code will have
to call a core function to change geometry, which will know about the
scaling and unscale the values back down again.

Gonna be a lot of work, but ... it's a start.
2017-09-08 16:06:21 +10:00
Tim Allen 0b6f1df987 Update to v103r27 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - hiro/windows: set dpiAware=false, fixes icarus window sizes relative
    to higan window sizes
  - higan, icarus, hiro, ruby: add support for high resolution displays
    on macOS [ncbncb]
  - processor/lr35902-legacy: removed
  - processor/arm7tdmi: new processor core started; intended to one day
    be a replacement for processor/arm

It will probably take several WIPs to get the new ARM core up and
running. It's the last processor rewrite. After this, all processor
cores will be up to date with all my current programming conventions.
2017-08-06 23:36:26 +10:00
Tim Allen 571760c747 Update to v103r24 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gb/mbc6: mapper is now functional, but Net de Get has some text
    corruption¹
  - gb/mbc7: mapper is now functional²
  - gb/cpu: HDMA syncs other components after each byte transfer now
  - gb/ppu: LY,LX forced to zero when LCDC.d7 is lowered (eg disabled),
    not when it's raised (eg enabled)
  - gb/ppu: the LCD does not run at all when LCDC.d7 is clear³
      - fixes graphical corruption between scene transitions in Legend
        of Zelda - Oracle of Ages
      - thanks to Cydrak, Shonumi, gekkio for their input on the cause
        of this issue
  - md/controller: renamed "Gamepad" to "Control Pad" per official
    terminology
  - md/controller: added "Fighting Pad" (6-button controller) emulation
    [hex\_usr]
  - processor/m68k: fixed TAS to set data.d7 when
    EA.mode==DataRegisterDirect; fixes Asterix
  - hiro/windows: removed carriage returns from mouse.cpp and
    desktop.cpp
  - ruby/audio/alsa: added device driver selection [SuperMikeMan]
  - ruby/audio/ao: set format.matrix=nullptr to prevent a crash on some
    systems [SuperMikeMan]
  - ruby/video/cgl: rename term() to terminate() to fix a crash on macOS
    [Sintendo]

¹: The observation that this mapper split $4000-7fff into two banks
came from MAME's implementation. But their implementation was quite
broken and incomplete, so I didn't actually use any of it. The
observation that this mapper split $a000-bfff into two banks came from
Tauwasser, and I did directly use that information, plus the knowledge
that $0400/$0800 are the RAM bank select registers.

The text corruption is due to a race condition with timing. The game is
transferring font letters via HDMA, but the game code ends up setting
the bank# with the font a bit too late after the HDMA has already
occurred. I'm not sure how to fix this ... as a whole, I assumed my Game
Boy timing was pretty good, but apparently it's not that good.

²: The entire design of this mapper comes from endrift's notes.
endrift gets full credit for higan being able to emulate this mapper.
Note that the accelerometer implementation is still not tested, and
probably won't work right until I tweak the sensitivity a lot.

³: So the fun part of this is ... it breaks the strict 60fps rate of
the Game Boy. This was always inevitable: certain timing conditions can
stretch frames, too. But this is pretty much an absolute deal breaker
for something like Vsync timing. This pretty much requires adaptive sync
to run well without audio stuttering during the transition.

There's currently one very important detail missing: when the LCD is
turned off, presumably the image on the screen fades to white. I do not
know how long this process takes, or how to really go about emulating
it. Right now as an incomplete patch, I'm simply leaving the last
displayed image on the screen until the LCD is turned on again. But I
will have to output white, as well as add code to break out of the
emulation loop periodically when the LCD is left off eg indefinitely, or
bad things would happen. I'll work something out and then implement.

Another detail is I'm not sure how long it takes for the LCD to start
rendering again once enabled. Right now, it's immediate. I've heard it's
as long as 1/60th of a second, but that really seems incredibly
excessive? I'd like to know at least a reasonably well-supported
estimate before I implement that.
2017-08-04 23:05:06 +10:00
Tim Allen 7022d1aa51 Update to v103r23 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gb: added accelerometer X-axis, Y-Axis inputs¹
  - gb: added rumble input¹
  - gb/mbc5: added rumble support²
  - gb/mbc6: added skeleton driver, but it doesn't boot Net de Get
  - gb/mbc7: added mostly complete driver (only missing EEPROM), but it
    doesn't boot Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
  - gb/tama: added leap year assignment
  - tomoko: fixed macOS compilation [MerryMage]
  - hiro/cocoa: fix table cell redrawing on updates and automatic column
    resizing [ncbncb]
  - hiro/cocoa: fix some weird issue with clicking table view checkboxes
    on Retina displays [ncbncb]
  - icarus: enhance Game Boy heuristics³
  - nall: fix three missing return statements [Jonas Quinn]
  - ruby: hopefully fixed all compilation errors reported by Screwtape
    et al⁴

¹: because there's no concept of a controller for cartridge inputs,
I'm attaching to the base platform for now. An idea I had was to make
separate ports for each cartridge type ... but this would duplicate the
rumble input between MBC5 and MBC7. And would also be less discoverable.
But it would be more clean in that users wouldn't think the Game Boy
hardware had this functionality. I'll think about it.

²: it probably won't work yet. Rumble isn't documented anywhere, but
I dug through an emulator named GEST and discovered that it seems to use
bit 3 of the RAM bank select to be rumble. I don't know if it sets the
bit for rumbling, then clears when finished, or if it sets it and then
after a few milliseconds it stops rumbling. I couldn't test on my
FreeBSD box because SDL 1.2 doesn't support rumble, udev doesn't exist
on FreeBSD, and nobody has ever posted any working code for how to use
evdev (or whatever it's called) on FreeBSD.

³: I'm still thinking about specifying the MBC7 RAM as EEPROM, since
it's not really static RAM.

⁴: if possible, please test all drivers if you can. I want to ensure
they're all working. Especially let me know if the following work:
macOS: input.carbon Linux: audio.pulseaudiosimple, audio.ao (libao)

If I can confirm these are working, I'm going to then remove them from
being included with stock higan builds.

I'm also considering dropping SDL video on Linux/BSD. XShm is much
faster and supports blurring. I may also drop SDL input on Linux, since
udev works better. That will free a dependency on SDL 1.2 for building
higan. FreeBSD is still going to need it for joypad support, however.
2017-07-30 23:00:31 +10:00
Tim Allen 17697317d4 Update to v103r14 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - tomoko: by popular choice, default to adaptive mode on new installs
  - hiro/windows: fix bug that was preventing the escape key from
    closing some dialog windows
  - nall/registry: use "\\\\" as separator instead of "/" ... because
    some registry keys contain "/" in them >_>
  - ruby: add ASIO driver stub (so far it can only initialize and grab
    the driver name/version information)
2017-07-15 22:00:20 +10:00
Tim Allen ed5ec58595 Update to v103r13 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gb/interface: fix Game Boy Color extension to be "gbc" and not "gb"
    [hex\_usr]
  - ms/interface: move Master System hardware controls below controller
    ports
  - sfc/ppu: improve latching behavior of BGnHOFS registers (not
    hardware verified) [AWJ]
  - tomoko/input: rework port/device mapping to support non-sequential
    ports and devices¹
      - todo: should add move() to inputDevice.mappings.append and
        inputPort.devices.append
      - note: there's a weird GCC 4.9 bug with brace initialization of
        InputEmulator; have to assign each field separately
  - tomoko: all windows sans the main presentation window can be
    dismissed with the escape key
  - icarus: the single file selection dialog ("Load ROM Image...") can
    be dismissed with the escape key
  - tomoko: do not pause emulation when FocusLoss/Pause is set during
    exclusive fullscreen mode
  - hiro/(windows,gtk,qt): implemented Window::setDismissable() function
    (missing from cocoa port, sorry)
  - nall/string: fixed printing of largest possible negative numbers (eg
    `INT_MIN`) [Sintendo]
      - only took eight months! :D

¹: When I tried to move the Master System hardware port below the
controller ports, I ran into a world of pain.

The input settings list expects every item in the
`InputEmulator<InputPort<InputDevice<InputMapping>>>>` arrays to be
populated with valid results. But these would be sparsely populated
based on the port and device IDs from inside higan. And that is done so
that the Interface::inputPoll can have O(1) lookup of ports and devices.
This worked because all the port and device IDs were sequential (they
left no gaps in the maps upon creating the lists.)

Unfortunately by changing the expectation of port ID to how it appears
in the list, inputs would not poll correctly. By leaving them alone and
just moving Hardware to the third position, the Game Gear would be
missing port IDs of 0 and 1 (the controller ports of the Master System).
Even by trying to make separate MasterSystemHardware and
GameGearHardware ports, things still fractured when the devices were no
longer contigious.

I got pretty sick of this and just decided to give up on O(1)
port/device lookup, and moved to O(n) lookup. It only knocked the
framerate down by maybe one frame per second, enough to be in the margin
of error. Inputs aren't polled *that* often for loops that usually
terminate after 1-2 cycles to be too detrimental to performance.

So the new input system now allows non-sequential port and device IDs.

Remember that I killed input IDs a while back. There's never any reason
for those to need IDs ... it was easier to just order the inputs in the
order you want to see them in the user interface. So the input lookup is
still O(1). Only now, everything's safer and I return a
maybe<InputMapping&>, and won't crash out the program trying to use a
mapping that isn't found for some reason.

Errata: the escape key isn't working on the browser/message dialogs on
Windows, because of course nothing can ever just be easy and work for
me. If anyone else wouldn't mind looking into that, I'd greatly
appreciate it.

Having the `WM_KEYDOWN` test inside the main `Application_sharedProc`, it
seems to not respond to the escape key on modal dialogs. If I put the
`WM_KEYDOWN` test in the main window proc, then it doesn't seem to get
called for `VK_ESCAPE` at all, and doesn't get called period for modal
windows. So I'm at a loss and it's past 4AM here >_>
2017-07-12 18:24:27 +10:00
Tim Allen ee982f098a Update to v103r11 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - tomoko: removed "Settings→Video Emulation→Overscan Mask" setting¹
  - tomoko: remove a few unnecessary calls to resizeViewport on startup
  - tomoko: only resize main window from video settings when in adaptive
    or toggling adaptive mode²
  - hiro/windows: add `SWP_NOACTIVATE` flag to prevent focus stealing on
    resizing invisible windows³
  - hiro/windows: suppress spurious API-generated `onSize()` callback
    when calling `setVisible()`

¹: it just seemed like bad design to default to overscan masking
being disabled with overscan masks of 8 horizontal, 8 vertical out of
the box. Users would adjust the sliders and not see anything happening.
Instead, I've set the default masks to zero. If you want to turn off
overscan masking, simply slide those to zero again.

²: I figure the only way we're going to be able to fairly evaluate
Screwtape's suggestion is to try it both ways. And I will admit, I kind
of like the way this works as well ... a lot more so than I thought I
would, so I think it was a great suggestion. Still, now's the time if
people have strong opinions on this. Be sure to try both r10 and r11 to
compare. Barring no other feedback, I'm going to keep it this way.

³: this fixes the blinking of the main window on startup.

Screwtape, thanks again for the improvement suggestions. At this point
though, I am not using a tiling window manager. If you are able to patch
hiro/gtk and/or hiro/qt (I mostly use GTK) to work with tiling window
managers better, I wouldn't mind applying said patches, so long as they
don't break things on my own Xfce desktop with xfwm4.

Also, I noticed one issue with Xfce ... if the window is maximized and I
try to call `Window::setSize()`, it's not actually removing the maximize
flag. We'll need to look into how to add that to GTK, but I don't think
it's a huge issue. A similar glitch happens on windows where the icon
still reflects being maximized, but it does actually shrink, it just
sticks to the top left corner of the screen. So this isn't really a
critical bug, but would be extra polish.
2017-07-08 11:02:01 +10:00
Tim Allen b7006822bf Update to v103 WIP release.
byuu says (in the WIP forum):

Changelog:

  - higan: cheat codes accept = and ? separators now
      - the new preferred code format is: address=value or
        address=if-match?value
      - the old code format of address/value and address/if-match/value
        will continue to work
  - higan: cheats.bml is no longer included with the base distribution
      - mightymo stopped updating it in 2015, and it's not source code;
        it can still be pulled in from older releases
  - fc: improved PAL mode timing; use PAL APU timing tables; fix PAL
    noise period table [hex\_usr]
  - md: support aborting a Z80 bus wait in order to capture save states
    without freezing
      - note that this will violate accuracy; but in practice a slight
        desync is better than an emulator deadlock
  - sfc: revert DSP ENDX randomization for now (want to research it more
    before deploying in an official release)
  - sfc: fix Super Famicom.sys/manifest.bml APU RAM size [hex\_usr]
  - tomoko: cleaned up make install rules
  - hiro/cocoa: use ABGR for pixel data [Sintendo]

Note: I forgot to change the command-line and drag-and-drop separator
from : to | in this WIP. However, it is corrected in the v103 official
binary and source published on download.byuu.org. Sorry about that, I
know it makes the Git repository history more difficult. I'm not
concerned whether the : → | change is part of v103 or v103r01 in the
repository, and will leave this to your discretion, Screwtape.

I also still need to set the VDP bit to indicate PAL mode in the Mega
Drive core. This is what happens when I have 47 things I have to do,
given how lousy my memory is. I miss things.
2017-06-22 16:10:13 +10:00
Tim Allen fa6cbac251 Update to v102r06 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - added higan/emulator/platform.hpp (moved out Emulator::Platform from
    emulator/interface.hpp)
  - moved gmake build paramter to nall/GNUmakefile; both higan and
    icarus use it now
  - added build=profile mode
  - MD: added the region select I/O register
  - MD: started to add region selection support internally (still no
    external select or PAL support)
  - PCE: added cycle stealing when reading/writing to the VDC or VCE;
    and when using ST# instructions
  - PCE: cleaned up PSG to match the behavior of Mednafen (doesn't
    improve sound at all ;_;)
      - note: need to remove loadWaveSample, loadWavePeriod
  - HuC6280: ADC/SBC decimal mode consumes an extra cycle; does not set
    V flag
  - HuC6280: block transfer instructions were taking one cycle too many
  - icarus: added code to strip out PC Engine ROM headers
  - hiro: added options support to BrowserDialog

The last one sure ended in failure. The plan was to put a region
dropdown directly onto hiro::BrowserDialog, and I had all the code for
it working. But I forgot one important detail: the system loads
cartridges AFTER powering on, so even though I could technically change
the system region post-boot, I'd rather not do so.

So that means we have to know what region we want before we even select
a game. Shit.
2017-02-11 10:56:42 +11:00
Tim Allen bdc100e123 Update to v102r02 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - I caved on the `samples[] = {0.0}` thing, but I'm very unhappy about it
      - if it's really invalid C++, then GCC needs to stop accepting it
        in strict `-std=c++14` mode
  - Emulator::Interface::Information::resettable is gone
  - Emulator::Interface::reset() is gone
  - FC, SFC, MD cores updated to remove soft reset behavior
  - split GameBoy::Interface into GameBoyInterface,
    GameBoyColorInterface
  - split WonderSwan::Interface into WonderSwanInterface,
    WonderSwanColorInterface
  - PCE: fixed off-by-one scanline error [hex_usr]
  - PCE: temporary hack to prevent crashing when VDS is set to < 2
  - hiro: Cocoa: removed (u)int(#) constants; converted (u)int(#)
    types to (u)int_(#)t types
  - icarus: replaced usage of unique with strip instead (so we don't
    mess up frameworks on macOS)
  - libco: added macOS-specific section marker [Ryphecha]

So ... the major news this time is the removal of the soft reset
behavior. This is a major!! change that results in a 100KiB diff file,
and it's very prone to accidental mistakes!! If anyone is up for
testing, or even better -- looking over the code changes between v102r01
and v102r02 and looking for any issues, please do so. Ideally we'll want
to test every NES mapper type and every SNES coprocessor type by loading
said games and power cycling to make sure the games are all cleanly
resetting. It's too big of a change for me to cover there not being any
issues on my own, but this is truly critical code, so yeah ... please
help if you can.

We technically lose a bit of hardware documentation here. The soft reset
events do all kinds of interesting things in all kinds of different
chips -- or at least they do on the SNES. This is obviously not ideal.
But in the process of removing these portions of code, I found a few
mistakes I had made previously. It simplifies resetting the system state
a lot when not trying to have all the power() functions call the reset()
functions to share partial functionality.

In the future, the goal will be to come up with a way to add back in the
soft reset behavior via keyboard binding as with the Master System core.
What's going to have to happen is that the key binding will have to send
a "reset pulse" to every emulated chip, and those chips are going to
have to act independently to power() instead of reusing functionality.
We'll get there eventually, but there's many things of vastly greater
importance to work on right now, so it'll be a while. The information
isn't lost ... we'll just have to pull it out of v102 when we are ready.

Note that I left the SNES reset vector simulation code in, even though
it's not possible to trigger, for the time being.

Also ... the Super Game Boy core is still disconnected. To be honest, it
totally slipped my mind when I released v102 that it wasn't connected
again yet. This one's going to be pretty tricky to be honest. I'm
thinking about making a third GameBoy::Interface class just for SGB, and
coming up with some way of bypassing platform-> calls when in this
mode.
2017-01-23 08:04:26 +11:00
Tim Allen 2707c5316d Update to v101r20 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:
- Z80: emulated 272 new instructions
- hiro/GTK: fixed v101r19 Linux regression [thanks, SuperMikeMan!]
2016-10-29 11:33:30 +11:00
Tim Allen f3e67da937 Update to v101r19 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

-   added \~130 new PAL games to icarus (courtesy of Smarthuman
    and aquaman)
-   added all three Korean-localized games to icarus
-   sfc: removed SuperDisc emulation (it was going nowhere)
-   sfc: fixed MSU1 regression where the play/repeat flags were not
    being cleared on track select
-   nall: cryptography support added; will be used to sign future
    databases (validation will always be optional)
-   minor shims to fix compilation issues due to nall changes

The real magic is that we now have 25-30% of the PAL SNES library in
icarus!

Signing will be tricky. Obviously if I put the public key inside the
higan archive, then all anyone has to do is change that public key for
their own releases. And if you download from my site (which is now over
HTTPS), then you don't need the signing to verify integrity. I may just
put the public key on my site on my site and leave it at that, we'll
see.
2016-10-28 08:16:58 +11:00
Tim Allen 427bac3011 Update to v101r06 release.
byuu says:

I reworked the video sizing code. Ended up wasting five fucking hours
fighting GTK. When you call `gtk_widget_set_size_request`, it doesn't
actually happen then. This is kind of a big deal because when I then go
to draw onto the viewport, the actual viewport child window is still the
old size, so the image gets distorted. It recovers in a frame or so with
emulation, but if we were to put a still image on there, it would stay
distorted.

The first thought is, `while(gtk_events_pending())
gtk_main_iteration_do(false);` right after the `set_size_request`. But
nope, it tells you there's no events pending. So then you think, go
deeper, use `XPending()` instead. Same thing, GTK hasn't actually issued
the command to Xlib yet. So then you think, if the widget is realized,
just call a blocking `gtk_main_iteration`. One call does nothing, two
calls results in a deadlock on the second one ... do it before program
startup, and the main window will never appear. Great.

Oh, and it's not just the viewport. It's also the widget container area
of the windows, as well as the window itself, as well as the fullscreen
mode toggle effect. They all do this.

For the latter three, I couldn't find anything that worked, so I just
added 20ms loops of constantly calling `gtk_main_iteration_do(false)`
after each one of those things. The downside here is toggling the status
bar takes 40ms, so you'll see it and it'll feel a tiny bit sluggish.

But I can't have a 20ms wait on each widget resize, that would be
catastrophic to performance on windows with lots of widgets.

I tried hooking configure-event and size-allocate, but they were very
unreliable. So instead I ended up with a loop that waits up to a maximm
of 20ms that inspects the `widget->allocation.(width,height)` values
directly and waits for them to be what we asked for with
`set_size_request`.

There was some extreme ugliness in GTK with calling
`gtk_main_iteration_do` recursively (`hiro::Widget::setGeometry` is
called recursively), so I had to lock it to only happen on the top level
widgets (the child ones should get resized while waiting on the
top-level ones, so it should be fine in practice), and also only run it
on realized widgets.

Even still, I'm getting ~3 timeouts when opening the settings dialog in
higan, but no other windows. But, this is the best I can do for now.

And the reason for all of this pain? Yeah, updated the video code.

So the Emulator::Interface now has this:

    struct VideoSize { uint width, height; };  //or requiem for a tuple
    auto videoSize() -> VideoSize;
    auto videoSize(uint width, uint height, bool arc) -> VideoSize;

The first function, for now, is just returning the literal surface size.
I may remove this ... one thing I want to allow for is cores that send
different texture sizes based on interlace/hires/overscan/etc settings.

The second function is more interesting. Instead of having the UI trying
to figure out sizing, I figure the emulation cores can do a better job
and we can customize it per-core now. So it gets the window's width and
height, and whether the user asked for aspect correction, and then
computes the best width/height ratio possible. For now they're all just
doing multiples of a 1x scale to the UI 2x,3x,4x modes.

We still need a third function, which will probably be what I repurpose
videoSize() for: to return the 'effective' size for pixel shaders, to
then feed into ruby, to then feed into quark, to then feed into our
shaders. Since shaders use normalized coordinates for pixel fetching,
this should work out just fine. The real texture size will be exposed to
quark shaders as well, of course.

Now for the main window ... it's just hard-coded to be 640x480, 960x720,
1280x960 for now. It works nicely for some cores on some modes, not so
much for others. Work in progress I guess.

I also took the opportunity to draw the about dialog box logo on the
main window. Got a bit fancy and used the old spherical gradient and
impose functionality of nall/image on it. Very minor highlight, nothing
garish. Just something nicer than a solid black window.

If you guys want to mess around with sizes, placements, and gradient
styles/colors/shapes ... feel free. If you come up with something nicer,
do share.

That's what led to all the GTK hell ... the logo wasn't drawing right as
you resized the window. But now it is, though I am not at all happy with
the hacking I had to do.

I also had to improve the video update code as a result of this:

  - when you unload a game, it blacks out the screen
      - if you are not quitting the emulator, it'll draw the logo; if
        you are, it won't
  - when you load a game, it black out the logo

These options prevent any unsightliness from resizing the viewport with
image data on it already

I need to redraw the logo when toggling fullscreen with no game loaded
as well for Windows, it seems.
2016-08-15 14:52:05 +10:00