break. First thing to do is update the year. Happy new year to anyone
reading these commit logs.
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will be used, but at least we can improve it a little).
Eliminated the 'alignment' dimension in the various TIATables masks,
reducing the size of the arrays by a factor of 4. I could never
figure out what alignment meant, until I looked at old TIA code in
the repo. It seems that originally, there was an optimization
in the code to fill the array on 32-bit boundaries, instead of the
current 8-bit boundary. As a result, the masks had to be defined
as 32-bits, or 4 groups of 8-bits. Ah, that's where the 'alignment'
comes from.
Related to this, the colors and pointers in the TIA class are now
8-bit as well. Essentially, the TIA class has been doing extra
work to align everything to 32-bit and never actually using the
results. And it's been this way for 4+ years.
Older state files will no longer work, so the version # has been
bumped.
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Cleaned up the class comments wrt ScummVM; the attributions only needed to
be in the base classes, since all the derived stuff was written later.
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display modes wrt both palette and display properties (# of scanlines,
size of window, etc). This means you can now dynamically switch
between these modes at runtime.
Also added 'Shift-Control-f', which cycles through the modes in
reverse order.
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instead of having different keys to turn them on and off separately.
This brings the functionality in line with the rest of the objects/
collision key-combos, which were also toggle-only.
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Checking in first pass at revamping the 'mcontrol' functionality. The idea is
that the mouse will be able to emulate different controllers on each of its
axes. For now, the left mouse button is tied to the X-axis, and the right to
the Y-axis. These modes will be saved per-ROM, meaning that the mapping can
be different for each ROM (it is saved as part of the ROM properties). Only
the paddles and driving controllers will allow this, since they're the only
controllers where a single axis makes sense.
Switching between mouse modes will be done with Control-0 (the Control-1..3
keys have been removed). This will allow switching all possible combinations
(left controller, right controller, per-ROM setting, etc).
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debugger before it has been initialized.
Tweaked the format auto-detection by also looking at the TIA scanline
at which drawing first occurs.
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these logs!
Moved TODO and Credits info directly to the webpage, where it will hopefully
be easier to maintain.
Fixed 'crackling' sound when loading a new ROM, introduced with the 3.5
sound restructuring. It looks like stale data was being loaded by the
sound processing callback. As well, moved the computation of certain
division variables from the sound callback to the framerate re-calculator
(where it's recomputed 1/5 of the time or less).
Updated AboutDialog with info about Stella DonationWare status, and active
members of Stella development.
Updated OSX in-app HTML documentation about Stella DonationWare status.
Bumped version # to 3.5.1_svn, and the process starts again.
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Updated documentation with info about 2600-daptor, including
usage and its creator. Also included more in-depth explanation
for the various controller types.
Errors from the Thumb ARM emulation code are now caught as exceptions,
and thrown to the parent class instead of calling exit() and simply
crashing Stella. For now, the messages are simply printed and
emulation continues. This will be expanded to show a detailed crash
log in the debugger, and offer the option to exit the ROM.
Removed most of the menus from the OSX port. They weren't being
maintained anyway, and most of them didn't work. I've modelled this
on the way other cross-platform OSX programs work (notably, ScummVM).
Basically, there are menus for exit and help, but otherwise you
should use the menuing system in the application itself.
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the various header files. Basically, I'm following advice from
Effective C++, and including only what's absolutely necessary. For
definitions that don't need to be included, the designation 'class xxx'
is used instead. This could potentially lead to faster compile times.
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screen size (vertically), the window will open in partially truncated mode,
where the top of the PAL image is cut off. This normally won't be a problem,
as it's mostly blank space anyway.
App window centering is now honoured when changing video zoom levels, not
just when changing eventhandler states.
Bumped version # for another test release.
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matched anything most of the time. Also, as this operation can take
a somewhat long time on slower systems, a progress bar is now shown.
Fixed handling of bit 6 in VBLANK TIA register, which is related to
how INPT4 and INPT5 are handled. This fixes at least one ROM that
should have failed in Stella, but didn't.
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'Stephen Anthony' (aka, me) in addition to Brad Mott as copyright
holders for Stella. I think I've been with the project long
enough now (almost 10 years) to justify being specifically mentioned
above and beyond 'the Stella Team'.
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when their address space has been modified by poke. Any writes done
inadvertently by reading from the write port are also flagged. This flag
is used by CartDebug to determine if cart address space has changed.
For now, it uses this information to do a complete re-disassembly.
Entire bank changes are signaled by setting myBankChanged to true,
which overrides the page dirty flag and short-circuits testing for it.
Still TODO is add support for 'AR' bankswitching, and fix the patch
method for several schemes.
Added latest DPC+ updates from Spiceware and Batari.
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The license file is actually named 'License.txt', not 'license'
The 'Stella Team' has a capital T, not lowercase.
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controlled by 'tiafloat', which has now been removed. Now, all
undriven pins take on the last value on the databus. This fixes a bug
in those reads where bit 6 or bits 6 & 7 are also undriven (previously,
these bits would always be zero, and only bits 0-5 were from lastdatabus.
Added new commandline argument 'tiadriven', which defaults to false.
In this default case, relevant bits take on values from the databus.
If true, relevant bits still take on databus values, but some are
randomly driven high as well. This helps to expose bugs when
developers assume the values for undriven/floating bits.
Added 'uimessages' commandline argument and associated UI item. When
disabled, messages which are normally shown in-game are disabled.
Certain messages which indicate a serious error are still shown, however.
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The values written and returned in such a case are now more accurate,
and are a combination of the previous databus value and randomization
(the latter emulating the randomness of Z-state bits). This provides
more accurate emulation than before, where zeros were used instead.
In particular, types 3E and E7 are now working correctly for the first
time. Thanks to Batari for suggestions in this area.
Moved random number generation from Cartridge to System class.
The Subversion build number is now shown in the AboutDialog box.
Still TODO is add architecture information (i386, x86_64, etc).
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objects. These actions are tied to the same keys as for toggling the
objects themselves, with the addition of the 'Shift' key. For example,
toggling the P0 object is 'Alt z', and toggling P0 collisions is
'Shift-Alt z'. Note that disabling an object will obviously disable
its collisions as well. Still TODO is work out how these keys map on
OSX; the Shift key is already being used for something else.
Reverted Cosmic Ark 'starfield effect' to match the descriptions
given in the 'Stella 3.0 released' thread on AtariAge. It seems the
system I tested this on has an Svideo mod board that changes the
output from a normal console.
Bumped state file format header, since the TIA internals have changed
again. As well, bumped version # to 3.1_svn.
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all graphical objects in different colors in fixed debug colors mode,
even those that normally share a color register (ie, P0/M0, P1/M1, etc).
Removed TIA::updateFrameScanline, an unwieldy 600+ line function. It
was useful as an optimization measure when Stella was first written,
but at this point I think it's more trouble than it's worth. Removing
the code not only makes the TIA class much smaller and easier to
understand, it also fixes some graphical bugs in fixed debug colors
mode (bugs that probably wouldn't have been found otherwise). Next on
the chopping block are the various 'masks', or at least the alignments
(which cause the arrays to be 4 times larger than they need to be).
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where it more properly belongs. The greyed values are now from PAL
color-loss, which is also calculated for NTSC (though it's never actually
used in NTSC mode for regular rendering). This also fixes problems with
debugger state files being saved with greyed values, and sometimes having
the frame greyed twice (hence making it impossible to see). It should
also result in a slight speed increase, since some code has been taken
out of the TIA rendering fast path.
Added electron beam indicator the the TIA output in the debugger.
Basically, it's just a small square indicating where drawing will
start for the next instruction.
Fixed TIA output in the debugger so that right-clicking and selecting
'fill to scanline' actually works without first having to manually
enter partial frame mode.
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many more scanlines than a real TV would allow. This fixes both graphical
corruption and slowdowns in Q-Bert ROM (which contains code to do a tight
loop extending VBLANK time, in effect generating a 'frame' with 1000's of
scanlines).
First pass at a method to determine the first 'relevant' scanline of
a TIA frame. This isn't easy, because there are many conditions
for this to occur. The eventual goal is to eliminate Display.YStart
tweaks in the properties file, and have the TIA code itself figure out
the best value.
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no$26K emulator. Basically, when this is enabled, the COLUP0, COLUP1,
COLUPF and COLUBK registers are locked to hardcoded values. This can
be used to clearly show which registers are drawing which part of the
TIA display. For now, the colours are locked as they're shared on
a real system (so P0 and M0 are locked to the same colour). Future
versions may separate these shared registers for even more clarity.
This functionality is toggled with the 'Alt-Comma' key combo.
Updated the state handler to reject loading state files older than
this version, since the TIA internals have changed. This will be
done each time the TIA code changes from this point on.
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are too invasive to fix right now, and I haven't researched what the
correct route should be. Basically, Stella doesn't properly emulate the
behaviour of writes to RESxx and NUSIZx while graphics are currently
being drawn. The tweaks currently present restore functionality to the
2.8.4 release, but are still incorrect in some ROMs (Bumper Bash and Pole
Position).
Reworked 'object disable' mode in the TIA class. It should now be
slightly faster, and correctly disable objects in all cases
(previously, it was possible for some objects to be enabled depending
on the state of other objects, even when they were specifically
disabled).
Changed NUSIZx descriptors in the debugger to more clearly indicate
what's going on.
Cleaned up TIATable enum's, and eliminated duplication enumerations in
different parts of the codebase.
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class reworking. Serializer class now handles read/write of state from
files as well as in-memory streams. As a result, Deserializer class has
been removed.
Added state rewinding to the debugger. For now, this is limited to 100
levels of undo, with a new state generated each time a step/trace/frame/
scanline advance is performed. The undo level is 'rolling', in that it
remembers the last 100 levels (so you lose the oldest states when you
start adding more than 100). For now, this is tied to the 'Alt-r' key
in the debugger. Still TODO is add a button for it, and clean up some
TIA output issues when rewinding.
Added support for 6K version of Supercharger ROMs (this fixes issues
with the 6K version of Cubis).
Cleaned up the Serializable infrastructure, making sure that all
classes that need to implement it actually do so now.
Fixed issue with editable widgets in the UI, where pressing Enter
on the keypad wasn't actually being registered.
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emulation when performing 'illegal' HMOVEs (aka, when modifying the HMxx
registers within 24 CPU cycles of HMOVE).
All tweaks for illegal HMOVEs have been removed; and all ROMs that
previously needed those tweaks are now working correctly. Several other
ROMs are fixed as well, including Bumper Bash and Pole Position.
As this is WIP, there is also some breakage:
1) Cosmic Ark 'TIA confusion mode' effects aren't complete; the
movement is correct, but the missile widths aren't corrected yet.
2) Performing a write to NUSIZx while a player is still drawing
isn't complete. This breaks several ROMs that worked before, such
as Galaxian and Space Instigators.
3) Writes to RESPx aren't complete yet, especially if they're
combined with an immediate write to NUSIZx.
Most of the ideas (and some code) for these changes comes from
contributions to MESS and EMU7800. Where applicable, permission
was obtained from the original author to use the code/ideas.
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detection being done outside the displayable area. Originally, areas
above 'YStart' scanline were not processed as all, as an optimization.
However, several ROMs can do collision detection above ystart, so
we now process the entire frame (but only display the stuff below ystart).
Bumped version number.
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