AppleWin v1.27.0.0

February 4th, 2018, 16:06 Posted By: wraggster

Never owned an Apple II so not a system i am familiar with but always great to see new releases for older systems, heres the full news:

AppleWin v1.27.0.0 is released. AppleWin (also known as Apple //e Emulator for Windows) is an open source software emulator for running Apple II programs in Microsoft Windows. AppleWin has support for most programs that could run either on the Apple II+ or the Apple IIe. By default, AppleWin emulates the Extended Keyboard IIe (better known as the Platinum IIe) with built-in 80-column text support, 128 kilobytes of RAM, two 5.25-inch floppy disk drives, a joystick, a serial card and 65C02 CPU. AppleWin supports lo-res, hi-res, and double hi-res graphics modes and can emulate both color and monochrome Apple II monitors; later versions of AppleWin also can emulate a television set used as a monitor. Both 40-column and 80-column text is supported.

AppleWin can emulate the Apple II joystick (using the PC's default controller), paddle controllers (using the computer mouse), and can also emulate the Apple II joystick using the PC keyboard. AppleWin can also use the PC speaker to emulate the Apple II's sound if no sound card is available (does not work under NT-based Windows versions). Full screen mode is available through the use of DirectX. Features added to the latest versions of AppleWin include Ethernet support using Uthernet, Mockingboard and Phasor sound card support, SSI263 speech synthesis, hard drive disk images and save states.

AppleWin v1.27.0.0 Changelog:
Changes (misc):
- [Change #428] Added Config Input option to use PC Joystick 1 Thumbstick 2 for emulated Joystick 2. Play Nick Westgate's updated Robotron using gamepads with two analog thumbsticks, eg. Logitech F310, PS4 DualShock 4, Xbox controller
- [Change #528] Improved logging to log when Apple2 type changes
- [Change #469] New -no-printscreen-key switch to prevent the PrintScreen key from being registered. Swapping disks while a drive is on now warns and prompts if you still wish to do this instead of silently failing with no feedback.
- [PR #441] Update zlib to latest version 1.2.11
- [PR #275] Attenuate speaker (and 8-bit DAC) output sample after 0.25s of inactivity

Full-screen:
- [Change #504] Full-screen: hide mouse pointer after 2 seconds of inactivity (and show again if mouse is moved)
- [Change #488] New -fs-height= switch.
*best: picks the highest resolution where the height is an integer multiple of (192*2)
*nnnn: select a specific resolution with height=nnnn pixels
*Use to select a better resolution for full-screen mode.
*NB. This changes the display resolution (and restores on exit).
- [Change #224] Added Config checkbox for 'Full-Screen: Show drive/keyboard status'
- [Change #492] UI fixes for full-screen & 2x windowed-mode
- [Bug #464] Fix for full-screen: bottom line missing when vertical resolution is 768

DiskII/Hard disk:
- [Change #323] Skip hard disk boot by holding down the Open-Apple key during an Apple II restart
- {Bug #525] Fix to prevent stepper motor changing track when drive if off
- [Bug #125] Support formatting of DOS3.3/ProDOS for .dsk/.nib in authentic/enhanced disk modes. Includes support for Pascal formatting (#196) and Ultima I formatting (#338)
- [Bug #499] Flush current track (if dirty) before 'Send to CiderPress'
- [Bug #452] Fix for unmounted HD now gives "NO DEVICE CONNECTED" (before gave "I/O ERROR")
- [Bug #389] Disk's write-protect detection mis-reporting when motor off
- [Bug #387] Support for 40-track .nib files

Peripheral cards:
- [Bug #514] Emulator restart (or reset) wasn't clearing any pending Mousecard interrupt
- [Bug #496] Support polling of Mockingboard's & Phasor's 6522 IFR.Timer1
- [Bug #486] Peripheral card's expansion ROM ($C800-CFFF, eg. SSC) wasn't being correctly restored from a save-state. Resulting in regression: Mousecard crash to monitor (#495).
- [Bug #423] Full support for INTC8ROM soft switch (fixes transient a2audit.dsk & Bejeweled failures)
- [Bug #418] Fix for slot-3 ROM not returning floating bus when Uthernet card is enabled
- [Bug #413] Save-state: bug when saving >9 RAMWorks III 64K banks
- [Bug #386] SSC: Experimental support for 6551's DTR, DCD and DSR bits via -modem switch
*ie. -modem is shorthand for passing -dtr -dcd -dsr
*Experimental support for 6551's control bit: DTR via -dtr switch
*Experimental support for 6551's status bits: DCD and DSR via -dcd and -dsr switches
- [Bug #320] Mockingboard/Phasor: support 'inactive' function like real hardware
- [Bug #308] SSC ACIA Status register's interrupt bit not set when IRQ enabled and using TCP Port 1977

Debugger:
- [Change #483] Debugger: Shift+Left mouse button to toggle 6502 Status flag bits
- [Change #462] Debugger: Changed Left mouse button (LMB) to Shift+LMB to toggle display items
- [Change #406] Debugger: Support LC and MMU status & updated Help doc
- [Change #269] When stepping, ESC no longer exits back to debugger (use F7, Pause keys or Debugger button instead).
- [Change #217] Debugger G(o) command should use normal speed
Debugger: Added new gg command:
command run at normal speed run at full speed video quality sound quality
g yes only if disk active, etc precise precise
gg no always periodic muted
- [Bug #484] Debugger: Some corrections to APPLE2E.SYM
- [Bug #479, #476, #473] Debugger: Various UI and other fixes
- [Bug #460] Debugger: F2 whilst debugger active will immediately stop the drive spinning (allowing disk swap)
- [Bug #450] Persist debugger state across an F2 (reset machine state)
- [Bug #445] Debugger: BPM cmd: Support trigger on stack access for BRK,JSR,PLn,PHn,RTI,RTS
- [Bug #383] "Enhanced disk speed" is very slow when debugger is active
- [Bug #250] Debugger: When MODE_STEPPING, fix issue with disk LEDs staying on

Docs:
- [Change #477] Help doc: Document behaviour full-speed mode
- [Change #437] AppleWin.chm blocked from opening - delete the AppleWin.chm:Zone.Identifier ADS
- [Bug #417] Typos in Uthernet documentation

Fixes (other):
- [Bug #519] Support floating-bus in full-speed mode. Fixes Canyon Climber (#508), Oo-Topos (#532).
- [Bug #516] Internal video-mode was having PAGE2 permanently cleared (instead of just masked) when 80STORE was set.
- [Bug #456] Fix strange speaker clicks when changing configuration - DirectSound wasn't being uninitialised on a restart
- [Bug #415] Fix for not being able to select Pravets 82
- [Bug #409] Fix for AppleWorks 5.1 flickering when booting (latent bug from 2006!)
- [Bug #405] Screen flicker in full-speed mode
- [Bug #403] PrintScreen from Color TV or B&W TV video modes is missing top line
- [Bug #392] Fixes for a2audit.dsk. Resulting in regressions in LC support for Gemstone Warriors (#395), Quark Catalyst V3 and BeagleWrite (#400).
- [Bug #213] Pause not setting volume to zero

download https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/

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