Developer log

The developer log is intended to be a central place for all developers to take down notes on what has changed during development. This helps to keep all porters up to date regarding API and Resource changes.

Status

r25372

win32 (1)

*nix (1)

osx (29)

amiga (39)

beos (43)

dos (39)

os/2 (55)

SDL (1)

r25801

win32 (-)

*nix (-)

osx (30)

amiga (37)

beos (41)

dos (40)

os/2 (4)

SDL (-)

r25858

2.3.19

win32 (-)

*nix (-)

osx (30)

amiga (9)

beos (41)

dos (40)

os/2 (4)

SDL (-)

r25955

2.3.20

win32 (2)

*nix (-)

osx (30)

amiga (4)

beos (31)

dos (28)

os/2 (4)

SDL (-)

r26032

2.3.21

win32 (3)

*nix (-)

osx (31)

amiga (5)

beos (32)

dos (6)

os/2 (5)

SDL (1)

r26488

2.4

win32 (3)

*nix (-)

osx (35)

amiga (5)

beos (36)

dos (7)

os/2 (5)

SDL (1)

r26876

2.4.1

win32 (4)

*nix (-)

osx (36)

amiga (5)

beos (37)

dos (8)

os/2 (6)

SDL (-)

r28197

2.4.7

win32 (5)

*nix (-)

osx (48)

amiga (5)

beos (8)

dos (8)

os/2 (11)

SDL (-)

r28270

win32 (-)

*nix (-)

osx (48)

amiga (1)

beos (5)

dos (3)

os/2 (10)

SDL (-)

r30535

win32 (10)

*nix (5)

osx (40)

amiga (17)

beos (26)

dos (21)

os/2 (41)

SDL (6)

r30784

win32 (1)

*nix (-)

osx (-)

amiga (26)

beos (31)

dos (14)

os/2 (50)

SDL (-)

more than one open issue from before the last release version

no open issues from before the last release version, plus at most one other open issue

no open issues from before the last release version

no open issues from before the last tagged version, plus at most one other open issue

no open issues from before the last tagged version

no open issues

Trunk

Here is a short overview of all changes made in trunk that are relevant for the respective port/gui maintainers.

Note: new stuff should be added at the bottom and each item should have the related svn revision

To keep the size of this list down (and hopefully shrinking) ...

• Port/GUI Maintainers should remove their port from the respective item when it is implemented.
• To not clutter this page with stuff that will not get implemented anytime soon ("i will not add lightpen support to this handheld port") in such cases the respective port should also get removed from the respective item, and a note pointing out the missing feature should get added to Todo#Ports_.2F_UIs instead.
• Items which have no more TODOs left should then be moved to the Developer_log_old Page

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2.3

2.3.21 (r26032)

• added "SuperCard+" emulation (this is a drive expansion board for 1541/1570/1571/1571cr)
• new Resource: "DriveSuperCardName" (string) that specifies the SuperCard ROM image
• new Resources: "Drive8SuperCard", "Drive9SuperCard", "Drive10SuperCard", "Drive11SuperCard" (toggle) that specify whether SuperCard is enabled for the respective drive
• TODO: add GUI items to following ports: os/2

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2.4

r27046

• NEW: Resource "DriveSoundEmulationVolume" (integer, 0 - 4000) to adjust the volume of the drive noise emulation
  • TODO: add GUI items in following ports: beos, os/2

2.4.8 (r28546)

• new Resource: "IDE64USBServerAddress" (string) for entering a listening address, e.g. "ip4://127.0.0.1:64245"
• new Resource: "IDE64USBServer" (boolean) for enabling/disabling it.
• TODO: add GUI items in beos

r28951

• new Resources: (BOOL) "Drive8RTCSave", "Drive9RTCSave", "Drive10RTCSave", "Drive11RTCSave" (all iec machines except vsid) for enabling saving RTC data (0=disabled, 1=enabled)
• TODO: add GUI items for os/2

r29610

• long overdue rework of keyboard map handling is in trunk now. for details on migrating to the new code see Keymaps

TODO: fix UI elements for the following ports: beos, os/2

r30025

• new resource "Drive8RPM" "Drive9RPM" "Drive10RPM" "Drive11RPM" (integer, default: 30000) - drive RPM multiplied by 100
• new resource "Drive8Wobble" "Drive9Wobble" "Drive10Wobble" "Drive11Wobble" (integer, default: 50) - drive wobble

TODO: Add GUI items in the following ports: beos, os/2

r30650

• Added IDE64 shortbus system, and added shortbus digimax support.
• NEW: resource "SBDIGIMAX" (bool) to enable/disable the shortbus digimax expansion (actual active state also depends on if IDE64 is active or not).
• NEW: resource "SBDIGIMAXbase" (int) to set the base address of the shortbus digimax expansion (either 0xde40 or 0xde48).

TODO add GUI items for the following ports: beos

r30708

• Added API to query list of palettes, see palette.h, use this to create the palette menu(s) at runtime.

TODO update GUI items in the following ports: beos

TODO when all ports are updated, rename all VICII palettes ("vice.vpl" -> "pepto.vpl" and then "default.vpl" -> "vice.vpl") and update palette.c accordingly

r31502

• Added support for GMod2 cartridge by Individual Computers
• NEW: resource "GMOD2EEPROMRW" (bool) to enable/disable writeback to the EEPROM image
• NEW: resource "GMod2EEPROMImage" (string) which contains the filename of the EEPROM image
• NEW: resource "GMod2FlashWrite" (bool) to enable/disable writeback to the FLASH image

TODO add GUI items for x64/x64sc/x128/xscpu64 in the following ports: osx

note: you can copy/paste most of the required menu from eg the MMCR menu

r31536

• Added support by the "Behr Bonz" VIC20 cartridge (CARTRIDGE_VIC20_BEHRBONZ)

TODO add GUI items for xvic in the following ports: osx

r31917

• CS8900 I/O has been abstracted, any device using the CS8900 chip now goes through the CS8900 I/O layer, for now there can be only one owner, any attempt to open the CS8900 I/O device when already in use by a different 'owner' will lead to a gui message stating the current owner of the chip.
• resource "ETHERNET_ACTIVE" has been removed, each device using the CS8900 is now responsible for setting its own resource.
• resource "ETHERNET_AS_RR" has been removed, each device using the CS8900 is now responsible for mapping the CS8900 registers.
• command line option "-tfeif" has been changed to "-cs8900ioif"
• command line option "-tferrnet" has been removed
• command line option "+tferrnet" has been removed

TODO remove 'tfe as rrnet' item from the GUI in the following ports: osx

TODO move "ETHERNET_INTERFACE" from the TFE section to a seperate CS8900 section in the GUI of the following ports: osx

r31947

• Changed MMC64, MMCR and RetroReplay to use the new clockport system
• new resource "MMC64ClockPort" (int) to select the MMC64 clockport device
• new resource "MMCRClockPort" (int) to select the MMCR clockport device
• new resource "RRClockPort" (int) to select the RetroReplay clockport device
• there is a list of available devices, you can get this list by including 'clockport.h' and using the 'name' and 'id' members of the 'clockport_supported_devices_t clockport_supported_devices[]' variable, the end of the list is indicated by a 'NULL' for the 'name' member and a '-1' for the id member

TODO add clockport device selection items to the MMC64, MMCR and RetroReplay GUIs for the following ports: osx

r31953

• Moved TFE cartridge code to the new CS8900 I/O abstraction layer
• new resource "TFE_ACTIVE" (bool) to enable/disable the TFE cartridge

TODO change the enable/disable of the TFE cartridge to use the new resource in the GUI for the following ports: osx

r31961

• Added short bus ETFE emulation
• new resource "SBETFE" (bool) to enable/disable the ETFE device
• new resource "SBETFEbase" (int) to select the address of the ETFE device (0xde00, 0xde10 or 0xdf00)

TODO add short bus ETFE GUI items for the following ports: osx

r31967

• Added IDE64 clockport emulation
• new resource "IDE64ClockPort" (int) to select the IDE64 clockport device
• there is a list of available devices, you can get this list by including 'clockport.h' and using the 'name' and 'id' members of the 'clockport_supported_devices_t clockport_supported_devices[]' variable, the end of the list is indicated by a 'NULL' for the 'name' member and a '-1' for the id member

TODO add clockport device selection item to the IDE64 GUI for the following ports: beos, osx

r32092

• Changed tfe cartridge emulation to a generic cs8900 based ethernet cartridge emulation.
• Removed "TFE_ACTIVE" resource, since the cart is no longer TFE only.
• Added "ETHERNETCART_ACTIVE" resource (bool) to enable/disable the Ethernet Cartridge.
• Added "ETHERNETCARTBase" resource (int) the address of the cartridge (c64/c128: $de00/$de10/$de20...$dfd0/$dfe0/$dff0) (vic20: $9800/$9810/$9820...$98d0/$98e0/$98f0 & $9c00/$9c10/$9c20...$9cd0/$9ce0/$9cf0).
• Removed "TFEIOSwap" resource, since the address of the cartridge can be set now.
• Added "ETHERNETCARTMode" resource (int) indicates the mode of the cartridge (0: TFE, 1: RRNET).
• The command line option "-tfe" is still present, and when used sets the address to $de00, mode to TFE and activates the cart.
• Removed the "+tfe" command line option, since the cart is no longer TFE only.
• Added command line option "-rrnet", when used sets the address to $de00, mode to RRNET and activates the cart.
• Added command line option "-ethernetcart", enables the cart.
• Added command line option "+ethernetcart", disables the cart.
• Added command line option "-ethernetcartbase", sets the base address of the cart.
• Added command line option "-ethernetcartmode", sets the mode of the cart.
• Removed the "-tfeioswap" and "+tfeioswap" command line options, since the address of the cart can be set now.

TODO change "TFE_ACTIVE" to "ETHERNETCART_ACTIVE", add 'Ethernet Cartridge base address' element, add 'Ethernet Cartridge mode' element, remove vic20 tfeioswap element and change any references from 'TFE' to 'Ethernet Cartridge' in the following ports: osx

r32266

• VSID: Added submenu for 'Maximum speed' in the *nix ui. VSID already had a command line for setting the 'Speed' resource, but not a UI item.

TODO add submenu to the following ports: os/2, osx.

Please note that the 'RefreshRate' resource has been removed from VSID, so when copying UI code from, for example, x64, make sure to update the UI code accordingly.

r32316

• VSID: Added some hacks to make Gtk VSID behave again: since I fixed the memory leaks in the Gtk UI the VSID UI started misbehaving. VSID completely regenerates the entire menu (and didn't clean up the old one) whenever a PSID got loaded since a dynamic 'tunes' menu was created, which meant more and more hotkeys and callbacks where added that went nowhere. Obviously this a wasteful and horrible approach (triggering segfaults), so this needs to get fixed in both Gtk and Xaw code for VSID, added toolkit-specific code to only replace the subtunes menu. (Compyx)

r32374

• Fixed the menu text in the *nix UI for the 'AutostartDelay' resource: it isn't a threshold for 'AutostartDelayRandom', it's a separate delay in seconds before autostarting a prg.

TODO: check other UI's for the correct naming of the item and if the autostart setting UI is implemented at all for the following ports: amiga, beos, dos, os/2, osx, sdl, win32

Branches

Here is a short overview of all branches that are currently active in SVN, i.e. someone develops a new feature that soon will be merged into trunk. Note here the upcoming features, if some testing is required on specific platforms or there is something porters need to be aware of. When a branch was merged into trunk, the respective info should be moved to the Developer_log_old Page.

• 2.3-new-cpu-cores (blacky)
  • This branch is all about (old and) new cpu cores, it is meant to implement the following:
    • z80 support for x64/x64sc (z80 cp/m cartridge). (code is in the trunk and used by the c64 cpm cart)
    • 65(S)C02 support as used in some accelerator carts, but also as direct 6502/6510 replacement. (core is in the trunk and used by the fd2000/4000 drives)
    • 65CE02 support as direct 6502/6510 replacement.
    • 65802/65816 support as used in some accelerator carts, but also as direct 6502/6510 replacement (65802 only). (core is in the trunk and used by xscpu64 as the main cpu core).
    • 6809/6309 support as used in the super pet. (core is in the trunk and used by the superpet)
    • 8088 support as used in a copro board for the cbm2 (able to run cp/m-86 and msdos 1.25).

• driveupdate (soci)
  • The point is to have a single FDD emulation for all drives which need low level media emulation and caching. The disk image handling is also reworked to make simpler to use and extend it later. Some features were added like handling of d71 double sided emulation mode disk images, real 6502 FDC with GCR image (works for 1001 now, planned for others). Improved fault handling and updating of Dxx images, 1581 and other MFM drives needs some work. Planned is to get the 1571 MFM mode somehow working together with the GCR mode (probably not on the same type of image file), and maybe implement G64 image support for the IEEE drives. And of course all these changes brings some new bugs to fix. This is most likely not going to be finished in 2011, and maybe some parts should be migrated to trunk to get some of the ready stuff out earlier.

• vice-1990 (soci)
  • Branch for emulating the 1990 drive.
  • TODO: user interface for Drive?Swap8Button, DrivexSwap?Button, Drive?WriteProtectButton
  • TODO: gui changes so that this type can be selected
  • TODO: RTC72421 emulation needed
  • TODO: proper disk image attaching, hdd/iso/fdd image types? Currently file is hardcoded to "/tmp/image" for all!
  • Future: geos, swap8, swap9 and write protect LEDs on GUI would be nice
  • Future: device number comes from the image instead of VICE.
  • Future: vdrive support. Good luck ;)

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List of ports: amiga, beos, dos, os/2, osx, *nix, win32, sdl

List of ports outside UI updates: android, dingoo