01.Oct.2021
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Programming: 'Rust'-Support for Motorola 68000 announced
As Golem reports, the Rust programming language has received experimental support for the Motorola 68000 CPU architecture and processor family for the first time, thanks to a LLVM port. The associated code has been contributed to the main branch of the language's open source repository.
Golem further points out, "Currently, the Rust port to the M68k architecture is still considered experimental and is arguably not complete. In addition, the compiler test suite is not tested by default and the team makes few guarantees that the port will work. For native builds, those involved currently recommend using Debian's M68k port in the documentation, as well as old machines with the CPU such as the Atari or Amiga.
Supported and mainly supervised the work on the LLVM port to the processor architecture, which is now about 40 years old, by a small team of volunteers. The most important goal of the work here is to support the retro computing scene with the work on the compiler. So, together with the Rust port, it will be possible in the future to run other modern software written in Rust on the cherished old computers." (dr)
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01.Oct.2021
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Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry 4.1.5
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.
After relasing several 'release candidates' (amiga-news.de reported), today version 4.1.5 was released providing several big fixes, improvements and among others also support for AmigaOS 3.2 ROMs. Detailed list of changes:
- fixed pipeline typo
- Added distro information to pre-compiled binaries
- Removed more unused code
- Speed up Fast Copper
- More removal of unused code
- Removed inactive code from custom.cpp
- Updated whdload_db to latest version
- Added RPI3 64-bit pipelines (inactive for now)
- Updated Readme to reflect Makefile changes
- Updated Azure Build pipelines with new platform names
- Split rpi3/rpi4 64-bit builds to fix -mcpu wrong flag
- #843: Don't change GUI Window size if we are in Full Screen mode
- Reverted default sound mode to Push with increased bufffer. Pull caused glitches in some cases
- Fixed bug causing full-window mode to always show as windowed
- Fixed bug where if the GUI window was maximized and emulation started afterwards, the emulator would shut down
- Fixed ShowMessage window would always change window size (it shouldn't if it was maximized)
- Merged DrawBridge and GUI updates from dev
- Added support for Kickstart 3.2 ROMs
- #782: Brought back multithreaded drawing
- VS project cleanup
- Don't resize window if it's maximized
- Changed "default_fullscreen" option to "default_fullscreen_mode" and made it into an integer. It now controls 3 states: Windowed (0), Fullscreen (1) or Full-Window (2).
- #454: Added Warp and Quick Save State functions in Custom Controls
- #501: Implemented Warp mode for SDL2 (End + Pause to trigger)
- #821: Added default option for sound pull mode in amiberry.conf
- Added copyright and license info in About panel
- #841: Added label to show timestamp of selected savestate
- #841: Increased Savestates to 15
- Updated Remote deploy/build settings
- Fixed #824: Dispmanx would show black screen if loading another config with different screen dimensions
- DMX: initialize variable
- DMX: Remove unused function
- #805: Renamed and fixed Menu to Guide button, in Custom controls
- #805: Don't hardcode the controller Guide button to open GUI always
- #822: Use menu button from mapping instead of hardcoded SDL2 "GUIDE" button
- #827: Improved navigation in HDD panels
- #827: Implemented scrolling with controller/keyboard in master
- #827: Reduced width of Serial Port group
- #827: Get rid of horizontal scrollbar in Misc panel
- Fixed #823: Controller in Mouse mode didn't trigger Retroarch Quit combo
- Fixed select button reading would pass wrong Joy ID to function
- Don't attempt to read from non-existing joysticks
- Set Input Mouse/Joystick autoswitch to disabled by default
- Added generic Cortex-A9 32-bit target
- Ensure hotkey_pressed is reset after it was triggered to enter the GUI (@mrfixit2001)
- Added CDTV as a command line option in --model
- Change default sound buffer properly
- Revert "Changed default audio buffer size to 4KB instead of 16KB"
- Retroarch: Change button mapping loop to fixed value instead of depending on external variable
- Changed default audio buffer size to 4KB instead of 16KB
- Updated pipelines from dev
- Updated build pipelines
- Removed VisualGDB solution from repo
- Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file
- Revert "Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file"
- Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file
- Cherry picked recent updates from dev branch
- DMX: Don't remove blackscreen_element during subshutdown
- #825: back-ported improvements to master branch
- #827: Navigation cleanup in Floppy panel
- #827: Fixed Sound panel navigation glitches
- #812: Backported fix to master branch
- Backport fix for #825 to 4.1.4
- Retain version information in optimized builds also
(dr)
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