Version 0.17

From ES40 Emulator

[edit] Short

Version 0.17 adds VGA and SCSI support. The configuration file format has changed.

[edit] Release Data and Download Link

Version 0.17 was released on January 2nd, 2008, and can be downloaded here.

[edit] Changelog

Changes from Version 0.16 are:

• Ignore loopback mode on network card. (02-jan-2008, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Fixed memory leaks. (29-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Throw exceptions rather than just exiting when errors occur. (28-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Only delay IDE interrupts when NO_VMS is defined. (Need to fix this properly) (28-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Close files and free memory when shutting down. (20-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Do SCSI reselection on read commands. (20-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• More checks if IDE disks exist. (20-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Basic ATAPI support added. (19-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Allow for different block sizes for SCSI disks. (19-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Allow for reporting disk-size in bytes. (19-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Faster IEEE floating-point operations on machines that support IEEE. (18-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Fixed silly mis-interpretation of "add-with-carry" instruction on SCSI controller. (18-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Byte-sized disk transfers for SCSI controller. (18-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Bugfix in disk-controller initialization. (18-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• SCSI timeout delayed until phase check. (18-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• General timer added to SCSI controller. (17-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Format of state file changed to allow better error-checking. (17-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Changed last disk cylinder number calculation. (17-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Better DMA support. (17-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Delayed IDE interrupts. (NetBSD requirement) (17-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Added menu option to load state file to the serial port BREAK menu. (16-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Register structure changed for SCSI card. (16-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Corrected some weird uses of size_t. (16-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• disabled out SRM IDE READ replacement; doesn't work with SCSI! (14-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Symbios SCSI controller (CSym53C895) added. (14-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Free RAMdisk memory on destruction. (14-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Use disk base class for direct IDE access from SRM. (12-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Move disk operations to a separate CDisk base class, and it's descendent CDiskFile and CDiskRam classes. (12-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Add a CDiskController base class. (12-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Don't let the floppy controller claim IO port 3f6 as this is in use by the IDE controller. (11-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• More complete IDE implementation allows NetBSD to recognize disks. (11-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Improved system timer logic. (10/11-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Translate a 64-bit PCI access into 2 32-bit accesses. (10-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Better error-reporting if the configuration-file is wrong. (10-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Simplified gui plugin code. (10-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Format of configuration file changed, configurator class introduced. Far more flexible configurations are now allowed. (10-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• PCI Card base device (CPCIDevice) added. (10-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Don't let VGA-cards claim addressess they shouldn't claim. (11-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Added CCirrus VGA card. Both VGA-cards now use the CVGA base class. (10-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Make receiving network data in a separate execution thread work on Linux. (10-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Ali chipset device split into separate ISA, IDE and USB parts. (10-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Added configuration file item for vga_console (set console serial). (10-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Better exec handling for starting serial port terminals. (10-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Generate keyboard interrupts when needed. (07-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Moved sdl_init from the VGA card to the SDL GUI implementation. (07-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Let the network card identify itself as DE-500BA. (06-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Corrected bug regarding make/break key settings. (06-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Add an abstraction layer for keyboard, mouse and video support, using the SDL gui plugin developed by the Bochs project. (06-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Change VGA-card implementation to include most of Boch's VGA-code. (06-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven, Brian Wheeler)
• Option to handle CPU interrupts by direct operations on the Typhoon chipset's interrupt registers. (02-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• VMS PAL replacement routines added. (02-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Implemented various often-used bitmask operations as inline functions. (02-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Translation buffer class objects replaced with translation buffer arrays in the CPU object. (02-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Keep track of when to check for interrupts and when not. (02-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Timing / floppy tweak for Linux/BSD guests. (02-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Added code-profiling support. (02-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Receive network data in a separate execution thread. (02-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Avoid misprobing of unused PCI configuration space. (02-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Added keyboard support using SDL library. (01-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Corrected system timer behavior for Linux/BSD as a guest OS. (01-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Added support for instruction counting and underlined lines in listings. (01-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Use __int8, __int16 and __int32 on windows, instead of char, short, long. This makes us compatible with SDL. (01-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Corrected some unsigned/signed issues. (01-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Use correct interrupt for secondary IDE controller. (01-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven)
• Ignore address bits 35- 42 in the physical address. (01-dec-2007, Camiel Vanderhoeven, Brian Wheeler)
• Added support for Ctrl+C and panic. (01-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Added CS3Trio64 VGA-card. (01-dec-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Added IDB LOADREG and LOADFPREG commands. (22-nov-2007, Brian Wheeler)
• Added nic0.disabled configuration option. (22-nov-2007, Brian Wheeler)