v7.0.0-RC2

🐛 Bugfixes

• don't open GUI when direct-loading a statefile (fixes #1525)
• Fixed Quickstart GUI panel would not allow DF1 to be enabled (fixes #1526)
• JIT 32-bit, don't use LDRD/STRD since memory access is not guaranteed to be aligned
• Reset MMU option when switching between Quickstart models (fixes #1535)
• Fix crash on startup on MacOS Intel (fixes #1520)
• fix bundled plugins on MacOS (#1540) (#1541)
• whdload filename was not retained in configs (fixes #1539) (#1546)
• Fix build on macOS Monterey (#1548)
• Refresh all panels after editing Quickstart (#1549)
• Refresh all panels when inserting floppy also (#1549)
• change to BGRA32 for 32-bit modes (fixes #1519)

🔨 Improvements

• support Savestates as a parameter (fixes #1522)
• accept capitalized versions of rom extensions also
• added portable mode detection (fixes #1527) (#1528)
• expand --model options with more models (fixes #1529)
• re-align WHDLoad Custom Fields in GUI (#1544 by midwan)
• updated WHDLoad to latest version

🪚 Refactors

• Updated recognized ROM filename extensions
• Use $HOME/Amiberry for all folders, under macOS installations
• simplify logic for macOS directory handling
• use Resources/plugins for plugins folder in MacOS

📚 Documentation Changes

• added description about audio autoswitch (fixes #1537)
• updated man page with latest changes (fixes #1530)

Full Changelog: v7.0.0-RC1...v7.0.0-RC2

v7.0.0-RC1

This is a major version update from v6.x, and it brings several changes. Keep in mind, this version is not recommended for slower platforms, you should prefer Amiberry-Lite for those (which will also get an update, after this one is finalized). Some of the most important changes in v7 are:

• Amiberry is now delivered as a package, instead of just an archive with binaries. This also means that you don't have to manually install the dependencies, before you can run it (the package will take care of that for you automatically). For Debian or Ubuntu based systems there's a .DEB package, for Fedora there's RPM and for macOS users, there are DMG images that can be used. You can now install Amiberry by downloading the archive, extracting it, and doing something like sudo apt install ./amiberry-XYZ.deb (for DEB). Upgrading to a newer version becomes as simple as installing it on top again. Uninstalling it is simple as well (sudo apt remove amiberry) and it will clean up the dependencies after it. Check the main README for instructions per platform.
• The directory structure handling has changed. Amiberry will now install itself into standard locations, placing shared libraries where they are expected in the system, and will use the user's HOME folder to create an Amiberry directory, if it doesn't exist. That will contain the user-configurable stuff, like directories for Floppy images, Harddrives, Configurations etc. Meanwhile, internal directories are placed elsewhere, to reduce clutter. Check the Wiki for more details: https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amiberry/wiki/Amiberry-directories
• The MacOS binaries are finally signed with an Apple-recognized developer certificate, and they are notarized. This means you no longer have to manually bypass the system's security, to allow it to run. You can just drag and drop it to your Applications and start it up like any other downloaded App. You'll only get a warning that this was downloaded from the Internet, as expected.
• Hi-DPI support has been added, so if you're running this on Linux with scaling enabled, or macOS Retina displays, things should look better now.
• Integer scaling has been added and improved. Check the wiki for more details on this as well.
• Serial port support has been fixed, as it was broken for some versions now.
• GUI Themes have been implemented, so you can now customize the color scheme.
• The whole list of Expansions from WinUAE have been implemented, including PPC, PCI, DSP, custom graphics cards, network cards, SCSI controllers, etc. The Expansion panel was refactored significantly, but the functionality is trying to match the same one from WinUAE, to make things easier between the two emulators.

🎉 New Features

• Implemented the full functionality of the Expansions GUI panel
• Implemented SLIRP support
• implemented SERIAL_ENET functionality
• added Shared serial option
• added internal serial options
• Added PPC support from WinUAE (needs QEmu plugin)
• Added PCEM support from WinUAE, with fixes for ARM/ARM64 added on top
• Added PCI support from WinUAE
• Added MAME (a2410 and TM34010) from WinUAE
• Added QEMU (various gfx cards, network cards, SCSI, etc) from WinUAE
• Added DSP emulation (disabled for now)
• Added SANA2 support (not visible in the GUI yet)
• Merged the latest updates from WinUAE 5.3.1
• The directory structure used is now changed, to be more standardized. User-configurable folders are now created on startup under the User's HOME folder. Shared libraries will be placed in the expected location based on the system used. The old directory structure included in the repository is cleaned up, as empty directories are no longer needed.
• Implemented GUI Themes. You can now customize the colors of the GUI, and save those in separate theme files.

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed various glitches in SelectFile dialog (fixes #1417)
• Listboxes would not resize in width (fixes #1415)
• Fixed capitalization in RAM panel (fixes #1422)
• Fix CPU speed slider scale, when Fastest Possible was selected
• Fixed navigation in Sound panel
• Refresh RTG panel when CPU changes are modified
• Editing entries in HD GUI panel was broken
• Fix TekMagic RAM mapping.
• Custom roms would not show up in GUI, after loading a config (fixes #1450)
• when doing a Rescan ROMs, restore the originally selected ROM afterwards (fixes #1451)
• don't associate all .lha files with Amiberry (fixes #1461)
• Alt-Tab did not release keys properly
• Fixed register type not allowed in newer C++ standards
• Interlace screen height fix.
• Theme font size wasn't picked up from the text box
• Fixed returning to GUI triggered a segfault
• when rotating display, mouse input should be rotated as well
• Fixed mouse motion in different rotation angles
• Fixed uninitialized path variable (#1502 by DidierMalenfant)
• Expansion Rom file option would not always get saved (#1501)
• Expansions panel refresh was buggy (fixes #1501)
• Fixed Serial port implementation, which was broken for a few versions now. Tested with null-modem cables between instances of Amiberry, and between Amiberry and real Amigas.
• Fixed AHI implementation, which was broken and could even cause crashes on some systems.

🔨 Improvements

• always show horizontal scrollbar in Selectfile dialog (fixes #1415)
• guisan: updated to latest version, various fixes and improvements
• added .bin, .cdtv and .cd32 as valid rom extensions
• add support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME (fixes #1425)
• Gracefully handle iconv failures
• Remove last track being larger than total tracks check. It is allowed by SCSI spec.
• Added QuikPak and 6500/1 Keyboard MCU ROM (Will be used in future version).
• updated AROS rom files to latest version
• check for Plugins in more places
• Rename Update XML button to better indicate function
• when updating the WHDBooter files, include JST and AmiQuit
• if deleting a config fails, show a message
• scan arcadia roms during a rescan operation
• improved icon, added svg version (#1463 by midwan)
• updated WHDLoad to latest version
• Highdpi aware renderer (#1472 by midwan)
• improve mime types (fixes #1474)
• Check interlace mode field type when calculating screenshot height.
• check for savestates in the savestate dir as well (fixes #1498)
• apply scaling factor to emulation window also (fixes #1421)
• use integer scaling in the GUI, if we are running on a Desktop
• expanded DBus support with new events: Insert Floppy, Insert CD
• Added option to use JST instead of WHDLoad binary

🏎️ Performance Improvements

• avoid using std::endl on streams

🏗️ Build System

• Now using CMake to build for all platforms, the Makefile is removed
• We can now generate installable packages: DEB, RPM and DMG are added
• Added builds for Ubuntu releases
• added Fedora RPM builds
• add libenet-dev to Ubuntu builds
• MacOS packages are now properly signed with a certificate. There is no longer a need to bypass security to run the app.

🪚 Refactors

• remove directories that get generated on startup
• set all GUI internal windows to be not movable
• Moved "abr" folder under data. (#1464 by midwan)
• Flatpak update (#1465 by midwan)
• set alwaysrelease to true when releasing Alt-Tab
• changed default locations for dirs
• change default shutdown button value to disabled
• improve internal serial port name detection
• rename internal serial ports
• uaeserial improvements
• make scrollbar width 14 pixels wide (#1508)
• remove useless AHI clearqueueaudio call
• minor improvements in sound.cpp

📚 Documentation Changes

• updated Readme with new standards on getting and compiling Amiberry
• Updated Wiki sections accordingly

🧹 Chores

• guisan: harmonize all files to use spaces and same line endings
• remove opencollective links
• only write config options if they are enabled

v5.7.4

🐛 Bugfixes

• fixed typo in Sound panel (fixes #1369)
• Fixed changing logfile name would append "amiberry.log" at the end
• joystick input didn't work with retroarch mapping after latest changes (#1363)
• Fixed new/free mismatch in amiberry_filesys (#1387)
• Fixed display modes iteration (fixes #1394)
• always refresh floppy/quickstart panels after disk changes (fixes #1378)
• Refresh all panels when WHDLoad action from Quickstart is taken (fixes #1383)
• detect uppercase MT32 filenames also (fixes #1386) (#1400)
• GUI JIT option would no longer trigger, after v5.7.1
• GUI CPU 24-bit address event handler was incorrect
• don't refresh the emulation screen when GUI is open, under KMSDRM (#1401)
• Don't replace spaces in native_dos_op
• Fixed bug under KMSDRM, where the emulation screen would not show (#1401)
• remove newlines from debugger input (#1407 by atsampson)
• release window grab in the debugger (#1406 by atsampson)
• When using KMSDRM, controller input was lost after entering the GUI once (fixes #1384)
• KMSDRM fixes for when using a single window (fixes #1411)

🔨 Improvements

• Added VSync options from WinUAE in Display panel (#1368)
• Make Paths panel textboxes read-only (fixes #1385)
• add secondary check when loading cfg files, look in configs folder for filename (fixes #1388)
• resample audio during Push operations (#1397)
• fix inconsistency regarding default config name (fixes #1395)
• GUI - Make read-only textboxes in WHDLoad panel show as such (fixes #1403)
• updated FloppyBridge to v1.6.4
• updated game controller DB to latest version
• updated WHDLoad XML to latest version
• improve help text in Misc panel (fixes #1408)
• auto-select the first item in the Configs list (fixes #1391)
• Log command line parameters on startup (fixes #1380)
• harmonize buttons in HDD GUI panel
• use string.empty() instead of comparing with ""
• separate data from home directories, improve handling (fixes #1073)
• Fix new paths logic for Flatpak also (#1073)
• improve look of GUI Misc panel scrollbar (fixes #1412)
• Cherry pick updates from v6.x

🏗️ Build System

• Remove Manjaro RPI4 target from releases

🪚 Refactors

• use string.empty()
• slight refactor of mapping from retroarch function

Full Changelog: v5.7.3...v5.7.4

preview-v6.3.4

🐛 Bugfixes

• fixed typo in Sound panel (fixes #1369)
• Fixed changing logfile name would append "amiberry.log" at the end
• joystick input didn't work with retroarch mapping after latest changes (#1363)
• Fixed new/free mismatch in amiberry_filesys (#1387)
• Fixed display modes iteration (fixes #1394)
• always refresh floppy/quickstart panels after disk changes (fixes #1378)
• Refresh all panels when WHDLoad action from Quickstart is taken (fixes #1383)
• detect uppercase MT32 filenames also (fixes #1386) (#1400)
• GUI JIT option would no longer trigger, after v5.7.1
• GUI CPU 24-bit address event handler was incorrect
• don't refresh the emulation screen when GUI is open, under KMSDRM (#1401)
• Don't replace spaces in native_dos_op
• Fixed bug under KMSDRM, where the emulation screen would not show (#1401)
• remove newlines from debugger input (#1407 by atsampson)
• release window grab in the debugger (#1406 by atsampson)
• When using KMSDRM, controller input was lost after entering the GUI once (fixes #1384)
• KMSDRM fixes for when using a single window (fixes #1411)

🔨 Improvements

• Added VSync options from WinUAE in Display panel (#1368)
• Make Paths panel textboxes read-only (fixes #1385)
• add secondary check when loading cfg files, look in configs folder for filename (fixes #1388)
• resample audio during Push operations (#1397)
• fix inconsistency regarding default config name (fixes #1395)
• GUI - Make read-only textboxes in WHDLoad panel show as such (fixes #1403)
• updated FloppyBridge to v1.6.4
• updated game controller DB to latest version
• updated WHDLoad XML to latest version
• improve help text in Misc panel (fixes #1408)
• auto-select the first item in the Configs list (fixes #1391)
• Log command line parameters on startup (fixes #1380)
• harmonize buttons in HDD GUI panel
• use string.empty() instead of comparing with ""
• separate data from home directories, improve handling (fixes #1073)
• Fix new paths logic for Flatpak also (#1073)
• improve look of GUI Misc panel scrollbar (fixes #1412)
• Cherry pick updates from v6.x

🏗️ Build System

• Remove Manjaro RPI4 target from releases

🪚 Refactors

• use string.empty()
• slight refactor of mapping from retroarch function

Full Changelog: preview-v6.3.2...preview-v6.3.4

v5.7.3

🎉 New Features

• Implemented Integer scaling (fixes #1352) - check the Wiki for more details
• implemented Resolution Autoswitch option
• Added default option to control resolution autoswitch from amiberry.conf
• Auto-detect MT32 titles in whdbooter and enable MIDI-out if ROMs are available

🐛 Bugfixes

• keyboard and mouse was not always grabbed (#1351)
• don't grab mouse/keyboard in the GUI window (fixes #1357)
• VKBD would not show if Auto-Crop was enabled
• Custom controls would not get loaded when starting from cmd line (fixes #1355)
• Fix KMSDRM problems when switching between GUI -> emulation (fixes #1351)
• when loading custom mapping, skip the check for isrealbutton (#1355)
• store joystick GUID, use it to check before re-importing joysticks (#1355)

🔨 Improvements

• auto-crop scaling improvements, for integer scaling
• make "System Default" sound card option the default
• GUI window improvements

🏗️ Build System

• ensure the floppybridge build is completed, before attempting to copy the lib
• add USE_GPIOD in CMakeLists.txt also
• Rename macOS M1 packages to macOS Apple Silicon
• fix apple silicon build

🪚 Refactors

• allow Memory Cycle-Exact to be selected for 68000
• Refactored target_cfgfile_load function
• remove more checks for isrealbutton from controller mapping (#1355)
• added some more logging in target_cfgfile_load function (#1355)
• accept .uae config files in cmd line, even if they are not the last item (#1355)

📚 Documentation Changes

• Updated help text in Input panel (fixes #1349)

Full Changelog: v5.7.2...v5.7.3

preview-v6.3.3

🎉 New Features

• Implemented Integer scaling (fixes #1352) - [check the Wiki for more details]
• implemented Resolution Autoswitch option
• Added default option to control resolution autoswitch from amiberry.conf
• Auto-detect MT32 titles in whdbooter and enable MIDI-out if ROMs are available

🐛 Bugfixes

• keyboard and mouse was not always grabbed (#1351)
• don't grab mouse/keyboard in the GUI window (fixes #1357)
• VKBD would not show if Auto-Crop was enabled
• Custom controls would not get loaded when starting from cmd line (fixes #1355)
• Fix KMSDRM problems when switching between GUI -> emulation (fixes #1351)
• when loading custom mapping, skip the check for isrealbutton (#1355)
• store joystick GUID, use it to check before re-importing joysticks (#1355)

🔨 Improvements

• auto-crop scaling improvements, for integer scaling
• make "System Default" sound card option the default
• GUI window improvements
• Merged latest WinUAE updates after 5.3.0

🏗️ Build System

• ensure the floppybridge build is completed, before attempting to copy the lib
• add USE_GPIOD in CMakeLists.txt also
• Rename macOS M1 packages to macOS Apple Silicon
• fix apple silicon build

🪚 Refactors

• Refactored target_cfgfile_load
• remove more checks for isrealbutton from controller mapping (#1355)
• added some more logging in target_cfgfile_load function (#1355)
• accept .uae config files in cmd line, even if they are not the last item (#1355)

📚 Documentation Changes

• Updated help text in Input panel (fixes #1349)

Full Changelog: preview-v6.3.1...preview-v6.3.3

v5.7.2

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed bug where custom options from a .uae config file would not get applied, when loading a WHDLoad title. The XML settings overwrote custom options, no more! Now any custom options found in a config file (such as overriding custom field values), will be applied after the XML settings. This fixes issues with games that don't yet have updated information in the XML (e.g. BattleIsle needs an 020 config, and custom1=3 to function). (fixes #1343)
• Fixed a crash when saving a config file, in some cases. (fixes #1345)

🔨 Improvements

• Improved WHDLoad Config handling. Amiberry will now only attempt to parse WHDLoad options from a config file, if such settings are found.
• When selecting a CD32 model from Quickstart, the joystick port is automatically set to CD32 mode as well. This makes it easier to just get into emulation, without having to change that option from the Default mode to CD32 yourself (which you probably want, when emulating a CD32). (fixes #1346)

preview-v6.3.2

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed bug where custom options from a .uae config file would not get applied, when loading a WHDLoad title. The XML settings overwrote custom options, no more! Now any custom options found in a config file (such as overriding custom field values), will be applied after the XML settings. This fixes issues with games that don't yet have updated information in the XML (e.g. BattleIsle needs an 020 config, and custom1=3 to function). (fixes #1343)
• Fixed a crash when saving a config file, in some cases. (fixes #1345)

🔨 Improvements

• Improved WHDLoad Config handling. Amiberry will now only attempt to parse WHDLoad options from a config file, if such settings are found.
• When selecting a CD32 model from Quickstart, the joystick port is automatically set to CD32 mode as well. This makes it easier to just get into emulation, without having to change that option from the Default mode to CD32 yourself (which you probably want, when emulating a CD32). (fixes #1346)

v5.7.1

🎉 New Features

• Implemented GUI foreground color option for themes
• Merge latest updates from preview branch
• Added button to Create new folder in the dialogs (fixes #1329)
• Updated floppybridge library to latest version (#1313)
• All plugins (floppybridge, capsimg) now live in a separate directory, named "plugins"
• Added option to log to console (fixes #1310)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Improve CD32 default mapping (fixes #1237)
• The GUI should use the right path when opening a file requester (fixes #1305)
• Use stat instead of lstat on files and directories, to follow symlinks (#1302)
• Fix KMSDRM video regression (fixes #1294)
• Add missing directories in packaging (fixes #1306)
• minor GUI border size fixes (fixes #1311)
• Fix base color for Radiobuttons in SaveStates panel (#1293)
• Fixed background color for SaveStates panel checkboxes
• When saving a new config in the GUI, it should be selected after the refresh (#1317)
• Improve double-click -> load config and start emulation (fixes #1316)
• When loading config from the command line and opening the GUI, the settings were reset to defaults (fixes #1315)
• Always clear the text fields when deleting a config (fixes #1321)
• Fullscreen toggle didn't quite work (fixes #1322)
• Set right colors for checkboxes that were missed, so that themes work properly on them
• Use the right APMODE when toggling full-screen (fixes #1324)
• Quickstart - enabling 2nd floppy drive did not refresh panel
• Make guisan widgets active/inactive status more visible (fixes #1326)
• Fixed textbox background color in Create hardfile dialog (fixes #1327)
• If console_logging is requested, ensure it's activated always
• Use WHDLoad custom1-5 values if they are not zero (fixes #1328)
• The floppy dropdown wasn't updated properly after a selection (fixes #1334)
• Fixed CD dropdown did not refresh properly (fixes #1337)
• Fixed plugins directory name in macOS script

🔨 Improvements

• Improve layout in Custom Fields window (fixes #1299)
• Improved console handling in write_log
• Set config name automatically for CD images as well (fixes #1336)
• Config panel double-click time reduced to 500ms (#1316)

🏗️ Build System

• Fix ARM 32-bit build through CMake (#1298)
• CMake will now copy libfloppybridge.so into plugins when finished
• Add the new folders in flatpak as well
• fix CMake copy of floppybridge lib destination path

🪚 Refactors

• Rename gui theme internal variables
• Use CD32 model as a fallback for CD auto-detection (fixes #1325)
• Use "Plugins" directory for macOS
• Remove CreateFolder button from SelectFile (fixes #1338)

📚 Documentation Changes

• Improve help text in Config panel
• Updated help text in Misc panel (fixes #1309)
• Add console logging details in GUI helptext (fixes #1312)
• Improve help text in Sound panel
• Added new option in usage help text (fixes #1319)

preview-v6.3.1

🎉 New Features

• implemented GUI foreground color option for themes
• Merge latest updates from master
• Added button to Create new folder in the dialogs (fixes #1329)
• Updated floppybridge library to latest version (#1313)
• All plugins (floppybridge, capsimg) now live in a separate directory, named "plugins"
• Added option to log to console (fixes #1310)
• Added window scaling option in amiberry.conf

🐛 Bugfixes

• Improve CD32 default mapping (fixes #1237)
• use stat instead of lstat on files and directories, to follow symlinks (#1302)
• The GUI should use the right path when opening a file requester (fixes #1305)
• minor GUI border size fixes (fixes #1311)
• Fix KMSDRM video regression (fixes #1294)
• add missing directories in packaging (fixes #1306)
• Fix base color for Radiobuttons in SaveStates panel (#1293)
• fixed background color for SaveStates panel checkboxes
• When saving a new config in the GUI, it should be selected after the refresh (#1317)
• improve double-click -> load config and start emulation (fixes #1316)
• when loading config from the command line and opening the GUI, the settings were reset to defaults (fixes #1315)
• Always clear the text fields when deleting a config (fixes #1321)
• Fullscreen toggle didn't quite work (fixes #1322)
• Set right colors for checkboxes that were missed, so that themes work properly on them
• Use the right APMODE when toggling full-screen (fixes #1324)
• Quickstart - enabling 2nd floppy drive did not refresh panel
• Make guisan widgets active/inactive status more visible (fixes #1326)
• Fixed textbox background color in Create hardfile dialog (fixes #1327)
• if console_logging is requested, ensure it's activated always
• Use WHDLoad custom1-5 values if they are not zero (fixes #1328)
• the floppy dropdown wasn't updated properly after a selection (fixes #1334)
• Fixed CD dropdown did not refresh properly (fixes #1337)
• Fixed plugins directory name in macOS script

🔨 Improvements

• improve layout in Custom Fields window (fixes #1299)
• Config panel double-click time reduced to 500ms (#1316)
• improved console handling in writelog
• Set config name automatically for CD images as well (fixes #1336)

🏗️ Build System

• CMake will now copy libfloppybridge.so into plugins when finished
• add the new folders in flatpak as well
• fix CMake copy of floppybridge lib destination path

🪚 Refactors

• rename GUI theme internal variables
• Use CD32 model as a fallback for CD auto-detection (fixes #1325)
• Use "Plugins" directory for macOS
• Remove CreateFolder button from SelectFile (fixes #1338)

📚 Documentation Changes

• Improve help text in Config panel
• updated help text in Misc panel (fixes #1309)
• add console logging details in GUI helptext (fixes #1312)
• improve help text in Sound panel
• added new option in usage help text (fixes #1319)
• updated help text