x16-emulator-r31

Main differences:

• BREAKING CHANGE: VERA 0.8 register layout. All programs accessing VERA (VPOKE, vera_lo/mid/hi) need to be updated! Check the VERA Reference for more info: https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-docs/blob/master/VERA%20Programmer's%20Reference.md
• ISO mode: hit Ctrl+o to switch to ISO mode: the character encoding is now ASCII/ISO-8859-15, and you can enter and print the following characters: "¡¢£€¥Š§š©ª«¬®¯°±²³Žµ¶·ž¹º»ŒœŸ¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ". You will need to enter BASIC keywords in upper case!

Emulator:

• VERA 0.8 register layout
• removed "-char" (character ROM is now part of rom.bin)
• GIF recording using -gif [Neil Forbes-Richardson]
• numpad support [Maurizio Porrato]
• fake support of VIA timers to work around BASIC RND(0)
• default ROM is taken from executable's directory [Michael Watters]
• emulator window has a title [Michael Watters]
• -debug allows specifying a breakpoint [Frank Buss]
• package contains the ROM symbols in rom.txt
• support for VERA SPI

ROM:

• switched to VERA 0.8 register layout; character ROM is uploaded on startup
• ISO mode: ISO-8859-15 character set, standard ASCII keyboard
• keyboard
  • completed US and UK keymaps so all C64 characters are reachable
  • support for AltGr
  • support for F9-F12
• allow hex and binary numbers in DATA statements [Frank Buss]
• switched SD card from VIA SPI to VERA SPI (works on real hardware!)
• fix: VPEEK overwriting POKER ($14/$15)
• fix: STOP sometimes not registering in BASIC programs

Known Issues:

• Emulator: LOAD"$ (and LOAD"$",1) will show host uppercase filenames as garbage. Use Ctrl+o to switch to ISO mode for a workaround.
• Shift+AltGr keyboard combinations don't work

x16-emulator-r30

Emulator:

• VERA can now generate VSYNC interrupts
• added -keymap for setting the keyboard layout
• added -scale for integer scaling of the window [Stephen Horn]
• added -log to enable various logging features (can also be enabled at runtime (POKE $9FB0+) [Randall Bohn])
• changed -run to be an option to -prg and -bas
• emulator detection: read $9FBE/$9FBF, must read 0x31 and 0x36
• fix: -prg and -run no longer corrupt BASIC programs.
• fix: LOAD,1 into RAM bank [Stephen Horn]
• fix: 2bpp and 4bpp drawing [Stephen Horn]
• fix: 4bpp sprites [MonstersGoBoom]
• fix: build on Linux/ARM

ROM:

• support for 13 keyboard layouts; cycle through them using F9
• GETJOY call will fall back to keyboard (cursor/Ctrl/Alt/Space/Return), see Programmer's Reference Guide on how to use it
• startup message now shows ROM revision
• $FF80 contains the prerelease revision (negated)
• the 60 Hz IRQ is now generated by VERA VSYNC
• fix: VPEEK tokenization
• fix: CBDOS was not correctly preserving the RAM bank
• fix: KERNAL no longer uses zero page $FC-$FE

Known Issues:

• Emulator: LOAD"$ (and LOAD"$",1) will show host uppercase filenames as garbage. Use Ctrl+N to switch to the X16 upper/lower character set for a workaround.
• BASIC: $ and % prefixes don't work for DATA entries
• RND(0) always returns 0

x16-emulator-r29

Emulator:

• better keyboard support: if you pretend you have a US keyboard layout when typing, all keys should now be reachable [Paul Robson]
• -debug will enable the new debugger [Paul Robson]
• runs at the correct speed (was way too slow on most machines)
• keyboard shortcuts work on Windows/Linux: Ctrl + F/R/S/V
• Ctrl + V pastes the clipboard as keypresses
• -bas file.txt loads a BASIC program in ASCII encoding
• -echo prints all BASIC/KERNAL output to the terminal, use it with LIST to convert a BASIC program to ASCII
• -run acts like -prg, but also autostarts the program
• JMP $FFFF and SYS 65535 exit the emulator and save memory the host's storage
• the packages now contain the current version of the Programmer's Reference Guide (HTML)
• fix: on Windows, some file load/saves may be been truncated

ROM:

• fixed BRK handling in the monitor

Known issues:

• Emulator: LOAD"$ (and LOAD"$",1) will show host uppercase filenames as garbage. Use Ctrl+N to switch to the X16 upper/lower character set for a workaround.
• Emulator: -prg and -run may corrupt BASIC programs. Use the LOAD command in BASIC instead.
• BASIC: $ and % prefixes don't work for DATA entries
• KERNAL: The LOAD KERNAL API ignores the current RAM bank.
• VPEEK might print errors in certain cases.

x16-emulator-r28

• support for 65C02 opcodes [Paul Robson]
• keep aspect ratio when resizing window [Sebastian Voges]
• updated sprite logic to VERA 0.7 – the layout of the sprite data registers has changed, you need to change your code!

x16-emulator-r27

First public release. Available for macOS and Windows. Make sure to read the documentation included in the ZIP files.