Releases for Macintosh operating systems.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
Licensing
- The emulator core is now licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.
Enhancements
- A user-definable upper bound limits the size of the snapshot storage.
- Denise’s DIW logic is more accurate.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug related to the allocation of sprite DMA slots.
- Fixed a race condition related to the SPRxCTL register.
- Fixed an issue with the serial port (9-bit packets).
- Fixed a minor visual issue in the status bar that started showing up with the latest macOS release.
Internal changes
- Large data structures are now created on the heap rather than the stack.
- In debug builds, debug variables can be switched on and off dynamically in RetroShell.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
Licensing
- All files of the core emulator, except reSID, are now dual-licensed. In addition to the existing GPL license, they are licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2. The GUI code is still published under GPL only.
Enhancements
- Improved thread management
- Added a new menu option for simulating the execution of a BRK instruction.
- Memory can now be read or modified inside the RetroShell debugger.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug in the CPU reset routine.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some snapshots from being restored when a cartridge was attached.
- The CPU’s processor port values were not written into snapshot files.
- PET strings extracted from P00 files got the wrong padding character.
- The CIA inspector panel always shows the contents of CIA 1.
- The saved dot mask setting did not get restored on startup.
Internal changes
- Large data structures are now created on the heap rather than the stack.
- In debug builds, debug variables can be switched on and off dynamically in RetroShell.
- The internal run loop has been simplified.
- CIAs are now executed by the event scheduler (like in vAmiga).
- IEC bus updates are now triggered via events.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
- Debugger! (from an unreleased "1.2" version)
- Memory Viewer!
- (Untested!) support for MEGA Audio and SD Music sound cards
- Universal build
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
- The issue addressed in 8.5.2 now works also, when switching the games list - Editing game description is supported for user's games entries only.
- In "About DOSBox" menu, current versions of DOSBox-X are no longer shown as "0.x", as their version number starts with creation year now.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
The Edit description button is visible on the Game Info panel only, finally. In previous versions, unfortunately this button was visible on other panels as well, hiding other buttons for the particular panes.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
Bug fixes
- Fixed a crash that occurred when loading certain extended ADFs
Enhancements
- Improved audio filter emulation
- Added support for ADFs containing less than 80 cylinders
- Added some more ROM fingerprints
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
Copy in PRGM mode was dropping line 01, because of an optimizer bug in the latest compiler. Reduced optimization level from -Os to -O1 to work around this problem.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
Solved an issue, introduced in the previous release, that could cause the emulated mouse to stop moving on the Apple //c.
- Details
- Category: Mac
XM8 is a multi-platform emulator of NEC's personal computer PC-8801MA (PC-8801mkIISR upward-compatible).
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
- Improved support for game devices, such as the PS5 and Xbox controllers. This improvement is available on macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later.
- Solved an issue that could disable the emulated speaker sound after resetting a virtual machine.
- Fixed an error in Apple //c memory management, improving general compatibility.
- The option to use the Mac backspace key as the virtual machine's "left-arrow" is now part of the Quick settings menu, and thereby available for the Apple //c.
- It is now possible to select a custom ROM image for the Apple //c. Note this is an advanced feature, intended for testing and debugging ROM code.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
fixed crash at start when in and out audio sample frequencies didn't match
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
- Implement MAKE_DIR system call for QXL.WIN containers and floppy disks.
- Upgrade the included Toolkit II to version 2.34, which provides the SuperBASIC MAKE_DIR command.
- Update full screen code to work on macOS 13 or later.
- Fix QXL.WIN issue where sometimes empty directory entries were not reused when creating a new file.
- When loading SMSQ/e, check for an optional XTcc tag at the end of the file and ignore it if present.
- Fix for position file pointer relative, when the file is in a host directory and has a Q-emuLator file header.
- macOS 12.6 had a bug in its support of the BMP format that prevented Q-emuLator from starting. Apple fixed the issue in macOS 12.6.1, but Q-emuLator 2.2 is now using PNG instead of BMP just in case, and to also work on macOS 12.6.
- Details
- Category: Mac
What's New:
- Fixed a bug that causes the GPU pipeline to occasionally update the wrong texture in interlace mode.
- Fixed a bug that caused the CPU to crash on address error double-faults.