Hatari news

2012-06-24: Version 1.6.2

Hatari 1.6.2 has been released. You can download it from http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/1.6.2
Thanks to all the people who contributed to this version with code, ideas, bug reports. Let's keep on improving Hatari !

Some fixes for overscan screen in STF/STE
Better IKBD/ACIA compatibility
Improved audio filters for YM2149 and DMA sound
Several improvements in Falcon mode : DSP, CPU, MMU, FPU, videl borders
Various fixes for FDC, SCSI, printer output, ...
Fixes to the SDL UI, OSX UI and python UI
Improvements to the debugger

See release-notes.txt for more details.

Fixed Games : Hammerfist, Operation Clean Streets, Impossible Mission II, Hades Nebula, Zombi
Fixed Demos : Antiques by Dune/Sector One, Built-in Obsolescence, Japtro and Rising Force by Holocaust, Delirious Demos IV, The Wave Of the Future by ICE, Electrocution I by Sphere, Musical Wonders 1990 by Offbeat

2012-01-13: Version 1.6.1

This version is mainly a bugfix for 1.6.0, where monochrome mode gave a black screen and was not usable. You can download it from http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/1.6.1

Fixes to bootup issues in monochrome mode
Better left border removal timings (fixed Vodka Demo - Kill The Beast 2)
DSP external memory access cycles taken into account
Fix to allow build with Xcode 3.1.3/OS X 10.5.8 PPC
Several fixes & updates needed to Hatari UI & hconsole for them to work correctly with Hatari v1.6.x
Removed a potential segfault in the debugger

2012-01-01: Version 1.6.0

Hatari 1.6.0 "Happy New Year 2012" has been released. You can download it from http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/1.6.0

More accurate FDC emulation (correct status bits and commands' timings, DMA transfer by blocks of 16 bytes, floppy change detection). This should fix a lot of non working games, as well as a few demos
More accurate microwire clock emulation
SCSI class 1 (ICD) command support for drives > 1 GB
Improve shifter (add another method to do 4 pixel hardware scrolling, better emulation for 0 byte blank line)
Some fixes to the IKBD emulation
Better filters and model for sound emulation
Correct VBL timings in TT monochrome (double clicking works now)
More cycle accurate Falcon DSP-CPU interface emulation. All the demos that needed 32Mhz CPU with the old CPU core in Hatari v1.5, work now at correct 16Mhz with the WinUAE CPU core
030 MMU emulation with the WinUAE CPU core
Debugger improvements : "history" command to list instructions executed before entering debugger
Fixed behavior of the Caps Lock key

2011-12-01: The Hatari project is moving to tuxfamily.org

Since the future of BerliOS is still unclear, we decided to move the Hatari project now to a new host. Starting with today, Hatari will now be hosted on tuxfamily.org. Our new homepage is http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/ – so please update your bookmarks!

Information about downloading Hatari releases and about how to clone the new Mercurial repository can be found here: http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/download.html

Of course we will also need a new mailing list since the list at BerliOS might not survive in 2012. Please visit the following page for information about how to join the new mailing lists: http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/contact.html

Please have a look at the new website, test the new mercurial repository, join the new mailing list(s) and if you hit a problem, get in touch with us.

2011-07-19: Version 1.5.0

Hatari 1.5.0 has been released. You can download it from http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/1.5.0

On STE, correctly shift display 8 pixels to the left when using 224 bytes overscan (e.g. recent demos by DHS)
Add support for spec512 mode in med res (fixes 'Best Part Of The Creation' in 'Punish Your Machine', 'HighRes Mode' demo by Paradox)
Precisely emulate the number of frames per sec (eg 50.053 fps in PAL instead of the usual 50 Hz), required for correct video/audio sync under STE (e.g. More Or Less Zero by DHS)
Sound improvements for STE, major rewrite of the DMA audio, precision should be really close to a real STE (e.g. HexTracker by Paulo Simoes)
Improved precision in sound emulation, with nearly no rounding errors over successive VBL during many hours.
By default mix 3 YM voices using a lookup table of values measured on real STF to improve digisoun (e.g. Flashback demo by TCB)
Alternative CPU core based on WinUAE for more accurate Falcon emulation, including 68030 timings, MMU, ...
Improvements in DSP emulation.
Various changes in the SDL GUI
Many more functions in the built in debugger
Atari program given as argument to Hatari will be automatically started after TOS boots
Many more small fixes related to video, audio, ikbd, ...