EmuTOS 1.4

Christian Zietz — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:57:46 -0000

Major changes in EmuTOS 1.4:
- General: Full support for true-color modes on the Falcon
(and on other hardware and emulators that support true-color)
- General: New Catalan translation
- BIOS: IDE driver support for LBA48 and CHS addressing
- ARAnyM ROM is now 1024 KB (see readme-aranym.txt)
- Amiga: Support for NTSC machines

Other changes:
- BIOS: Improved serial port drivers
- EmuDesk: Floppy formatting dialog supports 800K format
- Many minor and/or obscure bugs have been fixed

EmuTOS 1.3

Christian Zietz — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 10:24:30 -0000

Major changes in EmuTOS 1.3:

BIOS: Support for SCSIDRV API (used by software such as ExtenDOS)
EmuDesk: Improved appearance of some dialogs
General: New Romanian translation
XBIOS: Support for true-color modes on the Falcon
(Note that VDI and EmuDesk support for true-color is still unavailable.)

Other changes:

BIOS: Improved device compatibility in the IDE driver
BIOS: Support for the CrazyDots VME graphics card
BIOS: Better handling of incorrect values in FAT file systems
BIOS: SD card support for some ColdFire EVBs
Many minor and/or obscure bugs have been fixed

EmuTOS 1.2.1

Christian Zietz — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:05:22 -0000

Changes in EmuTOS 1.2.1:
There were only two changes to fix bugs in EmuTOS 1.2:
- AES: Fix accessories displaying an alert box
- AES: Correct process name in AES process descriptor

EmuTOS 1.2

Christian Zietz — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:38:30 -0000

Major changes in EmuTOS 1.2:
- AES: Add support for 3D objects (enabled in 512k ROMs and PRG)
- AES: Add support for new menu_xxx() functions in AES 3.30
- AES: Allow up to 16 windows for versions with AES 3.30 support
- BIOS: Add interrupt-driven I/O for SCC serial ports
- EmuDesk: Resize screen memory in videl modes, just like TOS4
- General: Make FireBee ROMs single-language
- VDI: Fix crash under FreeMiNT with memory protect enabled

Other changes:
- AES: Display better error message if program launch failed
- AES: Improve error checking for wind_xxx() functions
- AES: Better looking separators in menus
- BDOS: Implement undocumented TOS function Srealloc()
- BIOS: Add support for IKBD/MIDI error vectors
- BIOS: Increase timeout for IDE transfers
- EmuDesk: Fix bug in 'Set file mask...'
- EmuDesk: Fix drag'n'drop bug with desktop icons
- EmuDesk: Display the 'busy' mouse cursor for some lengthy actions
- VDI: Allow Falcon video modes to be set in v_opnwk()
- VDI: Implement v_hardcopy()
- VDI: Speed up some VDI calls
- XBIOS: Implement undocumented TOS function VcheckMode()
- Many minor and/or obscure bugs have been fixed

EmuTOS 1.1.1

Roger Burrows — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:08:48 -0000

Changes in EmuTOS 1.1.1:
There was only one change to fix a bug in EmuTOS 1.1: double-clicking on the desktop background caused a crash in EmuDesk.

EmuTOS 1.1

Roger Burrows — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 03:15:40 -0000

Major changes:
- AES: Add support for colour icons
- AES: Add support for colour windows
- BIOS: Add support for Falcon DSP
- BIOS: Add interrupt-driven I/O for MFP and TT-MFP serial ports
- BIOS: Improve Nova video card support in several areas
- EmuCON: Allow setting of EmuCON startup folder
- EmuCON: Initialise EmuCON default path from AES's PATH variable
- EmuDesk: Remove the non-standard 'menu click' preference
- General: Add online manual for EmuTOS
- General: Add support for Hungarian & Turkish languages
- General: Make the 512K ROMs single-language only

EmuTOS 1.0.1

Christian Zietz — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:38:53 -0000

Changes in EmuTOS 1.0.1:
There was only one change to fix a bug in EmuTOS 1.0: On an Atari Falcon with 4 MB RAM, when using the 512k ROM version of EmuTOS, a Nova graphics card was erroneously detected. This caused a panic during boot, preventing the use of the 512k ROM version of EmuTOS 1.0 on such a machine.

EmuTOS 1.0

Roger Burrows — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:33:58 -0000

Major changes:
- BIOS: Add keyboard mapping for Spanish keyboard
- BIOS: Change Spanish character set to Atari ASCII, like Atari TOS
- BIOS: Improve joystick compatibility with Atari TOS
- EmuDesk: Implement "Search"/"Cycle windows"/"Select all items" in File menu
- EmuDesk: Implement "Size to Fit" in View menu
- EmuDesk: Implement "Cache" in Options menu
- EmuDesk: Add user-modifiable shortcuts for desktop menu items
- VDI: Add support for Atari GDOS
- VDI: Fix spacing and positioning of outlined text
- VDI: Improve text output quality for special effects
- VDI: Underline text within character cell if possible, like Atari TOS
- General: Add Polish language support
- General: Generate language-specific ROMs for PAK 68/3 hardware

EmuTOS 0.9.12

Roger Burrows — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:45:29 -0000

Major changes:
- AES: Fix screen display on Falcon with NVDI 4
- Amiga: All versions of Amiga RAM are now fully supported
- ARAnyM: Only set up the 68040 PMMU if required
- BIOS: Add support for ATI Mach32 graphics card in Nova adapter
- BIOS: Add support for Volksfarben 4000 adapter
- BIOS: Fix occasional crash in Supexec() (affected Klapauzius games)
- EmuCON: Fix EmuCON copy/move handling of . and .. directories
- EmuCON: Use ctrl+arrows for line editing
- EmuDesk: Display desktop function key assignments
- EmuDesk: Display free memory
- EmuDesk: Implement support for printing from the desktop
- EmuDesk: Increase max depth for desktop copy/move (now same as Atari TOS)
- General: Add Dutch language support

EmuTOS 0.9.11

Roger Burrows — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:26:53 -0000

Major changes:
- Amiga: Add support for Vampire V4 Standalone
- ARAnyM: Enable 68040 PMMU by default (relevant for FreeMiNT users)
- BIOS: Improve console output performance
- EmuCON: Make command prompt include the current path
- EmuDesk: Many changes and additions to alerts
- EmuDesk: Show count & size of selected items in window info line
- EmuDesk: Update default icon set
- LineA: Fix crash when using NVDI 5.03 in 256-colour resolution
- VDI: Improve performance of VDI rectangle drawing

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