WinAPE 2.0 Alpha 16 (not yet released)

by Executioner on 01 May 2008 12:06 am
Just a wee bit of information on what's been implemented so far and what's coming:

Standard CPC colour palette (non-linear) option.
The ability to read BASIC from memory into the assembler.
Improvements to the assembler syntax highlighting.
Fixed assembler macro substitution bug.
Fixed a bug with the assembler STR symbol processing.
Fixed a bug when disassembling up to address #FFFF.
Added a popup menu to the assembler.
Assembler symbols substituted in debugger disassembly pane.
Removed AMSDOS patching (for now, may put in fast seek, head load/unload).
Almost completely rewritten the NEC 765 FDC code.
Fixed support for writing Deleted data on DSK images.
Fixed WinAPE created DSK image problem with empty tracks.
Fixed uppercase extension problem when creating a new disc image.
Improved Interrupt exit detection for Interrupt Highlight feature.
Fixed a bug with printing to a file.
Fixed file size calculation from AMSDOS header, previously causing truncation of AMSDOS files over 64K.
Added hints for details on PSG and CRTC registers (eg. "Period A=2000" will show when you move the mouse over PSG register 0 or 1).
Added track and sector information display to the sector editor.
Fixed saving of sector data when sector editor window closed.
Disabled sector editing when the disc image is read only. You can write if you enable temporary writes.
Changes to Symbiface RTC emulation to allow BCD read/write of values (still not finished).

I'm currently working on the new FDC implementation using Kev's fdctest routines for testing. This will be the final change before the next release, so hopefully that won't be far away.

Richard