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Changes

Version 1.8.4 (July 2015-october 2017)

TEO

• Emulation of the 6804
• Update the documentation about the activation of floppy drive under Linux (thanks to credenhill from forum.ubuntu-fr.org)
• Improve the sound generation behavior
• Improve the disk controller THMFC1's behavior
• Disk protection is now controled by checkboxes on the control panel (no more disk conversion error)

under Linux :

• Impovement of the debugger window
• Increasing of the fast speed

Updates of version 1.8.3 (June 2015)

Windows debugger

• Correct the disassembly coherence of lines at end of list
• Increase the width of breakpoints textedit

Version 1.8.3 (May 2013-June 2015)

TEO

• Reorganization of the control panel
• Activation/deactivation of the memory extension
• Creation of the debugger for Windows
• Improvement of the debugger for Windows
• Safer management of the sound
• Full reset (including memory)

CC90HFE

• Add a checkbox to force the reading of Thomson-like disc with selection of the disk sides
• Number of retries user-definable (only for the Thomson-like sides)

Updates of version 1.8.2 (April 2013 - November 2013)

• correction of image loading
• allow debugger reaction whatever the mode is
• joystick fire button is now emulated with R-CTRL and R-SHIFT when NUM_LOCK off (suggested by Wood)
• oops! The cold reset button is doing its job again (thanks to Wood)

under Linux :

• drawn sprites now displayed each frame when written directly into
  video memory (thanks to Wood)

Version 1.8.2 (June 2012-April 2013)

• emulation of THMFC1 disk controller
• creation of CC90hFE (with CC90 version 2.0) to create true images of double density Thomson floppies
• manage direct access, HFE, SAP, and raw (FD) disk formats
• selection of sides for multi-sides disks
• direct access in write mode by default (work with copies if writing is required!)
• emulation of PR90-582 and PR90-042 printers
• hard reset if error when loading memo at init
• change directories memo7, k7 and disks into memo, cass and disk

• disks with private protection

• under Windows :

  • improvement of interlace mode (thanks to Samuel)

• under Linux :

  • upgrade to GTK+3.0
  • reducing of CPU usage

• Bugs fixes

  • restore continuous sound generation ("useful" generation failed)
  • cartridge name now erased at combo reset (otherwise it comes back at next run)
  • correction of freezing risk for SYNC, CWAI and HCF
  • Limiting the value passed to SetDeviceRegister to 8 bits (to avoid freezing the emulator at a 6809 program bug)
  • No inopportune reaction of keyboard when $E7C3 (PRC) set (thanks to Julien)

Version 1.8.1 (January-May 2012)

• ROMs included in packages
• Emulation of printers PR90-055, PR90-600, PR90-612
• execution cycle by cycle of machine codes
• emulation of non standard instructions
• emulation of non standard postcodes for TFR/EXG
• emulation of non standard postcodes for indexed
• emulation of postcode 0x00 for PSHS/PSHU/PULS/PULU
• add and internationalization of saptools and k7tools
• no more confirmation message when quitting
• on Linux:
  • transition to GTK+ 2.12
  • reduction of slowdown cpu time with usleep()
  • configuration management when the involved device is not mounted
  • warm reset if configuration error
  • sound processing with ALSA rather than OSS
  • transition to combobox for files and add emptying buttons
  • F12 to call the debugger

Version 1.8.0 (July-September 2011)

• display exact name of a cartridge
• options added:
  • SAP, M7 and K7 files can be specified as command line argument
  • interlaced : activates the interlaced video mode
• reduction of CPU process time
• French and English version
• on Linux:
  • porting to GTK+ 2.x/3.x (automatic detection of the version at compilation, old versions of GTK then still work)
  • reactivation of the AltGr key effect for new versions of Linux (you have to adjust eventually the settings of keyboard layout (System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layout/Compose key position options.../Key to chose 3rd level options)
  • backup of the last state of the emulator
  • adding GTK debugger
  • correction of the front behavior of GTK windows
  • the closing of the emulator window no longer bugs X11
• disk command $01 is working for the boot of the side 1 (thanks to Daniel Coulom)

Version 1.7.6 (September-November 2006)

• update the date each reset
• correction of the tape recorder detection (thanks to Yves Charriau)
• protection of the ROM while loading a sector through the monitor
• finer management of the screen spot: Chinese Stack works well
• correction of the cartridge space switching
• on Windows: display the name of of the 4 disks in the dialog box after loading an image file
• on Linux: porting to GTK+ 2.x
• François Mouret, aka Prehisto, becomes co-maintainer

Version 1.7.5 (November-December 2003)

• minor corrections and update of the links in the documentation

Version 1.7.4 (Oct. 2001-November 2003)

• stronger cold reset (thanks to Prehisto)
• support of multiple PC floppy drives
• emulation of tape counter
• on MSDOS and Windows: loading/saving of the emulator state accessible from user interface

Version 1.7 (May-September 2001)

• regression correction for sound emulation
• regression correction for keyboard repeat (thanks to Prehisto)
• on MSDOS and Windows: loading/saving of emulator state (Prehisto's idea)
• on MSDOS and Windows: graphic driver is user-definable (teo.cfg)
• on MSDOS: the sound volume is higher by default
• on MSDOS: back to the PC format floppy drive output
• on Windows: regression correction for some keys detection after an Alt+TAB (thanks to Prehisto to inform us)

Version 1.6 (March-May 2001)

• preliminary support of PR 90-612 dot-matrix printer (only MSDOS and Windows full screen yet)
• on MSDOS and Windows: bug correction for the interaction between mouse and PC joysticks
• on MSDOS and Windows: adding of a deactivation option for joysticks
• on Linux: new Thomson icon for user interface

Version 1.5 (December 2000-March 2001)

• bug correction for some TO7-70 games (especialy Eliminator, thanks J-F Guerrero to inform us)
• on MSDOS and Windows: support of PC joysticks
• on Windows: new volume track bar control for native interface work improvement on Windows NT4 and 2000
• on Linux: minor correction of a keyboard bug

Version 1.4 (November-December 2000)

• reduction of memory usage
• improvement of graphic performances
• on MSDOS and Linux: support of direct writing/formating
• on Windows: native user interface in windowed mode
• on Linux: better integration of the user interface
• update of MacOS port (Richard Bannister)

Version 1.3 (September-October 2000)

• detection of SAP bad file format
• bug correction for acrtridge loading
• bug correction for the screen edge (Bob Morane SF)
• on MSDOS:
  • bug correction for a 80 columns dialog box display
  • support of Windows Sound System sound cards
  • support of VESA 640x400x15 mode
  • suppressing of VESA 640x480x8 and 640x480x16 modes
• support of Windows/DirectX plateforms: Windows 95,98,Me,NT4,2000 DirectX 3.0 or later

Version 1.2 (July 2000)

• disks module:
  • new type of protection (Bob Winner)
  • support of the write protection
  • formating of SAP archives
• support cartridges from 16 to 64 ko with getting label
• loading a cartridge causes a cold reset
• on MSDOS:
  • modification of cartridge/tape/disk menus
  • write-protect option for disks
  • new colors for dialog boxes
• on Linux: support of direct access (sides 0 and 1)
• on Linux:
  • modification of cartridge/tape/disk menus
  • write-protect option for disks

Version 1.1 (June 2000)

• bug correction for drive controller (La Geste d'Artillac)
• on MSDOS: bug correction for sound card autodetecion

Version 1.1beta (June 2000)

• palette setting correction
• support of 32ko cartridges (ColorPaint)
• full support of PC numeric keypad (keys /, *, -, +)
• improving of sound emulation (Les Cavernes de Thénébé, FBI)
• on Linux: X cursor is invisible in emulator screen
• on Linux: bug correction for windows closing

Version 1.0.96 (May 2000)

• bug correction in Bob Morane SF
• on MSDOS: screen capture with [F11] (Louis Progeas idea)

Version 1.0.94 (May 2000)

• bug correction of memory card: the Pascal UCSD works (thanks to Daniel Smague to inform us)
• on MSDOS:
  • 3 graphical modes
  • selection by the menu
  • selection by option (-mode40 -mode80 -truecolor)
• on MSDOS: the keyboard is upper-case by default at start
• on Linux:
  • suppressing of option -fake
  • geometry specify the window size as well

Version 1.0beta2 (March 2000)

• on Linux:
  • bug correction of 32-bit displaying
  • deactivation option of MIT-SHM extension

version 1.0beta

• first version