Software Update: WinUAE 0.8.23

The following text is left by Richard in the submit: “A new version of the Amiga emulator of the same name can be found on the WinUAE site. With this software it is possible to emulate all Amigas with the various chip and memory configurations. If you do not have a “real” Amiga, you can always legally purchase the KickRoms via cloanto† The changelog leaves the following changes:”

Bug fixed:

• mousebutton getting stuck randomly when WinUAE lost focus
• floppy drives’ state was not restored fully
• fixed crash when switching from 68000 to JIT mode
• bsdsocket browser freezes/slowdowns
• SPTI CDROM media change detection
• parallel port joystick adapter works properly again
• saving state in ce-mode with blitter active created broken state files
• serial port/MIDI randomly lost received characters

New features:

• maprom emulation (BlizKick support)
• first CDROM is always uaescsi.device unit zero, second is zero etc.. and then other non-CDROM SCSI devices.
• improved priority settings
• improved filter options
• compatibility improvements
• bsdsocket emulation improved (Jabberwocky)
• faster Picasso96 solid window moves
• improved AHI emulation
• IRQ level 7 shortcut in input tab
• percentage of CPU in use -meter added next to FPS-counter
• immediate state save (no need to exit the GUI anymore)
• dropped release numbers

Known bugs:

• filesystem bugs and missing features (some programs only work from hardfiles)
• some CD32 games stop loading and freeze (bug in CDROM controller emulation, hard to fix because there is no CD32 hardware specs..)
• some programs have problems if fast copper is enabled (Gainforce)
• sound and JIT-sound timing problems (some systems only)

Missing features:

• CDTV CDROM controller and drive is not emulated yet
• and much more…

[break]WinUAE 0.8.23 installer
WinUAE 0.8.23 zip
WinUAE 0.8.23 experimental A500-only version