(using 72 Hz vertical frequency). The vertial retrace phase is often used for
vga register or memory manipulations to reduce screen flickering.
- update(): check variable vga_mem_updated before everything else
(without localized variables)
- start address support for CGA modes added
- start address support for mode 13h completed
- clearing the text snapshot is not necessary after a start address change
(set needs_update to 1 in graphics mode only)
* changed all %ll format descriptions to FMT_LL macro so that
Microsoft Visual C works correctly (it uses %I64)
* missing type conversions added
* cdrom.cc: variable types for win32 fixed
* removed some unused variables in eth_win32.cc and harddrv.cc
* added missing includes in make_cmos_image.c and niclist.c
* support for different resource compilers added (rc / windres)
* bochs must be linked with advapi.lib for registry access
* optimization flag changed to /Ox
* symbols BX_HAVE_MKSTEMP, BX_HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H and HAVE_ETHERTAP must be set to 0
* BX_HAVE_REALTIME_USEC definition fixed for MSVC
* vmware3.h: definition of COW_Header fixed for MSVC
- maximum number of text lines changed to 100 (CGA "graphics" mode 160x100)
- size of text snapshot buffer changed to 32k (size of MDA/CGA text memory)
- removed obsolete macro CGA_TEXT_ADDR()
It's not clear what the correct behavior is in that case, (we
clearly don't currently handle it correctly) so
simply avoiding it is the easiest thing to do. As such, this
option is ON by default.
and implemented in SDL
* sequencer controller register 0x01 bit 0 controls the width of the characters.
This value is used to calculate the screen width.
* attribute controller register 0x10 bit 2 controls the appearance of graphics
characters (ASCII 0xC0 - 0cDF). A change of this value forces a charmap update
to rebuild the font bitmaps.
* the SDL display library uses the new feature described above
* the other display libraries recalculate the screen width, since they are using
a fixed font width of 8 for now.
- VGA: attribute controller register 0x10 bit 2 (enable_line_graphics) does not
switch the palatte in CGA mode
ATTENTION: the Elpin VGA BIOS uses a delay of 280 vertical retraces after
displaying the copyright text
- changes to the horizontal or vertical pel panning registers force a redraw of
the screen
- screen update problems in text mode fixed
- sort order of the CRT register write cases changed
- fixed calculation of the byte offset for standard VGA modes if line compare
is active
- force a resize of the screen after a change of the display mode (text/graphics)
- mem_write(): skip the rotation of the cpu byte if 'data_rotate' is 0
You can now choose for each disk on the ata interfaces the
disk mode, between :
- flat : one file flat layout
- concat : multiple files layout
- external : developer's specific, through a C++ class
- dll : developer's specific, through a DLL
- sparse : stackable, commitable, rollbackable
- vmware3 : vmware3 disk support
- undoable : flat file with commitable redolog
- growable : growing file
- volatile : flat file with volatile redolog
- z-undoable : gziped flat file with commitable redolog
- z-volatile : gziped flat file with volatile redolog
A new "bxcommit" utility can merge commitable redologs to
flat images.
If set, the screen size will be horizontally doubled in CGA and standard
VGA modes.
- doublescan feature for CGA mode 320x200x4 added
- removed trailing spaces in VBE update code
the address offset between two lines on the screen in all VGA modes.
It depends on the CRTC offset register value and the address mode (byte, word,
dword)
- moved screen update code to the end of the write handler. If a register change
should force a redraw of the screen, the variable 'needs_update' must be set
to 1.
- changes to the attribute controller palette index register now force a redraw
of the screen
- modeX: calculation of the tile numbers fixed
* check memory mapping before everything else
* read mode 1 optimized using a part of patch.vga-mode2-speed-dohzono
- function mem_write(): check memory mapping before everything else
- writes to the CRT registers are handled only if the new value differs
- a CRT start address change forces a redraw of the screen
with 100 rows and a char height of 4
- raster operations AND, OR and XOR in write mode 2 implemented (part of patch #707931)
- use the vga_tile_updated array in modeX like other modes do
- small optimizations in the graphics update code
I've got a game that uses OPL2 functions. It's still not
working yet, but this patch brings it closer. Using Jeffrey S.
Lee's "Programming the AdLib/Sound Blaster FM Music Chips (Ver
2.0)"[1] as a reference, I found an inversion of the OPL timer
masks in the sb16 code. Without this patch, the emulator uses
the wrong bits for masking, and completely botches the flags
register (note the bitwise AND vs OR).
double width)
- cleanup in modeX emulation similar to mode 13h
- consider start address in function mem_write for VGA modes
- register 0x03c8 is readable, too
- clear tile array when switching to graphics mode, clear text snapshot when
switching to text mode, do the same when changing the palette or disable video
- simplified the function determine_screen_dimensions()
- fixed the code for the CGA mode 640x200x2 in update() and mem_write()
