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WinUAE 4.3.0

New features/improvements:

GUI high DPI support rewritten.
Lagless vsync stability improvements.
Added Trojan light gun preset to Game ports panel.
On the fly chipset model switching compatibility improved.
SPTI CD/DVD access mode now internally emulates all CD audio commands. All other commands are forwarded to the drive like previously.
PCMCIA hot swap support improved. (PCMCIA SRAM and IDE needs to be set again if previously configured)
My CPU tester detected edge cases, bugs and undocumented CPU behavior updates implemented. (More details in separate CPU tester note later)
More compatible partition HDF default geometry calculation if size is 1000M or larger.
CD32 pad does not anymore disable joystick second button if both CD32 and 2-button joystick is active simultaneously.
Host directory/archive drag and drop to WinUAE window now supports mounting multiple items simultaneously.
Debugger disassembler fixes and few very rarely used instructions dissemble now correctly.

Bugs fixed:

Disk index pulses were not being generated when disk was being written (Cadaver v0.1 save disk writing)
CDTV audio CD playing state restore fixed.
A2024 monitor didn’t show full viewable area.
24-bit uaegfx RTG mode had random wrong color pixels in some situations.
nrg CD images didn’t load correctly in relative path mode.
Graphics glitch in some programs that also depended on display scaling/size (for example Alien Breed 3D)
Disk swapper path modifications did nothing while emulation was running.
Restoring CD32 or CDTV statefile with CD audio playing: start playing immediately, do not include normal CD audio start delays.
Fixed possible crash when PPC emulation stopped emulated sound card audio.
Quite special kind of CD32 pad button read code was not emulated correctly.

Other changes:

Added separate 68000-68060 CPU tester/validator project based on UAE CPU core generator.
Removed all 68020 cycle-exact CPU mode internal idle cycles. It mainly slowed down the CPU too much and didn’t match real world well enough.

New emulated hardware:

4.2.0 bugs fixed:

Old bug fixed:

PPC emulation + Picasso IV: some programs had incorrect colors (For example Shogo MAD).
A2386SX bridgeboard unreliable/hanging floppy access fixed.
Changing accelerator board options (jumpers etc) on the fly didn’t do anything.
Fixed hang when attempting to play physical CD32 CD with video tracks.
Fixed crash when mounting UAE controller HDF with more than 30 partitions.

New features:

uaegfx and Picasso IV Overlay/PIP support.
All GUI listviews support column order and column width customization.
Custom ROM selection (4 slots) added.
Direct3D 9/11 shader embedded config entry support.
68030 MMU instruction disassembler support and other disassembler fixes.
68030 MMU emulation will now also create short type bus error stack frames when possible, matching real 68030 behavior.
Windowed mode keeps aspect ratio if CTRL is pressed while resizing.
Added debugger invalid access logger (memwatch l).
Reject Alt+<some key> Windows system menu key shortcuts. Invalid short cut combinations can generate annoying Windows alert sounds.
KS ROM selection supports loading and relocation of hunk and m68k elf executables.

Bug fixes:

Direct3D 11 shader support fixes.
CDTV CD drive read/play startup delays adjusted. Fixes Town without no name speech audio track stopping too early.
Accelerator board CPU fallback (to mainboard CPU mode) works again.
Many video port adapters (which includes grayscale mode and genlock) didn’t support all doubling modes.
Minor custom chipset fixes (Small graphics corruption in certain special situations)
Moving mouse outside and back to WinUAE window in Magic mouse activated WinUAE window even if some other window was already active.
AVI recording with non-standard refresh rate was reset to default if GUI was entered and exited during recording.
uae-configuration returned return code 10 even when matching config entry was found.
“Add PC drives at startup” enabled and same drive’s root directory also mounted manually: drive was mounted twice. (Introduced in 4.1.0)
Genlock transparency didn’t always activate even when genlock emulation was enabled.

New emulated hardware: