WinUAE 1.5.0 beta 21 is easily the best Amiga emulator available for Windows. As was mentioned in the previous WinUAE public beta serles, versions from today on do NOT work on Windows 98/ME anymore. BTW, this is not a typo. This WINUAE release is infact beta 21 of this beta cycle. The author mentions, that there may or may not be 2 weeks to go still in this cycle. This update has these changes since the last Win UAE 1.5.0 public beta:
WinUAE 1.5.0 Public Beta 21:
- A3000 1.3 SuperKickstart fakeMMU bonus remapping fixed
- A3000 mode (=A3000 SCSI enabled) forces UAE boot rom to backup location (no more conflicts with 1.3 SuperKickstart bonus area)
- notification area icon is now created only once at startup
- added function to uae.resource that can be used to query function pointers using string labels (more portable and safe)
- 32->16bit Picasso96 color space conversion fixed
- all missing Picasso96 color space conversion routines added
- HAM6 with less than 6 planes emulated properly
- 0.5M chip + 0.5M slow + ECS Agnus chip ram aliasing implemented (DMA addresses 0×80000-0xfffff are aliased to 0xc00000-0xc7ffff) Previous chip mapping fixes were not 100% correct, there is no “bus noise” when slow ram is enabled. Fixes demo “Move Any Mountain” by “Lazy Bones”
- floppy drive sounds fixed in 4+ sound channel modes
- fixed rare bug in configuration list, missing directory entries possible if it only contained other directories (no files)
- implemented configuration cache that caches all data needed to populate Configuration-panel quickly without directory/file scanning. Currently always enabled (this way I surely get enough testing..) Cache is stored in file called “configuration.cache” in configuration root directory. Cache file is only re-created when configuration is saved, deleted or cache file is missing or corrupted. Enable/disable in future, first some testing
Download WinUAE 1.5.0 Public beta 21


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