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MegaST v1.0: first stable version, HDMI centred, Atari mouse right click fix

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@freemchr freemchr released this 11 Oct 23:47
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v1.0
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The first stable version. Since the first beta (0.4.6) the floppy and hard disk images, the keyboard, the mice, the joysticks and the settings have been tested by the developer and by testers on R6 and R3A boards. Please keep reporting what works and what doesn't in the issues.

New

  • HDMI picture centred: in 576p (4:3 and 5:4), 720x480 and 640x480 the right side of the picture was cut off and the picture looked shifted to the right. The scaler now shrinks the ST line to fit, so both borders are equal.
  • "Remember floppies" and "Remember TOS/cartridge" in "System settings" (both on by default): switch one off to start without the last floppies or without the last TOS/cartridge (then tos.img is used). Hard disks are always remembered.
  • MEGA + F1..F9 gives Shift+F1..F10 (F11..F20 in GFA-Basic and STOS, #18): MEGA + F1/F3/F5/F7/F9 for Shift+F1/F3/F5/F7/F9, MEGA + Shift + F1..F9 for Shift+F2..F10.

Fixed

  • Right button of the Atari mouse (#17): after a right click GEM saw the button held for 10 seconds and ignored left clicks meanwhile. Measured on an R6: the Atari mouse only grounds pin 9, and without the ST's pull-up the line takes 10-13 seconds to float back up after a release, so the core can not see the release. With Mouse type = Atari a right click now counts as a short click (200 ms): right-click menus work, holding the right button does not, and a second right click only counts about 10 seconds later.
  • mouSTer: with firmware 3.23.5313 or newer the right button works in Amiga mode with activepotlines=true, or in 1351 mode (#17, thanks @hkramer70). The INI settings are in the README.

Files

The menu has three new lines: copy the new 102 byte atarist/stcfg from the zip to the SD card. The old 99 byte file is reported as corrupt and the settings are not saved. The 1536 byte atarist/stmount of 0.4.12 to 0.4.14 stays valid.

File Board Status
MegaST-R6-v1.0.cor MEGA65 R6 developer's board
MegaST-R5-v1.0.cor MEGA65 R5 not tested yet, please report
MegaST-R4-v1.0.cor MEGA65 R4 not tested yet, please report
MegaST-R3-v1.0.cor MEGA65 R3/R3A (no SDRAM) working on an R3A (#2); 512 KB ST RAM, no Viking, no STEroids

Known limitations: the right button of an Atari mouse is a short click only and works about once every 10 seconds (#17); a tester saw some programs crash with 8 MB of ST RAM on an STe (4 MB works).

All changes: VERSIONS.md, manual: README.

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