FliperOS 0.8.3

Sega Model 2 on the tube: SM2-Emu replaces the Wine Model 2 Emulator, and the 2B and 2C games run at full speed even on older CPUs, stretched to fill the screen and with VSync. Every disk is also mounted by itself, with an icon on the desktop. The ISO comes with updates 10 and 11 already applied; an installed 0.8, 0.8.1 or 0.8.2 gets the same changes through the updates at boot.

System changes:

• Every disk is mounted by itself, at boot and when plugged in (a USB stick, an external HD), in /media/fliperos/<label>, with an icon on the LXDE desktop. Mounting, unmounting and ejecting need no password; system partitions (EFI, recovery, Windows reserved), swap, LUKS, LVM and RAID are left alone
• Downloader: Start no longer leaves the download paused. Transmission saw the torrent with no files chosen yet as finished and paused it at the seed ratio limit

Package changes:

• Model 2 is SM2-Emu, from the Games menu. It is not compiled into the image; the first launch clones and builds it, then lists the games in ~/roms/model2. A set that cannot be loaded stays on that list and names the missing chip. The Wine Model 2 Emulator is no longer in the menu
• Model 2: the 2B and 2C games run at full speed on older CPUs. FliperOS patches SM2-Emu so the geometry coprocessor no longer spins while it waits for data, and builds it with link-time optimization. The emulated machine is unchanged. On an i3-540, House of the Dead went from 0.93× to 2.34× and Last Bronx from 0.71× to 1.65×
• Model 2 at 15 kHz stretches the frame to fill 640x240. The emulator's settings file starts at 4:3, which left the picture in the middle of the tube
• Model 2: VSync is on by default, so the picture no longer tears on the tube. Turning it off in the F10 menu sticks
• Model 2: the F10 settings menu can be read at 640x240. Its text was shrunk to about 6 pixels high and the window covered the menu and status bars; now the text stays at its normal size and the window scrolls
• Model 2: opening a game no longer overwrites its saved NVRAM

fliperos-setup changes:

• ROM Cleaner for Model 2 (now SM2-Emu): the I/O board sets model1io.zip and model1io2.zip go along with Daytona USA, Desert Tank and Virtua Cop, which do not start without them. The Model 2 game list hides them

Tool changes:

• New fliperos-automount (mounts each disk that appears) and fliperos-sm2emu (builds SM2-Emu with FliperOS's patches and lists the Model 2 games)

Documentation:

• Emulators page: SM2-Emu, built from the menu instead of into the image, its speed patches and settings
• Desktop page: disks mounted by themselves, with an icon on the desktop

Download:

SHA-256 of fliperos-0.8.3.iso: c2de2c86bf985628fdf1cce86f606d3d682b82fe217ba6aa8f76228a781d4205 (sha256sum -c fliperos-0.8.3.sha256 checks everything downloaded).

Write the ISO byte for byte and disable Secure Boot: Install.