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| ** FlashFloppy Release Notes | |
| ** Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com> | |
| ************************************ | |
| ** v3.23 - 31 December 2020 | |
| - OLED/LCD: Fix missing folder name display row when inserting USB drive | |
| - IMG.CFG: New examples for Roland, Sinclair QL, Kaypro | |
| - IMG.CFG: Now supported in HxC-compat and indexed navigation modes | |
| - IMG: Fix default 8-inch single-density data rate | |
| - IMG, HFE: Support 255-cylinder image files | |
| ** v3.22 - 17 November 2020 | |
| - Fix various crashes when mounting a Flash drive with stale IMAGE_A.CFG | |
| - FAT FS: Support filesystems for which cluster table is "too small" | |
| - Windows and Linux will mount these volumes, thus so should we | |
| - FF.CFG: New OLED display-type option: -inverse | |
| - Reverse-video effect (black text on white background) | |
| - FF.CFG: display-order= option affects normal display modes only | |
| - Ignored in all banner and menu modes, to avoid jumbled display | |
| - FF.CFG: Fix display-type parsing for OLED-specific options | |
| - Ignore them unless an OLED display is explicitly configured | |
| ** v3.21 - 26 October 2020 | |
| - Support GUID Partition Table (GPT) | |
| - Now support: GPT, MBR, and no partition table | |
| - FatFS: Updated to R0.14, patchlevel 2 | |
| ** v3.20 - 15 October 2020 | |
| - Eject Menu: Replace Clone with Copy/Paste | |
| - Allows an image to be copied to a different folder | |
| - Navigation mode: Copy to selected folder by holding Select for 1.5s | |
| - FF.CFG: New option "rotary=v2" to use v2.x encoder logic | |
| - Fixes a very few encoders which don't work with stricter v3.x logic | |
| - FF.CFG: New option "twobutton-action=htu" | |
| - Implements hundreds/tens/units button actions of the factory firmware | |
| - IMG.CFG: New parameters: | |
| - tracks: Track-scoped parameter lists (geometry can vary by track) | |
| - h: Override default IDAM Head field | |
| - gap4a: Override default post-index track gap | |
| - IMG.CFG: Tag names are now case insensitive | |
| - IMG.CFG: Tag by file size and/or name | |
| - IMG.CFG: Implement some example configurations under examples/Host/ | |
| - IMG: Fix some of the more bizarre default track geometries | |
| ** v3.19 - 28 September 2020 | |
| - Amiga, ADF: Fix X-Copy verified writes with out-of-order sectors | |
| - Remember the latest written sector order for current cylinder | |
| - Forgotten after head step or disk eject but sufficient for X-Copy | |
| - FF.CFG: New interface= options 'jppc' and 'jppc-hdout' | |
| - jppc: pin2=nc, pin34=RDY, Japanese PC standard | |
| - jppc-hdout: As above but pin2=HD_OUT, similar to ibmpc-hdout | |
| - akai-s950 is retained as a legacy alias for jppc-hdout | |
| ** v3.18 - 23 September 2020 | |
| - OLED/LCD: Fix potential minor display corruption | |
| - Only seen with 128x64 OLED displays, bottom right corner | |
| - alt/logfile: Write FFLOG.TXT to correct folder (root or FF/) | |
| - IMG, DSK: Various cleanups to sector-write handling | |
| ** v3.17 - 17 September 2020 | |
| - DSK: Fix infinite loop when trying to open a bad DSK image file | |
| - Quick Disk: Restart read stream immediately after a write | |
| - QD support now works on Sharp MZ-800 | |
| - IMG.CFG: Remove [default] stanza from example config | |
| - Users copying the example file will no longer break their IMG files | |
| ** v3.16 - 22 August 2020 | |
| - Rotary encoder: Velocity curve during image navigation | |
| - Fast spin of the encoder skips multiple entries per click | |
| - LCD/OLED/OSD: Fix image name when display is wider than 24 characters | |
| - HFE: Fix double-step HFE images (broken since v3.14a) | |
| - HxC Compat: Strip filename extension from image name display row | |
| ** v3.15 - 23 July 2020 | |
| - New stable release series | |
| - Improve rotary encoder robustness by sampling at 4x higher rate | |
| ** v3.14a - 15 July 2020 | |
| - Properly implement non-existent tracks as empty / unformatted | |
| - In particular this avoids writing tracks beyond end of disk image | |
| - See issue #309: Could corrupt HFE images | |
| - Akai IMG: Implement track skew (faster access and fixes Oberheim DPX) | |
| - Speaker: Rate-limit step pulses at the speaker | |
| - Avoids high-freq chirp in Direct Access mode and Gotek-aware fast loaders | |
| - HxC Compat, v9-FF: | |
| - Atari ST keymap is now QWERTY | |
| - Remove unused settings from drive setup menu | |
| - Fix the search/filter box (Esc and Backspace keys) | |
| ** v3.13a - 13 March 2020 | |
| - FF.CFG: New option 'write-drain=eot' | |
| - Fixes writes to Gotek on Amstrad PPC series (#320) | |
| - FF.CFG: New option 'display-on-activity=sel' | |
| - Turns on display whenever the Gotek drive is selected by host | |
| - HFE: Respect double-step header flag | |
| - Fixes 180k disk images on Amstrad PCW (#318) | |
| ** v3.12a - 7 February 2020 | |
| - IMG: Support IBM 3174 1.2M and 2.4M formats (host=ibm-3174) | |
| - HxC: Fix HxC mode with no file selector (AUTOBOOT.HFE) | |
| - FF OSD: Fix dual-display operation with slower OLED | |
| - Wait for OLED to initialise when display-type=oled... | |
| ** v3.11a - 30 December 2019 | |
| - LCD/OLED: Fix subfolder name, as shown in 3- & 4-row displays | |
| - Subfolder wasn't updated correctly when moving to parent (..) folder | |
| ** v3.10a - 28 December 2019 | |
| - Bootloader: Wait for buttons to be pressed then released... | |
| - ...before starting firmware update process | |
| - Avoids an infinite loop when reprogramming Bootloader itself | |
| ** v3.9a - 27 December 2019 | |
| - IMG: Fix density-select pin output for HD images | |
| - Fixes 'pin02=dens' and 'interface=ibmpc-hdout' | |
| - Bug has existed since v2.2a | |
| - Rotary Encoder: Improve tracking | |
| - Higher frequency, and better debounce algorithm | |
| ** v3.8a - 10 December 2019 | |
| - USB: Fix buffer overflow when parsing string descriptors | |
| - Fixes crash with recent SanDisk Ultra Fit drives | |
| - HxC Compat, v8-FF: Fixes startup crash on Atari ST | |
| - Amiga: Fixes for "interface = amiga" setting | |
| - TR-DOS (TRD): Fix geometry when TR-DOS header is incomplete | |
| - Quick Disk: Larger read/write window in default blank image | |
| - GCC9 build fixes | |
| ** v3.7a - 11 November 2019 | |
| - Quick Disk Bug Fixes | |
| - Fix write offsets and lengths within QD track | |
| - Filter ADF images from navigator: only QD images supported | |
| - Extra logging in FFLOG.TXT for debug purposes | |
| - Amiga AutoSwap new title: Gobliiiins | |
| - Thanks to Arkadiusz Makarenko! | |
| - https://github.com/keirf/FF_AutoSwap/wiki/Downloads | |
| ** v3.6a - 13 October 2019 | |
| - Quick Disk Initial Release | |
| - New firmware and blank QD image in alt/quickdisk | |
| - Documentation in the Wiki | |
| - Update HxC Compat to v7-FF | |
| - Fix failure when booted on unmodded A1200 ESCOM boards | |
| ** v3.5a - 9 October 2019 | |
| - New Main Menu: Press Prev/Next or Select with no Flash drive inserted | |
| - Factory Reset, Firmware Update, OSD Config | |
| - OSD: Must be updated to latest version: v1.7 or later! | |
| - OSD: Receive Gotek button commands via I2C | |
| - OSD: Default to 40 columns if no other display is connected | |
| - TR-DOS (TRD): Fix geometry detection based on TR-DOS header | |
| ** v3.4a - 25 September 2019 | |
| - FF OSD support | |
| - Bus sharing with existing LCD/OLED display | |
| - Gotek buttons can be remoted to FF OSD for OSD configuration | |
| ** v3.3a - 8 July 2019 | |
| - FF.CFG: New Disk-Change Reset option: chgrst=delay-N | |
| - Automatically clears the DSKCHG signal Nx0.5s after disk insertion | |
| - chgrst=delay-3 fixes Disk Change on Ensoniq EPS synths | |
| - Change head-step signal handling to reduce interrupt rate | |
| - OLED/LCD: Fix current-folder display line for image-on-startup=init|static | |
| - image-on-startup=static: The static image is now specified in INIT_A.CFG | |
| ** v3.2a - 25 June 2019 | |
| - OLED: New default layout for 128x64 displays | |
| - LCD: Support 20x4 character displays | |
| - LCD: Row ordering is configurable | |
| - FF.CFG: Rename oled-text= to display-order= to reflect this | |
| - Eject menu: Confirmation required for Delete/Clone operations | |
| - Trackball: Reduce jitteriness by adding simple inertia | |
| ** v3.1a - 13 June 2019 | |
| - OLED: Text height and content can be configured (FF.CFG:oled-text=) | |
| - New default for 128x64 displays presents a new third text row | |
| - LCD/OLED: Present an action menu when an image is ejected | |
| - Includes Clone and Delete Image operations | |
| ** v3.0a - 10 June 2019 | |
| - Disk Change Reset: Emulate explicit Reset signal of certain vintage drives | |
| - Requires a hardware modification and FF.CFG: chgrst=pa14 | |
| - Support ZHONGJY_TECH 2.23" 128x32 displays based on SSD1305 controller | |
| - FF.CFG: display-type=oled-128x32-ztech | |
| ** v2.13 - 7 June 2019 | |
| - HFE: Fix read buffering error | |
| - Update HxC Compat to v6-FF | |
| - More robust error checking on writes | |
| ** v2.12 - 2 June 2019 | |
| - HFEv3: Support flaky/weak bytes | |
| - LCD/OLED: Improve power-on initialisation robustness | |
| - Roland: Direct support for *.OUT images | |
| - IO-Test: New alternative firmware to test Gotek I/O pins | |
| - https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Testing-IO-Pins | |
| ** v2.11a - 23 May 2019 | |
| - Simpler bootloader update process with all-in-one update file | |
| - Update firmware via SD card (enhanced Goteks with SD card slot) | |
| - FF.CFG: sort-priority= to prioritise folders vs files during navigation | |
| - Default: Folders are listed before files | |
| ** v2.10a - 20 May 2019 | |
| - Fix breakages since v2.2a: | |
| - host=acorn: *.ADF handling | |
| - host=tandy-coco: *.DSK handling | |
| ** v2.9a - 17 May 2019 | |
| - FF.CFG: New option motor-delay= to provide emulation of motor behaviour | |
| - Requires modification of a standard Gotek PCB (see Wiki: Hardware Mods) | |
| - Debug logging: An alternative firmware is provided to log to FFLOG.TXT | |
| - Find the alternative update file in alt/logfile/ | |
| - Use this for personal interest or as directed by me for debugging | |
| - Not for general use! | |
| - IMG/DSK: Better RAM handling (more space for mass-storage block cache) | |
| - Code optimisation (MFM decode speeded up 4x) | |
| - Small fix to generate INDEX signal when starting read near end of track | |
| ** v2.8a - 10 May 2019 | |
| - DSK, IMG: Fix small error in generated MFM data | |
| - Increase write buffer to 32kB, enough for a full high-density track | |
| - More reliable whole-track writes, especially to HFE images | |
| ** v2.7a - 23 April 2019 | |
| - Sort folders into alphabetical order during direct navigation | |
| - FF.CFG: folder-sort= to modify this new default behaviour | |
| - Fix memory corruption issues (stack overflow) | |
| - ATR: Interleave sectors for best performance over slow SIO interface | |
| ** v2.6a - 14 April 2019 | |
| - Fix feature breakages in v2.5a | |
| - SSD/DSD/TRD auto-extend feature | |
| - FF.CFG: eject-on-startup=yes feature | |
| - Update HxC Compat to v5-FF | |
| ** v2.5a - 12 April 2019 | |
| - Fragment-offsets cache implemented at the FAT filesystem layer | |
| - Block cache implemented at the mass-storage volume layer | |
| - Faster image selection/navigation in large folders | |
| - Improved reliability in image handling (reduced access latencies) | |
| - USB stick will usually stop flashing when drive is not being accessed! | |
| - FF.CFG: New rotary input options | |
| - 'trackball': Blackberry-style trackball | |
| - 'buttons': Push-to-ground Prev/Next buttons | |
| ** v2.4a - 9 April 2019 | |
| - This release fixes many raw track formats (SSD, DSD, OPD, VDK, ...) | |
| - Thanks to John Gray for bug report, and testing! | |
| - RAW: Fix FM track generation | |
| - FM and IAM flags not plumbed through from front-end image handlers | |
| - RAW: Fix interleaved/skewed track generation | |
| - Data fetch not loading sectors from image file in the right order | |
| ** v2.3a - 8 April 2019 | |
| - OLED: Auto-detect SSD1306 vs SH1106 display controller | |
| - FF.CFG: 'display-type = ...-sh1106' is now redundant and ignored | |
| - ATR: Fix readability of downloaded ATR images | |
| - Invert data as it is read/written, mirroring the standard XF551 interface | |
| - Thanks to Piotr for this report (using his XF551 clone) | |
| ** v2.2a - 5 April 2019 | |
| - New image types supported: | |
| - XDF: 3.5" HD eXtended Disk Format (1840kB) | |
| - ATR: Atari 8-bit | |
| - 7-Seg LED: Improved track display. | |
| - Remove option 'led-trk' from FF.CFG. Track display mode is always on. | |
| - OLED: Fix horizontal offset on SH1106 128x32 displays | |
| - IMG.CFG: 'id' parameter simplified; 'sskew' renamed 'hskew' (head skew) | |
| ** v2.1a - 26 March 2019 | |
| - IMG.CFG: Allow up to 256 sectors per track | |
| - IMG.CFG: Split skew into per-cylinder and per-side values (cskew/sskew) | |
| - IMG.CFG: Introduce image-file layout option (file-layout=<csv-list>): | |
| - sequential,interleaved: Cylinder-first or side-first track ordering | |
| - reverse-sideN: Side-N cylinders in reverse order (high to low) (N=0,1) | |
| - sides-swapped: Ordering of disk sides is swapped in the image file | |
| - 7-Segment LED: Display track number when an image is mounted | |
| - FF.CFG: "display-type = led-trk" | |
| - Displays slot number as usual during image selection/navigation | |
| - First button press reverts to slot display; Next press begins navigation | |
| - LCD/OLED: Display full cylinder number on displays wider than 16 columns | |
| - Previously truncated at cylinder 99 | |
| ** v2.0a - 14 March 2019 | |
| - IMG: Allow geometry to be manually configured in new file IMG.CFG | |
| - See examples/IMG.CFG for documentation | |
| - Multiple formats can be defined; distinguished by image name tags | |
| - IMG: Support FM mode with Index Address Mark (IAM) | |
| - IMG: Support auto-configuration of GAP3 (post data gap) when using IMG.CFG | |
| - FF.CFG: Fix parsing of comma-separated values | |
| - Indexed Mode: Allow arbitrary image name after "DSKAnnnn" prefix | |
| - eg. DSKA0000_myimage.img, DSKA0002_another.adf | |
| - Indexed Mode: Allow the "DSKA" prefix to be changed (FF.CFG:indexed-prefix=) | |
| ** v1.0 - 4 February 2019 | |
| - Game/demo AutoSwap-disks feature | |
| - No manual disk swapping, at all! | |
| - Requires patching of host software titles | |
| - Amiga titles so far (github:keirf/FF_AutoSwap): | |
| - Beneath a Steel Sky | |
| - Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis | |
| - The Secret of Monkey Island | |
| - Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge | |
| - FF.CFG: New OLED display-type sib-option "-narrower" | |
| - 16-character-wide display (c.w. "-narrow" 18-char-wide) | |
| - PC98: Direct support for HDM image files | |
| - HxC Compat: Small fixes to Amiga file selector | |
| ** v0.15 - 8 January 2019 | |
| - Support Enhanced Gotek with SD card connector | |
| - Board requirements are in the wiki (Hardware Mods) | |
| - USB drive, if inserted, takes priority over SD card | |
| - SD card is not supported for firmware update | |
| ** v0.14 - 7 December 2018 | |
| - Direct Access: Fix broken sector writes (USB corruption) | |
| - Primarily affected the CPC/ST file selectors (not Amiga) | |
| - Broken since v0.12 | |
| ** v0.13 - 2 December 2018 | |
| - IMG: Support Casio FZ-1 (host=casio) | |
| - IMG: Support SC Prophet 3000 (host=akai) | |
| - Display D-A/DA/"Host Direct Access" in host file selector | |
| ** v0.12 - 27 November 2018 | |
| - IMG: Support Nascom 1 & 2 (host=nascom) | |
| - Direct Access: Support FM/SD access on cylinder 254 | |
| - Direct Access: Support CMD_SELECT_IMAGE (cmd #4) | |
| - HxC Compat: Fix occasional "LBA Change Test Failed" error | |
| - Improvements to ribbon-upside-down checks | |
| ** v0.11 - 1 November 2018 | |
| - Detect and report upside-down data ribbon cable | |
| - FF.CFG: Configurable OLED brightness/contrast (oled-contrast=) | |
| - FF.CFG: Configurable head settle time (head-settle-ms=) | |
| - FF.CFG: Fix comma-separated-list parsing (eg. rotary=) | |
| ** v0.10 - 30 October 2018 | |
| - FF.CFG: Allow up/down inputs to be reversed | |
| - Reverse original two buttons (twobutton-action=reverse) | |
| - Reverse rotary encoder direction (rotary=reverse) | |
| - Modified version numbering scheme and remove alpha status | |
| ** v0.9.31a - 28 October 2018 | |
| - HFE: Sanity-check critical header fields | |
| - FF.CFG: Better docs on pin02/pin34 options | |
| - HxC Compat: File selector updates | |
| ** v0.9.30a - 9 October 2018 | |
| - TI99: Fix V9T9/DSK double-sided images | |
| - HxC Compat: Enter slot-based mode even with no AUTOBOOT.HFE | |
| - HFE: Support HFEv2 images | |
| ** v0.9.29a - 17 September 2018 | |
| - New and improved image handlers: | |
| - ST: Fix 80-cyl single-sided images | |
| - IMG: Kaypro (host=kaypro) | |
| - IMG: MSX fix 40-cyl/5.25" formats (host=msx) | |
| - IMG: PC-DOS fix missing IAM (host=pc-dos) | |
| - IMG: All: Support long sectors (>1024k) | |
| - Indexed mode: Don't require DSKA0000 image | |
| ** v0.9.28a - 26 August 2018 | |
| - New image types supported: | |
| - IMG: Fluke 9100 (host=fluke) | |
| - MBD: Spectrum MB02 | |
| - LCD/OLED: Display folder names in brackets | |
| ** v0.9.27a - 27 July 2018 | |
| - Direct Navigation: Fix hidden-file and dot-file filtering | |
| - Direct Navigation: Filter __MACOSX/ resource-fork folders | |
| ** v0.9.26a - 24 July 2018 | |
| - DSK (CPC): More fixes for copy-protected tracks | |
| - New image types supported: | |
| - JVC, DSK: Tandy Coco (host=tandy-coco) | |
| - VDK: Dragon | |
| ** v0.9.25a - 18 July 2018 | |
| - DSK (Spectrum, CPC, Sam Coupe): Fix tracks with little or no data in them | |
| - FF.CFG: New options pin02= and pin34= allow precise interface configuration | |
| ** v0.9.24a - 9 July 2018 | |
| - DSK (Spectrum, CPC, Sam Coupe): Bug fixes. Please upgrade! | |
| ** v0.9.23a - 6 July 2018 | |
| - DSK (Spectrum, CPC): Support weak-data copy protection | |
| - Used on most of the top commercial titles | |
| - OLED: Utilise all rows on 128x64 displays | |
| - LCD: Support up to 40x2 displays | |
| - SSD, DSD (BBC): Add correct sector skew across tracks | |
| - IMG: 1680kB DMF has 2:1 sector interleave | |
| ** v0.9.22a - 20 June 2018 | |
| - OLED: Support SH1106 controller (1.3-inch displays) | |
| - FF.CFG: display-type = oled-128x64-sh1106 | |
| - Support a wider range of rotary encoders | |
| - FF.CFG: rotary = quarter | half | full | |
| - New image types supported: | |
| - D81: Commodore 64 1581 | |
| - IMG: DEC RX33, RX50 (host=dec) | |
| ** v0.9.21a - 11 June 2018 | |
| - New default 6x13 font (Codec, by Chris Cannam) | |
| - IMG: Support MSX (host=msx) | |
| - Accelerate the stock Gotek buttons when using a rotary encoder | |
| - FF.CFG: "twobutton-action = rotary-fast" | |
| - HxC-Compat File Selectors: | |
| - New font on Amiga and Atari ST | |
| - Faster folder navigation on Amiga | |
| ** v0.9.20a - 6 June 2018 | |
| - New image types supported: | |
| - IMG: UKNC/DVK (Soviet PDP-11 clones) (host=uknc) | |
| - IMG/FDI: NEC PC-98 (host=pc98) | |
| - IMG: Common retro IBM/PC formats work out of the box | |
| - IMG: Detect disk layout from PC DOS BPB (host=pc-dos) | |
| - Auto-extend truncated images (SSD, DSD, TRD images only) | |
| - "extend-image=no" disables this feature | |
| ** v0.9.19a - 1 May 2018 | |
| - Amiga: Support high-density disk images | |
| - ADF: 1760kB images | |
| - Generate HD-ID pattern on pin 34 (interface=amiga) | |
| - DSK: Fixes for Sam Coupe, and others with long tracks | |
| ** v0.9.18a - 19 April 2018 | |
| - Fix HxC compatibility mode ("LBA change test failed") | |
| - SDU: Improve geometry detection | |
| - More bug fixes to read-data ring-buffer handling | |
| - LED 888 Display: Show firmware version when right/up button pressed | |
| - LCD/OLED: When browsing through images, reset scroll to start of each file | |
| ** v0.9.17a - 17 April 2018 | |
| - New image types supported: | |
| - Acorn DFS SSD/DSD | |
| - Acorn ADFS 'S' (160kB) | |
| - Akai 800kB (host=akai) | |
| - Memotech IMG (host=memotech) | |
| - SAB Diskette Utility (SDU) | |
| - TI-99/4A DSK/V9T9 (host=ti99) | |
| - New interface types supported: | |
| - Akai S950 (interface=akai-s950) | |
| - Bug fixes to read-data ring-buffer handling | |
| - HFE: Improve write performance (batch reads/writes up to 8 blocks) | |
| - OLED: Increase default initialisation probe to 3s | |
| - USB: Respect volume write-protect status | |
| ** v0.9.16a - 16 March 2018 | |
| - Support ADFS D/E/F images (suffix *.ADF, FF.CFG: host=acorn) | |
| - Direct Access: Fix sector data CRCs | |
| - Reliability improvements for Acorn systems (index-suppression=no) | |
| - Rearrange floppy read/write buffering to avoid corruptions | |
| ** v0.9.15a - 9 March 2018 | |
| - UI: Fix subfolder navigation when returning to parent folder (#66) | |
| - OLED: Auto-detect OLED displays at I2C address 0x3d | |
| - ST: Mimic TOS by applying track skew to ST image files (#44) | |
| - 7-Seg LED: Allow write protection to be toggled as on LCD/OLED | |
| - Support Ensoniq DD/HD custom IMG formats (host=ensoniq) | |
| - Support IBM PC interface with density select (interface=ibmpc-hdout) | |
| - Direct Access: Support track with fewer than 8 data sectors (#62) | |
| ** v0.9.14a - 4 March 2018 | |
| - Fix write pipeline: record track number for delayed write processing | |
| - General Music (GEM): New host option "host=gem" for direct IMG support | |
| - Direct support for Spectrum Opus Discovery (OPD) image files | |
| - HFE, ADF: Batch writeback to the USB drive where possible | |
| - FF.CFG: Replace "index-during-seek" with "index-suppression" | |
| - Direct Access: Restart read at correct track position after a write | |
| ** v0.9.13a - 1 March 2018 | |
| - HFE: Emulate non-standard drive speeds (eg. Sony 600 RPM drive) | |
| - HFE: Fix single-sector writes (broken since v0.9.8a) | |
| - Direct Access: Support up to 64-sector track (Atari ST HxC Mount) | |
| - Direct support for Spectrum TR-DOS (TRD) image files | |
| ** v0.9.12a - 27 February 2018 | |
| - LCD/OLED: Long filenames scroll during navigation | |
| - LCD/OLED: Make filename scrolling more configurable | |
| - FF.CFG: {nav,display}-scroll-{rate,pause} | |
| - Direct navigation: ".." returns to subfolder position within parent | |
| - Fix head-seek settle time emulation | |
| - ADF: Generate longer tracks, like a real Amiga would | |
| ** v0.9.11a - 23 February 2018 | |
| - Fix Direct-Acesss mode (as used by HxC Autoboot, broken in v0.9.10a) | |
| ** v0.9.10a - 22 February 2018 | |
| - New default OLED font 6x13 displays more text per line | |
| - 7x16 font removed | |
| - 8x16 font MAY be removed, let me know if you use it!! | |
| - Narrow OLED view (default Gotek display cutout) supported | |
| - FF.CFG: display-type = oled-128x32-narrow | |
| - All images can be write-protected by default | |
| - FF.CFG: write-protect = yes | |
| - Write-protect switchable by holding eject for 2 seconds | |
| ** v0.9.9a - 19 February 2018 | |
| - Fix write problems present in v0.9.8a (issue #53) | |
| - Support rotary encoders with proper Gray code output | |
| - FF.CFG: rotary = none | simple | gray | |
| ** v0.9.8a - 8 February 2018 | |
| - Pipelined writes | |
| - New writes are buffered while older ones are written to the USB drive | |
| - More reliable write/format/disk-copy operation with slower USB drives | |
| - FF.CFG: Allow OLED display to be rotated 180 degrees (upside down) | |
| - display-type = oled-128x32-rotate | |
| - FF.CFG: Support BBC Micro with 8271 controller | |
| - Index pulses must continue during seek (index-during-seek = yes) | |
| - Index pulses must not be delayed by seek (track-change = realtime) | |
| ** v0.9.7a - 29 January 2018 | |
| - Performance & reliability improvements (eg. Github issues #35, #44): | |
| - Sync data read after writes, prevents host missing next sector | |
| - FF.CFG: Sync data read after track change (track-change=instant) | |
| - Prevents host missing the first sector | |
| - Old behaviour is configurable (track-change=realtime) | |
| - FF.CFG: host=akai, support Akai synths with 1.6MB HD IMG files | |
| ** v0.9.6a - 17 January 2018 | |
| - USB: Fix power-on initialisation for some USB sticks | |
| - FAT: Write-protect image files marked with read-only attribute | |
| - ST: Support 11-sector .ST images | |
| ** v0.9.5a - 1 December 2017 | |
| - FF.CFG: New button assignment for rotary-encoder setup | |
| - twobutton-action = rotary | |
| - FF.CFG: Allow navigation mode to be specified | |
| - nav-mode = native | indexed | default | |
| ** v0.9.4a - 30 November 2017 | |
| - Automatic support for crippled 'diymore' OLED displays | |
| - FF.CFG: New option display-probe-ms (replaces startup-delay) | |
| - FF.CFG: New option twobutton-action allows eject on two-button press | |
| ** v0.9.3a - 22 November 2017 | |
| - DSK: Fix disk write handling | |
| - HFE: Improve read speed for HD images, reduce buffer underruns | |
| ** v0.9.2a - 21 November 2017 | |
| - DSK: Improve handling of per-sector status codes | |
| - Fix bugs in front-end file handling & folder navigation | |
| ** v0.9.1a - 16 November 2017 | |
| - Acorn ADFS image support (ADM, ADL) [Daniel Jameson] | |
| - Better detection of DSK image type (CPC-DSK vs raw sector file) | |
| ** v0.9.0a - 15 November 2017 | |
| ** Amstrad CPC / Spectrum +3 DSK support | |
| - DSK directly supported for read and write. Please report any issues! | |
| - Improved error reporting | |
| - New FF.CFG option "startup-delay = N" | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ** v0.8.8a - 7 November 2017 | |
| - Better error reporting (filesystem, media, power, image handling) | |
| - Optional feature enhancements for Gotek clones | |
| - Third button (select) may be used instead of prev/next for firmware | |
| update and factory reset | |
| ** v0.8.7a - 17 October 2017 | |
| - Start in ejected state if button pressed or image previously | |
| ejected (when "image-on-startup = last") | |
| - Divide the configuration flash page into multiple slots to | |
| reduce the number of erase cycles when FF.CFG is repeatedly | |
| modified | |
| ** v0.8.6a - 13 October 2017 | |
| - New FF.CFG option image-on-startup | |
| - Rename LASTDISK.IDX to IMAGE_A.CFG | |
| - If image-on-startup is a folder, go directly into image selector | |
| ** v0.8.5a - 13 October 2017 | |
| - Cache FF.CFG values in Flash memory for next power on, replacing | |
| 'factory defaults'. Restore defaults by pressing both buttons. | |
| - Glitch filter for SIDE-select signal (Kingstener) | |
| - Small improvements to FF.CFG option and value naming | |
| ** v0.8.4a - 11 October 2017 | |
| - Bootloader OLED Display Fix (display was not enabled in update mode) | |
| - Integrate 7x16 OLED font into main build, configurable in FF.CFG | |
| ** v0.8.3a - 10 October 2017 | |
| - Always search for HXCSDFE.CFG/AUTOBOOT.HFE in root folder, even | |
| when FF/ subfolder exists | |
| ** v0.8.2a - 10 October 2017 | |
| - Parse FF.CFG file (see examples/FF.CFG for options) | |
| - LCD/OLED: Don't display bogus 'folder depth' in Autoboot mode | |
| ** v0.8.1a - 30 September 2017 | |
| - Fix config-less navigation with simple digit displays | |
| - Respond to USB stick pull when in ejected state | |
| - LCD/OLED: Increase activity timeout to 60 seconds | |
| - LCD/OLED: Turn on display on drive activity | |
| ** v0.8.0a - 29 September 2017 | |
| ** Subfolder support | |
| - Navigate subfolders in config-less mode | |
| - All config files can now be stored in FF subfolder | |
| - LASTDISK.IDX file now stores full path to the selected image | |
| - OLED: Display turns off after timeout (same as LCD backlight) | |
| - Wrap slot number at 0 and max when navigating | |
| - Easter egg for Anders Kling. Thanks for your support! | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ** v0.7.4a - 25 September 2017 | |
| - Fix RDATA handling, specifically when drive B on an Amstrad CPC. | |
| Reported by ikonsgr (EAB / Ebay) -- Thanks! | |
| ** v0.7.3a - 24 September 2017 | |
| - HxC: Respect autoboot- and ejected-on-startup flags | |
| - Support 3rd button for eject and for immediate (re-)insert | |
| - Do not wrap slot number at 0 and max. | |
| ** v0.7.2a - 21 September 2017 | |
| - Fixes to track timing and index position | |
| - Properly emulate a single-headed drive | |
| ** v0.7.1a - 21 September 2017 | |
| - HFE: HFEv3 support | |
| - HFE: Correctly set bitcell size for writes | |
| - HFE: Reliability fix, read whole USB-disk sectors | |
| - ADF: Support a wider range of ADF sizes | |
| ** v0.7.0a - 19 September 2017 | |
| ** IMG/ST image handling. Rotary Encoder support. | |
| - IMG and ST image files directly supported for read and write. | |
| Please report any issues! | |
| - Connect a rotary encoder to use in place of directional | |
| buttons: Thanks to Fook42 (A1K/EAB). Documentation describes | |
| how to connect. | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ** v0.6.3a - 18 September 2017 | |
| - Remove Amiga AUTOBOOT.HFE and config files from the distribution. | |
| The HxC original files work fine, so forking is unnecessary. | |
| - Resync index pulse after write handling: this dramatically | |
| speeds up FAT filesystem access in the AUTOBOOT file selectors. | |
| - Reorganise and update the documentation. | |
| ** v0.6.2a - 13 September 2017 | |
| - Prettier 7x16 'narrow' LED font (Kingstener) | |
| - Remember last-selected slot in no-config mode (LASTDISK.IDX file | |
| must exist). Thanks to Fook42 (A1K/EAB). | |
| - Ignore glitches on SIDE-select signal (fix for Eric Gustafson's A3000) | |
| - Various fixes for file selector on Atari ST and Amstrad CPC | |
| - Suppress index pulse when writing to USB stick. Makes slow writes | |
| more reliable (avoids timeouts on the host). | |
| - Optimised memory copying and clearing | |
| ** v0.6.1a - 31 August 2017 | |
| - Support 2-digit LED display | |
| - Suppress LCD update of side number when another drive is selected | |
| ** v0.6.0a - 24 August 2017 | |
| ** PC Interface Support. OLED Fixes & Narrower Font Support. | |
| - Allow PC Floppy Interface (DSKCHG on pin 34) to be selected via a | |
| jumper at position JC. Default interface (no jumper at JC) remains | |
| Shugart, as compatible with many non-PC systems including Amiga. | |
| - Kingstener: Support narrower 7x16 OLED font. Allows entire display to be | |
| visible through the 3-digit cutout in the Gotek case. This is a separate | |
| firmware build, update file is in distribution subfolder alt/. | |
| - OLED reliability fixes. | |
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| ** v0.5.0a - 15 August 2017 | |
| ** Greater stability on A1200 and accelerated Amigas | |
| - I/O latency reduced on drive select/deselect. Results in more reliable | |
| drive detection on A1200, with and without accelerator, and on warm | |
| and cold reboots. | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ** v0.4.4a - 14 August 2017 | |
| - Improvements to power-on initialisation: initialise the floppy | |
| interface earlier, start on cylinder 0, and don't trigger a spurious | |
| step command | |
| ** v0.4.3a - 13 August 2017 | |
| - Fix DSKCHG handling. Should make disk insertion more reliable, | |
| especially on Amiga with noclick patch. | |
| ** v0.4.2a - 11 August 2017 | |
| - More efficient I2C handling for OLED and fix synch during flash | |
| update process. | |
| ** v0.4.1a - 11 August 2017 | |
| - Improve I2C robustness | |
| ** v0.4.0a - 10 August 2017 | |
| ** 128x32 I2C OLED Display support | |
| - Support for 0.91" I2C OLED (128x32, SSD1306 controller). | |
| - Various optimisations and bug fixes. | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ** v0.3.2a - 7 August 2017 | |
| - Fix buffer overrun in HFE image handler when cannot read data from | |
| USB stick fast enough. | |
| - Update the Amiga AUTOBOOT.HFE with latest changes from upstream, | |
| and bump version number. | |
| ** v0.3.1a - 7 August 2017 | |
| - Fix buffer overflow when copying long filenames in no-config mode. | |
| ** v0.3.0a - 6 August 2017 | |
| ** Config-less & indexed operation | |
| - Operate with no AUTOBOOT.HFE (requires HXCSDFE.CFG in 'indexed | |
| mode'): files must be called DSKA0000.HFE, DSKA0001.HFE, and so | |
| on. ADF images are also supported. | |
| - Operate with no HXCSDFE.CFG! Buttons will cycle through all valid | |
| images in the USB root folder. | |
| - Step-pulse speaker is supported on output JB. Recommend buffering | |
| through an NPN transistor unless using a piezo speaker (high | |
| resistance). | |
| - Long filenames scroll on the 1602 LCD | |
| - LCD backlight timer, scroll speed, and step speaker volume all | |
| configured via HXCSDFE.CFG (when available) | |
| - Hack workaround for X-Copy problems. Verified writes/copies are now | |
| reliable! | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ** v0.2.1a - 26 July 2017 | |
| ** Fixes for LCD handling | |
| - More reliable startup | |
| - Fix crashes and deadlocks in operation | |
| - More efficient command transmission (one I2C transaction for | |
| successive commands) | |
| - Support 0x38-0x3F I2C addresses | |
| ** v0.2.a - 25 July 2017 | |
| ** 1602 LCD + Drive Logic Fixes | |
| - 1602 LCD handling: Will recognise a 1602 LCD with "I2C backpack" as | |
| used (and connected) for the usual "HxC LCD mod". Does not yet | |
| scroll long filenames, this will be added shortly. | |
| - Drive Logic: Will now play nicely in multi-drive systems and make | |
| AmigaDOS much less confused (no more DF1-3:BAD type messages!) | |
| - The bootloader is also modified to talk to the 1602 LCD: if you | |
| want this feature then you must also update the bootloader by doing | |
| a full serial or USB/DFU flash of the main HEX file. | |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| ** v0.1a - 21 July 2017 | |
| ** Initial release | |
| - Works only as sole drive in a host system (eg disconnect external | |
| drives!) |