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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2982 |
Release id #189130 : Krill's Loader, Repository Version 184
I've seen the installer print "WARNING: Buggy 1541U firmware detected. Please update." in a demo compo.
Now, i was planning to remove the workarounds for compatibility with older 1541U firmware versions in future releases of this loader.
I was under the impression that the relevant fixes have been backported to old 1541U1 firmware (they shouldn't really require any more FPGA resources)... But have they, really? =) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2982 |
Luke: Thanks for the heads-up! It appears i have fixed that mistake as well in the meanwhile. =) cc1541:
- $(MAKE) -C ../$(TOOLSFOLDER)/$(CC1541SRCFOLDER)
+ $(MAKE) -C ../$(TOOLSFOLDER)/$(CC1541FOLDER) Quoting LukeLooking forward to the next version ;) Oh yeah, it's long overdue. Will resume working on it after pushing out a Transwarp patch release soonish. :)
It's basically finished, but need to tidy it up a bit. Has an optional hi-score saver (built on top of a now-clean custom drive code API), new ZX0 and LZSA2 support, bumped Exomizer to v3.1, oh, and an actual file-exists call to ease disk-jockeying. :)
A lot cleaner code now, too, especially for integrating all those stream decrunchers, but that only shows when actually looking at the code. (And maybe because it makes it all a little less prone to bugs.)
Quoting LukeAre you OK with that? Yeah, all good. Thanks! :) |
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Luke
Registered: Nov 2014
Posts: 9 |
Yeah! Great stuff. =) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2982 |
Ah, there's also one relatively important compatibility improvement with 1541-old. :)
Main disk read+decode+checksum loop is now one cycle faster, to make up for the wobble these old belt-driven beasts exhibit (and it doesn't get better with age). |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2982 |
New version done, release soon! =)
- improved speed and tolerances
- added decompression support for ZX0-Dali, TSCrunch and LZSA2
- added hi-score saver overwriting existing save-slot files
- added file-exists API for easy multi-disk handling
- added custom drive code API
- added close-file API
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Smasher
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 521 |
great news!! |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2982 |
=) Next on the list is adding native 1551 support (only relevant for the Plus/4 folks, ofc.), but i'll leave that for the next release after this one. |
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Joe
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 229 |
Awesome work! |
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DKT
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 99 |
Hooray! \o/
Awesome new features! can't wait |
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
Great news! |
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El Jefe
Registered: Jul 2005
Posts: 81 |
Really looking forward to this one!
Shocker/Onslaught |
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