Ootake v2.69 changelog:


- It corresponded to operation with "Windows 8".
* In "Windows 8", classic display method of desktop (
Windows7's Areo invalidity) was abolished. As a result, it has the display
delay of about two frames compared with XP and Win7(classic display).
Therefore, the difficulty of the shooting game especially becomes hard.
The operated happiness decreases, too.
If you want to enjoy playing games, the current state strongly recommends
the personal computer of "Windows 7" to be selected.
I want to transmit the importance at this display time lag to the staff of
Microsoft. However, it is not easy to transmit it. I do not give it up
because it is very precious for games.
- Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.
+ The execution file for "Windows 98/Me" was opened to the public. The
operation test is not done. Please see "Readme98.txt" in the ZIP file
about details and notes, etc.
http://www.ouma.jp/file/Ootake269-for98.zip

Changelog (4DO 1.3.2.2):

Changes:

1. Added emulation notification messages – These show up at the bottom of the screen for things such as “Save State” and “Screenshot saved”. There is also a setting under the General tab to turn them off.
2. Emulation performance optimization – about a 5-10% improvement.
3. Input/Controller setup screen now shows a textual form of what button or function you’re currently pressing (“A Button”, “Save State”) in addition to the yellow halo over the button.
4. Added ability to reset all bindings to defaults.
5. Added ability to bind to an “Exit” console function, to exit the emulator.
6. Fixed bug in which the default input bindings were blank if starting 4DO for the first time.
7. Fixed bug in which controller 6 input bindings were unavailable.
8. Some minor usability improvements to file browser (added “x files selected” message, and using “up directory” button will highlight the folder you came from).
9. Chinese translation improvements

Important !

Pour rappel, afin de pouvoir utiliser 4DO, vous devrez avoir installé au préalable :
Package redistribuable Microsoft Visual C++ 2010
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (version complète)
Microsoft Direct X

En option :
SlimDX est désormais inclu dans l'archive sous forme de fichier DLL, cependant vous pouvez toujours l'installer sur votre système si vous le souhaitez :
SlimDX for .NET 4.0

Pour les nouveaux venus, je rappelle l'existence sur le forum d'un topic concernant tous les isos Sega certifiés (Saturn et Mega-CD) et dans lequel vous trouverez toutes les infos nécessaires.
S'ajoutent à cela divers tutoriaux en section "Comment ça marche ?" (patch région, décompression des APE, gravure) dans lesquels vous devriez trouver réponse à toutes vos questions. A noter que tous les tutos nécessaires sont aussi linkés sur la page principale de la section Saturn du site.

Stella release 3.8.1 for Linux, MacOS X and Windows is now available.
Added support for TIA RSYNC writes, thanks to Omegamatrix of AtariAge. This allows the recently released "Extra Terrestrials" ROM to run, as well as improving emulation of "Fatal Run" and several other test ROMs.
Fixed typo in TIA HMOVE writes, thanks to Thomas Jentzsch. This fixes the constant collision issues in "Kool-Aid Man", and several other homebrew ROMs.
Fixed sound issues on OSX PPC machines (all sound was in little-endian format, but PPC is big-endian).
The OSX DMG archive now contains proper modification dates.

Version 2013.03
Amélioration de l'émulation du module SDMOTO : ajout de l'écriture sur la carte SD.

New features of v3.5
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- Option 'Wake-up state'
This is a very technical point, the ST's processor and the video circuit
share the RAM bus. Wake-up state means which chip gets the first cycles
each time. It is determined somewhat randomly (depending on temperature
for example) at power-on on a true ST. It's an option in Steem,
which you can change live (no need to reset).
Because the option is implemented more generally now (v3.5), and implies
CPU timings, hence it's risky, it is possible to bypass this new feature.
Wake-up state means something different for the STE, but we don't know enough
yet. It only slightly changes the timing of palette changes.
In STF mode, wake up state 2 will break many fullscreens.
It is a useful option for demos: Death of the Left Border, Omega, Overscan
Demos, Forest, Nostalgia, etc.
- IPF support (disk format of images saved by Kryoflux hardware)
You need CAPSimg.dll in Steem's directory. It's available here:
http://www.softpres.org/download
To use this feature, just run an IPF disk.
We use the low-level WD1772 included in the DLL, so it's a matter of
integrating emulations, a bit like for the HD6301 emulation.
The real work was done by István Fábián and The Software Preservation
Society.
IPF support is as good as the emulator. Some features are not implemented
yet (write command).
Windows-only.

- Record to AVI
To use this feature, you need to assign a shortcut key combination (eg right
control + V), then use this shortcut to start & stop recording (toggle).
The video will be saved in Steem's directory as 'SteemVideo.avi', erasing the
previous file if necessary.
If the MPG4 codec is in your system, it will be used, if not the MSVC codec
will be used.
Neither video nor sound, nor sync are great. Sound isn't compressed.
Apparently some computers record the full screen! No idea why.
Certainly there's room for improvement. We don't use DirectShow yet (would
need to install SDK).
Windows-only.

- RAR archive support
Using the free Unrar.dll plugin by RAR labs. You need to have this DLL in
Steem folder or in any system path, just like unzip32.dll.
Windows-only.

- Save screenshot as NEO
Hopefully with the correct palette. Some programs change it all the time, so
it's better to take the screenshots while the emulation is running, or you
could a black screenshot. Even so,
I made this for the demo included with Steem SSE 3.5.
Note that Steem can also use 'FreeImage' library for various formats
(PNG etc).

Other Improvements in v3.5
----------------------------
- Red LED when using Pasti
- indicate Pasti is in charge on disk manager
- nuked WinSTon import, it's outdated
- nuked update process
- F12 as shortcut will do nothing
- 6301 emu debug: more accurate clock in 'Captain Blood'
- grey out hd6301 if unavailable
- basic test before going fullscreen
- Match TOS with ST type: refresh in TOS list, now working!
- STF must crash on reading Microwire or STE paddles (Petari)
- ADD.L & ADDA.L timing, more generally instructions using -(An) addressing
mode
- Don't creash at emu video panic
- Disk drive slow mode: bug fixes and improvements (Disk manager option
"Accurate Disk Access Times")

Internal
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- interrupt_depth & Line F (debug info)
- DLL "delay loading"
- better debug system
- removed "MMU confused" RAM access emulation
- Wake up state now part of MMU block & object, and handled more generally.
All shifter trick parameters changed for wake-up state 2!
- CPU prefetch timings have been corrected. At the same time the long-
standing and unknown hack in 'read SDP' (shifter counter) has been removed.
This is a huge change for the better, but due to probably some misplaced (by me)
macros, this could break some programs for a while.
Those probable remaining bugs will be ironed out and after that Steem will
be quite there for CPU timings & prefetch emulation.

Programs working better in Steem
----------------------------------

If you don't get it working read hints here below. Maybe you should (un)check
option 'Hacks' or select anohter ST type or TOS, etc.

Games
--------

- Enchanted Land (STF/STE) (3.3)
- The Final Conflict (interrupts) (3.3)
- Hyper Force (STF) (3.3)
- International 3D Tennis (STF) (3.3)
- Jumping Jackson (WNW): no menu; useless as I know of no good disk image (3.4)
- Leavin' Terramis (60hz overscan) (3.4)
- Live & Let Die (STF) (3.3)
- Manchester United: mouse control (useless as nobody cares) (3.4)
- Mortville Manor (hiss, probably was already in released code) (3.4)
- Nightdawn (STF) (3.3)
- No Buddies Land (smooth vertical scrolling) (3.3)
- Rainbow Island (auto 231) (STF) (3.3)
- The Sentinel (mouse speed) (3.4)
- Seven Gates Of Jambala (Timer B - from Hatari) (3.3)
- Trex Warriors (Timer B - from Hatari) (3.4)
- Titan STE mode (CPU exception) (3.3)
- Titan STF mode (thx to Petari) (3.5)
- Ultimate Arena STF (thx Petari) (3.5)

- Demos
--------

We fix many more demos than games just because demo programming was edgier.
For example, I know of no game that actually wrote to the shifter draw pointer,
but many demos did.
Note that STE demos are tested with TOS106.

- 36.15 Gen4 by Cakeman (STF) (3.3)
- 36.15 Gen4 by ULM: torn scroller (3.4)
- Beat Demo (STE): sound controls (Microwire) (3.4)
- Beyond: Loader; Pax Plax Parallax STF (3.4)
- Big Wobble (STE): shifted pic ('Hacks') (3.4)
- Blood by Holocaust: disk (3.5)
- Cernit Trandafir (STE, 4MB): 2nd screen (3.5)
- Cool STE: terrible flicker, unreadable & jerky scrollers (3.4)
- Corporation Megademo (STE): keyboard ('Hacks') (3.4)
- Dangerous Fantaisy: credits (STE): flicker ('Hacks') (3.4)
- Death of the Left Border (STF2) (3.3)
- Delirious 4: Loader (FDC - 'Hacks'), NGC, Nightmare, Tekila ('Hacks') (3.3,
3.4)
- Dragonnels: Loader, Menu, Rainbow Wall, Unlimited Bobs (3.3)
- E605: planet (STE)(option Hacks) (3.4)
- European Demos: Loader (3.3)
- Extreme Rage (STE): guest screen overscan (3.4)
- Forest aka shforstv.exe in STF1 (3.4), STF2 (3.3), STE (3.4) mode
- Froggies Over The Fence: Menu (3.3)
- Golden Soundtracker (STE): wrong background colour (3.4)
- Imagination/Roller Coaster (STF) (3.3)
- Japtro (STF) (3.3)
- More or less Zero (STE, 2MB) (3.3)
- The Musical Wonder 91 (STF) (3.4)
- No Cooper: Greetings ('Hacks') (3.3)
- Nostalgia: Lemmings (STF, STE) (3.3)
- Omega Full Overscan Screen (STF2) (3.3)
- Overdrive: Loader (3.5), Dragon by Ghost (STF2) (3.4)
- Pacemaker credits (STE) ('Hacks') (3.4)
- Pandemonium: Loader (3.3)
- Phaleon: Loader (3.3)
- PYM: Best Part of the Creation, ST-CNX (STF) (3.3)
- Revolution (larger display) (3.3)
- RGBeast by Aggression (STE): mush, overscan (3.4)
- SoWatt: Menu, Sync (STF) (3.3)
- Sphere by Sunny (STE): jerky scroller (3.4)
- Summer Delights (STE) #1, #11, #14 (3.3), #5, #7 (3.5)
- Super Neo Demo Show (all RAM configs) (3.3)
- Swedish New Year Demo/TCB (STF) (3.3)
- SNYD2/Sync fullscreen (F5) (STF) (3.4)
- Transbeauce 2: Loader (CPU exceptions), Menu (3.3)
- Ultimate GFA Demo boot screen (STF) (3.4)
- Union Demo: Menu, Fullscreen (STF) (3.3)
- V8 Music System: keyboard (3.3)

- Menu intros
--------------

- Automation 168 (STF) (3.3)
- BBC 52 (overscan) (3.3)
- Lemmings 40 (STF) (3.3)

- Applications
---------------

- Aladin: (crash on load)
- NEOchrome: mouse speed? (HD6301 emu) (3.4)
- Spectrum 512 painting program: jitter (ACIA) (3.4)
And countless other programs!

Pour les nouveaux venus, je rappelle l'existence sur le forum d'un topic concernant tous les isos Sega certifiés (Saturn et Mega-CD) et dans lequel vous trouverez toutes les infos nécessaires. S'ajoutent à cela divers tutos en section "Comment ça marche ?" (patch région, décompression des APE, gravure) dans lesquels vous devriez trouver réponse à toutes vos questions. Notez aussi que tous ces tutos sont accessibles dans la rubrique "Tutoriaux" en bas de la page principale de la section Mega-CD.

Changelog :

1. File Browser Added – Available through the new “Tools” menu, the file browser allows users to browse the current disc’s file system and extract files. This can be used to find music, sound clips, images, videos, etc.
2. German Language Fixed – German is now actually available. The previous release did not properly include a necessary file in the release package.

Important !

Pour rappel, afin de pouvoir utiliser 4DO, vous devrez avoir installé au préalable :
Package redistribuable Microsoft Visual C++ 2010
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (version complète)
Microsoft Direct X

En option :
SlimDX est désormais inclu dans l'archive sous forme de fichier DLL, cependant vous pouvez toujours l'installer sur votre système si vous le souhaitez :
SlimDX for .NET 4.0