- implemented SdlPlay
- simplified and more efficient SDL interface
- renamed PixelTV to SdlDebug
- SdlDebug implies debugging is allowed so removed AllowDebugging
request from gui interface
- removed stability code from SdlDebug
o television
- added stability detection to base television implementation
- added top/bottom scanline figures to specification types. more
intuitive to work with in some contexts
- sketched in web interface
o cartridge
- cartridge will now load from http:// target as well as local file
system
o Makefile
- added web and webserve targets
- reworking of comments and naming for clarity
o gui
- reworking of comments and naming for clarity
- moved overlay code to gui
- removed overlay package and renamed concept back to metapixels
- calls to future.Schedule all now use references to static
functions and not functions created on demand
- massive speed up
o future
- added ScheduleWithArg() function to better handle the above
changes without closures
- cartrdiges no longer return CartridgeListen error if nothing is
done in listen() function
- generating a new error is expensive to do every video cycle and
serves no purpose in this instance
o error
- remove CartridgeListen error
- timestamping of memory access can now be turned off
- call to time.Now() is expensive
o debugger / reflection
- REFLECT command now turns on/off timestamping in vcs memory
- reworked scan counter to correctly handle 4x stretching
- changing NUSIZ value while scan counter is active now works
correctly in most cases - some additional consideration of
secondary copies required
- playback regression entries will now end with an error if
emulation has not terminated at 100%
- shouldn't ever happen except during development of the emulation
core. none-the-less it is useful for regressions to end in all
instances.
- loosened up tab completion so that session doesn't reset if only
trailing space has changed
- removed erroneous call to tabcompletion.Reset() in colorterm (* it
may once have been required)
- corrected error handling for GUIEvents
- fixes erroneous crash caused by setting a duplicate mouse break
when emulation is running
- gui event handling now differentiates up and down mouse button
events
- renamed metavideo concept to reflection
- moved metavideo/reflection to its own package
- added ReflectionNotRunning error
- error message shown if overlay is turned on without reflection
processing running
- improved DISPLAY command
o sdl
- type assertion panics now caught in sdl.SetFeture() and returned
as a PanicError
- replaced machineinfo concept with instrumentation interface
- for now instrumentation is the same as the Stringer interface
- plans to add more advanced instrumentation with additional
interface requirements. Stringer is a good first step
o debugger
- removed verbose/terse modes
o regression
- fixed how frame regression gets state information (otherwise
broken by changes removal of machineinfo)
- played around with timings to try a get resetting of sprites
during an active HMOVE to work correctly
- the solution maybe a misstep because I've had to alter when the
additional HMOVE clock occurs, with no other good reason
- none-the-less there is some good work clarifying code
- questions about accuracy added to FUTURE document
- streamlined how CPU results are created and stored
- speeds up execution a little
o debugger
- implemented Disable() function for consoles
- used to stop output when running initialisation script
- Attaching of cartridges now uses CartridgeLoader type
- CartridgeLoader type allows the caller to specify the cartridge
path and the format of the cartridge, if fingerprinting needs to
be overridden
- An expected hash value for the loaded cartridge can also be
supplied
o regression / playback
- regression database and playback scripts now include entries
specifying the cartridge format
- implemented Has() function
- Error() now de-duplicates error string parts
* for example, instead of:
error: foo: foo: bar
Error() will now return:
error: foo: bar
- small reordering of recording setup to make sure startup events
are transcribed into the playback transcript
o regression/play
- playback regression and playing of playback scripts ...
- ... cartridges not attached with setup system
- any required setup events are in the playback transcript
- setup package now uses database package and matches entries to the
specified cartridge and applies the changes listed
- only panel entries supported so far
- database file must be hand written
- renamed FormattedError to AtariError
- renamed NewFormattedError to New
- implemented Is() and IsAny() for more convenient testing
+ changed all error testing to use Is() and IsAny()
- renamed FatalError to PanicError to better indicate the intent
- added setup package
- rerouted all vcs.AttachCartridge() calls through new package
o regression/database
- split database package from regression package
