VICE 2.4 Test Version - please test!

One problem I've noticed with VICE is this: modern joysticks are variable / proportional. In other words if you push the joystick a little bit left it only part left. Amiga joysticks were on/off like 5 switches (directions + fire). VICE doesn't read joysticks right. Probably it should be all the way left to read as Amiga left. Don't know if this has changed in new version, but fix would be appreciated.

@Marko

Emulation of the new version from os4depot works at normal speed (x64) and I was able to configure a joystick without issues. But...
* it prints out this when started: [filereq.c:285] CreateApp screen 0x0
* I get a lot of memory leak messages:
util.c:174: Warning: Memory block(s) allocated here was not free'd (Memory leak with size 0x81 at 0x30ad1038).
findpath.c:209: Warning: Memory block(s) allocated here was not free'd (Memory leak with size 0x16b at 0x30ad7470).
util.c:186: Warning: Memory block(s) allocated here was not free'd (Memory leak with size 0x5 at 0x2e9522a0).
joyai.c:701: Warning: Memory block(s) allocated here was not free'd (Memory leak with size 0x4 at 0x2e90a008).

* trying to configure the 2nd joystick and selecting the generic_keyboard from the cycle gadget locked up the whole settings window and the whole emulator. I cannot click any buttons, can't close it and can't quit the emulator

@TSK

I will have to pass on those reports to BSzili or Spirantho

@Marko

Could you also pass on one more request to Spirantho, please?

Maybe he could add the preliminary SID support from a Catweazel he did before...test version, outdated and doesn't work anymore (albeit i may have forgotten how i had to set it up properly)

Or if that support is already in, please tell me how to use the SID chips on my Catweazel with VICE...it's really the only reason right now i keep that piece of hardware in the X

Thanks

@Raziel

Consider it as passed already as Spirantho is the thread owner on this thread


@thread

What I mean is that I pass all reports to either BSzili or Spirantho here in this thread, as both have posted here in this thread.

I pretty much just packaged the VICE archive from publicly available files. I only swapped out the x64 to the one bugfixed by BSzili. And uploaded it, as it seemed nobody wanted to do it even if there was a demand. So I'm not involved with the VICE bugfixing itself, sorry.

@Marko

Did you upload the BSzili version? :)

@BSzili

may you remove all the debug output? :)

@nubechecorre
Huh? Why would I do that?

@BSzili


Great new version, thanks a lot

I get this (as does TSK)

[filereq.c:285] CreateApp screen 0x0

but i get it only (and everytime) the file requester window opens.
I know it's not an error as the program runs fine otherwise, but shouldn't that be suppressed or something?

@Raziel
Suppressing the debug output in a debug build sounds contra-productive to me.

@BSzili

Understood

@BSZili

Sorry I thought it was a final release that Marko uploaded on OS4Depot so I asked you to remove all the output..

@nubechecorre

Quote:
Sorry about the output mess , I'll fix the archive with a new upload... Within a day or two

no problem mate just a misunderstood :) ;)

@nubechecorre

Okej, great then, thanks

@bszili
Was it hard to fix the C64? The whole package needs some love too but maybe its alot of work.

I fixed platform specific code, shared by all the emulators. All of my changes are in the official repo, so anyone can make a build from it.

@Marko

Can you fix all of them and upload it to os4depot?

@Joeled
Just be aware that the sound code barely works, I had no time to fix it yet.

@JoeledQuote:
I'll take a look this weekend and see what i can do...

I've downloaded the vice-2.4.tar.gz tarball under Source distributions from the VICE site

After several hours of building the Amiga versions on my Sam the build failed with an error in an header file.

Not sure really, if I was building the right source or in the right way, to be honest...

So, no OS4depot upload from me this weekend sorry :S