April 22, 2011

Emulation News 027: MESS SVN r11278, VirtualBox v4.0.6 Final, Boxer v1.0.2 , DOSBox SVN r3698, Jpcsp SVN r2098



"r11274
[IPB] Modernised. Added terminal connection. After pressing Space, it will start up and respond to your inputs. NOTE: It is missing a rom, so I've borrowed one from 'ipb' driver.
r11278
Created device_rtc_interface which can be used to initialize RTC's to a certain date/time at driver startup, useful for regression testing. Implemented the interface in most of the modern RTC devices. Note: this is not yet plumbed down to the command line. [Curt Coder]"


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"VirtualBox v4.0.6 Final Changelog:
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state
VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads; implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)
VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006)
VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726)
GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)
GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)
GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)
GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469)
GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors
GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)
GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673)
Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory
3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)
Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)
Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network
Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)
Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred
Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294)
Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM
ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none' if no medium is present
Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)
Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)
Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour
Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625)
Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)
NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609)
VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063)
Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute, for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)
Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)
USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)
HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)
OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import
OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias
OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253)
rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593)
Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized
Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured
Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)
X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1
Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)
Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)
Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes
Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling
Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)
Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions
Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)
Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo
X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final
Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes
Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)
Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946)
Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9
Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution
Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size"

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"Boxer v1.0.2 Changelog:
Boxer 1.0.2 Improvements to game importing: Physical CD-ROMs are now ripped as disc images during game importing: fixes copy protection in many games and makes CD audio into a part of the gamebox. If you’ve had copy protection trouble with a game you imported from CD, try importing it again now. Better progress messages, option to skip lengthy CD rips, and various other tweaks to game import UI behaviour. Better PowerPC compatibility: Fixed corrupt graphics in CGA and Tandy emulation modes on PowerPC Macs. Reverted default CPU speed back to 3000 cycles, to improve PowerPC performance and fix timing issues in several old games. If you find that any of your older games now run too slow, please send me a bug report! Fixes to mouse and keyboard handling: Mouse input is now enabled for all games, not just ones that ask for the mouse. Fixes mouse control in Space Crusade, Fantasy Empires, Precision Simulator and others. Tweaked three-finger tap gesture to prevent accidental clicks and work more like OS X's own single and double-taps. Fixed mouse getting unlocked whenever the window size changes. Tweaked how key repeats are handled, fixing misbehaviour in some games when holding down a key. Shoutouts to my MT-32 bros: Added documentation for making games play through a real MT-32: search for “mt32” from the Help menu. No MT-32 emulation yet, for now Boxer only supports the real thing. Optional MIDI delay for early-model MT-32s to fix lockups and missing instruments (see documentation for details.) Fixed CoreMIDI output leaving notes hanging when you pause or quit. Other nice things: Per-game option to close the window once the game exits to DOS. Off by default but can be toggled from the Game Inspector panel. Fixed crashes when launching programs from Finder while a DOS session is open. Doubleclicking a gamebox in Finder while it is waiting at the DOS prompt will now start the gamebox’s default program."
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"Jpcsp SVN changelog:
r2098
Improved module handling in sceUtility:
- Provided a waiting queue for non loadable modules;
- Added the proper error codes as required by certain applications;
- Generally refactored and improved several HLE load/unload methods (base, Av and Net).
Reworked and fixed several bugs in CheatsGUI.
Added small new finding to IoFileMgrForUser.
Removed unnecessary display mode change in MainGUI."

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"DOSBox SVN Changelog:
r3698
add compatibility POST chaining, certain game exiting should look better now (ripsaw, sort of fixes a hangup with Astro Dodge)"
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