Cet émulateur est également le plus complet des outils de développements X68000 existant aujourd’hui. Il s’agit d’un fork de l’émulateur XM6 v2.05 de PI avec une pléthore de nouvelles fonctionnalités. Les changements sont pour la plupart liés à l’interface utilisateur et un accent a été mis sur le développement et les fonctions de débogage plutôt que sur l’exactitude de l’émulation, cependant il y a suffisamment d’améliorations pour qu’il soit recommandé d’utiliser cette version plutôt que XM6 v2.06 finale.
Les changements:
-The routines related to the text-based configuration file (XM6.ini) were
rewritten and are now significantly faster. The file will also no longer
be overwritten if the contents are identical. It was also reorganized
slightly in order to make it easier to navigate. Finally, both editions
of the program can now read each other’s configuration files with the
caveat that the MBCS version may not convert all the paths properly.
– Any floppy images marked with the [m] tag (meaning modified) are now forced
to be treated as writable even if the image file is read-only. This has the
same effect as applying the [W] tag, which means that [W] is now redundant
in file names for modified images and can be removed from them.
Note that the above feature does NOT put any read-only images in danger of
being modified! Overriding read-only image files always causes any changes
to be redirected into a delta file, as described in the manual.
– The OS Info window (View > Win32 > OS Info) now shows additional information
about processor extensions. In particular, SHA Extensions (shown on the last
line of the window) could be used to improve performance but do not seem to
be widely available at this point in time.
– Removed the automatic SASI HDF filename population. Its only purpose was
to facilitate upgrading from an extremely old version of the program.
Bug fixes:
– The program was not ending quickly on certain systems.
– If a compressed state file was loaded, saved over, and then reloaded,
the cached copy of the original state file would be loaded instead.
– If the Save History setting was disabled and Resume Current Directory
was enabled then the latter would not work as intended.
– The default RS-MIDI output device was not being set if the configuration file
did not already exist.
