27th October 2002

This is version 0.6 of RedSquirrel.

Significant changes since version 0.6.x:

Computer suspend is handled more gracefully
Added StrongArm models - no faster, just for completeness
Significant speedups in HostFS
Fixed app name on message boxes
Software video scaling - much faster for low end graphics cards.
Fixed prefetch abort bugs
Sound pitch on Vidc1 should be correct
# key works on older models (mapped to numeric #)
Window deactivation clears key/mouse down events
Power cycle menu option, for when Hard Reset just isn't enough
'Roms' which are not 2^x in size now load correctly
Added printers command to hostfs to list printers
Fixed floppy image loading
Fixed Clock month offset by 1
added hostopen and hostprint commands
Fixed preferences not loading from RedSquirrel.cfg
HostFS selects first mount at startup
Added RTC centisecond timer
Totally reorganised code to support plugins
HostFS is now a completely separate plugin
RISC OS/Windows cursor syncing, provided by 3rd party plugin
	
Issues in this version:

There are some strange artefacts in software scaled modes. Model selection other
than at startup will almost certainly crash the application.
There is still no JIT support. This is for commercial versions only at present, sorry.
Timing is still not right in video code (most noticeable in Lemmings and Twinworld)
There still a SERIOUS bug in ide emulation. I suggest you move your files to a hostfs
mount as it is better in every way.


Setup

There are NO ROMS supplied with this distribution. You will need to obtain roms and copy them into the relavent folder in the RedSquirrel\Romsets folder. Please do not ask me where to obtain roms, your email will be ignored.

RedSquirrel is distributed with a number of standard models describing various Acorn machines. These are user editable and can be found in the Models folder. You can change the settings in these files to add/remove memory, hostfs mounts etc.


*** If you have a HardDisc image set up from previous versions of RedSquirrel, you will need to edit a Model.cfg file to add the hard disc. At the bottom of the file add:

[IdeDisc]
filename = "path to disc image"
