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:
Release 71 (251010)
– Fixed some inconsistencies (on some systems) relating to menus, fonts, and subwindows. Other minor esthetic improvements were also achieved.
– Added a workaround for subwindows sometimes not appearing when first opened.
– Fixed some usability issues with keyboard mapping.
Bug fixes:
– Eliminated several instances of extremely rare crashes and/or memory corruption.
– Fixed some problems with non-pop-up-style subwindows (my fault).
– The Software Keyboard was not as responsive to right-clicking as left-clicking.
– Closing menus via the right mouse button was not working sometimes.
Release 72 (251111)
– This program is now « DPI aware ». That only makes a difference on systems where the display scaling factor is greater than 100% for at least one screen. In the past, it would look fuzzy when scaling was imposed, and there could be glitches. If you want to see what it used to look like, you can use the MBCS edition of the program. On older systems (but newer than XP) you may need to restart your computer after changing the scaling factor if it starts looking fuzzy afterward. There isn’t anything I can do about that particular situation. (On XP and older, you shouldn’t need to restart, although I haven’t extensively tested it.)
– Note that although the main window may be larger (when scaling is applicable), the VM image itself will not be enlarged unless the window is large enough to perform integer-multiple scaling. This is because non-integral vertical stretching causes distortion, which looks bad and behaves inconsistently depending on the video drivers.
– There are a few minor issues remaining: The software keyboard window will not be scaled on older systems, and it will look fuzzy on newer systems. The fix requires rewriting its vector-based drawing to be scalable. There may be some minor issues with a few dialogs. Icons are not yet being scaled. Bug reports and feedback are welcome (as always).
– Most users probably do not have scaling applied to their systems, so you don’t need to care about this feature unless you notice a difference.
Bug fixes:
– The program would fail to start if no pointing device was installed.
– The log window was not scaling its row height proportionally for its font.
– The main window was not resizing when dragged from a monitor that was too small onto a monitor with sufficient room to meet the minimum window size.
