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 Unicode edition can now load ANSI/MBCS state files. This includes state
files created by the original version of XM6 (versions 2.04 – 2.06 only).
When saving a state file, if the file already exists and was created by
a different edition (i.e. Unicode vs. MBCS) it will be renamed, if possible,
rather than overwritten.
If its .ini file is not found, the Unicode edition will now attempt to load
its configuration from a few alternate file names. It will still write out
its configuration using the proper file name. This is intended to simplify
upgrading to the Unicode version.
Icons will now appear in the floppy panes on the status bar for a few seconds
after a recognized disk image is inserted. The interpretation of the icons is
described in the manual. They can be disabled in the options dialog under the
miscellaneous page. This feature replaces and expands upon the drive blinking
used in the previous version of this program.
The best-guess game name will be copied to the clipboard upon opening the notes.
Thus, one can more quickly search the notes for applicable content. For example,
if Notepad is associated with text files, one would type Ctrl-F, Ctrl-V, Enter.
Holding Shift while selecting an item from a floppy disk MRU menu will now cause
the corresponding disk image to be inserted into the other floppy disk drive.
The mouse cursor will be blanked in full-screen mode after a few seconds
of not moving the mouse unless emulation is paused.
A countermeasure to block screen savers (and power saving) has been implemented.
It was accomplished by periodically simulating a key release using an unassigned
key code of zero. If it somehow causes problems for a particular configuration,
it should be obvious pretty quickly.
Bug fixes:
Disk identification wasn’t always working properly for files within archives.
The issue where clicking during mouse emulation sometimes interferes with
subwindows has been mitigated, although it is still possible to trigger it.
