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:
– Taking a screen shot while running should now be much less disruptive to the VM.
– The VM is no longer halted during floppy disk image creation as I cannot see
any reason to do so – the bottleneck, if any, is likely disk I/O, not the CPU.
– Similarly, HDD creation no longer halts the VM. You can now listen to emulated
X68000 music while waiting for your huge virtual SCSI drive to initialize.
– Mouse-button input is now blocked briefly after activating the client area
of the frame window with a mouse click if Mouse Mode is being restored.
– There are new breakpoint-related keyboard commands, as documented in the manual.
Bug fixes:
– Various « run to » commands could fail if the log window was open and a large
number of log entries occurred between updates. The reason is quite esoteric.
– Fixed a few hypothetical problems where delta file changes for floppy disks
might not carry over if the same image was inserted into a different drive
without hard ejecting it first (soft ejection was not sufficient).
– Fixed a number of unlikely problems with disk images being (re)inserted while
being written to (by the VM). All were caused by optimizations I added.
– Eliminated a possible data integrity issue when reinserting an image that had
been modified but hadn’t yet written out the changes. (Not my fault this time.)
– When moving a currently inserted floppy disk image from one drive to another,
the disk wasn’t being ejected from the source drive under certain conditions.
– Certain keyboard commands (such as Alt-F4) were not functioning for the
Software Keyboard window when emulation was halted (my fault).
