WinFellow v0.5.4 released

[carfesh]

We are proud to announce the release of a new WinFellow version. Compared to the earlier release 0.5.3.1004, this release provides the following:

Project hosting:

• WinFellow development has found a new home on GitHub; the website is accessible via the URL http://petschau.github.io/WinFellow/; it is still being developed by the same team. Our former SourceForge file repository, aswell as the website fellow.sourceforge.net, will still be maintained for a while to keep earlier releases available. For future updates, please check the new GitHub website.

New features:

• re-designed display settings to make use of modern higher resolution displays more intuitive; instead of conguring a window resolution, scaling and overscan area can be congured automatically to create a window of the optimal size and scaling factor; both can also be congured manually to arrive at frequently window sizes

• support for the Direct3D 11 graphics API; this requires DirectX 11 to be installed
  • on Windows Vista, the platform update (KB971644) should be installed, as it contains required updates to DirectX

• the graphics card has to provide hardware acceleration for Direct3D

• ability to save screenshots to the pictures folder (hit <Print Screen> to trigger)

• support for automatic, as well as 3x and 4x scaling, which is useful for 4K/high DPI displays; for the best results, try leaving the scaling at automatic

• very basic serial port/UART emulation; nothing can be connected to the serial port; this is mostly used for serial debug logging (which is active only in debug builds of WinFellow), but the port is always being emulated

Bug fixes:

• improved frame timing to present frames in a more evenly paced manner

• improvements to CIA timer handling

• improvements to CPU instruction timing (TAS and PEA instructions)

• fixed sound volume restoration during reset of Amiga session in Amiga Forever

• improved error handling for DMS floppy image extraction

• fixed minor memory leaks

Please see the included file ChangeLog.txt for a full list of changes, including minor bug fixes which are not listed above.

[Schlachtwerk]

thx

[Frog]

thank you for offering us a new version of this nice emulator

[Bastich]

That's great. I remember using a version of this a looooooooong time ago. It was always a bit quicker than the competition (at the time).

[Marcy]

Hello, thanks for the new version. Will you add harddisk boot for Kickstart 1.3 in the next version? Please!

Thank you,
Marcy

[Tomislav]

DX9 support? For us that want to run it on old XP machine.

Also CD ROM and AROS m68k support will be good.

[Anubis]

No lov for us Win95 users?

I see....

WinFellow is back?!

Good news! Was 1st choice for Stuff which had to be *fast* way back. But we had slow PCs then. I fear it's outdated by WinUAE now. Hard to keep up.
Nevertheless, thumbs up!