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    Steem SSE 4.1.

    2 release notes

    Atari ST
    The Atari ST was a legendary 16bit computer of the Eighties.

    Steem Engine, by Anthony & Russell Hayward


    Steem is a legendary Atari ST emulator for the PC, both accurate and easy to use thanks to its great user
    interface.

    Steem SSE
    Steem SSE stands for ST Enhanced EMulator Sensei Software Edition. It is an updated version of Steem.
    Some say an improvement, some say it's worse!

    Licence
    Steem is free open source software. The licence is GPL3 as chosen by Steem authors.

    Installation
    Extract files to a folder of your choice. There's no setup program.

    When you run a Steem SSE build for the first time, based on the file name, it proposes to add a link to
    the new version in your start menu if you care about that.

    Steem SSE can work with various plugins, please check Third-party in the manual.

    For the Linux builds, check doc/steem sse linux readme.txt, Steem SSE won't run without some libraries.

    v4.1.2 Features
    Key mappings
    New keyboard mappings for French and German PC keyboards targeting serious software running in UK
    TOS ("what you type is what you get"), or menu disks and games (what counts is the key position, check
    Megaroids and Thrust).

    Joystics
    6 setups instead of 3

    Shortcut to select the setup, as an alternative to selection through Num Lock and Scroll Lock (laptops
    typically don't have those keys).
    Snapshot & screenshot (D3D)
    Steem SSE will save a screenshot together with the memory snapshot, and on load it will display that
    screenshot instead of trying to draw the video memory (didn't work with overscan and Spectrum 512-
    like pictures).

    If the option Restore previous state isn't checked, a nice picture will be loaded at startup, provided you
    copied it in Steem's directory. You can of course customise this.

    Floppy Disk
    Write-protect
    New option to write-protect the disk (the sliding tab on the floppy is up), this is now used instead of the
    Read Only file property in drive emulation. When you insert a disk, the option will be set if the file is
    read-only or an archive, then you can change it if you will.
    MFM emulation
    Disk image format STW v2: handling fuzzy bits, timing variation and variable track length

    New context option to convert SCP images to STW

    ACSI hard drive


    Create
    New button to create a hdd image file. Enter the number of megabytes you wish (1MB=1,000,000
    bytes). The file is filled with zeroes. It's up to you to make it a working hdd image. ICD Pro and other ST
    software may help. The feature isn't much but without it you need special utilities just to create the file.

    Display
    Single pixels
    New option Single pixels, it is like scanlines but vertical.

    Gamma correction
    If option Show all settings isn't checked, there's only one slider for gamma control.

    Sound
    New option Slow fade for MicroWire emulation. The feature already existed but it was commanded by
    option Hacks before, now it is clearer. Use it If you want to avoid pops when the program changes the
    volume too fast.

    Status bar
    Little redesign, by default the 2nd pane contains useful info, ROM and RAM info is moved to the 3rd
    pane. Click on panes to change the behaviour.
    Misc.
    Save backup snapshot on reset
    This was automatic, now it's optional (because saving is a file operation, it can cause a glitch).

    Features enabled in Linux builds


    Various features that were only available in Windows builds have been ported to Linux:

    Ghost disks

    MFM Emulation for standard disk images and conversion of image disks to STW

    Option Count DMA cycles on disk operations

    PRG/TOS support

    Special adapters (dongles etc.)

    YM -12db hack for STE

    Freeboot

    Joystick jump button

    v4.1.2 Emulation improvements


    Blitter
    Closer to hardware for the NFSR flag

    MFP (MC68901)
    Some timing modifications to increase compatibility

    Floppy Disk
    MFM emulation
    Better timings on SCP images

    Steem SSE Web site


    http://sourceforge.net/projects/steemsse/

    There you will find a blog, a forum (for bug reports), all versions of Steem SSE and the source code
    (subversion repository)
    R0 (Windows + Linux)
    Initial release, full of bugs

    03 April 2022

    R1 (Linux-only)
    Fix Steem SSE can only load 128K cartridge

    Fix Steem SSE GEMDOS hard disk emulation can't see folders

    10 April 2022

    R2 (Windows + Linux)
    Stability fixes

    Fix Stats max track wrong with the frequent $90-$D0 technique

    Timing of outwards single MIDI status messages, clock

    25 June 2022

    R3 (Windows + Linux)
    ACSI: Can handle disk images bigger than 2GB

    ACSI: Fix DMA transfer speed with option 'Count DMA transfer cycles' on

    Reload TOS on reboot

    Some doc updates

    27 August 2022

    R4 (Windows + Linux)
    Fix Timer B tick timing (Cool STE)

    11 September 2022

    R5 (Windows + Linux)
    GUI: Fix bad interaction between ALT-triggered and optional menu bar (Windows)

    Various fixes

    23 October 2022

    R6 (Windows-only)
    Disable snapshot saving when emulation thread running
    Some GUI adjustments

    18 December 2022

    R7 (Windows + Linux)
    OSD: no more unwanted debug info

    Fix ACSI command wrongly interpreted as SCSI

    Adjust MFP timer reading timing (Lethal Xcess, broken again!)

    28 May 2023

    R8 (Windows-only)
    Fix serious bug in selecting window size for each resolution when the option Show all settings is checked

    02 July 2023

    R9 (Windows + Linux)
    Various bugfixes

    17 September 2023

    R10 (Windows + Linux)


    Fix bit order of Mega STE CPU control

    07 October 2023

    R11 (Windows + Linux)


    Fix "turbo drive" extremely slow in MFM emulation

    02 December 2023

    R12 (Windows + Linux)


    Fix LEGACY My socks are weapons, broken R6

    Fix STE sound, broken R11 (oops!)

    15 December 2023

    R13 (Windows + Linux)


    "Christmas 2023 bugfix release"
    Fix OSD reset info

    Fix trash with ST Video/Single pixels

    24 December 2023

    R14 (Windows-only)
    "New year 2024 bugfix release"

    Fix options tool bar and status bar failing to update the window at once

    31 December 2023

    R15 (Windows-only, debugger only)


    Debugger bugfixes (see Steem SSE Debugger 4.1.2.rtf)

    07 April 2024

    R16 (Windows + Linux)


    Fix Getbpb() and Fsnext() in GEMDOS emulation (Geneva/NeoDesk)

    02 June 2024

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