Arculator 2.2

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Changes since last release :

- New podules: Acorn AEH50 Ethernet II, Acorn AEH54 Ethernet III, Acorn AKA32 SCSI Podule, Design IT Ethernet 200,

Morley A3000 User and Analogue Port, Risc Developments High Density Floppy Controller

- Support for HFE v3 and SCP disc images

- Integrated debugger

- Optimisations

- Bugfixes

Configuration

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Arculator requires you to create a machine configuration to emulate. Initially select a base

machine type, then configure the following options :

CPU - ARM2, ARM250, ARM3 of varying speeds

Note that ARM2 and ARM250 run at the same speed as memory/MEMC. ARM3 has it's own CPU clock.

ARM3 requires a MEMC1a

FPU - None or FPA10

FPA10 requires an ARM3

Memory - Varies depending on machine

Archimedes 305 & 310 support 512kB - 16MB

Archimedes 410/1, A3000 and A5000 support 1MB - 16MB

Archimedes 420/2 supports 2MB - 16MB

Archimedes 440, 440/1, 540 and A5000a support 4MB - 16MB

A3010 supports 1MB to 4MB

A4, A3020 and A4000 support 2MB to 4MB

MEMC - MEMC1 at 8 MHz, MEMC1a at 8 MHz, 12 MHz, or 16 MHz

MEMC1 is ~10% slower than MEMC1a, and does not support ARM3

16 MHz is an overclock and not a standard speed

OS - Arthur 0.30 - RISC OS 3.19

Archimedes 305, 310 and 440 can run all OS versions

Archimedes 4x0/1 and A3000 can run RISC OS 2.00 and later

Archimedes 540 can run RISC OS 2.01 and later

A5000 can run RISC OS 3.00 and later

A4, A3010, A3020, A4000 and A5000a can run RISC OS 3.10 and later

A500 has specific builds of Arthur, RISC OS 2.00 and RISC OS 3.10

Monitor - Standard, Multisync, VGA or Mono

Standard supports lower resolution modes (288 lines and lower)

Multisync supports all modes except high res mono

VGA supports high resolution modes only (350 lines and up). Games will mostly run

letterboxed

Mono only supports high res mono (1152x896)

Unique ID - Unique machine ID implemented on A3010, A3020, A4000, A5000 and A5000a systems

This is used by some copy protected software. Most users won't need to change this

Hard discs - Configures hard discs on internal interface (if present)

Archimedes A440 and A4x0/1 have an internal ST-506 interface

A3020, A4000, A4, A5000 and A5000a have an internal IDE interface

Other machines have no internal hard disc interface and need to use a podule

Joystick - Select emulated joystick interface. Available options :

A3010 - built in joystick ports. Supports 1 button per joystick

GamesPad - SNES controllers connected via printer port. Supports 8 buttons per joystick

RTFM - joystick interface installed into Econect socket. Supports 1 button per joystick

The Serial Port / Vertical Twist - joystick interface plugged into printer port.

Supports 2 buttons per joystick

Podules - Select and configure up to 4 podules per machine. Slot 1 in A30x0 and A4000 machines is

a minipodule slot supporting 8-bit minipodules. A3010, A3020 and A4000 have no support

for podules in any other slot. A4 has no podule support.

5th column ROM - Select a 5th column ROM to use on A4 and A5000 machines. A4 will use the default

LCD/BMU support ROM if nothing else is configured.

Arculator support extension ROM - Enable Arculator support ROM, including HostFS. This is only

available on RISC OS 3.

Podules

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Arculator supports add-on podules installed into the podules directory. It also has several

podules built in.

The podules supplied are :

- Acorn AEH50 Ethernet II

Supported on both RISC OS and RISCiX. See Readme-NETWORKING.txt for setup details.

- Acorn AEH54 Ethernet III

Supported on RISC OS only. See Readme-NETWORKING.txt for setup details.

- Acorn AKA05 ROM Podule

Supports up to 5 ROMs per podule, plus up to 2 banks of RAM. Battery backed RAM is not

currently emulated.

- Acorn AKA10 IO Podule w/ AKA15 MIDI podule

MIDI and analogue functionality are emulated. Analogue is mapped to joysticks. MIDI in

has not been well tested.

- Acorn AKA12 MIDI/IO Podule (8-bit)

MIDI and analogue functionality are emulated. Analogue is mapped to joysticks. MIDI in

has not been well tested.

- Acorn AKA16 MIDI Podule

MIDI in/out.

- Acorn AKA31/AKA32 SCSI Controller

Supports hard discs and CD-ROM drives. SCSIFS only supports four hard discs, starting

from ID 0. The current podule emulates a single Toshiba XM-3301 drive, which can be at

any ID, and is mapped to a physical or virtual drive.

There are several versions of the ROM for this podule. AKA31 works on RISC OS 2 and later.

AKA32 requires RISC OS 3 and includes the CDFS modules.

- Acorn AKD52 Hard Disc Controller

ST-506 podule, for use with Archimedes 305, 310 and 540 machines. Supports two hard drives.

This will most likely not work on other machines.

- Aleph One 386/486PC Card

PC card based on a 386SX design with 1 or 4 MB of RAM. Current emulation supports the base

386SX25, higher spec 486SLC/25 and later 486SLC2/50 CPUs, optionally with a 387 FPU. !PC

v2.06 was used; note that later versions may require RiscPC hardware and hence are not

suitable here. Currently the original 'Diva'/'slow PAL' card is emulated.

- Computer Concepts ColourCard

Supports higher desktop resolutions with up to 256 colours, and non-desktop resolutions

with 16-bit colour.

CC's FlipTop application is required to select the new modes. You must also load a module

containing mode definitions, my copy of the software has 'AcornMulti' and 'Taxan795'

modules. Either will work under emulation.

- Computer Concepts Lark

MIDI in/out, 16-bit sample playback/recording. Sample recording has a few issues, the

other functions appear to work okay.

- Design IT Ethernet 200

A3020/4000 specific networking. See Readme-NETWORKING.txt for setup details.

- HCCS Ultimate CD-ROM Podule

Emulates a single Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, mapped to a physical or virtual drive.

- ICS ideA Hard Disc Interface

Supports two hard drives, using IDEFS v3.10.

- Morley A3000 User and Analogue Port

Analogue is mapped to joysticks.

- Oak 16-bit SCSI Interface

Supports hard discs and CD-ROM drives. SCSIFS only supports four hard discs, starting

from ID 0. The current podule emulates a single Toshiba XM-3301 drive, which can be at

any ID, and is mapped to a physical or virtual drive. The ROM image I have does not

contain any CDFS modules, these will have to be loaded seperately.

One quirk I discovered - Oak's !SCSIForm application works best with caps lock turned ON.

Otherwise it may silently fail format/initialisation commands.

- RISC Developments IDE Controller

Supports two hard drives, using IDEFS v1.15.

- State Machine G16 Graphic Accelerator

Supports higher desktop resolutions with up to 256 colours, and non-desktop resolutions

with 16-bit colour.

The G16 does not have pass-through, so a podule configuration option determines whether

the emulated monitor is connected to the Archimedes or G16 video out. Whether the card is

in use or not depends on the RISC OS 'G8Monitor' configuration option; if 0 then the

standard video is in use, otherwise the G16 is in use.

The DeskMode application is required to select the new modes.

- Wild Vision MIDI Max

MIDI in/out.

- ZIDEFS IDE Controller

Supports two hard drives, using ZIDEFS.

- ZIDEFS 8-bit IDE Controller

Supports two hard drives, using ZIDEFS.

Menus

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File :

Hard reset - Hard-resets the Archimedes

Exit - Exits the emulator

Disc :

Change drive 0-3 - Loads a new disc image into drives 0-3

Eject drive 0-3 - Unloads any disc image that might be loaded from drives 0-3

Disc drive noise - Enable/disable and control volume of 3.5" disc drive noise

Video :

Fullscreen - Switch to fullscreen mode. Use CTRL+END to exit back to windowed mode

Border size :

No borders - Don't draw video borders

Native borders - Draw borders as programmed by RISC OS

Fixed (standard monitor) borders - Draw borders to the fixed size of a 'standard'

TV-resolution monitor.

Blit method :

Scanlines - Scale low resolution mode using blank scanlines

Line doubling - Scale low resolution mode using line doubling

Render driver - Select between Auto, Direct3D, OpenGL and Software rendering

Scale filtering - Select between nearest sampling (blocky) and linear sampling (blurry)

when scaling up video

Output stretch-mode :

None - No limits on scaling

4:3 - Force 4:3 aspect ratio when scaling

Square pixels - Force square pixels when scaling

Integer scale - Force integer pixel scaling

Output scale - Allow fixed video scaling from 0.5x - 4x

Sound :

Sound enable - Enable/disable sound

Stereo sound - Enable/disable stereo

Output level - Control optional sound amplification from 0 to 18 dB

Output filter - Control strength of sound low-pass filter. Reduced filtering sounds less

muffled but may introduce aliasing noise

Settings :

Configure machine - Configuration of emulated machine

Debugger :

Enable debugger - Enable and disable debugger window

Break - Trigger an immediate break to disassembler

Compatibility

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The below OSes/applications/games/demos are known to work on this version :

Arthur 0.30

Arthur 1.20

RISC OS 2.00

RISC OS 2.01

RISC OS 3.00

RISC OS 3.10

RISC OS 3.11

RISC OS 3.19

RISCiX 1.21

2067BC

3D Chess

Aggressor

Air Supremacy

Aldebaran

Alerion (FDI)

Alien Invasion

Aliped

Alone in the Dark

Ankh (CD-ROM)

Apocalypse

ArcPinball (HFE)

Axis

Battle Chess (FDI)

Big Bang

Birds of War (HFE)

Black Angel (HFE)

Blitz (FDI)

Block Out

Bloxed

Blowpipe

Bobby Blockhead vs The Dark Planet

Boogie Buggy (FDI)

Botkiller

Botkiller 2

Brian Clough's Football Fortunes (FDI)

Bug Hunter

Bug Hunter in Space

Burn 'Out (HFE v3)

Cannon Fodder

Cataclysm

Chuck Rock

Command Ship (HFE)

Corruption

Cyber Ape (HFE)

Cycloids (HFE)

Darkwood (APD)

Days of Steam

Demon's Lair (FDI)

Diggers

Doom+

Dragonball

Drifter

Drop Ship

Dune II

Dune II (CD-ROM)

EGO: Repton 4

Elite

Empire Soccer 94

Enigma

Enter The Realm (HFE)

E-Type

Fine Racer

Fire & Ice (SCP)

Fireball II

Fish

Flashback

FRED (HFE)

FTT (HFE)

Galactic Dan (FDI)

Global Effect

Gorm

Grevious Bodily 'ARM (FDI)

Guile

Gyrinus II - Son of Gyrinus

Hamsters

Heimdall

Hero Quest (HFE)

Holed Out

Inertia

Inferno (HFE v3)

Interdictor

Interdictor 2

Iron Lord

Ixion (HFE)

Jahangir Kahn's World Championship Squash (HFE)

James Pond (HFE)

James Pond 2 : Robocod (HFE)

Jinxter

Karma - The Flight Trainer

Leeds United Champions

Lemmings

Lemmings 2 : The Tribes

Letrouve

Loopz

Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (HFE)

Mad Professor Mariarti

Magic Pockets (APD)

Man At Arms

Manchester United

Manchester United Europe

Master Break (FDI)

Micro Drive

MiG-29 Fulcrum

Mirror Image (HFE)

Moonquake

Mr Doo

Nebulus

Nevryon (APD)

No Excuses

Oh No! More Lemmings (HFE)

Overload (Clares)

Overload (Paradise) (HFE v3)

Pac-Mania

Pandora's Box (APD)

Paradroid 2000

Phaethon (HFE)

Pipemania

Poizone

Populous (HFE)

Premier Manager (HFE)

Pushy II

Repton 3 (HFE)

Revelation

Revolver

Sensible Soccer (HFE)

Shanghai

SimCity (HFE)

SimCity 2000

Simon The Sorcerer

Simon The Sorcerer (CD-ROM)

Silver Ball

Small

Speedball 2

Spheres of Chaos

Spobbleoid Fantasy (HFE)

Sporting Triangles

Star Fighter 3000 (HFE)

Stunt Racer 2000

Super Snail

SWIV

Syndicate+ (CD-ROM)

Technodream (FDI)

The Chaos Engine

The Crystal Maze

The Dungeon (APD)

The Last Ninja (HFE)

Top Banana

Tower of Babel

Twinworld

Warlocks

WIMP Chess

Wolfenstein 3D (HFE)

Wonderland

World Championship Boxing Manager

Xenon II (HFE)

Zarch (HFE)

Zool (HFE)

1st Word Plus (v2.01)

Acorn Advance (v1.01)

Acorn C/C++

ArtWorks (v1.70)

AudioWorks (v1.38)

Browse (v2.01)

Eureka (v3.00)

Impression Publisher (v4.09)

Impression Style (v3.10)

Miracle (v0.10)

Music Studio 32

Notate

PC Emulator (v1.82)

Rhapsody 2

Rhapsody 3

Studio 24 (v1.10)

The Complete Animator (v1.04) (HFE)

Albert's House (HFE)

Crystal Rainforest 2

Darryl The Dragon (HFE)

Edwina's Energetic Elephant

Fun School 2 - Under 6s

Fun School 3 - Over 7s

Fun School 4 - 5-7s

Granny's Garden (HFE)

Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia (CD-ROM)

KidPix

My World 2

Playdays (HFE)

Vikings! (CD-ROM)

Adept - Adept

Arc Angels - Megademo

ArcEmpire - Transmortal

Archiologics - Jojo

Archiologics & Icebird - Ostern Rulez!

ARM's Tech - Cakehead 2

Armaxess - Risc Dream

BASS - TNT

BASS et al - Xtreme

Bitshifters - Back By Popular Demand

Bitshifters - Tipsy Cube

Brothers in ARM - 0 Borders

Brothers in ARM - BIAtris

Brothers in ARM - Bounce

Brothers in ARM - Demo^2

Brothers in ARM - Ikosaeder

Brothers in ARM - Rotate

Brothers in ARM - Sister

Desire - Asynchronous

DHS - Signals

Expression - Insanity

Expression - Signum

FSG - Funky Demo

FSG - Funky Demo 2

Karl Morton - Coppersine

Nophobia - Come and See

progen - Bad Apple

progen - Reach

progen - I Heard You Like Dithering

Quantum - Liquid Dreams

Rabenauge & Bitshifters - Chipo Django

Rabenauge & Bitshifters - Chipo Django 2

Shifty - Brain Dead

Shifty - Sine Wave Demo

SICK - Ba!

Squoquo - Black Zone

Squoquo - Digital Prophecy

The Chip Duo - Powerscroll

The Master - Horizon

The Xperience - Xcentric

Xymox Project - Time's Up

Zarquon - Metamorphosis

PC card :

After Dark 3.0

Civilization for Windows

Microsoft Arcade

MS-DOS 6.22

Windows 95

Windows for Workgroups 3.11

Works for Windows 3.0

Sarah

b-em@bbcmicro.com