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  • The new section hardware has been added to the Atari 800 category, and my scan of ezcontents' excellent Atari 800 XL PCB remake is the first entry. It helps a lot in finding the correct component on a populated board.
  • All "capped.tv" links have been removed from productions since the corresponding website is down. In the future, I'll try to provide youtube videos where they are missing.
  • FAQ, Bad Apple HD, and other articles with been enhanced with more details, better wording, and fixed links.
  • AtariROMChecker has been enhanced with the "Atari ROM Patcher" tool to display, compute and fix OS checks sums for Atari XL/XE computers. Also, typos and swapped columns in the documentation have been fixed. Also, the disk images are now single-density, so they also work on Atari 810.

 

 

WUDSN IDE update 1.7.2 released

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This release aimed to get back on the latest Java and Eclipse versions. There are no functional changes.

Java and Eclipse

  • Java 11 is now the minimum requirement. Tests have also been conducted with Java 16.
  • Eclipse 2021-03 (4.19) is now the minimum requirement. Things will likely also work with versions 4.12 to 4.18 but have not been tested explicitly.

Compilers

FAQ

  • New answers to recurring questions regarding the installation of Java were added.

Fixes:

  • Many typos were fixed on the features page and the installation page.
  • Copyright, features, and GPL were updated to 2021.
  • If you see error messages and missing icons on the tabs in Eclipse upon start, your workspace needs to be refreshed. To this end, the ".metadata" folder inside the workspace folder must be deleted. This will also reset all your preferences, so export them before using "File / Export / Preferences / Assembler Preferences". When Eclipse is started again, you can import the projects and preferences again into the workspace. Yes, because the structure of the preferences section has changed to now support Pascal in addition to 6502 assembly language, not all values can be imported again,

Request for Help

It's been 11 years since I started using the plugin. Some significant things have changed in Eclipse, and I'd need help replacing the deprecated action/actionSets extension point. So, if anybody reading this has experience with PDE development in recent Eclipse builds, please get in touch with me.

WUDSN IDE update 1.7.1 released

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This release aimed to gain long-term stability and include pending fixes. It contains a lot of internal cleanups that you cannot set at the surface. The following visible changes are relevant for the users.

Java and Eclipse

  • After seven years of successfully maintaining compatibility with Java 1.6/1.7, all Eclipse versions, and the 32-bit architectures, an era ends. Support by fixes in Java and Eclipse is only available for Java 1.8 and Eclipse 4.10 and later, and both do not support 32-bit development environments anymore. Understandable in a time when every mobile phone has an 8-core 64-bit architecture. Therefore WUDSN IDE 1.7.1 requires Java 1.8, Eclipse 2019-06 (4.12), and a 64-bit operating system as a minimum.
  • The 1.7.1 is intentionally a minor version update, so there are no significant feature changes, and people who cannot migrate to the new environment can download the older version from the Releases page.

Pascal:

  • Source code editor added with the first version of syntax highlighting for Pascal Source Files (".pas")  that can be used with Mad Pascal.
  • Since building with MapPascal is a multi-step process, an example script file for compiling is included in the "Atari800/Pascal" folder of the zero installation download.

Hex Editor

  • Support for parsing the structure of files in Interchange File Format ("IFF") added.

Sound Editor

  •  POKEY emulation updated to ASAP 4.0.0 for compatibility and more accurate replay.

Fixes:

  • Online help now works again, thanks to the update to Java 1.8 and the newer Eclipse version.
  • Atari TrueType fonts by Mark Schmelzenbach are updated to version 1.2, which fixes the capital "J" look.
  • If the "Skip All Breakpoints" option is active, breakpoints are now correctly skipped.
  • Copyright, features, and GPL updated to 2020.
  • All links to the WUDSN site have been updated from "http://" to https://"

Request for Help

It's been 11 years now since I started with the plugin. Some significant things have changed in Eclipse, and I'd need help replacing the deprecated action/actionSets extension point. So if anybody reading this has experience with PDE development in the recent Eclipse builds, please get in touch with me.

Farewell Ultrasyd

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My all-time favorite chiptune musician Sydney unexpectedly died at the age of 39. I cannot believe this. I had the luck to meet him several times at Silly Venture and Revision. I was blown away by his music, motivation, and kindness. He and his music supported some of the best moments in my life. Another sorrowful day in the year 2020. All I can say is thank you, Sydney.

Priceless Youtube Spam

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I typically ignore spam and remove it, but this comment is so ridiculous that I must preserve it here. Priceless. 

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