Virtual Super System v0.82

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on Apr 13th, 2004

VSS, an Atari 5200 emulator for DOS, was updated recently. Here is what's new:
  • Support for Bounty Bob put back in
  • PRIOR bit 5 implemented. Causes overlapping players to produce a third color in the overlapped area.
  • Updgraded to Allegro 4.0
  • Switched back to Allegro Sound library
  • Bit 0 of PM color registers is now dropped as it should be
  • Added full support for 2 controllers
  • Re-arranged some of the default keys
  • Compensated for stolen CPU cycles during DMA. River Raid now works
  • Fixed display list handling, Blaster now works
  • Bounty Bob will now load if you try to load any of the three files that make it up. -BB switch not needed but still works
  • Support for loading 40K Bounty Bob File
  • Support for 64K bank switch mode
  • New command line option -map16k to select 16K single ROM mode
  • New debug commands added:
    • colorpal - show the full 128 color pallette
    • colorpalgtia - show the full 256 GTIA color pallette
    • display - shows the last display the was rendered
    • dif - Disassemble to a file
    • wa - Watch address command, allows breaking when an address changes
You can grab a copy from our Atari 5200 Emulators section.