Bliss 1.52 and Xanadu 0.61
posted in Emulator Release by xip on Apr 5th, 2001
Bliss is an Intellivision emulator written in Java, and Xanadu is a C++ port of Bliss that has Kaillera support. Here's what's new:
Bliss
Fixed emulation bug that prevented Dreadnaught Factor from working. Thanks go to Joe Zbiciak for the troubleshooting help.
Fixed emulation bug that prevented Melody Blaster from working.
Completed a rewrite of the audio mixer to enable much higher quality audio output. Since this can adversely affect performance, an option has been added to the options dialog to allow the user to enable or disable high quality audio mixing.
Reorganized some of the DirectX code in an attempt to fix the DirectX video and input problems some users have been experiencing.
Fixed the View -- All Games/Available Games" menu options so that the current view is remembered when you restart Bliss.
Corrected some palette inaccuracies. Joe Zbiciak originally provided the palette colors, but I converted from his 24-bit colors to 16-bit colors for DirectX performance reasons. However, I just discovered that my math was bad so some of the color conversions were off. This has been fixed in this release and the palette is noticeably better.
Xanadu
Fixed emulation bug that prevented Dreadnaught Factor from working. Thanks go to Joe Zbiciak for the troubleshooting help.
Fixed emulation bug that prevented Melody Blaster from working.
Fixed bug that was causing erroneous messages that "File `exec.bin' does not contain the correct Executive ROM".
Corrected some palette inaccuracies. Joe Zbiciak originally provided the palette colors, but I converted from his 24-bit colors to 16-bit colors for DirectX performance reasons. However, I just discovered that my math was bad so some of the color conversions were off. This has been fixed in this release and the palette is noticeably better.
Get them at the Intellivision page. Thanks to Joe Gross for the news.
