25.Jun.2024
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 10 updates R2 and R3
Over the past few months, updates have been released for Cloanto's official emulation and support suites "Amiga Forever" and "C64 Forever", which we would like to report on due to some rather promising new features. The current, free update 10 "R3" can be obtained from the Help/About dialogue in Amiga Forever or C64 Forever, alternatively the complete packages and ISO image are available for download from the Help sub-item "My Downloads and Keys".
A mechanism for exporting/importing the configuration for backup purposes and for transferring between computers has now been implemented (Tools menu). In addition to migration to the same version, this function also supports export to higher software versions, which forms the basis for future major upgrades on different computers.
Over the years, the advent of a wide variety high-DPI displays made it impractical to rely on a fixed list of buttons to resize the emulation window (1X, 2X, 3X, 4X, etc.),. In the R2 build, a new resize feature was introduced, using the familiar click-and-drag mechanism, and offering a choice between the faster and higher-quality integer scaling, and a "fine resize" via Alt+drag. The R3 update further improves on this, adding status bar messages and dynamic previews of the possible integer-scaled window sizes.
Other notable changes include better recognition of the emulation window by screen capture and recording tools (OBS, Streamlabs, Twitch streaming, etc.), support for additional game controllers and an improved Internet modem, now with Telnet options.
This release also includes many other minor optimisations, improvements and bug fixes as well as support for some of the latest system features introduced with Windows 11 24H2. The changelog in Help/About contains further details. (nba)
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