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v4.2 coming soon
Published on December 19, 2021 by Dimitris Panokostas

Hi everyone!
There's a lot of work done after the last stable release (4.1.6), mostly with bug fixes merged from WinUAE, but also several new features or updates. Here are a few highlights:
- Floppy Drive Bridge updated to the latest version, and became an external library to match WinUAE's approach. There is also a new wiki page describing how to enable/install it: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Enable-FloppyDriveBridge-support-(Optional). It is no longer enabled from the Expansions panel, but rather from the Floppy (and Quickstart) one. Currently, only Compatible and Accurate modes seem to work reliably however, but I'm still looking into the reason why the faster modes throw errors.
- All the updates from WinUAE, except the custom chipset and drawing changes. Those are still kept in the "dev" branch only for now, because they are much slower. We'll see if we can optimize the performance there...
- Support for protection Dongles. These were used in some games and applications, the feature is now identical to that of WinUAE.
- All the options in amiberry.conf are now configurable from the command line. If you use the command line options, they will override anything in amiberry.conf - keep that in mind if you save your configuration afterwards!
- Configurable paths for all the dependency sub-directories.
- Fixed old bug that caused random noise sometimes to be heard, when using Pull audio mode.
- Fixed bug where UTF-8 directory names could not be read when using directories as Hard Drives. This was noticeable if you tried to use Locale options that included such a directory, e.g. "français"
- It's now possible to use relative paths as well as symlinks, for command line options and drive/floppy paths.
- Improved Help documentation in GUI in several areas, to make things more clear.
- Fixed old bug where Mouse Map when using a controller didn't work. It's now working, using the Left analog stick and Left Shoulder/Right Shoulder buttons acting as Left/Right mouse buttons. This option is useful if you only have a controller in Port 1 and no mouse, and you might need to use the mouse (e.g. to click through an intro).
- You can now select a device name representing a real Amiga HDD, and use it in Amiberry. For example, you can connect a real Amiga disk using a USB adapter, and select it (e.g. /dev/sda) as a HardFile. Amiberry will use it directly, as long as your user has enough permissions to that device (you might need to assign those first, or change the owner).

I'll look into supporting real CD drives also, once I get a USB CD/DVD drive to test with. :)

Amiberry v4.2 is planned to be released soon, and you can already get it from the "master" branch on Github.

Stay safe, until the next time!