Current version (May 2023 v1.05)
A significant issue with how CapGUI checksums ROMs identified and fixed, various minor updates to the core library and GUI, various tests and hash files, website
Specific thanks to Brian King and Richard Gadd for identifying some issues.
CapitolineDLL (core)
Out of bounds (negative) checks prevent coredump in aliasromdata()
Searching aliases wasn’t case sensitive, so $FileSystem.resource finds filesystem first and matches the first bit
romprofile usage made more consistent
CapGUI
Renamed some tabs to be more logically named (Object Browser -> Files, ROMs -> Loaded ROMs)
GUI didn’t checksum properly (would only automatically checksum the first ROM in the profile list)
“Extract library to file” didn’t work, so I moved it to the “Loaded ROMs” tab
CLI -> [Load] now works
Couldn’t create 256k ROMs (I read the value of the “bytewap” checkbox instead, doh…)
Change default [X] Byteswap – unless you prefer your burner to byteswap, it’s a more sensible default
Hash Files
All Cloanto ROMs that have bad ENDSKIP now have (partial) hashes.
Patched Cloanto ROMs now have hashes
Early Hyperion 3.1 ROMs added
RAT
A test to patch the Cloanto ROMs to standard (extractable) ROMs will create the ROMs
A test for 2.x 1Mb ROM for A600 added
RatGUI hasn’t needed any updates and remains at v1.02
Website
More detail on how to create 1Mb ROMs
Early Hyperion 3.1 ROMs added
Documentation for romprofile usage wasn’t very clear and actually could be inconsistent
Previous version (1st April 2023 v1.04)
Better support for Superkick, wildcard adding from another ROM, hashes tidied up a bit more, couple of tests added
CapGUI
Profiles – Better validation of the intended target Amiga, added SuperKick options
Hashes
Added some titles and descriptions
Added a missing 3.0 (39.106) definition
Fixed a couple of Walker component hashes
RAT
Added creation of a Hyperion 3.2.2 Superkick floppy for A3000/v1.4
Added creation of a 1Mb Hyperion ROM for the A1200 using the CD32 exec (no 1Mb patching needed)
Website
Known ROM list now contains ROMBase
Known ROM list now has a link to the modules in a ROM
Previous version (9th March 2023 v1.03)
Quick fix to show allow unknown Components to be added to ROMs, couple of recipes fixed, unknown ADF detection fixed
CapCli
- Automatically selects current directory for faster start-up and so you can’t get it wrong.
- Allows you to select unknown components via CapGUI.
- Bug detecting some unknown ADFs fixed, not really identified, I just did it differently and it worked.
Recipes and tests (Rat)
Hyperion 1Mb ROMs for A3000, A4000, A4000T had a typo… or three… doh. fixed
Previous version (8th March 2023 v1.02)
New tests, minor bugfix, new tool for Windows RatGUI a graphical interface to automated tests
RatGUI
The “Recipes and Tests” now have a Windows GUI, a little quicker and more visual for all you command prompt adverse people, the standard recipes now include more of what you want, without expending any effort.
Drop your ROMs into the ROMs dir, your ADFs into the ADFs dir and click “[Run all tests]” it will quickly create the standard ROMs (if you have the ingredients).
I’ll update the howto/Recipes pages at some point soon.
Tests
Added 1Mb versions of all the Hyperion 3.2.2 ROMs with Workbench/Icon
Added a 1Mb A600/A1200 Hyperion 3.2.2 ROM with Workbench/Icon/CompactFlash/Fat95
Previous version (5th March 2023 v1.01)
Small fixes and hash file updates
Bugfixes
ADF
adfsavezip fixed, the file count stored in the zip didn’t include directories so gave an error with missing directory entries (still worked, but not a fully compliant zip).
Zip files now have (mostly) correct timestamps, they are based on the FFS timestamp, but because of different formats (the insanely bad MSDOS timestamps in in Zip files), limits (1978 start vs 1980), and TIMEZONE when converting the date (depending on DST) they could well be different from the original.
CapCLI
add from a library archive (such as Boing Bag) fixed, not sure when I broke it, but test building 3.9 ROMs ended up in a coredumpy mess, maybe this never worked.
Hash files
More ReloKick floppies added to known ROMs
Hyperion v3.2.2 ROMs and Modules added
Tests
Automated test for 1Mb Hyperion v3.2.2 ROM for A600 with icon/workbench/PCMCIA/fat95 added, you’ll need the 3.2.2 ROM, Modules ADF, compact flash and fat95 modules
Previous version (Feb 2023 v1.00)
Major feature update, “analyserom” now uses component hash files to identify known components
Standard “Recipes and Tests” added, to check Cap works and to be used as template examples
Quite a few small (unmentioned) fixes and a couple of important ones like CD32 ROM writing fixed, broken in last release
Quite a lot of tidying hash files and adding ROM hashes, after fixing how unordered relocs are handled
Bugfixes
Patcher
Patching components that don’t have relocs no longer coredumps
findopcode was broken since previous missassembler updates (didn’t check!), also tweaked to do more exhaustive searches (every two bytes)
Saving CD32 ROMs
Saving a CD32 formatted ROM works again now, I had inadvertently reordered the interleaving process which made them unusable, this is now documented here!
CapCLI “add”
Adding components without relocs no longer risks null pointer access (tried to access a null list)
Adding components with unordered relocs could lead to inconsistent hashes (auto sorts them now)
Adding unallocated space works properly now (adds as a component)
Hash Files
Previously missed 1.x 2.x 3.x components added
Definition fixed for 0xbc0ec13f.Kickstart v1.4 beta 3 r36.16 (1990-03)(Commodore)(A3000)[!] (and the two bad hashes removed, thanks to Greg Donner)
Defintion added for 0x17d949e3.0x17d949e3.Kickstart 1.4 r36.15 Beta 4
Definitions for early KS2 v36/v37 added
Amiga Forever definitions added
Hyperion ROMs and component hashes fixed when components has unordered relocs
Superkick hashes (floppy and file) now properly analysed
Enhancements
CapCLI
analyserom – Significant update, now uses hash files (not just loaded components) for more complete component identification, you no longer have to have extracted files or known ROMs to identify known components, and you don’t have to load them
Added * to roms command output to show current rom
adfsavezip – lets you save a loaded ADF file as a zip file
rombase – The rombase command now patches already added libraries to the new address, you can relocate an entire ROM to a new ROMBASE this way.
It doesn’t currently update kickity-split, extended ROMHEADER or SKSize, and you need to checksum the ROM before use.
Missassembler
Default debug level reduced when adding comments/labels to cut down on noise
Added misshints.ini (see Features->Missassembler for more info)
CapGUI
Lots of icon and colour tidy ups (and a nasty green replaced with a nice purple)
“Save ADF to Zip” added to the ADF: options once an ADF is loaded
Website
All new website created, all the old content copied, plus a few new pages added, HowTo, ROM list (big update), Kickstart formats, features