Furnace v0.6.3

[tildearrow]

check out the changelog.

changes

• say hello to my new commitment: Furnace for Legacy Systems!

  • as of now Windows XP is a first-class citizen
  • better defaults for the Windows XP version of Furnace
  • OpenGL 2.0 and 1.1 backends for those with old graphics cards
  • software backend if you don't have graphics at all
    • yes, it's faster than SDL_Renderer software backend
    • safe mode now uses this backend
  • added setting to disable loading fallback fonts to save memory
  • added setting to configure font oversample, again to save memory

• macOS improvements

  • fix macOS .dmg not being mountable in OS X (10.11 and earlier)
  • Metal render backend
  • OpenGL render backend now available as well
  • fix macOS version not running at all on macOS 10.12 and earlier
    • thanks to macports-legacy-support
  • finally, FINALLY fix "damaged" issue
    • you still have to right click and select Open though
    • in recent versions of macOS you may still have to go to System Preferences > Privacy and allow the application to be opened...

• new Bifurcator system

  • featuring an unique sound generation method. check it out!

• SID2 fantasy chip

• user presets category!

  • create your own system presets so you can select them in the New Song dialog

• TFM Music Maker import

  • thanks techmetx11

• the 9xxx (sample offset) effect has changed

  • it's now 90xx for the first byte, 91xx for the second byte (equivalent to old 90xx) and 92xx for the third byte (9x00)

• implement sample offset effect for some chips which didn't support it before

  • AY-3-8910
  • AY8930
  • Dave
  • Lynx
  • MMC5
  • NES
  • PC Engine
  • QSound
  • SegaPCM
  • VERA
  • VRC6
  • WonderSwan

• add emu2413 core

  • 20% the load of Nuked-OPLL for those with slower CPUs

• add YM2608-LLE core

  • new core by nukeykt
  • very, VERY slow but accurate. not useful for playback.

• add AtomicSSG core

  • SSG core extracted from YM2608-LLE

• add core quality settings for some emulation cores

  • allows you to reduce CPU usage, or increase quality

• add option to disable VSync

  • including a frame limiter

• NES: retrigger note if sweep is enabled

• faster sample format conversion

• add option to repeat note/value input when key is held

• add ability to change coarse edit step

• store keyboard note input binds when exporting keybinds

• built-in fonts now better compressed

• update Unifont to unifont_jp 15.1.05

• graphics vendor/device/API version now displayed in settings

• compress intro tune a bit

• add command line options to disable keyboard input and status output

• add "pipe" audio output mode

  • outputs 16-bit little-endian audio to stdout
  • useful for chaining with other programs

• add MIME types on Linux/Unix

  • thanks Essem

• PowerNoise fixes

  • fix volume column ignored on lack of volume macro
  • fix muting (for real this time)
  • remove PAL option

• OPNA and OPNB: fix ADPCM-A/RSS volume not restoring when playing back from the middle of the song

• fix crash when loading IMA ADPCM sample

• fix crash when configuring GBA MinMod chip in Initial system

• fix crash when changing interface colors if per-channel osc is multi-threaded

• fix Nintendo DS noise LFSR

• fix Nintendo DS PSG output

• fix background color not changing at all

• fix macro scale still being limited to 128

• fix FreeType font advance when hinting is off

• fix duplicate entries in wave size selector

• fix missing TED instrument color setting

• fix FDxx/FExx effect colors

• AY: fix 1.99MHz clock rate not being there (used by PC-88 preset)

• fix make patterns unique and sort orders buttons in pattern manager not working

• fix some BRR samples not stopping

• fix keybind reset not affecting note input binds

• OPL: fix OPL3-L rate when using YMF262-LLE

• fix issue with "apply filter" option in sample editor

  • make sure from/to cutoff values are within range
  • use rate for reference instead of compat rate

• documentation updates

• new demo songs

macOS users

the "damaged" issue is finally fixed - hopefully. right click Furnace and select Open to open Furnace.

try out the new Metal render backend. go to Settings.

thanks

Metal testing team:

• Diggo
• konard
• NaxeCode
• scratchminer

macOS "damaged" app investigation:

• emberdex
• nadiaholmquist

other:

• LTVA1 for SID2
• techmetx11 for TFM import

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This discussion was created from the release Furnace v0.6.3.

[tolik518]

This is great, I love that Windows XP support. There's something magical about new software on old systems

[MarisaKirisame7]

Now my good old Pentium III PC can be used for making something cool