UniPCemu build 2018/07/28 15:42 is now live!

Various hardware and CPU support(for Android versions) improvements and bugfixes, dropping old Android platforms.

Changes:

• Fixed various static code analysis warnings.
• Some Android compiler warnings have been resolved.
• Don't call freemem when not required during emulator initialization.
• STL isn't used in a plain C project.
• Modified defaults to be a minimal emulation(8086 CPU, minimal hardware for a basic IBM PC, IPS clocking mode).
• Made the debugger thread and the POST thread mutually exclusive.
• Made the debugger able to reset the emulator when the Settings menu requests it(when choosing to do so in the Main Settings menu).
• Don't relaunch the debugger when resetting.
• Prevented reboot from the debugger from debugging the emulator POST thread(properly disabling the debugger when POSTing the emulator internals).
• Made the port I/O accesses Big-Endian compatible.
• Fixed newer Android NDK linker issues.
• Updates the NDK to the most recent version. The API level is now 21(with backwards support for level 14 and older NDK compilers at level 14 as well).
• Improved debugger initialized state to be non-intrusive.
• Don't clear serial received data. Only clear availability line when set, keeping the lastly received data in the Data Holding register.
• Improved UART interrupt causes checking and priorities.
• Optimized HLT state debugging and needdebugger calls.
• Optimized debugger_logging after needdebugger calls.
• Optimized CPU pending reset.
• Improved UART modem status change detection.
• Improved UART line status input buffer full detection.
• Improved the UART to properly send/receive.
• Improved the UART to send or receive, but not both at the same timing.
• UART receiving has priority over sending.
• Improved UART emulation by applying data sending and receiving to be applied interleaved when both apply(both buffers are filled all the time).
• Improved initial UART receiver/transmitter buffer status to both be empty.
• Fixed the modem to flush the correct escape character instead of a number identifying the amount of escapes when changing the escape character.

New features and big changes:

• The Android armeabi and MIPS platforms have been dropped in order to support the newer Android 64-bit platforms. The API has been updated to require Android 4.3 and above.
• UART emulation has been improved.
• Debugging has been improved with various bugfixes.
• Improved default states for settings(it's a minimal usable machine now, a basic IBM PC(using IPS clocking mode for speed)).