Release write-ups & development notes
What changed and why, written by a person rather than generated from a changelog. There is an RSS feed if you would like these the old-fashioned way.
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12 July 2026
Copperline 0.11.0: boot from a host directory
Host directories mounted - and booted - as live AmigaDOS volumes, the blitter's BLTPRI bus fence, a 68000 microcode write-ordering pass, sprite serialization measured against other emulators and real hardware, and a 6x cut in worst-case frame times on slower hosts.
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7 July 2026
Copperline 0.10.0: the 68060, the MMUs and a much bigger debugger
The 68060 joins the CPU line-up, the 68030 / 68040 gain real MMU and cache behaviour, the debugger grows a command console plus Video, Audio and IO Map tabs, and the A4091 SCSI board, MIDI and TCP serial bridges and zipped floppies arrive - much of it contributed.
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29 June 2026
Copperline 0.9.0: the FPU deep-dive
An 80-bit 68881/68882 accuracy pass with pure-Rust softfloat, explicit joystick input selection, save states that restore without the original ROM, and the usual round of CIA, Paula, keyboard and display-timing fixes.
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27 June 2026
Copperline 0.8.0
The no-config machine launcher, external WASM Zorro board plugins, A2065 Ethernet with a loopback backend, and a long list of sprite, Denise and bitplane timing fixes.
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25 June 2026
Copperline 0.7.0
Expanded machine profiles (A500 Rev 6A, A500OCS, A500+, A1000), conditional and counted breakpoints, warp-speed frame skipping, and the first macOS .dmg release builds.
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Earlier releases live on the GitHub releases page. Full write-ups start at 0.9.0; from here on, every release gets one.