Rich Whitehouse recently posted an update to his Atari Jaguar emulator, that adds some new features and bugfixes. He’s also working on an iOS version of the emulator, which is due to be released soon. As always, Rich’s Patreon supporters get early access to all of these builds; If you’re a fan of emulation, please consider supporting, as that’s what’s needed for this work to carry on! If you’re not in a position to support, Rich eventually releases everything publicly and you can find the previous Windows release right on his main page. Also, if you’d like to see what BigPEMu can offer, please check out the livestream (above) we recently did that showed off quite a few games and their enhancements:
Patreon Post with Downloads: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-bigpemu-100497615
Public Download: https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php
Version 1.16 Release Notes
- Lots of new interface functionality (including a touch-based interface option), courtesy of the mobile port work. All of this functionality can be accessed through the menu on non-mobile platforms.
- Multi-touch device support has been added for the Windows (x64 and ARM64) platforms, in order to take advantage of the touch interface work done for the mobile ports.
- Added a “Pad Wheel” feature, which can be activated through the input binding system.
- Support for a new BigPImage disc format. BigPImage files can be created from existing images or physical discs through the developer menu. Before anyone asks, CHD support looked problematic for quite a few reasons (mostly pertaining to the likelihood of image-based performance problems and implementation bloat inherent to the format), making this new format a much more optimal choice for the particular needs of this emulator.
- The iOS port is done, look for it on the App Store! (it’s still waiting on review at the time of this writing) Special thanks to neurocrash for putting so much time into testing the iOS build for me.
- Added stereoscopic rendering support to the AvP script.
- Added a new DOOM script with throttling and music options.
- Added a “Factory Reset” option, as a convenient means of resetting the configuration across all categories.
- Added an option to auto-assign new input devices. Devices will not be auto-assigned if they have any existing associations with any Jaguar inputs.
- Fixed an incredible number of bugs, pertaining to both interface and emulation. Because so many fixes have been made to the emulator core in this release, I’m especially interested in finding regression bugs. Please let me know if you experience any issues which don’t occur in 1.15.
