Boycott Advance

v0.3.6 (October 6th, 2005)

http://www.bannister.org/software/

This document contains information specific to Boycott Advance. For

general information about emulators and the program interface,
please see the "About the Shell" document.

What is it?

Boycott Advance is a Gameboy Advance emulator for Macintosh.

Speed

Boycott Advance is not a fast emulator. You will not get consistent full frame rate on this
emulator if you do not have a G4 running at at least 600MHz. Boycott Advance is not
designed to be a substitute for the real system - if you want to play GBA games, buy a
GBA.

Using the Real BIOS

Boycott Advance can use a real Gameboy Advance BIOS image, although it is not
required. This must be named gbasys.bin and be placed in the Boycott Advance folder.
DO NOT ASK ME TO SEND YOU THIS FILE. Note that some games work better with
the real BIOS, and some work better without. Your mileage may vary :)

Version History

v0.3.6 - October 6th, 2005

- Updated to shell version 1.6. See "About the Shell" for changes.

v0.3.5 - June 20th, 2004

- v0.3.4 inadvertently broke real BIOS support. Fixed.

v0.3.4 - June 19th, 2004

- Ported to Mach-O environment.

- Updated to shell version 1.5. See "About the Shell" for changes.

v0.3.3 - December 25th, 2003

- Updated to shell version 1.4.1. See "About the Shell" for changes.

v0.3.2 - December 5th, 2003

- Fixed support for SRAM again (inadvertently broken in v0.3.1).

v0.3.1 - December 3rd, 2003

- Added support for 128K flash. This allows Mario Advance 4 to work (and maybe
others).

- Updated to shell version 1.3.1. See "About the shell" document for changes.

v0.3.0 - September 3rd, 2003

- Updated to shell version 1.1. See "About the shell" document for changes.

v0.2.9 - August 7th, 2003

- Ported to the new emulator shell. Too many changes to list.

v0.2.8 - May 19th, 2003

- In sync with the latest changes for Windows.

v0.2.7 - December 25th, 2002

- In sync with the latest changes for windows.

- Added support for joysticks under Mac OS X. Note that this requires a copy of Blitter
Library.

v0.2.6 - January 29th, 2002

- In sync with the latest changes for windows.

- New and improved automatic frameskipping code. Automatic frameskip should now
give the optimal frame rate at all times. (I will be rolling this code out to my other
emulator ports as I get time to do so).

v0.2.5 - January 2nd, 2002

- In sync with the latest changes for windows.

v0.2.4 - November 19th, 2001

- In sync with the latest code for Windows. Notable changes include improved
compatibility and some optimizations.

- Bug in multiprocessor code leading to memory corruption fixed.

v0.2.3 - October 10th, 2001

- In sync with v0.23 for Windows. The new code adds a number of compatibility
improvements over the previous release. Be aware that the BIOS image must now be
named "gbasys.bin" instead of "bios.gba".

- Fixed a crash bug under Mac OS X 10.1.

- Battery RAM and Quick Freezes are now saved in their own folders.

v0.2.2 - August 20th, 2001

In sync with the latest code for Windows. Notable changes include:

- Missing sound channels have been fixed.

- The emulator has been sped up significantly, thanks to some work by Gil Pedersen.

- Several compatibility improvements.

v0.2.1 - July 30th, 2001

In sync with v0.2.1 for Windows. Notable changes include:

- Sound support implemented. Some sounds are still missing, though.

- Underclocking option removed. It was no longer feasable now that sound has been
implemented. The speed hit has been offset somewhat, however, by a lot of
optimizations.
- Sprite scaling and rotation implemented.

v0.2.0 - July 4th, 2001

Note that this version is not precisely equivalent to v0.2.0 for Windows. Julien released
his version and then went on holiday, without mailing the source code around. I took the
code that was sent around that evening (a few hours later) and this version is based on
that.

- Improved both speed and compatibility.

- Added saved state support.

- Added battery backed RAM support.

v0.1.9 - June 15th, 2001

- Initial Release