The idea was to have FPGA handle the ATA interface, including DMA burst transfers, while external MCU will run part of Makaron GD code and take care of all the high-level stuff. 2GB Secure Digital card will provide necessary GD data.
I realized that EP2C20 can easily host both the interface and a soft-core NIOS II CPU with all the supporting logic for onboard memory chips. Now this is neat, I can actually run the NIOS faster than my ARM7 and it has more memory too (I mean, just the SDRAM is 8MB vs 64kB on-chip SRAM on ARM). The only problem is I don't have license for that IP core so the USB programming cable needs to be attached at all times, or the board will freeze eventually. Both ARM and Cyclone boards have SD slots so I can change my mind anytime

Anyway, SPI<->SD communication works both on ARM and NIOS now (it's the same C code, save the low-level I/O stuff). Now I need to handle FAT. There is a free library for that but I want to write my own with a bit more buffering as an option. Since it's read-only it shouldn't be much of a problem, it's just that both target CPUs can only do aligned memory accesses and that needs to be worked around for the FAT structure parsing.

VHDL code for ATA i/f is progressing, but slowly. I haven't done any of this before - I doubt programming GAL devices counts
There is a new MKFro available for download. It's a GUI for Makaron T11/1 - both Dreamcast and NAOMI versions.
MKFro requires NET Framework 2.0 or higher. Please direct any questions you might have to it's author slrhui.

* Changes in VICE 2.1
======================

** General
----------

- The VICEplus project has been joined with VICE. Thus, x64dtv is now
part of VICE.

- We can be contacted via IRC: #vice-dev on freenode

- Added a more accurate ReSID engine using floating point math (ReSID-FP).

- Added support for the USB HardSID.

- PAL emulation has been rewritten and optimized.

- Fixed the ACIA 6551 emulation. (x64/x128/xcbm2/xpet/xplus4)

- Monitor commands help text is now translated too
(in ports where translation is available at all)

- Monitor IO command now displays IO area even if it is currently
banked out.

- GCR file handling (.G64) issues an error message if the .G64 does not
have the expected outline. Before, VICE just silently ignored such
files.

- IRQ handling fix

** C64/C128 changes
-------------------

- Fixed the digimax sound generation.

- Added the RR clockport disable functionality at $DF00.0. Allows
to disable the RRnet.

- Improved REU compatibility and timing.

** C64 changes
--------------

- Added isepic cartridge emulation.

- Added Double Quick Brown Box cartridge emulation.

** VIC20 changes
----------------

- Improved the sound emulation.

- Fixed the lowest note bug.

- Improved VIC emulation (exact in-line color/reverse mode changes).

** C64DTV changes
-----------------

- New emulator.

** Unix changes
---------------

- XRandR fullscreen implemented

- Command line option `-fullscreen' is supposed to do something
useful.

- Vsync code imported from win32 (based on openGL extension).
see also doc/openGLsync-howto.txt.

- Vidmode (fullscreen support) is broken and therefore marked as
deprecated. It will be removed in the next release if no-one takes
responsibility to fix the broken code and is willing to maintain the
code.

- PAL Emulation (new implementation, improved speed) should be usable
again (it was broken on certain display depths).

- Log messages are always english.

- Only x11 keymaps will be installed when doing a 'make install'.

- MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic.

** MS-Windows changes
---------------------

- Watcom generated executables are more optimized.

- MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic.

- When specifying the target for the RS232 communication
(Menu Settings/RS232 Settings), the target can be specified by
name now. Before, you had to use the IP address.

- Fixed some minor errors with the RS232 communication via TCP
connections.

- RS232 can use real devices now, too.
To use this feature, you have to specify the COM port used in
Settings/RS232 Settings like:
\\.\com1: baud=57600 parity=N data=8 stop=1

The characters after the colon can be used to specify additional
settings for the COM port. The string must have the same form as the
mode command's command-line arguments:
[baud=b][parity=p][data=d][stop=s][to={on|off}][xon={on|off}]
[odsr={on|off}][octs={on|off}][dtr={on|off|hs}][rts={on|off|hs|tg}]
[idsr={on|off}]

The above example specifies COM1 with a baud rate of 57600, no parity,
8 data bits and 1 stop bit.

Note that the leading \\.\ is used to distinguish between TCP/IP
targets and real devices, thus, you have to use it.

(Sorry, no fancy UI yet.)

- vsid GUI reworked:
* infoline appears only by pressing "I"
* raises process priority. Otherwise, when in background,
looses cpu power and music is not played at correct speed
* drag&drop support; window also gets focus back on drop
* correct display of emulated sid model (when using -keepenv)
* changed colors

- fixed copy function from the VICE monitor window.

** AmigaOS changes
------------------

** OS/2 changes
---------------

- Fixed 24/32bit display depth problem.

** GP2X changes
---------------

- Fixed black screen problem.

- Pause emulation while the menu is open.

- Added experimental support for USB keyboard and joystick.

- Removed vsid.

** Mac OS X changes
-------------------

- x64a.app and x64dtv.app (Cocoa) are now feature complete
* added flip lists
* added netplay dialog
* added ROM resources
* added video settings dialog
* added record snapshot dialog

- Introduced new control window that replaces old peripherals drawer
* with tape control buttons
* attach/eject buttons for each drive
* drag & drop of disk/tape images

- Introduced Cocoa compile for Mac OS X 10.5 and greater with more features
(see extended Resource Inspector)

- Completely rewritten joystick driver that supports user-definable buttons
for fire and all directions.

- Copy & Paste support for emulator and monitor/log window

- Added x2, x3,