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March 19th, 2019, 18:26 Posted By: wraggster
Atari's VCS games console will now launch at the end of 2019.
The delay is to incorporate new and improve tech into the system. The VCS will now use a 14nm AMD processor, with Radeon Vega graphics architecture and two Zen CPU cores. It replaces the tech that was originally selected for the machine when it was announced in 2017. Atari says that the new Ryzen chip will be faster, cooler and more efficient, and that the professor boasts built-in Ethernet, native 4K video and a frame buffer that supports RM video like Netflix.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ing-spec-boost
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March 14th, 2019, 21:07 Posted By: wraggster
ZEsarUX v7.2 RC is released. ZEsarUX is a ZX Machines Emulator for Unix, including: ZX Spectrum ; ZX-Uno ; ZX80 ; ZX81 ; Z88 ; Jupiter Ace ; Chloe 140 SE, Chloe 280 SE ; Prism ; Timex TS 2068 ; Amstrad CPC 464. ZEsarUX is Open-Source and runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
ZEsarUX Features:
* Runs on any Unix system and Windows: tested on Linux x86, Linux x86_64, Linux Raspbian, Mac OS X, Windows native, Windows + Cygwin
Emulates:
* Science of Cambridge MK14
* Sinclair ZX80
* Sinclair ZX81
* Spectrum models: 16k, 48k (English and Spanish), Inves Spectrum +, Spectrum 128k (English and Spanish), Spectrum +2 (English, Spanish and French), Spectrum +2A (English and Spanish), Spectrum +3 (English and Spanish), Microdigital TK90X (Portuguese and Spanish), TK95
* Sinclair QL
* Cambridge Z88
* Timex TS 2068
* Sam Coupe
Pentagon
* Chloe 140 SE, 280 SE
Chrome
Prism
ZX-Uno
* ZX-Evolution BaseConf
* ZX-Evolution TS-Conf
* TBBlue/ZX Spectrum Next
* Jupiter Ace
* Amstrad CPC 464
* Is the only emulator for machines: ZX-Uno, Chloe 140/280, Prism, TBBlue and Chrome
* Almost perfect emulation of timing of all Spectrum machines
* Supports undocumented Z80 flags, features, and MEMPTR register
* Supports idle bus port, contended memory, ULA early/late timings
* Supports Motorola CPU 68008 (Sinclair QL)
* Supports SC/MP CPU - INS8060 (MK14)
* Supports Pentagon timing
* Supports perfect ZX Spectrum 16k/48k colour palette
* Supports ULAplus: Standard 64 colour palette, linear modes with 16 colours per pixel: Radastan Mode: 128x96, ZEsarUX modes: 256x96, 128x192, 256x192
* Supports Chroma81 ZX81 Colour mode
* Supports Spectra Video Modes
* Supports Timex Video modes (Mode 0 standard, 1 dual screen, 2 hires colour 8x1, 6 512x192 monochrome)
* Supports All Video modes from Prism machine
* Supports ZGX Sprite Chip
* Supports snow effect on Spectrum models
* Supports interlaced, scanlines and Gigascreen effects
* Supports hi-res modes on ZX Spectrum (rainbow effects and others) and ZX80/ZX81 (UDG, CHR$128, WRX, HRG and some other hi-res modes)
* Supports reducing the screen to 192x144 (0.75 scale)
* Can be used with joystick and environments without keyboard, like Raspiboy / Retropie
* Emulates all the oddities of the Inves Spectrum +: 64 KB RAM, RAM initialization with FF00H pattern, OUT ula AND RAM, EAR and MIC XOR, no contended memory, snow in border, colour ula delay, interrupt starts at end of top border (not at the beginning of the border), corrupt memory on every interrupt, no idle bus
* Uses Video drivers: X-Windows, SDL, Cocoa (Mac OS X), Framebuffer, ncurses, aalib, cacalib, stdout(console), simpletext(console)
* Uses Audio Drivers: PulseAudio, Alsa, SDL, DSP(OSS), CoreAudio (Mac OS X).
* Supports dumping audio & video to file
* Supports real tape loading of file formats: RWA, SMP, WAV, TZX, CDT, TAP, P, O. It handles loading of turbo load tapes or any type of tape loading for standard/non standard loading routines
* Handles binary tape format files (TAP, TZX, O, P, CDT) on standard BASIC ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81, Jupiter Ace
* Handles real audio loading (RWA, SMP, WAV) on standard BASIC ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81, Amstrad CPC, Jupiter Ace
* Simulates real tape loading on standard BASIC ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81
* Handles snapshot format: ZSF, ZX, Z80, SP, SPG, SNA (loading only), P, O, Z81 (loading only), ACE
* Handles RZX playback
* Emulates Multiface One, 128 and Three
* Handles DCK Timex dock cartridges
* Emulates +3 Disk
* Emulates Betadisk/TR-DOS
* Emulates ZX Spectrum MMC Interfaces: ZXMMC, DivMMC
* Emulates ZX Spectrum IDE Interface: DivIDE, 8-bit simple
* Emulates Sam Coupe IDE Interface: Atom Lite
* Emulates ZXPand MMC Interface on ZX80 and ZX81
* Emulates ZX Dandanator! Mini
* Emulates Speccy Superupgrade
* Emulates Kartusho
* Handles RAM, EPROM, Intel Flash and Hybrid (RAM+EPROM) cards on Z88
* Handles compressed formats zip, tar, rar, gz through external utilities
* Supports AY Chip, Turbosound (2 AY Channels), 3 AY Channels, different DAC: Specdrum, Covox
* Supports Quicksilva, ZON-X81, and VSYNC-based sound on ZX80/81
* Supports Speaker and Soundbox sound on Jupiter Ace
* Experimental simulation of the Sam Coupe Audio Chip (SAA1099)
* Supports RAM packs on ZX80/81 up to 56 KB
* Supports RAM packs on Jupiter Ace up to 35 KB
* Joystick emulation with real joystick (on Linux) and keyboard cursors: Kempston, Sinclair 1&2, Cursor Joystick, Cursor & Shift, OPQA, Fuller, Zebra, Mikro-Gen, ZXPand. Autofire function also
* On Screen keyboard useful when playing with joystick
* Emulates Spectrum keyboard ghosting error feature
* ZX Spectrum Recreated keyboard support
* Supports native turbo modes on ZX-Uno, Chloe, Prism and TBBlue and manual for other machines
* ZX Printer emulation
* Lightgun emulation: Almost perfect emulation of Gunstick from MHT Ingenieros S.L and experimental emulation of Magnum Light Phaser
* Kempston mouse emulation
* Supports Input spool text file to simulate keyboard press
* Supports reading Pokes from .POK files
* Supports playing .AY sound files
* Supports ZEsarUX remote command protocol (ZRCP). You can do enhanced debugging on ZEsarUX by using a telnet client.
* Can use a reduced Spectrum core, with some features disables, useful on slow devices, like Raspberry Pi 1/Zero
* Powerful debug features: Registers, Dissassemble, Conditional Breakpoints using text expressions, Watches, Step-to-step, Step-over, Runto, Show TV electron position, Load source code, Hexadecimal Dump, View Sprites, Find byte (useful to find POKEs), CPU Transaction log, View BASIC, verbose messages on console
* Accessibility support: Print char traps allows to capture generated text from almost any program or game, using standard ROM calls (RST 10H) or even non standard print character rutines. Can send generated text from a game to a text-to-speech program. It's ready for text to speech support for blind or visually impaired people. Menu emulator can be also read by a text-to-speech program.
* Simulates upper RAM memory refresh on Spectrum 48Kb, losing its contents when changing R register very quickly
* Supports command line settings, configuration file settings and per-game configuration settings
* Other features: Visualmem menu, CPU Statistics
* Includes three easter eggs: Can you find them? 
ZEsarUX changelog:
Improved menu environment:
Added new menu window type: ZX Vision. GUI Windows can be moved, resized, scrolled, minimized, closed, and change the focus to the background
Windows can be scrolled using mouse wheel
Warning and Error window messages now show an animation
Added first-aid help windows
Added Z80 assembler
Added setting to specify configuration file
Added key to save text windows contents to a file
Added setting to send a final space after every word in the osd adventure keyboard
Added Dandanator CPC emulation
Added machine Amstrad CPC 4128
Added CPC machines support to ZSF snapshots
Added tape to wav converter (tap, tzx, o, p to wav)
Added text driver (curses, stdout, simpletext) for Chloe 80x24 mode
Improved Debugger:
-Now you can disassemble on the Step-to-step mode from the Debug cpu menu
-Now you can assemble from the Debug cpu menu
-Added Chloe memory Zone
Improved TBBlue emulation:
-Better CPU usage:
--Use 4% less cpu time (in my machine) when only ULA and/or Tiles enabled
--Use 1% less cpu time (in my machine) when all layers enabled
-Added TBBlue Tiles video mode
-Added TBBlue "reveal" setting to view which pixels use a layer
-Resized display: now is twice bigger
-Fixed Timex hi-res mode 512x192
Improved ZRCP:
-commands smartload and snapshot-load are more intelligent now
-running in verbose or limit mode, or cpu-step command, can now update the display inmediately (having real video setting on)
-added commands: get-cpu-frequency, get-cpu-turbo-speed, get-tstates, get-tstates-partial, reset-tstates-partial
Improved vu-meters: high volumes are shown in red
Improved sprite viewer
-you can view sprites up to 512x512
-you can export sprites to C source code file
Improved file selector:
*now it remembers the last files used
*Windows: now you can use up to 20000 files in the same directory
*Windows: added drive selector (press shift-u)
Improved audio: silence detector is disabled by default. That should fix some Windows audio problems. Check Settings->Audio->Silence detector if you have configuration autosaving enabled
Improved disassemble window:
*now you can export the disassemble to text file
*you can now see the full opcode when debugging Sinclair QL
*you can now show/hide hexadecimal dump of every opcode
Improved hexadecimal editor:
*now showing subzones information
Improved MMC emulation: allow non-standard mmc file sizes
Fixed visual glitches in some menus when Pentagon machine and real video: audio wave, visualmem, ay piano, wave piano, view sprites
Fixed timex hires mode 512x192 on tbblue
Fixed visual glitches in some menus when interlaced enabled: audio wave, visualmem, ay piano, wave piano, view sprites
Fixed audio bug: sending a sample to the DAC by using Next registers, it wasn't reseting the silence detection counter, so sound would probably be frozen (and repeated again, and again...)
Fixed autoload on tbblue (on normal and also fast boot mode)
Fixed error managing TBBlue Layer 2 vertical scroll
Fixed triggering "opcode" condition breakpoint
Fixed emulating Inves interrupt bug
Fixed segmentation fault when showing electron on debug
https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux
http://www.emucr.com/2019/03/zesarux-v72-rc.html
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March 14th, 2019, 20:58 Posted By: wraggster
AppleWin v1.28.3.0 is released. AppleWin (also known as Apple //e Emulator for Windows) is an open source software emulator for running Apple II programs in Microsoft Windows. AppleWin has support for most programs that could run either on the Apple II+ or the Apple IIe. By default, AppleWin emulates the Extended Keyboard IIe (better known as the Platinum IIe) with built-in 80-column text support, 128 kilobytes of RAM, two 5.25-inch floppy disk drives, a joystick, a serial card and 65C02 CPU. AppleWin supports lo-res, hi-res, and double hi-res graphics modes and can emulate both color and monochrome Apple II monitors; later versions of AppleWin also can emulate a television set used as a monitor. Both 40-column and 80-column text is supported.
AppleWin can emulate the Apple II joystick (using the PC's default controller), paddle controllers (using the computer mouse), and can also emulate the Apple II joystick using the PC keyboard. AppleWin can also use the PC speaker to emulate the Apple II's sound if no sound card is available (does not work under NT-based Windows versions). Full screen mode is available through the use of DirectX. Features added to the latest versions of AppleWin include Ethernet support using Uthernet, Mockingboard and Phasor sound card support, SSI263 speech synthesis, hard drive disk images and save states.
AppleWin v1.28.3.0 Changelog:
– [Change #625] AltGr+ does not send the value to $C000.
This reverts the default behaviour introduced from 1.27.6 (#558).
Use -altgr-sends-wmchar to allow AltGr+ to work correctly together.
NB. The reason for the revert was that it was preventing international keyboards from typing certain characters.
– [Change #616] Vertical blending now uses 560-pixel granularity for half-dot shift support (consistent with all other video modes).
https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/
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March 14th, 2019, 20:51 Posted By: wraggster
Free42 v2.0.24 is released. Free42 is a complete re-implementation of the HP-42S scientific programmable RPN calculator,was made from 1988 until 1995 by Hewlett-Packard and the HP-82240 printer. Free42 was written from scratch, without using any HP code. You do not need any ROM images in order to use it, yet it is fully HP-42S compatible.
http://thomasokken.com/free42/
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March 14th, 2019, 20:51 Posted By: wraggster
Speccy v5.1 is released. Speccy is a ZX Spectrum Emulator. Speccy emulates 16kB, 48kB, and 128kB versions of Sinclair ZX Spectrum, as well as Spectrum +2, +2A, and +3, as well as Timex Sinclair models.
Speccy v5.1 Changelog:
Fixed loading of Spectrum +3 disk images that use SpeedLock.
Fixed uPD765 FDC status, as expected by SpeedLock boot loader.
Disk-based Spectrum +3 software that uses SpeedLock tries booting now.
Fixed WD1793 FDC status reporting, as expected by Sam Coupe.
Disk-based Sam Coupe software works now.
Fixed Sam Coupe memory page switching.
Fixed Sam Coupe line coincidence interrupts.
Added loading of Sam Coupe disk images.
Added extra 256kB RAM to Sam Coupe.
The [ALT] key acts as both FIRE and CONTROL in Sam Coupe mode.
http://fms.komkon.org/Speccy/
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March 14th, 2019, 20:49 Posted By: wraggster
Denise v1.0.4 is released. Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant c64 / amiga emulator. At the moment ONLY c64 cartridge, tape and prg files are supported and features like savestates are not available. My motivation for this project is understanding how it works and write clean and easy readable code.
Denise v1.0.4 changelog:
added Dynamic Rate Control
smooth audio + video at the same time
rewrote all audio drivers
added xaudio2, wasapi exclusive mode
show audio buffer usage statistics
added hotkey to enable/disable all sync options at once
disabled emulator input recognition when minimized
separated c64 and amiga sub menus from each other
https://sourceforge.net/projects/deniseemu/
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March 13th, 2019, 21:14 Posted By: wraggster
The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
English
Indonesian
Spanish
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March 13th, 2019, 21:13 Posted By: wraggster
The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
Addendum
Complete
Improvement
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March 13th, 2019, 21:12 Posted By: wraggster
The following Documents have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
Assembly
Game Specific
Graphics Hacking
Miscellaneous
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February 25th, 2019, 20:54 Posted By: wraggster
The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
English
Indonesian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
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February 25th, 2019, 20:53 Posted By: wraggster
The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
Addendum
Bug Fix
Improvement
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February 21st, 2019, 16:17 Posted By: wraggster
Vixen 357 is a turn-based strategy game in the style of Langrisser and shining force, from the same producers of Assault Suit Leynos; The main theme of the game focuses on a futuristic combat using mehcs called VECTORs and SERDs, all played in an anime style like gundam series. The original game was only released in Japan, but currently there are translation patches available in different languages.
Vixen 357 - Armored warrior, is a hack that gives a new balance to the original game, making the gameplay faster and less frustrating, and motivates you to try new different tactics to fulfill the missions objetives; For example: one of the main negative points in the gameplay, was that some weapons had a mediocre damage and an awfull accuracy, making these weapons totally useless! with the new balace, weapons with this failure have a better performance making them more useful items even in the final missions. Also, the statistics of all units own, allies and enemies have been adjusted to prevent some of them being stronger and others weaker, and at the same time, giving them different roles as snipers, melee figthers or gunners.
An aspect that causes some confusion in the original version, are the abbreviations that are used to indicate the mechs statistics, so in the new patch have been changed by the most common abbreviations of the RPG.
This hack is designed for the Japanese version, but it is compatible with the translation patches. If you like strategy games or you are looking for an authentic hidden gem, you should give this game a try.
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=27999
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February 20th, 2019, 20:58 Posted By: wraggster
microM8 (2018/08/20) is released. microM8 (originally called Octalyzer) is An Apple //e Emulator. Introducing the Octalyzer, an innovative new all-in-one platform for exploring computing history, starting with the Apple II! The Octalyzer is a multi-tasking Apple IIe emulator, with enhanced (but compatible) language interpreters, expanded modern capabilities, and (eventually) an integrated on-line bulletin-board system and media library for exploring computing’s past with all the comforts of the present.
Currently the Octalyzer features full-screen Apple IIe emulation with decent compatibility, USB and mouse-controlled joystick support, cloud disk library (when logged-in to Octa-Link), 3D camera support, 3D LOGO, enhanced BASIC interpreters, custom file browser and editor, and remote screen sharing.
https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8
http://www.emucr.com/2019/02/microm8-20190212.html
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February 19th, 2019, 18:27 Posted By: wraggster
The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
Chinese
English
Esperanto
Indonesian
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish
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February 19th, 2019, 18:26 Posted By: wraggster
The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
Bug Fix
Improvement
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February 4th, 2019, 23:11 Posted By: wraggster
Denise v1.0.3.1 is released. Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant c64 / amiga emulator. At the moment ONLY c64 cartridge, tape and prg files are supported and features like savestates are not available. My motivation for this project is understanding how it works and write clean and easy readable code.
Denise v1.0.3.1 changelog:
reduced drive thread cpu usage greatly (a extra core has consumed permanently 100%)
some system settings, which consumes additional cpu power, are highlighted
improved user input capture process
it's now easier to assign multiple inputs at once (i.e. Alt + Shift + S)
it's now selectable to overwrite (default) or append an existing mapping
added kernal, basic, char and 1541 bios files
can be replaced by custom versions
https://sourceforge.net/projects/deniseemu/
http://www.emucr.com/2019/01/denise-v1031.html
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February 4th, 2019, 23:07 Posted By: wraggster
WinArcadia & AmiArcadia v25.0 are released. AmiArcadia and WinArcadia are multi-emulators of these Signetics-based machines: Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (1982);Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Fountain, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddington, etc.) (c. 1978);Elektor TV Games Computer (1979); PIPBUG-based machines (Electronics Australia 77up2 and 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (c. 1977-1978);Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);Central Data 2650 computer (1977);Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1980) (preliminary); and Galaxia and Astro Wars coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1980) (preliminary).
WinArcadia v25.0 Changelog：
* Arcadia: added "Options|Trainers|Skip level" command.
* Added "Options|Speed|Limit refresh rate?" option.
* Miscellaneous improvements.
http://amigan.yatho.com/
http://www.emucr.com/2019/01/winarca...adia-v250.html
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