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ZX-81 has released a port of Atari800 for the Wiz. It was released yesterday and then quickly updated to fix a bug in the menu of the original emulator.

You can get it at our brand new Wiz-Atari page.

Our good friend ZX-81 is at it once again! This time he's released a port of Greg Stanton's ProSystem Emulator for the Wiz.

Here's what's new in Wiz-7800 1.1.0 (based on the port he did recently for PSP):

• Cheat support !
• New background images
• Text editor to write your own comments on games
• Text editor to modify the global cheat.txt file
• Display first comment line while browsing game files
• Memory monitoring engine to find your own cheat code!
• Improve file requester with virtual keyboard to choose sequentially rom files beginning with a given letter
• Add documentation for settings in help menu
• A thumbnail image is now displayed in the file requester while selecting any file with the same name of a previously saved game (rom, keyboard, settings). It might be very helpful to recognize that game later if you have thousand different games on your disk and rom folders!

We've set up a new page for Wiz-7800 here.

After years of hard work and weeks of alpha and beta testing, our good friend Stephen Anthony has released Stella 3.0. Ports for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows have been released. Other ports will be released as they become available. Support has been discontinued for Windows 95/98/ME starting with 3.0.

Here's what's new in the long awaited Stella 3.0:

• Huge updates to the TIA emulation system. Illegal HMOVEs are now handled correctly, resulting in improvements to many ROMs (thanks to Wilbert Pol for many ideas and code for these improvements). All HMOVE emulation 'cheats' were removed; the emulation is now cycle-exact in this area.
• Improved emulation of the Cosmic Ark 'starfield effect', also used in Stay Frosty; the emulation now looks very accurate.
• Many improvements to the normal TIA rendering code, fixing problems when disabling certain graphical objects (certain objects were being misdrawn when others were enabled/disabled).
• Improved TIA collision handling in the non-displayable area of the screen; this fixes problems in RAMRacer ROM.
• Improved TIA redraw problems/graphical garbage when ROMs generate many more scanlines than a real TV would allow; this fixes problems in Q-Bert and the recent Playaround demo.
• Added 'Fixed Debug Colors' option similar to the no$26k emulator. This allows each graphical object to be drawn in a fixed color, more clearly showing how the objects interact. HMOVE blanks are also shown in a different color. The TIA now emulates a 7-color register model, allowing even shared objects to show different colors. This is toggled with the 'Alt Comma' key.
• Related to 'Fixed Debug Colors', HMOVE blanks can now toggled during TIA display with the 'Alt-m' key.
• Added rewind functionality to the debugger, where states are saved after each step/trace/scanline/frame advance. Pressing 'Alt-r' or clicking the new rewind button will undo up to 100 previous operations.
• Added 'electron beam indicator' to the debugger TIA output. Basically, this is a visual pointer indicating the position of the electron gun when scanning the display.
• Added ability to completely disable fullscreen mode, which fixes problems for some people where fullscreen mode was being entered even if it wasn't enabled.
• Added '-joyallow4' commandline argument and associated UI item to allow all 4 directions to be pressed simultaneously on a joystick.
• Improvements made to the ROM launcher: the backspace key now goes to the parent directory (this key can be remapped), and previously selected directories are now automatically selected.
• Added support for 2IN1 bankswitching scheme, where two ROMs are present in one binary. Currently supported are 2, 4, 8, and 16K ROMs.
• Added bankswitch support for the 6K version of Starpath/Supercharger ROMS. This allows the 6K version of Cubis to run.
• Updated bankswitching schemes FASC and MB; they are now known as FA and F0, respectively. This naming brings Stella in line with other emulators and programming utilities.
• Fixed editing of cheats in the Cheat Dialog; the old cheat wasn't being removed.

You can get it from our Stella page.

Avery Lee has released an updated version of Altirra, a multi-system emulator that supports the Atari 800, 800XL and 130XE. This new version brings tons of bug fixes and well over a dozen new features.

UPDATE: Altirra 1.3 (pre14) has now been released. The source code was not provided and the changelog was not updated. They're also discussions on the comments of the Altirra homepage that indicate that this might be the final 1.3 version before the release of 1.4.

Here's the complete changelog for Altirra 1.3 (pre14):

features added

• Debugger: Register pane now shows 65C816 state.
• Debugger: Added context menu to disassembly pane.
• Debugger: *.lst and *.lab symbols are automatically detected and loaded for direct-run EXEs and cartridges.
• Debugger: Improved source-level debugging capability.
• Debugger: Opcodes are now cached so that they show correctly in the history log even with bank switching.
• UI: Filter mode is now saved on exit.
• UI: Added command to copy current frame to the clipboard.
• UI: Added paddle support.
• GTIA: Optimized artifacting code.
• GTIA: Added the ability to disable collisions for cheating.
• Cartridge: Added support for 64K XEGS and 512K MegaCart cartridge types.
• Cartridge: Added support for SuperCharger 3D cartridge.
• Cassette: Added support for non-standard baud rates.
• Cassette: Added auto-boot option.
• Cassette: Device open commands are now accelerated.

bugs fixed

• Simulator: More fixes to executable loader.
• Simulator: 320K memory mode now banks ANTIC along with the CPU.
• Simulator: Joystick and bank switch masking via the PIA data direction register is now supported.
  
• Simulator: Rewrote BASIC handling to use the OPTION switch rather than masking PORTB bit 1.
  
• Simulator: Reset PIA, ANTIC, and CPU on warm reset for XL hardware.
  
• Simulator: Self-test ROM no longer appears if kernel ROM is disabled.
  
• Simulator: Adjusted PAL frame rate.
  
• Simulator: Disk boot flag is now set when loading EXEs to accommodate programs that warm start through DOSINI vector.
  
• Simulator: EXE loader is more tolerant of broken files.
  
• CPU: Fixed many 65C02/65C816 bugs.
  
• CPU: Fixed emulation of NMOS 6502 decimal mode.
  
• CPU: Fixed bugs in undocumented instructions.
  
• CPU: Fixed emulation crash when switching to 65C816 on the fly.
  
• CPU: Fixed handling of break flag.
  
• CPU: Now allow one instruction to pass before taking IRQ interrupt after clearing I flag.
  
• Debugger: Improved handling of 65C816 modes in disassembler.
  
• Debugger: Debug memory reads no longer see $FF in the page where a read memory breakpoint is set.
  
• Debugger: Fixed bugs in symbol parser when loading MADS listings.
  
• Debugger: Fixed line highlighting in source windows.
  
• Debugger: Disassembly recomputes on 65C816 mode changes.
  
• Disk: Fixed bug in loading of ATR files that have non-standard boot sector counts.
  
• Disk: Additional compatibility fixes to DSKINV acceleration.
  
• Disk: Status commands are no longer delayed by the accurate disk timing option.
  
• Disk: Applied slight adjustment to SIO transfer rate.
  
• Disk: POKEY timers are now shut off after SIO/DSKINV acceleration.
  
• Disk: Strengthened disk image format validation and made XFD loading more tolerant.
  
• UI: Fixed bug in CPU mode dialog that prevented selection of 65C02 mode.
  
• UI: Fixed crash when accessing menu with display pane closed.
  
• UI: Keyboard-as-joystick logic no longer allows simultaneous up+down and left+right.
  
• UI: Added support for controlling joystick port 2.
  
• UI: Blocked invalid machine configurations with XL kernel and 800 hardware or less than 64K of memory.
  
• ANTIC: Fixed broken mode 9.
  
• ANTIC: Vertical reflect now works on modes 4-7.
  
• ANTIC: Player/missile DMA no longer occurs during vertical blank.
  
• ANTIC: Fixed behavior of vertical scrolling on blank lines.
  
• ANTIC: Changes in playfield width are now supported later in a scan line.
  
• ANTIC: Moved VCOUNT advance forward by one cycle.
  
• ANTIC: NMIs are now suppressed if enabled too close to trigger point.
  
• ANTIC: NMIs are now delayed by one cycle if enabled exactly on cycle 8.
  
• GTIA: Bogus missile-player collisions were reported if a register change occurred in the middle of a missile.
  
• GTIA: Fixed CONSOL I/O interactions on switch lines.
  
• GTIA: Save states now restore player/missile widths.
  
• HLE: DSKINV now supports double-density disks.
  
• HLE: Improved compatibility of post-init PORTB state.
  
• POKEY: Rewrote resampling filter to better block high frequencies.
  
• POKEY: Fixed 17-bit noise register polynomial and shift direction.
• POKEY: Initialization mode (SKCTL[1:0] == 0) now resets the low-speed clocks and polynomial shift registers.
• POKEY: Asynchronous serial receive mode no longer suspends channels 3 and 4.

You can get it from our Altirra page.

ZX has also updated GP2X-2600. Unfortunately, the download on his homepage is broken. As soon as it's fixed we'll update this site with the new version.

Here's what's new in GP2X-2600 1.1.0:

• Cheat support!
• New background images
• Text editor to write your own comments on games
• Text editor to modify the global cheat.txt file
• Display first comment line while browsing game files
• Memory monitoring engine to find your own cheat code!

It will be available on our GP2X-2600 as soon as possible.

You can get it here.

Our good friend ZX-81 is at it again! This time he's released a port of Stella for the Wiz based on his previous PSP port.

Here's what's new in Wiz-2600 1.1.0 (compared to GP2X version.):

• Cheat support!
• New background images
• Text editor to write your own comments on games
• Text editor to modify the global cheat.txt file
• Display first comment line while browsing game files
• Memory monitoring engine to find your own cheat code!
• Improve file requester with virtual keyboard to choose sequentially rom files beginning with a given letter
• Add documentation for settings in help menu
• A thumbnail image is now displayed in the file requester while selecting any file with the same name of a previously saved game (rom, keyboard, settings).
• It might be very helpful to recognize that game later if you have thousand different games on your disk and rom folders !

We've set up a new page for Wiz-2600, download and enjoy.

ClrMamePro (a ROM auditing tool) was updated yesterday. The new rename wizard was the focus of the update.

Here's the complete changelog for ClrMamePro 3.131:

• changed analysis to 5-pass
  
  • 1) unique set hash
  • 2) single unique rom hash match
  • 3) single unique chd hash match
  • 4) description match
  • 5) setname match
• detecting removed, added and replaced sets
• new layout, list control, sortable columns
• acess via Profiler Button
• keeping positions and options
• added option for enable/disable parent rename
• added option for enable/disable rename to multiple new name
• detecting new, removed and replaced sets
• export to clipboard, file and file (mamediff format)
• diff button only reparses files if needed
• ability to apply renames to a 3rd datfile (e.g. an artwork datfile)
  
  • You can select 'apply on sets' or 'apply on roms' method
  • 'Apply On Sets' renames set name (description, year, manufacturer, romof, cloneof, sourcefile tags optionally), while 'Apply on Roms' renames rom name, rom merge tags. In case of roms, it checks the names with and without extensions, so you can easily have them as e.g. *.png
  • This 'Apply' option will only do the renames. Removed, added, replaced sets are not handled
  • Usage example:
    
    • Enter paths to a MAME .133 datfile as old and MAME .133u3 datfile as new
    • Hit 'diff' and see what the renames......now load a MAME flyersdatfile for .133 as 'Modify DatFile'. Enable 'Apply On Roms' and hit 'Apply Renames'. It will create you a *_new.dat with the updated roms.

You can get it from the ClrMamePro homepage.

David Pello has released a new port of Stella to the Dingoo handheld.

The changelog isn't much help since it's a new release, but here it is anyway:

• First release, seems working

If you'd like to give it a try, check out our new Stella Dingux page.

A new version Thomas Richter's Atari++ has been released. Atari++ emulates the Atari 5200, 400, 800, 400XL, 800XL and 130XE.

Here's what's new in Atari++ v1.57:

• Fixed a couple of issues in the GUI, specifically when entering data into string gadgets.
• Fixed again a couple of exception handling issues in the menu.
• Made the keypad stick configurable, the keys for joystick emulation are now part of the configuration.
• Added a dummy front-end, "NONE", that does not render anything to the screen.
• This release supports .CAS images; however, they are not part of a C: (tape) emulation, but emulated as disks. Depending on the contents of the tape archive, the disk is either considered a boot disk, a binary or a basic file.
• This release supports better disk support for BASIC and MAC/65 files. If you insert such a file into the emulated disk drive, the emulator
  will build a DOS 2.0S compatible disk structure around it and you can load the image from the emulated disk as D:PROGRAM.BAS or D:PROGRAM.ASM. Note that such disks are *not* bootable, you first need to boot, and then turn on the emulated disk drive.

You get it from our Atari++ page.

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