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EmuCR: ZEsarUXZEsarUX v10.1 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:
Added real joystick support on Mac
Added joystick support for Hat controllers
Added new joystick event to exit ZEsarUX
Added action to trigger left-right movement on joystick, to play Decathlon-like games
Added MSX Joystick emulation
Added Spectravideo Joystick emulation
Added support for simple speaker output on Raspberry PI Using GPIO pins and no sound card
Added setting to select a different joystick on Windows and OS with SDL driver
Added setting to change ULA Data bus value
Added showing microdrive label when expanding qlay mdv files of size 174930 bytes
Added Jupiter Ace TAP & TZX support on tape browser
Added TZX support for ID 33 - Hardware type
Added Autorewind tape setting
Added Z80 Halt signal state support on zsf snapshot
Added device button for ZX-Uno Flash device
Added another easter egg ;)
Improved Text Adventure Debugging:
-Added Text Adventure Map
-Added Locations Connections list
-Added direct menu entry and f-function/button to view 8 (adventure debug)
-Improved detection of some paws adventures (like superlopez and abracadabra)
-Improved detection of some daad adventures (like jabato)
Improved Debug CPU:
-Now it highlights which registers will be modified by the opcode at the cursor position
-New address breakpoint expression FPEEK, that can read contents in the range of the total machine address space
-Added t-states counter on default view
-Allow to have a decimal view of opcode decoding using key m (mode)
-Added breakpoints actions to start and stop cpu transaction log
Improved Accessibility:
-Added direct settings for inverse colours and gray mode
-Added setting to disable Flash
Improved ZX Vision:
-Reduced up to 5 times cpu usage on menu by using a cache
-Improve window refreshing by disabling autoframeskip while moving or resizing
-Allow to set a window always visible
-Enlarge content size when resizing window without having to recreate it
-Notify to the parent function when a window has been resized
-Allow to avoid refreshing window when changing scroll
-Added GUI styles: AmigaOS, Atari TOS, OS/2, RiscOS, ZEsarUX Plus (and this one is now the default style)
-Improve RetroMac GUI style: striped title bar
-Improve BeOS GUI style: buttons positions right after the title
-Detect when video driver can not use the current GUI style and set to another one that can use
-Added maximize window button
-Background button on inactive windows is hidden by default
-Bigger window resize indicator (bottom-right of the window)
-Text windows enlarge/reduce line width when resizing windows
-Text windows wider by default (40 characters instead of 32)
-When sending a window to the background, and the setting "Background windows even when menu closed" is enabled, the menu will be closed
-Improve accented characters on different charsets
-Added translation of menu items to Spanish and Catalan
-Added shortcuts helper to see hotkeys pressed
-Added button preview when customizing ZX Desktop buttons or F-keys
-Better detection of Spectrum screen file: any file size of 6912 bytes
-Show when a menu has submenus using the ">" character
-Preserve minimized and maximized state on windows
-Remember size before minimize and maximize window
-Added actions on menu Window Management to: switch to, minimize, maximize, move to bottom, set always visible, window information
-Window management window can run on background
-ZX Desktop: footer buttons to enlarge or reduce ZX Desktop, not just enabling or disabling
-ZX Desktop: allow to set a background SCR file
-ZX Desktop: added setting to disable ZX Desktop when going to full screen
Improved PC Speaker Driver: now there is a new driver "onebitspeaker" which can handle both PC Speaker and Raspberry PI GPIO speaker
Improved PC Speaker audio driver: better sound quality and high frequency filter
Improved OSD Adventure Keyboard: allow to send space, enter and quotation marks
Improved OSD Keyboard: allow to use mouse, preserve window geometry
Improved Keyboard Help: load image automatically when changing machine
Improved handling of individual colour palettes modifications (Red, Green, Blue)
Improved portability of shell scripts
Improved fbdev driver: added setting for double buffer to avoid flickering on menu (--fbdev-double-buffer)
Improved fbdev driver: added setting to avoid resolution change on Raspberry Pi full screen mode (--fbdev-no-res-change)
Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added layer2 priority colour bit
Improved Audio Chip Piano and Wave Piano: can show all octaves and set piano zoom
Fixed Z80 halt behavior and PC location
Fixed disabling border when realvideo enabled on machines: Colecovision, Master System, MSX, SG1000, SpectraVideo
Fixed redrawing footer when fade out
Fixed showing character 127 on curses, stdout and simpletext video drivers
Fixed preserve breakpoints state when doing smartload
Fixed saving snapshot on some events that close ZEsarUX (F-key, AY Player, etc)
Fixed loading/saving TZX as Standard tape on Jupiter Ace
Fixed ejecting Spectravideo cartridge
Fixed segfault pressing F5 after pressing pause key
Fixed bug on OSD Adventure Keyboard when words of 5 characters lenght and setting sending final space enabled
Fixed crash when saving configuration file larger than 20kb
Fixed crash when browsing on a completely empty directory
Fixed bug emptying osd adventure text keyboard when debugging vocabulary
Fixed smartload from ZRCP
Fixed crash when exiting emulator and ZRCP enabled (usually failed on Raspberry Pi)
Fixed ZX Vision:
-Fixed hang when pressing cursor up/down on any tabbed menu with only one line (like Audio Waveform)
-Fixed glitches resizing some windows: AY Registers, Debug CPU, etc...
-Fixed flickering when resizing Keyboard Help window
-Fixed reducing all windows
-Fixed bug restoring windows on startup when a previous error was generated
-Fixed drawing scroll bars when window is not at the top of all windows
-Fixed drawing close button on background windows
-Fixed showing input tape insert state on menu and zx desktop icon when tape can't be opened
-Fixed window Hex Editor while moving or resizing
-Fixed view sensors when clicking on the scroll bars
-Fixed refreshing Visual Real Tape window when enabled Top Speed
Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Download: ZEsarUX v10.1
Source: Here



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