WinApe v2.0a18

 Amstrad CPC, Emulator  No Responses »
Jul 302011
 

After nearly 3 years Richard Wilson released a new version of his great CPC Plus emulator WinApe. The main features for this version are major improvements of the sound emulation, full-sized AVI writing and debugger enhancements. You can download it from the WinApe homepage and at the end of this post.

This is the complete changelist for the new version:

Emulation

  • Changes logical volumes (and scales) used for AY output.
  • Simplified and improved AY emulation, fixed period change adjustments.
  • Fixed possible bright pixels in the top left when in PAL emulation.
  • Writing to PSG registers above 15 now ignored as per real standard AY.
  • Changed the way the Symbiface RTC switches between BCD and Binary modes.
  • Switched back to full 8 bit interrupt vector (bit 0 is NOT reset as per most documentation around).
  • Fixed Z80 overflow flag for INC (HL), DEC (HL) and IX/IY equivalents.

Debugger

  • Added the ability to select a block of memory (right-click, Select Block…) in the memory editor.
  • Added the ability to fill the selection with a sequence of values (right-click, Fill…) in the memory editor.
  • Added the ability to compare two regions of memory or to compare a region of memory with a file (right-click, Compare To…) in the memory editor.
  • Defaulted memory mapping (Any) to RAM bank #C0 to stop change when switching.

Assembler

  • Fixed a bug with symbol usage and relocation tables inside if, else etc.
  • Added Select All menu item and keyboard functionality.

AVI Writing

  • Improved the timing of video and sound synchronisation.
  • Added the ability to record full sized (768 x 540) videos.

Other

  • Added cylinder and drive LEDs for drive B:
  • Fixed saving of allow Temporary Writes, and Prompt to Save changes settings.
  • Allow zero length sectors in DSK images.
  • Fix writing of DSK images when the only change is to delete a copy of a sector or re-size one.
  • Changes to detect when the window has focus (workaround for Delphi and Windows bugs). This stops typing from appearing in WinAPE when another application has focus.
  • Changed timing to display actual speed (CPU cycles per second as a percentage of 1 million) rather than a percentage based on the number of frames per second. Previously, CRTC changes would affect speed display.
  • Changed tape WAV writing to use values of 00 and FF rather than 00 and 1F.
  • Fixed WAV output for 16 bit samples. Should now play in WMP.
  • Fixed the position of the Speed indicator label.
  • Added a warning when playing back old SNR files.
  • Allowed CD ROM and removeable drives to be used as Symbiface IDE drives (Currently there is no support for CD-ROM formats on the CPC, but maybe one day).
  • Increased tape output WAV sample rate to 22050Hz rather than 11025Hz since it was inadequate for high bit rate tapes.

WinApe v2.0a17

 Amstrad CPC, Emulator  No Responses »
Sep 052008
 

Richard Wilson just released another new version of his great CPC emulator WinApe. As always, you can find the complete changelist in the whats-new.rtf file in the download archive. Here are the most important new things:

  • PAL emulation display modes
  • rotate graphics in graphics editor
  • command line options to add an autotype file

You can download it from the official Winape homepage.

WinApe v2.0a16

 Amstrad CPC, Emulator  No Responses »
Aug 302008
 

Richard Wilson just released a new version of his great CPC emulator WinApe. As always, the list of changes is huge and you can find the complete list in the whats-new.rtf file in the download archive. Here are the most important new things:

  • complete rewrite of the disc emulation (more accuracy)
  • disc drive motor and stepping sounds
  • true-type CPC symbols (assembler, debugger, disc editor, auto-type)
  • improved support for files without AMSDOS header

As always, you can download the latest version from the WinApe homepage .

False positive trojan alarm

 Amstrad CPC, Emulator  No Responses »
Aug 012008
 

If you download WinAPE, the CPC / CPC Plus emulator by Richard Wilson, and check it with one of the following antivirus solutions, you will notice that it detects the “Update.exe” file as malware. The Avira AntiVir antivirus had the same problem, but I send the updater to their support team, they analyzed it and removed it from their signatures. They confirmed that the “Update.exe” is not a trojan horse!

The following antivirus solutions will detect the “Update.exe” as malware:

  • ArcaVir
  • Avast
  • AVG Antivirus
  • CPsecure
  • F-Secure Antivirus
  • Ikarus
  • Kaspersky Antivirus
  • VBA32
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