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New version of PSPCAP32 and GP2X-CAP32

Oct 022007

Zx released new version of his CPC emulators for the Playstation Portable and the Gamepark GP2x. Both emulators now nearly running on full speed. You can download them from ZXs website.

Here are the changes:

Major Speed improvements, it’s now close to fullspeed!
Import CRT emulation part of older version of Caprice32 v4.1.0 (less accurate, but much faster)
Add two new render modes: Fast and Ultra.
Sound is now played in 16 bits and stereo!
Display and save thumbnail images for each save state
New speed limiter function
Add option to display fps rate
Option to prevent the blue led to be displayed when L or R are pressed
Add a simple intro splash screen
Support iso8859-1 fonts in print text functions (might be useful to translate menus in german, french …)
Bug fix and code cleaning

CPC Basic compiler for PC

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Sep 172007

Emilio Guerrerog released a CPC Basic compiler for Windows (you need at least .NET 2.0). With this compiler you can write and compile your Basic programs on the PC for the CPC. It will generate an assembler file which you can compile e.g. in emulators like WinApe or WinCPC, which means that the compiled Basic programs will run faster, because they aren’t interpreted on the CPC.
You can download the compiler from the CPCBasic homepage (the page isn’t available in english, but there is a button to translate it).

WinApe v2.0a14

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Sep 172007

Richard Wilson released another new version of his CPC emulator WinApe. Here are the changes:

Improved FDC emulation. Added Overrun type checking on data reads to get Hexagon protection to load.
Fixed a problem with the Read Track FDC command not using the correct sector size.
Fixed ASIC raster interrupt reset code. Previously not clearing the interrupt when a new PRI value was set.

As always, you can download it from the WinApe homepage.

Symbiface II ordering now possible

Amstrad CPC, Hardware 3 Responses »

Sep 102007

Prodatron received the remaining Symbiface II cards from Dr.Zed so ordering a Symbiface II card is now possible. He will set up an order form on the Symbiface II homepage. Until it is set up, you can also directly order it from him per email.

WinApe v2.0a13

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Aug 132007

Richard Wilson just released a new version of his great CPC emulator WinApe. This time it is a very huge changelist, so if you want to see all changes, have a look at the included “whats-new” file. Here the most important changes:

4MB RAM expansion support
direct floppy disk access, it is now possible to write to reals floppy disks under Windows
Complete Macro support in the integrated assembler
Session recording features
many, many, many, emulation improvements and bugfixes

You can download the new version from the official WinApe homepage .

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