Wednesday, September 29th 2004 - Last updated @ 21:24 EST
MAME 0.87u1 - The sourcecode for MAME 0.87u1 has been released. This includes the preliminary (2d only) model 2 driver.
- MetaFox
DOSBox 0.62 - This release should hopefully increase compatibility even more and add some more speed especially with dynamic core.
Some of the changes are.
Improved x86 dynamic core, more stable.
The usual cpu/fpu emulation fixes and speedups.
Soundblaster 16 and opl3 emulation added.
Internal mixer updated with interpolation and volume support.
Intelligent MPU-401 emulation added.
ISO/Disk image mounting support.
Custom chipset emulation for cga,tandy hercules modes.
Improved pc-speaker emulation.
Improved GUS emulation.
Added a keymapper.
VGA/VESA Bios fixes.
IPX networking support.
A zillion internal dos fixes/updates.
New ddraw rendering output and new render functions.
Monday, September 27th 2004 - Last updated @ 23:39 EST
DCaSTaway Beta 1 - DCastaway, the AtariST emulator for the Dreamcast has been updated. Here's what's new:
- Filemanager bugs fixed.
- New sound core (hatari).
- Complete menu like UAE4ALL.
- 2 joysticks emulated.
- Autoframeskip for real speed.
- ZIP support bug fixed.
- MetaFox
Snes9k v.0.06 - The SNES9x based Super Nintendo emulator has been updated! Homepage
Gebea Release 5 - The GameBoy Advance emulator for Windows has been updated! Get it here.
GPU: Added OBJ support GPU: Added mode 1 and 2 (text BGs only). All four BGs are now supported in mode 0. BGs are sorted based on priority, but OBJs are always drawn last GPU: Added scrolling for text BGs. Works only in 256-color mode at the moment GPU: Fixed a bug in the mode 5 scanline renderer GPU: Added a 2x scaling option in the configuration dialog
Saturday, September 25th 2004 - Last updated @ 19:23 EST
MESS 0.87 - A new version of MESS has been released.
- chris
Friday, September 24th 2004 - Last updated @ 14:17 EST
Snes9k v.0.05b - The fairly new Super Nintendo emulator has been updated again. This is a Snes9x based emulator with Kaillera support. Homepage
- Hanman
Super Sleuth PE v1.00 - The SNES emulator has been updated. Get it here.
- Hanman
Thursday, September 23rd 2004 - Last updated @ 23:58 EST
UAE4ALL 24-09-2004 - UAE4ALL, the port of the Amiga emulator UAE to the Dreamcast has been updated again. Here's what's new:
- Virtual Keyboard.
- Complete Menu: selects frameskip, throttle and sound...
- Change disk without reset.
- Joystick problem fixed.
- Mouse buttons problem fixed.
UAE4ALL 23-09-2004 - Chui has updated his port of the Amiga emulator, UAE to the Dreamcast. Here's what's new:
- Amiga500 with 1MB RAM.
- Frameskip1 (very close to real speed).
- Preliminar Menu System like DCaSTaway.
- Filemanager (load and reload floppy images).
- Sound (not crystal and slow a bit).
Tuesday, September 21st 2004 - Last updated @ 23:33 EST
UAE4All Alpha Preview - Chui has released an alpha version of a port of the Unimbiguous Amiga Emulator to the dreamcast. Here are the features:
- Runs Amiga 500 games (70-90% speed).
- Mouse emulation with analog pad.
- Joystick emulation with digital pad.
- No virtual keyboard (works dreamcast keyboard).
- No entry menu or main menu.
- No swap disk images.
- No sound.
The cd structure should be as follows (all in the CD root):
- 1st_read.bin (scrambled bin).
- kick.rom : amiga bios renamed.
- df0.adf : Floppy disk image.
Contiki 1.2-devel1 - Contiki is a highly portable operation system, that supports a great amount of different systems, including :
Atari ST
NES
GameBoy (Advance)
Apple][
and many more
Besides the base system, the C64 port has been updated. Get your copy . Homepage
- Hanman
Red Dragon v.0.38 - A new version of the Vurtual Boy emulator Red Dragon has been released. The emulator has now inter alia perfect compatability, sound emulation, cheat codes and more debug options.
Gens Plus! v.0.0.3.39 - The Gens clone has been updated.
- Bug fixed on load some 32X roms.
- A little mistake fixed (I can't call this a bug): Select Files dialog opened
a save dialog box instead of an open dialog.
- Some bugs fixed with graphics:
- 3x renders was not running under windowed mode.
- On some machines, it was not running under full screen mode too.
- The "stretch" option disables the filter.
- New graphics device: GDI (windowed mode only).
- Hanman
EasyMAME v.4.0 - The MAME frontend EasyMAME has been updated. The author did pretty many changes, so check the homepage for details!
- Hanman
Saturday, September 18th 2004 - Last updated @ 08:22 EST
ZX-Emul v.0.27b - The Spectrum emulator has been updated. Get it here.
NEW: Added 'ROM Navigator' to select and manage ROM images
NEW: CPU Panel: Added ability to modify registers (Double click)
New: 'Disk Image Error' startup warning may be switched off
New: Support of multipaged ROM files (by adding ':PageNumber')
BugFix: BOOT.B treated as boot.B on autoadding boot file
BugFix: DAsm: Panel don't hide on emulation run
BugFix: DAsm: Debug command 'Run to Cursor' work on old panel
BugFix: 'CPU Stopped' Window behaviour (Alt-F4 reaction etc)
BugFix: CPU Panel: Indication of IFF1, IFF2 and IM
BugFix: Video: Fixed FullScreen Video Mode - 1024x768
- Hanman
Gebea Release 4 - The GameBoy Advance emulator Gebea has been updated!
Changes :
CPU: Changed flag updates for instructions only affecting N and Z
CPU: All unsigned LDRH instructions now set the upper 16 bits to zero
CPU: r15 is pc+12 when used as an operand in a dataproc instruction with register-specified shift
CPU: r15 is pc+12 when used as the source register in an STR/STRH instruction
CPU: Fixed the carry flag for a bunch of instructions
CPU: Added ROR#0 (RRX)
CPU: Fixed initial state of flags
CPU: Fixed LDR instruction with r15 as Rd
GPU: Fixed the mode 3 scanline renderer
GPU: Added mode 5 support, with rotation and scaling
MMU: Added timer support (timer 2 and 3, prescalar mode)
- Hanman
Friday, September 17th 2004 - Last updated @ 13:44 EST
ClrMamePro v.3.43 - Roman updated his rom manager ClrMamePro.
misc: settings path/set picker changed a bit. Much faster now if a lot entries are shown (e.g. 5000+ sets)
misc: runtime error workarounds for deleting files with illegal dates
misc: runtime error workarounds for adding files with illegal dates to a zip
misc: no more 'no sets in rompath xyz" messages when using chd-only rompaths
misc: speed increase for 'no sets in rompath xyz' tests
misc: 'wrong merged rom' message shows full path now
Monday, September 13th 2004 - Last updated @ 13:14 EST
Picodrive 0.16 - After what seems a lifetime for Nokia N-Gage and other Series 60 phone owners, a new release of the Genesis emulator is now out, this release "Includes diagonal keys, new version of GCC (should run a little bit faster).. "Thanks to Someone for the port which can be downloaded from the Picodrive page.
- Hanman
NSRT v3.30 RC1 - The rom manager NSRT has been updated!
- Hanman
Nintendulator v.0.950 - The NES emulator Nintendulator has been updated!
Development on Nintendulator 0.950 has been progressing nicely.
Among the many new features added are movie recording/playback (with savestate support), an iNES header editor, AVI capturing, and more.
As always, the latest binaries and sources can be found below.
Sunday, September 12th 2004 - Last updated @ 16:12 EST
GameEX v.0.64 - The MAME frontend GameEX has been updated two times yesterday!
Several fixes and optimizations to the ArcadeVGA code.
Should be working sweet now.
Added support for AdvanceMAME
Added don't show bracketed game info option.
Improved font size at higher resolutions.
Improved screen handling at 640X480. Will now work in Media Center mode.
Spent time testing and tweaking attract mode (Win 98/2000/XP).
The big news it that GameEx now has fantastic support for Ultimarc's ArcadeVGA
card. It can now automatically launch games with the best resolution dynamically at
run time.
Atari is going to release a new retro console called 'Atari Flashback'. The release date will be the upcoming holiday season. Look at the Atari homepage for more informations!
Gebea r.3 - There is another release of the young GBA emulator Gebea.
Changes:
CPU: Fixed HI/LS flag for some instructions
CPU: Fixed flags affected by Thumb MUL
CPU: Fixed flags affected by Thumb NEG
CPU: Fixed flags affected by Thumb hi register instructions
CPU: Fixed Thumb LDSH Rd,[Rb,Ro]
CPU: Fixed offset calculation for Thumb load/store with immediate offset
GUI: Added a ROM info dialog
- Hanman
Saturday, September 11th 2004 - Last updated @ 16:34 EST
Gebea - This is a Gameboy Advance emulator for Windows. Get it here Changes:
CPU: Fixed Thumb ADD/SUB Rd,Rn/#Offset3
CPU: Fixed Thumb long branch with link, which was off by 2 for LR
CPU: Fixed carry flag for instructions that use the barrel shifter
CPU: Added some missing LDM/STM instructions
CPU: Added some missing LDRH/STRH instructions
MMU: Fixed out-of-bounds DMA transfers
MMU: Fixed key input
- Hanman
PC2E 9-11-2004 - The PC Engine emulator PC2E has been updated!
Fixed a bug in 200% stretch code
Fixed input detection code (joystick)
Fixed behaviour of VDC status flags
Fixed timer interrupt code
Fixed initial state of VDC
Fixed a bug that it did not respond to joystick input after drag & drop
Added preliminary support for the SuperGrafx (pc2esgfx.exe)
Atari++ v1.39 - The Atari 400, 800, 400XL, 800XL und 130XE and 5200 emulator has been updated. Homepage
Added a serial transport interface allowing portable serial communications from Linux and Win32. This allows this release to enable the 850 Interface box and AtariSIO implementation for Win32.
Raine v.0.41.0/RaineDX - The newest Raine version has now DX support. At the moment Pacman and Ms Pacman, Frogger and Donkey Kong are playable. Grab the files at the Raine homepage now.
Sunday, September 5th 2004 - Last updated @ 17:05 EST
Pokemini Dream Release 1 - Pokemini Dream, a port of the Pokemon Mini emulator Pokemini to the Dreamcast has been released.
- MetaFox
ThunderMAME32jp VER.0.68_X'f8(2004.9.5) - ThunderMAME32jp, a japanese build of MAME with additional features, has been updated.
- MetaFox
Gebea Release 1 - Gebea, a new Gameboy Advance emulator for Windows from the author of Semus, has been released.
- MetaFox
Semus Release 3 - Semus, a Sega Master System emulator for Windows, has been updated.
- MetaFox
VBALink 1.7.2 Beta - VBALink, the version of the GBA emulator Visualboy Advance with added link support for up to four players, has been updated.
- MetaFox
Radikal Bikers Emulator 0.9 - Aaron Giles has released a stand alone emulator for Radikal Bikers. This was just a fun side project to learn Direct3D 8 and to see if some static recompilation techniques would work. It requires a minimum of a 2GHz processor and a 64MB video card for full speed.
Easy MAME v.3.6 - The MAME frontend Easy MAME has been updated again.
- Hanman
Hyper NeoGeo64 WIP - Haze released some WIP screenshots. It seems that the HNG64 emulation did a big step forward.
- Hanman
Thursday, September 2nd 2004 - Last updated @ 13:55 EST
MESS v.0.86 - Finally, the DOS version of the multi system emulator MESS has been updated to version 0.86 too.
- Hanman
Wednesday, September 1st 2004 - Last updated @ 15:09 EST
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