New in v0.70.19 (October
21st 2000)
- Real-tape support: reliable loading and saving of real
Spectrum tapes directly through your soundcard. To enable it, select "Physical-Device"
in the tape fileselectors. Please read the new dedicated sections in the Tapes
chapter.
- Covox, Stereo Covox, Soundrive and Music Machine emulation:
added a digital channel for 4 x 8-bit stereo sound DACs with linear interpolation,
providing high quality music and effects. When enabled (ALT-F12), the digital
sound devices replace the beeper channel (so they are subject to the "Device
Balance" setting in the main sound panel of F12).
- Empty disk images creation: with ALT-F6 you can create
empty IMG, MGT, TRD, DSK and MDR files. Note: DSK disks and MDR cartridges
are blank and must be formatted.
- Parallel port emulation for DISCiPLE, +D, +2A, +3 and
Scorpion. Data can be sent to LPT1, LPT2 or a disk file. See the Communication
Ports menu (CTRL-F3).
- Ability to change ROMs also for the various peripherals
in F3 (DISCiPLE, +D, TRDOS, IF-1, Multiface).
- Improved Scorpion emulation: exact multicolor timings,
enabled Shadow Monitor (NMI) and fix for "128 TRDOS". Coming next: turbo speed
emulation.
- Better real disk support: improved BIOS compatibility;
now it works with TRDOS disks too.
- Joystick emulation also via PC cursor keys (select
"Cursor Keys" as stick in ALT-F3).
- Updated help pages (F1).
- Added switch "AY-48K:" in the INI file to enable/disable
the AY soundchip for the 16K and 48K Spectrum models; the available settings
are: 0=OFF (original 48K), 1=AY38912 and 2=YM2149; the default is 1 (AY enabled).
- Support for 256K .Z80 snapshots in Scorpion mode (both
reading and writing). Improved Z80/SNA snapshot handling with +2A/+3 and Scorpion
models.
- Many bugfixes (+2A/+3 timings, custom ROMs loading,
DemoMode, .AY player, Z80 core, FlashLoading, etc).