z26 -- An Atari 2600 Emulator (1.39) -- Sep. 24, 2000
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Home Page: http://www.whimsey.com/z26
Contact: z26@whimsey.com
What's New in this version?
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Starpath multiload support has been added. You must concatenate the .bin files
similarly to other emulators to play multiloads. A command like this will do
the trick:
*** copy /b load1.bin+load2.bin+load3.bin+load4.bin mload.bin
then run mload.bin in the emulator.
Added a new Starpath bios that shows the vertical blue progress bars any time you load a Starpath game or go to the next load in a multiload game.
Added support for the 6144 byte Starpath format so that the 6K version of Cubis that is floating around the net now plays.
Changed super-chip detection scheme. If the RAM area has all $00 or $ff in
it, z26 turns on super-chip support automatically. Now developers can work on
super-chip games without having to use the -g
Thanks to Eckhard Stolberg for the nice Starpath support and the new super-chip
detection scheme.
Added some features to trace mode so that real addresses are shown for indexed accesses. Thanks to Thomas Jentzsch for help with this.
Fixed bug in the GUI to allow the complete maximum number of ROMs to be displayed (693). Thanks to Michael Walden Jr. for this fix.
Fixed a small mouse related bug in the GUI.
Re-vamped video support. Video mode 5 is now the default and the vertical position of games is now adjusted automatically. If you wish to turn off automatic positioning, simply press PgUp or PgDn to do positioning manually.
PAL games are now detected automatically. A game is run for a few frames and if it is a PAL game (lots of scanlines), the video mode is automatically switched to a PAL mode (if you've enabled it with the -5 command line switch), and the PAL palette is turned on.
Fixed what is hopefully the final Windows compatibility issue. Some rare system crashes that happened when exiting z26 no longer occur.