Haze WIP - Haze posted some pics of his latest development efforts.
- chris
Scorched3D 37.2 - Scorched3D is a cross-platform 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Changes: Single player mode has been enhanced with improved documentation, a save game option, better camera modes, and cleverer bots. Online play has been improved with stats ranking messages and more responsive servers.
- chris
Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools 3.3 - The Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools are software for the Catweasel MK1 ISA and Catweasel MK3 PCI universal floppy disk controllers. Changes: The reading strategy on Catweasel MK3 boards was changed in a way that should kill wraparound problems for good. Several convenience features were added and a few small bugs were fixed.
- chris
Aklabeth 1.0 - Aklabeth is a rewrite of Richard C Garriott's Ultima Prequel. Like Ultima 1 to 5, it features a mixture of wandering through (sort of) 3D dungeons, monsters, and tasks to complete.
- chris
Sunday, May 30th 2004 - Last updated @ 14:31 EST
CHANKAST (DC emu) Released! - So, there's finally a working Sega Dreamcast emu that runs several games at playable speeds, called CHANKAST. I've not checked it myself yet, but according to a this thread at our forums and people on IRC, it seems to be legit and very cool.
- atila
Saturday, May 29th 2004 - Last updated @ 16:58 EST
openMSX 0.4.0 - openMSX - the MSX emulator that aims for perfection. Changes: can be read here. Thanks to Hawk for the news.
- chris
Friday, May 28th 2004 - Last updated @ 22:18 EST
NeoCD/SDL DC 7.1 - NeoCD/SDL DC, the Neo Geo CD emulator for Dreamcast, has been updated. Here's what's new:
Sprite layer fix for many games. Graphics priority fix courtesy of Lantus. Thanks!
Slight speed up of approximately 1 to 4 fps
- MetaFox
Thursday, May 27th 2004 - Last updated @ 14:03 EST
Haze Update - Haze has released a development update for MAME 0.82.
- chris
Wednesday, May 26th 2004 - Last updated @ 12:37 EST
Model 3 WIP - Ville posted some remarkable screenshots of Star Wars Trilogy running in Supermodel (Sega Model 3 emulator)! According to the author the game is "fully playable." (Thanks Hawq for the news thread)
- prophet
Cygwin 1.5.10 - Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a vast number of useful utilities. Changes: Performance enhancements, improved sound support, new exported functions, and many bugfixes.
- chris
z26 2.13 - z26 has released a new version which now supports Linux and other SDL/x86 OSes. A full changelog can be read here. Thanks to LinuxEmu for the news.
- chris
MAME/MAME32 Plus! 0.82u2 - The excellent unofficial MAME/MAME32 Plus! has been updated to Haze's recently posted 0.82u2 sources.
- prophet
MAME 0.82u2 - Haze has posted a second development update for MAME 0.82.
- chris
Thursday, May 20th 2004 - Last updated @ 17:17 EST
PearPC 0.1.2 - PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. Changes: can be read here.
- chris
UltraCade Is Hiring - Just noticed that UltraCade, the company responsible for those legal multi-game emulation arcade machines you may have seen, is now hiring! Some of you emu gods and game programming gurus out there might like to drop by and email them. Just scroll down to the bottom to see the relevent info! Might be a nice opportunity to work on new arcade games. :)
- prophet
Tuesday, May 18th 2004 - Last updated @ 05:50 EST
FCEUltra 0.98.10 - FCE Ultra is a NES(Nintendo Entertainment System) and Famicom(Family Computer) emulator for UN*X(Linux, FreeBSD), Mac OS X, and Win32. Changes: Reimplemented network play. Reworked much of the VS Unisystem emulation code, partially based on information from MAME. Thanks to LinuxEmu for the news.
- chris
Monday, May 17th 2004 - Last updated @ 04:02 EST
XRoar 0.9 - XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon 32, Dragon 64, and Tandy Coco2 computers all originally released in the early '80s. The emulator runs under Unix-like OSes (using SDL for video and OSS for audio) and the GP32 handheld gaming device. Changes: This release adds more timing fixes and CoCo ROM and keymap support. A basic menu system has been added to the GP32 version.
- chris
Sunday, May 16th 2004 - Last updated @ 02:56 EST
PearPC 0.1.1 - PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. Changes: Changes can be read here.
- chris
xgame 2.0.1 - Xgame launches your game in a separate X session. This allows gamers to switch between their desktop and their game with ease. You can also run X based games from the console without installing a window manager. Changes: A compatibility issue with gtk2-perl (version 1.040 and higher) was fixed.
- chris
xmame/xmess-0.82.1 - Xmame has been updated. Changes:
MESS 0.82 - A new MESS has hit the streets. This version contains a new Genesis driver, please test it out. There were some PSX changes as well including proper controller emulation (Thanks to smf). The full changelog can be viewed here.
- chris
Saturday, May 15th 2004 - Last updated @ 08:58 EST
AdvanceMAME v0.82.0 - AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for Arcade Monitors and TVs but also for normal PC Monitors. Changes:
Added a new "Startup End" key (minus on numeric pad) to store in the configuration file the startuptime required for the current game. Simply press it when the game start.
The `sync_startuptime' now has an `auto' value which use an internal table to select the correct startup time.
The sound normalization is now computed using the normalized power of the audio and not the maximum value.
Added a new option `misc_freeplay' to enable the freeplay mode changing the game dipswitches.
Added a new option `misc_mutedemo' to mute the sound on game demo.
Improved the audio/video syncronization. It should fixes the problems on system which are not able to return the correct number of samples in the audio board buffer.
The `sync_resample' default value is now set to use internal resampling.
Fixed the loading of .rc files from the /etc directory.
Improved the loading speed of the history/mameinfo databases in Linux using the unlocked file API.
The history/mameinfo text is now wrapped to fit the whole screen.
Added a new `device_alsa_mixer' option to control the sound mixing. The default is to use an internal mixer to change the volume.
Documented in the `advdev.txt' file how use the ALSA `dmix' plug for a software mixing from multiple programs.
Mamu_'s Icons - Mamu_ has just informed me that he has made a new set of icons for MAME 0.82.
- chris
Giles Update - Aaron has more updates and screenshots on stuff he's been working on lately.
- chris
Friday, May 14th 2004 - Last updated @ 03:39 EST
mame 0.82u1 - Haze has unleashed a new development update for MAME 0.82.
- chris
cc65 2.10.1 - cc65 is an almost ISO C compatible C compiler which produces binaries for 6502-based computers. Targets that are supported out of the box are: Apple ][, Atari 8Bit machines, Commodore C64/C128/C16/C116, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore 600/700, and GEOS for C64. The package includes a complete suite of assembler developement tools (assembler, linker, archiver) which allows mixing of C and assembler code.
- chris
KnoppiXMAME 1.3 beta 19 - KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. Changes: This is a preview of what 1.3 will be like, minus the features of NTFS write access and arcade monitor support. VIA AC97 sound is fixed, and the NVidia binary driver is now supplied.
- chris
CrossOver Office 3.0.0 - CrossOver Office allows you to install your favorite Windows productivity applications in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license. Changes: Support has been added for Lotus Notes 6.51, Microsoft Project 2000, and Microsoft Outlook XP.
- chris
Point2Play 1.2.2 - TransGaming Technologies is also making a new version of Point2Play available, 1.2.2. This update fixes some issues users may have been having with the new subfs file system as well as introduces a trio of new features. For all the fixes and features please read the full release notes for Point2Play 1.2.2.
- chris
WineX 3.3.2 - Transgaming is excited to announce their newest WineX, Version 3.3.2. Not only does this latest release fix issues with copy protection in Battlefield 1942 but introduces, for the first time, support for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Be sure to read the full release notes for WineX 3.3.2.
- chris
Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - Last updated @ 13:02 EST
Giles Update - Aaron has added another update to his blog.
- chris
Monday, May 10th 2004 - Last updated @ 20:59 EST
Giles Update - Aaron has updated his blog.
- chris
MAMEd 0.5 - MAMEd is a frontend for xmame. Changes:
added a "cycle" option for game shots to make it cycle through the title shot, screen shot, marquee, and cabinet pictures.
fixed a bug for sound problems when not running a sound server.
added a dialog for the quitting of MAMEd to avoid accidental quitting.
added a help image display option
removed the automatic adding of a .zip name for other emulators (see install.txt)
PearPC 0.1 - PearPC is an architecture independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. Changes: This is the first official release of PearPC. Please note that this is an experimental program not meant for productive use. There are still unimplemented instructions, mysterious bugs and missing features. Thanks to OS News for the news.
- chris
MAMEWorld Hits 10,000,000 - Congratulations to our friends KC, Roc and all the gang at the excellent MAMEWorld for passing 10 million hits! :)
- prophet
Sunday, May 9th 2004 - Last updated @ 22:51 EST
UltraStyle 1.7 beta - UltraStyle, the MAME frontend for the Windows and DOS versions of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, has been updated.
- MetaFox
ABCWin 1.1 - ABCWin, the Windows emulator for the Swedish computer, the Luxor ABC 80, has been updated.
- MetaFox
Aurex2 20040509 - Aurex2, the Japanese Ruputer LCD wristwatch emulator has been updated.
- MetaFox
Hercules Snapshot 2004-05-09 - The CVS Windows build of the IBM mainframe emulator, Hercules, has been updated again.
- MetaFox
gcube 0.1 - gcube, a new Gamecube emulator for Windows and Linux, has been updated. This release only supports homebrew games, so it doesn't support support the Gamecube "GCM" ISO format.
- MetaFox
ZSNES WIP May 8 - ZSNES WIP, Ipher's DOS and Windows WIP build of the Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES, has been updated. Here's what's new:
Much better SPC7110 pack loading code. [Nach]
Fixed checksum calc on 24Mb SPC7110 ROMs - again. [Nach]
ROM info now dumped to rominfo.txt on game load. [Nach]
Fixed path input crashing bug. [Nach]
Fixed PNG height. [Nach]
NSRT Header support. [Nach]
Fix minimize bug [pagefault]
Add the name of the start address to the error message when mprotect fails. [theoddone33]
Update config.sub. This allows configuration on 64 bit targets, and requires autogen.sh to be rerun. [theoddone33]
Using secondary sound buffer in Win32 again. [Nach, ipher]
- MetaFox
Potator 0.6 - Potator, the first and only stand alone emulator for the Watara Supervision. Here's what's new:
Retrogaming Radio - PACKED show ... We interview the original team from EG magazine; Arnie Katz, Joyce Worley, and Bill Kunkel; a truly amazing historical trip. If that wasn't enough, we rant about the death of classic gaming, start pre-ordering on the Year 5 DVD-ROM, start a new set of RGR Insider segments on the Atari 2600, TONS of Bits & Bytes, and more!
- chris
Friday, May 7th 2004 - Last updated @ 23:59 EST
Aurex2 20040508 - Aurex2, the japanese emulator for the Ruputer Wristwatch LCD system, has again recieved an update.
- MetaFox
Hercules Snapshot 2004-05-07 - Hercules, the IBM mainframe emulator, has once again recieved a compile of it's current CVS code for Windows.
- MetaFox
FPSEce 0.09.2 - FPSEce, the port of the Playstation emulator FPSE to WindowsCE has been updated in ppc2002 armv4,ppc2003 armv4, and ppc2003 armv5 formats.
- MetaFox
FCE Ultra 0.98.9 - FCEUtlra, the NES emulator for Windows, has been updated fixing the bug with the "Image Size Transform" box in the "Video" coniguration window.
- MetaFox
MAME Derivatives RunDown - with the release of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator 0.81, several MAME derivatives have been updated:
The MAME build for Windows with a built-in GUI, MAME32 has been updated to 0.82.
The MAME32 build with extra options, MAME32 Plus! has been updated to 0.82.
Another MAME32 build with extra features, MAME32FX, has been updated to 0.82 as well.
PetitMAME, a japanese build of MAME, has been updated to 0.82.1
Also, MAGE, a MAME derivitive adding in the games that are not allowed in MAME (gambling and discrete circuitry games), has been updated to 0.12u3.
- MetaFox
PS2emu Alpha 01 - PS2emu, the WIP Playstation 2 emulator for Windows, has had a release to show the progress of the emulator. This is just a progress release, so no commercial games are playable. DYNAMIC RECOMPILERS are less than 10% complete, but the performance is faster than usual because the implementation of a new recompiling technique developed specifically for this project that will allow superior performance to a normal dynamic recompiler.
- MetaFox
MAME32 Plus! 0.81u9 - MAME32 Plus!, a Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator derivitave for Windows, has been updated. Here's what's new:
PicoDrive 0.017 - PicoDrive, Dave's MegaDrive/Genesis emulator for Pocket PC, has been updated to 0.017.
- MetaFox
BasicBoy v2.0.0 - BasicBoy, the Visual Basic Gameboy emulator for Windows, has been updated. Here's what's new:
new sound generation/playback system
new gui(thanks to xeon for this)
many cpu/mbc fixes
This is a WIP beta release, and as such, may be slower than the 1.4.x releases.
- MetaFox
ElectrEm Future 05/05/2004 - ElectrEm Future, the Windows emulator for the Acorn Electron, has been updated.
- MetaFox
Emu5 Updates - Emu5, the SORD m5 emulator for Win32, as well as HPC 2000 (ARM) and PPC 2002 (ARM) WinCE systems, has been updated across platforms within the past few days.
- MetaFox
Aurex2-20040505 - Aurex2, the japanese emulator for the LCD wristwatch system, Ruputer, has been updated.
- MetaFox
Snes9xpp SE' (040504) update - The japanese Windows build of the SNES emulator SNES9x, Snes9xpp SE', has been updated.
- MetaFox
UNZ 0.4 L20 - UNZ, the japanese emulator for the japanese console, FM-Towns/Marty, has been updated.
- MetaFox
Hercules Snapshot 2004-05-06 - If it's one thing you can depend on, it's a new Windows build of the CVS tree for the IBM mainframe emulator, Hercules.
- MetaFox
Sunday, May 2nd 2004 - Last updated @ 19:04 EST
GBAX 2004 Ends - Today the GBAX 2004 coding competition came to an end, and many remarkable programs for GP32, GBA and newcomer Zodiac were posted for all to see and enjoy! Among them was FinalBurn Dave's incredible full speed Genesis emulator for GP32 called GigaDrive (albeit w/o sound for now) which features his Cyclone ARM ASM 68000 core, some excellent looking action and SHMUP games for GP32 & GBA, and Zot!, a game design engine for Zodiac and GP32 from my Canadian friend Skeezix at CodeJedi. If you own one of the mentioned handhelds, start downloading and enjoy!
- prophet
Open Handy - Handy is an open source Atari Lynx emulator. It's web page has moved, so update your bookmarks.
- chris
