z26 -- An Atari 2600 Emulator (1.49) -- Sep 22, 2001 ---------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.whimsey.com/z26 Contact: z26@whimsey.com Copyright/License ----------------- z26 is Copyright 1997-2001 by John Saeger and is a derived work with many contributors. z26 is released subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPL). z26 comes with no warranty. Please see the included COPYING.TXT for details. Source code for the current release is available at the home page listed above. What's New in this version? --------------------------- A faster Pentium optimized routine for video modes 0-2. (Thomas Jentzsch) A sideways video mode for games like Merlin's Walls that can be used in video modes 0-2. This is enabled with the -z command line switch. (Eckhard Stolberg) You can now toggle through the NTSC, PAL, and SECAM palettes on the fly by pressing the "-" key. (Eckhard Stolberg) Some other improvements to PAL game detection and the CPU emulator. (Eckhard Stolberg) A more descriptive error message when z26 thinks you need a VGA. It turns out that on some Geforce 2 MX-200 and Geforce 2 MX-400 video cards, you need to set the program properties, by right-clicking on z26.exe from the Windows explorer to screen usage "full-screen", or else you get the error message. Thanks to James Bell for help figuring this out.