[zx] ZEsarUX 12.1 Beta 1 Night Shift edition 17/06/2025

ZEsarUX 12.1-Beta1 - Night Shift edition 17 July 2025

New things added:

• Added Streaming mode to ZENG Online for ZX Spectrum. It improves gaming experience: reduces lag and drops all game state inconsistencies between all players
• Added ZXMMC+ emulation
• Added second MMC/SD card emulation
• Added support for steering wheel joystick (and other analog joystick controls) to racing games (using pre-defined modification for specific games or custom)
• Added conversion of ZX81 files P to P81, and P81 to P
• Added direct functions to increase/decrease Audio Volume
• Allow to save ZX80/81 screen to .scr file
• Allow to save text note on a ZSF snapshot
• Allow to locate rom files running ZEsarUX from a current folder different than the rom path
• Allow machine selection by family type (Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81, CPC, etc)
• Added .ay file support to File Viewer
• Added configuration wizard when running ZEsarUX for the first time
• Added support for up to 4 joystick fire buttons on:
  • Kempston joystick (Spectrum): 4 buttons
  • Amstrad CPC: 3 buttons
  • Master System, SG1000, Colecovision: 2 buttons

Improvements:

• Improved AY Player:
  • Allow to load playlist
  • Allow to save playlist (full playlist or just marked files)
  • Allow to increase track length (for some tracks with incorrect length)
  • Added direct functions to next/previous track/file
  • Show tenths of a second on song length and time elapsed
  • Better shuffle algorithm
  • Fixed silence detection when playback paused
  • Tell if no song is playing
• Improved Sinclair QL emulation:
  • Allow to increase RAM size
  • Allow to load and save QL screen files
  • Added QL Screen file previews on File Selector
  • Allow to use win1_ device as an alias to mdv1_ (useful for QL-SD paths)
  • Fixed Sinclair QL keyboard: allow fast text writing
  • Allow display blanking
• Improved ZX Vision:
  • Allow to hide minimized windows
  • Allow to place windows beyond ZEsarUX main window limits
  • Do not reopen menu when closing a Window
  • Allow fast text writing on input fields
  • Show, with a dot, when an icon is an open window but minimized
  • Keep ZEsarUX window size proportions (disallow different zoom x/y) by default
  • Hide cursor when sending a window to background
  • Allow to show short text for icons on ZX Desktop
  • Preserve icon name when changing its type
  • Added rzx files support for file selector: can be expanded (to z80 snap file), show file previews, convert to SCR, convert to Z80, use as ZX Desktop background
  • Fixed glitch duplicating Main Menu when pressing F6 on Main Menu
• Improved Debug CPU:
  • Allow to see and go to previous address of an opcode in cpu history
  • Show port number when port read opcode (IN, INI, etc). Show keyboard row when port is XXFEH on Spectrum
  • Show view number inside the window and not in the window title
  • Added pass count to breakpoints (a breakpoint that is triggered when the condition is hit a certain times)
  • Improved edit breakpoint window
  • Added option to enable/disable all breakpoints
  • Fixed moving cursor up when address near 0
• Improve Memory Cheat:
  • Allow to set initial address
  • Can delete watches
  • Improve window layout
• Improve maximum sent keys to ZENG/ZENG Online
• Improved Windows timing and any other system using SDL video driver. Now uses SDL Timing
• Improved Mac timing by using native timer
• Improved Watermark Logo: can be shown only when loading/saving, can change colors when loading/saving
• Improved File Selector: allow to use path to a FAT mounted image on all cases
• Improved Visual Cassette Tape window: support standard tape too
• Improved Custom rom setting adding a Reset machine option
• Improved DivMMC, DivIDE and ZXMMC emulation: allow to enable them even if no MMC/SD card or IDE inserted
• Improved View Basic window: allow lines > 9999, useful for protected programs

Fixes:

• Fixed semaphore locking on Windows
• Fixed cpu usage calculation when footer is disabled
• Fixed setting esxdos handler root dir when loading a .nex file without path from command line
• Fixed bug restoring ZSF snapshot with DivIDE enabled
• Fixed segfault when pressing CTRL-C on console
• Fixed PCW palette colour changes
• Fixed Chloe keyboard: allow fast text writing
• Fixed toggle breakpoint on a position that already had a breakpoint when breakpoints were disabled
• Fixed smartloading a tape file when a dsk is inserted
• Fixed visual casette tape when inserting an unsupported tape
• Fixed write protect tab on visual hilow datadrive window
• Fixed File Selector column for "
• Fixed separator menu item on stdout video driver
  " text on folders with utf-8 characters

ZEsarUX 12 - Bubble Bobble edition. 16 January 2025

New things added:

• Added ZX Microdrive emulation on ZX Spectrum: that includes:
  • Standard MDR emulation. Allow to browse inside MDR files, see file map, fragmentation, rename files, sectors info, chkdsk and emulate bad sectors
  • Raw microdrive emulation. Supporting other non-interface1 rom file formats, like extending microdrive space with Multiface 128 or CP/M for LEC memory. Allow to see microdrive raw map (gap zones, sync bytes, data) and have "real problems", like autogenerate bad sectors or stretching the microdrive when it's new.
  • Simulate data sound on read and write
  • Visual Microdrive: Allow to see a microdrive cartridge in action
• Added Visual Cassette Tape window
• Added LEC memory extension emulation
• Added machines Czerweny CZ 1000, CZ 1500, CZ 1000 Plus, CZ 1500 Plus, CZ 2000, CZ Spectrum, CZ Spectrum Plus
• Added Memory Cheat feature: useful to find counters of energy, bombs, ammo or any other cheat in a game
• Added Find text string on memory menu
• Added Quicksave screen function
• Added setting to disable persistent writes on Z88 Cards
• Added CPC Additional ROMS emulation
• Added setting "--simplemenus" to have a very simple main menu

Improvements:
 

• Allow save screen to bmp for most machines
• Allow hotswap to Pentagon and to Spectrum +3
• Allow hotswap from Spectrum 128 to Spectrum +3
• Allow to load .SP snapshots of 64kb (like Shadow of Unicorn)
• Improve Azimuth warning on External Audio Source Window
• Added SDHC cards addressing support
• Added Flash Color mode (128 colors)
• Allow to not save snapshot when exiting ZEsarUX
• Allow to load an additional config file .zesaruxdevrc
• Allow to define Left Alt, Left Ctrl, Left Shift or TAB as Joystick Fire action
• Allow to change current tape read position on Input Tape Viewer for .tap files
• Allow loading a 8kb rom in ZX80 (for example the ZX81 rom, like an upgraded ZX80 to ZX81)
• Allow magnify sprites on View Sprites
• Added Sphere Meter Type to View Sensors
• Improve compilation: settings --enable-memptr --enable-visualmem --enable-cpustats are enabled by default on ./configure
• Improved Inves Spectrum+ emulation: alert when a game may crash due to the Inves write-on-interrupt bug
• Improved Spectrum Z80 CPU emulation core: add wait state (needed to emulate microdrive)
• Improved PCW emulation: add mode 3 (360x256x16), allow videomode changes by i/o port
• Improved Sega Master System emulation: allow to swap controls player 1 <-> player 2
• Improved ZSF snapshot: save Datagear DMA state
• Improved ZX Recreated keyboard support: allow to use it also on menu
• Allow saving .Z80 TC2048, TC2068, TS2068 snapshots. Allow loading .Z80 TC2048, TC2068 snapshots
• Improved Spectrum Next emulation (the following allows, for example, run Atic Atac version for Next):
  • Added Layer modes 6 and 7 (blend modes)
  • Added stackless NMI
  • Added DAC Channels A,B,C,D
  • Allow tiles on RAM 7
  • Improve display render when only ula enabled (6% less cpu on my computer)
  • Fixed 128k/+2a/Pentagon timings
  • Fixed DIVMMC mapping after RETN
  • Fixed Copper timings
  • Fixed esxdos handler call DISK_FILEMAP
  • Fixed esxdos handler changing local directory when a .nex snapshot is loaded
  • Fixed palette offset for layer 2
  • Fixed ULA layer horizontal scroll
  • Fixed sprite clipping on left and top border
  • Fixed Tile wrapping at 16k/8k
  • Fixed DMA burst mode when prescaler=0
  • Fixed DMA Transfer restarting the byte count at the end of a transfer
  • Fixed cpu speed when opening tape file
• Improved Hilow Datadrive emulation:
  • Added Raw emulation, like the real device
  • Allow ddh variable size (from 3 up to 256 sectors)
  • Allow to format only one side on ddh files
  • Allow to clear contents when formatting ("c/borrado" or "s/borrado") on ddh files
• Improved Debug:
  • CPU history: allow to change memory pointer to the PC register show in history
  • CPU history: allow to see full history
  • Show when CPU is in wait state
  • Dissassemble numeric parameters on Z80N (Z80 Spectrum Next) opcodes (NEXTREG NN,A, TEST N, etc)
  • Added breakpoint action save-binary
  • Allow to enable/disable breakpoint at an adress (not just enable/remove), using key 'L' uppercase. Disabled state is saved on configuration
  • Added Symbol Table loading
• Improved Hexadecimal editor:
  • Now the data is refreshed when the window has the focus too
  • Now the memory pointer can follow an expression (CPU register for example)
• Improved ZX Vision:
  • More GUI improvements following more guidelines from the (retro)-specification IBM CUA
  • Menus show previous menus when selecting submenus
  • When selecting ZX Vision Style, it is applied on moving cursor
  • Improve cursor movement on menus when pressing PgDn/PgUp
  • Allow keys Home/End on windows
  • Added setting to allow use speccy keys for menu interaction: use keys 5678 as cursors, caps shift+space for ESC, caps shift+ctrl for TAB, caps shift+ctrl+m for Open Menu (F5)
  • Video layers window can now be backgrounded
  • Debug DMA window can now be backgrounded
  • Warn on the resize mark when a window has to be enlarged (because there is text beyond current size)
  • Allow a window to disable scroll actions
  • Process switcher is located at bottom-left part of the display by default
  • Now rainbow bars on windows title are visible on all GUI Styles when an error or splash message appears
  • Added a direct function to open Breakpoints window
• Improved ZX Desktop:
  • Allow to enable/disable upper and lower buttons independently
  • Allow right click on the device icons located on the lower part of the ZX Desktop

Fixes:

• Fixed ZX Vision:
  • Fixed right click on upper buttons when menu closed and no windows open
  • Fixed alt key pressed when changing to another window by using alt-tab on xwindow, cocoa, sdl1 and sdl2 drivers
  • Fixed recovering window position after restore/unminimize
  • Fixed bug reopening menu when executing run command on debug cpu and --allow-background-windows setting was disabled
  • Fixed text-to-speech on menu (bugs reading text on submenus and windows)
  • Fixed left clicking on an icon when menu was open
• Fixed cpu+memory leak bug using Linux and Xwindow driver. This is a bug that has always existed (a "long life bug" XD)
• Fixed ZX81 Online browser
• Remove buffer full indicator when pressing shift+e on External Audio Source window
• Fixed TZX autoload as Real Tape on Spectrum +3
• Fixed inserting TZX file with invalid header type
• Fixed saving .scr screen when located on RAM 7
• Fixed esxdos handler call F_GETCWD when root directory (/)
• Fixed esxdos handler call F_GETCWD when directory does not exist
• Fixed hotswap ZX80 to ZX81, ZX81 to ZX80
• Fixed Amstrad CPC Scroll
• Fixed Cassette out sound: allow to hear it on computers: Jupiter Ace, CPC, MSX, Spectravideo
• Fixed memory map and behaviour on Jupiter Ace: now it's perfect and better than any other emulator
• Fixed loading .nex snapshots and Layer 2 not being initialized (fixes errors on Head Over Heels for Next, for example)
• Fixed loading .nex snapshots and MMU not managed correctly
• Fixed Search menu feature. Now it's enabled by default
• Fixed bug saving .ZSF Z88 snapshot when RAM or Memory Card block is not compressed
• Fixed showing footer message F5/Button menu
• Fixed MSX keyclick sound
• Fixed ZX-Uno write on addresses 0000h-3fffh when using Chloe MMU and segment is not ROM

* As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX 11.1-Beta2 - Bubble Bobble edition. 18 November 2024

Improvements:

• Added SDHC cards addressing support
• Added Sphere Meter Type to View Sensors
• Improved Spectrum Next emulation:
  
  • Added Layer modes 6 and 7 (blend modes)
  • Added stackless NMI
  • Added DAC Channels A,B,C,D
  • Allow tiles on RAM 7
  • Improve display render when only ula enabled (6% less cpu on my computer)
  • Fixed 128k/+2a/Pentagon timings
  • Fixed DIVMMC mapping after RETN
  • Fixed Copper timings
  • Fixed esxdos handler call DISK_FILEMAP
  • Fixed esxdos handler changing local directory when a .nex snapshot is loaded
  • Fixed palette offset for layer 2
  • Fixed ULA layer horizontal scroll
  • Fixed sprite clipping on left and top border
  • Fixed Tile wrapping at 16k/8k
  • Fixed DMA burst mode when prescaler=0
  • Fixed DMA Transfer restarting the byte count at the end of a transfer
  • Fixed cpu speed when opening tape file
• Improved Debug:
  
  • Show when CPU is in wait state
  • Dissassemble numeric parameters on Z80N (Z80 Spectrum Next) opcodes (NEXTREG NN,A, TEST N, etc)
  • Allow to enable/disable breakpoint at an adress (not just enable/remove), using key 'L' uppercase. Disabled state is saved on configuration
• Improved ZX Vision:
  • Allow keys Home/End on windows
  • Video layers window can now be backgrounded
  • Debug DMA window can now be backgrounded
  • Now rainbow bars on windows title are visible on all GUI Styles when an error or splash message appears
  • Added a direct function to open Breakpoints window

Fixes:

• Fixed right click on upper buttons when menu closed and no windows open
• Fixed esxdos handler call F_GETCWD when root directory (/)
• Fixed esxdos handler call F_GETCWD when directory does not exist
• Fixed Cassette out sound: allow to hear it on computers: Jupiter Ace, CPC, MSX, Spectravideo
• Fixed Search menu feature. Now it's enabled by default
• Fixed recovering window position after restore/unminimize
• Fixed MSX keyclick sound
  • As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Beta version has a lot of changes:

New things added:

• Added Machine Amstrad CPC 6128
• Added Machine Amstrad CPC 664
• Added Machine Amstrad PCW 8256
• Added Machine Amstrad PCW 8512
• Added Advanced menu items: now by default, advanced menu items are hidden, you should enable them on Settings->Advanced menu items
• Added Visual Floppy to see floppy disk (+3, CPC, PCW, Betadisk) activity
• Added Poke F-Function
• Added Visual Real Tape F-Function
• Added Process Switcher window, which is like a "Taskbar" on the ZX Desktop
• Added Settings F-Function
• Added DSK disk info menu: to get tracks and sectors of a disk
• Added ZRCP command: "close-all-menus"
• Added icon/F-key to open any window identified by its name
• Allow F-keys to assign extra info for actions (like window name on openwindow action, or snapshot name on linktosnapshot action)
• Added XEyes "Toy" to follow mouse
• Added more Hotswap combinations
• Added command line setting --machinelist to get machines list names whitespace separated
• Added Sierpinsky Meter Type to View Sensors
• Added .POK file Smartloading
• Added SDL Audio Callback type setting in order to fix Windows Audio clicking

Improvements:

• Improved Configuration:
  • better parsing: warning when ZEsarUX has been downgraded
  • if unknown parameter on configuration file, warn the user but start anyway
  • moved showing Configuration file from Running info menu to Settings-> Configuration file
• Improved File selector:
  • Can show recent folders (press space on recent files)
• Improved DSK viewer:
  • better filesystem detection
  • show hidden and read only files
  • show disk specification format
  • show where files are located on Visual Floppy
• Improved DSK extractor:
  • better filesystem detection
• Improved Debug Console: better refresh, dynamic width?? (TODO)
• Improved Debug Messages: allow to filter by message class (DSK, PD765, etc...)
• Improved Debug I/O ports window: autoresize content height when do not fit in window
• Improved Debug CPU:
  • switched function keys "m" and "o": now "x" change mode, and "m" change memptr (to be coherent with other similar windows)
  • added (hl), (de), (bc)
  • added (nn) when selecting an opcode like: ld reg,(nn) and ld (nn),reg
  • added (ix+d), (iy+d) when selecting an opcode like: ld reg,(IX+d), etc
  • added continuos speed 4 (run 10 opcodes every time, with no pause)
  • show last memory pointer when changing it
  • show B register on satisfy condition for DJNZ
  • added new functions OPMRV(e), OPMWV(e), OPMRA(e), OPMWA(e): these return 1 if the last opcode has set any of these variables to e.
  • added pseudoregister EPC to parser to match memory bank and offset for PC register
  • allow holding keys for quick cursor move, etc
  • watches now show numbers in hexadecimal format
• Improved View Sprites:
  • sprite is no longer disabled when changing memory pointer
  • you can view sprites up to 1024x1024
  • show PCW common format screen
• Improved changing pointer on some windows: can use an expression when changing memory pointer on Debug CPU, View Sprites, Hexdump, Disassemble, Poke
• Improved changing to machines with big displays (Next, QL, CPC...): zoom is autochanged to 1
• Improved joystick type selection
• Improved ZX Desktop:
  • Dynamic icons (Trash, My Machine, ...) assigned on top buttons now show dynamic state (trash empty/full, current machine image, etc)
  • Show icon indicators for open apps on ZX Desktop
  • Added setting to empty Trash on exit
  • Fixed icons zoom level when selecting some machines that use menu gui zoom = 2 (Next, CPC, QL, etc)
  • ZX Desktop size now is multiplied by GUI Zoom (Zoom 2 on machines like Next, CPC, QL, etc)
  • CF2 Floppy icon (+3, CPC, PCW) now is animated when motor is on
• Improved ZX Vision:
  • Added windows TaskBar
  • Added Process ID (PID) for all windows
  • Text input fields now handle repeated keys
  • Some text input fields now have history of last items, and history is saved on configuration file
  • Added function to maximize all windows
  • Allow reducing character height
  • Improve window list showing spent time on each window and pid of each window/process
  • Improve rendering background windows
  • Yes/no confirmation dialogs are translated to si/no in Spanish and Catalan

Fixes:

• Fixed random crash on startup on Linux when executing some network operations (check updates, check last users, send updates)
• Fixed segfaults when exiting using CTRL-C
• Fixed Spectrum +3 disk emulation: TODO: add more details here
• Fixed autoload on Spectrum +3
• Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when changing to a machine with bigger resolution. It seems to affect Linux and Windows but not Mac. This is a bug that has always existed (a "long life bug" XD)
• Fixed showing creator on DSK file viewer
• Fixed pause: can now return when pressing mouse button too
• Fixed assembler parsing expressions (NN) and NN is an hexadecimal number

Całkiem fajny desktop nowego ZEsaurUX - w samą porę, emulator do prostych nie należy a mnogość opcji konfiguracyjnych naprawdę przeraża.

ZEsarUX-10.2 Version 10.2-RC3 - Hysteria edition. 07 October 2022

New things added:

• Added new emulated machines:
  • ZX Spectrum 48k+
  • Microdigital TK80
  • Microdigital TK82
  • Microdigital TK82C
  • Microdigital TK83
  • Microdigital TK85
  • Microdigital TK95 Spanish
  • Timex Computer 2048
  • Timex Computer 2068
  • Timex Sinclair 1000
  • Timex Sinclair 1500
• Added Copy Interfaces emulation:
  • Defcon
  • Dinamid3
  • Hilow Barbanegra
  • Interface007
  • Microhobby Pokeador Automatico
  • Phoenix
  • Ramjet
  • Spec-Mate
  • Transtape
• Added Dinamic SD1 emulation
• Allow .Z80 corrupted snapshot loading from ZXSP emulator with additional header of 31 byte size
• Added ZSF support for Timex TS2068, MK14, Chrome, Prism, Chloe, Sam Coupe
• Added path setting where to download files from the speccy and zx81 online browser
• Added disk image browsing from storage MMC/IDE menus
• Added PZX load support as standard tape
• Added TAP to PZX converter
• Added TAP to TZX turbo converter (TZX Turbo 4000 bauds, to use with Rodolfo Guerra ROMS)
• Added TAP to SCR converter
• Added some actions than can be fired from command line and don't start ZEsarUX: --convert-tap-tzx, --convert-tap-tzx-turbo-rg, --convert-tap-pzx, --convert-tap-scr, --convert-tzx-tap, --convert-pzx-tap

Improvements:

• Improved Z88 emulation:
  • Changed colour palette to better match a real Z88
  • Show keys shortcuts below the Z88 display
  • Snapshot setting & menu action to synchronize Z88 clock with your computer clock
  • Inserting Z88 cards: now it does not hang the emulator during the insert
  • Selecting Z88 cards: submenus for types and sizes
  • Z88 footer: show when writing a card in slot 3, colors follow style
  • Z88 device icons: different icons for slot 1,2,3, show when writing a card in slot 3, show when flap is open
• Improved File selector:
  • Allow to have a full screen preview if window is big enough
  • Better hotkeys explanation
• Improved Debugging:
  • Allow to change memory pointer to a value from the stack
  • Added a setting to show on which scanline has been executed a Halt, inverting border color
  • When enabling step mode, emulation is paused on all menus
  • Preserve step mode when exiting debug cpu that was opened by a breakpoint
  • When a breakpoint is fired, step mode is kept on all menus
  • Breakpoints actions "call", "printc", "set-register" and "write" can now use expressions instead of fixed values
  • Added breakpoint actions: "disassemble", "printregs"
  • Warn on footer when step mode
  • Enlarge width of breakpoints list
• Improved SmartLoad & Drag-Drop:
  • Allow to load a .rom file as a custom rom file for the current machine
  • Allow to Drag-Drop when menu open
• Improved ZX Vision:
  • Reorder windows when changing machine but only when ZEsarUX window is smaller than previous one
  • Custom arrows characters
  • Windows are now restored by default on starting ZEsarUX
  • Better resize & reposition for new windows out of range
• Improved ZX Desktop:
  • Added configurable icons to the ZX Desktop: icons to windows, icons to actions, file links
  • Right mouse button is now used for secondary actions. It no longer simulates ESC key (unless you enable it on ZX Vision Settings)
  • Allow to extend ZX Desktop vertically
  • Added frame around emulated machine
  • Added setting to mix scr image with background
  • Allow to set any tape/snapshot/disk that contains a spectrum screen (SCR) as background
  • Apply frameskip when drawing ZX Desktop Background
• Improved HiLow DataDrive emulation:
  • Allow to Format, Browse and Chkdsk a Hilow DataDrive image (.ddh file)
  • Allow to convert audio from a real Hilow DataDrive tape to an image file (.ddh)
  • Added technical documentation on the extras package
• Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added sprite rendering priority bit
• Improved ZRCP: allow to change command prompt
• Improved generated TZX and PZX files: include date and ZEsarUX version in header
• Improved Custom machine menu: added +2E MMC machine
• Improved Tape browser: show autostart line on basic blocks

Fixes:

• Fixed handling files larger than 2 GB on 32 bit CPU (it also applies to the Windows version even on a 64 bit CPU)
• Fixed using mmc images larger than 2 GB
• Fixed redrawing ZX Desktop when resizing main ZEsarUX window
• Fixed hang when using View Variables and memory is corrupted
• Fixed hang pressing two times F-key assigned to Pause (Mac OS unaffected)
• Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when starting machine ZX Spectrum +2 Spanish. This is a bug that has always existed
• Fixed losing inserted Z88 cards when changing cpu speed
• Fixed Z80 behavior after EI or DD/FD prefixes and interrupts
• Fixed Z80 behavior running block opcodes (LDIR, etc) and interrupts
• Fixed .Z80 Timex TS2068 snapshot loading
• Fixed showing Recent Files when file name contains character %
• Fixed HiLow DataDrive emulation: can now load, save, format... all actions are now working
• Fixed crash (stack smashing detected) when showing Debug CPU window (and compiled using -fstack-protector)
• Fixed segfault when starting ZEsarUX + disabled welcome splash message + enabled reopen windows on start setting + no window to restore
• Fixed trap print numbers on Spectrum and ZX81 (setting --chardetectcompatnum)
• Fixed segfault when selecting an invalid file type on real tape
• Fixed Keyboard Help image for Spectravideo 318
• Fixed allowed machines when saving snapshots .ZX
• Fixed Breakpoints actions: now are executed everywhere (even in the menu)
• Fixed pressing key c (continuous mode) on debug cpu (emulation was unpaused temporarily)
• Fixed TZX turbo files extract (including screen previews), convert & file info
• Fixed .Z80 and .ZSF screen previews when using 128k screen page 7
• Fixed .DSK extract
• Fixed crash when saving .ZSF snapshots when a byte DD is found just before a byte is repeated more than 256 times
• Fixed Next MMC images download. Now you need SSL enabled on compilation

Fixed ZX Vision:

• Fixed showing cursor on edit fields and text length longer than visible

As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX Version 10.2-RC2 - Hysteria edition. 24 August 2022

• Added new emulated machines:
  • Microdigital TK80
  • Microdigital TK82
  • Microdigital TK82C
  • Microdigital TK83
  • Microdigital TK85
  • Microdigital TK95 Spanish
  • Timex Sinclair 1000
  • Timex Sinclair 1500
• Added Hilow Barbanegra emulation
• Added Transtape emulation
• Added Microhobby Pokeador Automatico emulation
• Added path setting where to download files from the speccy and zx81 online browser
• Improved Z88 emulation:
  • Changed colour palette to better match a real Z88
  • Show keys shortcuts below the Z88 display
  • Snapshot setting & menu action to synchronize Z88 clock
  • Inserting Z88 cards: now it does not hang the emulator during the insert
  • Selecting Z88 cards: submenus for types and sizes
  • Z88 footer: show when writing a card in slot 3, colors follow style
  • Z88 device icons: different icons for slot 1,2,3, show when writing a card in slot 3
• Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation:
  • added sprite rendering priority bit
  • Improved ZRCP: allow to change command prompt
  • Improved generated TZX and PZX files: include date and ZEsarUX version in header
• Improved Custom machine menu: added +2E MMC machine
• Fixed using mmc images larger than 2 GB
• Fixed redrawing ZX Desktop when resizing window
• Fixed hang when using View Variables and memory corrupted
• Fixed hang pressing two times F-key assigned to Pause (Mac OS unaffected)
• Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when starting machine ZX Spectrum +2 Spanish. This is a bug that has always existed
• Fixed losing inserted Z88 cards when changing cpu speed
• Fixed handling files larger than 2 GB on 32 bit CPU (it does apply to the Windows version even on a 64 bit CPU)

ZEsarUX-10.2 Version 10.2-RC1 - Hysteria edition. 22 July 2022

• Allow .Z80 corrupted snapshot loading from ZXSP emulator with additional header of 31 byte size
• Added ZSF support for Timex TS2068
• Added setting for path where to download files from the speccy and zx81 online browser
• Added machine Spectrum 48k+
• Added machine Timex TC2048
• Added machine Timex TC2068
• Added disk image browsing from storage MMC/IDE menus
• Added PZX load support as standard tape
• Added TAP to PZX converter
• Added TAP to TZX turbo converter (TZX Turbo 4000 bauds, to use with Rodolfo Guerra ROMS)
• Added some actions than can be fired from command line and don't start ZEsarUX: -convert-tap-tzx, --convert-tap-tzx-turbo-rg, --convert-tap-pzx, --convert-tzx-tap, --convert-pzx-tap
• Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added sprite rendering priority bit
• Improved ZRCP: allow to change command prompt
• Improved generated TZX and PZX files: include date and ZEsarUX version in header
• Improved File selector:
  • Allow to have a full screen preview if window is big enough
  • Better legend key explanation
• Improved Debugging:
  • Added a setting to show on which scanline has been executed a Halt, inverting border color
  • When enabling step mode, emulation is paused on all menus
  • Preserve step mode when exiting debug cpu that was opened by breakpoint
  • When a breakpoint is fired, step mode is kept on all menus
  • Breakpoints actions "call", "printc", "set-register" and "write" can now use expressions instead of fixed values
  • Added breakpoint actions: "disassemble", "printregs"
  • Warn on footer when step mode
  • Enlarge width of breakpoints list
• Improved SmartLoad & Drag-Drop:
  • Allow to load a .rom file as a custom rom file for the current machine
  • Allow to Drag-Drop when menu open
• Improved ZX Vision:
  • Reorder windows when changing machine but only when ZEsarUX window is smaller than previous one
  • Custom arrows characters
  • Windows are now restored by default on starting ZEsarUX
• Improved ZX Desktop:
  • Added configurable icons to the ZX Desktop: icons to windows, icons to actions, file links
  • Right mouse button is used now for secondary actions. It no longer simulates ESC key (unless you enable it on ZX Vision Settings)
  • Allow to extend ZX Desktop vertically
  • Added frame around emulated machine
  • Added setting to mix scr image with background
• Improved HiLow DataDrive emulation:
  • Allow to Format, Browse and Chkdsk an Hilow DataDrive image (.ddh file)
  • Allow to convert audio from a real Hilow DataDrive tape to an image file (.ddh)
  • Added technical documentation on the extras package
• Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when starting machine ZX Spectrum +2 Spanish. This is a bug that has always existed.
• Fixed Z80 behavior after EI or DD/FD prefixes and interrupts
• Fixed Z80 behavior running block opcodes (LDIR, etc) and interrupts
• Fixed .Z80 Timex TS2068 snapshot loading
• Fixed showing Recent Files when file name contains character %
• Fixed HiLow DataDrive emulation
• Fixed crash (stack smashing detected) when showing Debug CPU window (and compiled using -fstack-protector)
• Fixed segfault when starting ZEsarUX + disabled welcome splash message + enabled reopen windows on start setting + no window to restore
• Fixed trap print numbers on Spectrum and ZX81 (setting --chardetectcompatnum)
• Fixed segfault when selecting an invalid file type on real tape
• Fixed Keyboard Help image for Spectravideo 318
• Fixed allowed machines when saving snapshots .ZX
• Fixed Breakpoints actions: now are executed everywhere (even in the menu)
• Fixed pressing key c (continuous mode) on debug cpu (emulation was unpaused temporarily)
• Fixed TZX turbo files extract (including screen previews), convert & file info
• Fixed .Z80 and .ZSF screen previews when using 128k screen page 7
• Fixed .DSK extract
• Fixed crash when saving .ZSF snapshots when a byte DD is found just before a byte is repeated more than 256 times
• Fixed ZX Vision:
  • Fixed showing cursor on edit fields and text length longer than visible
• Some other minor bugfixes and improvements