[GB] Zboy 0.71 Windows 27/11/2023

Bomber Boy (1990, Hudson Soft)

zBoy v0.71 27/11/2023

• The Windows binary has been kindly compiled by Daniel Bruno. It should be compatible with 64-bit editions of Windows.

zBoy v0.71 [30 Jan 2020]

•  Joypad emulation fix (Galaga & Galaxians controls work now),
•  --showfps displays fps on-screen instead of using the window's title bar,
•  video backends (SDL2, Allegro) optimizations,
•  MMU code simplified (faster, lower RAM usage),
•  minor sound bug fixes,
•  dropped Eagle scaling support (Scale2x and Scale3x are much better).

zBoy v0.71 [30 Jan 2020]

•  Joypad emulation fix (Galaga & Galaxians controls work now),
•  --showfps displays fps on-screen instead of using the window's title bar,
•  video backends (SDL2, Allegro) optimizations,
•  MMU code simplified (faster, lower RAM usage),
•  minor sound bug fixes,
•  dropped Eagle scaling support (Scale2x and Scale3x are much better).

Podkolorowany Bomb Jack (1992, Tecmo LTD)

zBoy v0.70 [22 Jan 2019]

• Sound support (can be disabled with --nosound),
• Added ZIP support (zBoy detects ZIP archives, tries to load the first file inside),
• Adapted code so it compiles fine with -Werror=format-security (thanks to Andrea Musuruane for suggesting that),
• Implemented hi-scores retention for Crystal Quest, Flipul, SolarStriker, Tail Gator and Quarth,
• Added colorization support for Crystal Quest, Bomb Jack, Sensible Soccer and Prince of Persia,
• Fixed joystick support,
• Fixed the '--noshowfps' command-line parameter,
• Fixed window computation when WINY is less than 7 (fixed scrolling text on intros in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Swamp Thing),
• Added emulation of incomplete ROM address decoding (fixed several games: WordZap, Blaster Master, Pac-Man special color edition, Turok, Quarth, Zen Intergalactic Ninja),
• Complete redesign of the Netplay support, compatibility is significantly higher now: works with Tetris Attack, Tetris Blast, F-1 Race and many others,
• Netplay link peering autodetection on LAN ('--netplay auto' or F12 during gameplay).

F15 Strike Eagle

zBoy v0.60 [30 Apr 2015]

• Migrated from SDL to SDL2,
• Created a DOS port using the Allegro library (the port comes with its own setup utility),
• Dropped the '--noscreensaver' parameter (always enabled now), and replaced the custom screen-saver inhibitor by SDL2's generic routine,
• zBoy's configuration changes are persistent now,
• Added a custom colorization feature (--custcolor), so players can colorize games themselves,
• Fullscreen can be switched in-game on the SDL2 backend (ALT+ENTER),
• Added colorization support for Pipe Dream,
• Removed the '--bootlogo' option,
• Added '--resetcfg' to reset the configuration to default values,
• Hi-score persistent memory (--hiscores) is enabled by default,
• PCX screenshots are saved with a 4bpp depth (results in 50% smaller screenshot files),
• Renamed the '--colorization' option to a shorter '--colorize',
• Renamed '--hiscoresmem' to '--hiscores' and added '--nohiscores',
• Renamed '--nospeedlimit' to '--fullspeed' and added '--nofullspeed',
• Renamed '--nocpuidle' to '--cpuburn' and added '--nocpuburn'.

zBoy v0.53 [16 Mar 2014]

• Added checks on emulated memory address before writing, to avoid writing in non-allocated areas (Alfred Chicken is not crashing the emulator anymore),
• Fixed a pointer bug that was making zBoy crashing on ROMs with invalid checksums (was trying to fill a NULL pointer with an error message),
• Cleaned up the code to compile without warnings on gcc 4.7.2,
• Fixed interrupts handling (now Bomb Jack and Kingdom Crusade work fine),
• Fixed HALT handling when IME is OFF (zBoy passes the Blargg interrupt test now),
• Dropped GUI support (zBoy is command-line driven only - it's too much of a mess to maintain a cross-platform GUI inside zBoy - should be a separate project, but I won't do it myself).