[zx] ZEsarUX 10.2 Hysteria edition 26/10/2022

Hysteria (Alternative Software Ltd., 1989)

Version 10.2 - Hysteria edition. 26 October 2022

New things added:

• Added configurable icons to the ZX Desktop. These icons can:
  • Open windows, for example View Sprites
  • Trigger actions, like Reset
  • File links, these are linked to tapes or snapshots on your disk drive
  • There are other special icons, like Trash Can
• These icons opens a whole new world on ZEsarUX, so the ZX Desktop is becoming a Full Desktop environment :)

Pierwsze podejście do ZX Desktop na pełnym ekranie to krew na rękach - dobrze, że jest opcją wyłączenia desktopu w fullscreen.

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:
  • Allow to extend ZX Desktop vertically
  • Right mouse button is now used for secondary actions. It no longer simulates ESC key (unless you enable it on ZX Vision Settings)
  • 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

Version 10.3 - La Abadia del Crimen edition. 10 May 2023

There are lots of changes in this version, but some of them are remarkable:

• Added machines Amstrad PCW 8256, PCW 8512, CPC 6128, CPC 664
• Fixed 3" CF2 floppy disk emulation (used on +3, CPC, PCW): the floppy disk emulation has been rewritten from scratch and now is near perfect
• Lots of improvements on Debug CPU window
• Fixed almost all annoying audio clicks on Windows version (and on SDL audio driver on Linux)

New things added:

• Added Machine Amstrad PCW 8256
• Added Machine Amstrad PCW 8512
• Added Machine Amstrad CPC 6128
• Added Machine Amstrad CPC 664
• Added Visual Floppy to see floppy disk (+3, CPC, PCW, Betadisk) activity
• Added DSK disk info menu: to get tracks and sectors of a disk
• Added F-Functions: Poke, Visual Real Tape, Settings, Switch footer
• Added Process Switcher window, which is like a "Taskbar" on the ZX Desktop
• 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 more Hotswap combinations
• Added Advanced menu items: now by default, advanced menu items are hidden, you should enable them on Settings->Advanced menu items
• Added command line setting --machinelist to get machines list names whitespace separated
• Added .POK file Smartloading
• Added XEyes "Toy" to follow mouse
• Added Sierpinsky Meter Type to View Sensors

Improvements:

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 Debug Console: better refresh, dynamic width
• 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
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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 DSK viewer:

• better filesystem detection
• show hidden and read only files
• show disk specification format
• show where files are located on Visual Floppy

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 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-style TaskBar called "Process Switcher"
• 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
• improved window list showing spent time on each window and pid of each window/process
• improved rendering background windows
• yes/no confirmation dialogs are translated to si/no in Spanish and Catalan
• added more menu translations to Spanish and Catalan
• Improved DSK extractor: better filesystem detection
• Improved ZSF Snapshots: allow to save ROM contents, useful when running custom roms
• Improved File selector: can show recent folders (press space on recent files)
• 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 Raspberry Pi emulation: performance parameters are not changed by default anymore, you must use "--changeslowparameters" on slow Rpi like Rpi1 or 2

Fixes:

• Fixed Spectrum +3 disk emulation: the disk emulation layer has been rewritten from scratch and now is near perfect.
• Just some statistics from testing 943 total Spectrum +3 disks:
  • -Unprotected games: 98.3 % working
  • -Paul Owens protected games: 85.7 % working
  • -Speedlock protected games: 54.2 % working
  • -Alkatraz protected games: 0 % working
  • -Unknown method protected games: 0 % working (a total of 15 disks that seem to be protected but don't know the method)
• Fixed almost all annoying audio clicks on Windows version (and on SDL audio driver on Linux)
• Fixed empty results when querying some games on Speccy online browser
• 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 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
• Fixed debug step over and sending keys to emulated machine
• Fixed setting "set machine snap load" when loading .Z80 version 1 snapshots
• Fixed real joystick menu disabled on Mac OS when switching border
• Fixed putting Text Adventure Map window on background

Misc Changes:

• Persistent writes on DSK files (+3/CPC/PCW disks) are now disabled by default

As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Carrier Command (Rainbird Software, 1989)

Version 10.1 - Carrier Command edition. 06 May 2022

• Added real joystick support on Mac
• Added joystick support for Hat controllers
• Added new joystick event to exit ZEsarUX
• Added action to trigger left-right movement on joystick, to play Decathlon-like games
• Added MSX Joystick emulation
• Added Spectravideo Joystick emulation
• Added support for simple speaker output on Raspberry PI Using GPIO pins and no sound card
• Added setting to select a different joystick on Windows and OS with SDL driver
• Added setting to change ULA Data bus value
• Added showing microdrive label when expanding qlay mdv files of size 174930 bytes
• Added Jupiter Ace TAP & TZX support on tape browser
• Added TZX support for ID 33 - Hardware type
• Added Autorewind tape setting
• Added Z80 Halt signal state support on zsf snapshot
• Added device button for ZX-Uno Flash device
• Added another easter egg ;)

Improved Text Adventure Debugging:

• Added Text Adventure Map
• Added Locations Connections list
• Added direct menu entry and f-function/button to view 8 (adventure debug)
• Improved detection of some paws adventures (like superlopez and abracadabra)
• Improved detection of some daad adventures (like jabato)

Improved Debug CPU:

• Now it highlights which registers will be modified by the opcode at the cursor position
• New address breakpoint expression FPEEK, that can read contents in the range of the total machine address space
• Added t-states counter on default view
• Allow to have a decimal view of opcode decoding using key m (mode)
• Added breakpoints actions to start and stop cpu transaction log

Improved Accessibility:

• Added direct settings for inverse colours and gray mode
• Added setting to disable Flash

Improved ZX Vision:

• Reduced up to 5 times cpu usage on menu by using a cache
• Improve window refreshing by disabling autoframeskip while moving or resizing
• Allow to set a window always visible
• Enlarge content size when resizing window without having to recreate it
• Notify to the parent function when a window has been resized
• Allow to avoid refreshing window when changing scroll
• Added GUI styles: AmigaOS, Atari TOS, OS/2, RiscOS, ZEsarUX Plus (and this one is now the default style)
• Improve RetroMac GUI style: striped title bar
• Improve BeOS GUI style: buttons positions right after the title
• Detect when video driver can not use the current GUI style and set to another one that can use
• Added maximize window button
• Background button on inactive windows is hidden by default
• Bigger window resize indicator (bottom-right of the window)
• Text windows enlarge/reduce line width when resizing windows
• Text windows wider by default (40 characters instead of 32)
• When sending a window to the background, and the setting "Background windows even when menu closed" is enabled, the menu will be closed
• Improve accented characters on different charsets
• Added translation of menu items to Spanish and Catalan
• Added shortcuts helper to see hotkeys pressed
• Added button preview when customizing ZX Desktop buttons or F-keys
• Better detection of Spectrum screen file: any file size of 6912 bytes
• Show when a menu has submenus using the ">" character
• Preserve minimized and maximized state on windows
• Remember size before minimize and maximize window
• Added actions on menu Window Management to: switch to, minimize, maximize, move to bottom, set always visible, window information
• Window management window can run on background
• ZX Desktop: footer buttons to enlarge or reduce ZX Desktop, not just enabling or disabling
• ZX Desktop: allow to set a background SCR file
• ZX Desktop: added setting to disable ZX Desktop when going to full screen
• Improved PC Speaker Driver: now there is a new driver "onebitspeaker" which can handle both PC Speaker and Raspberry PI GPIO speaker
• Improved PC Speaker audio driver: better sound quality and high frequency filter
• Improved OSD Adventure Keyboard: allow to send space, enter and quotation marks
• Improved OSD Keyboard: allow to use mouse, preserve window geometry
• Improved Keyboard Help: load image automatically when changing machine
• Improved handling of individual colour palettes modifications (Red, Green, Blue)
• Improved portability of shell scripts
• Improved fbdev driver: added setting for double buffer to avoid flickering on menu (--fbdev-double-buffer)
• Improved fbdev driver: added setting to avoid resolution change on Raspberry Pi full screen mode (--fbdev-no-res-change)
• Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added layer2 priority colour bit
• Improved Audio Chip Piano and Wave Piano: can show all octaves and set piano zoom
• Fixed Z80 halt behavior and PC location
• Fixed disabling border when realvideo enabled on machines: Colecovision, Master System, MSX, SG1000, SpectraVideo
• Fixed redrawing footer when fade out
• Fixed showing character 127 on curses, stdout and simpletext video drivers
• Fixed preserve breakpoints state when doing smartload
• Fixed saving snapshot on some events that close ZEsarUX (F-key, AY Player, etc)
• Fixed loading/saving TZX as Standard tape on Jupiter Ace
• Fixed ejecting Spectravideo cartridge
• Fixed segfault pressing F5 after pressing pause key
• Fixed bug on OSD Adventure Keyboard when words of 5 characters lenght and setting sending final space enabled
• Fixed crash when saving configuration file larger than 20kb
• Fixed crash when browsing on a completely empty directory
• Fixed bug emptying osd adventure text keyboard when debugging vocabulary
• Fixed smartload from ZRCP
• Fixed crash when exiting emulator and ZRCP enabled (usually failed on Raspberry Pi)

Fixed ZX Vision:

• Fixed hang when pressing cursor up/down on any tabbed menu with only one line (like Audio Waveform)
• Fixed glitches resizing some windows: AY Registers, Debug CPU, etc...
• Fixed flickering when resizing Keyboard Help window
• Fixed reducing all windows
• Fixed bug restoring windows on startup when a previous error was generated
• Fixed drawing scroll bars when window is not at the top of all windows
• Fixed drawing close button on background windows
• Fixed showing input tape insert state on menu and zx desktop icon when tape can't be opened
• Fixed window Hex Editor while moving or resizing
• Fixed view sensors when clicking on the scroll bars
• Fixed refreshing Visual Real Tape window when enabled Top Speed

Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Horizon Demo Cassette (1982, Horizon)

Version 10.0 - Clive Sinclair edition. 4 October 2021

There are lots of changes in this version, but some of them are remarkable:

• New machine emulated: Sega Master System
• "Time machine" features: Automatic Snapshots to RAM + Rewind feature, backwards debugging, backwards run
• Realtime translation of text adventure games in a ZEsarUX window
• Can render any image from a Speccy Text Adventure (supported parsers: Quill, Paws, Daad, Gac)
• Added Visual Real Tape. Now you can have an audio render of your tape, see tape blocks and rewind or move forward the cassette player
• Can now browse Basic variables on ZX Spectrum, ZX81 and ZX80
• Allow customize upper buttons to actions
• Added Window View Sensors to graph internal emulation sensors, performance, statistics, etc
• Added menu language selection between default (English) and Spanish. Only some texts are translated to Spanish

The full changelog for this version 10.0 is:

• Added Sega Master System emulation
• Added .sms file viewer
• Added midi output and .mid support for QL and SN audio chips (Master System, SG1000, etc)
• Added Automatic Snapshots to RAM + Rewind feature
• Added new improved real tape loading algorithm
• Added setting to disable TZX pauses
• Added zsf to scr support for Next, ZX-Uno and TSConf snapshots
• Added Jupiter Ace 51 KB RAM emulation
• Added Fuzix ide image on the zesarux-extras package
• Added TK90X v3 roms by Rodolfo Guerra on the zesarux-extras package
• Added ZSF snapshot support for Jupiter Ace, Z88
• Added --slotcard-num setting to insert a Z88 card in a numbered slot (1, 2 or 3)
• Added ZEsarUX logo on the window footer
• Added setting to disable ZX80/81 tape traps
• Added wav/rwa/smp tape audio browser, to view Spectrum/ZX80/ZX81 tape blocks from audio file
• Added Visual Real Tape. Now you can have an audio render of your tape, see tape blocks and rewind or move forward the cassette player
• Added menu language selection between default (English) and Spanish. Only some texts are translated to Spanish
• Added ZRCP commands:
  • mmc-reload: reload MMC image
  • snapshot-inram-get-index: Returns index to a RAM snapshot position
  • snapshot-inram-load: Loads the RAM snapshot from position
• Added file converters:
  • wav/rwa/smp to tap
  • wav/rwa/smp to p
  • wav/rwa/smp to o
  • rwa to wav
• Improved Debug CPU Window:
  • Added backwards debugging, backwards run
  • Added cpu history menu to see registers in the past (same as you already had on ZRCP)
  • Mouse accions: click (toggle breakpoint, change registers), scrolling up/down by using the mouse wheel
  • Improve window refresh when pressing keys on non-step mode
  • Preserve step mode when assembling
  • Added new key to set PC=PTR
  • Added new key to go to next breakpoint type PC=dir
  • Allow to define up to 100 breakpoints (same that you could define using ZRCP)
• Improved Debugging:
  • Can now browse Basic variables on ZX Spectrum, ZX81 and ZX80
  • Added setting to show location address of every basic line and current line on menu View Basic
  • Added Window View Sensors to graph internal emulation sensors, performance, statistics, etc
  • Added command line setting to load source code
• Improved ZX Vision menu interface:
  • Added GUI styles: BeOS, Bloody, Grass, Ocean, Sunny, Panther, Sky
  • Added actions for reinsert, rewind, ffwd real tape
  • Added setting to pause cpu emulation on menu when multitask active
  • Added Degraded ZX Desktop Fill Type
  • Added button on footer to switch ZX Desktop
  • Added Accessibility->GUI settings as a quick way to enable some GUI enhancements: high contrast style, hotkeys, etc
  • Added item to reduce+rearrange windows
  • Added some graphical meters on AY Registers, Core Statistics
  • Added setting to disable boxes around lower and upper ZX Desktop Buttons
  • Added support for accentuated characters
  • Allow customize charset
  • Allow customize upper buttons to actions
  • Real tape icon now is animated when playing tape
  • Reorganized GUI Settings and Window Settings menu: "GUI Settings" menu is now called "ZX Vision Settings", "Window Settings" menu is now called "General settings"
  • Machine manufacturer list is now sorted by name (instead of some kind of mixed age and type)
  • Show in file selector when a file can be expanded
  • Improved screen file previews: any file size of 6912 bytes is guessed as Spectrum screen
  • Maximizing windows now take care of size of ZX Desktop, when setting "Open menu on ZX Desktop" is enabled
  • Handle when clicking a window when menu closed
  • Colour palette window now shows all colours that fit in the window
  • View sprite legend now adapts to size
• Improved Next emulation:
  • Turbo setting: make it by default limited on NextZXOS
  • ZSF snapshots include all info from port 123b (previous TBBlue .zsf snapshots are incompatible with this version, sorry!)
  • Added a splash message when changing Layer 2 modes
• Improved Text Aventure Features:
  • Improved detection of Daad aventures on debugging
  • Now you can render any image from a Speccy Text Adventure (supported parsers: Quill, Paws, Daad, Gac)
  • Now you can use a text speech script which can translate text from the game and show the translated text on ZEsarUX window
• Improved Find menu: now can find several bytes and open Hexadecimal Editor on the results list
• Improved Audio to .mid exporter: allow changing instrument
• Improved configuration file: increased maximum allowed size to 256kb and 2000 parameters
• Improved curses driver on ZX80/81: now realvideo mode can use extended utf-8 blocky characters
• Fixed file previews on corrupted files: pzx, tap
• Fixed rearranging windows and using total window height
• Fixed Next ULA Scroll to use registers 0x26 and 0x27
• Fixed Next tbblue port 123b behaviour: 48kb ram paging, shadow display, 3bit offset, read access
• Fixed cpu-step behaviour the first time it's executed
• Fixed cursor keys up/down on Jupiter Ace
• Fixed --help and --experthelp settings: do not parse configuration file when showing help
• Fixed autoload on spectrum 48k+ spanish
• Fixed loading ZX80/81 Snapshots/Tapes when filename has more than one extension
• Fixed wave shape type "Scroll" on View WaveForm

Version 9.2 - Cliff Hanger edition. 05 April 2021

• Added SamRam Gerton Lunter interface emulation
• Added new ZX-Uno Prism video mode
• Added Dandanator storage button icon
• Added alternate Jupiter ACE rom
• Added another fourth easter egg ;)
• Added read only setting for esxdos handler
• Added setting to redefine joystick fire key
• Added midi output instrument selector
• Added Debug action to set PC register to zero
• Added command line setting --copy-file-to-mmc to be able to copy files to a mmc image before starting ZEsarUX
• Added ZRCP command realtape-open

Improved ZX-Uno emulation:

• Updated BIOS, Flash and ESXDOS (ESXDOS now runs 0.8.6 final version)
• Added command line setting --zxuno-initial-64k to allow loading a initial 64kb block in bootm mode, bypassing the normal boot rom

Improved TBBlue emulation:

• Added .snx snapshot support
• Added debug window to enable/disable individual sprites
• Added relative sprite type composite/unified on sprite navigator
• Added Sprites Debug memory zone
• Optimize sprite rendering (saving 1% cpu on my computer)

Improved CPC emulation:

• Added video scanlines rendering (A.K.A. Real Video)
• Joystick emulation
• Stereo emulation

Improved File utilities Browser:

• Added support for browsing inside FAT filesystem disk images (.img, .mmc, .ide, etc)
• Detect when source and target directories are the same when moving or copying
• Show more info in some file viewers (.sna, .p, .o, etc)
• Added .nex file viewer
• Added copy and delete entire folder
• Added SCR to TXT file converter

Improved Debug CPU Window:

• Can load a source code
• Tell when a condition is satisfied or not
• Detecting when running a esxdos call, using the esxdos handler, and doing step over

Improved ZX Vision menu interface:

• Added Turbo Vision GUI style
• Added ZEsarUX Matte GUI style
• Added GUI Style Selector menu
• Added GUI Test Style
• Added key Shift+Cursor Right to switch to another window
• Added action to minimize all windows
• Added setting to ignore mouse click to open the menu
• Added more utf-8 characters support
• Added setting to show files in hexa+ascii using file viewer

Improved all-to-pixel text rendering:

• Allow 1:1 scale
• Allow to set window size and offsets in characters

Improved Speccy online browser:

• now uses ZXinfo API V3
• uses SSL SNI when downloading files
• Improved Frameskip algorithm
• Improved Core statistics: Add info about frames drawn & dropped
• Improved Hex Editor: can now be backgrounded
• Improved Debug I/O ports window: can now be backgrounded and it's reloaded continuously
• Improved File spooling: delay can now be any value between 20 and 2000 ms (in increments of +20)
• Improved File Browser: added file size information
• Improved cocoa (Mac) driver: allows distinguish between left and right Ctrl key, and left and right Alt key
• Improved panic screen: added countdown timer, extended to ZX Desktop

Fixed ZX-Uno bugs:

• Fixed bugs on mmc and flash storage layer which prevented to update bios, esxdos rom or entire flash from the BIOS
• Fixed chloe mmu mapping: bootm has priority. If bootm=1, can't map chloe. If bootm=0, can be chloe or +2a

Fixed TBBlue bugs:

• Fixed relative sprites: when anchor sprite is not visible, negative coordinates, detecting unified/composite, mirror, rotation
• Fixed 4bpp sprites: pattern calculating, transparency, anchor
• Fixed clipping (affected scrollnutter demo in the right round corners)
• Fixed writing on divmmc memory when layer2 active

Fixed CPC bugs:

• Fixed vsync and hsync interrupts
• Fixed border colour
• Fixed AY chip register selection
• Fixed CRTC interrupts. After a CRTC interrupt with Z80 interrupts disabled, they were not fired when enabling Z80 interrupts
• Fixed setting bit 4 of the "Select screen mode and rom configuration" register of the Gate-Array and interrupt request
• Fixed RETURN key

Fixed IDE commands which affected almost all IDE firmwares: fatware, mdos, etc:

• Fixed IDE command ECH Identify Drive
• Fixed IDE command 91H Initialize Drive Parameters

• Fixed annoying flickering in menu using XWindows video driver
• Fixed Mac OS retina display window
• Fixed Mac OS full screen
• Fixed loading General Sound rom
• Fixed segfaults on fileselector +3 DSK screen previews using Speedlock protected disks or bad disks
• Fixed segfaults on fileselector TRD screen previews using protected disks or bad disks
• Fixed receiving large snapshots on ZRCP/ZENG
• Fixed pixel color on text all-to-pixel text rendering (color inversion)
• Fixed DivIDE/DivMMC mapram behaviour
• Fixed some GUI style colours
• Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Turbo Esprit (Durell Software Ltd., 1986)

Version 9.0 - Turbo Esprit edition. 17 August 2020

Added new emulated machines:

• MSX1
• Spectravideo 318/328
• Colecovision
• Sega SG-1000

• Added new compiled version: FreeBSD
• Added support for compilation on Haiku
• Added emulation of AY chip MIDI registers 14 & 15 and route them to an external MIDI device
• Added browser for quicksave snapshots
• Added save screen to bmp feature
• Added menu to download ZEsarUX extras
• Added Windows icon
• Added F key to toggle top cpu speed
• Added F key to pause/unpause tape
• Added setting to rotate output tape when selecting tape that already exists
• Added setting to resample audio output to 1 bit
• Added showing yesterday ZEsarUX users

• Improved emulation: use a slightly less cpu on every scanline
• Improved compilation script: allow to set different C compiler
• Improved compiler versions: now all releases are compiled with optimizations, they use lot of less cpu than before

Improved menu:

• Allow some windows to be running on the background, all at the same time. This makes the menu environment more powerful!
• Active windows are saved and restored on startup
• Pressing the menu key (F5 by default) when menu is open, it will send you back to the main menu. Also pressing over Z logo on ext desktop
• Some window hotkeys can be pressed with mouse click (example: Debug CPU Window, File utilities, View Sprites, Hex Editor, Disassemble)
• Improved some interface fonts in sizes smaller than 8 pixel width
• Added GUI Styles: MSX, Solarized Dark & Light
• Added setting to select machine by name instead by manufacturer
• Added setting to disable showing cpu temperature, or FPS on footer
• Added keyboard help window for all machines
• Footer FPS warns in red colour when FPS low

Improved Visualmem:

• added MMC Read/Write views
• added "Defrag style" setting

Improved debugging:

• Added breakpoint action "reset-tstatp"
• Added SEG0, SEG1, ... SEG7 variables to match TBBlue MMU pages
• Added IN() function to read a port in the breakpoint parser
• Added key to execute a RET

Improved ZRCP:

• Allow to write commands in "". Not all commands support this
• Added save-binary command, to save binary data to a file
• Added save-screen command, to save machine screen to a file

Improved Esxdos handler:

• Added f_mkdir function
• Added configuration setting to save local work directory

Improved TBBlue emulation:

• Added Layer2 modes 320x256 and 640x256
• Added 4bpp sprites
• Enable Timex video by default
• Legacy hi-res and border effects disabled by default. Reduces up to 13% cpu use or gain 17 FPS on my environment
• Reduced a bit cpu usage (2% cpu less on my environment) when rendering scanlines
• Added altrom feature: now 48k and 128k mode works again
• Emulate register 0x8E (142) => Spectrum 128K Memory Mapping
• Allow to download a 512 MB TBBlue SD official card (allowed download sizes: 32MB, 128MB, 512MB, 2 GB)
• Allow paths with backslashes on esxdos handler

Improved Chloe emulation:

• Supports CPU speed setting via the ZX-Uno SCANDBLCTRL register
• Load unodos3.rom as the default divmmc firmware
• Added chloehd.mmc in the extras package

• Fixed rom loading: no more cpu panic when the rom is not found
• Fixed SCF/CCF undocumented flags emulation. Not enabled by default on compilation because almost no one is using this
• Fixed saving "Show CPU usage" setting on footer
• Fixed using tab and backspace keys in curses driver
• Fixed segfaults when using some memory zones and changing machine
• Fixed segfaults when setting breakpoints from config file and machine is QL
• Fixed segfaults when changing machines and resizing windows
• Fixed segfaults on Esxdos handler when using a file handler that was a directory
• Fixed loading zsf snapshot and ay registers
• Fixed network bug when downloading file and redirecting to another url
• Fixed Visualmem window size when char size < 8
• Fixed Accessibility bug reading transparent windows

Fixed ZRCP bugs:

• Fixed possible crash when disconnecting socket
• Using cpu-history ZRCP command no longer fires additional MRA conditions

Fixed tbblue bugs:

• Fixed 8 first lines of tiles on border not shown
• Fixed text mode (1 bit tile)
• Fixed reading palette colours. That fixes returning from multiface nmi
• Fixed reading clipping values
• Fixed screensaver
• Fixed tbblue memory priorities
• Fixed tbblue diviface - mmu priority
• Fixed layer2 mode 2 scroll

[zx] ZEsarUX 8.1 - The Great Escape edition. 25/02/2020

• Added ZEsarUX Network Gaming protocol (ZENG), which allows you to play to any emulated game, using two ZEsarUX instances,located each one on any part of the world or in a local network. Games doesn't have to be modified, you can use any existing game
• Added Spectrum and ZX81 online game browser. You can search & play almost any game for these machines!
• Added real joystick support on Windows
• Added Pentagon 16C colour mode emulation
• Added 1024 KB RAM emulation for Spectrum & Pentagon
• Added ZIP files support: no more need to use external unzip program
• Added SCL files support: can be converted from file selector menu pressing space
• Added SNA saving support
• Added PZX tape file support
• Added SCR to TAP file converter
• Added total run time statistics
• Added checking for updates
• Added sending anonymous statistics use
• Added setting --disablemenuandexit: it closes the emulator when the menu is going to be opened.
• It's the same behaviour as previous --disablemenu. Now --disablemenu only disables the menu but does not close the emulator
• Added setting to disable looking for alternate character sets from sysvar 23606/7 on ocr functions
• Added DataDrive HiLow emulation (beta)
• Added Borland Gui Style
• Added setting to reset configuration file to default values
• Added setting to choose cpu type

Added ZRCP commands:

• cpu-code-coverage: working with code coverage
• cpu-history: working with cpu history
• extended-stack: having an internal stack for debugging stack value types
• get-ui-io-ports: to get keyboard state and joystick
• get-snapshot: get a ZSF snapshot from ZRCP
• print-footer: print message on footer
• put-snapshot: put a ZSF snapshot from ZRCP
• send-keys-event: simulates key press/release
• set-ui-io-ports: to change keyboard state and joystick
• write-port: write value to a port

Improved TBBlue emulation:

• New Wizard to automatically download and configure TBBlue official SD images
• optimized ula,lores render routines: 2% less cpu
• added scroll x,y on ula layer
• added 1-bit tile mode
• added tbblue register 63H: copper 16 bit write
• added tbblue register 69H: display control 1 register
• added tbblue registers 0x35-0x39, 0x75-0x79
• added copper opcodes NOOP, HALT
• increased tbblue.mmc MMC bundled image size to 64 MB
• updated to the latest tbblue SD distribution.
• enable real video by default
• added zsf snapshot support
• supports setting Core ID to ZX Dos
• supports changing Core version

Improved Debugging:

• added setting to dump .zsf snapshot when a cpu panic is fired
• debug CPU window: can now resize height and have more debug lines, legend keys expand as width increases, registers located at the most right position
• cpu transaction log: faster when opening transaction log file
• added key 'n' for "run" on debug cpu. Does the same as closing all menus and returning back to emulation
• debug CPU window: show interrupt routine pointer on im2 mode

Improved Hex editor:

• can now copy to a different memory zone
• shows the memory pointer when editing memory

Improved menu:

• added more cyrillic characters support
• can now use PgUp,PgDn to jump menu pages
• added setting to disable File Utilities menu
• Splitted source code repository: now extras folder has been moved to another repository. See:https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux-extras
• Improved assembler: added defs command
• Improved AY Sheet: now you can select which AY Chip to show
• Improved Waveform: new scroll type
• Improved file selector: when asking for a directory, only shows directories, not files
• Improved curses driver: symbol @ simulates ESC on menu
• Improved snapshot loading: now setting "--sna-no-change-machine" becomes "--snap-no-change-machine" and applies to .sna and .z80
• Improved curses driver: now can use utf "blocky" characters and have 64x48 resolution
• Improved accurate Z80 timing: IM mode 0 is 1 t-state shorter than IM mode 1
• Improved real tape loading: acceleration is disabled by default, added setting to save configuration
• Improved cpu speed change: now it's a lot faster

Improved accesibility:

• disabled menu items (the ones in red) are now called as "unavailable" instead of "disabled"
• selected item menu is called now "Selected item" (was called "Active item" before)
• say when a selected menu item is not available
• pressing F4 key on a window menu, it will read that window again
• Mac OS speech filter doesn't fail anymore when message has "-"
• when an error is generated on stdout driver, the message is sent to text-to-speech
• Fixed Pentagon border: now ukflag demo is perfect
• Fixed Spectrum 128k machines border: now ula128, scroll2017 demos are perfect
• Fixed segfault error when using breakpoints like peek/opcode in config file
• Fixed segfault error when trying to open a directory with no permissions
• Fixed error when trying to open user files on MacOS Catalina
• Fixed bug on zxuno changing video ram 5/7 when paging was disabled by bit DI7FFD
• Fixed average cpu statistics when footer is not enabled
• Fixed kempston mouse emulation on Next machine: wheel bits always return 0
• Fixed bug extracting PAWS words when a word is a pronoun
• Fixed undocumented opcode ED76: I had IM0 but it's IM1
• Fixed RETI behaviour
• Fixed Real Joystick support: buttons to event table is not set to defaults automatically anymore
• Fixed loading and saving +3 .z80 snapshots
• Fixed placing menu windows when using zx desktop and machines TSConf, TBBlue, CPC and QL
• Fixed bug loading .sna files when rom 1 paged in
• Fixed bug on return flags from tape load trap. It only affected Rocman game and enabling "any flag loading" setting
• Fixed setting a configured memory breakpoint like this "--set-mem-breakpoint 0000H 2" which was fired on startup
• Fixed f_seek call on esxdos handler
• Fixed showing memory banks on debug cpu for Z88 machine
• Fixed menu issues:
  • fixed generic message splash: wait until key is released (if any pressed)
  • fixed opening the menu on stdout driver on the first start of ZEsarUX
  • fixed bug closing menu on Z88 machine and Real Video disabled
• Fixed tbblue emulation:
  • fixed clipping in 80x32 mode
  • fixed error when paging rom in ram, on case pages 0,1,2,3
  • fixed "bit 7 = Disable ULA output (soft reset = 0)" on register 0x68
  • fixed turbosound and dac activation when tbblue fast boot mode
  • added turbo mode x8 (28 MHz)
  • fixed reading register 7
  • fixed RTC emulation
  • fixed autoload tape
• Fixed Accessibility bugs:
  • now menu settings (anything between square brackets []) are played at the end of the menu line
  • now menu settings ([ ] and [X]) are played as "enabled"/"disabled"
• Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

World Desctruction (1985, Ventamatic). Photo@WOS

ZEsarUX Version 8.0 19 July 2019 - World Destruction edition

• Improved menu interface:
  • Program Window can be extended horizontally and have a right region to place menu zxvision windows (called ZX Desktop)
  • Draw engine: now it allows transparency
  • Menu windows can be placed and resized to the whole program window
  • Some windows geometry (position, size) are saved in the configuration
  • Hotkeys now show right capitalization (lowercase or uppercase)
  • Edit box now has a key to delete all input (cursor down)
  • Edit box can now move cursor left and right and write text in the middle
  • Enabling kempston mouse no longer disables mouse on menu
  • GUI color bars depend on current style
  • Added support for more cyrillic characters on menu
  • Added RetroMac Gui Style
  • Improved memory zone selector
  • Improved footer:
    • Footer now completely follows GUI Style
    • Reordered cpu use, numbers in red when cpu use > 85%
    • Now shows cpu temperature on Linux (and not only on Raspbian as before)
• Added Real time playback from AY Chip sound to external MIDI device
• Added menu to export AY chip music to midi (.mid) file
• Added AY Sheet: showing a sheet with the notes being played
• Added AY mixer menu
• Added ZXUno UART Bridge emulation
• Added TSConf UART Bridge emulation
• Added DAAD, PAWS and Quill debugger, for Spectrum and CPC (CPC only supports Daad debugger)
• Added text adventure keyboard also on CPC
• Added colors to ncurses driver and Chloe machine
• Added Chloe MMU to ZX-Uno
• Added Derby+ and Derby++ roms
• Added hdf to ide/mmc raw converter
• Added hdf support to MMC emulation
• Added ZRCP commands: ayplayer, cpu-transaction-log
• Improved breakpoint parser:
  • full expression parser: parenthesis, functions, sums, multiplications, etc. Can be used as a full calculator!
  • now it's a lot more faster. Up to 7 times faster, so it uses 7 times less cpu than the old version
• Improved watches:
  • using new expression parser
  • up to 10 watches on screen
  • watches are saved on configuration file
  • Improved tbblue emulation:
  • updated to the last Next Version files
  • can load .nex snapshot files from the command line or the ZEsarUX menus, without having to boot NextOS
  • added UART Bridge emulation
  • increased maximum sprites per line to 100
  • increased total sprites to 128
  • fixed full ink mode border colour
  • fallback (transparency) colour is now a 9-bit value
• Improved Adventure Text Extractor: now it supports Daad games too. So it supports Daad, Paws, Quill and Gac
• Improved Visualmem: now you can see all 3 different access (write, read, opcode) at once, generating a RGB color
• Improved Waveform window: now the wave adjusts automatically to the zxwindow size
• Improved Hexadecimal editor: now it resizes view to zxwindow height
• Improved TSConf layers menu: Added "reveal" setting to view which pixels are used by a layer
• Improved Scale 0.75 function: now it has antialias
• Improved Cpu Transaction Log: now logfiles can be rotated automatically
• Improved debugging: added a breakpoint action "putv" to write values on a Debug Memory Zone
• Fixed Pentagon interrupt handling: now effects on border and hi-res work almost perfect!
• Fixed interrupt bug behaviour where last opcode lasts >=32 t-states and interrupt in the middle
• Fixed "Jeff Braine" manufacturer to "New Horizons". Changed Prism machine name to "Prism 512"
• Fixed bug having more than 256 text to adventure keyboard words
• Fixed bug on CPC vertical scrolling
• Fixed segmentation fault bug when drawing CPC machine
• Fixed segmentation fault bug when displaying first aid messages
• Fixed bug redrawing zx80/81 display, with realvideo disabled, and menu char width less than 8
• Fixed bug drawing menu window boxes when char width less than 8
• Fixed zxvision left button handling: no longer sends enter when the user is dragging the window
• Fixed machine names to be completely right: for example, "Spectrum 48k" becomes "ZX Spectrum 48k", etc
• Fixed saving sprites when memory zone is not default zone
• Fixed bug when writing divmmv memory on Chloe machine and underlying RAM in space 0000-3fffh become overwritten
• Fixed bug crash when a message error was generated from ZRCP and menu had a tooltip open

Version 7.2. 10 April 2019 - Neula edition

Improved menu environment:

• Added new menu window type: ZX Vision. GUI Windows can be moved, resized, scrolled, minimized, closed, and change the focus to the background
• Windows can be scrolled using mouse wheel
• Warning and Error window messages now show an animation
• Added first-aid help windows

Added Z80 assembler

• Added setting to specify configuration file
• Added key to save text windows contents to a file
• Added setting to send a final space after every word in the osd adventure keyboard
• Added Dandanator CPC emulation
• Added machine Amstrad CPC 4128
• Added CPC machines support to ZSF snapshots
• Added tape to wav converter (tap, tzx, o, p to wav)
• Added text driver (curses, stdout, simpletext) for Chloe 80x24 mode

Improved Debugger:

• Now you can disassemble on the Step-to-step mode from the Debug cpu menu
• Now you can assemble from the Debug cpu menu
• Added Chloe memory Zone

Improved ZRCP:

• commands smartload and snapshot-load are more intelligent now
• running in verbose or limit mode, or cpu-step command, can now update the display inmediately (having real video setting on)
• added commands: assemble, get-cpu-frequency, get-cpu-turbo-speed, get-tstates, get-tstates-partial, load-binary, reset-tstates-partial

Improved sprite viewer:

• you can view sprites up to 512x512
• you can export sprites to C source code file

Improved file selector:

• now it remembers the last files used
• Windows: now you can use up to 20000 files in the same directory
• added drive selector (press shift-d). On Windows, allows you to change drive unit. On Linux and Mac, changes to /media or /Volumes folder

Improved disassemble window:

• now you can export the disassemble to text file
• you can now see the full opcode when debugging Sinclair QL
• you can now show/hide hexadecimal dump of every opcode

Improved hexadecimal editor:

• now showing subzones information

• Improved audio: silence detector is disabled by default. That should fix some Windows audio problems. Check Settings->Audio->Silence detector if you have configuration autosaving enabled
• Improved vu-meters: high volumes are shown in red
• Improved MMC emulation: allow non-standard mmc file sizes
• Improved compiled Mac version: default version is faster than before (uses O2 optimization)
• Fixed visual glitches in some menus when Pentagon machine and real video, or when enabling interlaced: audio wave, visualmem, ay piano, wave piano, view sprites
• Fixed triggering "opcode" condition breakpoint
• Fixed emulating Inves interrupt bug
• Fixed segmentation fault when showing electron on debug

Changes in TBBlue emulation:

• Added Tiles video mode
  • Added "reveal" setting to view which pixels are used by a layer
  • Added setting to change machine id
• Improved CPU usage:
  • Use 4% less cpu time (in my machine) when only ULA and/or Tiles enabled
  • Use 1% less cpu time (in my machine) when all layers enabled
• Improved display emulation: now is twice bigger
• Fixed Timex hi-res mode 512x192
• Fixed autoload on tbblue (on normal and also fast boot mode)
• Fixed error managing Layer 2 vertical scroll
• Fixed audio bug: sending a sample to the DAC by using Next registers, it wasn't reseting the silence detection counter, so sound would probably be frozen (and repeated again, and again...)

• Some other minor bugfixes and improvements