[zx][beta] ZEsarUX Version 7.1 - 24 August 2018 - Anniversary edition

Version 7.1. 24 September 2018 - 5th Anniversary edition

Yes, this is the 5th Anniversary edition, so, 5 years have passed since version 0.1: 24th September 2013 :))

Here is the changelog for version 7.1:

• Added ACB/ABC/BAC/Custom AY Stereo emulation
• Added joystick action to change emulated joystick type: Sinclair, Kempston, etc
• Added Basic viewer for .bas basic files (plain ascii or Basic Spectrum data with tokens), .baszx80 (Basic ZX80 with tokens), .baszx81 (Basic ZX81 with tokens), Z88 basic files with tokens
• Added Sped format file viewer
• Added ZXUno DMA emulation. Added some dma demos to zxuno.mmc image
• Added TBBlue/DataGear/MB02 DMA emulation
• Added TBBlue Multiface emulation
• Added TBBlue Debug menu: Sprite navigator, Video layers, Video info
• Added setting to deny turbo mode on TBBlue, useful on slow machines
• Added Beeper Piano Menu
• Added new Z80 TBBlue opcodes and deleted obsolete ones
• Added setting to change Kempston Mouse sensitivity
• Added menu item to create autoconfig files (.config)
• Added setting --random-r-register to generate random value for R register on every cold start, instead of the normal 0 value. Useful to avoid same R register in the start of games, when they use that register as a random value
• Added OSD Adventure Text Keyboard, useful for having typical words on Adventure Text Games (and of course any other kind of games and programs)
• Added tool to export vocabulary from a PAWS/QUILL/GAC game to a list of words in the OSD Adventure Text Keyboard
• Added new versions of my Sped compiler:
  • Sped52en: English translation by Tim Gilberts, based on Sped52. In Sped format
  • Sped53:   Fixed bug from Sped52 (object code was always saved from 49152), based on Sped52. Spanish Version. In Sped format
  • Sped53en: Fixed bug from Sped52 + English translation + minor changes in Spanish version by Tim Gilberts, based on Sped52en and Sped53. English and Spanish Version. In Sped format
  • Sped54en: Fixed bug from Sped52 + English translation by Tim Gilberts, based on Sped52en, Sped53 and Sped54en. English Version. In plain text format
  • Sped53en is also included in the Spectrum Next by default :)
• Improved debugger:
• Now you can use every register, variable, number on any position of a condition (left, right), so the following breakpoint conditions are now valid:
  32768>PC
  HL=DE
  3=PC
  DE>IX
  etc...
• Optimized debugger so common conditions like PC=X, MRA=X or MWA=X use lots of less cpu than before
• Added new kind of breakpoints, "memory breakpoints", which behave like MRA and MWA conditions but a lot faster than them
• Added bitwise operators AND (&), OR (|), XOR (^) when using registers/variables breakpoints/watches
• Breakpoints actions do not reset keyboard
• New pseudo variables:
  • OUTFIRED: returns 1 if last Z80 opcode was an OUT operation
  • INFIRED: returns 1 if last Z80 opcode was an IN operation
  • INTFIRED: returns 1 when an interrupt has been generated
• Improved hexdump menu (called now "Hexadecimal Editor"): now you can edit memory and copy zones of memory
• Improved my Cursor Draw program: now you can use kempston mouse. Load cursordr_mouse.tap instead of cursordr.tap
• Improved file converter: tzx to tap, tap to tzx
• Improved TBBlue video display cpu usage: 3% less cpu in my machine, on a compilation without optimization (O2)
• Improved menu:
  • menu windows: now can have more lines than 22, doing scroll
  • now you can write any ascii character on the menu
  • added support to show some unicode (utf8) characters on menu
  • now you can use binary numbers on expressions (suffix %)
  • you can now scroll with mouse on windows with text contents and file selector menus, by clicking the right progress symbol (*) or the arrows
  • now you can move cursor up/down with mouse on windows with text contents and file selector by clicking new arrow buttons
  • new file expander on file selector menu, using space key, for the following file types: .tap, .tzx, .dsk, .trd, .mdf, .hdf, .P, .O, Z88 Cards (.epr, .eprom, .flash)
• Improved native snapshot format (ZSF):
  • Added divmmc/divide state save
• Fixed autoload tape on TBBlue
• Fixed bug when smartload and selecting an unknown file type: if you cancel it, the inserted tape was modified
• Fixed bug reading extension on files with no extension
• Fixed bug reading AY registers: unused bits for registers are set to 0
• Fixed bugs on esxdos handler:
  • readdir call was incrementing PC register when there were no more files
  • added ESXDOS_MODE_CREAT_TRUNC mode when opening files
  • BCDE was not returning from a f_seek call
  • fixed mode OPEN_CREAT|WRITE which has appending data after a seek instead of overwriting
  • added f_stat,f_unlink,f_rename,m_drive_info,f_sync calls
  • fixed loading help screen on esxdos nmi handler
  • fixed loading esxdos files with plus3dos header
• Fixed Multiface Three emulation
• Fixed text viewer, hex viewer showing some special characters ~ | ^
• Fixed some errors on sdl driver (windows, rpi affected by default)
• Updated to the last Next SD image TBBLUE V.1.0 "GOLD EDITION"
• 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

Gunfright (Ultimate - Play the Game, Jan, 1986)

Version 6.0. 27 November 2017 - Gunfright edition

• Added machine ZX-Evolution TS-Conf
• Added machine Chrome (Italian ZX Spectrum Clone)
• Added machine MK14
• Added lots of new ZEsarUX remote commands (ZRCP). See ZRCP help to know them
• Added Visualmem, Poke, Find, Save binary menus also for Sinclair QL
• Added QL GUI Style
• Added setting to test configuration
• Added menu to find and set lives in games
• Added menu to view color palettes
• Added actions commands to breakpoints, so you can run some actions when a breakpoint is fired
• Added up to three AY Chips
• Added emulation of other DAC chips appart from Specdrum: Covox, etc
• Added Antonio Villena's "Kartusho" cartridge interface
• Added quicksave function
• Added setting to set 256kb or 512kb on Spectrum 128k machines
• Added setting to set F keys (F1, F2, etc) to run different actions: reset, nmi, exit emulator, etc
• Added TBBlue features: Sprite chip, Layer2, RTC clock for esxdos, 2 MB RAM, new 8kb block MMU, 9-bit palette, lores mode, layer priorities, partial Next Z80 opcodes (see extras/docs/tbblue/new_opcodes.txt to know which are emulated)
• Added ZX-Uno features: Radasoffset and Radaspadding registers, to do hardware scrolling
• Added ESXDOS handler so file operations can be done with files stored on your computer hard disk, and not only on virtual mmc/ide files. Examples can be found on extras/media/spectrum/esxdos_handler/. "Classic" mmc/ide emulation by using virtual mmc/ide files can also be used
• Added feature "memory zone" to ZRCP and all menus that inspect memory (debug, disassemble, sprites etc): now you can look at all memory zones, for example: full 128kb ram, 64kb rom of +2A, divmmc ram, etc
• Added file utils menu, to view files, delete, truncate, etc
• Added boot logo
• Added setting to allow to load a .sna snapshot file without changing the current machine type
• Added setting to allow to truncate a tape file when selecting it as tape out file
• Moved folders: docs, media, snap_tests to a "ZEsarUX-extras" package. These folders have been separated from the emulator main distributed file, and the main download have been reduced to 5 MB aprox. The git repository still holds all the files (extras have been moved to folder "extras"), but maybe in the future I will remove them also from the repo.
• Moved mmc/ide files location to extras/media/disk_images folder
• Improved menu interface:
  • menu gui is zoomed when running following machines: QL, TSConf, CPC, Prism, Sam
  • menu movement with mouse
  • colours are greyscaled when multitask disabled
  • allow blinking text, like the input cursor (needs multitask on)
  • new splash window type which disappears automatically (needs multitask on). Used only on change memory zones from debug cpu menu, but it will be used on more places probably
• Improved debugger:
  • you can now set conditions for all flags, written as: FS,FZ,FP,FV,FH,FN,FC
  • now you can set breakpoints from command line/config file but not enabled by default. You need --enable-breakpoints setting
    • now the multitask setting is not lost when a breakpoint is fired
    • now you can repeat last command by pressing enter on ZRCP (requires enabling a debug-setting)
• Improved QL emulation: experimental support of LBYTES command, added QL root directory selector for mdv1, mdv2, flp1
• Improved Sprite Viewer: Save sprite, TBBlue sprite viewer, inverse sprite, set bpp (8,4,2,1), set palette
• Improved stdout driver. Now can show ansi colours
• Improved messages windows. Can now find text using f and n
• Improved footer. Host CPU % usage on footer is not enabled by default to avoid confussion with emulated CPU speed. You can enable it with a setting. Host CPU % usage is not shown on Windows.
• Improved Visual Mem:
  • showing also read memory and opcode execution visual mem
  • it has a counter (0-255) to see how many times an address has been read/executed
  • menu draws different values as red tones, with a configurable bright
• Fixed turbo mode and breakpoints. Breakpoints were disabled when changing turbo mode
• Fixed latency problems on all audio drivers
• Fixed AY sound bugs when volume levels where > 15
• Fixed Windows pthreads version
• Fixed TBBlue reset i/o ports when reset and hard reset
• Fixed Windows freeze issues when doing cpu-step on ZRCP
• Updated TBBlue boot loader
• Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Chase HQ (Ocean Software Ltd., 1989)

Version 5.0. 21 April 2017 - Chase H.Q. edition

Finally I have succeded emulating Sinclair QL. I dedicated a lot of hours trying to guess how the keyboard work. There is little documentation and I had to do lots of dissassemblies of the ROM and testing keyboard to know how it work... So, hard work, this is a Quantum Leap, so this is a new major version, 5.0!

Complete changelog:

• Added Sinclair QL emulation
• Added remote command protocol. You can do enhanced debugging on ZEsarUX by using a telnet client.
•  There are a lot of commands, even many commands exclusive to this protocol and not found on the GUI, like:
  • load-source-code
  • hexdump-internal
  • set-register
• Added Easter Egg ;)
• Added Specdrum emulation
• Added RZX playback support
• Added Multiface One, 128 and Three emulation
• Added setting to write configuration file
• Added menu item to reload IDE and MMC contents from file. You can now modify a used file outside the emulator and reload its contents
• Added autosave snapshot at fixed interval
• Added hardware debug port to output ascii characters or numbers directly on host console
• Added two unused ports from the ZXI pool for some internal ZEsarUX features. See docs/zesarux_zxi_registers.txt
• Added Hotswap from 128k to +2A, and +2A to 128k
• Added File Viewer
• Added support for drag&drop on Mac OS X, SDL2
• Added support for OpenGL rendering on Mac OS X Cocoa driver
• Added drawn piano for AY Piano menu setting (on all video drivers except text drivers)
• Added Man Software GUI Style
• Added setting to change DivIDE/DivMMC eprom firmware file
• Added setting to allow writing to DivIDE/DivMMC eprom firmware
• Added setting to disable autoframeskip
• Added setting to set breakpoints from command line
• Added setting to deny changing turbo mode when booting ZX-Uno and on bios
• Added setting to disable beeper
• Improved Debug CPU Window: now you can switch between different views:
  1. 1 opcode, cpu registers, other internal registers
  2. 9 opcodes, other internal registers
  3. 15 opcodes
  4. 9 hexdump lines,  other internal registers
  5. 15 hexdump lines
• Fixed text to speech routine when sending non-ascii character
• Fixed bug reading ULAplus register 64
• Fixed bugs paging DivIDE/DivMMC
• Fixed starting display row on ZX80/81/ACE, with border disabled and realvideo mode (was broken since 4.0)
• Fixed reading from paging port on 128k and +2 machines: in this case, the same value read from the idle bus port is sent to the paging port
• Fixed setting timings changing from Pentagon to non Pentagon machine
• Fixed bug mapping real joystick buttons and axes with same number
• Fixed bug when Jupiter Ace machine and border disabled
• Updated Z88 OZ V4.7
• Some other minor bugfixes and improvements