[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

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

Skoro edycja RoF, to Rescue On Faractalus (Activision, Inc., 1986) musi być na screenie, aczkolwiek to nie to, tylko wersja Atari się liczy.

Version 4.2. 5 December 2016 - Rescue on Fractalus edition

• Added machine Spectrum 48k Spanish
• Added machine Pentagon 128
• Added .ay file player for Spectrum and CPC files
• Added AY Piano menu to view notes
• Added Turbosound emulation
• Added ZX Dandanator! Mini emulation
• Added Superupgrade emulation
• Added experimental 8-bit simple IDE emulation
• Added Z88 Hybdrid (RAM+Eprom) Card support
• Added print char traps for TBBlue, CPC464, Sam Coupe
• Added three new Prism video modes: 256x128, 128x128, both at 256 colours, and 4 plane 256 colour mode clashless
• Added Sam Coupe GUI Style
• Added Sam Coupe curses, stdout, simpletext video drivers
• Added Setting to disable colours (set to black & white) on Spectrum
• Added Setting to disable loading tape sound
• Added setting to change DivIDE/DivMMC RAM
• Added tape browser
• Added Z88 generic card browser
• Added Z88 card browser when copying from eprom/flash card
• Fixed bug reading ports 2ffd and 3ffd and crashes running +2A/+3 ROMS with real video enabled
• Fixed Z80 cold start registers
• Fixed Z88 bug when smart loading all slots were ejected
• Fixed handling symbols (. ,: / - + < > = ' ( ) ") on menu for machines: Z88, CPC, Sam Coupe
• Fixed enabling some memory and debug interfaces, so you can enable and disable them in any order you want
• Fixed divmmc/divide were disabled when doing smartload
• Fixed drawing of some menu items that refresh continuously: waveform, ay registers, cpu stats, debug cpu, visualmem
• Fixed ZXpand emulation on ZX80
• Improved menu. Now all settings are on a separate "Settings" menu
• Improved debugger:
• *Individual breakpoints can be disabled
• *Breakpoints are fired by default when condition changes from false to true. And they are only fired again when condition changes from true to false and false to true
• Improved scanlines drawing. Some demos with display page change (RAM 5&7) on a scanline run perfect
• Improved windows with text content. Now a progress symbol (*) is shown
• Improved floating bus value
• Updated Z88 OZ V4.6.2
• Updated ZXUno Flash and MMC image to the crowdfunding ones. MMC image now is called "zxuno.mmc"
• Updated TBBlue emulation to use new I/O ports
• Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Version 4.1. 16 July 2016 - ZXSpectr edition

• Added Sam Coupe emulation
• Added TBBlue/ZX Spectrum Next emulation
• Added AtomLite emulation (Sam Coupe IDE interface)
• Added DivIDE emulation
• Added turbo modes: native support for ZX-Uno, Prism, Chloe and TBBlue, and manual for other machines
• Added Autoload Tape for Amstrad CPC
• Added Chloe keyboard
• Added On Screen keyboard pressing F8 or a dedicated joystick button
• Added GUI themes: Default ZEsarUX, ZXSpectr style (to celebrate 20th anniversary of ZXSpectr), ZX80/81, Z88, CPC
• Added Top Speed setting
• Added Accelerate loaders setting
• Added setting to alter beeper volume. This facilitates loading audio on a real Spectrum (sending output audio from the emulator)
• Added setting to disable RAM/ROM paging on Spectrum 128k models
• Added Drive selection on file selector on Windows version. You must write "D:" for example in File name section (pressing TAB twice)
• Added Hotswap to Spectrum 128k on all Spectrum 48k machines
• Changed ULAplus non-standard extended mode ports
• Improved Raspberry Pi Sound with SDL audio drivers
• Improved Amstrad CPC display
• Improved real joystick events. Now event list can be cleared from menu, command line, configuration file or custom config setting
• Improved ZEsarUX ULAPlus video modes. Now these modes are supported on a physical device :) (Prism machine)
• Improved debugger:
  • Added tstatesp counter: T-states partial. This is a counter that you can reset with key P
  • New pseudo variables:
    • MRV, MWV, MRA, MWA, PRV, PWV, PRA, PWA: Return the value or address read/written from memory or i/o port
    • TSTATES: t-states total in a frame
    • TSTATESL: t-states in a scanline
    • TSTATESP: t-states partial counter, can be reset by the user
    • SCANLINE: current scanline drawn
    • ENTERROM, EXITROM: Return 1 when entering or exiting rom space address
  • Added watches: You can see whatever register or variable you want on screen at real time and on the debugger menu
  • New condition: / means not equal
  • Setting to step over interrupt handlers
• Fixed looking for divmmc rom firmware when spectrum machine selected (and not on zxuno)
• Fixed Little Endian CPU detection on configure script for Mac
• Fixed error with divmmc and machines using ram on rom, like Chloe, which gets corrupted the ram
• Fixed hardware display size change on Amstrad CPC. Now games that use, for example, ZX Spectrum resolution, are displayed fine
• Fixed AY chip on Amstrad CPC
• Fixed debugger error when debugging repeated table values DD/FD
• Fixed reading ULAplus port 0xFF3B
• Fixed ZX80/81 AY chip frequency
• Fixed bug when using simulate real tape and divmmc or divide enabled
• Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Features

• Runs on any Unix system and Windows: tested on Linux x86, Linux x86_64, Linux Raspbian, Mac OS X, Windows native, Windows + Cygwin
• Emulates Spectrum models: 16k, 48k, Inves Spectrum +, Spectrum 128k (English and Spanish), Spectrum +2 (English, Spanish and French), Spectrum +2A (English and Spanish), Microdigital TK90X (Portuguese and Spanish), TK95
• Emulates ZX-Uno
• Emulates Sinclair ZX80
• Emulates Sinclair ZX81
• Emulates Cambridge Z88
• Emulates Jupiter Ace
• Emulates Chloe 140 SE, Chloe 280 SE
• Emulates Prism
• Emulates TBBlue/ZX Spectrum Next
• Emulates Sam Coupe
• Emulates Timex TS 2068
• Emulates Amstrad CPC 464
• It's the only emulator for machines: ZX-Uno, Chloe 140/280, Prism and TBBlue
• Almost perfect emulation of timing of all machine models
• Supports undocumented Z80 flags, features, and MEMPTR register
• Supports idle bus port, contended memory, ULA early/late timings
• Supports Pentagon timing
• Supports ULAplus: Standard 64 colour palette, linear modes with 16 colours per pixel: Radastan Mode: 128x96, ZEsarUX modes: 256x96, 128x192, 256x192
• Supports Chroma81 ZX81 Colour mode
• Supports Spectra Video Modes
• Supports Timex Video modes (Mode 0 standard, 1 dual screen, 2 hires colour 8x1, 6 512x192 monochrome)
• Supports All Video modes from Prism machine
• Supports ZGX Sprite Chip
• Supports snow effect on Spectrum models
• Supports interlaced, scanlines and Gigascreen effects
• Supports hi-res modes on ZX Spectrum (rainbow effects and others) and ZX80/ZX81 (UDG, CHR$128, WRX, HRG and some other hi-res modes)
• Emulates all the oddities of the Inves Spectrum +: 64 KB RAM, RAM initialization with FF00H pattern, OUT ula AND RAM, EAR and MIC XOR, no contended memory, snow in border, colour ula delay, interrupt starts at end of top border (not at the beginning of the border), corrupt memory on every interrupt, no idle bus
• Uses Video drivers: X-Windows, SDL, Cocoa (Mac OS X), Framebuffer, ncurses, aalib, cacalib, stdout(console), simpletext(console)
• Uses Audio Drivers: PulseAudio, Alsa, SDL, DSP(OSS), CoreAudio (Mac OS X).
• Supports dumping audio & video to file
• Supports real tape loading of file formats: RWA, SMP, WAV, TZX, CDT, TAP, P, O. It handles loading of turbo load tapes or any type of tape loading for standard/non standard loading routines
• Handles binary tape format files (TAP, TZX, O, P, CDT) on standard BASIC ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81, Jupiter Ace
• Handles real audio loading (RWA, SMP, WAV) on standard BASIC ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81, Amstrad CPC, Jupiter Ace
• Simulates real tape loading on standard BASIC ROM routines for ZX Spectrum, ZX80, ZX81
• Handles snapshot format: ZX, Z80, SP, SNA (loading only), P, O, Z81 (loading only), ACE
• Handles DCK Timex dock cartridges
• Emulates ZX Spectrum MMC Interfaces: ZXMMC, DivMMC
• Emulates ZX Spectrum IDE Interface: DivIDE
• Emulates Sam Coupe IDE Interface: Atom Lite
• Emulates ZX81 ZXPand MMC Interface
• Handles RAM, EPROM and Intel Flash cards on Z88
• Handles compressed formats zip, tar, rar, gz through external utilities
• Supports Quicksilva, ZON-X81, and VSYNC-based sound on ZX80/81
• Supports Speaker and Soundbox sound on Jupiter Ace
• Supports RAM packs on ZX80/81 up to 56 KB
• Supports RAM packs on Jupiter Ace up to 35 KB
• Joystick emulation with real joystick (on Linux) and keyboard cursors: Kempston, Sinclair 1&2, Cursor Joystick, Cursor & Shift, OPQA, Fuller, Zebra, Mikro-Gen, ZXPand. Autofire function also
• On Screen keyboard useful when playing with joystick
• Supports native turbo modes on ZX-Uno, Chloe, Prism and TBBlue and manual for other machines
• ZX Printer emulation
• Lightgun emulation: Almost perfect emulation of Gunstick from MHT Ingenieros S.L and experimental emulation of Magnum Light Phaser
• Kempston mouse emulation
• Supports Input spool text file to simulate keyboard press
• Supports reading Pokes from .POK files
• Powerful debug features: Registers, Dissassemble, Breakpoints (PC, Conditional, Peek), Step-to-step, Hexadecimal Dump, View Sprites, Find byte (useful to find POKEs), CPU Transaction log, View BASIC
• Accessibility support: Print char traps allows to capture generated text from almost any program or game, using standard ROM calls (RST 10H) or even non standard print character rutines. Can send generated text from a game to a text-to-speech program. It's ready for text to speech support for blind or visually impaired people. Menu emulator can be also read by a text-to-speech program.
• Simulates upper RAM memory refresh on Spectrum 48Kb, losing its contents when changing R register very quickly
• Supports command line settings, configuration file settings and per-game configuration settings
• Other features not enabled by default on compile process: MEMPTR emulation, Visualmem menu, CPU Statistics