Horizon 2.1 is a BBC Micro Emulator and is a major rewrite of the old version 1.x. It features better emulation with disk drive (Acorn DFS) and tape support, joysticks, improved sound with speech/sample playback, sideways RAM and full screen display. Diagnostic and trace tools are also included.
Version 2.1 09/04/2012
- Keyboard layout fixed for non-UK users (Horizon now sets up keyboard mapping correctly)
- Left/right overscan tidied up for 960x768 display on Windows XP
- Sound emulation improved (e.g. Chuckie Egg, Frak, Galaforce)
- All three tone channels capable of independent sample/speech playback (e.g. Spy Hunter)
- Sample/speech playback improved (e.g. Spy Hunter, Bonecrusher)
- CRTC R12/R13 registers latching corrected (e.g. removes flicker in Fortress and Castle Quest)
- Horizon draws overscan with respect to VSYNC (*TV shifts MODEs 0-6 up and down)
- "Hide Vertical Overscan" option now only applies to full screen or maximised window
- Position of VSYNC in Mode 7 fixed
- Mode 7 flashing rates fixed
- 6502 CPU fixes
- Option to auto boot (Shift+Break) when bootable disk image inserted into Drive 0
- "Write Protect" is automatically set from disk image's read-only file attribute
- Demo tape files provided with INF files
- Trace output format improved
- Tidied sound tracing, no longer shows poked values
- Documentation updated
wstecz04/09/2012 17:10