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This is Topic: Spectrum Following are the News Items published under this Topic.
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Spectral v1.07
Posted by retroK on Monday, April 21, 2025 - 01:14 (82 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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Eine neue Version des ZX-Spectrum Emulators für Windows, Linux und macOS: Spectral wurde veröffentlicht (Open Source / C von r-lyeh).
Note:
- Thanks to @imneme! Her OMSE emulator (MIT) showed me how the clock should be controlled by the ULA, not the CPU!
- new: multicolor (action force 2, buzzsaw, oldtower, gluf, yazzie, multidude, el stompo, space monsters meet the hardy, sunbucket, blacklamp, ringo) (not yet: plyuk)
- new: rainbow graphics (eliminator, uridium, bad dream, venom mask 3)
- new: border effects (vectron 48, jaws, blade warrior, starion, terrorpods) (not yet: aquaplane, venom mask 3)
- new: border overscan (border break, breakspace, defenders of the earth, rotatrix, sentinel 48, bordertrix 48, darkstar 48 hiscore, super wonderboy128 paused)
- new: floating bus (emlyn hughes, saucer, wizball, cobra, shortcircuit, terracresta, duet) (not yet: arkanoid, sidewize)
- new: fast disk loading option (+3, Pentagon)
- new: emulate hardware bugs present in HAL10H8 chip (128/+2)
- new: kempston2 joystick support (port 55) (see: BombMunchies)
- new: revamped joystick menu screen. added new joystick mappings
- new: zipped instructions support (IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade)
- new: added manual play/stop tape controls. also, disable auto-stop/play when manual tape is enabled
- chg: added warning message when bonus tracks are not played in ideal conditions
- chg: added leading tape silence (100ms) to help UX when clicking tape preview bar on the left border
- chg: allowed backspace key to close game filter dialog
- chg: by default, use 48K for load local tapes when no model can be inferred
- chg: different ordering of zxdb color flags
- chg: highlight loaded game in local browser
- chg: if user has changed medias, keep using that when switching different zx models
- chg: infer zx model from local filenames whenever possible (Cabal.dsk, Pietro(Pentagon).tap, Manic128.tap, etc)
- chg: made media screen layout extra compact (preallocated space for upcoming savegame thumbnails)
- chg: updated bescii font to v3.1 (cz/sk/hu/slavic languages support)
- chg: updated github workflow to use SignPath signed binaries (Windows)
- chg: updated github workflow to use ubuntu22.04, since ubuntu20.04 is deprecated now (Linux)
- chg: use polyfill-glibc for backwards/legacy glibc compatibility (Linux)
- chg: while toggling turborom, avoid additional reset whenever possible
- fix: 1-byte memory stomp
- fix: allowed backspace key while browsing local folders
- fix: allowed to read embedded zxdb database from any cwd (ie, ../../dir/spectral)
- fix: could not change zx model after loading from local .zip files
- fix: displayed alias titles in # tab when no digit/punct char is found (zxdb) (see: ¡Hundido!)
- fix: fixed pentagon INT timing (borderbreak.trd)
- fix: fixed some empty search results in search tab (zxdb) (see: Floromaníaco while searching for "mania")
- fix: fixed ¿¡ chars not being sorted (zxdb)
- fix: removed slavic entries from # tab (zxdb)
- fix: fixed the .scr viewer, that prevented the app from closing
- fix: fixed UB in realloc() when game searching for empty strings a few times in a row
- fix: fixed bug where window titlebar() might ignore temporary strings built from va() (Windows)
- fix: fixed many +3 dsks, which were not being properly initalized/mounted (see: dynasty wars, final fight, forgotten worlds, gng, led storm, last duel, mercs, wrestling superstars, time scanner, the vindicator, ...)
- fix: wrong titlebar after loading some local files
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BasinC v1.8
Posted by retroK on Wednesday, April 09, 2025 - 11:08 (163 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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BasinC ist ein Spectrum BASIC Development environment für Windows (Open-Source in Pascal ursprünglich von Paul Dunn und seit 2011 von Arda Erdikmen).
Note:
After Two Long Years, Finally a BasinC Update!
The ultimate IDE for ZX Spectrum development is back with new features and dozens of bug fixes.
Changelog: https://arda.kisafilm.org/blog/?p=1480&lang=en#more-1480
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Spectral v1.06
Posted by retroK on Saturday, April 05, 2025 - 01:33 (192 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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Eine neue Version des ZX-Spectrum Emulators für Windows, Linux und macOS: Spectral wurde veröffentlicht (Open Source / C von r-lyeh).
Note:
- new: mp3s support. play Side-B bonus tracks (see: EveryonesAWally, KingdomOfKrell, Corruption, DodgyGeezers, etc.)
- new: added zoom/panning (see: maps, inlays, instructions)
- new: allow mousewheel within dialogs for those games with ridiculous amount of cheats (see: ManicMiner)
- new: dimmed thumbnails when filtering is enabled
- new: flash currently loaded game while browsing
- new: combined local+wos search tab
- new: zxdb 'alias' option
- tzx: increased bits for pilot tones (fixes SpecialProgram11-ITA-bootleg.tzx)
- tzx: improve tape preview by creating large pause gaps between important blocks: before any of [ .bas block, glue block, 48KStopTape block ] + any text block with 'side' or 'b' strings in it)
- tzx: disable select block (only present in LoneWolfMirrorOfDeath and four minor compilations)
- chg: improve texture resampling quality by going cubic instead of bilinear (maps, inlays, instructions)
- chg: ctrl+mousewheel to advance pages while browsing
- chg: auto-scan ZX_FOLDER setting on launch
- chg: invert mousewheel (linux,windows)
- chg: reduced the time needed to detect long keypresses
- fix: fixed wrong characters when writing utf8 filenames (mp4, mpeg1, png files) (Windows)
- fix: fixed case where repeated zxdb ids in a listing would not display its alt title (see: gremlins2)
- fix: made ui_print() to work in any surface resolution
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Xpeccy 0.6.20250404
Posted by retroK on Saturday, April 05, 2025 - 01:33 (152 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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Der Spectrum Emulator Xpeccy wurde aktualisiert. Xpeccy ist eine Weiterentwicklung des Sinclair Emulators SAMulator für Linux und Windows.
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Spectral v1.03
Posted by retroK on Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 04:08 (113 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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Eine neue Version des ZX-Spectrum Emulators für Windows, Linux und macOS: Spectral wurde veröffentlicht (Open Source / C von r-lyeh).
Note:
- Kudos & thanks to korb/lincoln welch for the extensive issue tracking he's doing on Discord!
- new: ui dialogs
- new: mp4 recording
- new: mpeg1 recording
- new: joystick autofires
- new: redefineable FN keyboard mappings
- new: **added turbosound (turbo-ay) on pentagon128 model
- new: revamped main options interface (use shift+click for old behavior)
- new: revamped ZXDB cheats interface (smoother experience now)
- new: tweakable z80 speed: 50%, 100%, 150%, 200% (7MHz), 400% (14MHz)
- new: option to use a few different zx palettes
- new: ui expert mode (UI buttons+RMB)
- new: update zxdb to latest 1.0.208
- new: restored NMI button
- chg: added pentagon128 to the main list of models
- chg: add icons next to keyboard mappings
- chg: added discord badge to readme
- chg: ask user for confirmation before binding command that was already assigned beforehand
- chg: be explicit about the licensing terms in the LICENSE file
- chg: disallow cursor joystick unless while in BASIC
- chg: faster init
- chg: highlight current loaded game in zxdb/list view
- chg: if available, prefer clang-cl over cl (make.bat)
- chg: integrate browser v1 into v2 tab
- chg: pure black borders in fullscreen mode
- chg: replaced ResourceHacker with a much nicer RC-Edit tool (MAKE, Windows)
- chg: search should provide more results now
- chg: simplified zxdb gallery controls
- chg: tweaked Spectral palette, darker black and less pure white now
- chg: ui layout, right sidebar
- chg: updated bescii font to latest
- chg: zxdb gallery added a secondary worker thread (hopefully faster decoding in most cases)
- chg: zxdb gallery speed up by not doing recolor on 1:4,1:8 thumbnails (since they were already recoloured during 1:2 thumbnails decoding)
- chg: zxdb updated stb_image_resize2 to latest 2.13
- fix: app titlebar when loading localized files from disk, like Russian ones (Windows)
- fix: bottom, overscan lines in pentagon mode
- fix: fixed bug that prevented using search toolbar twice in a row
- fix: fixed bug that prevented using thumbnail icon after search toolbar
- fix: oops! zxdb 48k-only games were wrongly loaded in 128 mode (minder,cerius,nuclear bowls,punch & judy,rebelstar raiders,rubicon,etc.)
- fix: partial clipped links could be hovered when fullscreen was in use
- fix: replaced discord invite link
- fix: search game when no input was provided
- fix: x86 build (internal)
- lab: grid shader
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zxian v24
Posted by retroK on Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 10:50 (99 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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Eine neue Version des ZX-Spectrum Emulators für Windows: zxian wurde veröffentlicht (Open Source / C von Sebastian Mihai).
Note:
- v24 - corrected R register behaviour (7bit counter instead of 8bit). This fixes games such as Robin of the Wood, Ping Pong, Sanxion
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zxsp v0.8.34
Posted by retroK on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 03:30 (192 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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zxsp ist ein ZX Spectrum Emulator für macOS. Emuliert die folgenden Systeme: ZX80 und ZX81, ZX Spectrum Modelle mit 16K und 48K RAM, +128, +2, +2A/+2B und die spanischen sowie die französischen Varianten (Open-Source in C++ von Kio / Megatokio).
Note:
2025-02-23: Version 0.8.34: fixed a bug which could cause screen flickering in the lower part of the screen
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zxian v23
Posted by retroK on Sunday, February 09, 2025 - 05:10 (233 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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Eine neue Version des ZX-Spectrum Emulators für Windows: zxian wurde veröffentlicht (Open Source / C von Sebastian Mihai).
Note:
- v23 - fixed a border rendering bug after fast tape loading finishes. Fixed a TAP loading bug concerning custom-length header blocks. This fixes games such as Lemmings
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#CSpect v3.0.1.0
Posted by retroK on Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 07:47 (628 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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#CSpect ist ein Spectrum Emulator für Windows, macOS und Linux (von Mike Dailly).
Note:
This is the first public release of #CSpect V3, please see the change logs below for changes. The MacOS mouse still isn't working.
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swan v0.9.8
Posted by retroK on Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 07:25 (661 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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Eine neue Version des ZX-Spectrum Emulators für Windows und Linux: swan wurde veröffentlicht (Open Source / Pascal von Zoran Vučenović).
Note:
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zxian v22
Posted by retroK on Monday, January 20, 2025 - 06:19 (496 Reads)
Topic Spectrum
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Eine neue Version des ZX-Spectrum Emulators für Windows: zxian wurde veröffentlicht (Open Source / C von Sebastian Mihai).
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- v22 - added support for saving SNA snapshots
- v21 - added support for more options to the UI. Fixed a border rendering bug in fullscreen display modes. Fixed minor scanlines effect bugs
- v20 - first 64bit version
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