New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):
• Atari Lynx (preliminary) [PeT]
• KC85/3 (preliminary) [Kev Thacker]
• MSX2 and MSX2 Japanese (preliminary) [Sean Young]
• Exidy Sorcerer (preliminary) [Kev Thacker]

System Driver Changes:
• [ATOMEB] Eproms were not being selected; now fixed. Random data is poked into address 8,9,$A,$B, this is used by the OS to seed the random number generator. Thanks to Kees van Oss for providing this information [Kev Thacker]
• [KC85/4] Implemented keyboard hardware. Previous hack has been removed. Seperated machine/kc.c into machine/kc.c and systems/kc.c. Merged all headers into includes/kc.h, and added all defines here. Cleaned up some of the code, and made sure allocated memory was free'd properly. Implemented preliminary tape reading using ".wav". Implemented preliminary sound emulation. Added IO_QUICKLOAD to load ".kcc" and binary files with 128 byte header. Load the file then type MENU and it should appear in the list, now you can type the name of the program to run it. [Kev Thacker]
• [ORIC1/ORICA/TELSTRAT] .tap tape images can now be used. These are converted at run-time into .wav files, and can be used in the same way as .wav. Code based heavily on tap2wav by Fabrice Frances [Kev Thacker, Fabrice Frances]
• [COCO 1/2/3] Reworked m6847 synchronization and sound mux signals to make them much more accurate. Fixed a bug that caused the joystick to max out all the time. Added a new abstraction layer for cartridge IO interfaces. Optimized graphics emulation a bit. Adjusted default controls so that joystick buttons will work by default. Improved PMODE 4 artifact colors to be more accurate (special thanks to John Kowalski for providing color information) [Nate Woods]
• [DRAGON] Fixed DragonDOS cartrdige, so now DragonDOS works fine. [Nate Woods]
• [NC100/NC200] Fixed PCMCIA Memory card emulation: Read/Write state can be changed using a dipswitch in the UI, memory card changes are saved back to memory card file. Discovered more about the NC200 hardware and updated the code. Cleaned up more of the source, added better description about the I/O ports and seperated it into common code, nc100 only and nc200 only code. Serial baud rate was not setup correct, now fixed. [Kev Thacker]
• [EP128/EP128A] Initial sound emulation. Some sampled sounds work, and simple tone is working. Fixed some interrupt problems [Kev Thacker]

Other Changes:
• The core is based on MAME 0.37b11. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]
• [Intel 8271 Floppy disc controller] Writing should work now. [Kev Thacker]
• [src/machine/z80fmly] Added support for BSTB and ASTB inputs for Z80 PIO. These are required by KC85/4 and KC85/3 systems. Added code to execute callback for BRDY and ARDY outputs. [Kev Thacker]
• [IMGTOOL] Fixed a bug that caused crashes when parameters to create were not properly specified [Nate Woods]

v0.081
• Fixed "VS Screen" rowscroll problem (background effect) and alignment of the hiscore screen.
• Final Burn now checks for CRC *errors* in a Zip file (i.e. if the zip file is corrupt) as well as checking if the CRCs of the roms are correct.

11:55EST - NiNja v.0.01a for Win 9X Initial Release

NiNja v.0.01a for Win 9X, a Nintendo NES emulator has been initally released. This inital release contains the following features and requirements:

• Plugin only steps through 6502 code (NES roms.) press F10 to step.
• Many features not implemented, some buttons do nothing.
• 2nd generation GUI, 3rd under development. With many improvements.
• NES plugin uses Marat Fayzullin�s M6502 core. (My core in ASM has been discontinued, although it does run demos.)
• NES plugin does not yet handle PPU or sound functions only CPU.
• Please Report any bugs/errors to [email protected]
• OS: Win 95, 98, ME, 2000, and Win2001 (Whistler 2257)
• RAM: 32 Meg (Hell, if you have less than this, I pity you)
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher for the system updates (Shell32.dll)
• Common sense. If you use AOL, or MSN explorer, and are prone to getting confuzed by all of those "Windows" and "Buttons"... Delete these files immediately, if you can figure out how.

11:55EST - NLMSX v.0.33 for Win 9X Released

MLMSX v.0.33 for Windows, an MSX computer emulator has been released. This release adds the following features and enhancements:

• Added support for the YM2413 (FM-PAC) Thanks go to Mitsutaka Okazaka for the excellent YM2413 emulation (http://www.angel.ne.jp/~okazaki/ym2413/)
• Changed MSX2 and MSX2PLUS configurations.
• Both configurations now support the FM-PAC in slot 3-0.

11:52EST - SNES9X v.1.34a for Linux PPC Released

SNES9X v.1.34a for Linux PPC, a Nintendo SNES emulator has been released. This release brings it in sync with v.1.34a source code of SNES:

Follow the link for SNES in the Console Emulation section.

11:42EST - Calice v.0.03 for Windows Released

Calice v.0.03 for Windows, a multi CPS-1 Arcade emulator has been released. This release features the following features and enhancements:

• For now, CALICE is capable of executing the following games: - Final Fight (world) - Strider (world) - Willow (Japan)
• Partial Capcom system 1 emulation
• Support for Capcom Final Fight (World)
• All layers are implemented(The scroll2/3 priority and scroll2/sprites are almost done)
• Fast 68000 emulation using starscream 680x0 emulation library
• 400x256 ModeX, 256x256 linear and 320x200 linear rendering video modes (8bpp only)
• Good speed on slow PCs
• Block sprites are not supported yet
• Multi-game support and easy configuration interface
• No sound support
• Block sprites are not supported yet Portability (C source and Asm using Nasm)

19:50EST - Virtual Gameboy v.2.0 for Win 9X, FreeBSD, Solaris, & MacOS Released

Gameboy v.2.0 for Win 9X, FreeBSD, Solaris, & MacOS a Nintendo Gameboy emulatorhas been released. This release features the following features and enhancements:

• FAQ section of the manual has been extended. Please, consult it before asking any questions.
• Sound emulation has been completely rewritten and sounds much better than any previous version. This also fixes several games that expect sound hardware to behave correctly.
• Added ability to simulate noise channel with MIDI drums.
• Added support for cartridges with a tilt sensor (Kirby's Tilt And Tumble), although tilt sensor is not yet emulated. Working on it.
• Added ability to switch back to normal-speed mode (Kate & Ashley, Godzilla The Series, Ready To Rumble Boxing).
• Added support for "rised" window tiles.
• Added "printer busy" period (printing in 1942, Super Mario Brothers DX).
• Added interrupt on LCD state 2 (CAT Construction Zone, Perfect Dark).
• Fixed handling of the HALT instruction.
• Moved scanline refresh to the beginning of HBlank (Rayman).
• Moved all CGB palette changes right before the scanline refresh.
• Now setting current scanline to 0 at the middle of the last scanline of VBlank (153). This fixed palette glitches in many games (Tomb Raider, Frogger 2, QBert).
• Fixed reset procedure in multiple places.
• Fixed on-cartridge RAM protection scheme (Green Beret Beta).
• Fixed interrupts so that changes to ISWITCH do not affect IFLAGS (Alfred Chicken, Galaga Destination Earth, WWF King Of The Ring, Ren And Stimpy, etc.).
• Fixed LCD scanline timings (Men In Black, Bug's Life, FIFA 2000, and probably other THQ/Tiertex games).
• Fixed HDMA transfer status (Les Razmoket 100% Angelica).
• Fixed timer behavior in the high-speed mode (Croc).
• Fixed interrupt flags to activate even when interrupt is off.
• Fixed Z80 interrupt handling after EI (thanks, Maarten!).
• Fixed gross bug affecting rendering of CGB sprites (Wacky Racers).
• New sound and MIDI logging APIs have been integrated.
• Added static palette option to VGB-Unix.
• Fixed window resizing problems in VGB-Unix.
• VGB-Windows now runs in 16BPP HiColor mode.
• Changed Setup Panel GUI in VGB-Windows.
• Added ability to change GameBoy color palette in VGB-Windows.
• Added Rumble Pack emulation with drums to VGB-Windows.
• Fixed several problems with VGB-Windows waveOut sound drivers.

19:50EST - SNES9x Pre-Release 1.5 for Acorn Released

SNES9x Pre-Release 1.5 for Acorn, a Nintendo SNES emulator has been released. This release features the following features and enhancements:

• Preliminary sound support
• Crash bug when using a filtered mode fixed
• Cleaned up the code
• Added option to have bilinear filtered Mode 7

16:40EST - Calice v.0.02 for Windows Released

Calice v.0.02 for Windows, a multi CPS-1 Arcade emulator has been released. Currently it only supports Final Fight(World).

Follow the link for Calice in the Multi-Arcade Emulation section.

9:12EST - UGE (Unamed Gameboy Emulator) for Windows Source Released & Discontinued

UGE (unamed Gameboy Emulator)for Windows Source Code has been released. In the same breath it may have been discontinued as well.

Follow the link for UGE in the Portable-Console Emulation section.

9:12EST - AppleWin v.1.41 for Windows Source Released

AppleWin v.1.41 Windows Source Code has been released. It has the following new features and enhancements:

• 1. Lock Diskette, most useful on some Apple Games that'll check if the disk is read-only.
• 2. Rotate the DISK IMAGES by Hotkeys (ref. Help file) ,useful on some BIG Games (with many disks)
• 3. New Help file.
• On programming side, I re-compile all source code optimizing for Pentium machines (instead of I486).
• I add one DEBUG.cpp module for testing the speed of various functions.

9:12EST - WPCMAME & WPCMAME32 v.0.37b8v6 for DOS & Win 9X Released

WPCMAME v.0.37b8v6 for DOS & Win 9X, a MAME Pinball emulator has been released. It has a ton of new features, enhancements and roms supported. Here are the changes:

0.37 BETA 8 (January 17, 2001)
-------------------------------
WOW!! Our biggest release ever, with a whopping 70 Enhancements!! 
Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and Happy New Millenium (for real this time)!!! 

New Features
------------
-Sound Sample Support which can play .wav files when solenoids fire during gameplay!
 [Steve Ellenoff]
 [Tom Haukap]

-DMD Color & Intensity Can be Changed using command line or .cfg file (see wpcmame.txt)     
 [Steve Ellenoff]

-DCS Sound Speedups for *ALL DCS* Games!!!!
 [WPCMAME Author]

-Reworked Sound Command Mode Functionality (see wpcmame.txt)
 [WPCMAME Author]

-PreDCS Games - Volume Control implemented
 [WPCMAME Author]

-Preliminary Simulations for *All Non-Simulated Games*
 [Marton Larrosa]

-Help Keys added to all Simulated Games
 [Marton Larrosa]

-Simulator Bug Fixes
 [WPCMAME Author]

-Colors BLUE & PURPLE added to Custom Lamp Playfield Colors
 [Steve Ellenoff]

-Custom Lamp Playfield structure modified to allow more than 1 bulb per Lamp.
 [Steve Ellenoff]

-Alpha Segments fixed to include period "." symbol for pre-DMD games!
 [Jonathan N. Deitch]

-Patch added to recreate Real time clock functionality!! The pinball games now keep 
 accurate time and date!
 [Jonathan N. Deitch]

-Timing adjustments made to match actual measured frequency of a real wpc pinball machine.
 [Jonathan N. Deitch]


New Simulators
--------------
-Scared Stiff			 [Tom Haukap]
-Theater of Magic		 [Tom Haukap]
-Indiana Jones			 [Tom Haukap]
-Medieval Madness                [Marton Larrosa]
-White Water                     [Marton Larrosa]
-Dr. Dude                        [Marton Larrosa]
-Black Rose                      [Marton Larrosa]
-Machine:Bride of Pinbot         [Marton Larrosa]
-Hurricane                       [Marton Larrosa]
-Roadshow                        [Marton Larrosa]
-Gilligan's Island               [Marton Larrosa]
-Fish Tales                      [Steve Ellenoff]
-The Getaway                     [Steve Ellenoff]
-Judge Dredd                     [Steve Ellenoff]

New Sound Support
-----------------
-Dracula                         [Steve Ellenoff]
-Attack From Mars                [Steve Ellenoff]
-Black Rose                      [Steve Ellenoff]
-Indiana Jones                   [Steve Ellenoff] 
-No Good Golfers                 [Steve Ellenoff] 
-Party Zone(New 100% working Rom)[Steve Ellenoff] 
-No Fear                         [Steve Ellenoff] 
-Corvette                        [Steve Ellenoff] 
-Harley Davidson                 [Steve Ellenoff] 
-Cirqus Voltaire                 [Steve Ellenoff] 
-Indianapolis 500                [Steve Ellenoff] 
-Judge Dredd                     [Steve Ellenoff]


New/Updated Custom Lamp Matrixes
--------------------------------
-Funhouse                        [Steve Ellenoff]
-Star Trek: TNG                  [Steve Ellenoff]
-Twilight Zone(updated)          [Steve Ellenoff]
-The Addams Family               [Steve Ellenoff]
-Getaway                         [Steve Ellenoff]
-Machine:Bride of Pinbot         [Marton Larrosa]
-Party Zone                      [Marton Larrosa]
-Dracula                         [Marton Larrosa]
-Gilligans Island                [Marton Larrosa]
-Doctor Dude                     [Marton Larrosa]
-Hurricane                       [Marton Larrosa]
-Medieval Madness                [Marton Larrosa]
-Theater of Magic		 [Tom Haukap]
-Indiana Jones			 [Tom Haukap]
-World Cup Soccer                [WPCMAME Author]


New/Updated Sound Sample Support
--------------------------------
-Funhouse                        [Steve Ellenoff]
-Star Trek: TNG                  [Steve Ellenoff]
-Terminator 2                    [Steve Ellenoff]
-Indiana Jones			 [Tom Haukap]
-Theater of Magic		 [Tom Haukap]
-Machine:Bride of Pinbot         [Marton Larrosa]
-Black Rose                      [Marton Larrosa]
-Creature From Black Lagoon	 [Marton Larrosa]
-Dr. Dude                        [Marton Larrosa]
-Dracula                         [Marton Larrosa]
-Gilligan's Island               [Marton Larrosa]
-Hurricane                       [Marton Larrosa]
-Medieval Madness                [Marton Larrosa]
-Party Zone			 [Marton Larrosa]
-Road Show                       [Marton Larrosa]
-White Water                     [Marton Larrosa]

11:41EST - HeboWin v.0.01d for Win 9X Released

HeboWin v.0.01d for Win 9X, a Nintento Gameboy emulator has been released. I'm not sure what the new features and enhancements are as it is written in Japanese.

Follow the link for HeboWin in the Portable-Console Emulation section.

22:35EST - PCEmu v.1.2 for Linux Released

PCEmu v.1.2 for Linux, a 8086 PC emulator has been released. I'm not sure what the new features and enhancements are.

Follow the link for WinFellow in the Computer Emulation section.

22:35EST - WinFellow v.0.42 build 1 for Win 9X & Win NT, Direct X 3 & 5 Released

WinFellow v.0.42 build 1 for Win 9X & Win NT, a Commodore Amiga emulator has been released. It features the following new features and enhancements:

floppy.c
--------
- fixed a pretty serious bug in floppy.c - floppySectorMFMDecode() the code
  for decoding MFM sectors broke on msvc. The code now compiles as expected
  on msvc. (caused no data to be written to floppy images.)
- gzip, xdms and the according del enclose filenames in quotes now; this
  fixes problems with image filepaths containing spaces

kbdparser.c
------------
- added autofire support through:
   "JOYKEY1_AUTOFIRE0",
   "JOYKEY1_AUTOFIRE1",
   "JOYKEY2_AUTOFIRE0",
   "JOYKEY2_AUTOFIRE1"
  in the mapping.key file

cia.c, kbd.c, kbd.h, gameport.c, gameport.h, kbddrv.c
-----------------------------------------------------
- added autofire support

joydrv.c
--------
- removed unused calls to CoInitialize and CoUninitialize in joyDrvStartup
  with Dx3

ffilesys.c
----------
- fixed a bug in ffilesys_install() which caused weird behaviour when using
  trailing backslashes in filesystem root paths; these are now simply
  removed when inserting filesystems

fsdb.c, filesys.c
-----------------
- added missing initializations to all places where a_inodes are created (I
  now initialize the whole structure to zero when it is reserved); this
  should fix some random crashes that have been experienced


Changelog since WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Snapshot 2000/09/27
====================================================================

xDMS and zlib sources have been integrated into the project; that way we can
now offer built-in dms and adz support.

floppy.c
--------
- some changes to make use of zlib and xdms
- temporarily extracted files should now be placed into the system's TEMP
  directory correctly

wgui.c
------
- the floppy disk requester now shows adz and dms images


Changelog since WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Snapshot 2000/10/07
====================================================================

xdms.c
------
- Minor changes which update the source to xdms 1.3b; according to Andre�
  they're meant to fix a bug in decrunching archives created by very old 
  dms crunchers.

sysinfo.c
---------
- This new module does some extensive logging on startup to extend the
  logfile with valuable bug reporting and debugging information; the 
  WinFellow version number is logged, either.

sounda.s
--------
- Generates IRQ for every word output for channels with in-active DMA now
  (according to documentation for the sound hardware).
  This was required to load New Zealand Story. (It hung waiting for sound IRQs)
  Not to mention it also solves the long-term mystery with the non-working
  games Defender of the crown and Uninvited... :-)

grapha.s
--------
- Implemented unverified patch that reverses the scroll order for bplcon1
  based on the alignment of ddfstart. Needed to run New Zealand Story.
  It was already in the source for hires modes, but there was no convincing
  evidence that it was also that way in lores.

joydrv.c
--------
- Two joystick support fixed.

sounddrv.c
----------
- When locking a soundbuffer one should check if buffer lost and 
  then restore it. It is restored once now and then tried to lock it again.
  This is not a perfect fix since the lost condition still could be active...
  But a better solution needs more thought on the synchronization of 
  the different threads to avoid adding any deadlocks...
  The sound module will be looked into more.


Changelog since WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Snapshot 2000/12/04
====================================================================

grapha.s
---------
- Fixed a bug in wcolor(), it wrote dword values to a word array.
  The result was that the color table was corrupted and it would
  use (some) corrupt colors when halting the emulator and starting again.

wdbg.c
------
- Basic debugger functionality has been ported over from DOS Fellow.

modrip.c and according files
----------------------------
- The mod-ripper has been ported from DOS Fellow and several formats and
  additional security checks have been added; supported formats as of
  now are ProTracker and clones, SoundFX 1.3/2.0, SoundMon 1.0/2.0/2.2,
  FredEditor, ProRunner 2.0 and ThePlayer 4. Furthermore the possibilities
  to run the ripper over inserted floppies and to dump the chipmem into a
  file for use with external rippers have been added.

sounda.s
--------
- The 15650 and 22050 Hz modes also work now. Unfortunately it 
  studders abit on my machine because of too short buffers at these 
  rates. We still need to add a slider on the GUI where we can adjust
  the buffer length.


Changelog since WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Snapshot 2000/12/19
====================================================================

blit.c/blita.s
--------------
- Looked over the line-code. Made a macro version of the bresenham. Writes
  to chipmemory are now "safe". Some changes to the handling of data from
  the B channel, the "texture pattern". This almost corrects the problems
  with Deform's Deformations demo. There are some remaining artifacts 
  though.

grapha.s
--------
- Added ID bits in VPOSR ($dff004), it reports a PAL OCS AGNUS or if the
  ECS blitter is enabled it reports a PAL ECS AGNUS. The Red Sector Cebit90
  demo requires the ECS bit to be set in order to start. (Even if it does 
  not use any ECS features....?)

sounddrv.c
----------
- Detecting whether notification is supported or not for DirectSound 
  buffers. If not supported it now uses a multimedia timer to promptly call
  the soundDrvPollBufferPosition. That timer is much more accurate than 
  using WM_TIMER messages.
- Removed checks on secondary buffer caps whether modes should be added,
  since some soundcards don't have hardware secondary mixing. These cards 
  haven't had any sound until now since no mode was added due to the checks!

wdbg.c
------
- Added basic blitter registers to the debugger.
- Added a toggle to the debugger's blitter tab to turn the blitter 
  operations log on or off.
- The Debugger now does the emulation necessities check upon initialization
  and thus properly denies to start up without a kickrom. 

modrip.c
--------
- The memory dump now also dumps bogo and fast memory (if any was 
  configured) into according files.

blit.c/blita.s
--------------
- Corrected some more pointers that could go outside chip-memory.
- Added an initial version of blitter operation logging. The logging format
  is yet temporary. It dumps relevant registers as well as the raster beam 
  position (frameno, x, y) and the PC that started the operation. It logs to
  the file "blitterops.log".

draw.c/drawa.s, graph.c/grapha.s
--------------------------------
- The skip-line optimization for unchanged blank lines (ie. with no bitplane
  content) was broken. It has been fixed.
- A skip-line optimization was added also for lines with bitplane content.
  It does this by comparing all relevant data for a line and tagging it as
  skipped if it has not changed. The comparisons can be optimized better,
  and it does not yet consider dual playfields. 

grapha.s
---------
- The bpl line skipping now limits the comparison to visible pixels.
  Also dual playfield is handled. Apart from inevitable bugs, it should be
  complete. This speeds up the overall drawing process since it reduces the
  access to the (slow) framebuffer.

draw.c/drawa.s/sprite.c
-----------------------
- It turned out that the HAM drawing routines would trash the framepointer
  in some rare situations. Fixed this problem. Added some more "paranoid"
  checks for rare conditions in some of the other drawing routines.
  Added 64-bit MMX versions of dual playmode drawing.

cpua.s/cpu.c
------------
- Initialization was faulty for 68EC20+ CPUs.
- Fixed broken instruction-prefetch emulation. 
- The ASL instruction had faulty overflow bit handling and some other flag
  problems in the extreme cases, shift count = 0 and shift count > 31.
  (Makes Bubble Bobble work properly.)

fmema.s
-------
- Made handling of odd memory access (exception 3) dependent on the selected
  instruction set. WinFellow has so far always allowed odd memory accesses, 
  which is only correct for 68020+.

grapha.s
--------
- The ID bit added earlier in VPOSR was inverted. It caused some Kickstarts
  to fail since they used ECS when there was no such thing installed.

cia.c
-----
- Avoids hanging the event-scheduling when timers have zero expiration time.
  The hardwired demo programs a timer with zero expiration time and the CIA
  module kept reissuing a timer expiration event with the current timestamp
  over and over again, which essentially stops the emulator.

fmem.c
------
- Fast-mem would be mapped out by memoryEmulationStart() causing instant
  crash for all programs when returning from the GUI the second time.
  (Only when using fast-memory).

wgui.c
----------
- added the showing of the actual keys that are used for the Keyboard 
  Layout 1 and 2
- added  code for handling the multiple buffer option in the GUI
- two analog PC joystick can be selected through the GUI

grapha.s
--------
- Reporting of the bltzero flag in dmacon was wrong.

graph.c
-------
- Uses the same line optimization as default behaviour.

21:58EST - Minus4-Acorn v.0.21 for Acorn Released

Minus4-Acorn v.0.21 for Acorn, a Commodore Plus 4 emulator has been released. I'm not sure what the new features and enhancements are.

Follow the link for Minus4-Acorn the Computer Emulation section.

21:58EST - HuGo-Acorn-Acorn v.0.2c for Acorn Released

HuGo-Acorn v.0.2c for Acorn, an NEC Turbografx16 emulator has been released. I'm not sure what the new features and enhancements are.

Download it from the Console Emulation section.

21:53EST - ColEm-Acorn v.1.16 for Acorn Released

ColEm-Acorn v.1.16 for Acorn, a CBS Colecovision has been released. I'm not sure what the new features and enhancements are.

Download it from the Console Emulation section.

21:49EST - VGB-Acorn v.1.6 for Acorn Released

VGB-Acorn v.1.6 for Acorn, a Nintendo Gameboy emulator. It features the following new features and enhancements:

• Now refreshing SGB frame when new characters are loaded.
• Fixed video and other timings relative to the CGB CPU speed.
• Fixed recognition of CGB cartridges (SuperMarioBrothersDX, etc.).
• Fixed sprite drawing code.
• Changed processing of pending interrupts in CPU emulation.
• CGB DMA now ends by putting FFh into transfer length register.
• Made CGB draw background if only sprites are enabled.
• Fixed display blanking to fill display with correctly sized values.
• Added source to get Bung Xchanger to the documentation.
• Registration service for VGB-WIndows has been changed to DigiBuy.
• Fixed current directory name in VGB-Windows.
• Added *.GBC pattern to VGB-Windows file requester.
• Changed video state changes (FinalFantasyLegends work again).
• State file changed to v.2 due to CPU state changes.
• Sound in VGB-Unix fixed to work on some buggy OSS versions.
• VGB-Unix runs in a resizable window now.
• Fixed IPC key allocation bug in VGB-Unix.
• VGB-Windows uses multimedia timer to sync screen refresh.

21:46EST - SNES9x Pre-Release 1 for Acorn Released

SNES9x Pre-Release 1 for Acorn, a Nintendo SNES has been released. This release features the following features and enhancements:

• The 65c816 main CPU.
• The Sony SPC700 sound CPU.
• SNES variable length machine cycles.
• 8 channel DMA and H-DMA (raster effects).
• All background modes, 0 to 7.
• Sound DSP, with eight 16-bit, stereo channels, compressed samples, hardware attack-decay-sustain-release volume processing, echo, pitch modulation and digital FIR sound filter.
• 8x8, 16x8 and 16x16 tile sizes, flipped in either direction.
• 32x32, 32x64, 64x32 and 64x64 screen tile sizes.
• H-IRQ, V-IRQ and NMI.
• Mode 7 screen rotation, scaling and screen flipping.
• Vertical offset-per-tile in modes 2, and 4.
• Horizontal offset-per-tile in modes 2, 4 and 6.
• 256x224, 256x239, 512x224, 512x239, 512x448 and 512x478 SNES screen resolutions.
• Sub-screen and fixed colour blending effects.
• Mosaic effect.
• Single and dual graphic clip windows, with all four logic combination modes.
• Colour blending effects only inside or outside a window.
• 128 8x8, 16x16, 32x32 or 64x64 sprites, flipped in either direction.
• SNES palette changes during frame (15/16-bit internal rendering only).
• Direct colour mode - uses tile and palette-group data directly as RGB value.
• Super FX, a 21/10MHz RISC CPU found in the cartridge of several games.
• SA-1, a faster version of CPU found in the main SNES unit together with some custom game-accelerator hardware.
• C4, a custom Capcom chip used only in Megaman X2 and X3. Its a sprite scaler/ rotator/line drawer/simple maths co-processor chip used to enhance some in-game effects.
• Partial DSP-1 support, enough to play Mario Kart.
• SNES mouse.
• SuperScope (light gun) emulated using computer mouse.
• Multi-player 5 - allowing up to five people to play games simultaneously on games that support that many players.
• Game-Genie and Action Replay cheat codes.
• Multiple ROM image formats, with or without a 512 byte copier header.
• Single or split images, compressed using gzip, and interleaved in one of two ways.
• Auto S-RAM (battery backed RAM) loading and saving.
• Freeze-game support, now portable between different Snes9x ports.
• Interpolated sound.

21:40EST - PocketGB v.1.12 Beta 10 Released

PocketGB v.1.12 Beta 10, a Nintendo Gameboy emulator for Windows CE has been released. This release includes Pocket PC for WinCE 3.0 SH3/MIPS/ARM, Palm-Sized PC for WinCE 2.11 SH3/MIPS, and HPC Pro for WinCE 2.11. It features the following new features and enhancements:

• Intermittent Pause: There was a timer issue causing a very annoying intermittent pause about once per minute. This has been corrected.
• Auto Video Sync: This can now be enabled or disabled. Turning it off makes PocketGB run similar to older betas. When it's off, the speed setting under video has no effect and the frame skip becomes actual frame skip instead of max frame skip. For most devices, I would recommend leaving this at its default ON setting.
• Use External Keyboard: I tried to implement an input scheme that would allow those with external keyboards for their PPCs to use them. When this is active, the virtual game pad does not work, so only enable it if you're planning to use an external keyboard for input. This is on the Tweak tab.
• File Filters: On the PocketPC and Palm-Sized versions, the default file type is now *.gbc again. It got switched around when I was trying to correct the issue with the HPC's filters.
• Input Mapping: The iPAQ stopped recognizing input mapping. Other devices didn't have a problem. This is corrected now and you can map controls properly again.

21:11EST - RockNES v.1.702 for Macintosh Released

RockNES v.1.702 for Macintosh, a Nintendo NES emulator for Mac OS has been released. It features the following new features and enhancements:

• Small changes in the rom loading;
• Movie support slightly improved;
• Added support for mapper #67 (no games are playable);
• Mapper #5 improved somewhat (only CastleVania3 and MetalSladerGlory work);
• Mapper #33 improved somewhat (support FlintStones);
• Mapper #43 (1xx-in-1) changed to number #235;
• Mapper #48 (SMB2j (LF36)) changed to number #43;
• Fixed mapper #4 IRQ timing;
• Fixed mapper #21 (Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2 has correct gfx);
• Fixed mapper #68, more games are playable;
• Fixed mapper #160 (Aladdin -- preliminary IRQ timing control);
• Fixed mapper #235, thanks to Takeda/nester;
• Fixed VS Atari RBI Baseball patch on reads;
• Fixed pAPU timing (was completly wrong, damn it!), output is better;
• Fixed a PCM decoding bug, plus removed IRQ and cycle eating on queue;
• Fixed sprite DMA transfer;
• Fixed state loading (of RSx files);
• Fixed PPU state at 'power on' (starts at scanline zero), thanks to Ki;
• Small PPU optimizations/tweaks;
• ROM images larger than the header spec may be loaded again;

14:30EST - DreamMSX v.0.1

DreamMSX v.0.1, a MSX emulator for Sega Dreamcast has been released. This seems to be the initial release. The readme staes the following:

Dreammsx is an MSX2 emulator for the Dreamcast
based on fMSX 1.5 by Marat Fayzullin. The
AY8910 and SCC emulation are replaced
for better sound emulation (ripped of
the MESS project).

This is a work-in-progress version, which only works
with 1Mbit (128kb) roms. Although is has full AY8910 and
SCC emulation. 

14:30EST - PocketGB v.1.12 Beta 9 Released

PocketGB v.1.12 Beta 9, a Nintendo Gameboy emulator for Windows CE has been released. This release includes Pocket PC for WinCE 3.0 SH3/MIPS/ARM, Palm-Sized PC for WinCE 2.11 SH3/MIPS, and HPC Pro for WinCE 2.11. It features the following new features and enhancements:

• Frame Skip: Frame skip now acts as a MAX frame skip. The skip setting internally is automatic. Setting this to a higher value now doesn't necessarily mean frames will be dropped, it just means they COULD be dropped in order to run the emulation at the appropriate speed if the emulator things it needs to in order to catch up. On an iPAQ, frame skip doesn't really do anything since it almost never needs to skip.
• Auto Sync: The Video Sync is automatic now and integrated into the Speed setting under the Video tab. For those of you who used the last beta, the middle setting (the default) is NTSC. To the right is slower refresh and closer to PAL, to the left is faster than NTSC. Most of you can leave this on the middle setting.
• On a slower device, moving this to the right (towards the slower end) will smooth out the frame rate if you have a high skip value, but your emulation will be slower.
• If you want maximum speed (which is way too fast on an iPAQ), move the speed setting all the way to the left.
• If you want maximum smoothness (which is too slow on the Casio E-115), move the frame skip all the way to the left and it won't ever skip a frame.
• If this is confusing and you've got a question, please post it in the forum so I can answer it for everyone. Thanks.
• Priority: On the tweak tab, there is now a priority setting. You can lower the priority of emulation. If you were having trouble with the input response being sluggish, try setting the priority to Low and see if it helps any. I'd like feedback on this one if it's still a problem. Thanks!
• File Filters: The Jornada HPCs are still messing up the file filter. I tried switching things around a little. Please let me know if there is any improvement

14:30EST - FE v.0.12 Released

FE v.0.12, an NES emulator for DOS has been released. It features the following new features and enhancements:

• Supported FDS BIOS function READ $E1F8
• Supported FDS BIOS function WRITE $E237/$E239
• More FDS titles work.

11:50EST - Pgb v.0.87 Released

Pgb v.0.87, an Nintendo Gameboy emulator for Windows has been released. This version contains the following enhancements, features and bugfixes:

• Reworked LCD interrupt timing a little.
• Fixed the bug causing Microsoft VM to sometimes lock after loading a game.
• Separated video rendering and output.
• Added DirectDraw video output for the Microsoft VM. Allows better screen resizing.
• Added direct color video output for all VMs. Allows more than 56 colors on screen in some games and demos.
• Added mechanism to switch video output in the video menu.
• Less PC CPU time consumed when the GB CPU is halted. Major speedups, depending on the game.
• Improved tile caching mechanism. Speed improvement in some games.
• Added a better "Auto Wait" function, accessed in the menu.

11:50EST - Unofficial Nester v.01/23/01 Released

Unofficial Nester v.01/23/01, an NES emulator for Windows has been released. This version contains the following enhancements, features and bugfixes:

• code fixed 20
• support 'VS Tetris'
• support state save for FDS games
• (tentative / with no assurance of format compatibility in future)

11:50EST - Jum A5200 v.0.51a+ Released

Jum A5200 v.0.51a+, an Atari 5200 emulator for Windows has been released. This version contains the following bugfix:

• Modified my heuristic ROM image analysis algorithm "HERO IM ANAL", to cater for newly-available "Super Pacman" prototype ROM image. Fixed a gfx bug (see lucasfilm title in Ballblazer/Fractalus). Fixed a fatal gfx bug that wrote to image buffer line -1, which caused crashes. Silly me.

11:15EST - Bliss v.1.31 Released

Bliss v.1.31, a Mattel Intellivision emulator for Windows and Java has been released. This version contains the following bugfix:

• fixed the problem with Bliss locking up after returning from full screen DirectX mode

11:10EST - Unofficial MAME32 w/Autofire v.0.37b11 Released

Unofficial MAME32 w/Autofire v.0.37b11, an MAME Arcade emulator for Windows has been released. This release brings it in sync with 0.37b11 version of MAME

Follow the link for UMAME32 w/Autofire in the MAME Emulation section.

21:30EST - Final Burn v.0.79 Released

Final Burn v.0.79, a Multi-Arcade Machine emulator for Win9X has been released. It features the following new features, enhancements, and comments:

• For triple buffering, DirectX docs say you should release and restore a complex surface by using the top surface only, which I wasn't doing before but am now. But does this fix any problems for anyone? (Makes no difference on my machine.)

22:10EST - RockNES v.1.702 Released

RockNES v.1.702, an NES emulator for DOS has been released. This release has the following bugfix:

• fixing trainer support.

22:10EST - AdvanceMAME v.0.37b11.0 Released

AdvanceMAME v.0.37b11.0, an MAME Arcade emulator for Windows has been released. This release brings it in sync with 0.37b11 version of MAME and introduces the following feature and enchancements:

• Removed the option `turbostartupspeed'. Now it's always at the maximum speed available and at frameskip 11.
• Autoframeskip is automatically enabled when the turbo button is pressed
• Corrected the automatic video mode choice.
• Added the `video_factor_game_stretch' option. Now the 'video_factor_*' options are documented in the 'mame.txt' file. With these options you can control how the auto video mode is choseen. If you get incorrect results try to delete them and restart with the default values.
• Renamed the option `video_factor_strecth' in `video_factor_aspect'.
• Added scripts! You can control any external hardware devices using a like C scripts. See the new script.txt file.
• Added the option `video_mode_reset' to prevent the the video mode reset at the emulator exit

21:45EST - YAME v.0.28a Released

YAME v.0.28a, a Multi-Platform emulator for DOS has been released. I'm not sure what the new features or enhancements are because it's written in Japanese

Follow the link for YAME in the Multi-Platform Emulation section.

21:30EST - FE v.0.11 Released

FE v.0.11, an NES emulator for DOS has been released. It features the following new features and enhancements:

• Added Famicom FAM protect type #1,#2,#4,#5,#6,#7,#8,#9,#10
• Fixed NES Mapper #55,#56
• Added FamicomDiskSystem emulation. (partial)

21:30EST - Final Burn v.0.78 Released

Final Burn v.0.78, a Multi-Arcade Machine emulator for Win9X has been released. It features the following new features and enhancements:

• Fixed a very large bug in the way QSound sample data was read!
• All the drum problems are now fixed (e.g. Lei-Lei's music, Morrigan's winning theme), and voice samples are a lot clearer (e.g. Lilith's "Shining Blade").

11:50EST - Bliss v.1.3 Released

Bliss v.1.3, a Mattel Intellivision emulator for Windows and Java has been released. It features the following new features and enhancements

• Added DirectX 8.0 support for Win32 users, resulting in a vast improvement in speed and the addition of full-screen modes for Win32 users. Users on other operating systems are still supported through Pure Java video output.)
• Performance of video emulation has been greatly improved and now uses only a comparably small percentage of CPU time.)
• Sound is much more accurately emulated now. The sound chip is now evaluated at the rate of the original Intellivision (~223khz) and averaged into the desired output rate. As a result, all games should sound much more like a real Intellivision.
• Greatly improved palette. Thanks to Joe Zbiciak for doing the palette research!
• Fixed certain types of sounds that were playing an octave too high. Night stalker now sounds more correct.
• Fixed noise bugs. Crowd noises, for example, should sound better.
• Fixed several video rendering bugs. Pinball title screen now looks correct. Pitfall underground area now has correct colors.
• Fixed screen blanking. Should see less of the garbage that would appear when games were switching scenes.
• Fixed several memory mappings. Some carts that were not working before are working now.
• Fixed sprite collision bugs. False collisions are no longer detected along the y axis or between invisible sprites.

11:00EST - Emulationtimes.com officially opens

Good Morning everyone, and hope your hangovers aren't too bad hehehe. Welcome to my new emulation news page, I hope all will enjoy it. Although I have had the page sorta up throught the month of December, it was up just for the simple matter of development of the page. At this point I will be updating the news on a fairly regular basis, as well as existing links and downloads found on this site. Unfortunately, there is still a lot to be done on this website to make it whole, so I will start with what is complete and working. For starters, the News page will be updated on a fairly regular basis. In the Links/download section, the following lists of emulators are complete (preliminary of course, since I am aware of some emulators left out as of now), they are the Single Arcade Emulators, and the Laserdisc Arcade Emulator sections. The COnsole Emulator section is currently in progress, and I hope to have it fully up and complete by next week. Other sections listed may at some point durring development over the next month, will contain updates as emulators are released, and will get a major update as I fill-in the many blanks that will need to be filled in. Next, I guess a good question to answer is what is this page about anyway. Well, the answer to that is, to fill a gap I feel has been there for about 2 years now. This gap is a comp[lete emulation resource pertaining to the latest emulators out there for all platforms, much like an old site known as emunews.net. I intend to cover all emulators out there, whether is be console, computer, arcade, lcd game, mainframe, chiapet, etc..., and to become a resource to be used by others, whether it be personal use or webmaster use for other sites out there. So without further adue, I bring you the site www.emulation times.com.