"We have decided to discontinue TheSE! There isn't much more to do on SNES emulation than SNES9X, ZSNES and SNEMul already have implemented or is about to implement. With the release of the Snes9x source we decided to stop programming TheSE (at least for now). TheSE ver 0.14 was never finished. Therefore we release TheSE ver 0.14 BETA as our last version."

http://hem1.passagen.se/gyrling/

X-Mame 0.33 RC1 Released! Hans De Goede has updated his X-Mame (Unix port) emulator to version 0.33 Release Candidate 1. Here's what's new:

• All the changes form dos-0.33rc1
• Automated the porting process a bit, changed contrib/make-makefiles.p not to generate a malloc-lines log. Since this is not necessary anymore. Added contrib/fix-mame.
• Part of these automation changes it that the objs generated by make-makefiles are now used in makefile.unix by including makefile.core.
• Due to the above changes also all core-filenames have been made lowercase, finally bringing unity.
• Changed the compiler hints in README.unix not to use DCC, since that was a bad advice which was causing the malloc trouble in the first place. We still have irix problems when using -n32 which are being looked into. For now use -o32 when compiling.
• Added support for the m6808 asm CPU core
• Added 16 bit sound calls support.

SNEmul 0.84 Released! Archeide and v0x have released a new version of SNEmul. Directly from Archeide's e-mail, here's what's new in version 0.84:

• Fixed a serious bug in the SPC700(now BASTARD! works)
• Fixed a bug in CPU decimal addition/substraction
• Removed some bad colors which could appear in some games
• Fixed a bug in port 0x4212 (Bubsy works)
• Some sprites were transparent whereas they should not(e.g. in Super Off Road)
• Fixed a bug in MODE 7(Super Metroid intro)
• Fixed some bugs with the CPU speed hack(Ultima 7 works again)
• Fixed a bug in RAM initialization(should be filled with '0xFF')
• Fixed a bug in SRAM read/write(Final Fight 3 works)
• Fixed and speeded up some transparencies effects(for instance, in Zelda)
• Fixed a bug in interrupts calls(decimal flag should be reset)
• Fixed another bug in SPC700 and thus, removed the sound bugs in Zelda and made Seiken Dekentsu 3 works.
• Now Sound_ouput = 0 disable also the SPC700(some games may need this)
• Fixed a bug in HDMA/DMA
• Fixed a bug with ENVX read(BomberMan 5 works again)
• Fixed some bugs with ADSR/GAIN
• Fixed some bugs in the MOD Ripper(especially music speed)
• Speeded up some games
• Some other small bugs fixed. A lot of new games work!

http://www.mygale.org/09/cassiop/

Need Help with OpenGL Gordon Hollingworth (author of NSFE) has encountered a problem using OpenGL, a problem that is seriously curtailing the project. (It's an error resulting from a ChoosePixelFormat call; see his site for the details). Gordon is looking for any OpenGL guru's to lend a helping hand. If you can help, please do:

http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/gordon.hollingworth/

Raine Adds Three New Games Emulators Unlimited is reporting that Richard Bush is adding support to Raine for three new games. The new games are Dinorex, Drift Out and Growl. Follow the link for screen shots.

http://emureview.ztnet.com/emuunlim/

EMUTools Updated Marat Fayzullin has just uploaded a new version of his EMUTools package to his web site. For those that don't know, EMUTools is a set of emulation utilities. The package includes as a 6502 dissembler, a binary file comparison program and other utilities. Here's what's new:

• Fixed several bugs in the dissemblers
• All dissemblers support -h (print hexadecimal codes) and -o (change code origin) options
• GBLIST now recognizes MBC3, SuperGameBoy, ColorGameBoy, and Japanese carts
• GBLIST is able to generate output in HTML format now (-h option)
• NESLIST now supports the new VS-System bit in the .NES headers

http://www.komkon.org/fms/EMUL8/

MacMAME RC1 Released! Brad Oliver has just released MAME 0.33 Release Candidate 1 for Macintosh:

"In sync with PC rc 1. Barring any major bugs, this code will be identical to the final 0.33 build. Every crashing bug reported has been fixed. If you crash MacMAME in any way, please let us know. The video code is a little more relaxed on the screen size, so more games will run in 3x mode rather than bumping down to 2x."

- Brad Oliver
MacMAME Author

You can download MacMAME from the author's official webpage:

http://www.primenet.com/~bradman/mame/macmame.html

MAME Ported to OS/2! Martin Amodeo has ported MAME, probably the world's most popular emulator to OS/2! For the longest time, just about every major platform (DOS, Windows, Mac, Unix, Amiga, etc.) has enjoyed a port specifically developed for it, but OS/2 fans have had to wait and wait.  Well, wait no more! MAME for OS/2 is now available. You can check out a screen shot by clicking here or here. A couple side notes: this port is based on the 0.31 source code and has no sound as of yet. Thanks to An nony mouse for the e-mail.

http://www.netlabs.org/projects/mame.html

Arcadia 2001 Emulator Updated! Paul Robson has just released a new version of his Arcade 2001 emulator. Here's what's new:

• Semi-scanline based screen engine implemented
• Accurate palette from real screen shots
• Block graphic mode implemented
• Console keys latched
• Horizontal scrolling bits implemented
• Palette switching for sprite multiplexing works properly.
• Sound tuned (reasonably) accurately
• Noise channel added
• All controller keys emulated
• Emulation now much faster

http://users.aol.com/mk14emu/arcadia.htm
 

MAME 0.33 Release Candidate 1 Out! The MAME development team has released Release Candidate 1 of MAME 0.33. This is the final step before releasing the official 0.34. Thanks to BIGPHOOT14 for the e-mail.  You can get it from SYS2064 or Dave's Video Game Classics.  You can also download Rodimus Prime's A/PMame from:

http://www.sound.net/~rodimus

More Snes9x Ports Released! Yet another version of Snes9x has been released. This time it's for FreeBSD. Also the Amiga WarpUp port has been updated with several bugfixes.

http://www.snes9x.com/

Source Code Updated Petr Stehlik has updated the source code to his DOS port of the Atari800 emulator. The current version is now 0.9.7g. The binary version remains at 0.9.6.

http://cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz/~stehlik/a800.htm
 

New Game for Odyssey²! John Dondzila, author of several Vectrex and ColecoVision games is now tackling a brand new system: the Odyssey². As you can tell from this sneak-preview screenshot, this new game is inspired by the classic shooter/maze game Berzerk. Tentatively titled AMOK!, the game is nearly done and should be ready in a couple of weeks. John is polishing up the collision detection and will add sound effects as the final touch.

New CCS64 Beta Released Hakan Sundell has released a new beta of CCS64 version 2.0. Dated July 23rd 1998, this new beta features:

• REU support 128 Kb to 16 Mb
• Final Cartridge III support
• Simons Basic support
• Mouse C1351
• 1541 RAM Expansion (DolphinDOS)
• Continuous saving of .D64
• Increased .P00 support, multifile and directory loading

http://www.computerbrains.com/index.html

More MAME! Hans de Goede has updated the Unix port of MAME to version 0.33 Beta 7. Beta 7 includes support for 26 new ROM sets, plus:

• All the changes form dos-0.33b7, including a new frontend  option (-listclones)
• Fixed the volume after menu setting bug, for real this time
• Split update_dsp into true- and pseudo-color specific files, with the hope to one day add a 16 bit mode truecolor variant
• Cleaned up the error handling in the creation of the X display
• When running xmame on a remote console mit-shm doesn't only fail  but it also  tells you it failed

http://drake.dit.upm.es/~mame/

HU6280 1.75 Beta Released! Jamsponge has just released HU6280 version 1.75 Beta. A bug was discovered in the timer/IRQ code so Jam added a temporary -notiq command line option. HU6280 is a TG16 emulator for DOS.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/index.html

NeoRage Progress Report PC Arcade is reporting that the next release of NeoRage will feature:

• World Heroes 1 & 2 works perfectly
• Puzzle de Pon now also works 100%
• Gfx-glitches (blinking sprites) fixed in Metalslug and Puzzle Bobble

More Raine News Richard Bush is adding support for two more games: Bronze's Adventure / Jigoku Meguri and Darius 2. Click the links for screen shots. Also a bug has been discovered in the recently released version 0.12. If you're having problems with Twin Qix, it's recommended that you download version 0.11a.

http://raine.retrogames.com/index.html

Fixo Files - the Atari Special Emulators Unlimited has released not one, not two, but six(!) new interviews - all with Atari emulation (or Atari related) authors. The line up includes:

• John Saeger (Z26 - Atari 2600)
• Frederic Gaudouin (Pacifist - Atari ST)
• Keith Wilkins (Handy - Atari Lynx and Stella DOS port - Atari 2600)
• Richard Lawrence (Atari800win - Atari 800(XL)/130XL/5200)

(As an interesting side note, Frederic reveals that he had been working on a Neo Geo emulator (now discontinued) - something that was reported here many months ago  - only he was mentioned merely as an "anonymous" author. I received tons of e-mail from people all trying to guess who the mystery author was. The most popular guess was Sardu (wrong!) - but not one single person had the correct answer...)

http://emureview.ztnet.com/emuunlim/

(In the Fixo Files Section)

9,000,000 Hit Congratulations go out to Kevin P. who became EMU News Service's 9 millionth hit:

"Hi ya Jim, I'm just telling ya that i'm the 9 000 000 user to visit EMU News Service. Heh I wasn't even trying to get it. Anyways, continue the good work."

- K2-KaHoS (Kevin Paquet)

SSemu 0.07.b Released! Marshall Gladstone has released a new version of SSemu, his Sega Saturn emulator for Windows. SSemu now uses DirectX. Other new items include improvements to the GUI and a setup program. This will probably be the last Windows release of SSemu as Marshall will concentrate on a DOS only version (who said DOS was dead?). Thanks to cH@0$ for the e-mail.

http://www.zianet.com/marshallg/ssemu/

Stella 1.0 Beta Released! Bradford Mott has released the long-awaited version 1.0 of Stella. Brad has chosen to release only the Linux and Unix versions as a public beta. A final 1.0 release will be available within a few weeks. Here's what's new in version 1.0:

• Improved graphics emulation (TIA)
• Improved timer emulation (6532 PIA)
• Improved CPU emulation (6502)
• Improved Supercharger support
• Supports Robot Tank and Decathlon
• Supports Joystick, Keyboard, Booster Grip, and Indy 500 Driving controllers
• Contains properties for over 540 ROMs

http://www.classicgaming.com/stella/

Snes9x Ported to BeOS and Amiga (WarpUp) Two more ports of Snes9x have been released! This time, they're for BeOS (PC) and Amiga WarpUp. Both are numbered version 1.05, but the Amiga WarpUp version has no sound and the BeOS might be a bit buggy. This brings up the total number of ports to 10.

http://www.snes9x.com/Default.htm
 

Zophar's Domain Hacked Long time readers know that EMU News Service tries to focus on positive news and avoids negative stories. Last week, for example, a major Super Nintendo emulator's webpage was hacked, but we choose not to give free publicity to this sort of stunt. Yesterday, however, Zophar's Domain was hacked. Zophar has issued a public statement and requested that we help spread the word:

"Well, this is just to let all of you know that ZD's not dead. It didn't 'move' and we didn't relocate to a gaysex site (heh). It was hacked. And currently, I have no way of doing anything. Just so you know that it's not dead...and I'm working on figuring out what to do next."

- Zophar

New Retrocade Screen Shots The Retrocade webpage has added some new screenshots of this eagerly anticipated emulator. One of the most impressive things so far about Retrocade is it's GUI. Check it out at:

http://www.retrocade.com/newshots/

PSEmu Webpage Has Moved PSEmu now has a new URL (thanks goes out to Emulators Unlimited and Emulator Review. The new URL is:

http://www.psemu.com/

HU6280 1.74 Beta Released! More good news for TG16 fans. Jamsponge has released a new version of his TurboGrafx 16 emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in version 1.74:

• Improved CPU emulation, now faster
• Improved IRQ emulation, now faster
• Fixed bug in screenshots filename

LoopyNES 0.5d Released Loopy has released a LoopyNES version 0.5d. new version of his NES emulator for DOS. This release features more VS fixes, so Ice Climber should now work. Thanks to Foobar for the e-mail.

http://www.inquo.net/~loopy/nes.html

System 16 0.79  for DOS Released! Li Jih Hwa has updated the DOS port of his System 16 emulator. System 16 DOS now supports 5 new games:

• Alexkidd : The Lost Stars
• Aurail
• Fantasy Zone (Japanese version)
• Flash Point
• Major League (not playable)

http://users.skynet.be/system16/

HU6280 1.73 Beta Released! More good news for TG16 fans. Jamsponge has released a new version of his TurboGrafx 16 emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in version 1.73:

• Fixed bug in joypad emulation
• Fixed bug in Alices Dream that caused it to crash
• Improved audio mixing routines

TG16 Emulator Ported to Windows!  BERO's TurboGrafx 16 / PC Engine emulator has been ported to Windows 95 by hmmm. (Note: the webpage is not written in English (Japanese?). My apologies if any of this information is inaccurate). Xpce worked on most games I tried (Air Zonk, Galaga 90, etc.) and ran at full speed (but I'm running PII-400).  Xpce supports 1x and 2x video modes. There is no sound as of yet. We look forward to future releases.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/7052/

New NES Hardware Architecture Document Marat Fayzullin has updated his technical document on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Marat is the author of iNES and several other emulators as well.

http://www.komkon.org/fms/EMUL8/NES.html

Mess Progress Report Only seven weeks ago, MESS version 0.1 debuted. At the time, it supported 5 different systems - something no other console or computer emulator could claim. Since then, the MESS development team has expanded and continued adding new systems. Although no release date is known as of yet, we can expect  support for an additional 9(!) new systems:

• Apple ][
• Atari 800
• Atari 5200
• Bally Astrocade
• Gameboy
• Kaypro 2x
• PDP-1
• Sega Master System/Game Gear
• Vectrex

http://internetter.com/titan/mess/
 

Raine 0.12 Released! As previewed here just a few days ago, Raine 0.12 is now out! Richard Bush is calling this his 'Bubble Memories release'. Two new games are now supported: Bubble Memories and Puzzle Bobble 3, plus:

• Optimized Sprites and fixed sprite flicker on F3-System games
• Partial idle 68020 skipping hacks for F3-System games
• Some more Dipswitches mapped/commented
• SnesPad (via LPT1) support (untested)
• Mapped Foot Pedals on Space Gun
• Sound in Snow Bros
• Fixed WrestleFest sound bug in pure DOS

http://raine.retrogames.com/

SNEmul 0.82 Released! Archeide and vOx have released a new version of SNEmul! Despite the version number, this is pretty major update. SNEmul is now faster then before, joystick support is better and ADSR/GAIN sound effects are now emulated.

"A lot of bugs fixed and, at least, ADSR/GAIN sound effects implemented ! That means that the sound is better with many games. But it's a bit buggy, so if the sound is worse, you can disable it in the Emulation dialog. The joystick support have been improved : you can now select joypad buttons and select your joypad with the Options dialog (Menu : Joystick #1).

"Nowadays, it seems that everyone want the truth, so if you want to know: yes i have read the SNES9X sources and it helped me a lot. So a big thanks to Jeremy Koot, Gary Handerson, Lestat and all the SNES9X contributors."

- Archeide

Here's what's new in version 0.82:

• Added some CPU/SPC700 speed hacks (SNEmul is much faster with some games)
• SPC700 timing is more accurate
• Implemented joystick config dialog
• Reduced memory use a bit
• Implemented ADSR/GAIN sound effects
• Fixed a bug in port $2102/2103
• Implemented CGRAM read
• Fixed a bug in PPU multiply
• Fixed a bug in SPC700 division
• Fixed a bug in the Cheat finder
• Several other bugs fixed in the GUI/PPU/CPUs...

http://www.mygale.org/09/cassiop/

A/PMame Updated Rodimus Prime has released his CPU/compiler optimized versions of MAME 0.33 Beta 7.

http://www.sound.net/~rodimus/

More PSyKe News If you happened to visit the PSyKe webpage today, you'd see that RaskY and mOoNsHaDo have added a lot more screenshots of the next release of PSyke (with the new 3DFX driver). Check it out:

http://www.nayma.com/psyke/news.htm

LoopyNES 0.5c Released Loopy has released a new version of his NES emulator for DOS. Directly from the documentation, version 0.5c features "VS system dip switches". Thanks to BIGPHOOT14 for the e-mail.

http://www.inquo.net/~loopy/nes.html

MAME Beta 7 for Mac Released! Brad Oliver has release MAME 0.33 Beta 7 today. Here's what's new:

• In sync with PC beta 7. This will be the last beta for 0.33 so please report any outstanding bugs which haven't been fixed yet, especially crashes.
• John changed the audit dialogs to be moveable-modal dialogs so you can continue working while the audits are running.
• There is now a 3x video mode courtesy of Aaron. Although it's a bit slower due to the increased bandwidth, it is especially nice if your screen is set to 1024x768.
• Apple Design keyboards should now twinkle the LEDs
• MacMAME now works properly with "merged" ROMs. If you store all related ROM sets in one zip file, make sure you either create an alias to that zip or an empty folder with the missing ROM name so that you'll have an entry to click on in the front-end.
• MacMAME should clean up better after a crash. I've attempted to make it put the volume, control strip and menubar back to the proper settings when a crash occurs.

http://www.primenet.com/~bradman/mame/macmame.html

New BrSMS Released! Ricardo Bittencourt has released BrSMS version 1.11. Here's what's new:

• Support to PSG white noise (try to play "Afterburner"!!)
• Fixed a minor bug in the background renderer, this bug only happened when you started BrSMS after playing Nesticle (!?!)
• All the sprite renderer was rewritten from scratch, the new version is 100% faster than the previous. It also fix some graphics bugs, like the score of "Pacmania", the logo of "Sonic 2", the janken match of "Aled Kidd" and the power selector of "Psychic World".
• Added a new MMX sprite renderer (use the switch "-mmx"). This renderer is 80% faster than the normal one (yes, this means 180% faster than the previous version).
• Added five new custom Z80 emulators, they are 50% to 300% faster than the default, depending on the game (sometimes even more than that!)
• Added a preliminary video cache, this made the background renderer 100% faster than before. You can disable the video cache with the switch "-nocache", but so far I didn't found any game with cache problems.
• TURBO mode is even faster than before (even on a 486sx33 the emulation is faster than a real Master System!)

http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brsms.htm

z26 1.09 Released! John Saeger has just released a new version of z26. Here's what's new in version 1.09:

• New games including:  califgms.bin, and ofthwall.bi
• Support for Activision FE cartridge format.  This gives us:  decathln.bin and robotank.bin..
• Support for Atari 32K format.  This gives us fatalrun.bin.
• Support for M-Network 16K format.  This gives us he_man.bin, bnj.bin, and burgtime.bin.  z26 automatically sets player 1 difficulty to hard when playing he_man.bin so that the game starts up.

http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html
 

MAME 0.33 Beta 7 Released! The MAME development team has unleashed the latest beta of their incredibly popular multi-arcade game emulator. Twenty-six new ROM sets are supported, including Contra/Gryzor, Ninja Kid 2 and gladiator. MAME also supports translucent vectors (pioneered by emulators like Vector Dream). For the complete list of what's new, click here.

Download MAME 0.33 Beta 7

TrueReality Updated Niki Waibels has released a new version of TrueReality today. It will now run the rotate demo. It also features the usual round of bugfixes. Niki is hard at work on the next release (it'll run Pong). TrueReality is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Unix.

http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/gordon.hollingworth/
 

New SNEmul Coming Soon According to the latest update on the SNEmul homepage,  SNEmul version 0.81 will be released very soon, but no exact release date is known as of yet.

http://www.mygale.org/09/cassiop/

KEGS ver 0.37 Released! Kent Dickey has released a new version of KEGS. Here's what's new in version 0.37:

• Linux PPC port completed and functional.  KEGS has been tested to run quite well and quite fast on a 240MHz 604e running  MkLinux pre-DR3.
• Change LITTLE_ENDIAN define to KEGS_LITTLE_ENDIAN since Linux always defines LITTLE_ENDIAN as a silly macro.
• Dumb bug in IWM 3.5" routines could cause core dumps if disk arm moved from outer track to inner track very quickly.
• Deleted some breakpoints that some Second Sight searching code would hit.
• Ignore some SCC reset commands GNO would use that caused KEGS to stop.
• Handle odd partitions better--some //gs formatted Zips had a blocksize of 0, which defaults to 512 now.
• - Handle some keysyms better to avoid MkLinux bug with keysym 0

http://www.mtnweb.com/~kentd/kegs/index.html

fwNES Progress Report The US mirror of fwNES has just been updated with the latest word on the next release of fwNES:

1. Namcot Mapper fixed .SanGokushi2 /KaiJyu work
2. FamiJump2 work
3. VS(nintendo arcade board ) CastleVaina/SMB work perfect
4. Mapper 93
5. Mapper 91 fixed (about 80 % include IRQ..still some glitch)
6. Mapper 73 fixed ..
7. GUI crash bugs fixed .
8. Sound core updated /VRC6/VRC7/MMC5/Namcot addtional sound channel..

http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/nintendo/451/whatnew.htm

HU6280 1.72 Released! Jamsponge has released a new version of HU6280 (Turbografx 16 emulator for DOS). Tigershark is now fully playable and a sprite bug has been fixed. Check it out at:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/index.html

z26 1.08 Released! John Saeger has released z26 version 1.08. Here's what's new:

• New games including: stargate.bin (8K), defendr2.bin (8K), beamride.bin, radarlok.bin, sprfootb.bin, and humancan.bin (AKA human_cb.bin).
• Support for Parker Brothers cartridge format.
• Support for TigerVision cartridge format (some game jitter)
• Improved games include:  oystr29.bin, spcinvad.bin, spaceinv.bin, and congbong.bin.
• Variable game speed with the -r command line switch (see readme.txt). This is to provide an alternate  speed control method for those systems that the default monitor synchronization doesn't work, and also to allow game play at other frame rates.

Raine 0.12 Info Revealed Richard Bush has announced some new preliminary information of the next release of Raine. First, at least one new game will be supported, Bubble Memories (click here for a screenshots). Also, Raine 0.12 will have "optimized sprites and the sprite flicker on F3-System games is now fixed."

http://raine.retrogames.com/index.html
 
SNES9x for RiscOS/ARM Released! The SNES9x development team has released a new port of SNES9x. This time it's for the RiscOS (ARM processor) and it includes sound support. You can download SNES9x RiscOS/ARM version 1.05 from:

http://www.snes9x.com/Default.htm

UAE 0.8.5 for Mac Released! Arnaud B has released version 0.8.5 of UAE (Amiga emulator) for Macintosh. Here's what's new:

• Joystck emulation is now working
• Picasso96 works, now
• Can decode AmigaForever ROM
• Can use HardDisk emulation (a bit hard to configure)
• Can read & write .gz file

Sega CD Tech Docs As everyone knows, there are no Sega CD emulators available yet. Christian Schiller of Eidolon´s Inn has been trying to collect technical information of the Sega CD for a while now. Today, he has added two new documents to his site. These documents are the actual US patents for the Sega CD.

"Though these documents are rather non-specific (in terms of giving concrete memory addresses of the various functions), they describe the inner workings of the Sega CD very precisely. I have commented the documents where I think it was necessary or helpful. With these two documents now available, it should be a LOT easier to reverse-engineer some games in order to write an emulator."

- Christian Schiller
Eidolon´s Inn

http://homepage.psp.net/cschiller/scd.htm

Oric/MacOS 1.2 Released! Richard Bannister has updated Oric/MacOS to version 1.2. This release fixes several bugs and also adds support for Navigation Services and ZLIB.

http://internetter.com/titan/software/

Arcadia 2001 Emulator Adds Sound Support! Paul Robson has released a brand new version of his Emerson Arcadeia 2001 emulator. Here's what's new in beta 4:

• Sound emulated
• Palette emulated with about 70-80% accuracy
• Full controller available for player 1
• Support for 320x200 video mode added
• DAR instruction fixed, scores now work
• 128x104 screen resolution supported
• Miscellaneous bug fixes etc

Virtual Gameboy 1.1 for Mac Released! John Stiles has updated the Macintosh port of Marat Fayzullin's Virtual Gameboy emulator.

"This version now supports several new games that wouldn't work before, such as Mystic Quest. Also, games which wouldn't save properly, such as Pocket Monsters, should now work properly. Finally, smoothed video is now available to registered users! (Support for 1MB games is still under construction.)"

- John Stiles
Virtual Gameboy for Macintosh Author

http://www.emulation.net/gameboy/index.html
 

PSyKe Adding Partial CD-ROM Support Good news from the PSyKe camp: RaskY and mOoNsHaDo have added partial CD-ROM support to their PlayStation emulator. As you can see from the screenshot, things are looking good:

RaskY has also fixed a few bugs in the CPU emulation core making PSyKe more stable. Beta testing is currently underway and there will be a full report in just a couple days.

http://www.nayma.com/psyke/news.htm
 

New Fusion Demo Released Microsolutions has updated their Macintosh emulator for the PC. Here's what's new in version 1.2:

• Re-wrote floppy code to handle 720K, 800K, 1.44MB, 1.68MB formats. The 800K format is psuedo-Macintosh... it uses standard PC disk format with 10 sectors per track. The PC hardware is NOT capable of reading/writing real Macintosh 800K disks!
• Added full verification to floppy formatting.
• Increased emulation's speed by as much as 30% on non-PII CPUs.
• Added support for two more 1MB ROMs and one more 512K ROM.
• Added additional startup sound.
• Added ability to select between HFS and ISO9660 sessions on a dual format CD.
• Corrected several CPU/FPU emulation instruction bugs.
• Added limited MMU support to allow System 7.0.1 to work under all circumstances.

http://www.microcode-solutions.com/pc/fusion/fusion_downloads.html

Sparcade 2.24 Released! Dave Spicer has released a brand new version of Sparcade, his multi-arcade game emulator for DOS. Sparcade has been around a long time and has a lot of fans. Here's what's new in version 2.24:

• Vulcan Venture / Salamander / Commando sound improved
• Terra Cresta colours + sound fixed
• Joystick button mapping fixed
• Galaxian background noise no longer affected by frame skips
• Sound Blaster mixer settings now correctly retained
• Windows keyboards now supported
• Fire logo now drawn correctly in VGA mode
• Fixed a bug in SVGA monitor mode

http://www.hubcap.demon.co.uk/sparcade.htm

TO8 Alpha 0.5 Released! A new version of TO8 (Thomson TO8 emulator) has been released. Here's what's new in Alpha 0.5:

• Better memory card emulation (most unprotected games run)
• Better sound emulation on fast PC
• Better keyboard emulation
• New menus
• Read & write to disk images
• Faster

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/FETIS_Gilles/to8.htm

 
BeebInC 0.99f Released! Dave C. Devenport has released a new version of his Acorn BBC emulator. Here's what's new in version 0.99f:

• Keyboard: Changed the way the interrupts are generated
• System VIA: Port A pins now read/written correctly (sound works correctly again)
• Video: Switching between TELETEXT and graphical modes now can only occur during a VBLANK

http://members.aol.com/BeebInC/
 

 
Virtual Gameboy 1.1 Released! Marat Fayzullin has released a new version of his Gameboy emulator. The Windows port ($35) is being sent out to registered users. The Linux, Sun Solaris and FreeBSD ports (free) have also been released.

"I am sending Virtual GameBoy for Windows 1.1 to all newly registered users. All existing users will be getting it in a week or so (still have to fix some bugs in the distribution
systems)."

- Marat Fayzullin

Here's what's new:

• Fixed a bug in saving battery-backed RAM which prevented large (32kB) RAMs from being saved (PocketMonsters, etc.)
• Added autofire and GameGenie keyboard controls to VGB-Unix
• Fixed a bug in support for 8MBit ROMs
• Fixed a bug which prevented Mystic Quest, Final Fantasy Adventure, and Snow Brothers Jr from working properly
• VGB-Windows no longer depends on WinG

NLKE 0.02a Released! NLKE version 0.02a has been released! Here's what's new:

• Added add/sub screen support (incomplete)
• Every command line is tested to see if the sintaxis is correct
• Fixed the autoframe rate support
• Dinamy memory allocate.
• Support to stereo sound, using 16 sound channels
• Added a alternative path to load files. It can be selected in the configure file. (nlke.cfg)
• Added a GUI with windows
• Added two gfxmodes with scanlines, gfxmode 5 (256x256) and gfxmode 6 (640x480).
• Fixed a large number of bugs in the 65816, spc700, sound DSP, PPU, and HDMA

SNES9x Ported to N64! SNES9x, the extremely popular Super Nintendo emulator has been ported to the Nintendo 64 by Crazy Nation. This release should be considered an alpha and as such is very slow - but you can now play your SNES games on your Nintendo 64. Thanks to Mike Tedder for the e-mail.

http://www.dextrose.com/dxemu.htm
 

http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/gordon.hollingworth/

NeoRage ver 0.1b Released Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela have released another version of NeoRage. As you can guess from the version number, this is a somewhat minor release. Here's what's new in version 0.1b:

• Non pentium bug-fix
• Small animation bug-fix
• Small zoom bug-fix
• Super Spy is playable again
• Puzzle de Pon & King Of Monster2 are also back but they are not really playable
• Sidewinder Y-button = A+B and Z-button = C+D

http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-50884/emulator/rage.htm

Atari800Win 2.2 Released! Richard Lawrence has released Atari800Win version 2.2. Here's what's new:

• A disk indicator is drawn at the bottom right hand corner of the display when sector I/O occurs. The small block drawn contains the number of the drive being accessed, and is red for writes, green for reads.
• 5200 controllers work. F5 is reset, Shift-F5 is coldboot, F4 is the start button. Keyboard 0-9 are equivalent to the 5200 controller 0-9 (you can use the keypad if you aren't using it for a joystick). Keypad * or regular * work as the 5200 * key, and keypad - or regular - work as the "#" key. When  running in 5200 mode with a joystick triggers 2-4 operate as 5200 triggers  2-4, NOT as function shortcuts like in Atari computer mode. WARNING: At present several 5200 carts fail. This will have to be worked on for a while.
• Found the (atari side) bug that was keeping multiple stick inputs from working. You can now play with at least two sticks; I don't have four to test but that should work as well.
• ModeX was abandoned in favor of simple linear modes at 320xXXX resolutions.
• Switched back to DirectDrawSurface revision one interfaces, since it's obvious some cards that claim to be DirectDraw 5 compliant are not, and do not support DirectDrawSurface2 or 3.
• Shift-ctrl + keycode is sent properly to Atari machine now
• Fixed a potential Windows crash condition when the Atari crashed
• Fixed a bug that could cause some cartridge options to not be saved out.
• DirectDraw mode transitions are a little smoother (one screen size to other)
• Sound is not restarted on mode changes, but it will still get a little garbled (unavoidable).
• Various small tweaks and refinements.

http://www.concentric.net/~Twist/atari800win/
 

Raine 0.11a Released! Richard Bush has released a brand new version of his popular Raine emulator! Seven new games have been added:

• Space Gun
• Ninja Warriors
• Double Dragon 3
• Operation Wolf
• Operation Wolf bootleg
• Elevator Action 2
• Twin Qix
• Puzzle Bobble 2

• Much faster zooming routines (Operation Thunderbolt/Space Gun)
• Idle 68000 skipping in virtually all games (gives speed increase)
• Removed UAE 68000 engine (all 68000 games are Starscream'ed now)
• Inserted UAE 68020 engine (Taito F3-System)
• Inserted Marat Z80 engine
• Early Sound (adpcm samples only) for WrestleFest, Double Dragon 3, Zero Zone
• Mouse support (Op Wolf, Op Thunderbolt, Space Gun)
• Joystick support (hopefully it works...).
• Dipswitch support for some games (early, but seems ok)
• Simple Save/Load support (F2/F4), Toggle FPS (F11)
• Auto frame skipping, scanlines hack, less ugly GUI
• Compiled with Allegro WIP beta, this adds vesa3 and vbe/af drivers for screen selection
• Other various cleanups/optimizations not worth mentioning (all games are faster)...

http://raine.retrogames.com/

HU6280 1.69 Beta Released! Jamsponge has released HU6280 version 0.69 Beta. Here's what's new:

• Fixed sidewinder joypad + audio problem
• New assembler sprites routine (faster than before)

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/index.html

SNES9x 1.05 for Amiga Released! SNES9x strikes again! This time, Amiga owners can join in on the fun: SNES9x version 1.05 for AmigaOS has been released (but no sound yet).

http://www.snes9x.com/

z26 1.07 Released! John Saeger has released a new version of z26, his Atari 2600 emulator for DOS:

"This version has new timer code. It should fix the problem some folks have been having with z26 running too fast. If you are still having that problem with this version please let me know."

http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html

SNES9x 1.05 for Mac Released! John Stiles has released the Macintosh port of SNES9x version 1.05. This release fixes a few bugs present in the emulation core. Thanks to MInsler for the e-mail.

http://emulation.net/snes/index.html

System 16 Ported to Windows! Bartman has released a Windows 95 port of Systems 16! This one has been in the works for sometime now so it's definitely worth checking out. System 16 is multi-arcade (Sega System 16 to be more precise). Thanks to Till for the e-mail.

http://abyss.moving-people.net/s16w32.html
 

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/index.html

SNEmul 0.8 Released! Archeide and v0x has released SNEmul version 0.8 today. Here's what's new:

• Implemented Object Name Select(fixed sprite bugs)
• Fixed some bugs in the GUI that make SNEmul crash
• Added a "game codes" dialog
• Added a "search codes" dialog

http://www.mygale.org/09/cassiop/

Also, best wishes go out to Archeide who is celebrating a birthday today.

CoolNESs ver 0.692 Released Fredrik Olsson has released a minor update to CoolNESs, his NES emulator for Amiga. Today's release fixes the IPS routine.

http://hem2.passagen.se/flubba/coolness.html

New SNES9x Released! The SNES9x development team has released 6 new versions of SNES9x!

• Snes9X for DOS v1.05 (No-GUI version)
• Snes9X for Linux(i386) v1.05
• Snes9X for SunOS (Sparc) v1.05
• Snes9X for Solaris (Sparc) v1.05
• Snes9X for AcornOS (ARM) v1.04
• Snes9X for AmigaOS (Amiga) v1.0

Version 1.05

• The master volumn disable code was looking that the wrong variable!
• Fixed crash bug in newer sound code if a ROM tried to start a sample playing who's data went past the end of SPC700 memory. (Cannon Fodder)

• Fixed DSP1 ROM header detection bug.
• More DSP1 work; still nothing works, although I know the multiply command is correct because I've compared the results against a real DSP1.

• Oops, the multi-player 5 disable code change broke the multi-player 5 being the default controller.
• Implemented the colour window on the main screen - now Zelda's oval zoom window displays correctly and Krusty's Super Fun House clips the left-most 8 pixels as it does on the real SNES.
• TERRANIGMA didn't like me returning a random value when it attempted to read a channel's the current sample byte.
• Hacked in initial support for mode 7 priority-per-pixel - the priority bit doesn't actually change the priority of the pixel but the two games that I  know of that use the feature look OK. (Winter Extreme Skiing and the intro of Tiny Toons Adventures).
• Colour addition/subtraction code now uses RGB565 rather than RGB555 calculations - helps a little with the loss of the bottom bit of SNES colour data.

• Switched to adding back drop colour rather than fixed colour when sub-screen addition is enabled but there's nothing on the sub-screen. Uniracers seems to need it. - DISABLED it again. Causes problems for other ROMs and Uniracers itself on later screens.
• Fixed XOR window logic combination mode and area inversion code, now Uniracers works correctly.
• Oops, if colour window and half colour addition/subtraction were both switched on, area outside colour window was still being halved, it shouldn't. Hacky fix at the moment until I implement the correct fix.
• Fixed several bugs with the mosaic effect and 16x16 tiles and a few possible background scroll offset bugs and the mosaic effect.
• Optimised the sound sample generation code for cases when the SNES sample playback frequency was higher than the sound card playback rate.
• Fixed possible click sound when a sample was first started to be played.

http://www.snes9x.com/

• Much lower memory requirements
• Full background animations
• Zoomed object clipping bug-fix
• Language/System selection
• Native Sidewinder & Gravis Gamepad Pro (not tested) support
• Vesa bug-fix. More compatible
• Faded scanlines

http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-50884/emulator/rage.htm

You can also download it by clicking here.

Xtender2 Beta 4 Released! Carlo Delhez has released beta 4 of Xtender2 (ZX81 emulator for DOS). Here's what's new:

•  In DOS, ZX81-programs can now be auto-started directly from the commandline
• In Windows-95/NT, ZX81-programs can now be auto-started simply by double-clicking a P-file in a files-menu.
• Fixed bug to let ZXTricator run on XTender2
• Added support for keyboards with AZERTY or QWERTZ layout

http://www.delhez.demon.nl/
 

• It works under plain MS-DOS again.
• Path handling for PC programs launched from within emulation was improved.
• An experimental feature to help with keyboard behavior for machines set up for a language other than English was added.
• Support for the hardware video address counter was improved.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/4448/
 

• Fixes the Win 98 timing problem (a very minor change was needed)
• Fixes the same timing problem when entering text into the filename dialogs
• Fixes the screen capture code
• Fixes Joust emulation (the game was trying to right-shift read-only memory)

Emerson Arcadia 2001 Emulator Debuts! Paul Robson has just released the first ever Emerson Arcadia 2001 Emulator:

"This is an early release. Some things are not implemented, but some things are working to various degrees, four or five games are playable (reasonably). There is no sound. The palette is not even nearly correct."

You can download 2001 - The Emerson Arcadia 2001 Emulator from:

http://users.aol.com/mk14emu/arcadia.htm

2001 - The Emerson Arcadia 2001 Emulator is for DOS.

DosUAE 0.7.5b Released! The DosUAE development team have released version 0.7.5b of DosUAE. Here's what's new:

• New interface code form the original Unix UAE version
• New keyboard layout
• New DosUAE logo
• Joystick emulation bug fix.
• All unix uae075b features like all CPU's and PICASSO on a single binary, and other things, read the NEWS file...
• No more GUS code, it was to buggy and out of date.

http://www.hephaestus.org/uae/dosuae/index.html
 

• Added insert coin for vs-system (backspace)
• Added a fix for the "gfx-take-too-long-time-so-now-I-quit" bug
• Fixed nearly all gfx for mapper #9/#10
• Added a little looping on samples (Punch Out)
• Fixed sample active-bit in PPU (Racket Attack)
• Small speedup in CPU-code
• Fixed a minor error in PPU-Scroll registers (NARC)
• Added IPS "on-the-fly" support (patch games)
• Added mapper#66 (SMB/DuckHunt 2-IN-1, Gumshoe)
• Added mapper#65 (Hammering Harry 2 Jap)
• Added support for paddle (Arkanoid) use F7 to turn on

http://hem2.passagen.se/flubba/coolness.html

Atari 800 Source Code Updated Petr Stehlik has released version 0.9.7d of his Atari800 emulator source code (written in C).

http://cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz/~stehlik/a800.htm
 

No Emulators Released Today So Far The title pretty much says it all.
 

UAE-0.8.4 for Power Macintosh Released! Arnaud B. has released a preview release of UAE version 0.8.4 for Macintosh. UAE is an Amiga computer emulator for several platforms including DOS, Windows and Macintosh.

http://pages.pratique.fr/~jblancha/uae.html

Atari800Win 2.1 Released! Rich Lawrence has released Atari800Win version 2.1. Here's what's new:

• The SIO patch option is now configurable on the fly; it doesn't reboot the machine. Besides the hardware dialog you can flip it with F11.
• Hardware dialog was reworked to display better on ModeX screens. Antic dialog is gone; its contents are on the Hardware dialog now.
• Now using better artifacting code from Perry (text mode still doesn't work)
• Volume will not be set on MMsystems that can't handle it (what's up with THAT anyway? Seems to be true for ancient SoundBlasters. Ugh). Volume slider will be disabled on these systems.
• Fixed SKSTAT handler (could cause missing keystrokes, missed reads of SHIFT)
• Any nagging sound initialization problems people were having should be fixed
• Added 48Khz sound output. Most sound cards probably don't support this; and the WaveOut functions can NOT check for this capability ahead of time, so be prepared for it to fail. It really rocks on my SoundBlaster PCI64 though; makes a huge difference for disk access noises and high frequency stuff.
• Joystick dialog differentiates between "none" and "keypad". Keypad can only be assigned to one port, and should always work. On 101 keyboards the arrow keys WILL work as Atari arrow keys regardless of keypad setting. I'm doing it the pristine MSoft way now; so if it still doesn't work on your keyboard, well, sue Bill Gates or something.
• Woohoo! Autoduel works! Use 130XE, SIO patch off, and you'll want to have F8 (full speed) most of the time. One of the best games ever out of Origin.
• Took out the internal Atari UI until it can be reworked. Too fugly with thefirst quicky attempt; and besides it doesn't do anything the Win UI doesn't.
• Joystick button 2 (if available) flips between full and regular speed (same as keyboard F8). Button 3 pauses/unpauses (keyboard F9). Button 4 flips the SIO patch (keyboard F11). Yes, I will make these configurable later on.
• Pausing the emulator now shades the screen 50%.
• Reorganized CPU code for both (slight) speed and size improvement.
• Fixed SIO bug in drive status (DCOMND 0x53).

http://www.concentric.net/~Twist/atari800win/

New AMOAD Emulators! Tony Docherty has released three new emulators today: Cosmic Monsters, Phoenix and Ms Pacman.

http://www.classicgaming.com/amoad/
 

New NES Emulator Debuts! Cosimo De Michele has released a brand new NES emulator for Windows 95. Called WinNES, it's written in Delphi and the source code available. You can check it out at:

http://members.tripod.com/~Karakiri/
 

New HU6280 Plays Stereo Sound! Jamsponge and Mr Kipling have just released HU6280 version 1.63. The big news here is that sound has been improved - and is now in stereo.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3135/index.html

LoopyNES Returns It's been a long time since the last release of LoopyNES, but version 0.5 has been released:

"Significant changes are: improved mapper support (1,2,3,4,7,9,15,64), major PPU rewrite, SRAM saving, sound, (partially working) GUI, configurable keyboard/joystick controls, and arkanoid paddle emulation (with mouse)."

- Loopy

http://www.inquo.net/~loopy/nes.html

AMOAD Series Expands Tony Docherty has added Galaga and Frogger to his Arcade Machines on a Disk series of emulators.

http://www.classicgaming.com/amoad/

NO$GMB Adds Super Gameboy Support Martin Korth has released NO$GMB 1.6.

http://www.work.de/nocash/gmb.htm

PowerPCE 0.3.6 Released Jingai has released a new version of his TG16 emulator for Macintosh.

http://penguinsoft.home.ml.org/

xNES ver 0.52 Released Fabiano Lopes (Fx) has released xNES version 0.52, an NES emulator for DOS.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2622/xnes.html

EMU News Service to Slow Down a Bit I just bought a brand new PC, and it will take a few days to set it up and put it through its paces - so EMU News Service will adopt a temporary "emulator releases-only" policy for the next few days. Thanks.