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

A/NES ver 0.99.10a Released! Morgan Johansson and Fredrik Schultz have just released version 0.99.10a of A/NES. A/NES is a NES emulator for Amiga. Here are the highlights:

• Many fixes concerning PCM
• Big bugfix in Mapper1-code, more games work
• Small optimization in scanline-counter code

New Reality 64 Webpage Opens Gordon Hollingworth has uploaded a basic first page for his Nintendo 64 emulator, formerly known as Reality 64. There's not a lot up yet (no downloads) but he will have the rest of the site up shortly. One final note: Reality 64 has undergone another name change. It will now be known as simply NSFE (short for Nintendo Sixty Four Emulator).

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

FreePlay Closing Down Cameron Mac Millan has announced that he will be closing down his website FreePlay in just a few weeks:

"FreePlay will be closing permanently on July 4th, 1998. There are many reasons for this (which I will not reveal until the 4th of July)"

FreePlay (along with Dave's Video Game Classics and PC Arcade) is one of the better arcade emulation sites out. He will be sadly missed...

http://www.classicgaming.com/freeplay/

MAME ver 0.33 Beta 4 Released! MAME ver 0.33 Beta 4 is now out and it supports 24 new games, including Paperboy, Xenophobe and Super Space Invaders '91. Plus there's the usual round of bugfixes (especially in the System 16 games) and other improvements.

http://www.media.dsi.unimi.it/mame/

You can also download a copy directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.

HU6280 ver 0.00092 Released! Yes, the relentless pace of HU6280 updates continue. Today's release features:

• Improved IRQ emulation (Cybercore now works)
• Now detecting shady start addresses (R-TYPE US now works)
• JamSponge gets busy with some serious debugging!
• Fixed sprites bug on Marchen-maze
• Buryem now works
• Added Load and Save STATE feature

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

SNEmul Homepage It seems that the problems with SNEmul's webpage have been fixed (we hope!) and is back online at it's usual address:

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

System 16 Adds Flash Point Support Thierry Lescot and Li Jih Hwa have just announced that they have added yet another new game to System 16. This time, it's Flash Point:

Not only that, the Windows 95 port is on the way. You can check out the latest progress reports by clicking here.

Archie ver 0.2 Released! Chris Lloyd has released version 0.2 of his Archimedes emulator and its first game is now playable. The highlights of this release are mainly an improved CPU cort and improved memory manager.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/5427/

Archie is an Acorn Archimedes A440 computer emulator for DOS.

Retrocade Progress Report The programmers behind Retrocade have updated their webpage with some good news.  They're about to enter into the beta testing stage. Eighty-two games will be supported - not as many as MAME, of course, but definitely a good start. Games include popular favorites like Star Castle, Spy Hunter, Xenophobe and Ms. Pac-Man. Most games will feature sound (except for the Cinematronics games which are still being worked on).

You can check out the full list of games at:

http://www.retrocade.com/status.html
 

New Zealand Story ver 0.60 Released! Richard Mitton has released a new version of his New Zealand Story arcade game emulator. Here's what's new in version 0.60:

• 100% correct colors
• Added a SETUP program, so you can change the keys
• Faster emulation
• Pause key added. You can now pause it

http://purplesky.simplenet.com/emucamp/softs/tnzs/

HU6280 Author Interviewed The Italian Emulation Palace has conducted an interview with Jamsponge, author of HU6280 (a new TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine emulator for DOS). The interview is available in both English and Italian.

http://volftp.tin.it/ludus/iep/

Oric/MacOS ver 1.1 Released! Yes, this is Richard Bannister's third release of the day (so far). This time, he tackles his Oric computer emulator. Here's what's new in version 1.1:

• Fixed a number of bugs in the sound code making the sound near-perfect now
• Optimized the mac-specific code - reducing the application size by quite a bit and making it faster too
• The video menu items are now checked correctly when you zoom the window by clicking in the zoom box
• Changed the about box to a proper dialog box
• The main window is now greyed out when inactive
• Fixed an error in the video code that made the emulator crash when changing video size in some games (Aigle D'Or for example)
• Added the ability to Load and Save RAM images
• Tweaked the 68K version a little to try and make it sync to *approximately* the right speed if your computer is fast enough
• The prefs type/creator settings are now correct. Oric/MacOS no longer saves MO5/MacOS preferences files by mistake
• The program is now shareware

Handy/MacOS 0.4b3 Released! Richard Bannister has released version 0.4.b3 of his Macintosh port of Handy, the only Atari Lynx emulator for Macintosh. Here's what's new:

• Loosened up the event loop a little; a tiny bit slower (0.5%), but the program will be more responsive. It should still be significantly faster than beta 1
• Fixed up the sound code - the lynx sound is far more accurate now
• Added a proper speed limiter not based on the sound.
• Sound can now be turned off
• Fixed an error that resulted in incorrect colours in some games
• The emulator now warns you if the provided "LYNXBOOT.IMG" file is invalid
• Cleaned up the MakeLNX code a little

SNEmul 0.7c for Linux Released! Archeide and v0x have released a new version of SNEmul for Linux:

"This new Linux port uses XFree86 drivers instead of the SVGALib. Although you need to start it under X-Windows, it will be in full screen using the Direct Graphic Access(DGA) feature of XFree86. 640x480-16 bits video mode is strongly recommended. There have been also some bugs fixed and some speed ups since the last DOS release."

Also, Archeide asked that I mention that he's been having problems with the SEAL sound library under Linux. If you have already used it or if you know another Linux sound library please send him an e-mail at [email protected].

http://www.eternite.com/SNEmul/

Mac Port of Boycott Updated Richard Bannister has released version 0.3.9a of his Macintosh port of Boycott. This is a minor release that fixes a minor bug in the previous version. Boycott is a Gameboy emulator for DOS, Unix and MacOS.

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

Reality 64 Resumes! A few weeks ago, Gordon Hollingworth suddenly announced that he was canceling his Nintendo 64 emulator. Today, I have good news to report. The legal problems he was having have been worked out, so Gordon has decided to resume his emulator! In fact, he's already hard at work on the next release.

Reality 64 will be renamed WiN64. The first release of WiN64 will feature a huge rewrite of the R4600i core and will be much faster than before. Gordon will also set up a new webpage for WiN64, but for now, it is not up yet. Stay tuned...

Click here to read Gordon's e-mail.
 

New KGen Coming Soon? Steve Snake has updated his KGen webpage. Not much information is given, but it does say that we can "expect some news soon. Please be patient!"

http://www.toodarkpark.demon.co.uk/

KGen is a Sega Genesis emulator for DOS. Thanks to David T. for the e-mail.

A/PMame ver 0.33 Beta 3b Released Rodimus Prime has issued a very minor update to his Pentium/K6 optimized versions of MAME. (Basically, it was compiled with the latest WIP Allegro.) You can download it from:

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

URL 0.97 Released Zoop has released a new version of URL, his universal front end for DOS. Here's what's new:

• Added counters in the .ROM manager
• Now read Sega System 16 game names (in the GCS file)
• Fixed a very annoying bug when deleting an emulator
• Reduced memory usage by a few kilobytes (again)

MacSloMo ver 0.55 Released! TJ Grant has released MacSloMo version 0.55. Here's what's new:

• Millipede is working (sprites are 100% correct)
• Fixed dip switch bug in Millipedes that was causing weird things to happen on resets
• Fixed bug where you'd occasionally have to "quit" twice
• Window updates are faster.
• Contextual Menus are detected via Gestalt Manager. This fixes the "Error #12" you would get with OS8 and extensions off.
• Zoom box now changes from single pixel to double, and vice versa.
• Extra menu greys out when your game window is closed, so you can't crash yourself. Also, this would have let you display a character set without opening a ROM, which would, in fact, crash you bigtime.
• Some redundant window code was fixed up

HU6280 ver 0.00081 Released! Jam Sponge and Mr Kipling have released another new version of their TurboGrafx16 emulator. Here's what's new in HU6280 version 0.00081

• Temporarily removed fps counter
• Changed internal screen emulation/dump! emualtion is 50% faster

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

End of Raine? Richard Bush has just updated his Raine webpage with possibly some bad news. It seems that he will be losing his internet connection and may even discontinue his emulator.

"My Internet connection runs out on 29-May-98!! This *could* mean the end of Raine for those that care. After this date, I will hardly ever be online."

Hopefully, everything will work out for Richard. Best of luck goes out to him....

http://raine.squareplanet.net/

CCS64 for DOS Updated Per Hakan Sundell released a new version of CCS64 for DOS. This beta fixes a bug in the sound emulation. CCS64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for DOS and Windows. Thanks to ChiPPy for the e-mail.

http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64down.htm

C.A.G.E. Survey Results In Not too long ago, Larry Bank posted a survey on his site and asked visitors to give him some feedback on his emulator. Well, the results are in and you can read them yourself at:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/3356/survey.htm

Handy/MacOS Updated! Richard Bannister has released a new version of his Macintosh port of Handy (Atari Lynx emulator). Here's what's new in version 0.4b2:

• Added support for the Navigation Manager
• Replaced the about box
• Added command-key equivalents for the window sizes
• Apple Event Support added - double click your game file to open it
• Cleaned up and sped up the mac-specific code
• Save PICT file works again
• You can now quit the emulator when it is paused
• Improved sound support
• The emulator now warns you if it can't switch to 256 colours instead of just beeping and quitting
• Sped up the code a little
• The monitor depth is now always restored properly
• Added the ability to rotate the video in the application

Boycott Ported to Mac! Richard Bannister does it again. Today he has released a Macintosh port of Boycott, a Gameboy emulator for DOS and Unix. You can check it out at:

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

SnesGUI ver 1.6 Beta Released Richard Scullion has released SnesGUI version 1.6 Beta. This Windows front end now has support for NLKE.

http://members.aol.com/SNESGUI/index.htm

Atari800 ver 0.9.6 Released! Petr Stehlik has released version 0.9.6 of his DOS port of the Atari800 emulator. Here are the highlights:

• Enhanced keyboard and joystick handling support
• UI: the too fast autorepeat was fixed - by disabling the repeat altogether.
• SIO: serious bug in CopyToMem fixed. No more rewritten ROM OS.
• ANTIC patch: no player DMA without missile DMA.
• SIO: missing 'else' in DIR routines.
• Allegro VGA: updated Makefile and fixed ShutdownVGA().
• VCOUNT patch
• PIA_Initialise() should initialize PORTA to 0.
• PIA registers are mirrored not only in Atari800, but in XL/XE models as well (thus addr&=0xff03).
• VESA2 mode support (about three times faster than X-mode). VESA2 also preserves the refresh rate. You can disable VESA2 modes by switch -novesa. Also colour palette initialization is faster now.
• Atari_Set_LED function (use -DSET_LED to enable that).
• UI: the last ESC keypress is not passed to the emulated program anymore.
• Monitor: pressing [Return/Enter] can be used for single stepping as well.
• New routine for saving of screenshot in 336x240 size as PCX.
• The Atari keyboard should now react quickly enough. DOS port contains keyboard buffer for last two keys.
• Fix for initialization of PORTA
• Better joystick autodetection
• Several fixes for more ANSI like C code
• ANTIC: fix for DLIST counter.
• ANTIC: several more hardware registers are unreadable.

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

NLKE Docs Translated to English The NLKE webpage now has two  translations of the NLKE documentation available in English:

http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~calb/nlke/index.html

NLKE is a brand new SNES emulator for DOS by the authors of ESNES and NLKSnes. See yesterday's news story in case you missed it.
 

HU6280 ver 0.00070 Released! Jam Sponge and Mr Kipling have released a new version of their TG16 emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in HU6280 version 0.00070:

• Full HU6280 emulation
• Full palette emulation
• Full char+char mask emulation
• Full sprite+masking emulation (inc priorities)
• Full pad1 emulation
• Hires screen support !
• Optional GUI for loading ROMs ;)
• Runs most Hucards
• Screenshot feature

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

Swedish EMU News Service Moves The new URL is:

http://www.classicgaming.com/emuswe/

ESNES and NLKSnes Join Forces! The programmers behind ESNES and the programmers behind NLKSnes have joined forces! Together they have released a brand new Super Nintendo emulator - combining the best features of both ESNES and NLKSnes! They started working back in October of last year, and after 7 months of development, they've finally release their new emulator. It's called NLKE (for DOS). You can check it out at:

http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~calb/nlke/

Thanks to Erik W. for the e-mail.

Project UnReality v0.4a.-1 Released! Mike Tedder and Brian Gordon have just released the long-awaited update to their Nintendo 64 emulator! Here's what's new in Project UnReality v0.4a.-1:

• Decent RSP emulation
• Preliminary RDP emulation (only sprites right now)
• Beginnings of TLB emulation
• Completely new interrupt system
• New audio core (using DeltaPlayer) for near-perfect audio emulation
• Many new COP1 opcodes added
• Z64 filename support

http://projunreality.blackbag.org/n64emu.html

Just in case the official webpage for Project UnReality gets overwhelmed with traffic, you can also download a copy from EMU News Service by clicking here.

MacTiger Updated Arthur Petry has released a new version of MacTiger, his TI-92 calculator emulator for Macintosh.

http://www.mygale.org/~apetry/
 

• GUI - Graphical User Interface is now here!
• Appearance Manager support
• Contextual Menu support
• You can close Centipedes, open Millipedes, or vice versa.
• Notice the About Box and FKey Listing
• Keys have changed
• The "Extra" menu is also available contextually, by holding Control and clicking on the game window.

C.A.G.E. ver 1.06 Released! Larry Bank has just released a new version of C.A.G.E., his multi-arcade game emulator for Windows. Here's what's new in version 1.06:

• Rewrote Z80 core in assembler for a major speed improvement
• Optimized the graphics in Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man.
• Added support for Jr. Pac-Man

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/3356/

You can also download C.A.G.E. by clicking here.

New System 16 Released A new bug has been discovered in System 16 version 0.78 that causes it to mysteriously crash. Li Jih Hwa and Thierry Lescot have released a new version. This one uses a different sound library and removes Pentium optimizations. If you are having any problems with System 16, try out this new release.

http://users.skynet.be/system16/
 

New NES Emulator Debuts! Shu Kondo has released a brand new NES emulator. It's called BioNES and it's for Windows 95. Since Bloodlust hasn't updated the Windows 95 version of NESticle in quite some time, a new NES emulator for Windows 95 is very much welcome. Fan Wen Yang (author of FWNES) also helps out here, serving as a technical assistant. BioNES supports sound and has an  assembler CPU core.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown/8304/index-e.htm

If you have any trouble downloading it from the above link, you can also download a copy directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.

EmulatioNation Returns Marc Judnick has brought his web site, called EmulationNation back out of retirement. The new URL is:

http://www.cybermillenia.com/en/

Raine To Support Double Dragon 3 Richard Bush has added 4 new screenshots of Double Dragon 3 to his Raine web page. We all know what that means...

http://raine.squareplanet.net/doubled3.html

A Little More SNES9x News As you all know, the Macintosh port of SNES9x version 0.9.5 is already out. The DOS version should be out any day now. Also, Jerremy Koot has updated his webpage to say that the Windows port is also nearing release. But, please do not bother the authors on the exact release date. When they're out, it will be announced here and just about every other major emulator site you can find.

Swedish Translation of EMU News Service Is Back The Swedish translation of EMU News Service has returned with a new maintainer and a new URL:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/3332/

EMU News Service is now available in 12 different languages. See the links page for the complete listing.

MESS To Be Released Within a Week Richard Bannister has updated his webpage with some more good news regarding MESS. As it turns out, MESS will be out much sooner than previously believed:

"A release date for v0.1 has not been decided yet, but it is likely to be in the not too distant future."

MESS will be available for DOS, Macintosh, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows and RiscOS.

HU6280 ver 0.0004f Released Jamsponge has released version 0.0004f of HU6280. Here's what's new:

• Optimized gfx char-redraw loops (nice speed hit on some games)
• Took advantage of xscroll==0 :) faster on some games
• Changed VSync to OFF as default... (not enuf people reading the docs)
• Removed some more debugging code

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

Since GeoCities' webserver is notoriously unreliable, you can also download a copy directly from EMU News Service by clicking here. HU6280 is a TurboGrafx/PC Engine emulator for DOS.
 

WinUAE Updated Brian King has released a minor update to his Windows port of UAE (Amiga emulator). According to Brian, version 0.7.5b was released mainly to stay in sync with main UAE source-tree and offers no significant changes.

http://www.CodePoet.com/UAE/

TI-8x Emulator ver 0.2b1 Released Randy Gluvna has released a new version of TI-8x, his Texas Instruments calculator emulator for DOS. TI-8X supports TI-82, TI-83, TI-85, and TI-86. Thanks to dlmd for the e-mail.

http://members.home.com/randman/ti8xemu/

MESS To Support Two More Systems Richard Bannister has announced that his upcoming MESS emulator will support two more systems: TRS-80 Model 1 and Colour Genie. You can check out advance screen shots at:

http://internetter.com/titan/mess/

MESS is a multi-platform, multi-console emulator. So far it supports ColecoVision, Sega Genesis and NES, plus the two systems revealed today.

SNES9x 0.9.5a for Mac Released John Stiles has issued a minor update to his Macintosh port of SNES9x.

"This version removes the dependency on Navigation Services, since this new utility still seems a little buggy and has been found to cause instability and type 2 errors on some Macintoshes. If version 0.9.5 of SNES9X was causing errors on your machine, remove Navigation Services from your extensions folder and then try this update. Also, Game Genie support has been added to this release!"

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

System 16 ver 0.78 Released! The System 16 version 0.78 is out! In total eight new games have been added since the last official release:

• Strategic Defense Initiative
• Dynamite Dux
• E-Swat
• Heavyweight Champ (not playable yet)
• Wonderboy III : Monster Lair
• Passing Shot
• Tough Turf
• Moonwalker

• Added mouse support. (needed by SDI)
• Replaced the previous Z80 emulator by a new one from Neil Bradley
• Added an alternative YM2151 emulator from Tatsuyuki Satoh (faster!)
• Added zipped ROMs support
• New improved gfx engine, it's now faster. The sprites scaling is also more accurate now (see Space Harrier)
• Added EAGLE graphics from Dirk Stevens
• Added scanlines support. (only if linear 320x480 or 640x480 are available)
• Added Z80/YM2151 emulation to Out run and bootleg Super Hang-On
• System16.GCS not longer needed, replaced by System16.INI
• *.CFG files not longer needed, replaced by System16.INI
• Emulator and games configurations are now saved in System16.INI
• Game selection screen added if no game specified on command line
• Added original arcade lamps emulation via the keyboard LEDs

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

GrayBox to ver 0.25x Released! Arthur Langereis has released a brand new version of his Nintendo emulator for Macintosh. Here's what's new:

• Highly improved split-screen support
• Slightly better handling of DPCM timing (Shadow of the Ninja, SMB3)
• Built-in ROM header editor
• Automatic fixing of "dirty" headers
• Option in the Preferences to turn the sound off
• A few small bugfixes

http://www.spidernet.nl/~Arthur_Langereis/

Finally, Arthur is working on a major new revamping of GrayBox. He's posted a nice list of some of his ideas but is also looking for feedback. Please take a look and if you have a good idea for a future version of GrayBox, let him know. Thanks.

Atari800 Source Code Updated Petr Stehlik has updated his Atari800 source code to version 0.9.6d:

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

The executable remains at version 0.9.5.

Acorn Atom Emulator ver 1.31 Is Out Version 1.31 of the Acorn Atom Emulator for DOS is now out. Here's what's new:

• Screen capture to .BMP file
• Mouse support implemented
• Floppy Disk Controller 8271 and DOS implemented
• Disk screen in emulator desktop added
• Maximum number of parallel toolboxes at A000h expanded to sixteen

http://www.globalxs.nl/home/t/theeroos/atom.htm

NeoR.A.G.E. ver 0.00005 Released! Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela have released a new version of their new Neo Geo emulator! Here's what's new in version 0.00005:

• Keyboard redefinition(TAB)
• Bug fixes that makes more games playable EX. Ninja Commando, Sengoku2 and no strange title screen in Fatal Fury and more.
• Support for roms with different rom size as Blues Journey
• Much easier to start games just write neorage and the name of the subdirectory.

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

SNES 0.9.5 for Mac Released! SNES9x is back! The long awaited return of SNES9x is finally upon us: John Stiles has just released SNES9x ver 0.9.5 for the Macintosh. Here's what's new:

• Transparency
• Preliminary SuperFX support
• Improved sound
• Appearance Manager
• Navigation Services
• Jeyboard layout
• Improved freeze-file format

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

HU6280 ver 0.0003f Released Jamsponge has released a new version of his TurboGrafx16 emulator for DOS. Directly from the documentation, here's what's new:

• Messed with palette emulation
• Fixed HUGE bug in sprite emulation
• Fixed FPS counter removal

New Zealand Story ver 0.53b Released Richard Mitton has released version 0.53b of his New Zealand Story Arcade Emulator. As you can guess from the version number, this is a minor release. It fixes a bug that prevented romset 1 from working.

http://www.farout.demon.co.uk/
 
XVPCE ver 0.3c Released Osamu Kurati has released version 0.3c of his Unix port of VPCE. This is a fairly minor release:

• Bug-fix in X-Window's server depth estimation.
• Automatically fit window's size which is specified by each game.

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/vanthal/10/index.html

Spectemu ver 0.94 Released Miklos Szeredi has released version 0.94 of his ZX Spectrum emulator for Linux/Unix. Here's what's new:

• Displaying a keyboard picture, on which keys can be pressed with the mouse
• Configuration via command line and config-files
• Lots of small new features and bug-fixes

Virtual PC ver 2.0.1 Released! Connectix Corporation has released Virtual PC version 2.0.1. This is a free update to those you purchased version 2.0.

• Addresses problems with networks using 802.3 frame types.
• Includes CDROM.SYS version 2.0.1. This CDROM driver fixes a problem which prevented Mortal Kombat III and other games from installing properly.
• Includes a new SYSINI.EXE to remove duplicate "C:\CNTX\FSHARE32.VXD" system.ini entries. (Windows 95 version only)

http://www.connectix.com/html/vpc_updates.html

New Zealand Story Adds Joystick Support! Richard Mitton does it again with his fourth release of the week. With this latest release, Richard adds joystick support and speed throttling. You can download the New Zealand Story Emulator ver 0.53 from:

http://www.farout.demon.co.uk/

Thanks to Stuart A. for the e-mail.
 
New SNES9x Coming Soon! Jerremy Koot, author of the Windows port of SNES9x, has updated the SNES9x page with good news. Although a little behind on schedule, the next release of SNES9x should be out in less than a week!

"The DOS port is almost ready for a release, we are beta testing an ASM SuperFX-core and will decide if we are going to use the C/C++ core or the ASM core this weekend. The results will probably be a release of the DOS version early next week."

http://www.euronet.nl/users/jkoot/snes9x/index.nj.htm

VGen ver 0.18 Released! Jason Meehan has just released his first follow-up release to VGen, his new Genesis emulator for DOS. Highlights include joystick support and an improved GUI. Directly from the official webpage, here's the complete list of what's new:

• Slightly better ROM compatibility
• A little faster
• ROMs can be loaded from the command line
• Screen and sprite priorities are correct now
• Background color added
• Window plane added
• Controller 2 emulation added
• Joystick support
• Version select added
• Screen mode select added
• GUI improved
• Save and restore state
• Save RAM emulated

Raine Webpage Moves The new URL is:

http://raine.squareplanet.net/

New Zealand Story ver 0.52 Released! Richard Mitton has released version 0.52 of his New Zealand Story Arcade Emulator today. Here's what's new

• Speeded up emulation a bit
• Fixed the bug that happens when ROM sets are not found

ZSNES ver 0.400 Released! _Demo_ and zsKnight have just released a brand new version of ZSNES! This is a major update. New features include SuperFX support and tons of other stuff:

• Fixed a dual windowing bug in mode 7 in 65536 color mode
• Re-added FPU Copy due to a demand
• Implemented MMX Copy. Use -om to enable.
• Fixed a bug when writing to .bmp files
• Added (buggy) SuperFX support (9.5MB memory required)
• Fixed up sprite windowing. Should hopefully be correct now
• Added a commandline to show all file extensions through the GUI
• Added Noise to the Sound DSP
• Added a Fast Forward key. Use the Tilde Key (~) located at the top-left of your keyboard.
• Added Sprite Priority Correction
• Fixed a tile caching bug that caused some tile corruption
• Fixed a 65816 bug in XCE on the x flag.
• Implemented Interleaved format and a simple auto detection. In case autodetect fails, use -i.
• Improved header detection. Should now work better with demos and games with weird filesizes
• Added a new graphics engine in 256 color mode. It should be much faster in areas that don't use mode 7, but lacks a lot of features such as windowing, mosaic, and sprite priorities so it is disabled by default. It can be enabled by pressing 8 during gameplay. (~40-100% faster)
• Optimised Mode 7 in 256 color mode
• Implemented dual windowing to color window clipping
• Fixed several color window clipping bugs
• Added full resolution screenshot capture in 640 x 480 x 65536 mode
• Fixed several transparency bugs
• Added NewGfx to zsnes.cfg which determines if the new graphics engine is enabled at start
• Added CopyMethod to zsnes.cfg which can default the copy method as either FPU copy or MMX copy
• Allowed systems with 5.5MB of RAM free to load 2 megabit ROMs

http://www.csoft.net/~zsnes/

(If you have any trouble downloading ZSNES from the above link, feel free to download it directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.)
 
 

PMame33 and AMame33 Updated Rodimus Prime is at it again! He has just released PMame33 and AMame Beta 3a. This fixes Gauntlet and Toobin'. PMame and AMame are CPU-optimized versions of the original MAME source code (for DOS only). By using certain compiler switches, Rodimus has been able to compile a slightly faster version of MAME. You can download them from:

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

The New Zealand Story Updated! Richard Mitton has released his second version of The New Zealand Story Arcade Emulator today. Here's what's new:

• Fixed potential timer bug by using audio streams.
• Made frame skipping actually work properly.

http://www.farout.demon.co.uk/

BeebInC Version 0.99e Released! It's been a busy week for Dave Davenport. Today, he's release another new version of BeebInC! Here's what's new in version 0.99e:

• Screen wrap bug removed from screen scrolling during -eachscanline
• Mode changes between Teletext and graphic modes, now only take effect during VSYNC.
• REVs works again now
• Rocket Raid working again

New Game for ColecoVision! If you had a ColecoVision and wished you could play Space Invaders on it, wait no more. PC John has just released a brand new game for the ColecoVision called Space Invasion:

"I've taken a break from the Vectrex and have been working on Space Invasion for the ColecoVision. Aside from a slight name difference, I think you can figure out what the game is :)

"This is my first pre-release, I've put a screen shot on my Coleco page along with a binary of my current work in progress for anyone who wants it."

PC John has written a couple other new games for the ColecoVision, including Star Fortress (a Star Castle look alike) and Purple Dinosaur Massacre (Kill Barney!!!). You can download the ROM images from:

http://www.monmouth.com/~pcjohn/coleco.html

New TG16 Emulator Debuts! Jamsponge has released a brand new TurboGrafx16 emulator for DOS. It's still in the early stages of development, there's no sound and it's relatively slow. But it is free and you can't beat that. There is no webpage for HU6280, but can download version 0.0002f from Zophar's Domain.

http://zophar.malicia.com/

Thanks to Del for the e-mail.

BrSMS ver 1.7 Released! Ricardo Bittencourt has released BrSMS version 1.7. Directly from the official webpage, here's what's new:

• Fixed a bug on Sound Blasters configured to IRQs greater than 7
• Fixed two graphic bugs related to the CPU Graph
• Fixed a sprite bug (score of "Golvellius" in top-view stages)
• Now BrSMS can open read-only files (ie files on CD-ROMs)
• Support for PAUSE key (press "P" on keyboard)
• Option to adjust joystick sensivity ("-joysens")
• Optimized the sprite renderer

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

Project UnReality Plays vNES The next release of Project UnReality will be able to run vNES, an NES emulator for N64 written by JL_Picard. The screen is very garbled and the overhead of running an emulator within an emulator takes it's toll: only 2 frames per second on a Pentium 166. Still, it's a step forward. The next release of Project UnReality should be out within a matter of days. Stay tuned...

Thanks to Ben C. for the e-mail.

http://projunreality.blackbag.org/

XT-CE ver 1.2 Released Ian Dean and Pyram-ID Software have released a new version of their XT-CE emulator. XT-CE is an 80186 PC emulator for the Windows CE operating system. There are two versions available - one for Hitachi SH processor machines and the other for MIPS processor machines.

http://www.pyram-id.demon.co.uk/XTCE.html

The New Zealand Story ver 0.50 Released Richard Mitton has released version 0.50 of the The New Zealand Story Arcade Emulator for DOS. According to the webpage, sound support has been implemented but I haven't tried it out yet. You can download it from:

http://www.farout.demon.co.uk/

PMame33 and AMame33 Released Rodimus Prime has updated his Pentiuem and K6 optimized binaries of MAME:

"With the release of MAME v.33 Beta 3, I have recompiled MAME yet again.  The MAME Team has decided to use a pentium optimized version of the GCC compiler.  The compiler used by the MAME Team is based on the same compiler source that PGCC is based on, however it doesn't have all the optimizations that are in PGCC and therefore in PentiuMAME."

http://www.sound.net/~rodimus/
 

New SNEmul Adds Transparency Effects! Archeide and v0x have just released a brand new version of thier Super Nintendo emulator! This emulator keeps getting better and better and today's release is no exception:

• Added NTSC/PAL detection
• Speeded up a bit the graphic engine
• Implemented 16 bits resolutions
• Added support of palette alteration between scanlines
• Implemented fixed color/subscreen addition and subtraction
• Fixed a bug in the SPC700
• Added another sound engine (worse than SEAL one, but may work with cards which are uncompatible with SEAL)
• Improved some dialogs
• Added a 'fast sound' option

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

NO$GMB ver 1.5a Released! Martin Korth has just released a new version of his NO$GMB Gameboy emulator. Here's what's new in version 1.5a:

• EMUFIX: True sprite priority order (Garqoyles Quest, Mortal Kombat 3, Big Hurt Baseball, etc)
• EMUFIX: Splitted sprite size (Super Hunchback 2)
• EMUFIX: Timing optimization (Bomberman 3)
• SETUP: Added mousespots to toggle between setup screens and for save setup
• DEBUGGER: F10 status screen: re-fix for IE/IF flag display
• JOYSTICK: 4 button setup fix, this time really fixed completely

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

M.A.M.E. ver 0.33 Beta 3 Out! The M.A.M.E. development team has just released a new beta! There are over 35 new games supported:

• Hexa
• Space Encounters
• Clowns
• Guided Missile
• Sea Wolf
• Gunfight
• Lupin III
• Shoot Out
• Curve Ball (no sound because ROMs are missing)
• Challenger
• Kaos
• F1 Dream (preliminary)
• Double Dragon / Double Dragon 2
• Aeroboto (preliminary)
• Blasto
• Shinobi
• Golden Axe
• Passing Shot
• Altered Beast
• Passing Shot (preliminary - the System 16 driver needs to support rotation)
• Tetris (Sega, bootleg)
• Juno First
• Darwin 4078
• Safari
• Strider (Japanese)
• Willow (Japanese)
• Final Fight (Japanese)
• Chicki Chicki Boys (Japanese Mega Twins)
• Pnickies
• Ghouls and Ghosts (missing ROMs, doesn't work)
• Knights of the Round (preliminary)
• Carrier Air Wing (preliminary)
• Zoar
• Klax
• I, Robot (preliminary)
• Red Alert I

New Neo Geo Emulator Debuts! Anders Nilsson and Janne Korpela have released a brand new Neo Geo emulator, called NeoRAGE!

"This is a very early release so we haven't had so much time to beta test it We will improve NeoRAGE so please don't give us any bugreports, we will include 16 bits VESA support, joystick and more but you have to wait;) It will be faster and better."

NeoRAGE, like RAGE, is for DOS only and requires DOS4GW. You can download a copy from PC Arcade.

BeebInC Version 0.99d Released! Dave Davenport has just released a new version his BBC computer emulator. Directly from the official webpage, here's what's new in version 0.99d:

• KEYBOARD: LED status now displayed
• VIDEO: More screen screen code changes
• VIDEO: VSYNC 'held' for the correct time now (3 scanlines)

CoolNESs ver 0.68 Released! Fredrik Olsson has release a new version of his NES emulator for Amiga computers. Directly from the official homepage, here's what's new:

• Small fix to PPU code (more accurate and faster)
• Added mapper #10 (Fire Emblem Japanese)
• Added mapper #18 (BasesLoaded Japanese)
• Added mapper #64 (Shinobi)
• Added mapper #68 (AfterBurner2) still glitches
• Added mapper #69 (Batman 1 Japanese, Batman 2: Return of the Joker)
• Small fix for Mapper #21 (Konami World 2)
• Small fix for Mapper #23
• Added IRQ for mapper #19 (3 Gohukas)

Palmtops Sinclair Spectrum Emulator ver 2.0 Released! Palmtop BV has released version 2.0 of their Sinclair Spectrum emulator for the PSION Series 5. Here's what's new:

• Support for both 48K and 128K spectrum
• 20% faster
• Support for pen
• Support for ".SCR" screen shots
• Support for ".POK" cheat files
• Added the POKE menu option
• Added RECORD/PLAYBACK options
• More colour modes (16 greys)
• More Joystick menu options
• More Display menu options

http://www.palmtop.nl/spectrum.html
 

PowerPCEngine ver 0.3.5 Released! Jingai has released version 0.3.5 of his Macintosh port of Power PC Engine. Here's what's new:

• Fixed up the palettes to make the switches less noticable
• Added a fancy animated splash and about box (for fun)
• Redid much of the artwork
• Cleaned up some minor interface problems
• Went through all of the mac-specific code line-by-line and fixed numerous (small) bugs
• Added regulate speed option
• Got Codewarrior Pro3, but PowerPCEngine didn't link properly under it, so I Cleaned up the code quite a bit

http://home.earthlink.net/~jingai/

GBE ver 0.21 Released! Jim Geffre has just released version 0.21 of his GameBoy Emulator. GBE was first released last month, so this is Jim's first update to it. Directly from the documentation, here's what's new:

• Fixed a bug in bankswitching scheme (Donkey Kong Land III). This was causing graphical and musical bugs in several other games.
• Rewrote Gameboy interrupt handling
• Rewrote display timing code
• Fixed code for the Gameboy's internal timer (Mario Land)
• Fixed swap opcode emulation (Wario Land II).  I forgot to add code to affect the flag register.
• Cleaned up sound code

http://www.nd.edu/~jgeffre/download.html

Odyssey² Emulator Updated! Dan Boris has just released version 0.65 of O2EM, the world's only Odyssey² emulator! The big news here is that O2EM now has sound support. Here's what's new:

• Added sound support
• Improved speed limiter
• Couple bug fixes in 8039 emulation
• X and Y position registers now implemented correctly
• Grid collision handling fixed (Basketball)
• Changed keys for stick 2 to a more comfortable setting and enable it by default
• Fixed a bug in screen update routine that was causing crashes in some games
• Compiled with -mpentium which should improve speed on Intel Pentiums

http://atarihq.com/danb/o2tech.htm

Atari800 Source Code Updated Petr Stehlik has uploaded the latest development source code of his Atari800 DOS port. This new release is ver 0.9.6c; the current executable is still 0.9.5. Atari800 is written in C.

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

More Progress in N64 Emulator  Breakpoint has worked out alpha blending (transparencies) and also the fill rectangle command. Mortal Kombat Trilogy now looks a lot better:

Also, a few more demos play, even ones with sound! Check out Mike's webpage for the complete story:

http://projunreality.blackbag.org/n64emu.html

The next release of Project UnReality will be out in less then two weeks! See yesterday's news story for more coverage.

Thanks to Loco-san for the e-mail.
 

MK14 Emulator Debuts! Paul Robson has released a brand new emulator. This time it's a MK14 computer emulator. Paul has written emulators for some of the most popular console systems ever, including the Atari 2600 and the NES. For those that never heard of the MK14, it was an early computer kit from the Science of Cambridge in England. It ran at a speedy 4.4 Mhz and a whopping 384 bytes of RAM.

"The first Sinclair Computer to be made is now emulated. I've written an emulator for the Science of Cambridge MK14 trainer kit. Guaranteed 100% compatible with all commercial software... It's only a 5k download (Zipped 11k COM file). Full debugging facilities are available.

"Also on the site : Schematics, Parts List, ROM Listing, Assembler tools, Information on the SC/MP microprocessor and I/O chip, an FAQ and a tutorial."

The MK14 emulator is for DOS.

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

NoSTalgia ver 0.5 Released! Gérin Philippe has released NoSTalgia version 0.5. As reported here earlier, here's what's new:

• Midi IN and Midi OUT via QuickTime & OMS
• New MFP Emulator (better rasters)
• Printer Port redirected to a file
• Mixed Mode (Low/Medium) for Magnetic Scroll games
• Raster in medium resolution
• Bug correction in the MSA extractor
• Better Shifter Emulator (Lemmings,...)
• IKBD Mode 'Mouse Key' de l'IKBD for Defender of the Crown.
• Option 'Slow FDC'
• Better stability of NoSTalgia
• Bugs corrections

iNES ver 0.7 Plus Released! John Stiles has just released version 0.7 of his Macintosh port of iNES. Here's an excerpt of the e-mail he sent:

"This version is much faster, supports richer audio, and is the first application ever to support Navigation Services, Apple's new file selection API."

- John Stiles

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

Project UnReality News! Breakpoint has announced some incredible news: Project UnReality now partially runs Mortal Kombat Trilogy! Check out the screenshot below:

As you can see, there's still a lot of graphic garbling, but this is obviously a major step for Nintendo 64 emulation. What's more, Breakpoint will release the next version of Project UnReality this month, within the next week or two. Stay tuned...

Project UnReality is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows 95.

Thanks to DSpoons for the e-mail.

http://projunreality.blackbag.org/n64emu.html

Italian Translation of EMU News Service Moves The new URL is:

http://tdm.italia.tm/
 

BeebInC Version 0.99c Is Out! Dave Davenport has released version 0.99c of his BBC computer emulator. Directly from the official webpage, here's what's new:

• VIAs: USER neatened up the code a bit
• VIAs: SYSTEM better handling of the slow data bus
• KEYBOARD: Much neater code
• KEYBOARD: Bug removed
• KEYBOARD: Don't allow PCX saving or Exit to the menu if any BBC Keys are depressed
• SOUND:
• SOUND: SN76489 emulation works correctly now
• SOUND: More messing about with reproducing WHITE & PERIODIC noise (still not quite perfect - but better)

Atari Lynx Emulator Ported to Macintosh! Richard Bannister has released a brand new Macintosh port of Keith Wilkins' Handy. This is a first release so there are some bugs to be ironed out, but if I'm not mistaken, this is the first ever Lynx emulator available for the Macintosh. You can download it from:

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

MESS Webpage Opens to Public Richard Bannister has announced that the MESS webpage is now open to the public. There is nothing to download as of yet, but hopefully there will be something soon. Anyone want to place any bets on which will come out first, Retrocade or MESS?

MESS is a multi-platform, multi-console emulator written by some of the more famous names in the field of emulation.

http://internetter.com/titan/mess

New NoSTalgia Specs Announced Gérin Philippe has just announced specifications for the next release of NoSTalgia. Though he hasn't given a release date, Gérin has told us what to expect:

• Midi IN and Midi OUT via QuickTime & OMS
• New MFP Emulator (better rasters)
• Printer Port redirected to a file
• Mixed Mode (Low/Medium) for Magnetic Scroll games
• Raster in medium résolution
• Bug correction in the MSA extractor
• Better Shifter Emulator (Lemmings,...)
• IKBD Mode 'Mouse Key' de l'IKBD for Defender of the Crown.
• Option 'Slow FDC'
• Better stability of NoSTalgia
• Bugs corrections

XTender2 1.17 Beta-2 Released Carlo Delhez has updated his Sinclair ZX81 emulator. This is a beta release:

• Hires emulation now supported
• Able to use the ZX80 ROM
• SLOW and FAST modes both work now
• Needs a faster processor (a P120 is recommended)

http://www.delhez.demon.nl/

ENS Portuguese Moves The Portuguese translation of EMU News Service has moved to:

http://www.classicgaming.com/ens_port/

7,000,000th Hit Congratulations go out to Steve Rodriguez who became EMU News Service's seventh million hit.

• The filecheck is fixed
• Gunfight sample support added

http://w1.311.telia.com/~u31102265/arcpreserv.html
(Midway 8080 Section)

Retrocade Page Updated The latest news on Retrocade is now in:

"Things are moving right along! Many of you have asked for native .ZIP support and support of MAME's subdirectories, and we have added that in. It will be in with the initial release of Retrocade."

New screenshots of both the Macintosh and Unix ports have been posted on the Retrocade webpage:

http://www.retrocade.com/status.html

WinUAE 0.7.2 Release 2 Is Out! Brian King has released a new version of the Windows port of UAE. This releases fixes a bug that caused it to crash when running in a window and also adds CD-ROM file-system. WinUAE is an Amiga computer emulator for many platforms, including DOS and Windows 95. Thanks to Andrew P. for the e-mail.

http://www.CodePoet.com/UAE/

Boycott DOS ver 0.39 Released! Gollum has released version 0.39 of Boycott, his Nintendo Gameboy Emulator for DOS. Here's what's new:

• Add a fix for Alfred Chicken
• Add a fix for Frank Thomas Baseball
• Smaller snapshots with different sizes according to GB cartridges
• Fix F2/F5/F6 keys (occur only one time)
• Halt key added (useful to go back to debugger)
• Debugger improved
• Can display BG, screen again
• Exit fixes with quit command
• Pause Key fixes (with *UGLY* and *STRANGE* printfs)
• Z80 Speeded up a little
• Crashing bug fixes when loading a 512 bytes battery (.SAV)
• Bug fixes when saving a 512 bytes battery (.SAV)
• Ignores now wrong opcodes (may fixes some games)

MacSloMo ver 0.43 Released! Terence Jordan has released version 0.43 of his Macintosh port of SloMo. Here's what's new:

• All of the addressing modes have been rewritten and are 65% faster on average
• Fixed sprite bug (but introduces some bad flickering)

http://www.net21.com/ttwk/POC/

MAME32 ver 0.31.1 Released! Michael and Christopher Kirmse have just released a new version of MAME32. This is NOT just a beta - this is an actual release! New features include support for four joysticks, including updated Wingman Warrior support. (The older versions of MAME32 only worked with Logitech's 1.0 driver. Now, MAME32 works with the current driver (2.3) driver. If you don't already have it, you can download it from http://www.logitech.com. MAME32 will also detect missing or incomplete ROM sets.

Directly from the documentation, here's what's new:

• Fixed crash when attempting to detect MMX support on Cyrix CPUs. If a Cyrix CPU is detected, the code will disable support for MMX even if the processor supports MMX instructions
• Added visible area support in fullscreen and DirectDraw windowed mode. All display options now support this functionality.
• 16 bit support for the DirectSound option. Fixed samples being cut off.
• Added support for up to four joysticks.
• Updated Wingman Warrior support. You must have the latest driver and select the "Use DirectInput for joystick" option.
• Added an audit feature. This checks all your existing ROM sets for missing and incorrect ROMs, and for missing samples. From the File menu, choose Audit.
• Added YM3812 FM synthesis for Sound Blaster compatibles under Windows 95. This will not work on Windows NT and may not work with PCI sound cards.

In case you have trouble downloading it from the above page, you can download a copy of MAME32 directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.
 

BrSMS ver 1.6 Released! Ricardo Bittencourt has released a minor update to his Sega Master System emulator. BrSMS version 1.6 fixes a bug in the save state loading.

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

fwNES ver 0.20 Released! FanWen has released version 0.20 of his NEW emulator for DOS! This is a major release. Both a GUI and a built-in debugger has been added. As usual, there are tons of bugfixes and support for eight new mappers. Here's the complete list:

• A Simple GUI is added
• Build in a simple debugger
• Full Sound Channel (DPCM included)
• N6502 is removed (buggy and unefficient)
• More Background/Sprite Prority
• Fixed Dimmy Read
• No More Zelda V-Scrolling bugs
• No More Flick Status Bar
• No More Konami Game sprite walk into Background
• Mapper #1 MMC 1 fixed (AD&D Hillsfar, CosmosWar work)
• Mapper #4 MMC 3 fixed .More games work and work better. SD -4 ,SD -5 ...etc
• Mapper #5 MMC 5 fixed .More games works CV3, MetalSladerGlory JustBread/SDF
• Mapper #19 Namco fixed
• Mapper #23 VRC2/4 fixed
• Mapper #24 VRC6 fixed
• Mapper #25 VRC2/4 fixed
• Mapper #26 VRC6/V Added . Madara ,EsperDream
• Mapper #68 SunSoft-4 Fixed .NatteBaseball work
• Mapper #76 Namco 109 Added MegamiTenshi 1 Work
• Mapper #78 Fixed HolyDriver work well
• Mapper #79 fix a bit (still buggy)
• Mapper #80 H/V/PG fixed
• Mapper #85 Konami VRC7 fixed ..Lagrange Point work better (not perfect yet)
• Mapper #86 MoeProBaseBall Added
• Mapper #87 HyperSportMT mapper Added
• Mapper #88 Namco 118 Added DevilMan work better
• Mapper #89 74161/32 Added MitoKoumon work
• Mapper #90 Tekken 2 Added
• Mapper #91 StreetFighter3 Added

http://neuralpc5.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~fanwen/fwnes_e.htm

Sideway ver 0.199 Released Version 0.199 of Sideway, the Midway 8080 arcade game emulator has been released. Sideway now supports 19 games, including Seawolf, Boothill, Gunfight, Space invaders and Amazing Maze. Thanks to BobbyBare1 for the e-mail.

http://w1.311.telia.com/~u31102265/arcpreserv.html
(Midway 8080 Section)
 

CoolNESs ver 0.67 Released! Fredrik Olsson has released version 0.67 of CoolNESs, his NES emulator for Amiga computers. Here's what's new in version 0.67:

• Added mapper#24 (CV3 Japanese)
• Added install-script
• Small fix to Noise channel
• Small fix to Triangle channel
• Small fix to PCM channel
• Mapper-routines rewritten a bit

"Today, I am announcing the official end of development of the emulator on my side ...  I will not work on any other emulator, I enjoyed the experience, but it isn't my thing. I can assure you that in no way will I pick up the project again (unlike last time)... you have my last release and the ever improving MAME version (which will no doubt just become awesome). Please do not email me asking me to start up the project again, I will not."

The author cited two major reasons for his decision. One, that he got bored with it. Two, that he would rather spend his free time doing other things.

http://europa.simplenet.com/tmnt/
 

"Due to circumstances beyond my control I have been forced to terminate the Reality64 (N64 Emulator) project.
 
"I am not permitted to discuss the reasons why but it is certainly an unfortunate time for any kind of public software development (e.g. Emu�s)."

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

BrSMS ver 1.5 Released! Ricardo Bittencourt has released version 1.5 of his Sega Master System Emulator. Directly from the homepage, here's what's new:

• Fixed a bug on voice emulation ("Afterburner", "Alex Kidd Lost Stars")
• Now there is one save state for each game (no more BRSMS.STA)
• Options to select nationalization ("-eng" and "-jap")
• Did a little speed up in the background renderer

MacMAME 0.33 Beta 2 Released! Brad Oliver has released his MacOS port of the second beta of MAME 0.33. Here's what's new:

• In sync with the PC beta 2, support for Space Dungeon, the unreleased Q*bert sequel, Magic Sword and Slap Fight, as well as the usual changes and fixes.
• Added the ability to close a game via Command-W to conform to the Mac HI.

New WinUAE Released! Brian King has released WinUAE 0.7.2, Release 1! Here's what's new:

• Fixes BlitPattern() bug on Picasso96 screens
• Fixes some bugs in the custom-chip emulation
• Hard-drive Files work.
• Added support in GUI for "slow" memory emulation (some games require this).
• Sound-code now based on WinUAE 0.6.9r12
• Implemented DirectSound for fun.
• Joystick settings can be changed while the emulation is running.
• Using F12 (or the "menu" key beside the right-Windows key) will bring up the GUI, and NOT crash/guru the "Amiga".
• 24-bit, 32-bit desktops are supported again.
• "Julian"-mode renamed, and saved with configurations.
• Added LED status to WinUAE when running in a window on your desktop.
• Now using assembly-code for planar-to-chunky conversion.
• GUI problems cleaned up.
• Added new check for Cyrix
• Quitting WinUAE when running in a window would occasionally leave a piece behind in memory which kept further copies of WinUAE from running.

MAME 0.33 Beta 2 Is Out! The MAME development team has released MAME version 0.33 Beta 2 for DOS.

http://www.media.dsi.unimi.it/mame/

Thanks to John H for the e-mail.

Nocash Gameboy 1.5 Released! Martin Korth has released a brand new version of his Gameboy emulator for DOS and judging from the "what's new" file, this is a major update:

• Memory: 1024 KB rom cartridges supported (warioland 2, sup.blackbass pocket 2) --> make sure that you have installed EMS (EMM386) in your CONFIG.SYS
• Memory: 32 KB external ram cartridges supported (warioland 2)
• Memory: help text moved to temporary memory
• Emufix: strange IO attempts supported (mortal kombat 3)
• Emufix: fixed WIN priority (tetris blast), optimized BG priority
• Emufix: smoother WX emulation (cada, tennis)
• Emufix: 100% true lcd-stat interrupt model (pinball fantasies, pinball deluxe)
• Emufix: separate oam/hblank interrupt emulation (instead of both the same)
• Emufix: true 59.7275Hz real video refresh rate (rather than dirty 60Hz)
• Emufix: true 70224 clocks per vblank (rather than 699xx)
• Emufix: interrupt enable (ei) behaviour (bubble bobble)
• Emufix: display disable (korodice)
• Emufix: timer (korodice)
• Emufix: startup logo-cls, out_lcdc, startup BG colors (infgmb)
• Bugfix: multiple two player links repaired (if more than two machines)
• Bugfix: joystick disable option fixed (oops)
• Bugfix: pause in multi split screens (batman title screen colors)
• Bugfix: disable debugger option (no numbers): bugfix for cart not found
• Cartridges: accepts carts with 'readonly' attribute
• Commandline/files.lst: accepts [d:][path]fname instead plain fname
• Drives: recognizes all installed HDDs, CDROMs, etc
• Controls: joystick button setup (swap buttons, four-button sticks, etc)
• Display: handles split/scrolled screens during emu pause (debug graphix, GIFs)
• GIF background: black display border
• Sound: channel 3 volume emulation improved a bit more
• Debugger: exception-fix for illegal ldi/ldd mem reads (vram, echo)
• Debugger: symbolic address displayed if data cursor hits a label
• Debugger: new vertical resolutions of 30, 34, 43 and splitted 35+25 lines
• Debugger: new horizontal resolution 720 pixels (9 pixels per character)
• Debugger: ret-key (pressed twice) un-centers screen and maps cursor to top
• Debugger: advanced no$cpc-like hardware info screen (f10 key)
• Debugger: 16bit FE00-FE9E inc/dec/ldi/ldd exception (debug version)
• Debugger: global condition breaks caused halt at pc=0000, oops
• Debugger: global memchange breaks (nnnn)? or (nnnn..nnnn)? (debug version)
• Debugger: global memwrite  breaks (nnnn)! or (nnnn..nnnn)! (debug version)
• Debugger: global condition breaks disabled until condition comes true again
• Debugger: inputboxes accept '$' = current line of code window ('jr $' etc.)
• Debugger: show jump direction for true conditional jp/call/ret at prog pointer
• Debugger: trace scrolls one line before last line of display
• Debugger: codecenter (ret key) fixed for addresses close to 64K boundary
• Debugger: jmp/brk/ctrlg uses codecenter if adr is out of screen
• XT/AT version update available yet again
• XT: supports old PC keyboards

z26 ver 1.02 Released! John Saeger has released a new version of his Atari 2600 emulator for DOS. Here's what's new in version 1.02:

• Fixed a problem that caused sound to be distorted on some systems when z26 was launched from a Windows 95 DOS box.
• Pausing game turns off sound (again).

VPCE News Part II Here's the latest on the problem just discovered with Virtual PC Engine:

"I scanned VPCE (DOS) for viruses, using McAfee VirusScan 3.1.6, Virus definitions 3.0.3102. That program didn't find any viruses.

"But I asked the user to send me a more detailed bug-report, it looks like a file-system corruption appears, when "Gradius" is run. He was able to reproduce the problem with two other Win95 computers.

"Solution:
- Don't run VPCE/DOS, until I find and fix the bug. Or register Magic Engine.
- If you really really really need to run VPCE/DOS, quit windows (Alt-F4, "Exit to DOS"), or don't start it on boot.

"Windows 95 doesn't have any memory protection, a program in DOS that accidentally writes something into unallocated memory can hurt a Windows running in the background. Oh, and don't forget that first beta versions of Word for Windows 95 had the same problem."

- Jens Ch. Restemeier
Virtual PC Engine
 
 

xDragon ver 0.30 Released! Nicolas Hamel and David Michel have
released xDragon version 0.3, their Data East arcade game emulator for DOS. Here's what's new:

• VSync
• Autoframeskip
• Choose the correct video mode
• Double Buffer added
• Parallax scrolling
• xDragon save the joystick's calibration part
• Rotary Controller supported
• Added Sly Spy
• Added Midnight Resistance

Emulator Releases Only This is just a quick announcement that  last Sunday, I had a partial hard drive failure. While my computer now boots, most programs do not run and Windows 95 refuses to recognize my PNP modem. I've decided to take this opportunity to upgrade my hard drive, modem, video card, etc. The parts should be in tomorrow night and it will take a couple days after that to install everything properly.

Luckily, I still have my 486 and I have been using that to update this page. Unfortunately, I don't have the patience to maintain a webpage on a 9600 modem, which is the real point of this announcement: EMU News Service is being updated on a "major-news-story" only basis (namely emulator releases) for the last few days and this policy will remain in effect till sometime this weekend, Monday at the latest.

Until then, here's a brief synopsis of today's happenings:
 

• Arnon Gonçalves Cardoso has released version 0.60 of his MSX computer emulator for Java. Please note the new webpage.
• Gollum has updated his Gameboy emulator for DOS, Boycott to version 0.83.
• Catakig 1.10b has been released.
• Hans de Goede has released X-Mame-0.31.0b1.

"I just got an angry message from a user, who said that VPCE (MSDOS) has infected his machine with a virus and he had to reinstall Win95 because of it.

"- Please scan your machine for viruses, if you've used VPCE/MSDOS. (BTW: ALL binaries from the internet should be scanned for viruses.)
- I'll scan my machine for viruses. I'm almost sure, that it is clean, but I'll verify it.
- It IS possible, that the machine I used for the upload to GeoCities was infected, because it is accessible by the public, and there are a lot of assholes out there. There is a virus-scanner installed, but I don't know how good it is.
- If you've got a emulation site that mirrors the VPCE archive, and you've repackaged it, please scan it for viruses.
- I'm not using Win95, I can't say if there is any bug in Win95 or VPCE that can break your system. But there isn't any dangerous code in VPCE itself. I don't know about the DPMI server of Win95, the DPMI client in DJGPP or the libraries of DJGPP. Please run VPCE/DOS in plain MS-DOS mode.
- I didn't put any destructive code or a virus into VPCE. I don't need a cock-extension of the "I destroyed xxx computers" kind.

"Another note: The author of the Windows 95 port of VPCE told me, that he is too busy with work to continue. I'll need someone with good Win95 coding experiences, who wants to port VPCE to Windows 95."

Jens Ch. Restemeier
- Author of Virtual PC Engine

Virtual PC Engine is a TurboGrafx16 (PC Engine) emulator for DOS, Windows, Acorn RISC OS, Macintosh and Unix.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/3340/index.html
 

VectorDream Has Moved The new URL is:

http://www.mnsinc.com/hippies/theplasticfactory/
(Under construction)

TMNT ver 0.7 Released! Version 0.7 of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle emulator is now out! Even better, three different versions are available: DOS, Windows 95, and Windows 95 with DirectX. Here's what's new:

• Joystick support for DOS
• Sprite vs Background Priority fixed
• More video resolutions added
• Made it faster
• Sticky keys fixed
• Sprite glitches all fixed
• New config program

Atari800 ver 0.9.5c Released Petr Stehlik has released version 0.9.5c of Atari800 for DOS. This appears to be a fairly minor release. You can download it from:

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

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/3356/

Executor 2.0v Released ARDI has released version 2.0v of their Macintosh emulator. Executor requires no Mac ROMs or software from Apple Computer. ARDI's programmers have re-implemented from scratch the MacOS system calls.
Executor is available for seven different operating systems:

• DOS
• Linux
• NextStep
• OS/2
• Windows 3.x
• Windows 95 / NT

http://www.ardi.com/

Raine ver 0.10 Released! Richard Bush has just released version 0.10 of Raine! Direct from the documentation, here's what's new:

New Features:

• Added a little GUI for Game Select/Key Select/Screen Select
• Zipped ROM support
• Added detection and skipping for idle 68000 cycles in: WrestleFest, Rainbow Islands and Rastan (all have speed increase).

• Bonze Adventure (c-chip, so not playable)
• Cadash (playable)
• Final Blow (playable)
• Master of Weapons (messy sprites)
• Mega Blast (playable)
• Ninja Kids (playable but messy sprites)
• Ninja Gaiden (playable)
• Operation Thunderbolt (playable)
• Super Space Invaders'91 (playable)
• Zero Zone (playable)

• Armed Formation: Added second BG layer, fixed sprites, colours, Player2 controls mapped.
• Snow Bros: New Starscream fixes monster movement problem, full asm for screen redraw by Cedrick Collomb.
• Terra Force: Fixed sprites, scrolling, colours.
• Toki: Fixed Screen Size.
• WrestleFest: Fixed Timing problem, which in turn fixes stuff like Match Select screen.

• Data East games taken out (see xDragon)
• Bionic Commando taken out (see Slutte!)
• Superman taken out (corrupt ROM...)

BrSMS ver 1.4 Released! Ricardo Bittencourt has released version 1.4 of his Sega Master System emulator for DOS. Here's what's news:

• Support to VRAM reads (intro of "Sonic 1", "Aztec Adventure")
• Support to VDP register 0, bit 5 (this fix the bug on left side of screen)
• Support to VDP register 0, bit 6 (score of "Double Dragon" & "Golvellius")
• Support to VDP register 0, bit 7 (score of "Golvellius" in vertical stages)
• Support to sprite/background priorities (intro of "Sonic 2")
• Support to second player on keyboard
• Support to joystick (as player 1 or player 2)
• RESET button
• Multiplayer game through a serial cable
• TV emulation, with scanlines (require VESA 2 and a very fast computer)
• Save and load state at any time
• Save PCX snapshots

MacMAME 0.33 Beta 1 Released! Brad Oliver has released MacMAME version 0.33 Beta 1:

"From here on out, most of the beta releases will be public. You may write about bugs but do not expect a response. You are also encouraged to visit public forums first to see if the bug has already been mentioned."

- Brad Oliver
MacMAME Author

Here's what's new in the Macintosh port:

• Fixed a bug where the screen would sometimes be rotated.
• MacMAME is once again built with CodeWarrior Pro 2. Pro 3 was far too buggy. As a result, Donkey Kong-series games now have sound again and the C 68k core will work properly when used (it is not used by the release versions).
• Attempted to fix reports of crashing in the front-end. Let us know if you have any more trouble with this.

Version 0.85 of QLAY Released! Jan Venema has released version 0.85 of QLAY for both DOS and Windows. Here's what's new:

• Fixed emulation bug that made Archive 'edit' hang
• Windows 95: support any screen size and display mode

http://web.inter.NL.net/hcc/A.Jaw.Venema/

MAME 0.33 Beta 1 Released! This is big news. The MAME development team has decided its release betas publicly! And today they have released version 0.33 Beta 1 for DOS.

Eleven new games have been added:

• Centipede (rev 1)
• Lock'n'Chase
• Nibbler (alternate)
• Pac-Land
• Punk Shot
• Side Pocket
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Tutankham (Konami). Note that the old version has been renamed "tutankst".
• Up'n Down (preliminary)
• Xain'd Sleena/Solar Warrior
• Zarzon

• Fixed glitches in Gemini Wing and Rygar
• Fade-in/fade-out in Robocop
• Fixed colors in Centipede, including service mode multiplexed color test.

• New Zealand Story

• Atari System 1 games now accepting coins with -fm
• Service mode in Centipede and Millipede works
• Added support for coin counters to some games

Source code is also available.

http://www.media.dsi.unimi.it/mame/

Just in case the MAME webpage has trouble handling the traffic, you can download a copy directly from EMU News Service by clicking here.

Stella Has Moved The Stella webpage has move to:

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

Also, a new release is due out within a month or so.

Raine Page Updated Richard Bush has updated his Raine webpage with screenshots of the next release of Raine. New games include Final Blow, Mega Blast, Operation Thunderbolt, Super Space Invaders '91 and Zero Zone. You can check it out at:

http://www.squareplanet.net/dejap/raine.html

There is no definite release date, but it should be out shortly, perhaps even today.

New Atari800Win Released! Rich Lawrence has released version 1.9 beta 2 of Atari800Win. Here are the highlights:

• Source merged in with main Atari800 project (excepting Win specific modules).
• mmsystem (waveOut) sounds were reworked and sound great, even under NT.
• Pokey interrupts implemented. Berzerk speech works, as well as other special pokey effects.
• Sound is disabled when running full speed, since mmsystem and Dsound both get far too unstable when the Atari is running 5X or higher.
• Added "Pokey update divisor" to Sound dialog. Set this higher for LOWER frequencies. This affects games that pound on Pokey to do things like speech.
• Frame to frame timing is now very precise compared to previous versions and the timer code itself is also faster.
• Display width has been limited to 336 pixels.
• When the emulator is running "ahead" of the emulated Atari, it will return more time to Windows, making it easier to multitask with other programs in the background.
• Sound now has a latency of 2 frames from the initial point it is played.  This improves stability in all sound modes but of course adds the latency.
• After exhaustive testing of various stretched windowed modes, I have picked what seemed like the best overall performer.
• A bug that could cause incorrect output to the error log was fixed.
• The built-in UI of Atari800 is now supported, although redundant. Access it using Ctrl-Space while the emulator is running.
• Removed PILL option from cartridge dialog; it confused people too much. It's still available from the Atari800 UI.
• Fixed a bug in the hardware dialog (loosing track of ROM name selected)
• Now reads the command line (even as a GUI app) much like other Atari800 ports.
• The Atari HELP key exists - use the ` key. I couldn't use F1 because that will (someday) be Windows Help.
• Added checkbox for SIO patch in Hardware dialog (turn off for some games)
• The speed counter is now more accurate.
• Volume slider works for WaveOut functions also now.
• MFC is dynamically linked, to limit size of EXE.
• Alt-Enter flips between DirectDraw full screen and windowed mode.

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

Nemesis Ported to Unix! Osamu Kurati has just released his port of Johan Köhler's Nemesis emulator. Johan has been in the news lately because of his Neo Geo emulator. But before his Neo Geo emulator, Johan wrote a Nemesis (arcade game) emulator which is quite good. Nemesis is now available for Windows 95 and Unix.

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/vanthal/10/index.html

VPCE for Linux Updated Osamu Kurati has released a new version of his Linux port of the Virtual PC Engine emulator. Version 0.3b adds support for compressed ROM images (gzip or compress).

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/vanthal/10/index.html

A/NES ver 0.99.6b Released Morgan Johansson and Fredrik Schultz have released version 0.99.6b of A/NES. This is a fairly minor update: there are a few bugfixes and a bit of optimization of the CPU core. A/NES is an NES emulator for Amiga.

http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-28134/ANES/

MAME 0.33 News Even though MAME 0.31 has been out for only a short time, work on the next release has already begun. Five new games have just been added:

• Lock N Chase
• Pac-Land
• Punkshot
• Side Pocket
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Neo Geo News Johan Köhler's Neo Geo emulator web page is back online, but unfortunately, there's not a lot of good news to report. First, the actual emulator has been permanently removed from the webpage and Johan is asking all webpage maintainers to remove it from their respective sites. The good news is that development of the Neo Geo emulator has not been halted - but there will be no more releases until this situation has been settled.

At the author's request, the Neo Geo emulator has been removed from EMU News Service.

http://www.c64.org/~drac/NeoGeo.html
 

http://www2.bccom.com/gof/Saga/

Fusion Progress Report Microcode Solutions has updated the Fusion webpage with the latest news on the upcoming PC port. Currently, Fusion is only available for the Amiga. Judging from the webpage, PC Fusion is getting close to being done.

http://www.ctaz.com/~msdei/pc/fusion/fusion_status.html

CCS64 ver 2.0 Beta for Windows Released Per Hakan Sundell has released version 2.0 (Beta) of his Commodore 64 emulator for Windows 95. Here's what's new:

• Cartridge emulation, normal and Action Replay
• SID filter
• SID oversampling factor
• Parallel cable emulation
• ROM set selection
• Multiple 1541 disk drives emulation NTSC
• User interface changes
• Bug fixes

http://www.computerbrains.com/

SNEmul 0.61b Released Archeide and v0x have released another new version SNEmul for DOS. Today's release fixes bugs in the new SPC Ripper and adds a real-time debugger.

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

James McKay Interviewed The Italian Emulation Palace has conducted an interview with James McKay, author of Massage (Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator).

http://volftp.tin.it/ludus/iep/
 

Apple IIGS Emulator Updated! FE Systems has released Bernie II the Rescue version 1.3:

"Bernie ][ The Rescue 1.3 bases on the same, proven assembly kernel and adds compatibility with Wolfenstein 3D, Diversi-Tune�/GS and last but not least unique communications support.

"Version 1.3 introduces highly optimized communications support* for controlling modems, terminals and printers connected to the Mac from within the Apple II environment. Bernie ][ The Rescue's communications support finally connects you to the world using your favorite telecommunications software including ProTerm, ReadyLink, AppleWorks GS, among others."

http://www.magnet.ch/emutech/Bernie/News/index.html

FEMAME 1.8 Released! Infamous Blood has released version 1.8 of FEMAME (front end for MAME). This release brings it in sync with MAME 0.31. Thanks to JP for the e-mail.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/6142/femame.html