[Ordi.] ZEsarUX v9.0

– Added new compiled version: FreeBSD
– Added support for compilation on Haiku
– Added emulation of AY chip MIDI registers 14 & 15 and route them to an external MIDI device
– Added browser for quicksave snapshots
– Added save screen to bmp feature
– Added menu to download ZEsarUX extras
– Added Windows icon
– Added F key to toggle top cpu speed
– Added F key to pause/unpause tape
– Added setting to rotate output tape when selecting tape that already exists
– Added setting to resample audio output to 1 bit
– Added showing yesterday ZEsarUX users
 

– Improved emulation: use a slightly less cpu on every scanline
– Improved compilation script: allow to set different C compiler
– Improved compiler versions: now all releases are compiled with optimizations, they use lot of less cpu than before
 

Improved menu:
– Allow some windows to be running on the background, all at the same time. This makes the menu environment more powerful!
– Active windows are saved and restored on startup
– Pressing the menu key (F5 by default) when menu is open, it will send you back to the main menu. Also pressing over Z logo on ext desktop
– Some window hotkeys can be pressed with mouse click (example: Debug CPU Window, File utilities, View Sprites, Hex Editor, Disassemble)
– Improved some interface fonts in sizes smaller than 8 pixel width
– Added GUI Styles: MSX, Solarized Dark & Light
– Added setting to select machine by name instead by manufacturer
– Added setting to disable showing cpu temperature, or FPS on footer
– Added keyboard help window for all machines
– Footer FPS warns in red colour when FPS low
 

Improved Visualmem:
– added MMC Read/Write views
– added « Defrag style » setting
 

Improved debugging:
– Added breakpoint action « reset-tstatp »
– Added SEG0, SEG1, … SEG7 variables to match TBBlue MMU pages
– Added IN() function to read a port in the breakpoint parser
– Added key to execute a RET
 

Improved ZRCP:
– Allow to write commands in «  ». Not all commands support this
– Added save-binary command, to save binary data to a file
– Added save-screen command, to save machine screen to a file
 

Improved Esxdos handler:
– Added f_mkdir function
– Added configuration setting to save local work directory
 

Improved TBBlue emulation:
– Added Layer2 modes 320×256 and 640×256
– Added 4bpp sprites
– Enable Timex video by default
– Legacy hi-res and border effects disabled by default. Reduces up to 13% cpu use or gain 17 FPS on my environment
– Reduced a bit cpu usage (2% cpu less on my environment) when rendering scanlines
– Added altrom feature: now 48k and 128k mode works again
– Emulate register 0x8E (142) => Spectrum 128K Memory Mapping
– Allow to download a 512 MB TBBlue SD official card (allowed download sizes: 32MB, 128MB, 512MB, 2 GB)
– Allow paths with backslashes on esxdos handler
 

Improved Chloe emulation:
– Supports CPU speed setting via the ZX-Uno SCANDBLCTRL register
– Load unodos3.rom as the default divmmc firmware
– Added chloehd.mmc in the extras package