OpenTTD v1.8.0

April 15th, 2018, 22:35 Posted By: wraggster

OpenTTD v1.8.0 is released. OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

Features
OpenTTD is modelled after the original Transport Tycoon game by Chris Sawyer and enhances the game experience dramatically. Many features were inspired by TTDPatch while others are original.

Significant enhancements from the original game include:
bigger maps (up to 64 times in size)
stable multiplayer mode for up to 255 players in 15 companies, or as spectators
dedicated server mode and an in-game console for administration
IPv6 and IPv4 support for all communication of the client and server
in game downloading of AIs, NewGRFs, scenarios and heightmaps
new pathfinding algorithms that makes vehicles go where you want them to
autorail/-road build tool, improved terraforming
canals, shiplifts, aqueducts
larger, non-uniform stations and the ability to join them together
mammoth and multi-headed trains
different configurable models for acceleration of vehicles
clone, autoreplace and autoupdate vehicles
the possibility to build on slopes and coasts
advanced/conditional orders, share and copy orders
longer and higher bridges including several new designs, plus fully flexible tracks/roads under bridges
reworked airport system with many more airports/heliports (e.g. international and metropolitan)
presignals, semaphores, path based signalling
support for TTDPatch NewGRF features offering many options for graphics and behaviour configuration/modification
drive-through road stops for articulated road vehicles and trams
multiple trees on one tile
bribe the town authority
many configuration settings to tune the game to your liking
save games using zlib compression for smaller sizes, while not interrupting gameplay
significant internationalisation support. OpenTTD has already been translated into over 50 languages
dynamically created town names in 18 languages, plus NewGRF support for additional languages
freely distributable graphics, sounds and music
framework for custom (user) written AIs
zooming further out in the normal view and zooming out in the small map
Lots of effort has been put into making OpenTTD easy to use. These include:

convert rail tool (to electrified rail, monorail, and maglev)
drag&drop support for almost all tools (demolition, road/rail building/removing, stations, scenario editor, etc)
sorting of most lists based on various criteria (vehicle, station, town, industries, etc.)
mouse wheel support (scroll menus, zoom in/out)
autoscroll when the mouse is near the edge of the screen/window
sell whole train by dragging it to the dynamite trashcan
cost estimation with the 'shift' key
advanced options configuration window, change settings from within the game
Graphical/interface features:

screenshots can be in BMP, PNG or PCX format (select in game options menu)
more currencies (including Euro introduction in 2002)
extra viewports to view more parts of the game world at the same time
resolution and refresh rate selection for fullscreen mode
colourful newspaper after a certain date
colour coded vehicle profits
game speed increase (through fast forward button or by pressing the TAB key)
snappy and sticky windows that always stay on top and neatly align themselves to other windows
more hotkeys for even less mouse-clicking
support for 32 bit graphics
support for right-to-left languages
support for other (sized) fonts where the user interface scales based on the font and translation

OpenTTD Changelog:
(None)

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EMU v1.01 (2018/03/31)

April 15th, 2018, 22:32 Posted By: wraggster

EMU v1.01 (2018/03/15) is released. EMU emulates Agat-7, Apogee, Bashkiria-2M rom, Bashkiria-2M disk, BK-0010, BK-0010_01, BK-0010fdd, Irisha, Korvet, Lik, Lik2, Lvov, Mikro-80, Mikrosha, Mikrosha (cas), NuPogodi, Orion-128, Orion-128 Z80 HDD, Orion-128z80-Card-ll, Orion-Pro, Orion-Pro 2, Partner, PK-6128c, PK8000 KDOS, PK8000 Sura and Xobbi, PK8000 Sura and Xobbi (cas), PK8000 Vesta, PK8000 Vesta (cas), Radio-86RK, Radio-86RK (cas), Radio-86RK 4K, Radio-86RK color, Radio-86RK ordos, Radio-86RK romdisk, Specialist, SpecialistMX, SpecialistRamfos, Spektr-001, Unior, UT88, UT88 (cas), Vector06c, Vector06c-z80, Vector-1200, Vesta, Vesta (cas), ZX Spectrum 128, ZX Spectrum 128 (cas) ZX Spectrum 48 and ZX Spectrum 48 (cas).

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Emu Loader v8.5.2

April 15th, 2018, 22:31 Posted By: wraggster

Emu Loader v8.5.2 is released. Emu Loader was created to manage an arcade games emulator called M.A.M.E. With this frontend, you can change practically any option that is available in the emulator, like the screen resolution, sound quality, game options, etc. There are lots of extra features that makes your life much more easier, like the snapshots viewer where all captured images from M.A.M.E. games can be viewed when selecting games.

Emu Loader Changelog:
Fixed
"Image Category Settings" bug fixes (left-overs from old code)
- "Select" category was disabled and its folder selections was never saved on exit
- zipped images cache wasn't rebuilt on exit while in multiple images layouts, causing selected game images to not load
Frontend crash if you try to use "Select" image category
Auditing multiple selected games was not working if any of them use device or bios sets
Wrong system selected in "single system selection" mode (Arcade system selection dialog)
Changed
Preview images panel color/splitter settings moved from "EmuLoader.ini" to "\ini_files\image_category.ini"; no more losing image splitter settings on a fresh install
You can select scan mode and software list build mode when using "Create MAME Software Games List" in main menu "Arcade"
Added
Customize "preview images hint box" appearance (Preferences screen, "Images" tab)
- the hint box shows up when hovering the mouse on top on images panel
- box background color, box frame color and visibility, text color, text shadow color and visibility
- box opacity level (255 is opaque, 0 is transparent)
- settings saved in "\ini_files\image_category.ini" file to avoid loss on a clean install
- new setting "Show Unzipped/Zipped Icon" that display an "image icon" for unzipped images and "zip icon" for zipped images
(easier to spot if the loaded image is unzipped or zipped when hovering the mouse on top of it)
Moved "Update Favorites Profiles" from main menu to "Help" sub-menu since its usefulness has passed; but if you're late into the frontend party, it's still available

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Atomulator v1.28

April 15th, 2018, 22:30 Posted By: wraggster

i actually had an acorn computer back when i was a kid, its awesome to relive the old days

Atomulator v1.28 is released. Atomulator is a free, open source Acorn Atom emulator for Windows and Linux.

Atomulator v1.28 Changelog:
– Fixed some crashes with when rewinding and ejecting tapes
– UEF tape input now correctly handles high tone length in UEF
– UEF tape high frequency changed from 2518Hz to 2403Hz
– Fixed a Linux GUI issue in sound settngs menu
– Pollsound now runnng at 31.250KHz – ^G beep much cleaner

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Fuse v1.5.2

April 15th, 2018, 22:28 Posted By: wraggster

The spectrum was a great computer years ago, if you havent already tried it then find the roms and use this emulator to discover a world you never knew imagined:

Fuse v1.5.2 is released. The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse) is an emulator of the 1980s home computer and various clones for Unix, Mac OS X and Windows.

Features:
- Spectranet emulation
- SpecDrum emulation
- Disciple emulation
- Movie recording to FMF files
- SpeccyBoot emulation
- GTK+ 3 Support
- Many Win32 enhancements
- POK file support
- PZX file read support
- Plus lots of bug fixes

Fuse v1.5.2 Changelog:
* Emulation core improvements:
* Emulate ROM bug loading zero length blocks when using tape traps
(ub880d).

* Machine specific improvements:
* Fix the format of double-sided +3 disks (Sergio Baldoví).

* Miscellaneous improvements:
* Spectrum reset is accelerated when phantom typist is enabled and a
file is loaded from the menu (Fredrick Meunier).
* Add options UI for phantom typist (Fredrick Meunier).
* GTK+ 3 UI: Memory browser dialog allows to go to specific offset
(Sergio Baldoví).

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ColEm v4.4

April 15th, 2018, 22:15 Posted By: wraggster

ColEm v4.4 is released. ColEm is a ColecoVision emulator. ColEm will run software written for the ColecoVision video game console. ColEm package itself does not contain any games. You should place your own game files onto the SD card before running ColEm. Please, do not run any software you do not own with ColEm. The author cannot and will not tell you where to find free ColecoVision games.

ColEm v4.4 Changelog:
* Added ROM page switch specific for carts with EEPROM.
* Added 24c08 EEPROM support (Black Onyx saves now).
* Added 24c256 EEPROM support (Boxxle works).
* Now saving EEPROM state into .SAV files.
* Now saving SGM state into .STA files.
* Now accepting both AA55h and 55AAh MegaCarts.
* SGM games Buckrogers, Subroc, Zaxxon, Dragon's Lair work.
* Fixed restoring background screen color from .STA files.
* Added EEPROM menu selections to ColEm-Windows.
* Added links to CV Addict and AtariAge forums to ColEm-Windows.
* Added -24c08, -24c256, and -noeeprom command line options.
* Compiled ColEm-Unix with -Wall and eliminated warnings.
* Replaced -DNO_WAVE_INTERPOLATION with -DWAVE_INTERPOLATION, off by default.
* Removed old LoadSTA() and SaveSTA() code.
* Finally deprecated -DNEW_STATES.

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Emu Loader v8.5.3

April 15th, 2018, 22:14 Posted By: wraggster

Emu Loader v8.5.3 is released. Emu Loader was created to manage an arcade games emulator called M.A.M.E. With this frontend, you can change practically any option that is available in the emulator, like the screen resolution, sound quality, game options, etc. There are lots of extra features that makes your life much more easier, like the snapshots viewer where all captured images from M.A.M.E. games can be viewed when selecting games.

Emu Loader Changelog:
Fixed
Supermodel3 emulator settings screen was not centered in the desktop
The "Select" button for "BGFX Shadow Mask" file was not implemented
Calling "set emulator default settings" from "Arcade Emulators Setup" was not passing the correct emulator filename parameter, resulting in bogus "full_path\emu_cfg_filename.ini" and causing frontend to crash when saving emu default settings
Changed
Enabled "Save to File" button in madExcept settings (bug report crash dialog)
Send bug report will no longer zip the .txt; .png files (madExcept)

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BizHawk v2.2.2

April 15th, 2018, 21:58 Posted By: wraggster

BizHawk v2.2.2 is released. BizHawk is a A multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.

BizHawk Supported Systems
* Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, Famicom Disk System
* Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Famicom
* Nintendo 64
* Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Color
* Game Boy Advance
* Sony PlayStation
* Sega Master System, Game Gear, and SG-1000
* Sega Genesis
* Sega Saturn
* NEC PC Engine (AKA TurboGrafx-16), including SuperGrafx and PCE CD
* Atari 2600
* Atari 7800
* Atari Lynx
* ColecoVision
* TI-83 graphing calculator
* Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color
* Apple II

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QEMU v2.12.0-RC2

April 15th, 2018, 21:54 Posted By: wraggster

QEMU v2.12.0-RC2 is released. QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performances.When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. A host driver called the QEMU accelerator (also known as KQEMU) is needed in this case. The virtualizer mode requires that both the host and guest machine use x86 compatible processors.

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NO$X51 v1.5

April 15th, 2018, 21:53 Posted By: wraggster

NO$X51 v1.5 is released. This project started back in 2001, at that time it's been emulating 80C31/80C51/P8xCE558 single-chip 8-bit microcontrollers, which didn't have too much pratical use as it didn't emulate whatever peripherals (like tape decks, washing machines, servo motors, temperature sensors, etc.). As of 2018 it turned into a fully fledged AMT630A emulator with 320x240 pixel TFT video, and standard 3KEY keypad input, allowing to create/debug AMT630A software...

NO$X51 Features:
The program includes CPU-emulation, assembler, disassembler, debugger, eeprom upload function, this wonderful package can be downloaded.

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DS4Windows v1.4.117

April 15th, 2018, 21:29 Posted By: wraggster

Heres a new version of the Dualshock app for Windows:

DS4Windows v1.4.117 is released. DS4Windows is a portable program that allows you to get the best experience while using a DualShock 4 on your PC. By emulating a Xbox 360 controller, many more games are accessible.

DS4Windows Requirements
* Microsoft .NET 4.5 or higher (needed to unzip the driver and for macros to work
* DS4 Driver (Downloaded & Installed with
* Microsoft 360 Driver (link inside DS4Windows, already installed on Windows 7 SP1 and higher or if you've used a 360 controller
* Sony DualShock 4 (This should be
* Micro USB
* (Optional)Bluetooth 2.1+, via adapter or built in pc (My recommendation) (Toshiba's bluetooth & Bluetooth adapters using CSR currently does not

DS4Windows changelog:
Fixed hover button color in Options form
Removed controller array scan from each report process
Updated TaskScheduler to version 2.8.0
Hold max and min lightbar color for pulse charging animation so both extremes are exposed for a longer period of time
Changes to hopefully work around hotplug issues with Bluetooth controller connections on Windows 7
Corrected order of key releases when using Win + Print Screen
Do not restart service when changing dinput option in profile


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Caprice Forever v18.4

April 15th, 2018, 21:27 Posted By: wraggster

Caprice Forever v18.4 is released. Caprice Forever is a Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows.

Caprice Forever v18.4 Changelog:
- Fix CRTC regression with "Turrican" but involving issues with "iMPdraw";
- Add Audio Speaker and PlayCity Line OUT or Internal option;
- Add Audio PlayCity invert channels option;
- Fix FDC regression to load "The Real Ghostbusters";
- Add Graphics explorer and Tile editor;
- Drop ROM file for testing purposes;
- Fix minor bugs.

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Xpeccy Build 20180405

April 15th, 2018, 21:26 Posted By: wraggster

Xpeccy Build 20180405 is released. Xpeccy is an emulator for ZX Spectrum running on the Unix/Linux OS.

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LaunchBox v8.2

April 15th, 2018, 21:25 Posted By: wraggster

LaunchBox v8.2 is released. LaunchBox is a relatively easy to set up frontend for DOSBox. It has plenty of options and is very pleasing to the eyes.

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AppleWin v1.27.2.0

April 15th, 2018, 21:25 Posted By: wraggster

Heres a release for fans of retro systems:

AppleWin v1.27.2.0 is released. AppleWin (also known as Apple //e Emulator for Windows) is an open source software emulator for running Apple II programs in Microsoft Windows. AppleWin has support for most programs that could run either on the Apple II+ or the Apple IIe. By default, AppleWin emulates the Extended Keyboard IIe (better known as the Platinum IIe) with built-in 80-column text support, 128 kilobytes of RAM, two 5.25-inch floppy disk drives, a joystick, a serial card and 65C02 CPU. AppleWin supports lo-res, hi-res, and double hi-res graphics modes and can emulate both color and monochrome Apple II monitors; later versions of AppleWin also can emulate a television set used as a monitor. Both 40-column and 80-column text is supported.

AppleWin can emulate the Apple II joystick (using the PC's default controller), paddle controllers (using the computer mouse), and can also emulate the Apple II joystick using the PC keyboard. AppleWin can also use the PC speaker to emulate the Apple II's sound if no sound card is available (does not work under NT-based Windows versions). Full screen mode is available through the use of DirectX. Features added to the latest versions of AppleWin include Ethernet support using Uthernet, Mockingboard and Phasor sound card support, SSI263 speech synthesis, hard drive disk images and save states.

AppleWin v1.27.2.0 Changelog:
- [Change #522] SSC: Support ACIA's TX Empty interrupt for both COM and TCP modes.
- [Change #311] SSC: Support ACIA's CTS/RTS.
- [Bug #308] Fixed TCP mode which was only generating an IRQ for first byte received.
- SSC: Fixed reading DIPSW registers.
- SSC: Support ACIA's Program Reset (write to register 9).
- SSC: Improved logging for unsupported modes (Echo, Tx break signal).

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Wine v3.6

April 15th, 2018, 02:08 Posted By: wraggster

I like Wine, mainly the red stuff but heres a new version of Wine itself:

A new version of Wine, an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix, has been released.

Quote:
Wine 3.6 ReleasedApril 13, 2018The Wine development release 3.6 is now available.What's new in this release:

• Support for PNG format icons.
• Support for 1D textures.
• More infrastructure for high DPI support.
• OLE data cache improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

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MAME v0.196 released!

April 7th, 2018, 18:38 Posted By: wraggster

The Multi Arcade emulator gets a new release, heres the long list of updates

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Mednafen v1.21.2

April 7th, 2018, 18:36 Posted By: wraggster

The multi consoles emulator gets a new release, heres the news:

Mednafen is a multi-game-system emulator, for various platforms, including emulation of the following systems:Atari Lynx,Famicom,GameBoy (Color),GameBoy Advance,Neo Geo Pocket (Color), NES(both NTSC and PAL),PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 (CD) and SuperGrafx,PC-FX,WonderSwan (Color).

Mednafen v1.21.2 Changelog:

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Romulus v0.037

March 19th, 2018, 20:30 Posted By: wraggster

Romulus v0.037 is released. Romulus is a tool. Romulus is a real alternative of your other Rom Managers.

Romulus v0.036 Changlog:
– ADDED a speed hack at rebuild files when trying to check duplicated checksums.
– ADDED Message question when trying to close Romulus.
– ADDED A description modification mask for Offlinelist profiles. Thanks to xlmldh.
– ADDED Simplifed chinese and Traditional chinese language by xlmldh.
– ADDED Detection of OS region China or Taiwan to set Simplified/Traditional chinese as default language at first run.
– ADDED Forze MD5 and/or SHA-1 message in log at profiles that needs it because has not enought CRC32 information.
– ADDED Detection of « No Sets information DATs » displaying this message and not an error reading DAT.
– ADDED Support for DOSCenter based DATs. More info at http://www.totaldoscollection.org/DOSCenter/
– ADDED to Community a basic module to connect to Romulus server with communications using private or public chats and 256bits encryption.
– FIXED File writing problems in some cases.
– FIXED Problems deleting files inside 7zip archives created with old 7zip versions.
– FIXED Displaying DATE and TIME values ignoring your system configuration.
– FIXED RTF encoding problems with « \ » char used in exportation to Word format.
– FIXED When found a dupe rom and must be stored in same ZIP file.
– FIXED Problems with downloadfile function inside threads.
– FIXED Problems extracting DATs from mame based EXE.
– FIXED Problems displaying menus information on asian Windows versions. Thanks to xlmldh.
– FIXED Updating Offlinelist profiles using the Offlinelist updater of Scanner option.
– FIXED Transparences and displaying images of buttons in Windows XP. Thanks to xlmldh.
– FIXED Problems launching emulators with unicode params.Thanks to xlmldh.
– FIXED WindowsXP and Vista commandline encoding problems. Thanks to xlmldh.
– FIXED Problems with current working directory of emulators when launching emulators. Thanks to xlmldh.
– FIXED Encoding DATs detection for imporation. Thanks to xlmldh.
– FIXED Problems displaying Files/Folders dialogs. Thanks to Agus.
– FIXED Wrong displaying information and a unnecessary delay when user click a column at loaded profile list.
– IMPROVED Community form interaction with the other forms.
– IMPROVED Rebuild speed for profiles with only CHDs.
– IMPROVED Scan/Rebuild when profile has baddumps.
– REDUCED Small freezing time when finishing DATs importation.
– CHANGED Time counter non based on OS datetime. Prevents problems if user changes datetime when Romulus is running.
– CHANGED Rollback ESCAPE button to close a Window with keydown event again.
– UPDATED CHDMan binaries to 0.193 version.
– UPDATED RAR binaries to 5.50 version.
– REMOVED in Settings – Advanced « Check for baddumps and duplicates », now always is checked and created by user decision.
– REMOVED hottrack painting in profiles and scan lists to decrease CPU render usage.

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WineD3D v3.3

March 14th, 2018, 10:12 Posted By: wraggster

If your a user of the emulator Wine and are on WIndows 8 or newer this is of interest to you:

WineD3D v3.3 is relesaed. WineD3D For Windows is a DirectX 1-11 to OpenGL wrapper based on WineD3D, which is an almost full implementation of DirectX used in Wine. Even if Windows supports DirectX natively, using WineD3D can enhance backwards compatiblity with older games, especially on Windows 8 and newer that don't support 16 bit screen modes. Another possible use is to emulate unsupported versions of DirectX, or porting DirectX applications to OpenGL without having to rewrite the rendering code.

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