Amstrad emulator

4-2-2007

JOYCE v2.1.11 (development) released. A bug in the Z80 emulation which caused Starglider to hang has been fixed.

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Genesis/Megadrive emulator for the DS

PicoDriveDS 0.1.7

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

 

PicoDriveDS 0.1.7 is up! Changes:

 

* Updated for DKA r20 and latest libnds.

* Switched to libfat with DLDI support.

* Fixed bug where select key must be released quickly in order to go back to file selection menu.

* Appended ROM check now only happens if FAT is unable to init.

* Added untested Opera RAM expansion support, and RAM support for SCCF.

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This is custom firmware 3.10 OE-A

 

Since it is the first release, it can only be installed as a full installation.

 

Instructions are as always, oeupdmaker to create the dxar from 150.PBP and 310.PBP, and 310oeflasher

to install the firmware from the dxar previously generated.

 

Although, it is obvious, i'll say it in capital letters: DO NOT USE ANY DXAR FROM 3.03 OE, USE THE ONE

GENERATED WITH THE INCLUDED OEUPDMAKER AND SONY 1.50 AND 3.10 FIRMWARES UPDATES.

 

Checksums of the generated dxar:

 

CRC32: 58D45EDF

MD5: BF1862F73FDF4B7458279ACFF4F6DAA2

SHA1: 683AD0ABA48A7968F3172A5AB2E41CF95A476801

SHA256: 2107EC67CE7434E250FF71AF302430B3586AA4519F3405D435 94414B3C940B74

 

Note 1: the installer will disable all plugins to avoid incompatibilities when booting. You can

enable them again in the recovery menu.

 

Note 2: the plugin to load 3.02 pops won't work anymore in 3.10 OE, due to some changes in pops

modules structure (meaudio fused with popsman, idcanager/idmanager behaviour slightly changed).

A new plugin for 3.10 could be written next week.

 

Changes in 3.10 OE-A:

 

- Change from 3.03 firmware to 3.10

 

- 4th level of brightness (aka battery eater) can now be selected also without ac adaptor.

 

- Changes in hen core:

 

* Static user elf's can now be executed in the 3.10 kernel. (this includes snes user version

between other programs)

 

* Tyranid's patch (added in 3.03 OE-C) consequences was not explained very well in the changelog of 3.03 OE-C:

 

- For programmers: it allows kernel modules to have user imports, making kernel programming

in 3.03/3.10 less strict.

 

- For users: plugins and applications that worked in 2.71 SE, but not in OE, *may* now work in 3.03OE-C

and 3.10 OE-A.

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for the Nintendo DS

I upgraded my version of devkitPro to R20 yesterday. I removed all the old gba_nds_fat code and replaced it with Chishm’s latest libfat routines, which now contain the directory related functions I need for the file browser in SpeccyDS. The latest libfat driver also includes support for DLDI.

 

SpeccyDS didn’t have any problems compiling with the new library and everything seems to be working as expected. However, I have been left with a bit of a dilemma. I know there is a lot of anticipation for DLDI support, but there are still a few major things I want to finish before releasing version 0.3. I don’t feel like I have added enough to SpeccyDS to justify releasing the next version.

 

I may release it as it is now and call it version 0.2a. However, the border changes will not be included since there isn’t any sensible way to set the border size. We shall see…

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