uBee512 2.2.0 released

[Robert]

Microbee emulator

 

14 December 2007 - SJK

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uBee512 v2.2.0

 

New for this release:

* Old colour circuit emulation added and is now the default for colour models except for Premium and 256TC models. Some values still require further investigation to be emulated fully.

* Added emulator functions that allow Z80 programs to have access to some emulator control and host file system functions.

* CP/M program tools added:

- CP/M to host (cpm2host) and a host to CP/M (host2cpm) file copying program. These can be used for transferring files between the host and CP/M disk images.

- A host directory listing program (hostdir).

- Emulation control (exitemu and reset) programs, allowing the emulator to exit or reset from within the emulator under a CP/M system command.

* Revised Premium/256TC model colours to be more inline with the standard CGA colours and hopefully a closer match to the Premium colours.

* Disk images can be made write protected by adding a trailing underscore character to the image name.

* Added a --hwflash option for Premium (alpha+) models. Only the 256TC and upgraded Premium disk models have hardware flashing enabled by default.

* Added documentation on how to create disk images from Microbee disks.

* No loading of the fallback boot disk if emulating a machine of less than 128K memory.

* Changes so that parallel printer still operates even if no --print options are specified.

* Added 'ubee512_ver.id' file to home account to allow later versions to upgrade all the required account files for Unix systems.

 

Fixed:

* The DS80 'DSK' format did not work. This format has now been fixed and tested.

* Mouse button click causing mbox to be brought into context and a button pressed/released caused undesired screen size change actions fixed.

* Changed all 128, 64, and 56K disk models to default to --piob7=PUP as tbasicc.com failed to work with --piob7=vsync.

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