ZEsarUX-11.0-Beta1

Version 11.0-Beta1 - David edition. 26 February 2024

• New things added:

Added loading audio from external audio source, like a tape player
Added ZENG Online feature, which allows to run multiplayer online game using a central server
Added ZENG support on curses driver
Added save screen to .txt file
Added save screen to .stl file, useful to print on 3D Printer
Added function to shift bits on Hex Editor
Added TempleOS GUI Style
Added QNX GUI Style
Added menu function to sync local snapshot to remote using ZRCP
Added ZRCP commands: open-menu, print-error
Added setting to force CHR$ 128 mode on ZX81
Added search function to locate menu entries

• Improvements:

Allow to not save configuration when exiting ZEsarUX
Allow to select normal ZEsarUX logo or X Anniversary logo
Allow to seng ZENG snapshots more frequently (even every 20 ms)
Allow to use cpu-step-mode from ZRCP on drivers stdout and simpletext
Allow autorewind setting for real tape too
Allow to disable Spectrum colours on real video mode too
Allow to press hotkeys at On Screen Keyboard

Improved ZX Vision:

• Changed left click mouse behaviour: when pressing left mouse button out of a window, it will close all menus.
  If you need to keep menu open and set focus on emulated machine, just left click and also press shift key.
• Improve window title background when not all buttons are visible
• Improve clicking and drawing an always visible window
• Menus can no longer be minimized (that had no sense)
• Process switcher: unminimize windows when selecting them and they were minimized
• Process switcher: now it can be set to be always visible
• Process switcher: icon names are more descriptive
• Menu titles are translated to selected language (not everything yet, please be patient)
• Improve perspective for 3D Particles widget on View Sensors

Improved ZX Desktop:

• Allow to set parameters when redefining upper buttons, for some actions like openwindow or set machine
• Allow to reconfigure upper buttons by right clicking over them
• When defining upper buttons or f-functions to SetMachine, machine name parameter is set to current machine
• When creating new icon, upper buttons or f-functions of type OpenWindow, a window list is displayed to select

• Fixes:

Fixed ZX Vision:

• Fixed bug when printing on footer and column was out of bounds (exactly at column 32)
• Fixed splash texts when row > 23
• Fixed pressing keys '.' and ',' on menu when machine is ZX80 or ZX81
• Fixed glitch on ZX Vision BeOS style, when pressing F5, window buttons didn't disappear or reappear
• Fixed refresh windows after pressing F8 On Screen Keyboard
• Fixed splash messages when background windows are enabled
• Fixed initial position for many windows

Fixed invalid Data Bus value on Jupiter Ace (it's 20H instead of FFH)
Fixed blockage when drawing Text Adventure Map and corrupted GAC adventure
Fixed timings of opcodes CP (HL), CP (IX+d), CP (IY+d)
Fixed bug on ZRCP when handling simultaneous connections
Fixed betadisk sector rollover reading/writing (thanks Mak7ym). Fixed loading for example of: BR_DEA7H, HOMER, PARADISE

ZEsarUX-X

Version X - 10th Anniversary edition. 24 September 2023

This is a special edition to celebrate the 10 years old of ZEsarUX. Version is called "X" (actually is version 10.10)

• New things added:

Added new compiled versions: Ubuntu and Fedora
Added PCW colour modes
Added PCW Joysticks support: Kempston, Cascade, DKTronics, OPQASpace
Added screen previews of directories and compressed files on File Selector
Added flash support on screen previews on File Selector
Added rom file selection for any machine you select, rom file name is saved on configuration
Added another toy "ZXLife" to a new menu Procrastinate
Added Ascii Table window
Added Creator Info to ZSF snapshots
Added compilation system release to Compile info window
Added Docker support
Added another easter egg ;)

• Improvements:

Improved ZENG:

• Allow to connect more than two hosts (up to 16)
• Hostnames/IPs accept changing port using ":port"
• Allow to disable sending input events (keyboard, joystick)
• Sync flash state between instances
• Added ZENG support for Jupiter Ace

Improved AY Player:

• Added playlist
• Added shuffle mode
• Added silence detection
• Added show current AY Player song playing on console

Improved Text Adventure features:

• Use artificial intelligence to get realistic images for location description text
• Added configuration setting for char filter
• Added configuration settings for Text Adventure Map: follow, show unvisited, show unconnected, show objects, show pictures, zoom level
• Added export draw strings to external file (txt, asm, c or pas)
• Preserve zoom level on Text Adventure Map when loading games
• Added GAC support for Text Adventure Map
• Added GAC support for Debug Adventure (cpu view 8) supporting:
  • Connections table
  • Dictionary
  • Objects
  • Verbs
  • Adverbs
  • Locations
  • Messages

Improved ZX Vision:

• New menu behaviour:

  • ESC key always closes all menus
  • When closing a window that's created from a menu, all menus will be closed
  • Cursor left go back to the previous menu, cursor right activates the item (the same as Enter)

• Added action to put windows in cascade

• Allow to use your own charset file on ZX Vision

• Allow to get charset from a game and use as your own charset file on ZX Vision

• Allow to render only changed pixels (so it speeds up render)

• Added support for utf-8 characters "ï" and "Á"

• Process switcher can be set to immutable, so massive actions on menu Windows, like minimize all, cascade, etc, don't affect it

• Allow to press ESC when selecting a line on a history items

• Now the window frame changes colour when you move the mouse over the resize zone (bottom right)

• Improve handling some F-actions/Icons/Redefined buttons: openwindow, linkto-, machineselection

Improved ZX Desktop

• Allow to disable border and footer when switching to full screen
• When switching to full screen and disable ZX Desktop, windows are restored after disabling full screen
• Set machine icon now is dynamic and shows machine icon indicated by parameter + an arrow
• Added ZX Desktop icons for TSConf, Baseconf

Improved ZRCP:

• Allow multiple simultaneous clients

• Important changes on ZRCP:

  • Before:
  • when a ZRCP connection is broken, cpu-step-mode will be disabled.
  • when a ZRCP connection is closed by "quit", "exit" or "logout" command, cpu-step-mode will be disabled
  • cpu-step-mode can't be disabled from the menu
  • Now:
  • when a ZRCP connection is broken, cpu-step-mode is not modified.
  • when a ZRCP connection is closed by "quit", "exit" or "logout" command, cpu-step-mode is not modified
  • cpu-step-mode can be disabled from the menu, pressing ESC

Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: updated machine id list
Improved Process Management: allow to copy any windows contents to internal clipboard
Improved Accessibility: Added Sounds for GUI events
Improved inserting Real Tape: process is faster and part runs on background
Improved Tape browser: allow browsing P and O files
Improve ZX80 Keyboard help to include Integral Functions

• Fixes:

Fixed several memory leaks (thanks to tool valgrind) found on:

• Drawing Text Aventure Map
• Loading .Z80 snapshots
• Using the Speccy online browser
• Running the Hilow Audio Convert
• Enabling ZRCP
• Downloading ZEsarUX extras
• Downloading ZX Spectrum Next MMC image
• Syncing file image from File Utilities
• Copying a folder from File Utilities
• Showing First Aid Windows

Fixed Initialization of Visual memory tables
Fixed ZX Vision windows relocation
Fixed rendering display when CPU is on Top Speed mode
Fixed error when no permissions writing to mmc, ide, trd, dsk, ddh (hilow): disable persistent writes when it happens
Fixed permissions when installing ZEsarUX on Linux: zxuno.flash and tbblue.mmc are now writable by anyone
Fixed Text Adventure Graphics rendering invalid characters
Fixed esxdos handler when using fopen flags: FA_READ + FA_WRITE + FA_OPEN_CREAT
Fixed ZRCP bug when closing connection (socket descriptor was kept open)
Fixed reading ESC key on curses driver
Fixed support for .config files on .dsk
Fixed segfault when: autorewind enabled+insert rwa/smp/wav file as standard tape+end of tape+try to load
Fixed possible segfault when downloading and uncompressing zip files and canceling operation
Fixed compilation when disabling pthreads support
Fixed showing info on Visual Real Tape when inserting a ZX80 audio tape
Fixed segfault on fbdev driver when changing machine
Fixed charset on simulate ZX80/81 Display on Speccy
Fixed simulate real loading when mouse movement
Fixed glitch switching hardware sprites on View Sprites

• Misc Changes:

Changed CPC Copy key assignation: now is the End key on your keyboard

• As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX old versions

These are old source code versions (before 10.0) of ZEsarUX

ZEsarUX-10.3

Version 10.3 - La Abadia del Crimen edition. 10 May 2023

There are lots of changes in this version, but some of them are remarkable:

• Added machines Amstrad PCW 8256, PCW 8512, CPC 6128, CPC 664
• Fixed 3" CF2 floppy disk emulation (used on +3, CPC, PCW): the floppy disk emulation has been rewritten from scratch and now is near perfect
• Lots of improvements on Debug CPU window
• Fixed almost all annoying audio clicks on Windows version (and on SDL audio driver on Linux)

The full changelog for this version 10.3 is:

• New things added:

Added Machine Amstrad PCW 8256
Added Machine Amstrad PCW 8512
Added Machine Amstrad CPC 6128
Added Machine Amstrad CPC 664
Added Visual Floppy to see floppy disk (+3, CPC, PCW, Betadisk) activity
Added DSK disk info menu: to get tracks and sectors of a disk
Added F-Functions: Poke, Visual Real Tape, Settings, Switch footer
Added Process Switcher window, which is like a "Taskbar" on the ZX Desktop
Added ZRCP command: "close-all-menus"
Added icon/F-key to open any window identified by its name
Allow F-keys to assign extra info for actions (like window name on openwindow action, or snapshot name on linktosnapshot action)
Added more Hotswap combinations
Added Advanced menu items: now by default, advanced menu items are hidden, you should enable them on Settings->Advanced menu items
Added command line setting --machinelist to get machines list names whitespace separated
Added .POK file Smartloading
Added XEyes "Toy" to follow mouse
Added Sierpinsky Meter Type to View Sensors

• Improvements:

Improved Debug CPU:

• switched function keys "m" and "o": now "x" change mode, and "m" change memptr (to be coherent with other similar windows)
• added (hl), (de), (bc)
• added (nn) when selecting an opcode like: ld reg,(nn) and ld (nn),reg
• added (ix+d), (iy+d) when selecting an opcode like: ld reg,(IX+d), etc
• added continuos speed 4 (run 10 opcodes every time, with no pause)
• show last memory pointer when changing it
• show B register on satisfy condition for DJNZ
• added new functions OPMRV(e), OPMWV(e), OPMRA(e), OPMWA(e): these return 1 if the last opcode has set any of these variables to e.
• added pseudoregister EPC to parser to match memory bank and offset for PC register
• allow holding keys for quick cursor move, etc
• watches now show numbers in hexadecimal format

Improved Debug Console: better refresh, dynamic width
Improved Debug Messages: allow to filter by message class (DSK, PD765, etc...)
Improved Debug I/O ports window: autoresize content height when do not fit in window

Improved Configuration:

• better parsing: warning when ZEsarUX has been downgraded
• if unknown parameter on configuration file, warn the user but start anyway
• moved showing Configuration file from Running info menu to Settings-> Configuration file

Improved DSK viewer:

• better filesystem detection
• show hidden and read only files
• show disk specification format
• show where files are located on Visual Floppy

Improved View Sprites:

• sprite is no longer disabled when changing memory pointer
• you can view sprites up to 1024x1024
• show PCW common format screen

Improved ZX Desktop:

• dynamic icons (Trash, My Machine, ...) assigned on top buttons now show dynamic state (trash empty/full, current machine image, etc)
• show icon indicators for open apps on ZX Desktop
• added setting to empty Trash on exit
• fixed icons zoom level when selecting some machines that use menu gui zoom = 2 (Next, CPC, QL, etc)
• ZX Desktop size now is multiplied by GUI Zoom (Zoom 2 on machines like Next, CPC, QL, etc)
• CF2 Floppy icon (+3, CPC, PCW) now is animated when motor is on

Improved ZX Vision:

• added windows-style TaskBar called "Process Switcher"
• added Process ID (PID) for all windows
• text input fields now handle repeated keys
• some text input fields now have history of last items, and history is saved on configuration file
• added function to maximize all windows
• allow reducing character height
• improved window list showing spent time on each window and pid of each window/process
• improved rendering background windows
• yes/no confirmation dialogs are translated to si/no in Spanish and Catalan
• added more menu translations to Spanish and Catalan

Improved DSK extractor: better filesystem detection
Improved ZSF Snapshots: allow to save ROM contents, useful when running custom roms
Improved File selector: can show recent folders (press space on recent files)
Improved changing pointer on some windows: can use an expression when changing memory pointer on Debug CPU, View Sprites, Hexdump, Disassemble, Poke
Improved changing to machines with big displays (Next, QL, CPC...): zoom is autochanged to 1
Improved joystick type selection
Improved Raspberry Pi emulation: performance parameters are not changed by default anymore, you must use "--changeslowparameters" on slow Rpi like Rpi1 or 2

• Fixes:

Fixed Spectrum +3 disk emulation: the disk emulation layer has been rewritten from scratch and now is near perfect.
Just some statistics from testing 943 total Spectrum +3 disks:
-Unprotected games: 98.3 % working
-Paul Owens protected games: 85.7 % working
-Speedlock protected games: 54.2 % working
-Alkatraz protected games: 0 % working
-Unknown method protected games: 0 % working (a total of 15 disks that seem to be protected but don't know the method)

Fixed almost all annoying audio clicks on Windows version (and on SDL audio driver on Linux)
Fixed empty results when querying some games on Speccy online browser
Fixed random crash on startup on Linux when executing some network operations (check updates, check last users, send updates)
Fixed segfaults when exiting using CTRL-C
Fixed autoload on Spectrum +3
Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when changing to a machine with bigger resolution. It seems to affect Linux and Windows but not Mac. This is a bug that has always existed (a "long life bug" XD)
Fixed showing creator on DSK file viewer
Fixed pause: can now return when pressing mouse button too
Fixed assembler parsing expressions (NN) and NN is an hexadecimal number
Fixed debug step over and sending keys to emulated machine
Fixed setting "set machine snap load" when loading .Z80 version 1 snapshots
Fixed real joystick menu disabled on Mac OS when switching border
Fixed putting Text Adventure Map window on background

• Misc Changes:

Persistent writes on DSK files (+3/CPC/PCW disks) are now disabled by default

• As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX-10.3-Beta1

Version 10.3 - Beta1 - xxxx edition. 13 April 2023

• New things added:

Added Machine Amstrad CPC 6128
Added Machine Amstrad CPC 664
Added Machine Amstrad PCW 8256
Added Machine Amstrad PCW 8512
Added Advanced menu items: now by default, advanced menu items are hidden, you should enable them on Settings->Advanced menu items
Added Visual Floppy to see floppy disk (+3, CPC, PCW, Betadisk) activity
Added Poke F-Function
Added Visual Real Tape F-Function
Added Process Switcher window, which is like a "Taskbar" on the ZX Desktop
Added Settings F-Function
Added DSK disk info menu: to get tracks and sectors of a disk
Added ZRCP command: "close-all-menus"
Added icon/F-key to open any window identified by its name
Allow F-keys to assign extra info for actions (like window name on openwindow action, or snapshot name on linktosnapshot action)
Added XEyes "Toy" to follow mouse
Added more Hotswap combinations
Added command line setting --machinelist to get machines list names whitespace separated
Added Sierpinsky Meter Type to View Sensors
Added .POK file Smartloading
Added SDL Audio Callback type setting in order to fix Windows Audio clicking

• Improvements:

Improved Configuration:

• better parsing: warning when ZEsarUX has been downgraded
• if unknown parameter on configuration file, warn the user but start anyway
• moved showing Configuration file from Running info menu to Settings-> Configuration file

Improved File selector:

• Can show recent folders (press space on recent files)

Improved DSK viewer:

• better filesystem detection
• show hidden and read only files
• show disk specification format
• show where files are located on Visual Floppy

Improved DSK extractor:

• better filesystem detection

Improved Debug Console: better refresh, dynamic width?? (TODO)
Improved Debug Messages: allow to filter by message class (DSK, PD765, etc...)
Improved Debug I/O ports window: autoresize content height when do not fit in window

Improved Debug CPU:

• switched function keys "m" and "o": now "x" change mode, and "m" change memptr (to be coherent with other similar windows)
• added (hl), (de), (bc)
• added (nn) when selecting an opcode like: ld reg,(nn) and ld (nn),reg
• added (ix+d), (iy+d) when selecting an opcode like: ld reg,(IX+d), etc
• added continuos speed 4 (run 10 opcodes every time, with no pause)
• show last memory pointer when changing it
• show B register on satisfy condition for DJNZ
• added new functions OPMRV(e), OPMWV(e), OPMRA(e), OPMWA(e): these return 1 if the last opcode has set any of these variables to e.
• added pseudoregister EPC to parser to match memory bank and offset for PC register
• allow holding keys for quick cursor move, etc
• watches now show numbers in hexadecimal format

Improved View Sprites:

• sprite is no longer disabled when changing memory pointer
• you can view sprites up to 1024x1024
• show PCW common format screen

Improved changing pointer on some windows: can use an expression when changing memory pointer on Debug CPU, View Sprites, Hexdump, Disassemble, Poke
Improved changing to machines with big displays (Next, QL, CPC...): zoom is autochanged to 1
Improved joystick type selection

Improved ZX Desktop:

• Dynamic icons (Trash, My Machine, ...) assigned on top buttons now show dynamic state (trash empty/full, current machine image, etc)
• Show icon indicators for open apps on ZX Desktop
• Added setting to empty Trash on exit
• Fixed icons zoom level when selecting some machines that use menu gui zoom = 2 (Next, CPC, QL, etc)
• ZX Desktop size now is multiplied by GUI Zoom (Zoom 2 on machines like Next, CPC, QL, etc)
• CF2 Floppy icon (+3, CPC, PCW) now is animated when motor is on

Improved ZX Vision:

• Added windows TaskBar
• Added Process ID (PID) for all windows
• Text input fields now handle repeated keys
• Some text input fields now have history of last items, and history is saved on configuration file
• Added function to maximize all windows
• Allow reducing character height
• Improve window list showing spent time on each window and pid of each window/process
• Improve rendering background windows
• Yes/no confirmation dialogs are translated to si/no in Spanish and Catalan

• Fixes:

Fixed random crash on startup on Linux when executing some network operations (check updates, check last users, send updates)
Fixed segfaults when exiting using CTRL-C
Fixed Spectrum +3 disk emulation: TODO: add more details here
Fixed autoload on Spectrum +3
Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when changing to a machine with bigger resolution. It seems to affect Linux and Windows but not Mac. This is a bug that has always existed (a "long life bug" XD)

Fixed showing creator on DSK file viewer
Fixed pause: can now return when pressing mouse button too
Fixed assembler parsing expressions (NN) and NN is an hexadecimal number

• As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX-10.2

Version 10.2 - Hysteria edition. 26 October 2022

• New things added:

Added configurable icons to the ZX Desktop. These icons can:
-Open windows, for example View Sprites
-Trigger actions, like Reset
-File links, these are linked to tapes or snapshots on your disk drive
-There are other special icons, like Trash Can
These icons opens a whole new world on ZEsarUX, so the ZX Desktop is becoming a Full Desktop environment :)

Added new emulated machines:
-ZX Spectrum 48k+
-Microdigital TK80
-Microdigital TK82
-Microdigital TK82C
-Microdigital TK83
-Microdigital TK85
-Microdigital TK95 Spanish
-Timex Computer 2048
-Timex Computer 2068
-Timex Sinclair 1000
-Timex Sinclair 1500

Added Copy Interfaces emulation:
-Defcon
-Dinamid3
-Hilow Barbanegra
-Interface007
-Microhobby Pokeador Automatico
-Phoenix
-Ramjet
-Spec-Mate
-Transtape

Added Dinamic SD1 emulation
Allow .Z80 corrupted snapshot loading from ZXSP emulator with additional header of 31 byte size
Added ZSF support for Timex TS2068, MK14, Chrome, Prism, Chloe, Sam Coupe
Added path setting where to download files from the speccy and zx81 online browser
Added disk image browsing from storage MMC/IDE menus
Added PZX load support as standard tape
Added TAP to PZX converter
Added TAP to TZX turbo converter (TZX Turbo 4000 bauds, to use with Rodolfo Guerra ROMS)
Added TAP to SCR converter
Added some actions than can be fired from command line and don't start ZEsarUX:
--convert-tap-tzx, --convert-tap-tzx-turbo-rg, --convert-tap-pzx , --convert-tap-scr, --convert-tzx-tap, --convert-pzx-tap

• Improvements:

Improved Z88 emulation:
-Changed colour palette to better match a real Z88
-Show keys shortcuts below the Z88 display
-Snapshot setting & menu action to synchronize Z88 clock with your computer clock
-Inserting Z88 cards: now it does not hang the emulator during the insert
-Selecting Z88 cards: submenus for types and sizes
-Z88 footer: show when writing a card in slot 3, colors follow style
-Z88 device icons: different icons for slot 1,2,3, show when writing a card in slot 3, show when flap is open

Improved File selector:
-Allow to have a full screen preview if window is big enough
-Better hotkeys explanation

Improved Debugging:
-Allow to change memory pointer to a value from the stack
-Added a setting to show on which scanline has been executed a Halt, inverting border color
-When enabling step mode, emulation is paused on all menus
-Preserve step mode when exiting debug cpu that was opened by a breakpoint
-When a breakpoint is fired, step mode is kept on all menus
-Breakpoints actions "call", "printc", "set-register" and "write" can now use expressions instead of fixed values
-Added breakpoint actions: "disassemble", "printregs"
-Warn on footer when step mode
-Enlarge width of breakpoints list

Improved SmartLoad & Drag-Drop:
-Allow to load a .rom file as a custom rom file for the current machine
-Allow to Drag-Drop when menu open

Improved ZX Vision:
-Reorder windows when changing machine but only when ZEsarUX window is smaller than previous one
-Custom arrows characters
-Windows are now restored by default on starting ZEsarUX
-Better resize & reposition for new windows out of range

Improved ZX Desktop:
-Allow to extend ZX Desktop vertically
-Right mouse button is now used for secondary actions. It no longer simulates ESC key (unless you enable it on ZX Vision Settings)
-Added frame around emulated machine
-Added setting to mix scr image with background
-Allow to set any tape/snapshot/disk that contains a spectrum screen (SCR) as background
-Apply frameskip when drawing ZX Desktop Background

Improved HiLow DataDrive emulation:
-Allow to Format, Browse and Chkdsk a Hilow DataDrive image (.ddh file)
-Allow to convert audio from a real Hilow DataDrive tape to an image file (.ddh)
-Added technical documentation on the extras package

Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added sprite rendering priority bit
Improved ZRCP: allow to change command prompt
Improved generated TZX and PZX files: include date and ZEsarUX version in header
Improved Custom machine menu: added +2E MMC machine
Improved Tape browser: show autostart line on basic blocks

• Fixes:

Fixed handling files larger than 2 GB on 32 bit CPU (it also applies to the Windows version even on a 64 bit CPU)
Fixed using mmc images larger than 2 GB
Fixed redrawing ZX Desktop when resizing main ZEsarUX window
Fixed hang when using View Variables and memory is corrupted
Fixed hang pressing two times F-key assigned to Pause (Mac OS unaffected)
Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when starting machine ZX Spectrum +2 Spanish. This is a bug that has always existed
Fixed losing inserted Z88 cards when changing cpu speed
Fixed Z80 behavior after EI or DD/FD prefixes and interrupts
Fixed Z80 behavior running block opcodes (LDIR, etc) and interrupts
Fixed .Z80 Timex TS2068 snapshot loading
Fixed showing Recent Files when file name contains character %
Fixed HiLow DataDrive emulation: can now load, save, format... all actions are now working
Fixed crash (stack smashing detected) when showing Debug CPU window (and compiled using -fstack-protector)
Fixed segfault when starting ZEsarUX + disabled welcome splash message + enabled reopen windows on start setting + no window to restore
Fixed trap print numbers on Spectrum and ZX81 (setting --chardetectcompatnum)
Fixed segfault when selecting an invalid file type on real tape
Fixed Keyboard Help image for Spectravideo 318
Fixed allowed machines when saving snapshots .ZX
Fixed Breakpoints actions: now are executed everywhere (even in the menu)
Fixed pressing key c (continuous mode) on debug cpu (emulation was unpaused temporarily)
Fixed TZX turbo files extract (including screen previews), convert & file info
Fixed .Z80 and .ZSF screen previews when using 128k screen page 7
Fixed .DSK extract
Fixed crash when saving .ZSF snapshots when a byte DD is found just before a byte is repeated more than 256 times
Fixed Next MMC images download. Now you need SSL enabled on compilation

Fixed ZX Vision:
-Fixed showing cursor on edit fields and text length longer than visible

• As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX-10.2 RC3

Version 10.2-RC3 - Hysteria edition. 07 October 2022

• New things added:

Added new emulated machines:
-ZX Spectrum 48k+
-Microdigital TK80
-Microdigital TK82
-Microdigital TK82C
-Microdigital TK83
-Microdigital TK85
-Microdigital TK95 Spanish
-Timex Computer 2048
-Timex Computer 2068
-Timex Sinclair 1000
-Timex Sinclair 1500

Added Copy Interfaces emulation:
-Defcon
-Dinamid3
-Hilow Barbanegra
-Interface007
-Microhobby Pokeador Automatico
-Phoenix
-Ramjet
-Spec-Mate
-Transtape

Added Dinamic SD1 emulation
Allow .Z80 corrupted snapshot loading from ZXSP emulator with additional header of 31 byte size
Added ZSF support for Timex TS2068, MK14, Chrome, Prism, Chloe, Sam Coupe
Added path setting where to download files from the speccy and zx81 online browser
Added disk image browsing from storage MMC/IDE menus
Added PZX load support as standard tape
Added TAP to PZX converter
Added TAP to TZX turbo converter (TZX Turbo 4000 bauds, to use with Rodolfo Guerra ROMS)
Added TAP to SCR converter
Added some actions than can be fired from command line and don't start ZEsarUX:
--convert-tap-tzx, --convert-tap-tzx-turbo-rg, --convert-tap-pzx , --convert-tap-scr, --convert-tzx-tap, --convert-pzx-tap

• Improvements:

Improved Z88 emulation:
-Changed colour palette to better match a real Z88
-Show keys shortcuts below the Z88 display
-Snapshot setting & menu action to synchronize Z88 clock with your computer clock
-Inserting Z88 cards: now it does not hang the emulator during the insert
-Selecting Z88 cards: submenus for types and sizes
-Z88 footer: show when writing a card in slot 3, colors follow style
-Z88 device icons: different icons for slot 1,2,3, show when writing a card in slot 3, show when flap is open

Improved File selector:
-Allow to have a full screen preview if window is big enough
-Better hotkeys explanation

Improved Debugging:
-Allow to change memory pointer to a value from the stack
-Added a setting to show on which scanline has been executed a Halt, inverting border color
-When enabling step mode, emulation is paused on all menus
-Preserve step mode when exiting debug cpu that was opened by a breakpoint
-When a breakpoint is fired, step mode is kept on all menus
-Breakpoints actions "call", "printc", "set-register" and "write" can now use expressions instead of fixed values
-Added breakpoint actions: "disassemble", "printregs"
-Warn on footer when step mode
-Enlarge width of breakpoints list

Improved SmartLoad & Drag-Drop:
-Allow to load a .rom file as a custom rom file for the current machine
-Allow to Drag-Drop when menu open

Improved ZX Vision:
-Reorder windows when changing machine but only when ZEsarUX window is smaller than previous one
-Custom arrows characters
-Windows are now restored by default on starting ZEsarUX
-Better resize & reposition for new windows out of range

Improved ZX Desktop:
-Added configurable icons to the ZX Desktop: icons to windows, icons to actions, file links
-Right mouse button is now used for secondary actions. It no longer simulates ESC key (unless you enable it on ZX Vision Settings)
-Allow to extend ZX Desktop vertically
-Added frame around emulated machine
-Added setting to mix scr image with background
-Allow to set any tape/snapshot/disk that contains a spectrum screen (SCR) as background
-Apply frameskip when drawing ZX Desktop Background

Improved HiLow DataDrive emulation:
-Allow to Format, Browse and Chkdsk a Hilow DataDrive image (.ddh file)
-Allow to convert audio from a real Hilow DataDrive tape to an image file (.ddh)
-Added technical documentation on the extras package

Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added sprite rendering priority bit
Improved ZRCP: allow to change command prompt
Improved generated TZX and PZX files: include date and ZEsarUX version in header
Improved Custom machine menu: added +2E MMC machine
Improved Tape browser: show autostart line on basic blocks

• Fixes:

Fixed handling files larger than 2 GB on 32 bit CPU (it also applies to the Windows version even on a 64 bit CPU)
Fixed using mmc images larger than 2 GB
Fixed redrawing ZX Desktop when resizing main ZEsarUX window
Fixed hang when using View Variables and memory is corrupted
Fixed hang pressing two times F-key assigned to Pause (Mac OS unaffected)
Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when starting machine ZX Spectrum +2 Spanish. This is a bug that has always existed
Fixed losing inserted Z88 cards when changing cpu speed
Fixed Z80 behavior after EI or DD/FD prefixes and interrupts
Fixed Z80 behavior running block opcodes (LDIR, etc) and interrupts
Fixed .Z80 Timex TS2068 snapshot loading
Fixed showing Recent Files when file name contains character %
Fixed HiLow DataDrive emulation: can now load, save, format... all actions are now working
Fixed crash (stack smashing detected) when showing Debug CPU window (and compiled using -fstack-protector)
Fixed segfault when starting ZEsarUX + disabled welcome splash message + enabled reopen windows on start setting + no window to restore
Fixed trap print numbers on Spectrum and ZX81 (setting --chardetectcompatnum)
Fixed segfault when selecting an invalid file type on real tape
Fixed Keyboard Help image for Spectravideo 318
Fixed allowed machines when saving snapshots .ZX
Fixed Breakpoints actions: now are executed everywhere (even in the menu)
Fixed pressing key c (continuous mode) on debug cpu (emulation was unpaused temporarily)
Fixed TZX turbo files extract (including screen previews), convert & file info
Fixed .Z80 and .ZSF screen previews when using 128k screen page 7
Fixed .DSK extract
Fixed crash when saving .ZSF snapshots when a byte DD is found just before a byte is repeated more than 256 times
Fixed Next MMC images download. Now you need SSL enabled on compilation

Fixed ZX Vision:
-Fixed showing cursor on edit fields and text length longer than visible

• As always, there are some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX-10.2 RC2

Version 10.2-RC2 - Hysteria edition. 24 August 2022

Added new emulated machines:
-ZX Spectrum 48k+
-Microdigital TK80
-Microdigital TK82
-Microdigital TK82C
-Microdigital TK83
-Microdigital TK85
-Microdigital TK95 Spanish
-Timex Computer 2048
-Timex Computer 2068
-Timex Sinclair 1000
-Timex Sinclair 1500

Added Hilow Barbanegra emulation
Added Transtape emulation
Added Microhobby Pokeador Automatico emulation
Allow .Z80 corrupted snapshot loading from ZXSP emulator with additional header of 31 byte size
Added ZSF support for Timex TS2068, MK14, Chrome, Prism, Chloe, Sam Coupe
Added path setting where to download files from the speccy and zx81 online browser
Added disk image browsing from storage MMC/IDE menus
Added PZX load support as standard tape
Added TAP to PZX converter
Added TAP to TZX turbo converter (TZX Turbo 4000 bauds, to use with Rodolfo Guerra ROMS)
Added some actions than can be fired from command line and don't start ZEsarUX:
--convert-tap-tzx, --convert-tap-tzx-turbo-rg, --convert-tap-pzx , --convert-tzx-tap, --convert-pzx-tap

Improved Z88 emulation:
-Changed colour palette to better match a real Z88
-Show keys shortcuts below the Z88 display
-Snapshot setting & menu action to synchronize Z88 clock
-Inserting Z88 cards: now it does not hang the emulator during the insert
-Selecting Z88 cards: submenus for types and sizes
-Z88 footer: show when writing a card in slot 3, colors follow style
-Z88 device icons: different icons for slot 1,2,3, show when writing a card in slot 3

Improved File selector:
-Allow to have a full screen preview if window is big enough
-Better legend key explanation

Improved Debugging:
-Added a setting to show on which scanline has been executed a Halt, inverting border color
-When enabling step mode, emulation is paused on all menus
-Preserve step mode when exiting debug cpu that was opened by breakpoint
-When a breakpoint is fired, step mode is kept on all menus
-Breakpoints actions "call", "printc", "set-register" and "write" can now use expressions instead of fixed values
-Added breakpoint actions: "disassemble", "printregs"
-Warn on footer when step mode
-Enlarge width of breakpoints list

Improved SmartLoad & Drag-Drop:
-Allow to load a .rom file as a custom rom file for the current machine
-Allow to Drag-Drop when menu open

Improved ZX Vision:
-Reorder windows when changing machine but only when ZEsarUX window is smaller than previous one
-Custom arrows characters
-Windows are now restored by default on starting ZEsarUX

Improved ZX Desktop:
-Added configurable icons to the ZX Desktop: icons to windows, icons to actions, file links
-Right mouse button is used now for secondary actions. It no longer simulates ESC key (unless you enable it on ZX Vision Settings)
-Allow to extend ZX Desktop vertically
-Added frame around emulated machine
-Added setting to mix scr image with background

Improved HiLow DataDrive emulation:
-Allow to Format, Browse and Chkdsk an Hilow DataDrive image (.ddh file)
-Allow to convert audio from a real Hilow DataDrive tape to an image file (.ddh)
-Added technical documentation on the extras package

Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added sprite rendering priority bit
Improved ZRCP: allow to change command prompt
Improved generated TZX and PZX files: include date and ZEsarUX version in header
Improved Custom machine menu: added +2E MMC machine

Fixed handling files larger than 2 GB on 32 bit CPU (it does apply to the Windows version even on a 64 bit CPU)
Fixed using mmc images larger than 2 GB
Fixed redrawing ZX Desktop when resizing window
Fixed hang when using View Variables and memory corrupted
Fixed hang pressing two times F-key assigned to Pause (Mac OS unaffected)
Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when starting machine ZX Spectrum +2 Spanish. This is a bug that has always existed
Fixed losing inserted Z88 cards when changing cpu speed
Fixed Z80 behavior after EI or DD/FD prefixes and interrupts
Fixed Z80 behavior running block opcodes (LDIR, etc) and interrupts
Fixed .Z80 Timex TS2068 snapshot loading
Fixed showing Recent Files when file name contains character %
Fixed HiLow DataDrive emulation
Fixed crash (stack smashing detected) when showing Debug CPU window (and compiled using -fstack-protector)
Fixed segfault when starting ZEsarUX + disabled welcome splash message + enabled reopen windows on start setting + no window to restore
Fixed trap print numbers on Spectrum and ZX81 (setting --chardetectcompatnum)
Fixed segfault when selecting an invalid file type on real tape
Fixed Keyboard Help image for Spectravideo 318
Fixed allowed machines when saving snapshots .ZX
Fixed Breakpoints actions: now are executed everywhere (even in the menu)
Fixed pressing key c (continuous mode) on debug cpu (emulation was unpaused temporarily)
Fixed TZX turbo files extract (including screen previews), convert & file info
Fixed .Z80 and .ZSF screen previews when using 128k screen page 7
Fixed .DSK extract
Fixed crash when saving .ZSF snapshots when a byte DD is found just before a byte is repeated more than 256 times

Fixed ZX Vision:
-Fixed showing cursor on edit fields and text length longer than visible

Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX-10.2 RC1

Version 10.2-RC1 - Hysteria edition. 22 July 2022

Allow .Z80 corrupted snapshot loading from ZXSP emulator with additional header of 31 byte size
Added ZSF support for Timex TS2068
Added setting for path where to download files from the speccy and zx81 online browser
Added machine Spectrum 48k+
Added machine Timex TC2048
Added machine Timex TC2068
Added disk image browsing from storage MMC/IDE menus
Added PZX load support as standard tape
Added TAP to PZX converter
Added TAP to TZX turbo converter (TZX Turbo 4000 bauds, to use with Rodolfo Guerra ROMS)
Added some actions than can be fired from command line and don't start ZEsarUX:
--convert-tap-tzx, --convert-tap-tzx-turbo-rg, --convert-tap-pzx , --convert-tzx-tap, --convert-pzx-tap

Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added sprite rendering priority bit
Improved ZRCP: allow to change command prompt
Improved generated TZX and PZX files: include date and ZEsarUX version in header

Improved File selector:
-Allow to have a full screen preview if window is big enough
-Better legend key explanation

Improved Debugging:
-Added a setting to show on which scanline has been executed a Halt, inverting border color
-When enabling step mode, emulation is paused on all menus
-Preserve step mode when exiting debug cpu that was opened by breakpoint
-When a breakpoint is fired, step mode is kept on all menus
-Breakpoints actions "call", "printc", "set-register" and "write" can now use expressions instead of fixed values
-Added breakpoint actions: "disassemble", "printregs"
-Warn on footer when step mode
-Enlarge width of breakpoints list

Improved SmartLoad & Drag-Drop:
-Allow to load a .rom file as a custom rom file for the current machine
-Allow to Drag-Drop when menu open

Improved ZX Vision:
-Reorder windows when changing machine but only when ZEsarUX window is smaller than previous one
-Custom arrows characters
-Windows are now restored by default on starting ZEsarUX

Improved ZX Desktop:
-Added configurable icons to the ZX Desktop: icons to windows, icons to actions, file links
-Right mouse button is used now for secondary actions. It no longer simulates ESC key (unless you enable it on ZX Vision Settings)
-Allow to extend ZX Desktop vertically
-Added frame around emulated machine
-Added setting to mix scr image with background

Improved HiLow DataDrive emulation:
-Allow to Format, Browse and Chkdsk an Hilow DataDrive image (.ddh file)
-Allow to convert audio from a real Hilow DataDrive tape to an image file (.ddh)
-Added technical documentation on the extras package

Fixed bug that may crash ZEsarUX when starting machine ZX Spectrum +2 Spanish. This is a bug that has always existed.
Fixed Z80 behavior after EI or DD/FD prefixes and interrupts
Fixed Z80 behavior running block opcodes (LDIR, etc) and interrupts
Fixed .Z80 Timex TS2068 snapshot loading
Fixed showing Recent Files when file name contains character %
Fixed HiLow DataDrive emulation
Fixed crash (stack smashing detected) when showing Debug CPU window (and compiled using -fstack-protector)
Fixed segfault when starting ZEsarUX + disabled welcome splash message + enabled reopen windows on start setting + no window to restore
Fixed trap print numbers on Spectrum and ZX81 (setting --chardetectcompatnum)
Fixed segfault when selecting an invalid file type on real tape
Fixed Keyboard Help image for Spectravideo 318
Fixed allowed machines when saving snapshots .ZX
Fixed Breakpoints actions: now are executed everywhere (even in the menu)
Fixed pressing key c (continuous mode) on debug cpu (emulation was unpaused temporarily)
Fixed TZX turbo files extract (including screen previews), convert & file info
Fixed .Z80 and .ZSF screen previews when using 128k screen page 7
Fixed .DSK extract
Fixed crash when saving .ZSF snapshots when a byte DD is found just before a byte is repeated more than 256 times

Fixed ZX Vision:
-Fixed showing cursor on edit fields and text length longer than visible

Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX-10.1

Version 10.1 - Carrier Command edition. 06 May 2022

Added real joystick support on Mac
Added joystick support for Hat controllers
Added new joystick event to exit ZEsarUX
Added action to trigger left-right movement on joystick, to play Decathlon-like games
Added MSX Joystick emulation
Added Spectravideo Joystick emulation
Added support for simple speaker output on Raspberry PI Using GPIO pins and no sound card
Added setting to select a different joystick on Windows and OS with SDL driver
Added setting to change ULA Data bus value
Added showing microdrive label when expanding qlay mdv files of size 174930 bytes
Added Jupiter Ace TAP & TZX support on tape browser
Added TZX support for ID 33 - Hardware type
Added Autorewind tape setting
Added Z80 Halt signal state support on zsf snapshot
Added device button for ZX-Uno Flash device
Added another easter egg ;)

Improved Text Adventure Debugging:
-Added Text Adventure Map
-Added Locations Connections list
-Added direct menu entry and f-function/button to view 8 (adventure debug)
-Improved detection of some paws adventures (like superlopez and abracadabra)
-Improved detection of some daad adventures (like jabato)

Improved Debug CPU:
-Now it highlights which registers will be modified by the opcode at the cursor position
-New address breakpoint expression FPEEK, that can read contents in the range of the total machine address space
-Added t-states counter on default view
-Allow to have a decimal view of opcode decoding using key m (mode)
-Added breakpoints actions to start and stop cpu transaction log

Improved Accessibility:
-Added direct settings for inverse colours and gray mode
-Added setting to disable Flash

Improved ZX Vision:
-Reduced up to 5 times cpu usage on menu by using a cache
-Improve window refreshing by disabling autoframeskip while moving or resizing
-Allow to set a window always visible
-Enlarge content size when resizing window without having to recreate it
-Notify to the parent function when a window has been resized
-Allow to avoid refreshing window when changing scroll
-Added GUI styles: AmigaOS, Atari TOS, OS/2, RiscOS, ZEsarUX Plus (and this one is now the default style)
-Improve RetroMac GUI style: striped title bar
-Improve BeOS GUI style: buttons positions right after the title
-Detect when video driver can not use the current GUI style and set to another one that can use
-Added maximize window button
-Background button on inactive windows is hidden by default
-Bigger window resize indicator (bottom-right of the window)
-Text windows enlarge/reduce line width when resizing windows
-Text windows wider by default (40 characters instead of 32)
-When sending a window to the background, and the setting "Background windows even when menu closed" is enabled, the menu will be closed
-Improve accented characters on different charsets
-Added translation of menu items to Spanish and Catalan
-Added shortcuts helper to see hotkeys pressed
-Added button preview when customizing ZX Desktop buttons or F-keys
-Better detection of Spectrum screen file: any file size of 6912 bytes
-Show when a menu has submenus using the ">" character
-Preserve minimized and maximized state on windows
-Remember size before minimize and maximize window
-Added actions on menu Window Management to: switch to, minimize, maximize, move to bottom, set always visible, window information
-Window management window can run on background
-ZX Desktop: footer buttons to enlarge or reduce ZX Desktop, not just enabling or disabling
-ZX Desktop: allow to set a background SCR file
-ZX Desktop: added setting to disable ZX Desktop when going to full screen

Improved PC Speaker Driver: now there is a new driver "onebitspeaker" which can handle both PC Speaker and Raspberry PI GPIO speaker
Improved PC Speaker audio driver: better sound quality and high frequency filter
Improved OSD Adventure Keyboard: allow to send space, enter and quotation marks
Improved OSD Keyboard: allow to use mouse, preserve window geometry
Improved Keyboard Help: load image automatically when changing machine
Improved handling of individual colour palettes modifications (Red, Green, Blue)
Improved portability of shell scripts
Improved fbdev driver: added setting for double buffer to avoid flickering on menu (--fbdev-double-buffer)
Improved fbdev driver: added setting to avoid resolution change on Raspberry Pi full screen mode (--fbdev-no-res-change)
Improved ZX Spectrum Next emulation: added layer2 priority colour bit
Improved Audio Chip Piano and Wave Piano: can show all octaves and set piano zoom

Fixed Z80 halt behavior and PC location
Fixed disabling border when realvideo enabled on machines: Colecovision, Master System, MSX, SG1000, SpectraVideo
Fixed redrawing footer when fade out
Fixed showing character 127 on curses, stdout and simpletext video drivers
Fixed preserve breakpoints state when doing smartload
Fixed saving snapshot on some events that close ZEsarUX (F-key, AY Player, etc)
Fixed loading/saving TZX as Standard tape on Jupiter Ace
Fixed ejecting Spectravideo cartridge
Fixed segfault pressing F5 after pressing pause key
Fixed bug on OSD Adventure Keyboard when words of 5 characters lenght and setting sending final space enabled
Fixed crash when saving configuration file larger than 20kb
Fixed crash when browsing on a completely empty directory
Fixed bug emptying osd adventure text keyboard when debugging vocabulary
Fixed smartload from ZRCP
Fixed crash when exiting emulator and ZRCP enabled (usually failed on Raspberry Pi)

Fixed ZX Vision:
-Fixed hang when pressing cursor up/down on any tabbed menu with only one line (like Audio Waveform)
-Fixed glitches resizing some windows: AY Registers, Debug CPU, etc...
-Fixed flickering when resizing Keyboard Help window
-Fixed reducing all windows
-Fixed bug restoring windows on startup when a previous error was generated
-Fixed drawing scroll bars when window is not at the top of all windows
-Fixed drawing close button on background windows
-Fixed showing input tape insert state on menu and zx desktop icon when tape can't be opened
-Fixed window Hex Editor while moving or resizing
-Fixed view sensors when clicking on the scroll bars
-Fixed refreshing Visual Real Tape window when enabled Top Speed

Some other minor bugfixes and improvements