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

ZEsarUX-10.1 RC1

Version 10.1-RC1 - Carrier Command edition. 28 March 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 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
-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", 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 any file size of 6912 bytes is guessed as Spectrum screen
-Show when a menu has submenus using the ">" character
-Preserve minimized and maximized state on windows
-Remember size before minimize and maximize window
-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 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

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 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 refreshing Visual Real Tape window when Top Speed condition

Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX-10.0

Version 10.0 - Clive Sinclair edition. 4 October 2021

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

• New machine emulated: Sega Master System
• "Time machine" features: Automatic Snapshots to RAM + Rewind feature, backwards debugging, backwards run
• Realtime translation of text adventure games in a ZEsarUX window
• Can render any image from a Speccy Text Adventure (supported parsers: Quill, Paws, Daad, Gac)
• Added Visual Real Tape. Now you can have an audio render of your tape, see tape blocks and rewind or move forward the cassette player
• Can now browse Basic variables on ZX Spectrum, ZX81 and ZX80
• Allow customize upper buttons to actions
• Added Window View Sensors to graph internal emulation sensors, performance, statistics, etc
• Added menu language selection between default (English) and Spanish. Only some texts are translated to Spanish

The full changelog for this version 10.0 is:

Added Sega Master System emulation
Added .sms file viewer
Added midi output and .mid support for QL and SN audio chips (Master System, SG1000, etc)
Added Automatic Snapshots to RAM + Rewind feature
Added new improved real tape loading algorithm
Added setting to disable TZX pauses
Added zsf to scr support for Next, ZX-Uno and TSConf snapshots
Added Jupiter Ace 51 KB RAM emulation
Added Fuzix ide image on the zesarux-extras package
Added TK90X v3 roms by Rodolfo Guerra on the zesarux-extras package
Added ZSF snapshot support for Jupiter Ace, Z88
Added --slotcard-num setting to insert a Z88 card in a numbered slot (1, 2 or 3)
Added ZEsarUX logo on the window footer
Added setting to disable ZX80/81 tape traps
Added wav/rwa/smp tape audio browser, to view Spectrum/ZX80/ZX81 tape blocks from audio file
Added Visual Real Tape. Now you can have an audio render of your tape, see tape blocks and rewind or move forward the cassette player
Added menu language selection between default (English) and Spanish. Only some texts are translated to Spanish
Added ZRCP commands:
-mmc-reload: reload MMC image
-snapshot-inram-get-index: Returns index to a RAM snapshot position
-snapshot-inram-load: Loads the RAM snapshot from position

Added file converters:
-wav/rwa/smp to tap
-wav/rwa/smp to p
-wav/rwa/smp to o
-rwa to wav

Improved Debug CPU Window:
-Added backwards debugging, backwards run
-Added cpu history menu to see registers in the past (same as you already had on ZRCP)
-Mouse accions: click (toggle breakpoint, change registers), scrolling up/down by using the mouse wheel
-Improve window refresh when pressing keys on non-step mode
-Preserve step mode when assembling
-Added new key to set PC=PTR
-Added new key to go to next breakpoint type PC=dir
-Allow to define up to 100 breakpoints (same that you could define using ZRCP)

Improved Debugging:
-Can now browse Basic variables on ZX Spectrum, ZX81 and ZX80
-Added setting to show location address of every basic line and current line on menu View Basic
-Added Window View Sensors to graph internal emulation sensors, performance, statistics, etc
-Added command line setting to load source code

Improved ZX Vision menu interface:
-Added GUI styles: BeOS, Bloody, Grass, Ocean, Sunny, Panther, Sky
-Added actions for reinsert, rewind, ffwd real tape
-Added setting to pause cpu emulation on menu when multitask active
-Added Degraded ZX Desktop Fill Type
-Added button on footer to switch ZX Desktop
-Added Accessibility->GUI settings as a quick way to enable some GUI enhancements: high contrast style, hotkeys, etc
-Added item to reduce+rearrange windows
-Added some graphical meters on AY Registers, Core Statistics
-Added setting to disable boxes around lower and upper ZX Desktop Buttons
-Added support for accentuated characters
-Allow customize charset
-Allow customize upper buttons to actions
-Real tape icon now is animated when playing tape
-Reorganized GUI Settings and Window Settings menu: "GUI Settings" menu is now called "ZX Vision Settings", "Window Settings" menu is now called "General settings"
-Machine manufacturer list is now sorted by name (instead of some kind of mixed age and type)
-Show in file selector when a file can be expanded
-Improved screen file previews: any file size of 6912 bytes is guessed as Spectrum screen
-Maximizing windows now take care of size of ZX Desktop, when setting "Open menu on ZX Desktop" is enabled
-Handle when clicking a window when menu closed
-Colour palette window now shows all colours that fit in the window
-View sprite legend now adapts to size

Improved Next emulation:
-Turbo setting: make it by default limited on NextZXOS
-ZSF snapshots include all info from port 123b (previous TBBlue .zsf snapshots are incompatible with this version, sorry!)
-Added a splash message when changing Layer 2 modes

Improved Text Aventure Features:
-Improved detection of Daad aventures on debugging
-Now you can render any image from a Speccy Text Adventure (supported parsers: Quill, Paws, Daad, Gac)
-Now you can use a text speech script which can translate text from the game and show the translated text on ZEsarUX window

Improved Find menu: now can find several bytes and open Hexadecimal Editor on the results list
Improved Audio to .mid exporter: allow changing instrument
Improved configuration file: increased maximum allowed size to 256kb and 2000 parameters
Improved curses driver on ZX80/81: now realvideo mode can use extended utf-8 blocky characters

Fixed file previews on corrupted files: pzx, tap
Fixed rearranging windows and using total window height
Fixed Next ULA Scroll to use registers 0x26 and 0x27
Fixed Next tbblue port 123b behaviour: 48kb ram paging, shadow display, 3bit offset, read access
Fixed cpu-step behaviour the first time it's executed
Fixed cursor keys up/down on Jupiter Ace
Fixed --help and --experthelp settings: do not parse configuration file when showing help
Fixed autoload on spectrum 48k+ spanish
Fixed loading ZX80/81 Snapshots/Tapes when filename has more than one extension
Fixed wave shape type "Scroll" on View WaveForm

Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

ZEsarUX-10.1 Beta2

Version 10.1-Beta2 - Carrier Command edition. 18 February 2022

Added real joystick support on Mac
Added setting to change ULA Data bus value
Added showing microdrive label when expanding qlay mdv files of size 174930 bytes
Added action to trigger left-right movement on joystick, to play Decathlon-like games
Added new joystick event to exit ZEsarUX
Added Jupiter Ace TAP & TZX support on tape browser
Added TZX support for ID 33 - Hardware type
Added Z80 Halt signal state support on zsf snapshot
Added MSX Joystick emulation
Added Spectravideo Joystick emulation
Added another easter egg ;)

Improved Text Adventure Debugging:
-added locations Map
-added connections list

Improved Debug CPU:
-now it highlights which registers will be modified by the opcode at the cursor position
-added t-states counter on default view
-allow to have a decimal view of opcode decoding using key m (mode)

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

Improved ZX Vision:
-Added maximize window button
-Background button on inactive windows is hidden by default
-Added GUI styles: AmigaOS, Atari TOS, OS/2, RiscOS, ZEsarUX Plus
-Improve RetroMac GUI style: striped title bar
-Improve BeOS GUI style: buttons positions right after the title
-Added translation of menu items to Spanish
-Text windows enlarge/reduce line width when resizing windows
-Text windows wider by default (40 characters instead of 32)
-Added button preview when customizing ZX Desktop buttons
-Better detection of any file size of 6912 bytes is guessed as Spectrum screen
-Show when a menu has submenus using the ">" character
-Preserve minimized state on windows
-Remember size before minimize window
-Bigger window resize indicator (bottom-right of the window)
-Enlarge content size when resizing window without having to recreate it
-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 OSD Adventure Keyboard: allow to send space, enter and quotation marks
Improved handling of individual colour palettes modifications (Red, Green, Blue)
Improved portability of shell scripts

Fixed Z80 halt behavior and PC location
Fixed disabling border when realvideo enabled on machines: Colecovision, Master System, MSX, SG1000, SpectraVideo
Fixed drawing close button on background windows
Fixed redrawing footer when fade out
Fixed bug restoring windows on startup when a previous error was generated
Fixed refreshing Visual Real Tape window when Top Speed condition
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 segfault pressing F5 after pressing pause key
Fixed showing input tape insert state on menu and zx desktop icon when tape can't be opened
Fixed ejecting Spectravideo cartridge
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 ZX Vision:
-fixed hang when pressing cursor up/down on any tabbed menu with only one line (like Audio Waveform)
-fixed gitches resizing some windows: AY Registers, Debug CPU, etc...
-fixed window Hex Editor while moving or resizing
-fixed reducing all windows

Some other minor bugfixes and improvements