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"Best new feature of this release is the support for zipped ROMs. Now there's also a preview display for screenshots and (at last) support for long filenames."

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/9314/dzsnes.htm

SNEmul Alpha 4.1 Released! VOx and Archeide just released Alpha 4.1 of SNEmul. Here's what's new:

• The emulator didn't change the SRAM when changing ROM! (Many games crashed when loading them from the file selector/)
• Added a new SNEMUL.CFG configuration file.
• GUI and FullScreen have now different video modes. User can define them in the SNEMUL.CFG file
• GUI and FullScreen have different frame rate too.
• Beta Joystick support.
• Other bugs fixed...

New Gameboy Emulator for Unix A group of three French students have banded together to write a Gameboy emulator for Unix. This is still in the early stages and DOS and BeBox ports are planned as well. It's called "Boycott". NES and Sega Master System emulators are also in the works.

http://www-eleves.iie.cnam.fr/themes/Emu5ever/boycot2.html

Callus Ignition 1.0 Released Alessandro Viganò has released version 1.0 of his Windows 95 front end for Callus. This new release includes Zip support.

http://www.pointer.com/callus/

CPC++ 1.4.0 for Mac Released! Brice Rive has just released version 1.4.0 of his Amstrad CPC emulator for Macintosh. Version 1.4.0 is a major upgrade with many bug fixes and new features:

• Indicators bar
• Fix crashing bug in RUN menu
• Many bug fixes in the user interface
• Print, save, copy CPC screen
• Hide control strip in full screen mode
• Modify scheduler to handle host/cpc time referentials separately
• Select startup options files with dialogs + clear buttons
• Scrolling about box
• More stable registration scheme
• Warn about virtual memory
• Fix read track (California Games, World Games)
• Fix usage timer
• FDC format command
• Quickdraw option
• Handle monitor Depth/Size changes
• Show screen in background
• Indicators bar
• Move window by clicking anywhere
• No window title bar
• Accept ZIPped DSK and SNA files (single archives only) write protected
• Allow menu access in full screen mode without switching to window mode
• Can run in 16 bits mode
• 8 bits switching dialog
• Faster emulation

http://www.worldnet.fr/~brice/cpc/cpcpp.shtml

Villgust Translation Updated Razor-X Translations has updated their Villgust translation patch to version 0.05. Here's what's new:

• Inn translated
• Main battle menu translated
• Stores translated

Prometheus Truecolor Graphics Utility Gaffer has released version 0.61 of his truecolor graphics library PTC. This new release has a lot of bugfixes including the following:

• Program stops when window is resized (Win32 only)
• Unwanted mode set occurs during window open/close (Win32 only)
• Output window is black (Win32)
• Image loading fails or crashes under watcom c++ 10.x (DOS only)
• Getch/ptc.getch behave incorrectly (DOS and Win32)

http://www.zip.com.au/~gaffer/ptc
 

System 16 Release Date Announced Here's some great news for System 16 fans: Li Jih Hwa has announced a preliminary release date for the next version of System 16:

"We also expect to release the next version of System 16 emulator during the first week of February."

A lot of new features will be available in this next release, including support for Alien Syndrome, Super Hang-On and Out Run, and save game and joystick support. Thanks to Jeff Warmuth for the e-mail.
 

Vic20 Emulator 0.7 Specs Announced Matthew Browne has announced specifications for version 0.7x of his Vic 20 emulator. Here's what we have to look forward to in the next release(s):

• Correct screen size and handling
• The faster 6502 engine working again and completed
• Support for a new cross platform snapshot format
• Hopefully a full screen mode
• More correct timing
• Maybe a moveable window

iNES ver 0.7.6 for Macintosh Released! John Stiles has updated his Macintosh port of iNES:

"iNES is now compatible with Punch-Out, Dragon Warrior 3, Dragon Warrior 4, Worldrunner 3D and more! Speed is improved, and the Mac OS 8 Appearance Manager is also integrated into this new version."

http://www.emulation.net/

EX68 0.21 Released! X68 version 0.21 has been just been released. From what I hear, the FM sound is now very close to the original system. Also, Dragon Spirit is greatly improved - many graphics bugs have been fixed.
 
 http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/John.Stringer-Oxford.onyxnet.co.uk/index.html

madNES Progress Report Less than two weeks ago, Roberto Rosario released version 0.95 of his NES emulator for DOS. Work for the follow-up release is progressing nicely. Vertical clipping of individual scanlines and partial support for split screens has already been added, along with improvements to the GUI. Roberto has also hinted that in the future, madNES may be ported to other platforms, though nothing is in the works for now.

UltraMAME Thierry Imbert has updated his M.A.M.E. front end. It now supports all the new games in M.A.M.E. version 0.30.

http://www.microvella.fr/~bkg97
 

Directy from the official homepage, here's what's new:

• GTE:     nasty divide by zero error removed (caused PSEmu to crash)
• GPU:     added line drawing
• CDROM:   CdlGetTD and CdlGetlocP commands corrected
• BIOS:    corrected bug that caused LoadExe function to load only into mapped memory at 0x80000000 and nowhere else
• DEBUG:   disabled posibilty to load one game on another
• VESA:    vesa 2.0 routines corrected a bit

"Exploration is still going on and you can all expect many new features in the nearest future." :)

- Duddie
Author of PSEmu

http://www.szczecin.top.pl/~duddie/

TwinBee 3 Translation Patch Updated Neo Demiforce has updated their translation patch for TwinBee 3 to version 1.02. The screen layout has been fixed so it should look better than before. Thanks to Bjorn Astrom for the e-mail.

http://www.frognet.net/~demi/index.htm

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