Category: Emulators
The Clock.Signal Emulator for Mac OS X, which emulates a host of platforms has been updated. The latest release by Tom Harte, Clock.Signal’s curator, includes the following fixes: adds volume controls; corrects a bug in Apple II NIB handling that could cause a crash for some track layouts; and introduces a preliminary attempt at OPLL emulation, bringing an initial version of FM audio to the Master System. Platforms supported by the Clock.Signal emulator includes the Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Apple…
Two hearty Apple hobbyists, divingkatae and maximumspatium, are making a decent attempt at building a new Power PC Macintosh emulator. DingusPPC, as the new emulator is know, is according to the authors, “an attempt to build an accurately performing PPC Mac emulator”. Thus far, there is Basilisk II, SheepShaver and QEMU in the same realm, however, only QEMU comes up to the level which the authors are attempting to surpass. This is still a highly alpha type emulator and any…
The Gryphel Project has released an alpha release of the latest version of the Mini vMac Macintosh Emulator. This update includes a number of bug fixes and some changed behavior in the emulator including: * Mini vMac will now check if a disk image that is being mounted looks like a Macintosh disk image format (HFS or MFS), and if not decline to mount it, showing an error message. This helps prevent accidentally corrupting other files, especially when using ImportFl….
The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows operating systems has been updated. Applewin Version 1.29.12 includes numerous changes and updatees including the following: [PR #757] Allow use of an INI-file for configuration instead of the Registry (fixes #709). new command line switch: -conf [Change #773] Added Apple II J-Plus support. [Bug #778] Fixed for when Joystick(s) are disabled. [Bug #777] Fixed Phasor speech (SSI263) to match Mockingboard (when in Mockingboard mode). fixes: #698 (Rescue Raiders), #753 (Bejeweled). also improvements to Phasor card’s native Phasor mode. [PR #775] Debugger: Fixed so…
Gerard Putter has released an update to his Apple II emulator for Mac OS. Virtual II version 9.3 includes a bevy of changes and fixes including the following items: Added support for the 13-sector Disk ][ card. In macOS 10.15 (Catalina) the window position is now correctly restored when starting the application. Game controller calibration is now saved between runs of the applications. Improved the accuracy of the analog game paddle input values. Solved a number of issues of the embedded…
The Epple II Emulator, which emulates an Apple II computer on multiple platforms has been updated. Produced by Christopher Mosher, Epple II Version 1.0.5 includes a host of features including support for the latest WOZ disk format as well as others. You can download the latest version for your platform from the Epple II Github releases page at: https://github.com/cmosher01/Epple-II/releases
The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows has been updated. Changes to version 1.29.11 of the Applewin emulator include the following: [Bug #771] Added new command line switch to load custom ROM: -rom . Supports 12KiB (at $D000) and 16KiB (at $C000) rom files. [Bug #765] Lancaster (Total Replay) hangs when starting second game. [Bug #734] DiskII controller card: support 13-sector firmware. The card auto-selects the firmware based on the .woz (v2 or higher) image properties. Only change the firmware at reset/reboot to…
The Clock Signal Emulator for MacOS has been updated. This emulator simulates a variety of platforms including the Apple II series computers. Clock Signal currently emulates the following platforms: Acorn Electron; Amstrad CPC; Apple II/II+ and IIe; Atari 2600; ColecoVision; Commodore Vic-20 (and Commodore 1540/1); Macintosh 512ke and Plus; MSX 1; Oric 1/Atmos; Sega Master System; and Sinclair ZX80/81. In addition, emulation of the Atari ST is experimental. Clock Signal Author, Tom Harte writes of the new release saying “This…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator for windows has been updated. The version 1.29.10 update of Applewin focuses primarily on the emulators support for the WOZ format created by John Morris’ Applesauce FDC. Changes in the release include: [PR #756] Write support for WOZ1/WOZ2 images. Fixes titles that need write support (see: #686, #704, #705). Allow creation of a blank (WOZ2) image (see AppleWin.chm: ‘Creating Disk Images’). multi-file zip support extended to scan for the first valid image. useful for most woz-a-day multi-file zips which…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows has been updated. Tom Charlesworth has released another update due to a couple of bugs in the previous release. The fixes in Applewin 1.29.9 include: [Bug #752] Fixed double-clicking a registered file-type issue (regression introduced at 1.29.8.0). [Bug #750] Fixed Ctrl+Alt+Break wasn’t emulating CTRL+OA+RESET (regression introduced at 1.29.8.0). For more information about Applewin or to download the latest version of the program, check out the Applewin Github page at:https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Applewin 1.29.8 was released with the following updates and changes: [Bug #749] Hotkeys to change emulation speed using Ctrl+n: now ignored if ALT is pressed. [Bug #748] DiskII: data latch returns a rand() value when no disk is in drive. [Bug #746] Debugger: correctly repaint Apple II screen when showing it from debugger. [Bug #745] WOZ: Support for large tracks. [Bug #743] Added new command line switches: -left-alt-control-buttons : left-ctrl=button0, left-alt=button1 -right-alt-control-buttons : right-alt=button0, right-ctrl=button1 -swap-buttons :…
Applewin Apple II Emulatorhas been updated. Verion 1.29.7 has been released and fixes a host of bugs. Some of the changes included are as follows: [Change #726] Disk II card: supported in slot 5 via ‘-s5 diskii’ command line. [Change #737] Debugger: Changed ‘cycles’ to show the cycle delta since the step/breakpoint etc. [Bug #740] Debugger: gr/hgr/dgr/dhgr commands will honour the state of the MIXED mode. [Bug #733] Fixed WOZ ‘Wasteland’ and also NIB ‘Wasteland’. [Bug #451] Debugger: fix for BPM[R|W] triggering on control-flow instructions’…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator for Windows has been updated. Applewin is a highly developed Apple II emulator managed by by Tom Charlesworth along with a host of other developers. Applewin version 1.29.6 is a major bug fix release with the following changes made to the program: [Bug #724] Fixed so that 6502 interrupt is delayed by 1 opcode when interrupt occurs on last cycle of opcode. [Bug #711] Fixed Mockingboard initial “stretched” music playback (regression introduced at 1.28.7.0). [Bug…
Clock Signal Emulator, also known as CLK has been updated. The latest release includes fixes for bugs including: corrects an overflow issue within the graphics pipeline that could cause a crash when using almost any emulated machine, though it was much more likely to do so when using a machine with a user-selectable colour border. Some of the features and stated aims of the Clock Signal CLK emulator include: single-click load of any piece of source media for any supported…
Aaron Culliney has updated the release notes and source for version 2.1.0 of the Apple2ix Emulator for Android based devices. The emulator was developed originally to run on Android 4.0+ based devices also now runs on x86 and ARM Android devices, x64 macOS 10.9+, and x64 GNU/Linux. Improvements made in the emulator are related to the Joystick button functionality in the emulator. You can download the latest version of the Apple2ix emulator from the Apple2ix Github page at: https://github.com/mauiaaron/apple2
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.29.4 was released with a variety of fixes including: [Change #702] Debugger: In soft-switch display (row-80), show a red ‘x’ when AltZP (and AltLC) is enabled. [Change #666] Debugger: When video-scanner position is off-screen then show v,h as yellow (was red). [PR #710] Debugger: Added BPMR and BPMW to break on a read or write (respectively) to a memory address or range. The Applewin Github Site You can download the Applewin…
The latest version of the Applewin Apple II Emulator has been released. Tom Charlesworth, curator of the Applewin project, released version 1.29.3 with a slew of fixes and changes to the emulator including: [Change #692] Added command line switch to unplug HDD controller card on exit: [Change #689] Added command line switches to set CPU speed and machine type: [Change #666] Debugger: support showing video v,h and cycle count. [Bug #700] Fixed ProDOS8 2.5.0 alpha6: [Bug #695] Fixed WOZ ‘Taipan’…
The Applewin Apple II emulator has been updated. Applewin version 1.29.2.0 was released with a bevy of updates and fixes including: [Change #678] Hotkeys to change emulation speed: [Change #671] Register .woz extension with AppleWin. Updated AppleWin.chm & DELREG.INF. [Bug #685] Fixed support for French Touch’s “CHIP” demo (Mockingboard / multi-TIMER interrupt support). [Bug #677] Loading a save-state wasn’t restoring the pending IRQ. [Bug #672] For WOZ images: all even disk I/O read accesses will now read the data latch….
The Virtual II Apple II Emulator for Mac OS X has been updated. Gerard Putter, curator of the Virtual II emulator, has released version 9.2 of his shareware emulator application. Changed and updates included in the version 9.2 release include: The application is now compatible with (the public beta of) macOS 10.15 Catalina. Fixed an issue in the Mockingboard card that could cause the sound quality to degrade after a few minutes of play. Corrected a memory-related issue in the…
The Applewin Apple II Emulator has been updated. Version 1.29.1.0 was released with the following changes to the emulator: Fixed WOZ ‘Wizardry III’ not booting. Fixed WOZ ‘Space Quest I’ not booting reliably. Fixed PAGE2 not displaying correctly when in full-speed mode. Applewin is a Windows based Apple II emulator and should run on nearly every Windows platform. You can download the latest version of the Applewin emulator as well as all of the source code from the Github page…
