ZEsarUX 8.1 Beta 2

Description

ZEsarUX - ZX Second-Emulator And Released for UniX

Created by Cesar Hernandez Bano

It's a ZX Machines Emulator for UNIX based operating systems (and Windows), including all the Sinclair computers:

MK14
ZX80
ZX81
ZX Spectrum
QL
Z88

And also:

Timex TS 2068
Sam Coupe
Pentagon
Chloe 140 SE, 280 SE
Chrome
Prism
ZX-Uno
ZX-Evolution BaseConf
ZX-Evolution TS-Conf
TBBlue/ZX Spectrum Next
Jupiter Ace
Amstrad CPC 464, CPC 4128

ZEsarUX source code and binaries are distributed under GNU GPL license. ZEsarUX also includes a folder, "my_soft", which has some programs and data made by me. The entire folder is also covered by the GNU GPL license.

ZEsarUX also includes third-party roms, media, programs and games NOT covered by this license.

This is my second ZX Spectrum emulator after ZXSpectr https://github.com/chernandezba/zxspectr

I recommend you to read FEATURES, INSTALL and HISTORY files, as well as other documents in this emulator. You can open them from the help menu or from an external viewer.

ZEsarUX distributed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3. You may read it on the LICENSE file.

ZEsarUX has won the "Best Emulator" award from Retrogaming Total blog on 2015 and 2017

Changelog

Version 8.1 beta 2- The Great Escape edition. 16 December 2019

Changes from the last beta version :

Added real joystick support on Windows
Added setting to disable looking for alternate character sets from sysvar 23606/7 on ocr functions
Added ZRCP commands:

extended-stack: having an internal stack for debugging stack value types

Added scr to tap file converter
Added setting to choose cpu type
Improved Debugging:

debug CPU window: can now resize height and have more debug lines, legend keys expand as width increases, registers located at the most right position
debug CPU window: show interrupt routine pointer on im2 mode

Improved menu:

added more cyrillic characters support
disabled menu items (the ones in red) are now called as "unavailable" instead of "disabled"

Improved accesibility:

say when a selected menu item is not available
Mac OS speech filter doesn't fail anymore when message has "-"
selected item menu is called now "Selected item" (was called "Active item" before)

Improved Waveform: new scroll type
Fixed error when trying to open user files on MacOS Catalina
Fixed segfault error when failing to open a directory
Fixed RETI behaviour
Fixed Real Joystick support: buttons to event table is not set to defaults automatically anymore
Fixed setting a configured memory breakpoint like this "--set-mem-breakpoint 0000H 2" which was fired on startup
Fixed opening the menu on stdout driver on the first start of ZEsarUX
Fixed Accessibility bugs:

now menu settings (anything between square brackets []) are played at the end of the menu line
now menu settings ([ ] and [X]) are played as "enabled"/"disabled"