ZEsarUX 8.2 beta 1

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

ZEsarUX 8.2 beta 1

Version 8.2 - beta 1 - Turbo Esprit edition. 21 May 2020

Added support for compilation on FreeBSD
Added F key to toggle top cpu speed
Added emulation of AY chip MIDI registers 14 & 15 and route them to an external MIDI device
Added Visualmem for MMC Read/Write
Added Visualmem "Defrag style"
Added browser for quicksave snapshots
Added save screen to bmp feature
Added Solarized Dark & Light Gui Style
Added Windows icon
Added ZRCP commands:

save-screen: to save machine screen to file

Improved menu:

Allow some windows to be put on the background. Also active windows are saved and restored on startup
Pressing the menu key (F5 by default) when menu is open, it will send you back to the main menu. Also pressing over Z logo on ext desktop
Added setting to disable showing cpu temperature, or FPS on footer
Warn in red colour when FPS low

Improved Esxdos handler:

add f_mkdir function
add configuration setting to save local work directory

Improved ZRCP:

Allow to write commands in "". Not all commands support this
Added save-binary command

Improved TBBlue emulation:

Added Layer2 modes 320x256 and 640x256
Added 4bpp sprites
Enable Timex video by default
Added altrom feature: now 48k and 128k mode works again
Legacy hi-res and border effects disabled by default. Reduces up to 13% cpu use or gain 17 FPS on my environment
Reduced a bit cpu usage (2% cpu less on my environment) when rendering scanlines
Emulate register 0x8E (142) => Spectrum 128K Memory Mapping
Allow to download a 512 MB TBBlue SD official card (allowed download sizes: 32MB, 128MB, 512MB, 2 GB)
Allow paths with backslashes on esxdos handler

Improved debugging:

Added breakpoint action "reset-tstatp"
Added SEG0, SEG1, ... SEG7 variables to match TBBlue MMU pages

Improved Chloe emulation:

Support CPU speed setting via the ZX-Uno SCANDBLCTRL register
Load unodos3.rom as the default divmmc firmware
Added chloehd.mmc in the extras package

Improved emulation:

use a slightly less cpu on every scanline

Fixed ZRCP bugs:

Fix possible crash when disconnecting socket
Using cpu-history ZRCP command no longer fires additional MRA conditions

Fixed Esxdos handler:

Fixed segfaults when using a file handler that was a directory

Fixed rom loading:no more cpu panic when the rom is not found
Fixed SCF/CCF undocumented flags emulation. Not enabled by default on compilation because almost no one is using this
Fixed saving "Show CPU usage" setting on footer
Fixed tbblue bugs: