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Multiple Systems Emulator - Emulicious v2023-04-22 - Released

Details: Category: Java; Published: 23 April 2023

What's New:

- Added Step Back to the debugger
- Fixed misdetection of dahjee adapter in Pop Flamer for SG-1000 (thanks to Saverio Russo)

Multiple Emulator Frontend - EmulationStation Desktop Edition v2.0.1 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 23 April 2023

What's New:

Changes
- Added an experimental theme downloader
- Added a setting to set the user theme directory to an arbitrary location (not configurable via the GUI)
- Added scrollable text container support to the system view
- Added six new theme properties for sizing and placement of the helpsystem when a menu is open
- Added a scaleInwards property to the grid element to contain scaling within the element boundaries
- Added a new gameOverridePath property to the image element to enable per-game static image overrides
- Added support for using the systemNameSuffix property together with scrollable text containers
- Added support for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next (zxnext) game system
- Added support for the Sinclair Spectrum ZX emulator ZEsarUX
- Added support for the Sinclair Spectrum ZX Next emulator #CSpect on Linux and Windows
- Added the PicoDrive RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the gamegear system
- Added the LRPS2 RetroArch core as the default emulator for the ps2 system on Linux and Windows
- (macOS) Added the Mupen64Plus-Next RetroArch core as the default emulator for the n64 and n64dd systems
- Set the Neko Project II RetroArch core to start in the game directory as it created a config file in the ES-DE binary directory
- Added "Shortcut or script" as an alternative emulator for the arcade and mame systems
- (Unix) Added the .desktop and .sh file extensions to the arcade and mame systems
- (macOS) Added the .app and .sh file extensions to the arcade and mame systems
- (Windows) Added the .bat and .lnk file extensions to the arcade and mame systems
- Added the .app file extensions to the nds system
- Added the .7z and .zip file extensions to the 3do system
- Changed the platform from pc to pcwindows for the desktop and kodi systems
- (Linux) Dropped support for prebuilt RPM packages
- Changed the color scheme names for the bundled Slate and Modern themes from "Dark mode" and "Light mode" to "Dark" and "Light"
- Any theme directories with names ending with "disabled" (regardless of case) are now ignored
- Updated SDL to 2.26.5 on Windows, macOS and the Linux AppImage builds
- Added the libgit2 library as a dependency
- Added support for changing the BusyComponent text dynamically
- Added proper helpsystem handling to ComponentGrid for some previously unhandled horizontal grid layouts

Bug fixes
- (Windows) Fixed a regression that made .bat and .lnk files with some special characters in the filename impossible to launch
- Clearing or deleting a game could hang the application if the media files could not be deleted due to insufficient permissions
- Using the cropSize property could lead to a crash under very rare circumstances
- Multi-row text with blank lines that was not displayed in a scrollable container was sometimes not wrapped correctly
- Fixed several potential container overflows in GuiTextEditKeyboardPopup that could lead to rare crashes when running on an ARM processor
- Fixed a potential container overflow in ViewController that could lead to rare crashes when running on an ARM processor
- (macOS) When opening the main menu an error message was logged about accessing a nonexistent ShowQuitMenu setting
- The scissor box size in ScrollableContainer was sometimes not calculated correctly
- FileSystemUtil::renameFile() did sometimes not provide a return value for whether it succeeded or not

C64/Amiga Emulator - Denise v2.0 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 21 April 2023

What's New:

add Amiga emulation
- A1000 (OSC/ICS), A500 (Full OCS), A500 (ECS Agnus, OCS Denise)
- RGB or S-Video with PAL/NTSC color encoding, border cropping
- support all global features like: runAhead, savestates, G-Sync, configs, Warp, JIT polling, shader
- up to 4 disk drives with acceleration option
- Chipram, Slowram, Fastram
- list disk content in UI
- AROS firmware is preinstalled
- motor controlled auto warp
- drive sounds
- support custom frequencies like B.C. Kid (56.4 Hz)
- if you only want to use one of the two emulators, Amiga or C64 core can be hidden
emulator now boots automatically after power on
- Splash screen can be disabled
- emulator remembers which core was used last
disk swapper can be filled faster due to multiple selection of files
- files from archives can also be added quickly
- if requested disk swap position is not prepared, emulator guesses the disk based on requested position and the currently inserted disk
windows: prevent App minification when focus loss in fullscreen
C64: add option to combine Virtual Device Traps (instant load first file) with floppy speeder
C64: improve drive motor controlled auto warp
- add option to stop auto warp when software requests input, because
- some games stop drive motor too late and warp runs too long, what could lead to the loss of a life
C64: support magicdesk CRT's with broken header
C64: fix runahead slowdown with REU/GeoRAM when using a lot of memory, e.g. REU 16 MB
Mice and other mouse-controlled devices, such as Lightguns, can now be configured with one click

PinballX v5.93 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 21 April 2023

What's New:

- The .net 6 and .net 4 (XP and 32 bit) installers have been combined into a single installer.
- There is now just one download.
- This makes it easier and quicker for me to do releases and avoids confusion.
- To force the .net 4 install on 64 bit Windows 7 or newer set the compatibility to Windows XP or Vista.

WonderSwan Emulator - NitroSwan v0.5.2 - Released

Details: Category: Nintendo DS; Published: 21 April 2023

What's New:

- Fixed controls for PCV2.
- Fixed WS sound levels.
- Fixed WS sound icon.
- Fixed save state.
- Added more BnW palettes.

Multiple Commodore Emulator - Kernal64 v1.8.2b1 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 21 April 2023

What's New:

General
- New keyboard layout handling: now it is possible to use a more natural layout assigning different host keys to the same emulated key. The layout configuration is stored inside a configuration file, depending on the emulated machine. Each configuration file can contain different layout for different operating system. See Wiki for details.
- New virtual keyboard and keyboard editor: it's possible to enter key using a virtual keyboard. It's possible to edit the keyboard configuration or create a new one from scratch.
- New look and feel Flatlaf (thanks to https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/)
- Added support for palette configuration loading from file (vpl) for both VIC (I,II) and VDC
- Fixed disk issues when user change disk

C128
- Improvements for 2Mhz emulation
- Improved MMU (https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/bugs/1835/?page=1)
- Minimal modifications to D030 registry: still partially supported
- Added ASCII/DIN handling for multilingual char rom set. Fixed 128/64 char rom reloading

C64/C128
- Added Super Explode cartridge
- Added RAM Cart cartridge
- Added Isepic cartridge

VIC20
- Addes support for WiC64

Multiple Emulator Frontend - GameEx Arcade Edition v18.50 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 21 April 2023

What's New:

The .net 6 and .net 4 (XP and 32 bit) installers have been combined into a single installer. There is now just one download. This makes it easier and quicker for me to do releases and avoids confusion. To force the .net 4 install on 64 bit Windows 7 or newer set the compatibility to Windows XP or Vista.

Updated all VC runtimes to latest versions so they don't require windows updates or create surplus temporary files.

Updated .net 6 runtime to latest.

Multiple Emulator Frontend - GameEx v18.50 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 21 April 2023

What's New:

The .net 6 and .net 4 (XP and 32 bit) installers have been combined into a single installer. There is now just one download. This makes it easier and quicker for me to do releases and avoids confusion. To force the .net 4 install on 64 bit Windows 7 or newer set the compatibility to Windows XP or Vista.

Updated all VC runtimes to latest versions so they don't require windows updates or create surplus temporary files.

Updated .net 6 runtime to latest.