Friday,30th,March,2001
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A New Artifex Release!!!
Artifex v0.28 has landed just in time for the weekend :-) Zoslt kept this quite and came as a
big surprise when he told me it was ready for downloading. New features are:-
Increased emulation speed
- Better sound emulation
- New full screen emulation code (slower)
- Fixed decimal mode ADC/SBC in CPU emulation (XZap works fine)
- Saving from memory implemented
- Improved Plus/4 System Information sheet
- Using absolute path when loading ROM files
- Vertical Blank synchronization in full screen modes
- Fixed timers
Many thanks to Zsolt for the news and for this cool update!! Hit the homepage now:
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Wednesday,28th,March,2001
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The C16-Plus4 Retro Page Updated!
Ati's got some great news for any of you Linux users. Also Norbert Kintzler has sent in his
cool Windows Commander plugin that supports D64 files. Norbert has also transfered over Micro Illustrator
and it's up for grabs!!! Hit the homepage now for the full story,
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Tower of Evil C16 Only!!!
Time for some fun. Here is Tower of Evil in it's original format. When it was first released it
would only run on the C16 and not Plus4. Fire up
YAPE and set the Presert Machine prototype to the Commodore C16 and have a play.
Also note this game will run on the Plus4! Here's how, once loaded type POKE 65299,17 and press
return. Dont worry about the messy screen, but type RUN followed by return and surprise. Ok's... I
could add this into the game, but thats not the point. The point is it's a C16 only game :-) |
Tower of Evil C16.prg
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Saturday,24th,March,2001
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Yape 0.32 Released!
Wow it's Plus4 weekend and Ati's updated just in time for the new TAP Images! I've already
been beta testing this for some time now with new added improvments coming every day! The list is big
and bad so no need to repeat the authors words, just hit the homepage now and snatch up this cool
update! Cheers Ati :-)
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Saturday,24th,March,2001
Wednesday,14th,March,2001
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Artifex - The Commodore Plus/4 Emulator is Released!
Zsolt had been gearing upto this release all week and said Today was the day and it's here!!! So in hope
you catch this news before you reset for the night I thought I'd better post the news right now before even looking
at it my self! Here's a list of the all important features:-
CPU 60% - All documented instructions and some undocumented ones. Every instruction is cycle based.
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TED 20% - All screenmodes and vertical smooth scroll. Raster emulation is not too perfect, it is fake raster.
Most of the registers is "read only".
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Disk 50% - "Read only" 1551 and PC Directory emulation.
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Sound 90% - All features are emulated with an own sound mixer that can produce better quality sound than windows
mixer can. There are still some small bugs, some games produces strange sounds. Digi-sound also supported.
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Joystick 10% - Very early stage, I will implement more later.
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Keyboard 99% - All features are emulated, except some side effects of the TED.
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Debugger 80% - Very usable but not yet finished.
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GUI 75% - Nice GUI that I hope is user friendly enough.
Hit the homepage link now for your copy!! Big thanks Zsolt this is great to see at last :-)
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Sunday,11th,March,2001
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Artifex soon to be released!
The word from Zsolt is the first public release of Artifex could be next week! Digi Sound is up and running and
Zsolt was keen to share his new sound code with Ati for YAPE!
Ati's already be working on Zsolt's new sound code for YAPE and with COOL results!! I was lucky to
hear the out come. At this point a little work is needed for Digi Sound to bring the sample rate up to noraml which I
hope should'nt be to much of a problem for them. Right now TED stuff is great and ACE +4 sounded awesome and all in
real time! Treasure Island's tune sounds just like the real thing (shut your eyes and you'd would think it was). I've yet
to see Artifex in action but I'm sure we can exspect the same cool sound!
For now keep a eye on the Artifex Homepage. It's gona be good!
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Thursday,8th,March,2001
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The Plus4 DataBase comes to C16/Plus4 ClassiX
First of all I would like to welcome Csabo to plus4.emucamp.com!
His astonishing DataBase was in need of a new home after finding out his old hosts were to go out of business.
For some time now we both knew we could some how mix the two sites into one big archive covering as much
as the Plus4 has to offer and now is the time of reckoning!
Of course this is'nt going to happen over night nor will it happen next week as it's going to take alot
of time. For now I've taken the first step to try and bring you a front-end to both sites with this very page.
In time I'm sure it will change, but for now you'll have to make do with this ;-)
If I can squeeze any news out of Csabo's work you will find it here along with anything I'm up to as normal......
Under both site logo's at the top of this page you can find alink to each of our main pages. Oh yeah,
dont worry about the look of this page it is ment to look like this ;-) Hope you dont mind Csabo?
As for
you veiwers, we hope you enjoy your stay. Cheers for now.
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Sunday,4th,March,2001
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Game Previews
Mega Zap
Trizons
Formula 1 Simulator (e)
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53 New PRG files and 4 Updates!!
It's time to fire up all those emulators and check out this cool collection of new games.
Many are rare and some are the best cracks yet! For the first time Zodiac and Fiends are 100% ports
of the originals and bug free!! These 2 games were cracked by none other Ati and with
YAPE using the TAP images!
Along with Ati a big thanks to Zsolt
and Csaba for their great contributions to this new batch! Csaba has also been added to
Team page with a neat piccy and info to be checked out :-)
Other News In Brief.....
Basir is a new utility for the Amiga!
This allows you to view C16/Plus4, C64 and VIC-20 Basic programs. The Basic listings can be saved
as plain ASCII text so you can edit and make your own markings on them. Find out the FULL
story from the link below:
Zsolt sent me some new rumors
about Artifex ;-) "At last the sound emulation works fine with DirectSound, and it sounds
cooooool! The new sound engine produces much better square waves and it allows the digi sound
support. This week I hope I can implement the digi part."
Wow!! This is great to hear.
Zsolt also added some cool info which I can not repeat, but things are looking HOT.
If your intrested in the status of Artifex as it is now head on over to the homepage and click
on the Artifex logo!
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Thursday,1st,March,2001
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YAPE 0.31 is out! Yes Another Update!
Wow, Ati has been busy this week :-) I've just had a sneak look and to my surprise Thrust now holds
together! Also Ati's been busy sorting out Full screen support for the likes of Summer Events which
at this time is looking very good. Summer Events is only let down buy some nasty CPU bug's here and
there which of course is Udo's middle name to us fans, (Why are his cool games so hard to emulate!).
Anyway's, this is a cool update indeed! Check the list of what's new:- writable rasterline registers
(extension to border area works!!)
- reworked full screen mode (ALT+ENTER works at last!)
- reorganised TED chip emulation
- fixed a bit on the horizontal dot counter
- fiexed a
monitor bug
- fixed and IRQ delay timing
Need I say more ???? Go grab it now from the homepage!
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