ZEsarUX Emulator

[doorsfan]

Hi!
Great job! But i have got some problems with this emulator.
Ubuntu 20.04, version 8.2.-SN
git pull ; cd src ; ./configure ; make ; make install ; zesarux
Issue:
no sound at all. Ubuntu settings -> Sound -> Volume Levels section hasn't this app.
UI: overall not intuitive similar to FPGA machines.
1. if You press Esc and mouse doesn't hover on menu modal window it press CS SPACE
2. How to reset machine?
Didn't understand why you split input tape menu on Standard and Real. More logically just have some checkbox "Accelerated load".

[Advertiser]

[chernandezba]

New ZEsarUX stable version 9.0! This year 2020 is being a bit terrible because the pandemic, so we need to cheer up with this little gift, right?

You will find, as always, compiled versions for Linux, Mac, Windows and... big news, FreeBSD! The source code is available, of course. Remember ZEsarUX is open source software, licensed on GNU GPL, and no cost!

Download it from https://github.com/chernandezba/zesa...leases/tag/9.0

Changes:

Version 9.0 - Turbo Esprit edition. 17 August 2020

Added new emulated machines:
-MSX1
-Spectravideo 318/328
-Colecovision
-Sega SG-1000

Added new compiled version: FreeBSD
Added support for compilation on Haiku
Added emulation of AY chip MIDI registers 14 & 15 and route them to an external MIDI device
Added browser for quicksave snapshots
Added save screen to bmp feature
Added menu to download ZEsarUX extras
Added Windows icon
Added F key to toggle top cpu speed
Added F key to pause/unpause tape
Added setting to rotate output tape when selecting tape that already exists
Added setting to resample audio output to 1 bit
Added showing yesterday ZEsarUX users


Improved emulation: use a slightly less cpu on every scanline
Improved compilation script: allow to set different C compiler
Improved compiler versions: now all releases are compiled with optimizations, they use lot of less cpu than before

Improved menu:
-Allow some windows to be running on the background, all at the same time. This makes the menu environment more powerful!
-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
-Some window hotkeys can be pressed with mouse click (example: Debug CPU Window, File utilities, View Sprites, Hex Editor, Disassemble)
-Improved some interface fonts in sizes smaller than 8 pixel width
-Added GUI Styles: MSX, Solarized Dark & Light
-Added setting to select machine by name instead by manufacturer
-Added setting to disable showing cpu temperature, or FPS on footer
-Added keyboard help window for all machines
-Footer FPS warns in red colour when FPS low

Improved Visualmem:
-added MMC Read/Write views
-added "Defrag style" setting

Improved debugging:
-Added breakpoint action "reset-tstatp"
-Added SEG0, SEG1, ... SEG7 variables to match TBBlue MMU pages
-Added IN() function to read a port in the breakpoint parser
-Added key to execute a RET

Improved ZRCP:
-Allow to write commands in "". Not all commands support this
-Added save-binary command, to save binary data to a file
-Added save-screen command, to save machine screen to a file

Improved Esxdos handler:
-Added f_mkdir function
-Added configuration setting to save local work directory

Improved TBBlue emulation:
-Added Layer2 modes 320x256 and 640x256
-Added 4bpp sprites
-Enable Timex video by default
-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
-Added altrom feature: now 48k and 128k mode works again
-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 Chloe emulation:
-Supports CPU speed setting via the ZX-Uno SCANDBLCTRL register
-Load unodos3.rom as the default divmmc firmware
-Added chloehd.mmc in the extras package


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 using tab and backspace keys in curses driver
Fixed segfaults when using some memory zones and changing machine
Fixed segfaults when setting breakpoints from config file and machine is QL
Fixed segfaults when changing machines and resizing windows
Fixed segfaults on Esxdos handler when using a file handler that was a directory
Fixed loading zsf snapshot and ay registers
Fixed network bug when downloading file and redirecting to another url
Fixed Visualmem window size when char size < 8
Fixed Accessibility bug reading transparent windows

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

Fixed tbblue bugs:
-Fixed 8 first lines of tiles on border not shown
-Fixed text mode (1 bit tile)
-Fixed reading palette colours. That fixes returning from multiface nmi
-Fixed reading clipping values
-Fixed screensaver
-Fixed tbblue memory priorities
-Fixed tbblue diviface - mmu priority
-Fixed layer2 mode 2 scroll


Some other minor bugfixes and improvements

Enjoy!

[doorsfan]

... and still no sound under ubuntu:
cd ~/zesarux/ ; git pull ; cd src ; ./configure ; make ; sudo make install
/usr/local/bin/zesarux
10 BEEP 2,2:GO TO 10
RUN

[chernandezba]

... and still no sound under ubuntu:
cd ~/zesarux/ ; git pull ; cd src ; ./configure ; make ; sudo make install
/usr/local/bin/zesarux
10 BEEP 2,2:GO TO 10
RUN

That's not a problem with ubuntu, but seems a problem with your compilation.
Show me please the output of the configure command

[doorsfan]

That's not a problem with ubuntu, but seems a problem with your compilation.
Show me please the output of the configure command

cd ~/zesarux/ ; git pull ; cd src ; ./configure
Already up to date.

Configuration script for ZEsarUX

Initial CFLAGS=
Initial LDFLAGS=
Checking Operating system ... GNU/Linux
Checking for gcc compiler ... /usr/bin/gcc
Checking size of char ... 1
Checking size of short ... 2
Checking size of int ... 4
Checking Little Endian System ... ok
Checking for stdout functions ... found
Checking for simpletext functions ... found
Checking for fbdev functions ... found
Checking for cursesw libraries ... found
Checking for curses libraries ... found
Checking for aa libraries ... not found
Checking for caca libraries ... not found
Checking for SSL libraries ... disabled
Checking for xwindows libraries ... found
Checking for xwindows extensions ... found
Checking for xwindows vidmode extensions ... found
Checking for posix threads ... found
Checking for audio dsp ... found
Checking for audio alsa ... found
Checking for audio pulse ... found
Checking for coreaudio ... not found
Checking for Cocoa Mac OS X GUI ... not found
Checking for sdl libraries ... not found
Checking for libsndfile ... not found
Checking for linux real joystick ... found

Final CFLAGS= -Wall -Wextra -fsigned-char -I/usr/include/ncursesw -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE
Final LDFLAGS= -lncursesw -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/opt/X11/lib -lXext -lXxf86vm -lpthread -lasound -lpulse -lpulse-simple -lpthread
Creating Makefile
Creating compileoptions.h

Config files successfully generated by ./configure

 Enabled Video output drivers: stdout simpletext curses cursesw xwindows fbdev null
 Disabled Video output drivers: aa caca cocoa sdl 
 Enabled Audio output drivers: dsp alsa pulse null
 Disabled Audio output drivers: coreaudio sdl 
 Enabled Audio File output drivers: raw 
 Disabled Audio File output drivers: wav 
 Pthreads support: yes
 SSL support: no
 Remote command protocol support: yes
 Linux real joystick support: yes
 MEMPTR emulation: no
 Visual memory option: no
 CPU statistics option: no
 Raspberry extensions: no
 Contended memory emulation: yes
 Putpixel cache: yes
 Spectrum default core: Normal

Install prefix: /usr/local

[chernandezba]

cd ~/zesarux/ ; git pull ; cd src ; ./configure
Already up to date.

Configuration script for ZEsarUX

Initial CFLAGS=
Initial LDFLAGS=
Checking Operating system ... GNU/Linux
Checking for gcc compiler ... /usr/bin/gcc
Checking size of char ... 1
Checking size of short ... 2
Checking size of int ... 4
Checking Little Endian System ... ok
Checking for stdout functions ... found
Checking for simpletext functions ... found
Checking for fbdev functions ... found
Checking for cursesw libraries ... found
Checking for curses libraries ... found
Checking for aa libraries ... not found
Checking for caca libraries ... not found
Checking for SSL libraries ... disabled
Checking for xwindows libraries ... found
Checking for xwindows extensions ... found
Checking for xwindows vidmode extensions ... found
Checking for posix threads ... found
Checking for audio dsp ... found
Checking for audio alsa ... found
Checking for audio pulse ... found
Checking for coreaudio ... not found
Checking for Cocoa Mac OS X GUI ... not found
Checking for sdl libraries ... not found
Checking for libsndfile ... not found
Checking for linux real joystick ... found

Final CFLAGS= -Wall -Wextra -fsigned-char -I/usr/include/ncursesw -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE
Final LDFLAGS= -lncursesw -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/opt/X11/lib -lXext -lXxf86vm -lpthread -lasound -lpulse -lpulse-simple -lpthread
Creating Makefile
Creating compileoptions.h

Config files successfully generated by ./configure

 Enabled Video output drivers: stdout simpletext curses cursesw xwindows fbdev null
 Disabled Video output drivers: aa caca cocoa sdl 
 Enabled Audio output drivers: dsp alsa pulse null
 Disabled Audio output drivers: coreaudio sdl 
 Enabled Audio File output drivers: raw 
 Disabled Audio File output drivers: wav 
 Pthreads support: yes
 SSL support: no
 Remote command protocol support: yes
 Linux real joystick support: yes
 MEMPTR emulation: no
 Visual memory option: no
 CPU statistics option: no
 Raspberry extensions: no
 Contended memory emulation: yes
 Putpixel cache: yes
 Spectrum default core: Normal

Install prefix: /usr/local

Try changing the audio driver. You have alsa, pulse and dsp

Set it by command line setting —ao or menú settings-audio-audio driver

[doorsfan]

settings-audio-audio driver

didn't see "Change audio driver" before. Thank you very much! Now it works

[Dexus]

How it happened, that ZEsarUX uses 16KHz sound processing in year 2k20?
Are there chances the AY sound generation will be improved?
At the moment it produces not the best sound to say at least, sadly. Unfortunately, one of the worst.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...tMQ/edit#gid=0
You can refer to real YM sample from here and use .sna to check and compare emulation.

[chernandezba]

New ZEsarUX stable version 9.1

You will find, as always, compiled versions for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac and Windows.
The source code is available, as always. Remember ZEsarUX is open source software, licensed on GNU GPL, and no cost!

This new version comes with QL and TBBlue (Spectrum Next) fixes, improvements on the menu, General Sound emulation and much more!

Download it from:

https://github.com/chernandezba/zesa...leases/tag/9.1

Changes are:

Version 9.1 - Toi Acid Game edition. 26 November 2020

Added pc speaker audio driver (for Linux only)
Added General Sound emulation
Added compile setting to disable networking functions
Added date & time field info to ZSF snapshots
Added configuration & command line setting to save keymap type
Added some file converters: from SNA, SP, Z80, P, ZSF to SCR


Improved QL emulation:
-Added sound emulation
-Guessing of file name extension
-Show all registers on Debug CPU window
-Support ZSF snapshots

Improved TBBlue emulation:
-Added emulation of tbblue joystick type (register 5)
-Added sprite zoom emulation
-Added relative sprites emulation
-Added sprite clipping emulation

Improved ZX Desktop:
-Added direct buttons, to access menu items
-Added devices buttons/icons, to show device activity and device configuration
-Added F-key to close all open menus
-Reordered menu items
-Windows are not closed when changing ZX Desktop size
-Added new ZX Desktop fill types: RainbowAlive, Chess, Grid, Random
-Improved input number windows: added buttons to increase/decrease values
-Now backgrounded windows can be seen even with menu closed (added a setting and also a F-key)

Improved ZRCP:
-Added MMU information to cpu-history and get-registers commands
-Added ZRCP command qdos-get-open-files: to get open files from QL QDOS

Improved debugging:
-Added debug console as a menu window
-Added MMU information when viewing cpu registers on terminal console

Improved Waveform window: Now can show left & right channels
Improved 1 bit resample audio filter
Improved loading .pok files: increased maximum pokes from 100 to 49152 pokes
Improved File Browser: added previews for screens (on .scr, .tap, .tzx, .pzx, .trd, .dsk, .sna, .sp, .z80, .p, .zsf)
Improved ZENG: Added setting to reconnect after retry failed sending


Fixed QL bugs:
-Fixed loading QL Superbasic programs when line lenght usually longer than 128 bytes
-Fixed loading executable files, can even exec/exec_w files without QDOS header
-Fixed system calls FS.SAVE, FS.HEADS, FS.HEADR, IO.FSTRG, IO.EDLIN, IO.FCLOSE, IO.DELET
-Fixed possible hang calling IO.SSTRG
-Fixed using QL system calls and A6 pointer offset used after previous Trap was not 4
-Fixed RTC emulation
-Fixed frame interrupt
-Fixed cursor flashing
-Fixed listing (dir) call
-Fixed reading keyboard when menu open

Fixed reading keys on SDL and X11 drivers with default keymap and machines QL, MSX and Spectravideo
Fixed panic when changing machines and having ZX Desktop windows opened
Fixed panic when initializing audio and video drivers
Fixed panic extracting tap when invalid block
Fixed restoring machine to msx, coleco, sg1000 and svi
Fixed showing last core frame time in Core Statistics window
Fixed easter egg and cyrillic characters
Fixed rendering ZX Desktop on startup
Fixed arranging ZX Vision windows when changing machine or disabling border
Fixed open error when extracting tap with Spectrum names with '/'


Some other minor bugfixes and improvements



Enjoy!

Regards
Cesar

[dlancer]

chernandezba, why "Debug IO ports" can't be used as Background Window?