ZEsarUX Emulator

[chernandezba]

Hi!

I've uploaded a new ZEsarUX 8.1 stable version.

Go to the github released webpage to download it:

https://github.com/chernandezba/zesa...leases/tag/8.1

I recommend you to watch the video…




Changelog is:


Version 8.1 - The Great Escape edition. 25 February 2020


Added ZEsarUX Network Gaming protocol (ZENG), which allows you to play to any emulated game, using two ZEsarUX instances,
located each one on any part of the world or in a local network. Games doesn't have to be modified, you can use any existing game

Added Spectrum and ZX81 online game browser. You can search & play almost any game for these machines!
Added real joystick support on Windows
Added Pentagon 16C colour mode emulation
Added 1024 KB RAM emulation for Spectrum & Pentagon
Added ZIP files support: no more need to use external unzip program
Added SCL files support: can be converted from file selector menu pressing space
Added SNA saving support
Added PZX tape file support
Added SCR to TAP file converter

Added total run time statistics
Added checking for updates
Added sending anonymous statistics use
Added setting --disablemenuandexit: it closes the emulator when the menu is going to be opened.
It's the same behaviour as previous --disablemenu. Now --disablemenu only disables the menu but does not close the emulator
Added setting to disable looking for alternate character sets from sysvar 23606/7 on ocr functions
Added DataDrive HiLow emulation (beta)
Added Borland Gui Style
Added setting to reset configuration file to default values
Added setting to choose cpu type

Added ZRCP commands:
-cpu-code-coverage: working with code coverage
-cpu-history: working with cpu history
-extended-stack: having an internal stack for debugging stack value types
-get-ui-io-ports: to get keyboard state and joystick
-get-snapshot: get a ZSF snapshot from ZRCP
-print-footer: print message on footer
-put-snapshot: put a ZSF snapshot from ZRCP
-send-keys-event: simulates key press/release
-set-ui-io-ports: to change keyboard state and joystick
-write-port: write value to a port

Improved TBBlue emulation:
-New Wizard to automatically download and configure TBBlue official SD images
-optimized ula,lores render routines: 2% less cpu
-added scroll x,y on ula layer
-added 1-bit tile mode
-added tbblue register 63H: copper 16 bit write
-added tbblue register 69H: display control 1 register
-added tbblue registers 0x35-0x39, 0x75-0x79
-added copper opcodes NOOP, HALT
-increased tbblue.mmc MMC bundled image size to 64 MB
-updated to the latest tbblue SD distribution.
-enable real video by default
-added zsf snapshot support
-supports setting Core ID to ZX Dos
-supports changing Core version

Improved Debugging:
-added setting to dump .zsf snapshot when a cpu panic is fired
-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
-cpu transaction log: faster when opening transaction log file
-added key 'n' for "run" on debug cpu. Does the same as closing all menus and returning back to emulation
-debug CPU window: show interrupt routine pointer on im2 mode

Improved Hex editor:
-can now copy to a different memory zone
-shows the memory pointer when editing memory

Improved menu:
-added more cyrillic characters support
-can now use PgUp,PgDn to jump menu pages
-added setting to disable File Utilities menu

-Splitted source code repository: now extras folder has been moved to another repository. See:
https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux-extras


Improved assembler: added defs command
Improved AY Sheet: now you can select which AY Chip to show
Improved Waveform: new scroll type
Improved file selector: when asking for a directory, only shows directories, not files
Improved curses driver: symbol @ simulates ESC on menu
Improved snapshot loading: now setting "--sna-no-change-machine" becomes "--snap-no-change-machine" and applies to .sna and .z80
Improved curses driver: now can use utf "blocky" characters and have 64x48 resolution
Improved accurate Z80 timing: IM mode 0 is 1 t-state shorter than IM mode 1
Improved real tape loading: acceleration is disabled by default, added setting to save configuration
Improved cpu speed change: now it's a lot faster

Improved accesibility:
-disabled menu items (the ones in red) are now called as "unavailable" instead of "disabled"
-selected item menu is called now "Selected item" (was called "Active item" before)
-say when a selected menu item is not available
-pressing F4 key on a window menu, it will read that window again
-Mac OS speech filter doesn't fail anymore when message has "-"
-when an error is generated on stdout driver, the message is sent to text-to-speech


Fixed Pentagon border: now ukflag demo is perfect
Fixed Spectrum 128k machines border: now ula128, scroll2017 demos are perfect
Fixed segfault error when using breakpoints like peek/opcode in config file
Fixed segfault error when trying to open a directory with no permissions
Fixed error when trying to open user files on MacOS Catalina
Fixed bug on zxuno changing video ram 5/7 when paging was disabled by bit DI7FFD
Fixed average cpu statistics when footer is not enabled
Fixed kempston mouse emulation on Next machine: wheel bits always return 0
Fixed bug extracting PAWS words when a word is a pronoun
Fixed undocumented opcode ED76: I had IM0 but it's IM1
Fixed RETI behaviour
Fixed Real Joystick support: buttons to event table is not set to defaults automatically anymore
Fixed loading and saving +3 .z80 snapshots
Fixed placing menu windows when using zx desktop and machines TSConf, TBBlue, CPC and QL
Fixed bug loading .sna files when rom 1 paged in
Fixed bug on return flags from tape load trap. It only affected Rocman game and enabling "any flag loading" setting
Fixed setting a configured memory breakpoint like this "--set-mem-breakpoint 0000H 2" which was fired on startup
Fixed f_seek call on esxdos handler
Fixed showing memory banks on debug cpu for Z88 machine

Fixed menu issues:
-fixed generic message splash: wait until key is released (if any pressed)
-fixed opening the menu on stdout driver on the first start of ZEsarUX
-fixed bug closing menu on Z88 machine and Real Video disabled

Fixed tbblue emulation:
-fixed clipping in 80x32 mode
-fixed error when paging rom in ram, on case pages 0,1,2,3
-fixed "bit 7 = Disable ULA output (soft reset = 0)" on register 0x68
-fixed turbosound and dac activation when tbblue fast boot mode
-added turbo mode x8 (28 MHz)
-fixed reading register 7
-fixed RTC emulation
-fixed autoload tape

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"

Some other minor bugfixes and improvements


I hope you enjoy it!

Cheers
César

[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

[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?

[chernandezba]

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

I’m glad you tested the background windows

Well debug IO ports can be backgrounded on the next version, just need to code it: every window I want to put in the background need to be ready in its code

Cheers