New WinTVC release

To celebrate the 2nd annniversary of the last release, my Videoton TV Computer emulator for Windows has received an update. The most notable changes in version 1.4.0 are:

  • new interactive monitor and disassembler
  • support for accented characters when using the clipboard
  • support for SID sound (via external reSID library)
  • improved CRTC emulation
  • separate DevTool builds (32 and 64 bit)

You can grab the new binary from the Download page as usual.

New release of my Colour Genie emulator

After a very long hiatus, a new version (1.1.0) of my EACA Colour Genie emulator is released today. It is quite a bit of an overhaul compared to previous versions. The emulation accuracy was increased significantly by making the (CRTC) video emulation cycles based. Here is the summary of the most important changes:

  • more accurate (albeit slower) cycle based video emulation
  • CRTC improvements
  • proper full screen mode
  • small AY-3-8910 improvements
  • tape emulation bug fixes

Go grab your copy from the Download page while it’s fresh.

Aircomp/Homelab emulator update

After a long-long while a new version of my Homelab (and now: Aircomp) emulator is finally out now (1.3). The most notable changes are as follows:

  • Homelab II / Aircomp-16 emulation (incomplete/imperfect)
  • custom aspect ratio
  • improved full screen mode
  • copy screen to Windows clipboard
  • paste text from Windows clipboard

The backbone of the Homelab II / Aircomp-16 emulation is the one in the discontinued ‘HoLa’ emulator of mine from 2007 but has been significantly improved. Unfortunately, due to the poor documentation, reading from raw tape (WAV) files as well as the graphic modes are not supported yet but if you have a real machine feel free to submit hints for improvement. Grab the new release from the Download section.

Version 1.3.0 of WinTVC out

After yesterday’s update, this time a new version my Videoton TV Computer emulator (WinTVC) is being made available. An increase of the minor release version number is justified by the scope of changes and new features, which are as follows:

  • all four expansion slots are now supported
  • support for Texas Instruments SN76489 sound IC emulation (via emulation of the Multisound and Gamecard expansion cards)
  • improved tape sound
  • snapshot improvement (ID, compatibility between 32 and 64 bit)
  • $FD prefix disassembly fixed

As usual, you can grab the 1.3.0 version from the Download page.

WinTVC 1.2.0 released

WinTVC 1.2.0 running Puck-Man

A new release of my Videoton TC Computer emulator is out now with the following goodies:

  • OpenGL video mode + PAL TV shader
  • hardware accelerated keyboard input (DirectInput)
  • much improved CRTC emulation (interrupt, counters)
  • finetuned TV synch emulation
  • video RAM paging error fix
  • more accurate synch and speed measurement
  • improved saving to video (AVI)
  • saving to GIF fixed
  • full screen mode fixed (was prone to crash under some Win10 machines)
  • B/W switch in GDI video mode fixed
  • command line switch bugs fixed
  • various other bugfixes

Get your copy from the usual place!

New version of my Commodore music player out now!

Check out my GitHub page here, where a new version of my Commodore family music player ‘WinTedPlay’ was released. It is meant for replaying the Commodore 16 and plus/4 music collection called HVTC but it can also nicely cope with the popular PSID format of the Commodore 64. It features a decent playlist and is my only piece of software having made it to SoftPedia, w00t!