Acorn Emulation Latest News

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David McEwen has released RiscCPS a Capcom Play System emulator written specifically for RISC OS.

Archie has been updated to version 0.9 since the last update to the AEP though development has been a bit quiet over the last few months.

Fortunately in the absence of much from the Archie camp, Graeme Barnes taken up the reins and released Red Squirrel, Acorn machine emulator for Windows.

Andreas Dehmel has continued to update VICE.

Richard Mackin has started work on SegaMS a Sega Master System/Game Gear emulator for RISC OS written in ARM code. At the time of writing the emulator does not run any games.

In the absence of any developments from Gareth Long, David McEwen (who else!?) has taken over porting Snes9X to RISC OS. The latest versions have support for Argonaut's SuperFX chip as used in Star Fox allowing this classic to be emulated.

Michael Foot continues to update his BeebIt BBC emulator

David McEwen has released several new ports, most notably of Hugo (PC Engine emulator), Handy (Atari Lynx emulator) and DGen and Generator (Megadrive/Genesis emulators). All available from his home page.

Andreas Stroiczek was previously working on an ARM coded SNES emu, since he has now stopped development the source is available from the Code Vault. When I last spoke to Andreas on the subject in December 1998, he believed there were only a few bugs in the 65C816 (CPU) emulation and he said that:
"lots of things are already done (for example the mode 7 which lets the SNES rotate and zoom the whole screen). At the moment all to do is bug-hunting, sound-emulation and a wimp-front-end and maybe some optimizations. Some graphic-abilities can be added later to complete the emulation."

Andrew Hill has released a front end for David McEwen's port of Snes9X, available from the Acorn Arcade FTP site.

For those who haven't noticed, due to a shake up at the Acorn Cybervillage (who generously host this site), the AEP has now moved to a new URL http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/emulation/, the old link of http://come.to/emulate is also still valid.

I should probably apologise for lack of updates to the Acorn Emulation Page, I've been very busy at university and have spent my spare time working on emulators rather than documenting them. I've written a Gameboy emulator for EPOC (Psion 5 OS), a Manchester Baby simulator in java and an ARM->x86 dynamic recompiler. I'd like to say that now I've graduated I'll have plenty of free time to devote to the upkeep of the site but unfortunately I won't and updates are likely to become more, not less seldom. Nevertheless I will try and update it once in a while when significant new releases occur. Good luck with the emulators and I hope you enjoy them. In the absence of updates, Gareth Moore's Acorn Gaming site has long been an alternative source of emulation news.

Previous update: Monday 26/7/99