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37 emulators and counting!
Having thoroughly enjoyed my 2 weeks in the South of France, I've been working hard fixing all the problems from the initial revamp. Regrettably time to check the page was a little low on the ground before I went away, resulting in a rather messy update. Nevertheless, many bugs have been fixed and the finishing touches done to the revamp (and after a long while I've finally done the CPC justice).
Boris van Schooten has released the first version of ArcVic, his dynamic recompiling Commodore Vic20 emulator.
Peter Teichman has released waht is still very much a development version of his CP/M emulator, available from his webpage. CP/M is not yet covered on this site since it is to pre-release to be of much use.
Ian Molton has released a new version of v2600, v1.02 has keys which work in desktop, no internal game, tidier code, source code has been released, bin->c26 file format convertor included, and a new filetype &0D8.
Paul Clifford has released v0.21 of his ARM coded PC Engine emulator which fixes several small bugs. More interestingly though for programmers is the release of the source code for the emulator so that others can learn from Paul's hard work.
Acorn User magazine are busy putting together their fourth cover CD for the 200th edition. Good news for emulation fans is that the entire Acorn Emulation Page as well as several of the best emulators will be on the CD to save wear and tear on your modems. It is this edition of The Acorn Emulation Page that will be on the CD, with slight modifications to the front pages to mark the special edition.
I have added 2 new interviews, with Andreas Stroizcek and Benoit Gilon and finally the true identity of the Purple Monchichi, mysterious author of the original Gameboy emulator is revealed!
MAME 0.33 the final release is now available for various other platforms, and should follow shortly for the Acorn. Nicola Salmoria (co-ordinator of the MAME team) has promised that NEO GEO support will be added for v0.34 beta 1 which will add another load of quality arcade games to this already stupendous emulator.
This site originally started by just distributing Purple Monchichi's gameboy emulator, v0.46 and until a week or so ago, I believed that was the final version of the single-tasking emulator. Andreas Stroiczek has recently sent me the final version of the single-tasking emulator v0.57 and this is uploaded to the archive.
Warm Silence Software who published 6502Em and Z80Em have expressed an interest in publishing Gareth Long's ARM coded Sega Megadrive emulator, since now Kevin Lingley has left Acorn it is unlikely they'll publish it. It is only very early days in discussions, and nothing is assured at the moment (don't start sending your cheques in just yet).
ArcEm v0.40 has been released with a massive speedup. The latest version is now approximately 3 times as fast as v0.10 and represents a massive improvement making it almost usable. It does have an error in which is causing some seg faults of programs running under the emulated Linux; it doesn't seem to effect RISC OS however.
Mike Borcherds has been working some more on the commercial Spectrum emulator, Z80Em and has produced a multi-tasking version which is currently in beta test. Release date is yet to be confirmed.
Link to The Acorn Emulation Page using this image,
http://www.cybervillage.co.uk/acorn/emulation/banner.gif
so as to not use any of your own server space.
Previous update: Saturday 25/7/98 (ZIP file)