Neco is a PC Engine emulator for Windows & BeOS. Only the Windows binary has been updated.

News:

- Handle Zip files to load ROMs or skins

Emulator (Video):

- Backgrounds X/Y Masks -> Less weird gfx

- Raster Compare -> Modification of a value -> Better vertical scrolling

Emulator (CPU):

- Banks Masks on TAM -> Less crashes

- Interruptions -> Addresses pushed are not decremented

- Some instructions fixed (TRB($1C))

GUI:

- Menu Added

- More fonts (ViewBars)

- Background Color or Image

- Cursor Image

- Minimization of views

- File Dialog to open files

- Key events restructuration (use of pointers to methods)

- Surface Resizement

Configuration File:

- Set numbers of instructions to be displayed

- Set the number of cycles to execute before starting Neco

- Set a breakpoint

Get it at - http://etud.epita.fr:8000/~tching_v/dev/neco/

Project Tempest version 0.4 has been released.

Get it at - http://pt.emuunlim.com/

The MAME Work In Progress page has been updated with some Work In Progress (W.I.P) news.

Check out the info at - http://www.mame.net/status.html

CaPriCe32 is an Amstrad CPC emulator for Windows.

News:

- Rewrote all DirectX code to be more robust and error tolerant.

- The CPC screen is no longer being painted with hardware stretch blits by default, which should prevent the extreme slow-downs some users experienced.

- Caprice32 now goes to sleep when loosing focus or getting minimized: CPU usage drops to zero.

- Emulation can now be switched between windowed and full-screen mode. Full-Screen mode is user defined in resolution and bit depth.

- Switched to a different timing mechanism which keeps the emulator running closer to the original speed than before.

- Fixed sound playback - pops and clicks during playback should now be a thing of the past.

- Emulator Configuration is once again being stored in a file in the emulator directory and no longer in the Registry.

- New screen rendering methods: scanlines, line doubling (software), and line doubling (hardware).

- New speed selector in the Options dialog: the emulator speed can now be fixed at multiples of the original CPC speed.

- Added the option of colour and green monitor.

- Added error condition checks to zip, DSK and SNApshot routines.

- Added a modified DSK check at emulator exit so user won't loose their work.

- Implemented a completely new way to manage input: users can now map the CPC joysticks to any keyboard key or other connected control device, in any combination. See the updated documentation for more details.

- Mouse cursor now auto-hides to be less obtrusive.

- Support for French and Spanish keyboard layouts.

- Some fixes to the Z80 OUT handler involving the GA colour palette and PPI Port C.

- Added support for CDT tapes: still some work to be done here, as most SpeedLock protected games fail to load! Enjoy in moderation...

- Added 48 and 96 kHz sound playback options - high frequency notes and "buzzing" tones sound _much_ better now!

- Added a Frames Per Second display so users can judge how fast the emulation is actually running.

Get it at - http://www.caprice32.cybercube.com/