uBee512 5.0.0 released

[staticmem]

uBee512 v5.0.0

 

An emulator for the Microbee Z80 ROM, FDD and HDD based microcomputers.

 

New for this release:

* The new sound driver is now the default with the older code having been removed altogether. The new code produces excellent sound quality and has less drop outs.

* Added an audio DAC parallel port device argument of 'dac' to the --parallel-port option to select the new 8 bit DAC emulation.

* Added EMUKEY+PAGEDOWN hot key to emulate a Microbee 'power cycle'. This action has also been added to the OSD menu.

* Added --powercyc option to perform a 'power cycle'.

* Added joystick Hat events to generate pseudo button numbers.

* Added --js-hat and --js-hatb options to set joystick hat parameters.

* Added --js-kkb option to make defining mapped joystick keys easier.

* Added --js-shift option to set the new joystick SHIFT button feature.

* Added joystick SHIFT button functionality that effectively doubles the number of button actions to 255-511.

* Added 'hd-teac' and 'hd-mscribe' hard disk formats to the 'libdskrc.sample' file.

* Added Swedish PC85 ROM set (PC85S) aliases to 'roms.alias.sample'

 

Changes:

* Changed --js-ACTION options to take multiple button values.

* Joystick shifted button numbers 256-511 can now be specified.

* Added axis and Hat button numbers when using --modio=+joystick argument.

* New default joystick buttons are used and enabled by default. See 'joystick.c' or 'games.ini.sample' for the joystick layout:

 

JS E|O : Up (128|144).

JS F|P : Right (129|145).

JS G|Q : Down (130|146).

JS H|R : Left (131|147).

JS K|L|T|U|X : Fire (0|1|0|1|11).

JS A|I : Player 1 (4|8 ).

JS C|J : Player 2 (5|9).

JS B|M|N|V|W : Spare (6|2|3|2|3).

 

JS Shift : Shift is button 'D' (7).

JS Shift+A : Mute sound on/off (4).

JS Shift+B : Full screen on/off (6).

JS Shift+C : Pause emulator on/off (5).

JS Shift+Up : increases sound volume.

JS Shift+Down : decreases sound volume.

JS Shift+Right : increases window size.

JS Shift+Left : decreases window size.

 

* The BeeThoven device no longer requires an 'OUT 1,3' before using it.

* Improvements in speed made to CRTC functions.

* Major changes to the 'games.ini.sample' and 'ubee512rc.sample' scripts to make setting up the joystick easier and more flexible. Emulator commands now make use of a Joystick shift button.

* Changes made to the 'ubee512rc.sample' file.

 

Fixed:

* Changes made to --varuset option so that 'varname', 'varname=' and 'varname=value' all work.

* Fixed --setvar option when attempting to set a variable that had no '=' character. The variable was being set but could not be located without it so now one is appended if missing. '--setvar myvar' will get set and found.

* Changes made to --setvar option to first check for an existing variable by the same name and removing it before setting the new variable.

* The --js-axis option was doing nothing and has been fixed.

* Fixed hard disk image type '.hd0' to have 306 cylinders, not 305.

 

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ubee512/

Edited April 2, 2011 by staticmem