History of changes

March 25th 2003:

Added:

Support for Magic Desk, Domark, HES Australia Cartridges.

February 3rd 2002:

Added:

256 color version of the PAL TV filter emulation by John 'Graham' Selck and Philip 'Pepto' Timmermann.

Screenshots can be taken also of the PAL/RGB screen.

Fixed:

The C2N emulation now allows to select a new tape after playing the first tape to the end.

The noise problem with the MCI Sound Output device is now solved.

Fixed bug in Machine Code Monitor with the Transfer (T) command.

Fixed bug in keyboard handling with simultaneous keys pressed at the same time not recognized correctly.

CCS64 doesn't read track 1 of the 1541 disk after a reset anymore.

July 6th 2001:

Fixed:

Fixed the 16-bit PAL TV graphics mode to use the 5-6-5 RGB color scheme.

The C2N emulation now allows to select a new tape after playing the first tape to the end.

Emulation of SID filter is now changed how the filter resonance value affects the sound.

The Restore key is now easier to use.

The Lock-up problem with the MCI Sound Output device is now solved.

Fast-loading emulation ($FFD5 trap) by native loading is changed to also allow loading into the I/O memory areas and also clears the load error bits every load attempt.

March 24th 2001:

Fixed:

Fixed bug with some cartridges like Buck Rogers etc.

Added:

Support for Zaxxon Cartridge.

PAL TV filter emulation by John 'Graham' Selck and Philip 'Pepto' Timmermann.

Screen repeat mode in order to support native 100, 150 Hz video modes to emulate the C64 50 Hz refresh rate.

Screenshots can now be saved in different sizes and screen positions.

Machine code monitor now also handle loading / saving of .prg files.

January 31st 2001:

Fixed:

Fixed bug with Ocean Cartridge.

Fixed multiple simultanous keypresses bug.

Added:

Support for C64 Game System Cartridge.

Support for Warpspeed Cartridge.

Support for Dinamic Cartridge.

Improved C1541 emulation, now emulates acceleration of step motor for the read/write head.

July 23rd 2000:

Fixed:

Monitor function in Action Replay works again.

Disk change in 1541 should now be registered by some games.

Bug in GCR handling, synchronized on 11 bits instead of 10.

Error information in .D64 now handled.

Added:

Support for joystick adapter that allows usage of original C64 joysticks.

April 16th 2000:

Fixed:

Finally found and fixed very nasty bug in sprite collision detection. Caused problems in games like Castle of Dr. Creep and others.

April 4th 2000:

Added:

Some of the parameters for the filter emulation can now be adjusted in the menu.

March 24th 2000:

Fixed:

Continued fixing the graphics problems under Windows 2000 and DirectX.

March 23rd 2000:

Fixed:

The graphics problems under Windows 2000 and DirectX.

Added:

Possibility to change between new and old version of SID.

March 5th 2000:

Fixed:

The cartridge name are now showed in the menu, even after restarted emulator.

Added:

Support for Expert Cartridge.

The REU Ram Expansion memory contents can now be loaded/saved to/from disk file.

Printer redirect command (P) in the machine code monitor.

March 1st 2000:

Fixed:

Fixed bug with the memory write command in the machine code monitor.

Fixed bug with the dissamble write command in the machine code monitor.

Fixed reset bug (with initial values in register 1) which caused problems with some ultimax cartridges. No, it was not caused by some error in my VIC-II emulation as some people suggested.

Added:

New cartridge type 13 (Final Cartridge I).

January 24th 2000:

Fixed:

Quiting with Alt+F4 in Windows version now should save the configuration file.

Strange filenames like pi, should now be correctly loaded when using the automatic reset and load feature.

The pause mode with interlaced mode should now work better.

The windowed mode for DirectX with 32-bits of color resolution should now work better.

Added:

New cartridge type 12 (Rex Cartridge).

December 31st 1999:

Fixed:

Fixed some problems with the printer emulation (CMD command in BASIC).

Fixed some problems with DirectX and WindowsNT, the Menu should now be visible when pressing F9.

Added:

Windowed mode for the DirectX version. Also new commandline option for forcing this. Probably just supports 16 and 24 bits of color resolution.

New commandline option for selecting the correct HardSID soundcard.

December 12th 1999:

Fixed:

Recompiled the executables as it seems like there is a problem with the last release because of wrong built, corrupted object files while compiling or something.

Added:

Better handling of .G41/G64 files in the menu, now possible to view the directory contents.

December 4th 1999:

Added:

Emulation of paddles, using either mouse, joystick or keys.

December 1st 1999:

Fixed:

Some minor changes that might work better with Win NT for graphics in the menu.

Added:

Ability to save from C2N to .TAP-file.

Printer emulation, traps Kernal calls and saves output to text-file.

Ability to change emulation mode in the 1541 status menu.

October 3rd 1999:

Added:

Ability to load/save the emulator state (Freeze) with different filenames (Alt+F11,Alt+F12).

Color saturation control for the palette.

Various new command-line options, selectable name of config-file (C64.CFG default) and options of fastload and autorun.

New fast-keys, like Alt+Shft+R for hard reset and Alt+Shft+8 for status page of device 8.

October 2nd 1999:

Added:

Ability to swap (Alt + 1 to 8) between different session screens in the MC Monitor.

Cartridge types 7 to 11 (Fun Play, Super Games, Atomic Power, Epyx Fastload, Westermann).

September 19th 1999:

Added:

Help (with F1) and other status pages (F2-F4) within the machine code monitor.

Fixed:

More keys now work in the machine code monitor and the menu for the DOS version.

August 21th 1999:

Added:

Option for different reset memory patterns.

Fixed:

Breakpoints triggered on execution.

August 19th 1999:

Added:

Option for maximum 1541 speed while loading or writing.

Sound support for Windows NT by adding driver for old Windows MCI sound device.

Page up/down scrolling in the monitor.

Fixed:

Freeze load/save completely rewritten (it was really a lot of work).

Backspace now works while editing the filename for creating new .D64 disks.

Better display of $D000-DFFF memory area in monitor.

January 6th 1999:

Added:

On-screen display for C2N counter

Config settings in the config file for menu colors.

Fixed:

Play button in the C2N Menu now gives response to the C64.

Nr of 1541 drives is now stored in the config file.

December 24th 1998:

Fixed:

Monitor breakpoints now works better (removed BRK bug...)

New default color scheme, digitized from my old C64 from 1983.

Menu now has separate memory of last selected files and indexes.

December 13th 1998:

Added:

Monitor has ability to manipulate virtual breakpoints.

Monitor can save and load memory to files.

Monitor supports various commands for hunting sequences, manipulating memory and registers.

Monitor can evaluate expressions.

Status screens for 1541 and C2N.

Autofire support with adjustable speed for joysticks.

On-screen display for 1541 status.

GCR file-formats in .G41 or .G64 supported.

C2N can change the play button status, for pausing tape playback.

C2N can forward and reverse the tape file.

Added new cartridge type for Ocean games (investigated by Markus Brenner and Adam Lorentzon).

Fixed:

VIC-II now accesses the cartridge rom data better when in Ultimax mode.

C2N now accelerates and deaccelerates the virtaual tape motor.

September 20th 1998:

Added:

Monitor now can assemble mnemonics, new command A. Example: "A 1000 LDA#$19"

Monitor now supports illegal opcodes.

New version of the .TAP format, now handles long delays (24-bit) using 00 xx xx xx sequence.

Fixed:

The DirectX routines now has a delay of one second before initializing.

September 15th 1998:

Added:

Speed-o-meter option in the specials menu. This shows the speed compared to real C64 and how many frames per second that are actually drawn to the screen.

The DOS version now has VESA screen modes like 512x384, 640x480 and 800x600.

Fixed:

Increased speed.

For the DOS version the syncrate option "Screen" now syncronizes to the vertical blank.

August 21th 1998:

Fixed:

Recompiled the DOS version with total rebuild. Somehow the DOS version was fucked up when I updated to Visual C++ 6.0. Very very strange!

August 19th 1998:

Added:

Filter emulation on/off option.

Increased .P00 support, now handles filenames like "@:filename" and "0:filename".

Fixed:

Now supports two PC joysticks with DOS version.

Fixed crash when specified illegal filename for autostart at command line.

Increased speed (especially with 320x200 mode).

July 29th 1998:

Fixed:

Changed DOS extender to PModeW V1.33

DirectX version now changes to 8-bit colordepth before changing width and height.

Volume changing in Device 1 menu now also with Enter and Right cursor keys.

Final Cartridge III register and reset procudure. Note: still not correct gfx at freezer menu.

July 23rd 1998:

Added:

REU support 128 Kb to 16 Mb.

Final Cartridge III support..

Simons Basic support.

Mouse C1351.

1541 RAM Expansion (DolphinDOS).

Continous saving of .D64.

Increased .P00 support, multifile and directory loading.

Fixed:

Restore key trouble (DrCreep).

Win32 version lock-up after exit.

Various other bugs.