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VICE v2.1 | A new version of VICE, the Commodore 8-bit emulator, is available. The most important change is that now the C64 DTV is supported.
C64 changes: Added isepic and Double Quick Brown Box cartridge emulation.
VIC20 changes: Improved the sound and VIC emulation.
C64DTV changes: New emulator.
Unix changes: PAL Emulation fixed and improved. MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. MS-Windows changes: MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. RS232 can use real devices now.

VmwAROS v1.0 | Version 1.0 of your AROS distribution has been released. WmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS desktop environment available in two formats: a bootable live-DVD installable on the hard drive, and a disk image for VMware. The AROS Research Operating System is a open source lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 at the API level, while improving on it in many areas.

FUSE 0.10.0 | Fuse (the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) was a ZX Spectrum emulator for Unix. But, it has now also been ported to Mac OS X, Windows, AmigaOS and MorphOS. The 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A and +3 Spectrums are emulated accurately. For AmigaOS there is a version available made by Chris Young and Q-Master made a version for MorphOS.

Miggy | Miggy is an Amiga emulator written in Java. The emulator is not finished yet but you can follow the progress at the blog of Tone. With the current version it is possible to run the 68000 processor on 64 MHz.

Minus4j v1.4 | There is a new version of the Minus4j Java based emulator. Mike Dailly released version 1.4 with the following changes: Updated rendering engine and CPU processing. Added FLASH attribute. Also there are a few errors fixed with this version.

Hyper64 | Hyper64 is an experimental C64 emulator. This emulator doesn't change the 6510 machine code into bits of code that are handled by the CPU of a modern PC. Instead it disassembles, analyzes and re-assembles the 6510 machine code as native 32-bit x86 code. For example the A, X and Y registers of the 6510 are mapped to the x86 AL, BL and CL registers. This makes it a very fast emulator but the side-effect is that it is not cycle exact. You can download this emulator from the web page of micro64.

Atari++ (AmigaOS 4) | Atari++ is an emulator of the Atari 8 bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console. The 8 bit Atari computers were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The emulator does precise cycle emulation, precise sound emulation, emulation of wide range of disk interfaces and joysticks. The Atari++ emulator can be used with AmigaOS 4.

DGen 1.24 for AmigaOS 4 | DGen is an emulator of the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive consoles. The Genesis/MegaDrive had a 68000 processor at 7.6 MHz and was direct competitor of the Amiga. Ventzislav Tzvetkov converted DGen to Amiga OS4. With DGen you can play 95% of all Genesis/MegaDrive games on your Amiga. For more details visit the web page of Ventzislav.

XRoar (Amiga) | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers. The emulator can be used with Amiga OS 4.0, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Nintendo DS and the GP32. The Dragon and Tandy are 8-bit computers based on the 6809 CPU. They were produced in the early 80's.

plus4emu 1.2.9 | Istvan Varga made more improvements to his Plus/4 emulator (Linux, MacOS and Windows). Added MPS-801 printer emulation. More accurate PAL emulation in OpenGL mode. LED display for drive emulation. ROM images are now included. There are several bugs fixed. You can download the emulator from Istvan's web page.

plus4emu 1.2.8 | Istvan Varga released a couple of updates last month for his Plus/4 emulator. The plus4emu is an open source emulator of the C16, C116, and Plus/4. The program is written in C++, and supporting Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. A few of the changes are: Fixed file overwrite bug. New option for saving the printer output to a text file. New set of Windows icons (by SVS).

WinUAE 1.5.1 | The popular Amiga emulator for Windows has had a major bug fix update. Besides bug fixes there are also a couple of improvement. Added support for Direct3D pixel shader filters. Window resize enabled in windowed mode (chipset mode). Easier USB mouse/joystick insert/removal. Visit the web page for all detail and to download the new version.

VICE 2.0 | VICE is a emulator for almost all 8-bit Commodore computers. It can be used on many platforms. Besides versions for Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, or Mac OS X there are now also versions for AROS64, QNX 4.x, HPUX, Atari Mint, Solaris Express and SkyOS. New features in version 2.0 are: More precise PAL emulation with double size and double scan. Action Replay 4, StarDos, NEOS and Amiga mouse support for the C64. Many bug fixes for all emulated computers. VICE can be downloaded from the VICE web page.

OS4Emu - 2.0 | Amigazeux made version 2.0 of the OS4EMu for Morph OS available. This emulator for MorphOS 1.4 / 2.0 makes it possible to run Amiga OS4 programs on your MorphOS system. There is a list where you can see what programs are working. In this version: Enhanced newlib.library. Implementation of 64bit DOS, Exec and Picasso96 functionality. Improved general compatibility. Fixed ELF loader. AltiVec is supported only in MorphOS 2.

WinUAE 1.5.0 | There is a new version of the Amiga emulator. There are many new features and improvements: Better Picasso96 emulation. PCMCIA SRAM card emulation. Multithreaded AVI recording. Improved Sprite emulation. IDE emulation >128GB support. Added 1.5M Chip RAM. 5.1 sound settings. There are also many bug fixes. You can download the new version from the web page of WinUAE.

Hoxs64 | The goal of Hoxs64 is to accurately emulate the Commodore 64 computer. Features: A cycle based CPU, VIC, CIA and SID. Support for .TAP, .PRG, P00, D64 files. In this new version: Improved VIC. Improved SID. Improved the disk inspector. Improved the NMI timing during BRK instruction. Visit the web page for more details and to download the latest version.

FPSE | FPSE stands for Free Play Station Emulator. It is written by BERO and LDChen. The AmigaPPC version is made by Mathias AmiDog Roslund. This release fixes a few minor issues and adds versions for MorphOS and AROS (x86). You can download the latest version from the web page. There is also a FPSE compatibility database to see if your favorite game can be played.

PSPUAE v0.70 | There is a new version available of the Amiga emulator for the SONY PSP. Some of the alterations are: Code optimizations for speed improvement. Better Hsync handler. Rics FAMEC Sound code. Better HEAP SIZE for available memory to PSPUAE. Added Rics FAMEC FrameSkip Algorithm. For downloads, info or the forum take a look at the web page.

WinUAE 1.4.6 | On this new version of the Amiga emulator for windows computers: Automatic configuration of input devices (USB joystick, mouse etc..). Automatic joystick / mouse switching. Dynamic JIT direct memory allocation. A3000 confirmed 2.04 ROM. CD32 FMV cartridge ROM. And there were also a number of bug fixes. Go to the web page to download the latest version.

YAPE 0.78 | The Plus/4 emulator has had an update. New fancy Vista ready icons (courtesy of Chronos). Preliminary MPS802 printer emulation. Improved file association dialog. Optional 1:1 sound sampling (111150 Hz, PAL only for now) and a couple of bugs fixed.

WinUAE 1.4.5 | The Amiga emulator has had an update. In this new version: Removable drive auto mounting. X-Power Professional v1.3 and Nordic Power v1.5 support. Pro-Wizard module ripper updated to v1.62. hq2x filter added. Added two basic A4000 quickstart configurations. More accurate CD32/CDTV end of audio track detection.

Minus4 / Snasm | Minus4 has been updated quite a bit, although only in a development sense. The debugger has improved a lot and a realtime profiler is added. The NEW source to Minus4w (complete with profiler) is released so you can change things yourself. Snasm has also been updated, and now sports 65816/65c02 support, along with some new undocumented ops and bug fixes.

plus4emu v1.2.4 | This is a portable emulator of the Commodore 264 familiy of computers (Plus/4, C16, and C116), aiming for high accuracy and compatibility. In this version: Implemented the ACIA 6551 registers at $FD00-$FD0F, which are automatically enabled for configurations with 64K or more RAM. Video recording in RLE8 format now. Added new command line option for selecting the GUI style and colors. Various minor improvements and bug fixes. This emulator can be used on Windows NT, 2K and XP or on Linux, BSD and UNIX.

UAE versie 0.8.27 | UAE is a software emulation of the hardware of the Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000. UAE is written for Unix systems by Bernd Schmidt and many contributors. It's developed on a Linux machine but it should compile and run on any Unix-like operating system.

FCEU-MorphOS | Kelly Samel put the finishing touches on an FCEU port for MorphOS. FCEU emulates the classic NES / Famicom game console. FCEU currently has great compatibility, sound support, save ram and save state support. Download it from Kelly's web page.

Hoxs64 | The C64 emulator Hoxs64 of David Horrocks has been updated. Some of the new features are: Improved handling of video modes, fixes for the VIC, Floppy LEDs are now working. You can download the emulator at the Davids web page.

VICEplus 1.0 | VICEplus is a fork of VICE Its most important extension currently is C64DTV support. VICEplus is intended to be VICE plus additional features that may or may not end up in VICE. It is based upon the latest release of VICE allowing easy backporting of features if desired.

CCS64 v3.4 | Per Håkan Sundell has released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. This emulator can be used on Windows computers with DirectX 9.0 (98 / ME / 2000 / XP). There has been a lot of bug fixes so more games and demos run without problems.

DTV in VICE | Revision 263 is available. Look at the web site for all the improvements made to the support of the DTV in the popular emulator VICE. There is a complete description how to change VICE.

plus4emu v1.2.2 | plus4emu is an open source, emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer, written in C++. Available for Linux, Mac and Windows. In this version: Implemented Digi-Blaster emulation. Added limited support for error information in D64 files. P00 format files can be loaded. CPU Speed and Track, side, and sector can be displayed in a window.

VICE 1.22 | In this latest version of the 8-bit Commodore emulator. Added 2 MHz mode and fixed C64-mode autostart for the C128. Improved the sound emulation for the VIC20. VIC-II is improved, also a fix to show the Krestage 3 demo. Improved drive emulation. For the AmigaOS3 and AROS netplay support is added. New VICE Volume control for all ports.

Plus4emu v1.2.1 | This is a portable emulator of the Commodore 264 family of computers (Plus/4, C16, and C116), aiming for high accuracy and compatibility. Plus4emu is made by Istvan Varga and can be downloaded from his developer web page at Sourceforge. The emulator will run on Linux, BSD, UNIX and MS Windows (NT/2000/XP).

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