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Game Boy Advance Emulator - NanoBoyAdvance v1.7 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 26 March 2023

What's New:

UI: implement a 'Use integer scaling' option
UI: allow limiting the screen scale
UI: allow accessing the menu during fullscreen gameplay
UI: allow setting a custom save folder
Core: implement save compatibility with mGBA 0.10.0+
Core: implement basic support for the mGBA logging interface
PPU: rewrite the PPU to be mostly cycle-accurate
PPU: implement the GREENSWAP register
PPU: use the 6-th green channel bit during blending
PPU: round the blending result to the nearest integer
ARM: fix a minor timing oversight in ARM mode
ARM: SWP and SWPB should lock the bus (no DMA interleave is possible)
ARM: do not force-align mis-aligned PC in ARM mode
Bus: allow the CPU to execute idle cycles in parallel to DMA
Bus: more accurately emulate disabling the prefetch buffer
Bus: force the first CPU access after a DMA to be non-sequential
Bus: implement penalty for ROM code access during the last ROM prefetch cycle
IRQ: delay IO writes by one cycle
IRQ: delay update of the IE&IF condition for unhalting the CPU
SIO: implement basic serial transfer timing
APU: emulate the master enable bit
APU: cancel a potentially pending event whan starting a channel
Scheduler: allow for (de)serialization of events for save states

AdAway v6.1.0 - Released

Details: Category: Android; Published: 26 March 2023

What's New:

- Add adaptive launcher icon
- Add POST_NOTIFCATIONS runtime permission support
- Improve settings UI
- Update target SDK to Android 13
- Update libsu
- Update mongoose web server
- Update AndroidX libraries
- Update third party libraries
- Update Android gradle plugin
- Update NDK

Android Emulator - MEmu v8.1.3 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 24 March 2023

What's New:

- Enhanced engine for smoother and higher FPS 240Hz mode for games such as “Arknights”, “Azur Lane”, “Fate/Grand Order” and so on.
- Optimized the smart mode of keymapping in “Undawn”.
- Optimized the emulator export and clone operation process.
- Fixed the problem that the emulator crashes when starting the game when the astc cache is turned on.
- Fixed the stucking at 99% issue of the emulator in some cases.

Multiple System Emulator - Lemuroid v1.15.0 - Released

Details: Category: Android; Published: 24 March 2023

What's New:

- Introduced a new HD mode
- Updated cores
- Updated databases

ZX-Spectrum Emulator - Zx-Poly v2.3.2 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 23 March 2023

What's New:

- added AppImage
- added way to decrease CPU use in non-turbo mode with option "Try use less resources" #35
- updated embedded JDK to 20+37
- minor improvements of Z80 emulation
- added Ula Plus palette support for animation GIF recording
- fixed restore indicator panel view flag after restart

PC-8801 Computer Emulator - XM8 (Mac) v1.70 - Added

Details: Category: Mac; Published: 23 March 2023

XM8 is a multi-platform emulator of NEC's personal computer PC-8801MA (PC-8801mkIISR upward-compatible).

Sharp X68000 Computer Emulator - XM6 TypeG v3.35 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 23 March 2023

What's New:

Google Translate:

- The x86 version is no longer available, and only the x64 version is available.
- Change document from plain text to pdf file using Markdown notation
- Improved reproducibility when dynamically switching the ADPCM sampling rate
- Refactored DMAC transfer scheduling, improved reproducibility of limited rate mode
- Reproduce the drawing behavior when 32 or more sprites are arranged in the same raster
- Compatible with FDX68 V2 disk image files
- Corrected the number of cycles consumed by the MPU based on the results of comparison with the actual machine.
- Fixed NetBSD bug in FPU (Floating Point Unit)
- MFP/sprite/system ports have been tuned to bring the access timing closer to the actual device.
- Abolished 24bit limit of address space of windrv (WindrvXM)
- Reproduce the operation of canceling the power off by operating the power switch again during the fade-out when turning off the power with File (F) → Power switch (P)
- Fixed a bug where TURBO ON/OFF was not working in joystick button assignment
- Changed default size of SCSI hard disk image from 100MB to 1000MB
- Shortcut key for VM no wait/MPU no wait specified in the menu
- Added reset shortcut key Alt+Shift+R
- At the first startup, consider the system DPI and start with 1.0x display (DPI=100%) or 2.0x display (DPI>100%)
- Trial support for the 8255 emulator produced by TMB Seisakusho

Apple II Emulator - Virtual ][ v11.3 - Released

Details: Category: Mac; Published: 19 March 2023

What's New:

- Improved support for game devices, such as the PS5 and Xbox controllers. This improvement is available on macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later.
- Solved an issue that could disable the emulated speaker sound after resetting a virtual machine.
- Fixed an error in Apple //c memory management, improving general compatibility.
- The option to use the Mac backspace key as the virtual machine's "left-arrow" is now part of the Quick settings menu, and thereby available for the Apple //c.
- It is now possible to select a custom ROM image for the Apple //c. Note this is an advanced feature, intended for testing and debugging ROM code.

S1 Model 5 Emulator v1.7.2 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 19 March 2023

What's New:

- Fixed a bug that sometimes failed to start or access from FD when the overall operation speed was doubled or more.

Mark 5 Emulator v1.9.2 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 19 March 2023

What's New:

Google Translate:
- Fixed a bug that sometimes failed to start or access from FD when the overall operation speed was doubled or more.

GB/GBC Emulator - John GBC Lite v4.04 - Released

Details: Category: Android; Published: 19 March 2023

What's New:

- This app has been updated to new framework optimized for modern Android.

RetroArch v1.15.0 - Updated

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 17 March 2023

What's New:

New changes
- INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Check for ‘enable_hotkey’ also from autoconf binds
- LIBRETRO-COMMON/VFS/FILESTREAM: Fixes filestream_vscanf regression
- MENU/XMB: Horizontal icon animation fix
- OSD/STATISTICS: Notification font + statistics adjustments
- OSD/STATISTICS: Finetuned statistics layout to be more compact and aligned
- OSD/STATISTICS: Group Run-Ahead and Frame Delay as “Latency”
- OSD/STATISTICS: Try to scale font as small as possible/readable if stats won’t fit
- OSD/STATISTICS/FONT: Allow reseting notification font with RetroPad Y to “null”, which uses the fallback pixel font
- OSD/STATISTICS/FONT: Show “Default” instead of empty with default font
- OSD/STATISTICS/FONT: Start browsing font from assets instead of root
- WIN32: Ignore window limiting with fixed position. The other resizing part already took this into account, but WM_GETMINMAXINFO did not..

openMSX Frontend - Novo Player v1.4 - Released

Details: Category: Linux; Published: 17 March 2023

What's New:

- Added ability to view screenshots of selected games taken through the dashboard on running openMSX instances
- Added ability to save game state on openMSX and load it when launching or while game is running
- Many user interface enhancements, bug fixes and updates

blueMSX and openMSX Frontend - Novo Player v1.4 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 17 March 2023

What's New:

- Added ability to view screenshots of selected games taken through the dashboard on running openMSX instances
- Added ability to save game state on openMSX and load it when launching or while game is running
- Many user interface enhancements, bug fixes and updates

MAME Classic v9.7.0 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 16 March 2023

What's New:

Added: Control for Joystick Threshold and Controller Map.
Changed: Modified the message on the Splash screen when a different version of MAME is detected.
Changed: When a new version of MAME or Catver is found at launch, the Options form will displayed to verify your selections.
Removed: Global Inputs control.

TI-Nspire Calculator Emulator - Firebird v1.6 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 16 March 2023

What's New:

New features
- New dialog for creating Flash images, which is also available in the Mobile UI!
- Running as 64bit application on Windows is supported now
- Polish translation is available now
- CX II (/-T/CAS) calculators can now be emulated! However, with the current dumping programs you will not get a complete bootrom and booting the OS will fail.

Improvements
- Multiple files can be sent in the Mobile UI and by dropping them into the main window on desktop
- Reimplemented emulation speed control: Now it's more accurate, especially on Windows
- GitHub actions now performs automated builds for Android (armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a in one APK), macOS and Windows (32bit and 64bit) on releases and pull requests
- The "installer" for OS 4.5.3.14 (and later?) works now. It requires fastboot RAM to persist state across reboots, which is now implemented.
- More accurate emulation of the On button: It's now possible to enter Press-To-Test mode
- Faster saving and loading of snapshots
- More reliable USB file transfers
- The debugger console now includes entered commands in the log
- Support for PIE (position-independent executables) on x86_64. Previously, care needed to be taken that PIE was disabled, otherwise it would crash on start.
- Building the JIT is disabled automatically if the platform does not support it
- Firebird builds on FreeBSD

Bugfixes
- File access on Android got fixed
- Fix placement of keypad buttons in the touchpad area
- Various fixes for the Mobile UI layout
- The kit configuration page in the Mobile UI no longer causes the keyboard to pop up by default
- Connecting with GDB on windows works now
- Some shades of grey were not displayed properly when emulating pre-CX models
- Fix crash on AArch64/arm64 when executing certain instructions
- The keypad reacts to touch events in the desktop version as well now
- Some places were no longer translated correctly after the introduction of language switching in 1.5
- Keys could get stuck on focus changes. Now they're all released when the keypad loses focus
- The Ctrl key now changes color when pressed
- Emulation speed no longer remains unlimited after a failed file transfer