Consoles, Games and Emulators.

More then a year is passed since previous official release of Glide64. The project is still alive, but I don’t have much time to work on it. I made some improvements, nice but not revolutionary. It’s just another plus to the famous ‘Wonder’ version. Main results:

A fair amount has changed Amstrad-wise since this page was first built. CaPriCe 32 still seems to be the emulator of choice, though I now find my version 1.11 (from 1998) has broken down and the latest version (3.61) refuses to run at anything like normal pace. Should it ever end up working properly, it looks like it will be the CPC’s answer to the Spectaculators, Spins and ZX32s of the Spectrum world. I have also been recommended to use Arnold, though a test of that reveals the most horrific sound problems you’ll ever hear. It also seems that Arnold has no way of switching off the irritating scanline display which appears to be becoming a common trait amongst later 8-bit emulators. Here’s some basic operating instructions for CaPriCe 32 v1.11, for those who can find a copy. To run a game, press F6 to enter the disk selection menu. Highlight either RICKD.DSK or RICKD2.DSK (as they should be named) - press ENTER and nothing happens. To load the disk, type cat to first see the contents of the disk. The file required should have a .BAS extension. If this is FILE.BAS or marked with a star then type run”file (no other quote needed) to start the game. To cut a long story short, run”rick and run”rick2, respectively, is what you need to type in each case. CaPriCe 32 has a save-snapshot facility. Press CTRL+F4 to enter the snapshot menu, press INSERT to add a new snapshot to the list. CTRL+F2 will load the snapshot again. In both cases here, the “Go to the site” links to the NVG’s FTP server, as the versions on classicgaming.com had no cheats and were prone to crashing. Their version of Rick 2 completely left out the Fat Guy’s Headquarters… 

If you want to remember old times and play with the beautiful 8 bits Amstrad CPC, you can download it here: http://caprice32.cybercube.com/

Here is a new version of PSPAtari the emulator of Atari 800,
800XL, 130XE and 5200 series.

For those who haven’t seen previous versions, Atari800 is an emulator
for the 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 models of the atari personal computer.
It can be used on console, FrameBuffer or X11.
See http://atari800.sourceforge.net/ for further informations.

PSPATARI is a port on PSP of the version 2.0.2 (April 08 2006) of Atari800
from Petr Stehlik.

What’s new in version 1.0.6 :

- Multiple keyboard mapping feature (Thanks to Pou-chan) :
You can now toggle between 3 different keyboard mapping using
LTrigger and RTrigger keys
- Add help menu
- New background image
- Bug fix in Rom file requester
- Bug fix in screenshots
- Bug fix in keyboard handler

How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license,
read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

What’s new in 0.9.0b1 since 0.8.5 –  

- A new high quality audio option to process audio with full low-level emulation on Intel machines. (This feature has been ported over and upgraded from the PowerPC version.)

- Zelda now shows indoor backgrounds correctly on Intel machines.

- Diddy Kong Racing will now save games properly.

- Mario Kart with no longer crash after the 4th Race.

- Other minor bug fixes throughout the application.

The new high quality audio option is a full low-level emulator for the dsp that processes sound. That’s why it took a while! You can turn it on in the ‘Preferences’.

While it won’t fix every single problem with sound (skipping is next on the hit list) it greatly increases sound compatibility because it should work in any game and improves the quality because it produces sound that exactly matches the original. (Minor bugs in this beta release aside!)

In short: A number of games that didn’t have sound before work fine with the new audio processing. (For ex: Paper Mario.) A number of games that had sound, now sound much better. (In particular reverb effects in games like Zelda.)

It is significantly slower than the audio plugin sound, but it’s more than fast enough on my 1.83GHz Mac Book Pro and sounds much better!

Sound skipping is the first project for the next release, and hopefully will be the last of mucking about trying to work magic in real time.

Enjoy the new version!

The world’s most famous emulator is without a doubt MAME! Just imagine that it plays more or less around 3000 games and it keeps going! With it you can play the most classic games that you loved so long ago.
Below you can find the command line version of MAME along with one of the best frontends(use it only if you like frontends) or you can always use MAME32! MAME32 has an intergrated frontend and it’s much easier to use.
Whether you like emulators or not if you are a fan of all those old games then MAME might be your last chance to play them again.

PCSX2 0.9.2 R2 is now available

This fixes an assortment of issues found briefly after 0.9.2’s original launch. It is strongly advised that people get this build of 0.9.2 over the initial release.

• Compatibility regression with Vampire Night resolved.
• Final Fantasy X now works for most regions.
• Fixes Crash when using config>patches
• Frame Limiting is now more accurate.
• Improved zeroGS, Disgaea 2 menus are now solid.
• P.E.Op.S SPU2 updated to include threaded mode (usefull for video recording).
• Screen Saver / Power Saving now disabled when running PCSX2.

Just to cure our collective headaches “warnings about default.xml” being blank, or “patches not found”, are mearly information, they do not in any way effect PCSX2’s compatibility or performance.